COVID-19 Vaccinations in the United States (28 Mar, as of 06:00 AM ET)

CDC ^ | 28 Mar 2021 | CDC

[BeauBo]

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update)

20% of American Adults are now fully vaccinated.

Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 180,646,465 (4,946,300 J&J)

Administered: 143,462,691 (3,090,712 J&J)

People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 93,631,163

Fully Vaccinated: 50,141,769

[BeauBo]

For the 24 hours since the prior report:

Doses Delivered: Almost none (typical weekend effect) (0 J&J - same) They (White House) say to expect 11 million J&J doses next week.

Total Administered: 3.3 million (Super day! Third in a row) (109,000 J&J - low typical)

New People Receiving 1st Dose: 1.9 million (Very good)

People Fully Vaccinated: 1.5 million (Very, very good)

Strong inventories on hand (37 million).

% Total Population with at least a First Shot: 28.2% (up 0.8)

Those ≥ 18 Years of Age (Adults): 36.2% (up 0.8)

Those ≥ 65 Years of Age: 72.4% (up just 0.6) (48.4% Fully Vaccinated - up 1.2!)

A suspiciously large jump in people over 65, reported fully vaccinated - for the second day in a row. Maybe they are inflating this number, to support a re-opening metric, or to justify giving away more of our vaccine supply for kickbacks.

Three days in a row, over 3 million shots per day.

Daily cases and new hospitalizations in the USA continue to trend back upward slowly, after the huge Feb/Mar decline. Death rate appears flat, around 1,000/day.

Warp 3 expected to kick in this coming week, as J&J begins substantial deliveries.

[Grampa Dave]

“A suspiciously large jump in people over 65, reported fully vaccinated - for the second day in a row. Maybe they are inflating this number, to support a re-opening metric, or to justify giving away more of our vaccine supply for kickbacks.”

Getting their second shot continues to be a challenge for relatives and friends from California to the Midwest.

Not enough relatives/friends on the East coast to make any guesses/assumptions.

[monkeyshine]

That’s a big jump for JnJ. Glad to see they have been able to improve their output.

I have 2 friends that drove great distances to get the JnJ vaccine. Of course I have other friends who claim it “is not the best” but I beg to differ for several reasons. I figure it is about as good as any of them for efficacy, more traditional in design, and delivers greater compliance rates because you just need the one shot. Though one of my friends suffered for 24 hours with 102 degree fever, chills, aches and sweat.

Our betters have not done a great job of explaining how testing works and these vaccines work to the general public.

[Aria]

3 of us got JnJ - one felt like he was getting the flu for a couple of days and two of us didn’t feel anything except maybe a little headache. Well, I had a sore arm - no biggie.

I was afraid of the mRNA and would have rather risked getting COVID.

[monkeyshine]

Yeah. I know just enough to be dangerous. :-)

But there seems to be something insidious about the mRNA technology, forcing the body to develop - on its own (by force) - a new protein just so the immune system can later attack it. Not at all like a standard vaccine, or at least how we think of vaccines. And mRNA technology has been around at least 15 years and never produced anything useful. It has been ramrodded through in this perfect storm of events.

In theory it makes some sense. In the real world, it just sounds nefarious to me.

[week 71]

The injection probably will work. We will know in a few years after the experimental phase is done. In the event it does have adverse long term effects - this is a lot of people.

[monkeyshine]

[Sarah Barracuda]

My Mom(71) got her 2nd dose of phiser on Friday, zero side effects other than her arm hurts in the injection site..my 34 yr old sister with auto immune issues got her 2nd dose yesterday also phiser, was totally fine til last night, got 100.3 fever, achy bones real bad she feels like she got hit by a bus and chills

[week 71]

@ post 7 - concerned sighing grin

[bboop]

‘Experimental’ until 2023. Think about this - IF they lift the ‘Emergency Orders,’ they will have no reason to push the vaccines. And this - Bill Gates gave money to the schools so that they would use the Common Core curriculum; some would call it a bribe. It’s got to be the same for the vaccines - give money to the hospitals, to the doctors, etc. to ‘encourage’ vaccines.

The US Catholic Bishops have gotten $ millions from these Covid Payouts; I know a grant writer who told me, ‘The USCCB has a lot of money to disperse re the border issues (to take CARE of the illegals crossing). How much more are they dispersing to enforce the mask mandates/ % mandates (churches 1/4 full) and so forth?

I’m Catholic and that is what I think. Lord, we have some more tables to be overturned!!

