Posted on 03/19/2021 10:11:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
As Europe struggles with a "third wave" of COVID infections that's forcing more governments to reimpose at least some lockdown measures, the US is finding that the number of newly confirmed cases is climbing again, with some of the biggest week-over-week increases seen in states that had been praised for their vaccination diligence.
Source: Axios
The US is adding roughly 55K new cases per day, a level that it has plateaued over the past months (though deaths have continued to move lower). Yesterday, health authorities counted 56.9K new case, and 1,052 deaths.
COVID cases are spiking in 13 states over the past week. The rebound in new cases in states like Michigan (which is leading the country over the past week with a 53% spike in new cases) Nevada, Maryland and Connecticut are raising concerns about whether new variants discovered in New York State, along with other variants like the Kent Strain (B117) and other international strains.
Notably, Michigan is above the US average in terms of its vaccination rate according to Johns Hopkins Data. State officials are blaming variants for the surge, citing a similar dynamic seen recently in Florida and New York. Other states among the highest in vaccination rates—including West Virginia, Maine and Montana—are also dealing with case spikes. Of the 13 states with rising cases, only two - Mississippi and New Hampshire - have below-average vaccination rates.
New data from the CDC indicate that the California strain accounted for 13% of all new coronavirus cases that were genetically sequenced as part of a new federal program in late February. An additional 7% of the samples were the strain from the UK.
As the US tops 115MM vaccine doses given, here's a look at how close each US state is to vaccinating 100% of its population.
In other news, NY and NJ have continued to ease restrictions on restaurants and indoor dining as restrictions are expected to loosen further heading into next month.
Circling back to these new strains, scientists and health officials are on edge because both the UK and Cali strains spread more easily than their predecessors and seem to be more resilient to some of the medicines used to treat COVID-19. The California strain has also shown signs of resistance to the current crop of COVID-19 vaccines, which is just a reminder that a second generation of jabs is already being designed. Studies have found that the California strain, which is one of two new strains first sequenced in the US, is 20% more infectious than other strains.
It's just a reminder that while President Joe Biden keeps talking about families and friends gathering to celebrate July 4 without masks, there's reason enough to worry about another surge in new cases.
More fearporn. Cases nationally are steady-state. If there is a fourth wave here, it will be muted (particularly with deaths) by the fact that the most vulnerable are almost entirely vaccinated.
This thing is over by July and it isn’t going to be much between now and then either.
Those crossing our southern border will be the main culprit but the powers that be will downplay it.
Well, there are PCR cases, then there are the globally recognized infected cases.
PCR cases are a ruse because it’s easy to salt a number of PCR test kits contaminated with the virus to cause yet another ‘wave’ of ‘cases’.
UK strain? I thought naming a virus after a country was racist.
I hope your comment ages well.
Michigan spiking? I guess Whitmers lockdown is paying off.
Covid 19 is fear porn.
Asymptomatic transmission is fear porn.
Masks are fear porn.
Distancing is fear porn.
Shutdowns are fear porn.
Threat of variants is fear porn.
Trying to sell vaccination for a “disease” which targets people with multiple co-morbidities is part of a fear campaign.
You joined FR just as the vaccination campaign was ramping up, and you promote cv19 fear. You’re with the domestic enemy, period.
We also have Israel as a leading example. They have already vaccinated more than half their population. Infection rates have fallen nearly 80% even as quarantines have been lifted and business are have returned to normal. With continuing vaccinations the USA should approach herd immunity within a couple of month.
Makes sense. Almost 13% of the US population lives in California.
Europeans use backwards nomenclature, like dates 2021 March 19, so instead of the UK Flu it would be abbreviated as Flu U.K.domiciled or F.U.K.'D
Actually this makes sense—anyone seen the long lines of sheeple waiting to get the vaccine?
Thank God for HCQ, Ivermectin, vitamin D3, zinc, vit A etc
I talked to a lady who was out of action for 4 months with Covid. She finally started improving after she started taking N Acetyl Cysteine, but she looks awful. IAasked her if she had heard of or tried nebulizing dilute peroxide. Her conventional MD basically gave her zero advice on how to boost her immunity and recover.
20%, which seems to be where the chart tops out, isn’t high. We aren’t to a point where the top of the chart can actually be high.
You promote quacks who claim that light bulbs cause school shootings (https://medium.com/@StillmanMD/is-fake-light-driving-you-crazy-daff596a00c1) and that people need to sleep on the ground (https://medium.com/@StillmanMD/why-i-earth-918206ebb538).
I don’t take direction from you. Frankly, nobody else should either.
Five masks, 12 feet spacing, hazmat suits, 4 doses of whatever, three week quarantine..........
Apparently only if said countries name is China but the UK stream, the Brazil strain, etc. Is perfectly acceptable.
bttt
“You promote quacks ...”
I don’t “promote” anyone. And you out yourself as a Pharma and covid19 shill in referring to wellness MDs as “quacks”.
“California strain”
So I guess it’s useful to be able to call a virus after the place of its origin?
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