Posted on 03/02/2021 11:28:20 AM PST by BeauBo
Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 102,353,940
Receiving 1 or More Doses: 51,755,447
Receiving 2 Doses: 26,162,122
Doses Delivered: 6 million (Massive. 3rd biggest day yet)
People Receiving 1st Dose: Just over 1 million (a solid day)
People Receiving 2nd Dose: 696,000 (a decent day)
Huge deliveries! Warp 2 engaged.
March is going to see faster progress.
No mention of the new Johnson & Johnson yet. They should be administering some today, to report tomorrow. Hopefully, they will break out reporting of the one shot vaccine, to avoid confusion with the two shot vaccines.
Today, one of our SILs will receive her first dose.
She had been trying to get on line since the middle of January, and finally did last week.
It is going to get gradually easier to get appointments, from here on out.
We have been able to close one of our covid wards. Getting much better
What’s the over/under on the number of Americans who will get one dose? Both doses? Anyone taking bets?
Over 100 million doses delivered - a new threshold.
78.6 million have been administered, and the rest are in inventory (mostly reserved for scheduled second shots)
Around the beginning of April, we should crack 100 million people who have had a first dose, and around 100 million fully vaccinated toward the end of April.
Those vaccinated before Biden took office will no doubt be credited by the press, toward Biden’s “100 million in 100 days” goal.
100 million (total) doses (firsts plus seconds) administered in Biden’s first 100 days will be a shoo-in.
But so far, we have not quite been averaging a million first shots per day. That should catch up by the time 100 days after the inauguration rolls around, however.
So there are several ways that they might account for the vaccination program during Biden’s first 100 days, but the easiest possible spin (total doses delivered from the factory, including those under Trump) was just passed today.
Got my first moderna dose this morning. Mrs. Bernard leaves in a few minutes to get her first dose.
Good news all around!
I definitely think the worst of it is behind us. We’ll see some fluctuations and perhaps a smaller final wave before this summer, but we’ll reach the herd immunity threshold in July and from there the numbers of new cases will dwindle toward zero.
Do we know how many “cases” there have been over the past 12 months? Because those people should also be immune.
This whole thing is such a sham.
Got the first shot two weeks ago...no bad side affects. Second dose in March. I do like the fact tho that I can here the commands from bill gates much clearer now that I have the gates chip😎
He keeps saying “go fishing and skip the yard work!”
Around 81 - 83 million in the US.
"Because those people should also be immune."
Presumably so, though there's some data that the South African variant shows some resistance to the neutralizing antibodies from the April 2020 variant. If that proves to be the case, there may be some who had mild or asymptomatic cases with the April variant who are susceptible to the South African variant. However, there's no hard data on this yet. For now, I would assume that the vast, vast majority of those who've had it once are pretty well immune to new infections. The documented exceptions to that have been exceedingly rare.
"This whole thing is such a sham."
The response from state and local governments certain has been. From lockdowns that are far more effective at driving small businesses out of business and family into poverty than they are at slowing COVID-19 transmission to governors like Newsom and Cuomo who forced nursing homes to accept known-infected COVID-19 patients, it's been one calamity after another.
The virus is very real. The response from state and local governments has been a nightmare. A textbook example of ineffective leadership. If it weren't for President Trump, we wouldn't even have these vaccines.
BeauBo wrote: “It is going to get gradually easier to get appointments, from here on out.”
I have to complement those managing the distribution here in Madison County Alabama. Currently, none of the pharmacies or walmarts are vaccinating. All the available vaccine has been distributed to Huntsville Hospital. The process is simple, you go to the HH Website where you answer a few questions to determine if you’re eligible. You can’t make your own appointment but if you’re eligible, HH will call you back within a few days and make your appointment. There is only one vaccination facility and it’s well run.
Wife and I applied a couple of weeks ago and were contacted within about three days for an appointment about a week later. Unfortunately, we were snowed out. HH called again about a week later and rescheduled us for last week. Nice thing is this. I registered myself and my wife, when HH called I was able to arrange appointments at the same time and date.
We went to our appointment last Thursday. We walked in, they checked to make sure we had an appointment and were directed to on of about eight tables where we received the vaccine. We had the mandatory 15 minute wait for allergic reaction. In and out in less than 30 minutes. They also made our appointments for the second shot while we were there.
No adverse reactions although I’ve been rather tired. I can’t blame the vaccine for that since I also face lift surgery (on the table for six hours) about two weeks before the vaccine. I suspect the fatigue is a combination of age, the surgery and the vaccine.
The face lift was the result of a weight loss surgery January 2020. I’ve lost eighty pounds and my face looked like a prune.
“What’s the over/under on the number of Americans who will get one dose? Both doses?”
Accounting is probably going to be imperfect, for settling any bets.
Guidance is also likely going to shift more than once, as we go along.
J&J has a study underway, to determine how much more effective they would be with a second (booster) shot.
Guidance is being reviewed, that perhaps those who have already had a confirmed case of COVID, only need one shot of the two shot vaccines.
There is also talk of potentially starting administering a third shot (in the Fall), at least for Moderna. Booster shots tweaked for the variants might be popular in the Fall, before the next Cold & Flu season (and for future Flu shot seasons, in perpetuity - they are in business to sell product, after all).
I think that the great majority will take the vaccines as recommended.
Initially, there was significant hesitancy to accept the new vaccines. About a third of adults surveyed once said that they were likely or definitely not going to take the vaccine. Older people were more likely to want the vaccine - over 90% of Nursing Home Residents.
Those early attitudes have already shifted significantly in favor of getting the vaccine, since more is known about actual results. The last I saw, it was a percentage in the teens who said that they likely or definitely would pass, and single digits for the definitely.
I'm just sayin'....
That's for sure. FWIW, there is research going on now, partly just due to bottlenecks in supply, whether mixing the 2 different vaccines may work even better than getting 2 of the same - JnJ not a factor in that (yet) obviously.
Freeper lightman recommends tylenol with the second shot.
I recommend a light schedule after the second shot. Take a day off - it is as good of an excuse as any other, and better than some.
A significant percentage of people report feeling like crap for a while after the second shot -flu-like/hangover-like symptoms from a few hours after, to a day or two after the second shot.
“We have been able to close one of our covid wards.”
Do tell.
What have you been seeing?
“Do we know how many “cases” there have been over the past 12 months?”
Estimates vary, but most everyone agrees that there have been more infections, than there have been cases confirmed by testing (now about 28.5 million in the USA). I believe that the actual number of Americans who have already been exposed, is over 100 million. CDC estimates 83 million, from Feb 2020 through Dec 2020. Other estimates have varied from 1/4 of the population, to as high as 2/3rds.
A lot of infected people had little to no symptoms, or had symptomatic cases before testing was readily available. The antibody blood test, to see if someone was previously infected, only works for a month or two after the infection clears - so authorities are forced to estimate from secondary measures.
They have had a survey program (Seroprevalence survey) with laboratory testing companies to scan random blood lab test samples for COVID antibodies. They even have a wastewater (sewage) sampling program, to estimate population-wide disease burden.
80 in hospital cases 6 weeks ago. Around 20 now.
I got dose 2 of Moderna yesterday....no problems at all.
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