BREAKING: The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is safe and highly effective in children 5 to 11, the companies say. If the regulatory review goes smoothly, millions of children could be immunized by Halloween.https://t.co/X4Loeks07c
— Apoorva Mandavilli (@apoorva_nyc) September 20, 2021
Preliminary safety & immunogenicity data for Pfizer's #Covid vaccine in kids aged 5 to 11 looks promising & the company hopes to submit the data to @US_FDA this month. @matthewherper reports. https://t.co/ENjzL0pOkS
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) September 20, 2021
.@ASlavitt talks with @DrWoodcockFDA about the COVID vaccine approval process for kids under 12. Listen to the entire conversation at https://t.co/AJveHP3VWj?️ pic.twitter.com/es3i5O0EoA
— In the Bubble (@inthebubblepod) September 20, 2021
AND IT'S OFFICIAL: the US travel ban is lifted on travelers coming from the UK, European Union, China, India, Iran, Ireland, Brazil and South Africa, i.e. all countries that were subject to a 14-day ban due to COVID-related Presidential Proclamations.??https://t.co/lr9zuX2jMt
— Célia Belin (@celiabelin) September 20, 2021
After a year and a half of blocking most non-U.S. citizens from traveling to America, the United States is finally lifting international travel restrictions for those who are fully vaccinated https://t.co/b1oBwUF2jl pic.twitter.com/rM3QLUW1ln
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 21, 2021
US will have answers by November, or “hopefully sooner than that" @PressSec says on which vaccines will count for international travelers coming to US. Unclear if Chinese or Russian vaccines will count, or AstraZeneca, or those who got 2 kinds of doses, or what the rules will be.
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) September 20, 2021
Trending higher: As of Monday at 8 a.m. EDT, the unofficial Covid toll in the US is 42 million cases and 673,768 deaths, up 1,133,144 cases and 13,793 deaths since the same time last Monday https://t.co/trMqobP7sR pic.twitter.com/kYmghjUcjM
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) September 20, 2021
It appears that those recovering from covid add very little to overall immunity to the disease. Vaccination is the bulk of it.
Get vaccinatedhttps://t.co/pha5MkpVyF
— Cheryl Rofer (@CherylRofer) September 20, 2021
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Vax van seeks to avert super-spreader event at U.N. summit https://t.co/6Dt9Z4DBWJ pic.twitter.com/PGGuILNJZT
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 21, 2021
Unvaccinated heads of state attending the U.N. General Assembly may have to settle for a piece of pizza on a sidewalk instead of fine dining at New York's restaurants. That is how Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro dined on his first night in New York https://t.co/2hqrRxt2WC #UNGA pic.twitter.com/AY2GUtpOD4
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 21, 2021
China's “zero tolerance” strategy of trying to isolate every case and stop transmission of the coronavirus has kept the country where the virus first was detected largely free of the disease. But the public and businesses are paying a steep price. https://t.co/IJ7EgwHaug
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 21, 2021
India, with its massive vaccine production capability, was to be a major #Covid vax supplier for many countries. But when the Delta wave walloped the country, the government halted vaccine exports. They will resume next month. @lisaschnirring reports. https://t.co/EtDVU9Neng
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) September 20, 2021
Indonesia's demographic dividend threatened by lengthy COVID-19 school closures https://t.co/MOPtK4qP8F pic.twitter.com/yLg5OlYSd2
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 17, 2021
Calls grow among experts in Singapore for a vaccine mandate as COVID-19 spikes https://t.co/P1TH0TW5lf pic.twitter.com/MYtdTzzkio
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 21, 2021
Hundreds demonstrated in locked-down Melbourne after authorities shut down construction sites in the city for two weeks saying the frequent movement of workers was spreading the coronavirus into regional areas https://t.co/FpLzYoR40z pic.twitter.com/qLnElRudX9
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 21, 2021
How to vaccinate a Siberian reindeer herder: Covid has reached the Yamal Peninsula in the Arctic. So vaccination teams are following, and finding ways to inoculate nomadic herders https://t.co/rhz63kz6C2
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) September 21, 2021
Covid vaccination begins for UK 12 to 15 year olds https://t.co/blUAChrJwQ
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) September 20, 2021
