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04/15/2021 | News release | Distributed by Public on 04/15/2021 11:10
Dentons Flashpoint - April 15, 2021
April 15, 2021
In This Edition
Key Takeaways
Federal Reserve Chairman Powell said the central bank would begin to slow the pace of its bond purchases 'well before' increasing interest rates. Less effective vaccines may outperform those with high efficacy if the former can be distributed more quickly. China's military will begin six-days of live-fire drills in the waters off Taiwan's southwest coast, as an unofficial US delegation visits the island. Analysis: Science Under the Scope: Post-COVID Inflammatory Syndrome in Children; Region in Charts: Europe's Fourth Wave.
Condition Updates
A rundown of important global developments in markets, in business, and region-by-region, as well as statistical risk assessments by country and by US state.
Science Under the Scope: Post-COVID Inflammatory Syndrome in Children
During the late spring and summer of 2020 an alarming trend began to emerge in children who had experienced, and recovered from, COVID-19 infection. This trend was a late-onset inflammatory syndrome that landed most sufferers in hospital intensive care units and led to the deaths of several hundred children across the country. The mystery inflammatory disease, later named MIS-C, even occurs in children who were asymptomatic during infection.
Region in Charts: Europe's Fourth Wave
The promising signs earlier in the month have faded. While Eastern Europe, except Turkey is improving, new hotspots in Western Europe are once again driving infection rates up. Europe is no longer the epicenter of the pandemic, with India and Brazil earning this grim placement.