People Vaccinated, First Shot: 404,000 (OK).
Fully Vaccinated: 271,000 (Strong)
% of Total Population: With at least a First Shot: 59.7% (up 0.2)
Those ≥ 18 Years of Age (Adults): 72% (up 0.2)
Those ≥ 65 Years of Age: 90.9% (flat) (80.8% Fully Vaccinated - up 0.1)
Cases, Hospitalizations and Deaths reporting lagging over the Weekend.
804 Deaths - Not yet updated from yesterday's report.
Vaccinations back to the norm during July (~600K/day).
US News reports: Biden Administration is developing a plan to start offering coronavirus booster shots to some Americans as early as this fall (possibly starting in October). The first boosters are likely to go to nursing home residents and health care workers, followed by other older people who were near the front of the line when vaccinations began late last year.
All 16 and 17-year-olds in England are to be offered their first coronavirus vaccine dose or the chance to book one by 23 August.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has seized thousands of falsified COVID-19 vaccine cards from China in Memphis, Tenn.
WaPo reports: Iceland has been a vaccination success. Why is it seeing a coronavirus surge? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iceland-has-been-a-vaccination-success-why-is-it-seeing-a-coronavirus-surge/ar-AANl2dx
"(Iceland's) world-leading vaccination rate (~71% fully inoculated) is now seeing its highest levels of infection since the start of the pandemic... Many of the country’s recent infections have occurred among vaccinated people, but they’ve been overwhelmingly mild. So even as new cases multiplied, Iceland’s rates of covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths have remained low. Of the 1,300 people currently infected, just 2 percent are in the hospital. The country hasn’t recorded a virus death since late May."
The CDC reported that every county in the six-state New England region was the site of high or substantial transmission on Sunday except Orange County, Vermont, and Kennebec County, Maine.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau triggered an election Sunday scheduled for September 20, hoping to lead his party to a majority in Parliament after a successful vaccination effort throughout Canada.
No death serum.
I wonder where the vaccination percentage will peak. That 90.9% number for people 65+ is surprisingly high for example.
it’s a lie to keep calling this former president “trump’s operation warp speed” when you know current president biden stopped it by opening the border, inviting, welcoming, and spreading hundreds of thousands of disease carrying invaders across our country during a so called “global pandemic”...
“… US News reports: Biden Administration is developing a plan to start offering coronavirus booster shots to some Americans as early as this fall (possibly starting in October). The first boosters are likely to go to nursing home residents and health care workers, followed by other older people who were near the front of the line when vaccinations began late last year.…”
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Hopefully they will use the Moderna vaccine given the fall off in efficacy of the Pfizer vaccine with the arrival of the Delta variant. And why the hell are they waiting til October; it’s not like there’s a shortage of vaccine in stock. And, of course, they will absolutely need to make sure this is strictly voluntary.