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And here it is… Pfizer's vaccine trial for ages 5-11 shows similar antibody titers as those in ages 16-25, despite a lower dose for 5-11s. Dose is 10 micrograms for 5-11s instead of the 30 micrograms used for 12+. NO myocarditis cases in the trial. https://t.co/dTWcFWp8uJ
— Aaron Astor (@AstorAaron) September 20, 2021
NEW The days of full covid coverage are over. Insurers are restoring deductibles and copays, leaving patients with big bills. https://t.co/mC79yoCep8
— Christopher Rowland (@PostRowland) September 18, 2021
Long Covid is less likely if you've been vaccinated. A survey reported recently in The Lancet, showed fewer than 1% of people who had at least 1 dose of a Covid vax developed persistent symptoms after infection subsided. Below a look at long Covid symptoms https://t.co/DDXA3cGVlU pic.twitter.com/CojAkYVFHi
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) September 21, 2021
Below a biologist's thread on glutamate-gated chloride channels & #Ivermectin, explaining ivermectin only targets what it’s supposed to —invertebrate parasites. Why? humans & other mammals don't have these channels. Neither do viruses. It deworms bc only invertebrates have them https://t.co/SS2aaWb0B3 pic.twitter.com/E95SXUIYhs
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) September 20, 2021
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“For the first time in Alabama’s known history, the state had more deaths than births in 2020…
Such a gap had never been recorded, not even during World War I, World War II and the flu pandemic of 1918,”https://t.co/LRADR6unzs— Bianna Golodryga (@biannagolodryga) September 19, 2021
I am pretty damn confident that I'll still be in class face to face on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving and I'll also be teaching face to face for the entire semester.
And given the steps @Duke has taken, I'm in a pretty well protected and responsive environment. https://t.co/Ha7xYMKkyl
— David Anderson (@bjdickmayhew) September 20, 2021
Of the 96% of UMass Amherst students who are fully vaccinated, 1.7% have tested positive.
Of the ~2% of students who have received a religious/medical exemption (the university requires vaccines or approved exemptions), 10% have tested positive.https://t.co/7M0dBIG8K1
— Benjy Renton (@bhrenton) September 19, 2021
Regeneron is an impressive therapy but it is INSANITY to think it's preferable to vaccine.
Vax: 2 painless shots at your closest convenience. Protection for years.
Reg: IV infusion, after exposure/infection if ur lucky enough to be ahead of worst symptoms. Protection for weeks https://t.co/Gk2Nqgdh4v
— zeddy (@Zeddary) September 17, 2021
COVID-19 vaccine refusal rates may be high among white evangelical Christians, but the International Mission Board, which deploys thousands of missionaries, isn't hesitant about the shot. The IMB requires vaccinations for missionaries sent into the field. https://t.co/TNNGGzPyOk
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 17, 2021
The Southern Baptist Convention’s organization that sends thousands of missionaries overseas announced it will require missionaries and their children ages 16 and older to be vaccinated against the coronavirus https://t.co/DCKQdRTRFH
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 18, 2021
Why would a sincere Christian be opposed to vaccination? https://t.co/i6HGLBQXjf
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) September 21, 2021
NeenerNeener
Monroe County web site: 119 new cases yesterday.
Over the last week we had 361 cases among children 0 – 19, 209 cases for people in their 20s, 187 for people in their 30s, 125 cases for 40s and 140 cases for 50s. No older age group had more than 98 cases.
4.5 test positivity.
Now at 1398 deaths, up from 1379 last week.
61.9% of the population is completely vaccinated.
187 people hospitalized, 51 in the ICU.
Is it still 2 weeks before COVID hits you if you’ve been exposed to Delta? Because last weeks numbers look like Labor Day/Back to School numbers but that’s less than 2 weeks.
Wvng
Nice to see that picture of Richard Matthew (cough David Anderson cough) and know his school is protecting his campus so well.
MagdaInBlack
Tucker the Fucker just makes my skin crawl.
NotMax
Brings new meaning to the missionary position.
The Thin Black Duke
If these anti-vaxxers were gamblers, they’d be bankrupt by now, and Big Sal would be patiently waiting in the back alley with a lead pipe.
Cermet
@The Thin Black Duke: Is Sal from ancient Rome? I prefer iron pipes, if its all the same – less lead poisonings in the water … .
The Thin Black Duke
@Cermet: Ah. Irony.
NotMax
FYI.
p.a.
I assume the unvaxxed can send their bills to Rupert Murdoch c/o FoxNews, right?
