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Mar 03, 2021 06:50 AM EST
Three days after getting inoculated by Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine, a woman from Japan who is in her 60s died of a brain hemorrhage. On Tuesday, Japan s Health Ministry announced the death of the woman, however, they did note that there is no significant link between the vaccine and the woman s death.
Japanese Woman Dies of Brain Hemorrhage
The woman who died of brain hemorrhage is the first death reported in Japan after a vaccination. Based on reports, she got her COVID-19 vaccine on Friday and was suspected to have suffered a brain hemorrhage on Monday, three days after she got the shot.
Associated Press
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Feb. 20, 1905, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Jacobson v. Massachusetts, upheld, 7-2, compulsory vaccination laws intended to protect the public’s health.
On this date:
In 1839, Congress prohibited dueling in the District of Columbia.
In 1933, Congress proposed the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to repeal Prohibition.
In 1942, Lt. Edward “Butch” O’Hare became the U.S. Navy’s first flying ace of World War II by shooting down five Japanese bombers while defending the aircraft carrier USS Lexington in the South Pacific.
In 1962, astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth as he flew aboard Project Mercury’s Friendship 7 spacecraft, which circled the globe three times in a flight lasting 4 hours, 55 minutes and 23 seconds before splashing down safely in the Atlantic Ocean 800 miles southeast of Bermuda.
Updates on CCP Virus: World Won’t Be Adequately Vaccinated Until 2027, Specialists Predict
World Won’t Be Adequately Vaccinated Until 2027, Specialists Predict
An Australian infectious disease physician said it would take six years for the world to be adequately vaccinated against the CCP virus, so vaccines must be shared with developing countries to avoid “more sinister” strains emerging.
Infectious diseases specialist and Australian National University lecturer Sanjaya Senanayake said about 70 countries have signed up for vaccination programmes. Presently, he estimates that the goal won’t be met in just a year or two.
“At the current rate of vaccination it is estimated we won’t reach global coverage of 75 percent with vaccines for about six years,” Dr Senanayake told Australia’s National Press Club on Feb. 10.
Today we are going to take the advice of Rudyard Kipling and look east. In particular to the Far East and Nihon. So let me open by saying well done to any readers who have been long Japanese shares and hence its stock market. From Nikkei Asia.
TOKYO Japan’s benchmark Nikkei Stock Average breached the 30,000 mark on Monday for the first time in nearly 31 years, as strong corporate earnings and GDP data coupled with optimism over COVID-19 vaccine development prompted investors to flock to risk assets.
The blue-chip Nikkei index jumped over 500 points, or nearly 2%, to hit its highest level since August 1990, when the asset bubble burst in Japan. The broader Topix gauge rose 1% to a three-decade high.