Administered: 858,000 (Strong) (30,000 J&J - OK)
People Vaccinated, First Shot: 506,000 (Strong).
Fully Vaccinated: 327,000 (Strong)
% of Total Population:
With at least a First Shot: 59.8% (up 0.1)
Those ≥ 18 Years of Age (Adults): 72.1% (up 0.1)
Those ≥ 65 Years of Age: 90.9% (flat) (80.8% Fully Vaccinated - flat)
Cases, Hospitalizations and Deaths reporting lagging over the Weekend.
104 Deaths - Weekend reporting lag - will be revised in the next day or two.
Vaccinations quite strong on this report.
Pfizer submits data to FDA for authorization of Covid vaccine booster shot for general population. "The data we've seen to date suggest a third dose of our vaccine elicits antibody levels that significantly exceed those seen after the two-dose primary schedule," Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said.
Federal health officials aren't recommending booster doses for the general public at this time, but White House chief medial officer Dr. Anthony Fauci has said everyone will "likely" need a booster shot at some point .
“I can almost guarantee that our senior citizens will get boosters in the U.S. in the next two months, I think the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] is going to recommend it — there’s no way they’re not,” Dr. Michael Mina, an assistant professor of epidemiology at Harvard University, told New York magazine.
More US cities requiring proof of vaccination to go places. Following New York City's lead, New Orleans and San Francisco will impose such rules at many businesses starting next week, while Los Angeles is looking into the idea.
At least 18 states led by Republican governors or legislatures prohibit the creation of so-called vaccine passports or ban public entities from demanding proof of vaccination. Several of those — including Alabama, Florida, Iowa, Montana, North Dakota and Texas — also bar most businesses from denying service to those who aren’t vaccinated.
COVID cases in the state of Mississippi have increased by more than 123 percent over the past 14 days, according to New York Times.
All healthcare workers in New York state must be vaccinated against COVID-19 unless they have a medical or religious exemption, Governor Andrew Cuomo said in a new mandate issued on Monday (16 Aug).
All health care employees in D.C. must get at least the first dose of the vaccine or begin weekly testing by Sept. 30, city officials announced Monday (16 Aug).
Cardinal Raymond Burke (age 73), a staunch conservative in the US Catholic church who has emerged as a leading critic of Pope Francis and a vaccine skeptic, was placed on a ventilator just days after testing positive for Covid-19.
Turkey said it would allow people who got Chinese-made Covid-19 shots to be fully revaccinated with Pfizer and BioNTech doses to help ease travel to countries that haven't approved the Sinovac vaccine.
GlaxoSmithKline and CureVac said a study (https://www.curevac.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Optimization-of-Non-Coding-Regions-Improves-Protective-Efficacy-of-an-mRNA-SARS-CoV-2-Vaccine-in-NHP.pdf ) on macaque monkeys showed their jointly-developed mRNA COVID-19 vaccine candidate to be "strongly improved" in protecting against the virus compared with CureVac's first attempt. The next-generation vaccine known as CV2CoV triggered virus-fighting antibodies as well as immune cells that target infected cells, similar to that observed after a real infection with SARS-CoV-2. GSK and CureVac teamed up in February in a 150 million euro ($177 million) deal to develop the next-generation COVID-19 vaccine from next year, in an attempt to tackle several variants with one shot. Initial testing of CV2CoV on humans would begin during the last quarter of this year, CureVac said.
This month (Aug 2021), the Infectious Diseases Society of America estimated that delta had pushed the threshold for herd immunity to well over 80% and possibly close to 90%.
Johnson & Johnson said it will require all U.S.-based employees and contractors to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 effective Oct. 4. J&J has more than 40,000 employees across the U.S.
The European Union drug regulator is evaluating Roche Holding AG’s anti-inflammatory medicine RoActemra, with a view to extending its use to include treatment of hospitalized adult patients with severe Covid-19 who are already receiving treatment with corticosteroids and require extra oxygen or mechanical ventilation.
Indonesia’s New Cases Lowest Since June. Looks like they are past peak of their Delta Wave. More cities on Java and Bali islands will be allowed to reopen shopping malls for people who are vaccinated with capacity limits, as the government extends virus curbs until Aug. 23.
Thailand extended the closure of non-essential businesses and movement controls in its virus hotspots, including in Bangkok, until the Covid outbreak shows clear signs of easing. The near-lockdown measures in 29 provinces will stay at least until Aug 31.
Germany’s national vaccination advisory body recommended Monday that all 12- to 17-year-olds get vaccinated against Covid-19.
All civil servants in Canada must be vaccinated by the end of October or risk losing their jobs.
Jagpreet Chhatwal, an associate director at the Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital, said modelling projections from the COVID-19 Simulator project suggest COVID US cases will peak during October-November, depending on the state. "We should not be looking for one peak nationally; we are essentially looking at 50 regions in the same country that are very different from each other with respect to vaccination rates and social distancing measures," Chhatwal told Newsweek. He said projected daily deaths could very likely exceed their earlier 2021 peak in several states––including Idaho, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oregon, Washington and West Virginia––if current social-distancing behaviors and vaccination rates remain unchanged.
Oil slumps 4% as dismal data from China highlights supply-chain risks associated with Delta variant.
According to data from the CDC, New Covid-19 hospital admissions among people in their 30s are now the highest since the pandemic began.
"I will be surprised if we don't cross 200,000 cases a day in the next couple of weeks", NIH director Dr. Francis Collins said on Fox News Sunday.
Thank you as always for your work compiling this thread
Thanks again for the data. I still have a concerned sigh when I see the amount of people taking what appears to be a now obsolete treatment with risks that can’t be known yet.
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 “global pandemic”...
Propaganda brought to you by the communist death committee CDC
The communist Democrat control scheme CDC
The vaccine industry is pure fraud and evil 👿
This is all about global communism and the great reset - there’s nothing to do with you and you’re health and well being
Frankly it has to do with population control and murdering as many of you as they can
Ignore me ; and listen to the clown - that posts this crap. - this garbage propaganda- at your peril
Thank you for posting real news and science.