President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris urged Americans to get COVID-19 shots. The country looks likely to miss the White House's goals for vaccination next month as a new coronavirus variant triggers serious concerns https://t.co/EchTYaQzSw pic.twitter.com/XLwVdPxvjQ
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 19, 2021
62.1% of qualified Americans (age 12 and over) have received at least one vaccine shot; 52.3% are now fully vaccinated. pic.twitter.com/LWpqtVu9V9
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) June 19, 2021
“Sixty-eitht percent versus 70 percent doesn’t matter,” said Andy Slavitt, who served as a senior adviser to the White House coronavirus response before stepping down last week. “What matters is 50 percent in Arkansas versus 90 percent in Vermont.” https://t.co/lktCQyAQPk
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) June 19, 2021
The US had +13,389 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 today, bringing the total closer to 34.4 million. The 7-day moving average fell to 12,639 new cases per day, its lowest level since March 26, 2020. pic.twitter.com/jHjvOdN6S3
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) June 19, 2021
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Delta variant is on the move: The variant that 1st emerged in India is becoming the dominant Covid variant worldwide. That’s because of its “significantly increased transmissibility,” said Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, WHO's chief scientist https://t.co/BlPWHezTkd
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) June 19, 2021
"Within days, China will reach a staggering 1 billion doses in its Covid-19 vaccination drive — a scale and speed unrivaled by any other country in the world." Analysis by @Nectar_Gan & @lauraliuhe https://t.co/ntUsFzgFmS
— CNN International (@cnni) June 18, 2021
India reports 60,753 new coronavirus cases https://t.co/8jzq07ESMy pic.twitter.com/JQpTAIVbYO
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 19, 2021
India should brace for third COVID-19 wave by Oct, say health experts https://t.co/spc9WjGlBd pic.twitter.com/XSobiwigTt
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 18, 2021
Singapore says there are problems with the Chinese vaccine. https://t.co/6VdPQoIgpg
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) June 18, 2021
Tokyo Olympic Games staff begin receiving vaccines https://t.co/OS7wzXxfGN
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 18, 2021
Cambodia reports 20 deaths from COVID, record for single day https://t.co/Ew3QxHb34O pic.twitter.com/preuZYZSSd
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 19, 2021
The Palestinian Authority is nixing a deal that called for Israel to give it 1 million doses of soon-to-expire coronavirus vaccines in exchange for doses the Palestinians expect to receive this year. The authority said the doses are too close to expiring. https://t.co/XXHG68asBz
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 18, 2021
Officials in Russia, where vaccine hesitancy remains high, are ordering frontline workers to be vaccinated as the highly infectious Delta variant spreads.
Russia has reported a 50 percent increase in daily cases over the past two weeks https://t.co/FF2aDtal3X
— COVID19 (@V2019N) June 18, 2021
OpEd Those who had said nothing when the authorities rigged election results, shut down independent media outlets and jailed opposition members are now speaking out about their “impinging freedoms", @Vorewig writeshttps://t.co/ZyTns6n6AI
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) June 18, 2021
… People simply don’t want to get vaccinated! Still, many have done so, including this author. Generally, the young and educated residents of Russia’s largest cities — the so-called “new middle class” — have been most willing to get the vaccine. They consider themselves world citizens, vacation in Berlin and Paris and watch Netflix and HBO. They don’t need to be convinced that vaccination is a good idea: they volunteer for it and talk their friends and co-workers into it as well…
Putin’s supporters, however, have not been getting vaccinated. These are the older Russians, generally less educated, who travel abroad only rarely, if at all…
People who had said nothing when the authorities rigged election results, forced the courts to find innocent people guilty, shut down independent media outlets, jailed opposition members and tortured prisoners have finally started speaking out. “You are impinging on our freedoms,” they cried as the authorities came after them with a syringe.