NotMax
@p.a.
Mexico will pay for it.
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YY_Sima Qian
On 9/20 China reported 42 new domestic confirmed cases & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
Fujian Province reporter 42 new domestic confirmed cases. There currently are 405 active domestic confirmed cases & 3 active domestic asymptomatic cases.
Yunnan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 9 active domestic confirmed & 2 domestic asymptomatic cases remaining in the province, all at Ruili in Dehong Prefecture.
At Hunan Province 1 domestic confirmed case recovered. There currently are 15 active domestic confirmed cases remaining in the province, all at Zhangjiajie
At Henan Province 1 domestic confirmed case recovered. There currently are 9 active domestic confirmed cases.
At Hubei Province there currently are 2 active domestic confirmed (both mild) & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Jingmen.
At Shanghai Municipality there currently are 2 active domestic confirmed cases.
Imported Cases
On 9/20, China reported 30 new imported confirmed cases (4 previously asymptomatic), 13 imported asymptomatic cases, 2 imported suspect cases:
Overall in China, 34 confirmed cases recovered (30 imported), 14 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (all imported) & 4 were reclassified as confirmed cases (all imported), & 241 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 980 active confirmed cases in the country (541 imported), 12 in serious condition (5 imported), 349 active asymptomatic cases (340 imported), 4 suspect case (all imported). 16,306 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 9/20, 2,180.986M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 3.348M doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 9/21, Hong Kong did not issue any reports, due to Mid-Autumn Festival.
Matt McIrvin
Tucker Carlson works for an organization with a COVID vaccination mandate. The level of evil and dishonesty displayed here actually astonishes me.
germy
Tucker gets angry when people ask him if he’s been vaccinated.
raven
Oh boy get ready to freakout about Woodward being on Joe.
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
He’s trying to activate the lizard brain of people who are already susceptible to having that part of their brain activated. Evil, yes. Dishonest, irrelevant to his goals.
debbie
@The Thin Black Duke:
And more like their hero, Donald. //
debbie
Zeddy: “Protection for years?” Is this true?
MomSense
@raven:
They had Raffensberger on earlier. He’s pretty pleased with the 2020 election and how safe and fraud free it was. He even wrote a book about or called Integrity. Did they ask him why the legislature needed to pass an “anti voting fraud” law when the election was so safe and fraud free?
Baud
@MomSense:
Not that I saw.
Matt McIrvin
It’s an interesting question how high childhood vaccine uptake will actually be. Matthew Yglesias was posting some dour and cynical stuff about it, saying he thought it’d be no more than 30%. But childhood vaccinations are different from other kinds–kids get them at regular pediatrician visits, which are a widely normalized thing.
It seems to me that everything depends on whether they become part of the normal course of childhood vaccines. Since COVID vaccines have become so politicized, that might end up as a regionally dependent/partisan thing, like HPV vaccine for teenagers (full vaccination is now above 50%, but it’s taken years and is really geographically uneven). And it won’t be instant–only a minority of parents will rush their kids to CVS to get them right away.
Anne Laurie
@NotMax: This was in yesterday’s post.
germy
@debbie:
I wondered about that, too.
I keep reading “down to 40% efficacy after six months” (which is why I was hoping for a booster)
germy
@Matt McIrvin:
Not to play armchair Freud here, but is it possible he declared war on the world because his mother abandoned his family?
EDIT: come to think of it, Freud himself was armchair Freud.
MomSense
@Baud:
Exactly.
Matt McIrvin
@germy: “40% after six months” is from one outlier paper, IIRC, and in any event was for sterilizing immunity against infection of any kind, which comes from antibody levels. Those inevitably decline after vaccination or infection.
But protection against severe disease and death, the ability to mount a new rapid response against a subsequent infection–which was the stated goal of the vaccines in the first place–comes more from B- and T-cell immunity and, by most accounts, is far more long-lived. Maybe for years. The only groups that have significant trouble with that several months after two-shot vaccination seem to be the immunocompromised and elderly, which is why the Pfizer booster recommendation focuses on them. There’s been a LOT of confusion and misleading information about this.
