This is a scientific miracle: On March 11, 2020, #Covid19 was declared a pandemic. By March 12, 2021, one-third of Americans 65 years & older had been fully vaccinated.
For those of us still waiting, yes it feels slow. But this is extraordinary. Remember this. #ScienceRules pic.twitter.com/iEdNMy0iJu— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) March 13, 2021
Important note on the record number of vaccine shots today. There apparently is some reporting catch-up going on. Nevertheless, 2.9 million shots today is still a record. https://t.co/1AKqWDCHHb
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) March 14, 2021
The US had +48,808 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 today, bringing the total to over 30.0 million. The 7-day moving average declined to under 56,000 new cases per day, its lowest level since October 15. pic.twitter.com/tfXXzO3hV6
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) March 14, 2021
Hey remember when Bob Woodward just straight up asked Trump "So like when did you know that this disease was going to be a big deal" and Trump said "it was when my natsec advisor told me XYZ and then I just lied about it" and now reporters want Joe Biden to thank Trump for that
— delirious quips (@FishyTreats) March 13, 2021
Trump had no plan to distribute the vaccine! He said this himself – the 'last mile' of distribution – shots into arms – was up to the states, not him https://t.co/NOHeB9PXNJ
— Josh Kovensky (@JoshKovensky) March 12, 2021
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Almost everyone in the US I talked to in the past month is vaccinated or has an appointment for it. I know only one person in Beijing who got her first shot this week. Rarely see any chatter about vaccinations on Chinese social media. https://t.co/HpogcOW3GF
— Li Yuan (@LiYuan6) March 13, 2021
China will give preference to arriving foreigners who have received the Chinese vaccine (as opposed to others). What foolishness. https://t.co/VUrvgq27oS
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) March 13, 2021
India reports biggest daily jump in COVID-19 infections this year https://t.co/GOwRH8ds1p pic.twitter.com/e0x3NG9RBp
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 14, 2021
India's health authorities will carry out a deep review of post-vaccination blood clots from the AstraZeneca shot, altho no cases have been reported in India. New Delhi decided to conduct a review after several countries suspended the rollout of the AZ vax https://t.co/6m9JLgerx5 pic.twitter.com/9Kw2Oh7L4b
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) March 13, 2021
Singapore PM says may reopen borders by year-end: BBC interview https://t.co/4CyrmtvXyT pic.twitter.com/BCWNJDcaYD
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 14, 2021
Australia records first local COVID-19 case in two weeks https://t.co/HTypGvHCtg pic.twitter.com/TDL5TEYe2W
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 13, 2021
We will get a significant acceleration of vaccine rollout in Europe through 2Q, but chances of a missed summer remain high – and spread of variants associated with higher transmissibility increasing lockdown stringency and costs in the interim https://t.co/sdPzOIbpVl
— Tomas Hirst (@tomashirstecon) March 13, 2021
Italy's health minister expects COVID cases to start falling in late spring https://t.co/bArJIizxxP pic.twitter.com/t6OC115ujB
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 14, 2021
The UAE is calling in some residents for a *third* dose of the Sinopharm vaccine after tests showed not everyone develops a proper immune response. As usual, everyone is being very cagey about the details. https://t.co/5Kbfrs3Txt
— Gregg Carlstrom (@glcarlstrom) March 13, 2021
Jordan's health minister quits after six Covid patients die due to oxygen shortage https://t.co/RLRzwEZyAy
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) March 13, 2021
'Covid is taking over:' Brazil plunges into deadliest chapter of its epidemic. Last year, Jair Bolsonaro declared Brazil had reached ‘the tail end’ of one of the world’s worst outbreaks. Now, there's a new and deadlier story https://t.co/h6rrKZ8wBM
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) March 13, 2021
Brazilian police broke up an illegal party with nearly 600 people in a windowless Sao Paulo nightclub, highlighting defiance of social-distancing rules as the country’s COVID-19 outbreak surges to record levels https://t.co/g1t8kp3X1z pic.twitter.com/ISp60RgmwA
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 14, 2021
Professional wrestlers enforce the face mask rule at the Central de Abastos market in Mexico City. pic.twitter.com/1BDljcv953
— SBS News (@SBSNews) March 12, 2021
A #coronavirus outbreak has closed an Amazon warehouse in Canada where 600+ workers tested positive. Public health officials say workers at the Brampton facility north of Toronto are required "to self-isolate for 2 weeks effective 12:01am March 13, 2021" https://t.co/qJEmopCLzK
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) March 13, 2021
This is a spectacularly beautiful piece about how the people of Canada's Northwest Territories dodged #Covid19. "You need to put in the restrictions early on," said Chief public health officer Kami Kandola. And they did. https://t.co/YQdE1BK6r9
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) March 13, 2021
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I don't think we'll see the government institute this but I would be unsurprised to see the free market embrace it. https://t.co/9ynohQLHYm
— Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) March 13, 2021
Vaccine-induced antibodies may be less effective against several new SARSCoV2 variants, a new reveals. Variants have arisen globally, including those that may possess an ability to evade the human immune system https://t.co/vS7OQR4GRC pic.twitter.com/AvecZGZQFp
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) March 14, 2021
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is a rare but serious condition linked to #COVID. More than 2500 cases & 33 deaths reported by CDC thru 3/1. Best way to prevent MIS-C is to stop the spread of COVID https://t.co/QgUOa8jPZ8 pic.twitter.com/6lc9Si2r7E
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) March 13, 2021
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Across the United States, millions of medically vulnerable people who initially were cited as a top COVID-19 vaccination priority group got slowly bumped down the list. https://t.co/yqzjw9wU8r
— AP South U.S. Region (@APSouthRegion) March 13, 2021
Nebraska begins vaccinating workers at meat processing plants next week. Shots will be administered at 8 meat and food processing plants in Omaha. Meat processors were hard hit throughout much of the pandemic in multiple states https://t.co/8HBtHniGgq pic.twitter.com/YQWjGNGgZF
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) March 13, 2021
From no fans to masked fans, @AP looks back at how the sports world has changed a year after games were stopped in their tracks.
