A local reporter in Florida has become seniors’ unofficial vaccine hotline https://t.co/nTsm3qE7B5
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 29, 2021
Scoop:??NEW VACCINE APPOINTMENT SEARCH ENGINE??
Vaccines save lives, but process of booking a Walgreens slot online is a “hellish experience”.
Wasted slots = longer #COVID19 pandemic.
?? Solution: Hackivists created a fast & easy live search engine!!!??https://t.co/au99ufwEHW pic.twitter.com/nyxBfZ7ovi
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) January 29, 2021
(At the moment, the getmyvaccine app is working, for my zip code — although I’m ten years too young to qualify for one in Massachusetts yet.)
The vaccine rollout has been slow and complicated, but you can help. Here’s how people are volunteering. https://t.co/qVSRqV40OI
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 29, 2021
Excellent news, IMO:
U.S. CDC issues federal transportation mask mandate effective February 1 https://t.co/YFQus8auhB pic.twitter.com/oYcEFz0NN9
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 30, 2021
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an order late Friday requiring masks in interstate transportation and at transit hubs, including airplanes, mass transit, taxis and trains, starting late Monday.
The CDC said the mask mandate, effective from Feb. 1 at 11:59 p.m. EST, also covers ride-share vehicles and subways and makes not wearing a mask as instructed a violation of federal law. The order does not apply to private cars or commercial trucks being driven by a sole operator…
NEW analysis:
COVID-19 is now the #1 cause of death in the U.S. — far surpassing the previous leading cause of heart disease. https://t.co/NRIJa82Vx5 pic.twitter.com/WbQ5rQLJN6
— Cynthia Cox (@cynthiaccox) January 29, 2021
Good to see the climbing in US vaccinations ?
Peak so far of 1.7 M yesterday and another 1.6 M today pic.twitter.com/kMk7G9ZQL6— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) January 30, 2021
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WHO team, on tightly controlled China mission, visits hospital https://t.co/7exYcIdkP7 pic.twitter.com/xpnpdH797Z
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 30, 2021
A year after COVID-19's arrival, India's active cases fall https://t.co/ubKGikPZbF pic.twitter.com/ioAxZREeEi
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 30, 2021
Taiwan reports first COVID-19 death in eight months, from local cluster https://t.co/3ds8uaj0MO pic.twitter.com/4OMokNhrqG
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 30, 2021
Russia confirmed 19,032 new coronavirus cases Saturday, bringing the total number of reported infections to 3,832,080 https://t.co/6PGIe5yt3f
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) January 30, 2021
More than half of Moscow’s 12 million residents have been infected with the coronavirus, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Friday, or more than six times the 925,000 official cases registered in the capital https://t.co/GXcruAD9it
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) January 29, 2021
How does the EU vaccine scheme work?https://t.co/aNFBdwAmcX
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) January 29, 2021
France closes borders to most non-EU travel https://t.co/F51d8E8Hzh
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) January 29, 2021
Portugal tightens lockdown as Covid deaths surge https://t.co/1wC8XZd73S
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) January 29, 2021
Zero Covid strategy "incredibly risky" for Republic of Ireland https://t.co/DHhKImexEH
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) January 29, 2021
Africa's Number of Covid-19 Cases Surpasses 3,5 Million: https://t.co/x8twzOm9Nl #Africa #Covid19 #Covid #Coronavirus #SouthAfrica #Morocco #Zimbabwe #Egypt #Nigeria #Tunisia #Ethiopia pic.twitter.com/tujjEPNhDS
— allAfrica.com (@allafrica) January 29, 2021
Study by @conectas + Univ of Sao Paulo, coordinated by @Deisy_Ventura finds that #Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro carried out an ‘institutional strategy to spread the coronavirus’ https://t.co/Uy36upLaED
via @jonathanwatts— ana cernov ??#QuemMandouMatarMarielle? (@anacernov) January 29, 2021
Covid: Argentina imposes new tax on wealthiest https://t.co/cwI328Pzh0
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) January 30, 2021
Coronavirus: What's behind Latin America's oxygen shortages? https://t.co/a0H8lFKLSO
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) January 30, 2021
Canadian Prime Minister announces agreement with airlines to suspend travel to the Caribbean and Mexico due to Covid-19https://t.co/pLNKDIVIn5
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) January 29, 2021
Rich countries are hoarding Covid-19 vaccines – Eighty million Covid-19 vaccines doses have gone out — but only 55 in a low-income country. https://t.co/EkBAyfLnQx via @voxdotcom
— Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics (@bermaninstitute) January 29, 2021
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Which Covid vaccine should you get? Experts cite the effect against severe disease. Infectious disease doctors say getting a shot of the J&J vaccine, which has a lower efficacy against the virus than other vaccines, would still be well worthwhile https://t.co/OUwcJ1fBBx
