Posted on 03/07/2021 6:31:49 PM PST by BeauBo
Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 116,363,405
Receiving 1 or More Doses: 58,873,710
Receiving 2 Doses: 30,686,881
Doses Delivered: 6.5 million (Strong. avg. includes weekend, which typically has no deliveries)
People Receiving 1st Dose: 4.8 million (avg. 1.6 M/day - very strong)
People Receiving 2nd Dose: 2.8 million (avg. almost 1 M/day - very strong)
Vaccination Program is making strong headway - seems to be building speed.
23% of adults (18 or older) reported as having received a first shot, 12% as finishing their second.
Still no breakout of Johnson & Johnson (one shot vaccine) - either delivery or administration. So we are left to wonder if some of those with first shots, but not seconds, are actually done.
Significant headway is being made among senior citizens.
Now that just over 2/3rd of the population 75 and older has had a first shot, they probably will be thinning out in the line for first shots. The most eager ones have already been served, and they will increasingly be chasing down stragglers.
In fact, over the the last week the largest percentage of new shots has started to go toward those 65-74, instead of those 75+, for the first time. So we are seeing it happen.
Now about 46% of 65-74 year olds have gotten a first shot. At this rate, in 2-4 weeks the 65-74 year olds will also start thinning out in the line for first shots, and even more will start going toward younger folks.
Those older demographics are the ones that have accounted for the great bulk of COVID deaths and hospitalizations. Those outcomes should continue to shift down pretty rapidly over the coming weeks, because of the effects of vaccination.
I’ll be administering J&J vaccines this week. We just got a bunch of doses.
Except the mutations are now dominant and the shots are not effective.
The case count has already flattened its decline.
Oregon getting J&J this week. Governor got the shot on TV.
Our local paper said The J&J may need a booster. So much for the one shot.
“Our local paper said The J&J may need a booster. So much for the one shot.”
They have been doing a study on hoe much more effective it is with a booster shot (two-shot).
The business case is certainly there to sell twice as many shots, if they can.
I think the Government wants to mix and match the vaccines, so that people can just take two shots - each shot being just whichever of the options happens to be on hand when you show up. It would likely be highly effective against the disease, and maybe even slightly better.
Can the flu come back out of hiding now?
I will gladly give my dose to anybody who wants it.
The mRNA platforms may have a big future but a little bit scary imo to test it out on 60 million people. I predict the JNJ vaccine will be the popular choice at this rate.
“the mutations are now dominant and the shots are not effective.
Actually, the variants have only been in tiny numbers in the USA, and the vaccines are almost as effective against them - just a few percentage points less.
According to the CDC (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/index.html ), the confirmed case counts for the variants in the USA so far is:
B.1.1.7 (the UK, or Kent, variant): 2,672 cases
B.1.351 (South African variant): 68 cases
P.1 (Brazilian variant): 13 cases
Good job!
My wife and I got the Moderna vaccine. I’m comfortable with it but I wouldn’t be surprised if there will need to be a booster shot at some point to keep antibody levels high and current. it does seem like mRNA vaccines/therapeutics could really be a miracle of modern technology.
I think these are most likely just 2 variations (and a third upcoming) of the common flu shots.
There is a California variant. Dominant in Calif.
Hmmm...
California...?
Variant?
Sounds like something they might go for...
At that rate it certainly shouldn’t take until mid-July to vaccinate everyone in the U.S. who wants it which is what Former VP Joseph Stolen has told the nation.
They’re going to have to walk back the entire concept of herd immunity as well to keep the covid hysteria going much longer. That should be achieved before the entire population has had its shots ... unless they change the science ... again.
The Hotel California variant?
You can take the shots but you can never go back to work.
We have open betting (for bragging rights only) on when cases will crash into obscurity (AKA herd immunity). I like the end of April/beginning of May, gas_dr was looking at June, and 2aProtectsTheRest is thinking July.
Where does your guessing dart land on the calendar?
Given the vaccination schedule as presented in the opening post and my tendency to think in terms of how things used to be, a decade or two ago, ie normalcy bias, I would have taken a date like yours. April/May.
But, since politics is now firmly entrenched in things it shouldn’t even have an affect on ... I’ll have to go with July at the earliest.
If it goes beyond that I’m going to be strongly inclined to think there’s funny business going on.
Speaking of Brazil, I just took a look at them on Worldometers. Brazil looks like a train wreck, with COVID cases and fatalities on the rise and challenging US levels. Anybody have insight in to what’s going on, there, aside from their relatively low level of mitigation?
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