Doses Delivered: None (weekend effect) (200 J&J)
Total Administered: 1.2 million (Disastrously slow) (36,000 J&J - still quite slow, compared to a pre-pause day)
New People Receiving 1st Dose: 471,000 (Disastrously Weak)
People Fully Vaccinated: 749,000 (Very weak)
Strong inventories on hand (66 million).
% Total Population with at least a First Shot: 44.4% (up 0.1)
Those ≥ 18 Years of Age (Adults): 56.3% (up 0.2)
Those ≥ 65 Years of Age: 82.8% (up 0.1) (69.7% Fully vaccinated - up 0.1)
Cases and New Hospitalizations downward. Cases on a distinct downslope now. Cases down 25% in the last two weeks.
423 New Deaths reported (flat).
First shots have slowed way down - in half again. Less than a half million reported - which is less than a quarter of what strong days were like a month ago. Kind of a collapse seems to be developing.
We don't have President Trump to drive a response this time, so there is an excellent chance that management will be bungled.
Cases and deaths went down this time last year without vaccines, and without reducing CT counts on PCR tests.
deaths appear to be flat lining now. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/#graph-deaths-daily
A few observations:
1. CDC’s stopping J&J at the drop of a feather didn’t instill confidence in the need to vaccinate.
2. The remaining people are probably the ones who are least concerned about the virus and most prone to believe internet tales about vaccines altering DNA, being made with aborted baby parts, and causing whatever bad thing happens after a vaccination.
Not happy that my predictions made a few weeks back are coming to fruition but it’s difficult to maintain they are not.
“We don’t have President Trump to drive a response this time, so there is an excellent chance that management will be bungled.”
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The anti-Trump-vaccine jihadists will be reveling. Hopefully we’re far enough along toward herd immunity that the impact will be limited.
Weekend numbers. Let’s see how the rest of the week goes before we all Chicken Little this thing.
Here’s an apparent head-scratcher...
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0egdo9XEAke__L?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
Very low test positivities in Israel, UK, and... Portugal?!
IDK. Less than 30% vaxxed.
As I understand they had a very strict lockdown and border controls, and had a very high peak of deaths and cases (so natural immunity). Seasonality?
They’re opening back up now and I expect to see cases rise rapidly.
We’ve gone through the people who wanted to get it, and now we’re on to those who are reluctant to get it.
why should anyone believe that the self proclaimed “medical professionals” posting these threads are really “medical professionals”???...
For ages 12-15.
FDA Expected to OK Pfizer Vaccine for Teens Within Week
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/virus-outbreak-vaccine-teens/2021/05/03/id/1019992/