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) January 30, 2021
This is phenomenal news. It’s getting a little taken for granted because the initial data from mRNA vaccines was so crazy good. But the storage makes this vaccine far easier to distribute, here and globally. We have three really strong vaccines now. We live in an age of marvels. https://t.co/k11XKMDHmo
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) January 29, 2021
As always, @Dereklowe ties together the #Covid19 vaccine data of the past 2 days in a really digestible way. https://t.co/vBnxzmvz52
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) January 29, 2021
“By the time someone has symptoms, gets a test, has a positive result and we get the sequence, our opportunity for doing real case control and contact tracing is largely gone,” the CDC director said. “We should be treating every case as if it’s a variant.” https://t.co/0SHtRJwzHD
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 29, 2021
How to redesign COVID vaccines so they protect against variants https://t.co/eNy3pkfApe
— Equity & Health (@equitylist) January 29, 2021
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The coronavirus pandemic has spread more widely in blue states — but hit red America harder https://t.co/YUKe7l9lUi
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) January 30, 2021
… Since the pandemic first emerged, there have been 7,279 cases for every 100,000 residents of blue counties (using 2020 results) and 8,113 cases for every 100,000 residents of red ones. There have been 1,183 deaths for every million residents of blue counties and 1,295 deaths for every million people in red counties. Red counties overtook blue ones in cases in mid-October and in deaths two months later…
"In the fast-moving world of mass vaccination, numbers get very fuzzy, very fast." My new colleague, @mariojoze, on the challenges of tracking vaccination data, a critical but under-appreciated part of the #Covid19 vaccine rollout problems. https://t.co/yhnAUAUHO1
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) January 29, 2021
A ‘race’ to vaccinate is underway in South Carolina after the South Africa coronavirus variant is detected. The mutation raised the stakes in the state, which is reporting the 2nd-highest rate of new infections in the nation https://t.co/dwAhz7MSSV
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) January 30, 2021
Freezer storing vaccines breaks Thursday night in Seattle.
Medical center posts urgent message, sets up 11 p.m.-2 a.m. appointments before doses expire.
Hundreds show up in pajamas and robes to receive vaccine.
All doses administered.https://t.co/xUV9moJR9C – @KING5Seattle
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 29, 2021
In one hospital system, information about vaccinations was sent out to employees on email…
an email system that did not include janitorial staff.
“That’s what structural racism looks like.”https://t.co/cMRMwwaOlz
— Julia Carrie Wong (@juliacarriew) January 29, 2021
For some reason, Gov. Newsom does not seem to have the full faith of the local CA media:
State health officials said they rely on a very complex set of measurements that would confuse and potentially mislead the public if they were made public. https://t.co/l8oJ66YGXM
— KTVU (@KTVU) January 24, 2021
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY yesterday:
234 new cases. 596 hospitalized, 134 in the ICU.
Still at 937 reported deaths. 33% of hospital beds available, 24% of ICU beds available. 4% positivity.
NotMax
Locally,
YY_Sima Qian
On 1/29 China reported 36 new domestic confirmed, 8 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 1 domestic suspect case.
Beijing Municipality reported 1 new domestic confirmed case, at the epicenter community in Daxing District, a traced close contact already under centralized quarantine since 1/22. 2 villages (both at Shunyi District) were re-designated as Low Risk. Medium Risk. 1 community (at Daxing District) is at High Risk.
Hebei Province:
Hebei Provincial Health Commission reported 1 new domestic confirmed case. 94 domestic confirmed case recovered & 16 domestic asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. There are currently 534 domestic confirmed cases (1 critical, 1 serious, 423 moderate and 100 mild) & 48 domestic asymptomatic cases in the province:
Heilongjiang Province
Heilongjiang Province reported 27 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic) & 6 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 23 confirmed cases recovered & 4 domestic asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. There are currently 499 domestic confirmed (3 critical, 21 serious, 328 moderate and 147 mild) & 538 domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.:
Jilin Province
Jilin Province reported 5 new domestic confirmed cases (4 previously asymptomatic) & 2 domestic asymptomatic cases. 10 domestic confirmed cases recovered & 6 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There are currently 300 confirmed (12 critical, 25 serious, 181 moderate and 82 mild) & 79 asymptomatic cases there.:
Shanghai Municipality reported 2 new domestic confirmed cases, both traced close contacts already under centralized quarantine since 1/21. Currently there are 18 confirmed cases in the city. 2 residential compounds, 1 residential area and 1 hotel are currently at Medium Risk.