There does seem to be some legit disagreement around the edges about precisely when the age window for boosters should cut off–some like Peter Hotez are arguing for a lower minimum age, like 40 rather than 65. I suspect there’s going to be a lot of revision of these guidelines over time.
raven
@MomSense: Not a peep.
marklar
“gives a new meaning to the missionary position”– Notmax
Not really, Notmax. Those opposed to vaccinations would say it stands for “just lie on your back and take it.” (the vaccine, that is)
Matt McIrvin
@germy: I think he’s just a grifter who has no shame and a good thing going.
The “testosterone levels” bit is particularly despicable–they’re going straight for the psychosexual obsessions of violent fascists. Internet Nazis have testosterone levels on the brain, just can’t stop talking about them. It’s one of the “scientific” measures they constantly use to rank people as superior and inferior.
Suzanne
@Matt McIrvin: Kids’ vaccines probably won’t be at CVS or other retail locations. Because of the cooling requirements, most of the retail clinics have been doing Moderna, since they don’t have the deep freezers. This will be a going-to-the-pediatrician thing, or potentially a government-agency-run site, because we’re only talking about Pfizer right now.
There is some thought that parents will be more likely to get it for their kids if they can get it at a pediatrician’s office, because they (supposedly) know and trust the pediatrician more.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reports 15,759 new Covid-19 cases today in its media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 2,127,934 cases. It also reports 301 new deaths as of midnight, for a cumulative total of 23,744 deaths – 1.12% of the cumulative reported total, 1.24% of resolved cases.
Based on cases reported yesterday, Malaysia’s nationwide Rt is at 0.93.
844 confirmed active and contagious cases are in ICU, 377 of them on ventilators. Meanwhile, 16,650 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 1,897,386 patients recovered – 89.2% of the cumulative reported total.
23 new clusters were reported today, for a cumulative total of 5,328 clusters. 1,315 clusters are currently active; 4,013 clusters are now inactive.
15,732 new cases today are local infections. Sarawak reports 3,732 cases: 126 in clusters, 2,243 close-contact screenings, and 1,363 other screenings.
Johor reports 1,959 local cases: 273 in clusters, 956 close-contact screenings, and 730 other screenings. Selangor reports 1,926 local local cases: 71 in clusters, 1,005 close-contact screenings, and 850 other screenings.
Penang reports 1,417 local cases: 35 in clusters, 494 close-contact screenings, and 888 other screenings. Kelantan reports 1,338 cases: 100 in clusters, 786 close-contact screenings, and 452 other screenings. Sabah reports 1,291 cases: nine in clusters, 752 close-contact screenings, and 567 other screenings. Perak reports 1,184 cases: 230 in clusters, 432 close-contact screenings, and 522 other screenings.
Kedah reports 786 cases: three in clusters, 519 close-contact screenings, and 264 other screenings.
Pahang reports 707 cases: 97 in clusters, 454 close-contact screenings, and 256 other screenings.
Terengganu reports 592 cases: 14 in clusters, 454 close-contact screenings, and 124 other screenings.
Kuala Lumpur reports 351 local cases: three in clusters, 142 close-contact screenings and 206 other screenings.
Melaka reports 264 cases: 23 in clusters, 145 close-contact screenings, and 96 other screenings.
Negeri Sembilan reports 126 local cases: four in clusters, 65 close-contact screenings, and 57 other screenings.
Putrajaya reports 33 local cases: 25 close-contact screenings and eight other screenings. Perlis reports 23 cases: 10 close-contact screenings and three other screenings. Labuan reports three local cases, all from other screening.
27 new cases today are imported: nine in Labuan, eight in Selangor, eight in Kuala Lumpur, one in Putrajaya, and one in Negeri Sembilan.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 289,618 doses of vaccine on 20th September: 94,145 first doses and 195,473 second doses. As of midnight yesterday, the cumulative total is 40,664,674 doses administered: 22,097,565 first doses and 18,648,795 second doses. 67.7% of the population have received their first dose, while 57.1% are now fully vaccinated.
Matt McIrvin
@Suzanne: It’s just what most parents do, right? You take your kid to the doctor every six months, and at many of those visits the kid has some shots they have to get, and the school requires you to submit those records for entry. All of this is opt-out rather than opt-in; you have to be a committed antivaxxer to push back.
The main thing that short-circuits that is if the school district won’t require the COVID vax because it’s run by wingnuts, and the doctor won’t recommend the shots because the doctor is a wingnut. I think that does happen with HPV, which is another case of a highly politicized vaccine. But, nationally, even teenage HPV vaccine uptake is way above 30% by now.
debbie
@Suzanne:
FWIW, my CVS says they have Pfizer now.
