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appalachiablue

(41,048 posts)
Wed Sep 15, 2021, 07:14 AM Sep 2021

Latest: WHO Reports Big Drop In New Coronavirus Infections

Source: AP News

GENEVA — The World Health Organization said there were about 4 million coronavirus cases reported globally last week, marking the first major drop in new infections in more than two months. In recent weeks, there have been about 4.4 million new COVID-19 cases.

In its weekly update released on Tuesday, the U.N. health agency said every region in the world saw a drop in COVID-19 cases compared to the previous week.

Although the worldwide number of deaths decreased to about 62,000, with the sharpest decline in Southeast Asia, there was a 7% increase in deaths in Africa. The highest numbers of cases were seen in the U.S., Britain, India, Iran and Turkey and the highly contagious delta variant has now been reported in 180 countries.

WHO also said children and teenagers continue to be less affected by COVID-19 when compared to adults, adding that deaths of people under 24 due to the disease account for fewer than 0.5% of global deaths. WHO has previously said children should not be prioritized for COVID-19 vaccinations given the extreme vaccine shortages globally. -
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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/europe-health-asia-coronavirus-pandemic-united-nations-cede164851d7ab6cb5d79c88ff990cf9





- Students socially distance as they sit in a classroom at the Preah Sisowath high school in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Sept. 15, 2021. The Municipal of Phnom Penh recently issued a statement to reopen junior high and high schools due to the high number of vaccination rates for teachers and students, low infection rates and the schools' to compliance to health standards. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith).
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Latest: WHO Reports Big Drop In New Coronavirus Infections (Original Post) appalachiablue Sep 2021 OP
"The highest numbers of cases were seen in the U.S." BumRushDaShow Sep 2021 #1
Good news! underpants Sep 2021 #2
While this is welcome news, it may give a wrong impression of the actual situation. From 4.4 JohnSJ Sep 2021 #3
Good! Let's end this damn thing! Initech Sep 2021 #4
Good Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2021 #5
Message auto-removed Name removed Sep 2021 #6
Exponential growth meets the vaccination coefficient bucolic_frolic Sep 2021 #7

BumRushDaShow

(127,281 posts)
1. "The highest numbers of cases were seen in the U.S."
Wed Sep 15, 2021, 08:18 AM
Sep 2021

And that's all there really is to it.

And this misinformation continues to be perpetuated -

WHO also said children and teenagers continue to be less affected by COVID-19 when compared to adults


They have been doing this type of lagged and incorrect proclamation for everything from refusing to call COVID-19 a "pandemic" until months after the first cases the winter before, to insisting that COVID-19 wasn't being spread by asymptomatic people, to how the virus was transmitted and couldn't be by aerosolization, for the past 20 months now because they are obviously "months behind" in terms of the data reality.

JohnSJ

(91,941 posts)
3. While this is welcome news, it may give a wrong impression of the actual situation. From 4.4
Wed Sep 15, 2021, 08:30 AM
Sep 2021

million to 4 million weekly cases, does not necessarily indicate a trend

Since the beginning of the pandemic, WHO and the CDC have been tainted with political influences, and I suspect those interferences are still there

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bucolic_frolic

(42,662 posts)
7. Exponential growth meets the vaccination coefficient
Wed Sep 15, 2021, 01:30 PM
Sep 2021

Absent more mutations it is possible that peak infections is past

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