Imported Cases:
On 1/29, China reported 16 new imported confirmed cases, 8 imported asymptomatic cases, 1 imported suspect case:
Overall in China, 143 confirmed cases recovered, 30 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation and 7 were reclassified as confirmed cases, and 1,374 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 1,711 active confirmed cases in the country (304 imported), 78 are in critical/serious condition (5 imported), 976 asymptomatic cases (297 imported), 2 suspect cases (1 imported). 39,218 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
On 1/30, Hong Kong reported 28 new cases, 2 imported and 26 domestic (6 of whom do not have sources of infection identified).
OzarkHillbilly
Figures:
63080
We couldn’t find any Walgreens/Duane Reade immunization locations in your area. Note: not all Walgreens/Duane Reade stores are immunization locations. Immunization locations are on a state-by-state, store-by-store basis, and don’t apply to all Walgreens stores. You can double check on the Walgreens interface. We update which stores are immunization locations nightly. Any questions, reach out to us on Twitter.
ETA: punching in an STL zipcode gives me a store in Illinois.
NotMax
@NeenerNeener
Always do a bit of a double take when I see your posts, as am familiar with the village of Monroe, NY (birthplace of both Velveeta and Liederkranz), hundreds of miles distant from Monroe County.
;)
JPL
My second vaccine is scheduled for Monday. Age has its rewards.
Mary G
OC going in the right direction as far as hospitalizations. New cases not horrendous but not good. 107 deaths.
I wrote a long post in the I Got My Shot thread about my experience at Disneyland. White people. Only language heard spoken was English. In Anaheim!! Disfuckinggraceful.
Newsom facing a recall apparently decided to pander to the right. He’s always been a craven opportunist rather than a real believer, but fucking up vaccines is inexcusable.
No side effects from the vaccine shot except it may have added to the extreme fatigue I get from the IV I had in the morning -slept 14.5 hours straight. Housemate’s arm is very sore.
OzarkHillbilly
Braggart.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
Now we know where all the sleep went.
;)
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: An American cousin to German limburger, Liederkranz® has a similar texture and aroma, but is distinctly robust and buttery.
Hmm… ?
Limburger: embrace the stink!
No. No thanks!
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: I’ve been awake since 1:30 this AM. Waking up 3 or 4 times a night is nothing new, but this coming fully awake shit is for the birds.
By the by, liking the historyguy alot. Thanx again.
HinTN
@OzarkHillbilly: Same here except Chattanooga zip doesn’t yield ant Georgia sites. I’m shocked I tells ya.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
So happy your tech constraints allowed you viewing.
Viva BrisVegas
Australia:
0 cases locally acquired in last 24 hrs
0 cases locally acquired in last 7 days
6 cases acquired overseas in last 24 hrs
48 cases acquired overseas in last 7 days
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: I don’t know why longer stuff locks up but shorter stuff doesn’t, but there it is.
@HinTN: Deep red America, ain’t it great? (and Chattanooga is a nice town)
HinTN
@OzarkHillbilly: Did you see my comment the other day on Nomad
ETA: Chattanooga is a very sweet spot.
Amir Khalid
Take two. Anne Laurie, if this one is okay, could you please delete the first take?
Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 numbers. Director-General of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports a record 5,728 new cases today in his media statement, three more than yesterday’s record high, for a cumulative reported total of 209,681 cases. He also reports 13 new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 746 deaths — 0.36% of the cumulative reported total, 0.46% of resolved cases.
There are currently 47,388 active and contagious cases; 319 are in ICU, 120 of them intubated. Meanwhile, 3,805 patients recovered and were discharged, for a cumulative total of 161,527 patients recovered – 77.0% of the cumulative reported total.
16 new clusters were reported today: Jalan Suasa, Jalan Riang, Jalan Lombong, Bintang Utama, Bayu Tampoi, and Bukit Batu Grisek in Johor; Jalan Trompet and Kampung Hala in Selangor; Lingkaran Maluri and Desa Tun in KL; Tanah Putih, Jalah Ketengah, and Taman Amalina in Pahang; Jalan Labuk in Sabah; Lasah in Perak; and Tersat in Terengganu.
Lasah, Tersat, and Taman Amalina are community clusters. The rest are all workplace clusters.
