Administered: 925,000 (Strong) (34,000 J&J - Good)
People Vaccinated, First Shot: 461,000 (Strong).
Fully Vaccinated: 398,000 (Strong)
% of Total Population:
With at least a First Shot: 61.1% (up 0.1)
Those ≥ 18 Years of Age (Adults): 73.5% (up 0.1)
Those ≥ 65 Years of Age: 91.7% (up 0.1) (81.4% Fully Vaccinated - up 0.1)
Cases may have peaked on the 18th of August (171,537) - Hospitalizations high, but may be peaking.
1,229 Daily Deaths - a new high for the Delta wave.
Vaccinations strong.
News Clippings:
Barrons reports: Japan's health ministry said it has suspended the use of 1.63 million doses of Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine over contamination fears
UK Daily Mail reports: BBC presenter Lisa Shaw, 44, died due to incredibly rare blood clot complications caused by AstraZeneca covid vaccine three weeks after she had first jab, coroner rules.
Illinois health care workers and educators from kindergarten through college will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or submit to weekly testing, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Thursday (26 Aug).
Texas Gov. Abbott's new order bans government agencies from implementing mandates for all Covid-19 vaccines, after his prior order — which relied on the FDA's emergency use authorization to justify the ban — no longer worked with full approval of the Pfizer vaccine.
Pfizer and BioNTech have joined forces with Brazilian pharmaceutical company Eurofarma to distribute doses in Latin America.
Russia reports daily record of 820 virus deaths.
Kentucky and Texas have joined a growing list of states that have surpassed their record for hospitalized coronavirus patients. The two states on Wednesday reported the most COVID-19 patients in their hospitals since the start of the pandemic. At least six other states -- Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Hawaii, Mississippi and Oregon -- have already surpassed their records amid a national surge in the virus.
The Africa director of the World Health Organization says the continent tripled its COVID-19 vaccination rate in the past week, helped by more donations of doses from developed countries. Dr. Matshidiso Moeti says 13 million doses were administered in the past week. Still only 2.4% of Africans are fully vaccinated.
Close to 2.5 million Zimbabweans, about 16% of the population of 15 million, have received one dose, according to health ministry figures. More than 1.5 million people, or 10%, are fully vaccinated. Zimbabwe one of the most highly vaccinated countries in Africa.
US News reports: The use of Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech SE's widely used COVID-19 vaccine marginally increases the risk of heart inflammation, but the risk is higher among those infected with the coronavirus, a study published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine showed. Among every 100,000 patients who get the vaccine, 1 to 5 will likely develop myocarditis who would not otherwise have developed it, researchers reported based on data from Clalit Health Services, a large Israeli HMO. That rate is much higher - 11 per 100,000 - among people infected with the coronavirus, they said.
Regeneron says half its COVID-19 treatment doses are being sent to 4 low-vaccination states (Florida, Texas, Mississippi, and Alabama).
Newsweek reports: Anti-Vaccination Lawyer for Capitol Rioters (John Pierce) Now on Ventilator With COVID-19.
General Motors Co. has required all U.S. salaried workers to report their Covid-19 vaccination status.
India's Covid-19 vaccination coverage crossed the 60-crore landmark Aug. 25. (that's 600 million, in American)
WSJ reports: As Delta Variant Surges, So Does Demand for At-Home Covid-19 Tests. The tests have been available for months but in recent weeks have been harder to find online and on pharmacy shelves.
NJ.com reports: Andy Slavitt, the former senior advisor for COVID response in the Biden administration, tweeted a lengthy list of reasons why vaccines are still very effective against the Delta variant of COVID-19.
Here is Slavitt's list:
- Vaccines provide a reduction in hospitalizations for COVID-19-related disease by 29 times — including against the Delta variant.
-Both CDC studies showed that even though vaccine effectiveness dropped to 66% with the Delta variant, cases still reduced five-fold.
-Vaccines can prevent symptoms when the Delta variant brings on 1,000-fold worth of virus with a short incubation period.
- Vaccines may be 66% against Delta infection, but they are 97% effective against hospitalization, and even more effective against being put on a ventilator.