[frogjerk]

Someone I know, who had Wuhan, tested positive, and then gave it to me, back in November, recieved his first shot of Pfizer vaccine on Friday. He woke up 4am Saturday with chills, fever, aches, and feeling absolutely terrible. He admitted to me he felt worse than when he had the actual batflu. Supposedly, this happens to people who receive the vaccine who had Wuhan already.

So, here is my question, why should I get this vaccine if I am going to get sick anyway, I still have to wear a mask, the vaccine will not prevent me from getting or spreading Wuhan, and I have already had it and it was mild for me?

[TChad]

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/faq.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/01/health/have-you-had-covid-19-coronavirus.html

[PGalt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSVy1b-RyVM

h/t BidensDeadBrain & winsom...here...

https://patriots.win/p/12i3uVn4KW/and-just-like-that-the-media-sto/c/

[frogjerk]

Yes, you should be vaccinated regardless of whether you already had COVID-19. That’s because experts do not yet know how long you are protected from getting sick again after recovering from COVID-19. Even if you have already recovered from COVID-19, it is possible—although rare—that you could be infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 again

Does this sense to you that if I have already had Wuhan it would be rare for me to get it again so get the vaccine anyway even though we don't know how long the vaccine will be good for nor do we know how long immunity lasts?

Not going to paywall for second link to holocaust denying NY Times.

[BeauBo]

“here is my question, why should I get this vaccine if I am going to get sick anyway, I still have to wear a mask, the vaccine will not prevent me from getting or spreading Wuhan, and I have already had it and it was mild for me?”

“if I am going to get sick anyway”

The symptoms from the vaccine are just the immune response, not the actual disease.

“I still have to wear a mask”

That is just political policy, relatively unrelated to reality.

“the vaccine will not prevent me from getting or spreading Wuhan”

It does protect you strongly from symptomatic illness, serious illness or death from the Wu Flu. No vaccine is a 100% guarantee, but these are better than most - 95% protection against symptomatic disease, and near 100% protection against death from the disease. Large scale studies in Israel showed the Pfizer vaccine to be about as effective in preventing a recipient from spreading the disease, as it was in preventing symptomatic illness (about 95%).

“I have already had it and it was mild for me”

A vaccine booster shot will likely produce stronger, and longer lasting immune response toward the disease. That is seen across many diseases and vaccines.

The vaccines produce a large quantity of the virus marker (epitope), equivalent to a quite large infection, so that the immune response to the vaccine is also large.

The larger the immune response, and (generally) the more often the immune system sees the same thing infecting again, the stronger the long term immune response (T cell and B Cell memory), as opposed to just short term antibodies. Two challenges generally produce a much stronger long term immunity. That is why booster shots and multi-shot series are common with many vaccines.

[TChad]

OK, try this, from an NYT link:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.13.21249642v1

Interpretation:

A prior history of SARS-CoV-2 infection was associated with an 83% lower risk of infection, with median protective effect observed five months following primary infection. This is the minimum likely effect as seroconversions were not included.

So, your odds of reinfection would be reduced by getting a vaccination, but probably not by much. The vaccine may provide a larger set of antigens for your body to respond to than did the virus that infected you.

In your situation I would probably get just one vaccination, and expect to have a somewhat strong and unpleasant response. That's just me. I think it would be reasonable in your situation to get no vaccinations, or one, or two.

[BeauBo]

“he felt worse (after the first vaccine shot) than when he had the actual batflu.”

Generally, the second challenge seems to evoke the most symptoms (in those who did not have serious illness), among those who do experience symptoms.

So the first vaccine shot in those who previously had mild or asymptomatic COVID, or the second vaccine shot in those never infected.

That is believed to be because the immune system responds much faster the second time, and seems to further learn to gauge not to over-react after that.

Many people don’t really experience symptoms from the vaccines, but a significant number do. I always recommend planning a light schedule or day off after the second shot (first shot, if you know you’ve had the ‘Rona).

One Freeper recommended tylenol for the vaccine reaction symptoms.

[BeauBo]

What’s the gist of it?

[linMcHlp]

bttt

[philled]

I’m early fifties, healthy and active. Had moderate Covid in early December and got our first Pfizer shots Wednesday. Felt very tired and headaches on Thursday into Friday. Probably about 20% of what I had experienced in December. My wife had mild Covid (lost taste and tired) and other than a sore arm experienced nothing from the shot. Both my teen children had Covid somewhere between our symptoms and just got their shots so have been monitoring them but so far so good. I’m not excited for my second shot. We’d debated not getting them but will be traveling internationally and expect them to be required.