Uncle Cosmo
@Cermet: Just FTR, no one ever referred to anything as “an iron** pipe cinch”…
** Or copper or PVC, for that matter.
Honus
Got the Moderna booster yesterday. Walked a couple blocks from my office to a Blue Ridge Health District trailer on the Charlottesville downtown mall.
dr. bloor
“Smoothly” is doing a whole lot of work in that claim.
New Deal democrat
The top 10 States for new COVID infections now are, in order: AK, WV, WY, KY, MT, SC, TN, ID, AL, and ND.
AL is in a clear declining trend. The rest all share the characteristic of having low vaccination rates, and aside from SC, are in Appalachia or the northern Plains or Rockies.
The slight increasing trend in the heavily vaccinated Northeast has continued. Probably some is rural areas, and some is schoolchildren.
Separately, I did read Cheryl Rofer’s extended tweet. I think she makes one error, which is that she only counts confirmed COVID cases in her model. All of the serological studies I have seen indicate that for every confirmed case, there is at least one unconfirmed case. That adds about another 6-7% to the total population with some immunity.
gvg
This shot will not be at the doctor’s office for kids. I was reading about it this weekend. First, there is the freezer issue. You aren’t getting your shot at your doctor’s and kids won’t be able to either. Second, it’s a lower dose which really complicates the administration of the shot apparently. The description of the process involved unfreezing, a bio sterile cubicle to divide the drug which is apparently rare, expensive and specialized, then transport fast to where the kids are, all in 2 hours. There will be waste and extra logistics. This will make it harder to get the parents to allow their kids to get the shots. I hope we can set it us at schools for efficiency. My county did that for the over 12 year olds within a week of authorization.
For some reason, a lot of parents resist getting their kids shots. They say we give then (kids) too many shots too close together and they are protectively suspicious of shots they get them selves. It makes no sense to me and has no historical awareness. 60 to 100 years ago is just too long for many people to know about. Idiots make me furious.
Fake Irishman
@NeenerNeener:
I have no handy link, but my impression is that because delta blasts you with so much virus quickly (that’s how it overcomes defenses, even in some vaccinated folks) the incubation period is shorter. You all might very well be at or post peak according to the numbers you’ve been posting over the last several weeks. And those elevated rates, while not great, are far far lower than those in less vaccinated communities in souther states and relatively little threat to your health system.
Matt McIrvin
@Fake Irishman: The Delta incubation period is definitely shorter–the average period is something like 2-3 days rather than about a week.
Another Scott
@Matt McIrvin: I expect the COVID-19 vaccine uptake to be very high, eventually, because of mandates and $0 cost. The HPV vaccine is very different.
Most is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.
Cheers,
Scott.
Matt McIrvin
@Another Scott: “Eventually” could be years, of course.
The conservative turn against all vaccine mandates does terrify me–I’m hoping the upshot of all this is that COVID vaccination gets normalized like other vaccines, but it could be instead that all the others get de-normalized and we get epidemics of every infectious childhood disease at the same time.
gvg’s point about freezer logistics is a good one, though I got the impression the troubles there are less bad now than they used to be.
Platonicspoof
Also from Medical Xpress, although flu season severity is usually difficult to predict, this 09-17-21 article says:
Here are the CDC recommendations for various groups for timing of flu vaccination (“. . . vaccination is recommended to be offered by the end of October.”) , formulations, loss of effectiveness over time, etc.
Flu shots should still be free under Medicare.
ETA link.
Robert Sneddon
Scotland — 2,870 new cases reported today but the number is not complete due to continuing technical issues with some COVID-19 case reporting. The test positivity rate is 11.7%, also affected by the technical issue. There were 18 new deaths reported overnight. ICU bed occupancy numbers are 94, down three from yesterday while hospitalisations are 1,107, up 21.
There were about 6,000 vaccinations carried out in Scotland yesterday (Monday) with about 40% of these being first vaccinations. 91.2% of 16+ adults are now vaccinated with their first dose and 83.8% are fully vaccinated. 69.6% of 16 and 17-year-olds have now received their first vaccination, up 0.4% from yesterday. It’s likely that most 16-17 year olds will be getting vaccinated at the weekends since they are generally at school Mon-Fri.
There have not yet been any reports of the number of 12-15 year olds vaccinated on their first day of eligibility.
