Doses Delivered: 2.7 Million (a bit Weak) (231,000 J&J - high for the pre-pause norm, a pronounced uptick)
Total Administered: 1.8 Million (New norm) (79,000 J&J - a low pre-pause norm)
New People Receiving 1st Dose: 628,000 (Very Weak - but on track with the new low goals)
People Fully Vaccinated: 1.3 Million (Weak/OK)
Strong inventories on hand (73 million).
% Total Population with at least a First Shot: 46.8% (up 0.2)
Those ≥ 18 Years of Age (Adults): 59.1% (up 0.4)
Those ≥ 65 Years of Age: 84.2% (up 0.2) (72.1% Fully vaccinated - up 0.3)
Cases and New Hospitalizations continue trending downward.
733 New Deaths reported (flat).
J&J deliveries perked up a bit on this report (231K) - still pretty lame overall.
Children ages 12 and up now eligible for the Pfizer vaccine. CDC started to report their vaccination numbers on today's report, as part of a new category (Population ≥ 12 Years of Age).
The decline in the number of new first shots seems that it may have stabilized around a new baseline of about 2/3rds of a million per day.
How are you and the family doing?
It’ll be interesting to see over the next week or so what impact the CDC masking change has on 1st dose numbers. There is some percentage, presumably mostly young that have procrastinated simply because they’re busy and unconcerned.
Another observational report.
““From January first to around mid-April, we’ve had around 4,300 admissions to the hospital with COVID. Of those patients, 99% were not fully vaccinated,” said Eduardo Mireles, MD, Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit...
Researchers looked at nearly 2,000 hospital workers who had contracted COVID-19. They studied infections in the four months after the vaccine was offered. Results show 99.7% of infections in this group occurred among those who were unvaccinated...”
https://newsroom.clevelandclinic.org/2021/05/12/most-covid-19-infections-and-hospitalizations-are-in-unvaccinated/
Wish the CDC would gather and release such data!
In my rural area fully vaxed rate is in 20% to 30% range...
Are they going to segregate the data for 12-17, or just lump all 18 and up into the 12 and up?
biden, fauxi, and the cdc recommending lockdowns, cancellations of events, masks, and vaccines for our citizens to stop the spread of a “deadly virus” while biden is opening the border, inviting, welcoming, and spreading thousands of “disease carrying invaders” across our country during a “global pandemic” reeks of hypocrisy and proves we’re being lied to about the severity of this so called “deadly virus”...
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00675-9/fulltext
A British study.
“From June 18, 2020, to Dec 31, 2020, 30 625 participants were enrolled into the study...
A previous history of SARS-CoV-2 infection was associated with an 84% lower risk of infection, with median protective effect observed 7 months following primary infection...”
Higher than I expected!
At the risk of straying from the very annoying trolling / flaming...
A question:
There still seems to be significant serious debate about how much spread is done by asymptomatic cases. Covid-19 seems to be primarily an airborne pathogen. However, common sense would seem to indicate that since humans don’t normally emit airborne virions in worrisome quantities unless coughing, sneezing, possibly yelling or screaming (maybe loud singing?), etc., asymptomatics (including vaccinated persons with COVID-19 but tamped down or would have just been asymptomatic anyway) are not likely doing a lot of spreading.
However (again), is one defined as asymptomatic if something else is causing coughing and sneezing? I was wondering this as I got really clonked by some pollen (I assume) that hasn’t bothered me too badly in recent years, but, several days ago I really got whacked. I must have sneezed out half a cup of gunk before the allergy meds finally helped (and the one that did was on the high side of dosing and not a “non-drowsy” pill either: Heck of a sleep aide I didn’t really want...)
I still think other behavior would be a bigger factor(s), but, could allergies be a factor in spread of COVID, flu, etc., by people who have very mild cases from such pathogens?