Posted on 05/20/2021 3:01:06 PM PDT by BeauBo
(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update)
(60% of American Adults have at least a first shot - Back to giving over 2 Million doses per day - 5th week of case numbers trending strongly downward, ~15-20% per week)
Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 351,955,515 (20,490,400 J&J)
Administered: 279,397,250 (9,944,636 J&J)
People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 160,177,820
Fully Vaccinated: 126,605,166
(Excerpt) Read more at covid.cdc.gov ...
Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 2.7 Million (OK) (189,000 J&J - OK)
Administered: 2.1 million (OK) (108,000 J&J - new normal, similar to pre-pause weak days)
People Vaccinated, 1 Million - (Good, for the new normal).
Fully Vaccinated: 1.2 Million (OK)
% Total Population with at least a First Shot: 48.2 (up 0.3)
Those ≥ 18 Years of Age (Adults): 60.5% (up 0.3)
Those ≥ 65 Years of Age: 84.9% (up 0.2) (73.2% Fully Vaccinated - up 0.2)
Cases and hospitalizations continued declining pretty strongly.
639 Deaths (flat trend).
Very good progress in the march towards herd immunity and a return to normal!
Thank you again President Trump!
Just got home from taking the wife to a surgical center outside of Atlanta. NO mask mandate! I didn’t have to break my string of naughty maskless forays hehe.
Waiting for my state and country report, due any minute. Things have been improving, hoping for continued declines.
How many votes did Joe Biden reportedly get in the last election?
Everyone getting vaccinated gets a piece of paper with the VAERS hotline and website. One reason people won't report is if they are dead. Another is they lose the paper. Another is VAERS is behind on processing. Although those are unknowns they can and should be estimated from reporting curves.
Frankly I don't think the vaccines are that safe compared to prior inactive virus vaccines. Notably the China vaccine is more of a traditional vaccine, and is not very effective. It uses aluminum as an adjuvant, probably not too safe either. I got mine yesterday as a personal decision to help prevent spread in montlly meeting of retirees. They are mostly vaccinated now. A majority were vaccinated by Feb. If they can do that, I can do that, simple as that. I have however watched compelling videos warning against vaccinating younger healthy people. One interesting thing about this pandemic compared to 1918 is that the young people are immune this time. A vaccine which stimulates the immune system too much could turn that into a 1918 situation with more cytokene storms.
Yet another reason it needs to be a personal decision based on facts. Not innuendo where people use VAERS numbers and fail to compare to expected values. Not innuendo like "poison" when there are legitimate doctors who can be quoted about the drawbacks. No legitimate doctor will call the vaccine poison.
Finally, the question of whether it is a "vaccine" or not. I got an antibody test a few weeks ago and it was negative. In about two weeks, and probably two weeks after that, I will go get more $69 antibody tests. My own personal decision on whether this is a "scam" or not will depend on those antibody test results.
FYI:https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2021/05/19/shocker-why-is-this-substance-in-the-moderna-covid-vac
And it should be paid to “developing” countries like china.
“my string of naughty maskless forays”
That is my latest hobby. I go out more, just to flaunt my masklessness (except for a fierce pair of shades).
I am surprised how few others I see. We need to provide leadership.
Masks are dropping like confetti in my neck of the woods.
Although the local Kroger still had their silly mask required signs up yesterday, roughly 75% were buck-face naked. Even a few of the workers.
On a more serious note, here in Georgia, over the past ten days, we’re averaging around twenty deaths per day still. New hospitalizations continue to decline, but the total in hospitals is still only slowly declining at around thirty per day. It would seem those in the hospital are having a rough time. With 850 still in the hospital, I’m afraid it will be some time before we have a zero COVID death day.
https://www.ajc.com/news/coronavirus-georgia-covid-dashboard/jvoLBozRtBSVSNQDDAuZxH/
Nationally, Deaths have declined much slower than cases or hospitalizations, over the last five weeks of steep decline (what I believe is a growing herd immunity threshold effect).
Naturally, changes to hospitalizations should be expected to lag behind changes in case numbers, and deaths to lag after hospitalization. Hopefully, a drop in death rates is already baked into the cake, by the recent drops in cases - 15-20% per week, for five weeks, Nationwide. I am not sure how long the lag time is, but I expect to see deaths dropping soon.
Actually the Georgia curve for COVID deaths looks significantly better than the overall National curve.