5,723 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 3,283 local cases: 876 in older clusters, 91 in Jalan Trompet and Kampung Hala clusters, 1,500 close-contact screenings, and 816 other screenings. Johor reports 792 cases: 277 in older clusters; 60 in Jalan Suasa, Jalan Riang, Jalan Lombong, Bintang Utama, Bayu Tampoi, and Bukit Batu Grisek clusters; 1,500 close-contact screenings; and 816 other screenings. KL reports 480 cases: 41 in older clusters, 35 in Lingkaran Maluri and Desa Tun clusters, 180 close-contact screenings, and 224 other screenings. Sabah reports 263 cases: 14 in older clusters, two in Jalan Labuk cluster, 180 close-contact screenings, and 67 other screenings.
Sarawak reports 191 cases: 106 in existing clusters, 44 close-contact screenings, and 41 other screenings. Negeri Semblan reports 158 cases: 15 in existing clusters, 40 close-contact screenings, and 103 other screenings. Perak reports 112 cases: 23 in older clusters, six in Lasah cluster, 49 close-contact screenings, and 34 other screenings. Penang reports 101 cases: 15 in existing clusters, 28 close-contact screenings, and 58 other screenings.
Kedah reports 99 cases: 17 in existing clusters, 41 close-contact screenings, and 41 other screenings. Terengganu reports 85 cases: 19 in older clusters, two in Tersat cluster, 45 close-contact screenings, and 19 other screenings. Pahang reports 51 cases: 14 in Tanah Putih, Jalah Ketengah, and Taman Amalina clusters; 30 close-contact screenings; and seven other screenings. Melaka reports 42 cases: six in existing clusters, 20 close-contact screenings, and 16 other screenings.
Labuan reports 26 local cases: 23 in existing clusters, two close-contact screenings, and one other screening. Kelantan reports 28 cases: 19 close-contact screenings, and nine other screenings. And Putrajaya reports 12 cases: one in an existing cluster, seven close-contact screenings, and four other screenings.
Perlis reports no new cases today.
Five new cases are imported. Three were reported in Labuan and two in Selangor.
The 13 deaths reported today are a 63-year-old woman in Sabah with a peptic ulcer; a 73-year-old woman in Perak with dyslipidaemia and polycythaemia; a 60-yearold woman in Johor with diabetes and hypertension; a 62-year-old man in Selangor, DOA with diabetes and hypertension; a 78-year-old man in Selangor with hypertension and benign prostatic hyperplasia; a 62-year-old woman in Selangor with breast cancer; a 53-year-old man in Selangor, DOA with diabetes and hypertension; a 71-year-old man in Perak with Parkinson’s disease and an aortic aneurysm; a 41-year-old woman in Sarawak with hypertension, obesity, and asthma; a 64-year-old woman in Melaka with diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and chronic kidney disease; a 45-year-old man in Labuan with diabetes, dyslipidaemia, and anaemia; a 43-year-old woman in Labuan with diaetes, hypertension, heart disease, and obesity; and a 75-year-old non-Malaysian woman in Sabah, DOA with hypertension.
Nelle
@OzarkHillbilly: Years ago, I made myself an eye mask and put too much dried lavender in it. I stuck it in a drawer and forgot about it. About two weeks ago, my husband was reading late and the light bothered me, so I found it, put it on, and fell asleep quickly. It sort of knocks me out whenever I wake in the early hours; I just put it on again. Now that I’ve written this, it likely will quit working. But it’s pretty strong lavender.
YY_Sima Qian
I made an arithmetical error in the data for Shijiazhuang, here is the correct numbers:
Getting granular data for recoveries at the local level is much more cumbersome than it should be. Provincial health commissions typically only provide total recoveries (including asymptomatic cases released from isolation) for the province, and do not break them down by cities/prefectures. Some municipal/prefectural health commissions publish daily recovery figures, but some do not, so I have to do the arithmetic to derive the figures for the jurisdictions that do not publish such figures. I also have to rely on media reports of patients being released from hospitals at those jurisdictions, to check my assumptions/work. It gets complicated when patients who resided and tested positive at one city was moved to another city for treatment. For example, 18 of the recovered confirmed cases from Suihua in Heilongjiang Province, as well as the asymptomatic case from Daqing released from isolation, were all actually being treated at a hospital at the provincial capital of Harbin. If I had not read the article describing their release to the end and saw that they were being transferred to back to Suihua and Daqing for further medical quarantine, I would have assumes that these were recovered cases from the Harbin cluster… These complications seem to be messing with the COVID-19 dashboard of Jinri Toutiao (Chinese news aggregator APP) as well, at least for Shijiazhuang and Harbin, so I cannot use the numbers off the dashboards without verification.