They’ll shout for a time, but they’ll stop soon enough. Some will buckle and get the vaccine, but many more will turn to the already flourishing black market for a fake certificate of vaccination. The going price for such documents has already reached $200 in Moscow. And those same people will go home satisfied that they have outsmarted the system…
Setback for EU in legal fight with AstraZeneca https://t.co/705jdfJwFp
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 18, 2021
Coronavirus infections rising exponentially in England – REACT study | Imperial News | Imperial College Londonhttps://t.co/rzemjO31gK
— Global Health Observ (@GlobalPHObserv) June 18, 2021
Italy will require people arriving from Britain to quarantine for five days and take a COVID-19 swab test, as concern grows about a soaring increase of cases in Britain involving the delta variant. https://t.co/lgY1wL7WMQ
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 18, 2021
Germany has given a vaccine shot to over half its people. But officials are still worried after seeing how the delta variant is dominating Britain and are urging soccer fans not to go to the UK. https://t.co/ckVZL3nwNM
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) June 18, 2021
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern received her first shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, as the country steps up efforts to inoculate its population https://t.co/4h7M6dmPqg
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 18, 2021
Australia's largest state records two new local COVID-19 cases https://t.co/WRYnKienm8 pic.twitter.com/DSyXGsDoZT
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 19, 2021
?Africa is "in the midst of a full-blown third wave" of coronavirus, the head of @WHOAFRO has warned
Cases have risen across the continent by more than 20% and deaths have also risen by 15% in the last week@jriggers reports ~ ?https://t.co/CRDhqPHFWM
— Telegraph Global Health Security (@TelGlobalHealth) June 17, 2021
RT @JeremyFarrar: A silent decimation: South America’s losing battle against Covid https://t.co/7XkSnAYpZX
— Global Health Observ (@GlobalPHObserv) June 18, 2021
Brazil has 98,832 COVID cases, 2,495 deaths in 24 hours -ministry https://t.co/mviML0oU8b pic.twitter.com/upRTa6ySXl
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 19, 2021
As Brazil's official COVID-19 death toll nears 500,000, Brazil's Senate is publicly investigating how the toll got so high. It is focusing on why the president ignored opportunities to buy vaccines for months and pushed treatments shown to be ineffective. https://t.co/IN49aiTwEU
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 18, 2021
Argentine lab makes first half million doses of Russian COVID-19 vaccine https://t.co/NalOtdc5e4 pic.twitter.com/u7CkaZA5Ej
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 19, 2021
Mexico's coronavirus death toll hits 230,959 https://t.co/CiGRZaHIqj pic.twitter.com/iXICMoLJ1l
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 19, 2021
Mexico to donate 154,100 doses of AstraZeneza vaccine to Honduras https://t.co/wQE14g2jL3 pic.twitter.com/xTStxOhR6a
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 19, 2021
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Latest data on immune response to Covid reinforces the need for vaccination https://t.co/aHgdEbayME pic.twitter.com/1gtNsDMWt0
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) June 18, 2021
A new study by @YaleSPH @ChenKai_yale & team shows that SARS-CoV-2’s reproductive number is attributable to seasonal factors; temperature (3.73%), humidity (9.35%) and UV radiation (4.44%).
We need to vaccinate before the cold, dry, dark winter hits.https://t.co/s2e8kYUo6M
— Prof. Akiko Iwasaki (@VirusesImmunity) June 18, 2021
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This is particularly true for Black and Hispanic/Latinx beneficiaries: over 50% cited lack of trust in gov't as their reason for planning to decline the vaccine. For government and public health to serve all we must work to address racism and become trustworthy.
— Louisa Holaday (@louisaholaday) June 18, 2021
there has been a subset of twitter people celebrating and mocking the people that are getting severely ill or dying because they refused to get vaccinated, and i find that grotesque.
but i’m allowed to say “goddamnit save yourselves you fucking idiot assholes” and so i shall. https://t.co/sIKJAgjTac
— World Famous Art Thief (@CalmSporting) June 18, 2021
Here in several low-income Massachusetts towns (Laurence, Lowell, Fall River… ), pop-up clinics in the parking lots of local grocery chain Market Basket are offering $25 gift cards. From the TV spots I’m seen, people who hadn’t previously found the incentive to get vaxx’d have been more than happy to do so when it’s presented this way.
Maine's most effective COVID-19 vaccine incentive? A LL Bean gift card, the state's CDC director Nirav Shah tells reporters.
— Ariel Cohen (@ArielCohen37) June 16, 2021
prufrock
Putin supporters have the same attitudes and come from the same demographic as MAGAts?
I am shocked, shocked!
OzarkHillbilly
Well, here in the Hills and Hollers most of the counties are at 25% or less
NotMax
Rush to bad judgment.
A scant few hours after his statements, the Dept. of Health announced three new COVID deaths added to the statistics.
OzarkHillbilly
Guess who comes in at #4 with 917?
Baud
That’s half of the people who said they plan to decline, not half of all people, correct?
I’m no longer sympathetic to the lack of trust argument. It was fine at the beginning, but we have too much experience with the vaccine to justify lack of trust as reasonable.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Director-General of Heath Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 5,911 new Covid-19 cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 691,115 cases. He also reports 72 new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 4,348 deaths — 0.63% of the cumulative reported total, 0.69% of resolved cases.
There are currently 64,522 active and contagious cases; 886 are in ICU, 441 of them intubated. Meanwhile, 6,918 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 622,244 patients recovered – 90.03% of the cumulative reported total.
24 new clusters were reported today. Of the cumulative total of 2,604 clusters, 824 are still active while 1,780 are now inactive.
5,910 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 2,110 local cases: 470 in clusters, 1,026 close-contact screenings, and 614 other screenings. Negeri Sembilan reports 770 cases: 207 in clusters, 347 close-contact screenings, and 216 other screenings.
