Posted on 02/26/2021 2:27:21 PM PST by BeauBo
I like to think of it as:
47.2 million first shots
+22.6 million second shots
=69.8 million total shots administered
“an odd 2nd shot side effect... Many things felt cold”
First time I’ve heard that.
Glad that you are both feeling better.
In a week, you can eat bowls of COVID for breakfast. COVID is going have to afraid of you.
sorry, these numbers still don’t make sense.
so only 25 million people have been dosed (either 1 or 2)?
where does the 70 million come in ?
not what the CDC is saying\showing.
I suppose if I\we dive deeper there might be a better explanation.
duh me....I see it now (I think)...sorry for starting all this...
47 million people got a first dose (that is 47M shots administered).
Of those, 22 million ALSO received their second shot (that is 22M MORE shots administered).
So about 70 million total shots have been administered.
“We’re looking for about 250 million from one report I read. I doubt it has to really be that many as there are already millions who have achieved immunity naturally.”
Another factor, is that some people are more important than others.
The reason why we have lockdowns for COVID, and not the common cold, is because of the higher number of COVID serious cases, hospitalizations and deaths. Those are all overwhelmingly among older people. That vulnerable subset is much more important for driving lockdowns (and re-openings).
Just Nursing home residents alone accounted for more than 40% of deaths. They have now had their first shots, and 60% have finished up their seconds. 24 million of the 55 million people over 65 have already had first shot (including 60% of the people over 75).
But when it comes to naturally acquired immunity that you were talking about, some people are also more important than others. High contact people, like cashiers, food service workers, police or taxi drivers, are much more important to disease spread, then are stay at home retirees. Those high contact people are disproportionally likely to be among those who have already been exposed, and developed natural immunity.
There is yet another interesting possibility in the population’s immunity. Some percentage may have a pre-existing cross-immunity to COVID-19, from exposure to other coronaviruses. It has been theorized that this is why so many people have no symptoms from COVID-19 infections.
These three groups - those previously resistant, those exposed, and those vaccinated - will overlap somewhat randomly, but they may all be significantly large numbers.
COVID’s days are numbered.
Yes, that was the first time I’d heard of it, too.
I told my wife she really is an original. I’m not sure if she liked that or not.
Note that I’ve not yet had a shot. She got hers early through her teaching job. I’m scheduled for my 1st next Tu. Hopefully the fatigue bit is minimal — I have an urgent and busy week, next week...
First shot symptoms are usually just the effects of the needle itself, unless there is an allergic reaction (rare).
Allergic reactions will manifest pretty quickly, if they are going to occur, so they usually have people stand by for fifteen minutes or so after the shot, just in case. They are prepared to treat them, if needed. It is a typical (although rare) effect of most vaccines.
Lightman reported that he felt his first shot, however. He recommends tylenol along with the shot.
A **** hair under 70% at the peak (May 2020) in Pennsylvania.
As of today declined to 51.7%.
Covid is a LIE, it is a HOAX, it is the FLU....PERIOD
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Covid is a LIE, it is a HOAX, it is the FLU...PERIOD
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Well, it looks like it’ll be a couple extra days before I get shot #1. I’d made the appt. online, yesterday, and received confirmation 3 different ways (online, text, and e-mail). Then, B4 I could call my PCP’s office (I’d weeks ago applied through them), they called me to advise their clinic now had shots available. I declined because I’d just received said confirmations from the county Health Dept., and, the Health Dept’s mass vacc. location is closer and more convenient.
Two hours later I received an e-mail from the Health Dept. informing me there was a supply problem and I was cancelled. Checking their website a bit later, sure enough, all of Tuesday was cancelled (without explanation). So, now I’m unwinding and rearranging various things to open up time for me, late next week. Plus I’ll check back with my PCP’s clinic and a couple of the local pharmacies.
If only next week was not so busy for me...
Sheesh.
Typical gov’t...