Sloane Ranger
Monday in the UK we had 36,100 new cases. This is a decrease of 12% in the rolling 7-day average. New cases by nation,
England – 26,905 (up 4732)
Northern Ireland – 1020 (up 131)
Scotland – 2917 (down 916)
Wales – 5258 (up 2541).
Deaths – There were 49 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. This is an increase of 0.4% in the rolling 7-day average. 27 deaths were in England, 5 in Northern Ireland and 17 in Wales. there were no deaths reported from Scotland.
Testing – 1,123,798 tests took place on Sunday, 19 September. This is a reduction in the rolling 7-day average of 13.5%. The PCR testing capacity reported by labs on that date was 847,492.
Hospitalisations – There were 7847 people in hospital and 1011 on ventilators on Friday, 17 September. The rolling 7-day average for hospital admissions was down by 4.8% as at 14 September.
Vaccinations – As at Sunday, 129 September, 48,593,019 people had received 1 shot of a vaccine and 44,466,121 had received both. This means that, as of that date, 89.4% of all UK residents aged 16+ had had 1 shot of a vaccine and 81.8% were fully vaccinated.
Unique uid
@Suzanne: I’m confused by the “deep freezer” reference. Are sites still using the special ultra cold ones for Pfizer ? I thought they asked for a change to use normal freezers in February, and that was approved by the FDA in April?
FWIW the Kroger I went to was giving both Moderna and Pfizer.
PST
@Suzanne: I don’t think the cooling requirement is a problem with Pfizer for CVS or similar outlets anymore. I believe that from the start it was okay to keep the vaccine at ordinary refrigerator temperatures after thawing for the last couple of days before use, and most recently that has been extended to 30 days. I walked into a CVS yesterday and got a Pfizer booster. That doesn’t necessarily mean they will want to jab young children, but I hope they do.
Unique uid
@gvg: I was just searching to see how many doses in the smaller Pfizer package, it was 450. But a CBS news article says smaller packages should be available by October. (Doesn’t say how small)
It also says 14.5 million doses have been wasted in the USA.
Matt McIrvin
@Platonicspoof: I’m trying to decide now how to time my flu shot to get maximum benefit from its limited window of effectiveness. I think we’re coming up on time to get it done.
charon
https://twitter.com/JulianReif/status/1440248133934411781
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/full/10.7326/M21-2239?journalCode=aim
Platonicspoof
@Matt McIrvin:
I see you regularly comment on the COVID posts here and at LGM, so you’ve probably already checked the CDC weekly map.
However, as far as I can tell, their ‘FluSight’ forecasting project for 2021-2022 isn’t running yet.
ETA to fix “isn’t”.
charon
New COVID deaths since March, various countries:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_wZH4wVEAUD-ix?format=jpg&name=900×900
EmbraceYourInnerCrone
Meanwhile in southern Louisiana:
“By the time the sun came up, both hospitals in Houma had endured so much damage, they had to coordinate a massive evacuation.
Dr. Chuck Burnell, the chief medical officer of Acadian Ambulance, was in the basement of Terrebonne General sorting out how to move more than 100 patients, many of them infected with COVID, some on ventilators. Burnell has been an emergency physician for almost 30 years, and he said this is among the worst storms he’s been through, arriving as it did just as the state’s COVID deaths soared and its vaccination rate remained among the lowest in the country.“
“Burnell, the ambulance company’s medical officer, coordinated the evacuation from the hospital’s basement. They had no radio communication and no cell reception. To tell each other anything, they had to run. Nurses, doctors, medics and administrators sprinted across floors wet and slippery from the rain and the sweat. They worked off printed papers to choreograph who would go where and when, to make sure patients positive for COVID didn’t cross with those who weren’t.” (Part of the roof came off in 150mph winds and the hospital had no running water)
Twin-demic slams Louisiana hospitals
Cermet
Cost of the vaccine is so small compared to a full blown covid case that the amount “wasted” isn’t even a rounding error compared to the cost if vaccination sites refused to vaccinate people until they had enough not to ‘waste’ a vile; net result would have been many more people who would never bothered to go back and try again. I actually think that number is very good considering it wouldn’t even have a significant impact in most countries (the number of lost doses if, somehow, made available – the 14 million.)
Cermet
@EmbraceYourInnerCrone: Of course, the one “slam’ was mostly self-infected’ by the patients.