Sarawak reports 569 cases: 124 in clusters, 358 close-contact screenings, and 87 other screenings.
Johor reports 498 cases: 287 in clusters, 140 close-contact screenings, and 71 other screenings. Kuala Lumpur reports 483 cases: 73 in clusters, 236 close-contact screenings, and 174 other screenings.
Perak reports 245 cases: 176 in clusters, 50 close-contact screenings, and 19 other screenings. Kelantan reports 223 cases: 88 in clusters, 114 close-contact screenings, and 21 other screenings. Kedah reports 204 cases: 99 in clusters, 79 close-contact screenings, and 26 other screenings. Sabah reports 201 cases: 36 in clusters, 109 close-contact screenings, and 56 other screenings.
Labuan reports 185 cases: 59 in clusters, 77 close-contact screenings, and 49 other screenings. Penang reports 167 cases: 128 in clusters, 22 close-contact screenings, and 17 other screenings. Melaka reports 134 cases: 29 in clusters, 62 close-contact screenings, and 43 other screenings.
Terengganu reports 62 cases: four in clusters, 53 close-contact screenings, and five other screenings. Pahang reports 56 cases: 27 in clusters, 23 close-contact screenings, and six other screenings. Putrajaya reports three cases: two close-contact screenings and one other screening. Perlis reports no new cases today.
One new case today is imported, in Selangor.
Matt McIrvin
@Baud: I don’t think they’re primarily scared of the vaccine, they’re scared of what the government might do to them in any interaction with it. After 4 years of Trump I can see the point.
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY stats:
Vaccinations in Monroe County:
59.1% with at least 1 jab
54.5% totally vaccinated
New COVID cases:
24 new cases – 9 are children under 19. The age range for cases is pretty spread out.
.8% test positivity
Deaths at 1320.
62 people hospitalized, 17 people in the ICU
Suzanne
@Baud:
I’m increasingly unsympathetic to the it’s-hard-to-get-there-or-take-time-off-work argument, too. At this point, there are vaccine clinics and pharmacies with it all over the damn place. You don’t need to deal with stupid websites and limited slots and inconvenient times. I get that it makes you feel shitty for a window of time. But COVID makes you feel much worse for much longer. Time to be rational.
trnc
Boo hoo.
Social contracts are important, too, bud.
Baud
@trnc:
He should be thankful I’m not president. My plan is to introduce the modern equivalent of leper colonies for covid vaccine resistors.
Joe Falco
All these incentives done in other states makes me wish Georgia officials offered gift cards to Krispy Kreme and Waffle House when I got both my shots!
Lapassionara
@Baud: good idea!
p.a.
*sigh* GF exposed at work (nurse). Now we’re in the 5-day procedure. Both of us fully vacc’ed. She actually had it early 12/20. Lab never got my swab then, so if I had it it was asymptomatic. SUX!
WereBear
MAH FREEDUMBS! I AINT TAKIN’ NO BILL GATES CHIP SHOT!
Ooooo, LL Bean. I do love their slippers.
WereBear
For some people, it’s NEVER the right time…
Sloane Ranger
Friday the UK had 10,476 new cases. This is an increase of 33.3% in the rolling 7-day average. New cases by nation,
England – 9185 (down 186)
Northern Ireland – 178 (down 1)
Scotland – 950 (down 367)
Wales – 163 (up 23).
Deaths – There were 11 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. This is an increase of 18% in the rolling 7-day average. 9 deaths in England and 2 in Scotland.
Testing – 1,034,415 tests were conducted on Thursday, 17 June. This is an increase in the rolling 7-day average of 1.3%. The PCR testing capacity reported by labs on this date was 579,131.
Hospitalisations – There were 1251 people in hospital on Wednesday, 16 June and 210 on ventilators on Thursday, 17th. As of 14 June the rolling 7-day average for hospital admissions had risen by 40.1%.
Vaccinations – As of 17 June, 42,460,632 people had received 1 shot of a vaccine and 30,898,467 had had both. In percentage terms this means that 80.6% of all adults in the UK have had 1 shot and 58.7% were fully vaccinated. Looking at the percentages across all home nations everyone seems to be broadly comparable, although Northern Ireland is lagging slightly behind the others for both 1st and 2nd shots. Wales is doing best with 1st shots but England has a higher percentage of 2nd shots in peoples arms.
artem1s
Given that the University has had a vaccination center ON CAMPUS since March, I was shocked to find out that we’re barely able to get 60% to self report and upload images of their cards to the website. I honestly don’t know if the low numbers are student or staff. The U is trying to avoid mandates, but also lawsuits. If the Delta variant is running rampant come fall they can’t very well order vaccinated work or attend class along-side unvaccinated. No one believes masking and distancing is going to work this fall anymore than it did last fall. So while the lawyers are probably advising them they can’t mandate either return to campus or vaccinations, I imagine there may be a portion of the staff that may be hesitant to self report in the hopes that they will be able to continue to work from home. The deplorables and the belligerent have the President’s office by the short hairs and they know it.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Baud: You already had my vote but now I think I’ll vote for you three or four times!
