Posted on 01/20/2021 2:20:19 PM PST by BeauBo
Total Doses Distributed: 35,990,150
Number of People Receiving 1 or More Doses: 14,270,441
Number of People Receiving 2 Doses: 2,161,419
Doses Administered in Long-Term Care Facilities: 1,908,256
(Excerpt) Read more at covid.cdc.gov ...
Doses Distributed: 4.83 million (average of almost a million per day)
People Receiving 1 or More Doses: 3.67 million (avg 735,000 per day)
People Receiving 2 Doses: 550,000 (avg 110,000 per day)
(So an average of around 850,000 Total sticks per day, 1st or 2nd)
Doses Administered in Long-Term Care Facilities: 523,000 (avg 110,000 per day)
We are deep into the Nursing Home population now. There are only about 1.3 million residents, plus staff. Their COVID death rate should fall off the cliff over the next month.
Starting to bite into the elderly population now (which is roughly 50 million). That would take about two more months at current rates, but deliveries should speed up (unless there is some radical policy shift, like prioritizing the Third World first).
So in April hospital COVID wards should be emptying out, and the overall death rates dwindling to insignificance. Vaccines should start becoming available to all.
There is no “vaccination”. A vaccine ensures you do not get a disease, and since you cannot get it, you will not spread it.
Moderna and Pfizer does not claim to do either. You can still get covid but may have milder symptoms, and you can still spread it.
So how exactly is this a vaccine. This is merely a -possibly- effective therapeutic.
Its experimental.
“A vaccine ensures you do not get a disease”
No. A vaccine exposes your immune system to a pathogen, so you will develop a better immune response to it. There is no 100% guarantee.
As far as most vaccines go, these two are more effective than most (around 95% less chance of falling ill, but even greater protection against getting a very serious case)
In case anyone was wondering, this is the correct information.
Thank you for posting it!
It was experimental back in March. Then it went through Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3 clinical trials. That’s how we know it’s safe and effective.
This is the first vaccine or you’re pretty much guaranteed that you will still get the virus, and you can still spread it. Point me to another one besides the flu shot. And the only reason the flu shot deal is because normally it’s for a different flu then the person got. All the classic vaccines immunize you. That’s why they call it immunization.
My personal experience is if your state allows you to pick any vax location, head for the ‘hood.
I was scheduled a month out in my county, then looked on line to the ‘hood and got the vax in 2 days.
They told me black and hispanic folks are not getting it, they have plenty of open slots.
Another vaccine, using a different (more traditional) technical approach (the Jonson & Johnson, or Janssen vaccine), is expected to get Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) in the USA next month as well.
It will be a single shot, rather than requiring a second follow-up, like Phizer or Moderna do. J&J is supposed to deliver a few million doses in February, but really ramp up production in March. They also have a big Defense Production Act contract, like Phizer and Moderna.
In April, the USA is also supposed to grant EUA for the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, that is already being used in the UK, Canada and Mexico.
Worldwide, over a hundred new vaccine candidates are in development or use for COVID-19. The Russians are using their Sputnik V, the Chinese their SinoVac, and a few others.
The US Army at Walter Reed is developing a a broad spectrum vaccine, against coronaviruses generally - so that should protect against new variants and strains. That one is early in development, and has just been tested on animals so far.
No vaccine is 100% effective! My son got Whopping Cough despite being vaccinated properly. I was quite surprised.
I could not believe it, but I was told that happens sometimes! Whooping cough is extremely contagious, but because of everybody is vaccinated, it does not spread too much.
Tetanus vaccination is just about 50% effective, yet it basically eliminated tetanus.
Practically all vaccines protect to just some degree. Never 100%
Thank you for correct information.
No, none of the vaccines are 100% effective.
E.g. Tetanus is only about 50%.
See my post 10.
The vaccination is a great way to achieve “herd immunity”.
It does not protect everybody, but protect enough people to stop the spread to almost nothing.
Flu vaccine does not protect too well because flu virus changes every year. Last year protection is useless for the next year one!
Since they have to make the vaccine before the virus actually shows up, they have to guess every year what will be the next mutation.
Sometimes they guess well, sometimes very poorly.
Never perfect.
If the virus stayed the same, more less, they would eventually nail it and flu would be history, more less. But the great variability of the flu virus makes it practically undefeatable.
“vaccination is a great way to achieve “herd immunity”.”
We have had about 15 million vaccinated, about 24 million confirmed cases, some (probably large) numbers of undiagnosed and asymptomatic cases, and some number of people who have a pre-existing cross-immunity, from prior exposure to other coronaviruses (which may explain the high rate of asymptomatic cases).
So maybe something well over 50 million people will already be dead ends for transmission, including most of the Nursing Home population (who have accounted for over 40% of US COVID-19 deaths).
Part of the beauty of vaccination, is that you can target the immunity where it does the most good - to those most vulnerable (disproportionally reducing the death and hospitalization rates), and to those in high contact occupations (disproportionally impeding transmission/replication rates).
Operation Warp Speed estimated that vaccinating about the first 100 million on the priority list would basically do the job. But I think we should start seeing profound improvements well before then.
Lol. This is the first implementation in humans. It is experimental.
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