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Germany reports 17,270 new coronavirus cases alongside deadliest day of the pandemic

  
Analysis, COVID-19

There were 487 coronavirus deaths in the latest update today

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That makes it the deadliest day of the pandemic, with the total deaths from the last three days totaling to 1,000 persons.
Meanwhile, the 17,270 new cases still sees active cases across the country linger just below 300,000 as it reaffirms that the situation has sort of reached a plateau but it isn’t really showing much signs of abating over the past few weeks.
The rise in the death statistic is a bit of a concern though. At the end of October, the total coronavirus deaths in Germany were 10,452 persons. For the month of November alone, there were 5,796 coronavirus deaths reported across the country.
And that trend appears to be persisting going into December.
As for healthcare capacity, there is some good news with the number of coronavirus patients requiring intensive care actually falling as of yesterday. Then again, it could be partly related to the increase in the death count so there’s that to consider.
There were 3,919 (-7) patients requiring intensive care as of yesterday with 5,460 (20%) intensive care beds still available across the country.

Germany reports 13,604 new coronavirus cases in latest update today

  
Analysis, COVID-19

Not much signs that the situation is abating just yet

Germany
The latest tally fits with the trend over the past two to three weeks, so there isn’t much change. But once again, the worrying statistic is that the number of deaths have been increasing especially in the last two weeks.
There are another 388 deaths reported today, bringing the total tally to 16,636 persons. In the past week (23-29 November) alone, Germany recorded 2,101 virus deaths.
In terms of healthcare capacity, there are 3,926 (+25) coronavirus patients requiring intensive care as of yesterday with 5,905 (21%) intensive care beds still available.
That also reflects some plateauing over the past few days but it isn’t a favourable plateauing when you consider that this could be due to the increase in deaths instead.
Compared to two weeks ago (16 November), there were 3,436 coronavirus patients requiring intensive care with 6,950 (25%) intensive care beds still available.
In short, the situation in Germany is showing signs of hitting a plateau but not really abating as of yet with the number of deaths a bit of a concerning statistic as of late.

Head of the US authority responsible for approving COVID-19 vaccines has been called to the White House

  
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FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn has been summonsed to the West Wing for a 9:30am meeting on Tuesday December 2

  • He will be asked to explain why he hasn’t moved faster to approve the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine
Axios reporter Jonathon Swan reports, citing two senior administration officials
Link here for more. Its an ugly story this one …
  • A senior administration official said that in mid-November, Hahn spent a week vacationing in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and the official expected this subject would be discussed.
Yep, while folks were dying he should have been on the golf course, right???

Leaked documents provide insight into Chinas cover-up of the early days of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak

  
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CNN says they have unearthed  a report marked “internal document, please keep confidential” with information on China’s early days of COVID-19 fraud.

  • local health authorities in the province of Hubei, where the virus was first detected, list a total of 5,918 newly detected cases on February 10, more than double the official public number of confirmed cases
  • This larger figure was never fully revealed at that time, as China’s accounting system seemed, in the tumult of the early weeks of the pandemic, to downplay the severity of the outbreak.
  • the documents amount to the most significant leak from inside China since the beginning of the pandemic and provide the first clear window into what local authorities knew internally and when
Here is the link to CNN for the story.
CNN says they have unearthed  a report marked "internal document, please keep confidential" with information on China's early days of COVID-19 fraud. 

UK poised to become the first western country to approve a Covid-19 vaccine

  
Analysis, COVID-19

So report the Financial Times, saying the drug regulator in the country is set to grant approval within days. (FT may be gated.)

  • Deliveries of the vaccine developed by BioNTech and Pfizer would begin within hours of the authorisation
  • first injections could take place from December 7.
  • UK has ordered 40m doses of the two-shot product, which preliminary data found to be more than 95 per cent effective in preventing disease
The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency has the power to temporarily authorise products, in cases of urgent public need, thus bypassing the normal approval required from the European Medicines Agency (what this means is that while the UK is bound by the European agency until the end of the Brexit transition on December 31 the country still has the power to approve apart from the EU approval, with our without Brexit).
I posted an early leak of approval soon back on Friday, but that was re the Oxford-Astra product.
So report the Financial Times, saying the drug regulator in the country is set to grant approval within days. (FT may be gated.)  

Germany sees total confirmed coronavirus cases surpass the 1 million mark

  
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RKI reports another 22,806 new cases today, bringing the total confirmed number of coronavirus cases across the country to 1,006,394

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For some context, Germany only saw total confirmed cases touch 500,000 at the end of October so the next 500,000 to reach the 1,000,000 mark came in the last 27 days. There are currently nearly 300,000 reported active cases across the country.
Adding to that, there were 426 deaths reported in the last 24 hours and that makes this the deadliest day of the pandemic. Total deaths now stand at 15,586 persons.
In terms of healthcare capacity, there were 3,826 (+45) coronavirus patients requiring intensive care as of yesterday with 5,575 (20%) intensive care beds still available.
Compared to two weeks ago, that figure was 3,186 coronavirus patients requiring intensive care with 6,587 (23%) intensive care beds still available across the country.
In case you missed it, German chancellor Merkel and state premiers did agree on extending ‘lockdown light’ to 20 December but also agreed on a few new restrictions as well:
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Trump says COVID-19 vaccine delivery to begin next week

  
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Treat what this guy says with a large grain of salt.

Says a coronavirus vaccine will be initially sent to front-line workers, medical personnel and seniors.

More:
  • will be going to US state of Georgia, possibly on Saturday (intending to campaign for the Republican candidates in the Senate run-off election)
  • Trump says  “its going to be a very hard thing to concede because we know there was massive fraud”
  •  says if the Electoral College votes for Biden it would be a mistake, but says he will leave the White House if it does … “Certainly I will”

Germany reports 22,268 new coronavirus cases in latest update today

  
Analysis, COVID-19

Another 389 deaths reported as well, taking the tally over the past three days to over 1,000 persons

Germany
The figures so far this week are similar to that over the past two to three weeks, so there is little sign that the virus situation is abating. And the rise in the death count is not exactly good news with the two worst days of the pandemic now seen back-to-back.
However, at least for now, the daily case count is still somewhat plateauing.
In terms of healthcare capacity, there were 3,781 (+11) virus patients requiring intensive care as of yesterday with there still being 5,775 (21%) intensive care units available.
As for the government reaction to all of this, we already saw an announcement yesterday to extend ‘lockdown light’ until 20 December.
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