UK SAGE, Emergency meeting over rapid spread of Indian variant
17th May
21st June
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/12/rapid-spread-indian-covid-variant-prompts-emergency-sage-meeting/
UK, 45 days first discovered
Cases, = 727
About 3 times quicker than SA variant
Bolton, epicentre, cases doubled in past week
Blackburn, Bedford, South Northamptonshire, Sefton, Tynemouth, Glasgow
MP for Bolton, Yasmin Quareshi
Residents had been slow to get vaccinated
React study, Imperial College London
Infections are spreading more rapidly amongst the Asian community, and in some of the other groups in the population
Andy Burnham
Requested Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, all over-16s in Bolton, and Greater Manchestee
to mitigate the risks of spread in those communities where we are seeing more transmission
Cases inked to international travel
Prof James Naismith, Rosalind Franklin Institute
We should view it as a country-wide problem
Localised restrictions unlikely to work
but maybe Sage already have that data
before we continue to unlock
Goa and ivermectin prophylaxis
https://science.thewire.in/health/ivermectin-covid-19-merck-soumya-swaminathan-who/
https://www.firstpost.com/health/goa-prescribes-ivermectin-for-all-above-18-to-fight-covid-19-as-experts-flag-concern-all-you-need-to-know-9611751.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2021/05/11/indian-state-will-offer-ivermectin-to-entire-adult-population---even-as-who-warns-against-its-use-as-covid-19-treatment/
https://www.timesnownews.com/india/article/ivermectin-to-all-above-18-goa-approves-new-covid-19-treatment-protocol/755160
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/ivermectin-goa-world-health-organisation-covid-7310664/
For all those above the age of 18
Irrespective of Covid-19 symptoms
12 mg of ivermectin for five days
State Health Minister Vishwajit Rane
Goa would be the first state in the country to administer, to its adult citizens
as a step towards prote..