The Denver Post reports: As delta variant spreads, Colorado sees rise in breakthrough COVID infections... Dr. Rachel Herlihy, the state epidemiologist, stressed that while breakthrough cases are up, COVID-19 vaccines still offer high protection against severe disease that can cause hospitalization or death. The majority of infections, hospitalizations and fatalities are among people who are not vaccinated. Breakthrough infections slowly began to rise in Colorado in late June as overall cases increased and by August had reached their highest point since the vaccines first became available in December. The state recorded an average of 1.14 breakthrough infections per 100,000 residents on June 9 and saw a nearly eightfold increase in three months, with an average of 9 breakthrough cases per 100,000 people on Aug. 9... By comparison, there were on average 28.8 cases per 100,000 people among the unvaccinated on Aug. 9... The state recorded an average of 9.9 hospitalizations per 100,000 (vaccinated) residents on Aug. 9... By comparison, the were on average 54.4 hospitalizations per 100,000 people among the unvaccinated as of Aug. 9.
Cases of COVID-19 are again climbing across Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, fueled by the delta variant.
Delta variant forces (some) rabbis to adjust High Holy Day services, 7 Sep is Rosh Hashana, 16 Sep is Yom Kippur.
MSN reports: Delta Variant's New Sublineage AY.12 Found in India. AY.12 is the most prevalent strain in Israel at the moment, with 51% of samples showing this variant. G142D in spike protein, a mutation present in the Delta lineage, is not present in the AY.12. The spike protein of this variant does not contain any novel mutations that should be of concern to the community at large.
Thanks for update.
The vaccine industry is pure evil and fraudulent
Right now we are in a state of all out war with the globalist who are trying to implement the great reset using the vaccine industry to implement a digital medical Tyrrany !
We must fight this with all of our money and never ever participate in this tyrannical system
The main way that they keep this system going is the “Covid test”
Thank you for your work in reporting this information.
at the end of february 2021 current president biden disbanded former president trump’s “operation warp speed” and transferred all responsibilities to the “white house covid 19 response team”...
please explain to everyone here exactly who is spreading misinformation...
I work in a position where I interact with lots of people...
One recent conversation I had was a lady who said her mother, elderly and her husband and herself all got the jab.
Within weeks they all got SICK...
All with COVID... Husband and Mom in hospital, she is somewhat okay..
I asked her, all three got the jab and all three got sick?
YEP, but she states, “it is because the nasty delta that is going around.”
Funny how many of the unjabbed I talk to are not getting sick...
Silly jabbers, covid is for idiots...
Several vaccination centers reported finding foreign matter in the doses.
“It’s a substance that reacts to magnets,” the official told Nikkei, adding “It could be metal.”
Moderna, meanwhile, has confirmed receiving “several complaints of particulate matter” in vials distributed in Japan, but that “not safety or efficacy issues” were found related to the reports.
“The company is investigating the reports and remains committed to working transparently and expeditiously with its partner, Takeda, and regulators to address any potential concerns,” a spokesperson told Nikkei, adding that a “manufacturing issue” at a plant in Spain was to blame.
After the complaints, the vaccine lot in question as well as two adjacent lots have been taken out of circulation “out of an abundance of caution,” according to the spokesperson.
Thank you for the update.
I wonder if anyone is keeping this statistic: Rate of Covid-19 fatalities and hospitalizations among professed (and practicing) anti-vaccers who are not hermits.
Good Lord, there ARE some people with valid health reason to not get vaccinated. My wife and I quadruple checked in my daughter’s case, and again for a friend’s teenager. (Risk factors both ways, but, 4:0, getting Covid + added factor is the higher risk.) But, we have people on here listening to complete anti-vacc nuts. Or maybe they are nuts themselves. I’ll bet not one has actually pounded the pavement (whatever the means, but on a personal level) to actually see what’s happening in the communities around them.)
On a happier note, my request for discussion of monoclonal antibodies made it to an interview of a doc, as a “viewer question” on a “local” TV station. (Actually near-fringe reception.) I pray the info. helps someone. One of the regional health networks has also put up a pretty good page, tho’ information in general about availability is still weak.
https://www.sih.net/coronavirus/covid-infusion/covid19-infusion
(I should check back on SEMO, W. KY, and W. TN.)
KY is VERY Covid “hot”. However, bed demand in both S. IL and W. KY has either eased slightly at present, or a few more beds have been “created”. (That’s per TV reports — they actually state ICU numbers and percentages on some stations here!) Formal numbers usually lag a couple weeks.
Both KY and particularly IL are really ramping up the mandates. MO, not so much, but Covid education is still weak everywhere... except for that one station doing the long interviews and discussions gets maybe 50% of the way “there”. I guess mandates are “easier”. Grrrrrr.....