Posted on 04/01/2021 6:15:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The U.S. moved closer Thursday toward vaccinating 100 million Americans in a race against an uptick in COVID-19 cases that is fueling fears of another nationwide surge just as the major league baseball season starts and thousands of fans return to stadiums.
More than 99 million people have received at least one dose of the vaccine, and more than 56 million people — 17% of the nation’s population — have been fully vaccinated, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A total of 154 million vaccines had been administered as of Thursday. President Joe Biden’s new goal is to give 200 million vaccine doses during his first 100 days in office.
But coronavirus infections are inching up again. The country is averaging 64,000 cases per day this week, up from a daily average of 55,000 infections two weeks ago. Deaths have steadily been averaging about 900 a day.
Officials have warned that they could ban fans from ballparks if the numbers continue to rise. Even before the baseball season got underway Thursday, an opening game was postponed after a player tested positive for the coronavirus.
The Washington Nationals were scheduled to host the New York Mets on Thursday night, but after a Nationals player tested positive for COVID-19, the team canceled the game. It was not immediately rescheduled.
At American Family Field in Milwaukee, Tonia Smith said she didn’t have any safety concerns about returning to the stadium where the Brewers were facing off against the Minnesota Twins. The stadium limited attendance to about 16,000 fans — a quarter of its capacity.
“It was hard to judge how quickly to get here. It’s a different opening day experience. But just having those smells hit you, walking in and having that experience back, it’s invigorating,”
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Foul balls hit in stands could be covid infected...especially with the pitcher blowing on his hands...and the spitball...WATCHOUT!
Cardboard cutout fans are in order...and they better have masks on. Safety first and foremost.
If you are relatively young and healthy and get the “shot”, there are no words...
Only maybe to look at this as an IQ test of sorts.
I hope mlb fails.
Spectacularly and huge. As well as nba, nfl, and basically all the woke sports.
dint that FPOS say already we hit 100MM in his speech er i mean presser?
Maybe that was when Slow was in the Senate 120 years ago.
ah, but of course
Don’t care won’t watch
You mean the Trump Vaccine?
The Trump vaccination program: Operation Warp Speed.
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