NotMax
@Baud
Puh-leeze, Hansen’s Disease retreats.
Robert Sneddon
Scotland — 1,209 new cases of COVID-19 and two deaths reported yesterday (Friday). The test positivity rate is 4.5%.
There were 39,000 vaccinations yesterday, split 50-50 between first and second doses. This brings the first-dose totals up to 81% of all 18+ adults.
Public Health Scotland is starting to send out vaccination certificates which will include a downloadable QR-coded certificate for smartphones and connected devices as well as a paper copy. It’s still at an early stage but it’s planning for the future when services and events will be opening up to the public but they may be restricted to people with some kind of proof of vaccination. Validating evidence of vaccination for foreign travel is still in its infancy though with every country pretty much developing their own standards for visitors.
trnc
@Baud: I support that platform item.
YY_Sima Qian
On 6/18 China reported 6 new domestic confirmed & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
Guangdong Province reported 6 new domestic confirmed cases.
Imported Cases
On 6/18, China reported 24 new imported confirmed cases, 42 imported asymptomatic cases, 1 imported suspect case:
Overall in China, 28 confirmed cases recovered, 20 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation & 3 were reclassified as confirmed cases, and 827 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 503 active confirmed cases in the country (351 imported), 21 in serious condition (8 imported), 455 asymptomatic cases (434 imported), 1 suspect case (imported). 15,695 traced contacts are currently under quarantine.
As of 6/18, 990.257M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 23.605M doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 6/19, Hong Kong report led 1 new positive case, imported. As of 6/18, 3.1309M individuals have received vaccine shot(s) in the territory. 1.8829M individuals have received the 1 dose (824.4K w/ the Sinovac one & 1.0585M w/ the Fosun/BioNTech one), 1.248M individuals have completed 2 shots (516.3K w/ the Sinovac one & 731.7K w/ the Fosun/BioNTech one).
Percysowner
@Joe Falco: Staying alive isn’t enough incentive?
Seriously, though, Krispy Kreme is offering free donuts to anyone who has been vaccinated, no matter the date. I haven’t heard about Waffle House. The Ohio lottery incentive is for everyone who has been vaccinated, again regardless of date of vaccination.
Yeah, you missed the free beer and a sandwich given during the vaccination process, but many of the offers don’t start on a particular date.
Central Planning
@NeenerNeener: I was driving by the Pittsford Wegmans (an generally snooty and affluent suburb of Rochester, NY for the non-locals), there were a few cranks with signs that stated “IVERMECTIN CURES COVID.” That’s also where I sometimes see the anti-abortion crowd with their kids. Must be good business there.
Just….ugh. I didn’t even know what that med was, but I’m sure not going to take medical advice from a couple morons on the side of the road. Turns out the drug is an anti-parasite medicine; it’s not an anti-viral.
I wonder who they voted for and who they think is the duly elected president of the US. Just kidding. I already know the answer to that.
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@OzarkHillbilly: in west fuckin’ virginia, the plandemic
virusbioweapon is as real as clean energy. the wuhan infectious disease research center is just solyndra’s latest metamorphosis.FlyingToaster
@OzarkHillbilly:
Per family back in the old hometown, not just the hills-n-hollers.
My niece (the pediatric nurse) in Gladstone (suburban KCMO) is so frustrated. She actually caught the damn virus at work last fall, got vaxxed with all the other sane healthcare workers in February, and got her spouse vaxxed in April. But there is no mandate for teachers in NKC schools, there is no societal pressure or uptake, and her colleagues in the hospitals are losing the damn fight.
Anyone who wonders why I emigrated to the People’s Republic of Massachusetts, THIS IS WHY.
Soprano2
@OzarkHillbilly: It’s bad here too. Greene County is about 38% vacced, but the surrounding counties are lower, and they all come to the hospital in Springfield. How long until Parson has them quit reporting Covid deaths?
Bill Arnold
The Yale study, amazingly, barely touches on seasonality of indoor mixing behavior. Indoor season in the US is in the colder months in northern states, and in the summer months in southern states. It is utterly clear from a year and a half of COVID-19 statistics gathering about clusters (and general transmission) that sharing of unfiltered exhalations indoors is the primary way SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted, so I’m a little surprised this survived Nature’s peer review. (The results are interesting and useful, to be clear.)
Role of meteorological factors in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the United States (Yiqun Ma, Sen Pei, Jeffrey Shaman, Robert Dubrow & Kai Chen, Nature Communications, 14 June 2021)