Wifey felt good yesterday afternoon (3rd day), but relapsed into some headache and arm & leg soreness in the evening. Nothing serious. One of her co-workers went the 1st 2 days after the 2nd shot with virtually no side effects, but then felt sick on her 3rd day. People vary...
“POOR PLANNING ON HOW TO STOP VACCINE LINE-JUMPERS” California
There was a wide sense of relief when Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the other day that people aged 16 to 65 who suffer from certain severe underlying health conditions will be eligible for COVID-19 vaccinations starting on the Ides of March.
Starting March 15, if you’re in a wheelchair, on a walker, need oxygen, take immune-suppressing anti-rejection drugs to preserve an organ transplant, suffer from coronary artery disease or heart failure or deal with chronic kidney or lung disease – you can sign up to get either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines shot in your arm.
State health officials estimate this will add between 4 million and 6 million folks to the list of those eligible for shots – between 10 percent and 15 percent of all Californians. Overall, about half the populace will then be entitled to inoculations.
That’s good, if supplies arrive. But planning for this phase has been less than good. In fact, the start of this new phase of the vaccine roll out figures to be about as confused as the opening of Phase 2, when people over 65 joined health workers on the eligibility list.
Back then – only about six weeks ago– Newsom proclaimed over-65s could begin getting shots and some grocery-based drugstores began Internet signups. But when those people turned up for appointments the next day, almost all were turned away. It developed there was no coordination between state and county health departments, so the drugstores could not give shots. This bait-and-switch affected tens of thousands of seniors. It wasn’t fixed until days later, a few hours after this column reported what happened.
At the time there were no mass drive-through vaccination centers. There were few places to get vaccinated. The situation began to improve when some large testing sites quickly converted to giving shots.
The planning flaw for the newest large expansion of the eligibility pool is different, affecting verification rather than availability – especially with more large centers opening across California.
What’s undetermined now is how the soon-to-be-eligible will prove it. Most diabetics and folks with transplants don’t carry special IDs. Neither do heart attack veterans or kidney patients.
In helping Newsom announce the new eligibility categories, state Health Secretary Mark Ghaly said his agency would spend the next four weeks figuring out what kind of verification would be used to keep imposters from jumping the line and getting vaccines long before their turn, along with the freedom and feeling of health security this brings.
Like the confusion leading to the bait-and-switch of late January and the overloaded Web-based sign-up sites that followed, this problem was easy to anticipate.
The real question is what health officials at both state and county levels were doing all fall, while awareness grew that coronavirus vaccines were about to arrive. Like most people, they knew that while some skeptics would refuse or delay getting vaccinated, the vast majority of Californians would eagerly accept the shots.
In fact, the jabs quickly became the hottest commodity going. Planning for the phase-in was an obvious need, even while officials were also occupied with imposing shutdowns, lockdowns, masking, distancing and other anti-pandemic measures.
But it did not happen, as was made clear by Ghaly’s admission that the state will develop seat-of-pants rules for folks to prove they are among the newly eligible. Will they need notes from their doctors, a la grammar school kids? Will their providers have to devise and hand out special cards to prove they have the conditions they claim?
None of this will be much of a problem for patients at some of the state’s largest health care systems which did the requisite planning and possess the needed patient information. In the earlier phases, people regularly cared for by the UC Health system, the Providence hospital system and a few others were notified of their eligibility and invited via email to sign up for appointments. They’ll be OK in the new phase, too.
Millions more will not have this benefit. They have no idea what documents, if any, they’ll need once they can start vaccination signups.
It’s a plain dereliction of duty by Newsom’s administration, which knew this was coming but did not plan for it.
Email Thomas Elias at tdelias@aol.com. His book, “The Burzynski Breakthrough, The Most Promising Cancer Treatment and the Government’s Campaign to Squelch It” is now available in a soft cover fourth edition. For more Elias columns, visit www.californiafocus.net
Posted by California Focusat 7:28 AM
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