Some of the Docs have mentioned that typical COVID patients now are significantly younger than a few months ago, and overwhelmingly unvaccinated.
What struck me about those numbers is that taken at face value they seem to indicate that with the small number of new cases, people in the hospital have been there for quite some time. The article below indicates that the average hospital stay is THREE WEEKS! The average! That’s far longer than bypass surgery. Holy smokes!
Just the flu lol.
https://www.kpcnews.com/covid-19/article_8ab408ad-8fb0-5f74-8d57-11e586bd8a4f.html
Yeah, beyond the death rate, there are higher numbers of people who have suffered, incurred large expenses, or developed some disability.
Because of infection concerns, when you are suffering from this disease, you have to do it alone, with little to no comforting. Families that have loved ones die, often miss the opportunity to say goodbye.
Even those who don’t have the disease, have been denied a lot of human contact and comfort. Divorce, suicide and depression are all way up.
It has been a scarring social and emotional phenomena as well as medical and financial.
Wow, those antibody test results would be interesting, for everybody else considering (or who have already had) vaccination.
Hope you post the results.
Just thought I’d toss in something, here, as my family is right in the middle of it:
The emphasis on testing is way down. Last fall, a sniffle and a sore throat, or exposure to such, got you lined up at a drive through testing clinic. At least at the clinic my family went to, residency, age, etc., were all NOT requirements. Basically, you just had to ID yourself and have a couple symptoms.
Long story short, my mid-teens daughter is mildly ill (started last evening), with what initially seemed to be a bad head cold. Symptoms are sinuses, sinus headache, bad sore throat, general blah feeling. No fever, but this morning she developed nausea. (No vomiting, however.) COVID seems unlikely, and, my wife and I are both fully vaccinated, but, my daughter’s school thinks a COVID test would be a good idea. (They are still in “finals week”, with a few activities next week - bad timing!)
Calling around though, the only testing site within 30 miles or so not requiring a PCP’s referral has an age 18 minimum, and times are very limited. (One day a week, that location, 9 am - 1 pm.)
If easy availability of testing is way down, testing, and therefor cases, are likely to be way down too.
Or be close to a case or suspected case.
If easy availability of testing is way down, testing, and therefor cases, are likely to be way down too.
That's a very good point. It's one of the reasons that the test positivity rate is a meaningful statistic to keep track of. Here in Georgia, PTP is down to 3% from a peak of 20%. That is the lowest of this entire ordeal.
That’s also a good point. Interestingly, my PCP’s nurse said there seemed to be a lot of “other stuff” running around our area; strep throat, etc., and a bad allergy season too. Maybe I should re-examine local numbers vs. national... I’d think “other stuff” would drive up tests done & lower positivity.
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Update (above was sitting, waiting for me to finish post). Daughter is having some asthma symptoms now, too - the 1st in ~ 4 years. Drat. My wife is taking her to the only walk-in clinic still open in the area (50 minutes away). I’m cooking a late supper for us tonight!
Allergy? Pollen?
Thanks for asking, but, no, the nausea and now moderate fever contraindicate an allergy. (The fever came down a bit last evening - not sure now as daughter-san is still asleep.) Rapid tests for COVID and Strep came back negative: The clinic thinks it’s a viral “something” somewhat flu-like or even an oddball flu variant, but probably not one of the 4 strains vaccinated for in the current (2020-2021) Quadrivalent flu vaccine.
https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/lot-release/influenza-vaccine-2020-2021-season
WHO (yeah, I know) states 485 flu variants have been identified in the USA since 2005.
https://www.who.int/csr/don/05-feb-2021-influenza-a-usa/en/
Granted an allergy(s?) can make a viral infection’s ingress easier.
There’ll be no going to see 90 y/o Grandma this weekend. Drat. And just when visiting restrictions @ the rehab / nursing home have eased. There are only so many of those chances left, I fear.
The good news is that my wife and daughter were able to get to the only walk-in clinic under 100 miles away still open, 30 minutes B4 they closed, so now daughter-san has prescribed albuterol for her inhaler, which inhaler wifey had dug out. (The thing still works, thankfully!) Also useful was that while they were on the way (50 minutes), I was able to pre-register my daughter online, cutting the “paperwork time” when my wife and she arrived.
Daughter seems to be sleeping ok. :-)
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