For imported cases, some provinces only publish the countries of origin, not the cases’ nationalities or their intermediate layover points (if applicable). I have to go to the municipal health commission’s daily data dumps for those information. Tianjin Municipal Health Commission publishes case data (numbers of domestic confirmed & asymptomatic, and imported confirmed & asymptomatic, for example) for 24 hrs periods from mid-night to mid-night, but the individual case summaries are published for 24 hour periods from 6 PM to 6 PM.
Good thing the case load in China is still very low, even at the peak of the recent “surge”, or I would have thrown my hands up long ago.
Local and central authorities in China release just enough information serve their purposes, which are assuaging public concern/anxiety, preventing panic, educating the public on the risk level, maintain their cooperating with government policies (some of which are decidedly inconvenient, even harsh), and demonstrating to the public their labors and competence. With COVID-19, they’ve actually had to be much more transparent than normal to achieve those purposes.
Sloane Ranger
Yesterday in the UK we had 29,079 new cases. This is about 400 cases higher than the day before but the rolling 7-day average has decreased by 29.5%. Weekend warning applies. The new cases by home nation,
England – 26,709 (up @500)
Northern Ireland – 669 (up @70)
Scotland – 1155 (down @50)
Wales – 546 (down @150).
Deaths – There were 1245 new deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. The rolling 7-day average shows a decrease of 3.4%. Deaths by nation, England – 1124, Northern Ireland – 22, Scotland – 70 and Wales – 29. The number of people who died in the week ending Friday, 15th January who had COVID-19 listed on their Death Certificate was 7766.
Testing – 753,031 tests were conducted on Thursday, 28 January out of a capacity of 805,634. This is an increase in the rolling 7-day average of 6.2%.
Hospitalisations – 35,375 people were in hospital on Wednesday, 27 January and 3918 were on ventilators on Thursday, 28 January. The rolling 7-day average for hospital admissions is down by 14.3%.
Vaccinations – 7,891,184 people had received their 1st dose of a vaccine on 28 January and 478,254 had received their 2nd dose on the same date. Broken down by home nation,
England – 6,816,945 (1st dose); 446,372 (2nd dose)
Northern Ireland – 196,131 (1st dose); 24,070 (2nd dose)
Scotland – 515,855 (1st dose); 7095 (2nd dose)
Wales – 362,253 (1st dose); 717 (2nd dose).
General – There was a bit of a kerfuffle earlier when the EU said it would act to stop vaccines being transported from the Republic of Ireland into Northern Ireland. The Irish government were, apparently, not given any warning about this and Dublin, London and Belfast were united in condemning the decision. The EU has subsequently stepped back from the move but the row between the EU and AstraZeneca continues. Contract lawyers have been quoted as saying that there are legitimate competing interpretations of the wording of the contract.
Also, relating to AstraZenaca, and not, I think picked up in AL’s excellent posts, the UK plant had to be evacuated for a short time a couple of days ago after a suspicious package was delivered to it. The bomb squad was called in and removed the package. It was, apparently, not actually a bomb but was made to look like one. A man has been arrested and charged and he made his first court appearance earlier today. There is no reporting about his motive.
Suzanne
@Mary G: SuzMom’s arm was very sore yesterday, too. She said more so than she’s ever felt with a vaccine before. I told her that I would be her bartender today, hah.
Her second dose is scheduled four weeks from now.
Whatever. My husband’s best friend lost his mom earlier in the week. She was 63. Sore arms are a reasonable price to pay to avoid that.
Scout211
https://www.vaccinateca.com/
This is a website designed by volunteers for vaccine information for Californians (county by county) designed by volunteers.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/The-inside-scoop-on-the-crowdsourced-website-15885607.php
Brachiator
@Scout211:
Thanks for this information.
Another Scott
getmyvaccine.org is a good idea. The companies should do this themselves, of course.
Cheers,
Scott.
Ruckus
@Suzanne:
I got first shot of Pfizer yesterday at the VA.
No problem or issues for about 12 hrs, then arm became painful, on a scale 1-10 about 4. This morning, now 24 hrs later it is maybe 1.5. No fever or other symptoms. And for those who are wondering I’ve had reactions to other vaccinations a few times over my life, high fever – 105 degrees for days. I’ve also had zero reactions to vaccinations that others have had reactions to. So far the Pfizer has been about as expected from others.