In the 24 hours since the last report:
Administered: 655,000 (Good) (13,000 J&J - Very Weak)
People Vaccinated, First Shot: 300,000 (OK).
Fully Vaccinated: 290,000 (OK)
Boosters: 41K
% of Total Population With at least a First Shot: 61.8% (up 0.1)
% of Those 18 Years of Age (Adults w/1st shot): 74.2% (up 0.1)
% of Those 65 Years of Age (w/1st shot): 92% (up 0.1) (81.7% Fully Vaccinated - flat)
Cases, Hospitalizations and Deaths all down on this daily report, but let's check for a revision tomorrow, before celebrating. The peak may have passed.
769 Daily Deaths - Maybe still some Weekend reporting lag, otherwise its a significant drop.
Vaccinations moderate.
News Clippings:
CBS reports: COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness in preventing hospitalization drops among oldest Americans (75+), but still over 80%, CDC analysis finds.
THe Hill reports: Moderna vaccine creates twice as many antibodies as Pfizer. Study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Monday. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2783797?guestAccessKey=6ead80fe-bf08-4d53-8c5c-607249932480&utm_source=silverchair&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=article_alert-jama&utm_content=olf&utm_term=083021
CNN reports: Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness against severe disease has not dropped much, CDC says. "Since the introduction of the Delta variant, VE (Vaccine Effect) against infection ranges from 39 to 84%. VE against hospitalization, though, remains high from 75% to 95%".
Forbes reports: Japanese Health Minister Says Vaccine Contaminants Likely Caused By Incorrect Needle Use, No Safety Issue With Moderna Shot.
A potential HIV vaccine being developed by Johnson & Johnson did not provide protection against the virus in a mid-stage study, the drugmaker said Tuesday. J&J plans to end that study, which involved young women in sub-Saharan Africa.
The Times Union (Albany , NY) reports: About 65% of Latter-day Saints who responded to a recent survey said they were vaccine acceptors, meaning they've gotten at least one dose or plan to soon. Another 15% identified as hesitant, and 19% said they would not get the vaccine, according to the survey this summer from the Public Religion Research Institute, a polling organization based in Washington, and Interfaith Youth Core. The survey found 79% of white Catholics and 56% of white Evangelical Protestants identified as vaccine acceptors.
Washington Times reports: Vaccine hesitancy among U.S. adults at record low. Conducted by Ipsos for Axios, the poll found... Twenty percent of 1,071 adults said they are unlikely to get vaccinated against COVID-19, including 6% who said they are “not very likely” to receive a shot and 14% who said it was “not at all likely.”...
Third dose of Covid vaccine available in Israel for all those who have been immunised. At least five months must have passed since the second dose.
CNN reports: It costs on average to hospitalize a COVID patient – almost $22,000. That skyrockets to nearly $50,000 if a ventilator is needed. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, COVID hospitalizations for unvaccinated people cost the health care system more than $2 billion in June and July.
WTKR (NC) reports: On Monday, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky formally endorsed a key vaccine panel's recommendation for full approval of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for everyone aged 16 and up. Walensky's endorsement came after the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted unanimously for the recommendation of the vaccine's use.
Kileen (TX) Daily Herald reports: Republican Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi says he has fully recovered from COVID-19. The 70-year-old Wicker says he’s looking forward to traveling in Mississippi this week. He’s one of three senators who announced Aug. 19 that they had tested positive for the coronavirus. The others were 77-year-old independent Angus King of Maine and 69-year-old Democrat John Hickenlooper of Colorado. All three had been vaccinated. Hickenlooper said Friday he had a mild case. King says Tuesday he has recovered, although he didn’t feel great during the worst of his illness.
Gov. Tom Wolf announced masks will be required in all Pennsylvania K-12 schools starting on Sept. 7.
The number of coronavirus cases in Nebraska has nearly doubled over the past two weeks with the highly contagious delta variant.
According to White House COVID-19 coordinator Jeffrey Zients, who spoke at a briefing for reporters Tuesday, about 14 million U.S. residents received their first dose of a COVID-19 shot in August, he said, which is about 4 million more than in July.
Salon reports: Delta variant twice as likely to hospitalize its victims, new study finds. The study published last Friday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases examined more than 40,000 COVID-19 cases between March and May 2021, when the delta variant took hold in Britain, and compared the rates of hospitalization to the B.1.1.7 (or alpha) variant. To date, it is the most detailed and largest study of the delta variant's impact. When adjusted for age and various factors, the researchers concluded hospitalization was more than two times as high with the delta variant. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(21)00475-8/fulltext#seccestitle140
The United States is admitting an average of 11,533 patients to hospitals each day, which is slightly down from the previous week, according to the CDC's seven-day average report.
A large portion of humanity has been exposed to similar coronaviruses and already has naturally immunity. Antibody tests only determine if you’ve recently been exposed. T-cell immunity lies dormant until you need it. Assuming those not yet ill with Covid simply haven’t been exposed is false, dangerously so. “Vaccinating” those with natural immunity has higher levels of adverse events in addition to reducing immune function, likely forever.
Dr. Yeadon talked about those who recovered from SARS1 in 2003 being tested with SARS1 in 2021 and after all those years, they held their immunity. Those same SARS1 peeps were exposed to Covid, and were immune. The SARS1 and Covid occurred 17 years apart but the same people were immune to both now because of prior exposure to a similar Coronavirus.
This is why “variant’ porn is fake. Those are only miniscule variations of the same virus - those who recovered from Covid, or had other similar coronaviruses in the last 17 years likely have immunity, or partial resistance.
Some people are immunocompromised, and in many cases it can simply be Zinc, Vitamin D deficiencies that put them over the edge.