Full story by @epells: https://t.co/gMdhlodzsI pic.twitter.com/BBM3IckVv2
— AP Sports (@AP_Sports) March 13, 2021
Duke University issued a quarantine order for all of its undergraduates effective Saturday night due to a coronavirus outbreak caused by students who attended recruitment parties, the school said. https://t.co/DZ34uxcMQP
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 14, 2021
Covid and school: 'A little party never killed nobody' https://t.co/bUbbsnIvVw
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) March 12, 2021
New from me and @CiCiAdams_
Anti-vaxxers are using Covid's devastation on the Black community as 'marketing," for their wider message against childhood vaccines. https://t.co/lkGw7VYlm2
— Brandy Zadrozny (@BrandyZadrozny) March 11, 2021
But this wasn't just an RFK production. I met a new player in the anti-vaxx movement, the film's executive producer, Republican mega donor, David Centner. He and his wife, Leila, operate a school in Miami, where RFK spoke in January and hung out with children afterwards. pic.twitter.com/GX4yW6EUsU
— Brandy Zadrozny (@BrandyZadrozny) March 11, 2021
rikyrah
Absolutely furious with the anti-vaxxers ???
Phuck Outta Here with that bullshyt ?
OzarkHillbilly
Try talking to me mf’er.
eclare
@OzarkHillbilly: A friend of mine in Collin County TX says the county registration website has been down since the second week of Feb. TX sucks too, at least in the cities.
Gvg
I don’t understand RFK jr. He wasted his family name on total nonsense. And he keeps doubling down? He could have been an important person, but chose to be known as someone to be avoided.
I read a lot of history and historical fiction when I was a kid. A background to all the early American history was all the people dying of small pox, yellow fever, scarlet fever etc. it was taken for granted, and people carried on, but it was always there and not left out of the books. How can people be anti vax?
For that matter, a lot of American prosperity is built on scientific achievements. It is self destructive to not respect that.
OzarkHillbilly
@eclare: Yep, I am not alone in my frustrations, kind of my point. Maybe Li should look beyond the horizon of his own limited circles before making broad generalizations.
p.a.
Here in RI I think I’m on the “We’ll contact you as soon as we verify you are on our waiting list” list.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 numbers. Director-General of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 1,354 new cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 323,763 cases. He also reports four new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 1,210 deaths — 0.37% of the cumulative reported total, 0.39% of resolved cases.
There are currently 16,279 active and contagious cases; 158 are in ICU, 71 of them intubated. Meanwhile, 1,782 patients recovered and were discharged, for a cumulative total of 306,274 patients recovered – 94.6% of the cumulative reported total.
Three new clusters were reported today: Jalan Tun Mutalib Tiga in Johor, Jalan Sutera in Selangor, and Begalak in Sarawak. Begalak is a community cluster; the other two are workplace clusters.
1,340 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 569 local cases: 79 in older clusters, four in Jalan Sutera cluster, 388 close-contact screenings, and 98 other screenings.
Sarawak reports 172 local cases: 19 in older clusters, 21 in Begalak cluster, 85 close-contact screenings, and 47 other screenings. Penang reports 154 cases: 44 in existing clusters, 37 close-contact screenings, and 73 other screenings. Johor reports 121 cases: 32 in older clusters, three in Jalan Tun Mutalib Tiga cluster, 51 close-contact screenings, and 35 other screenings. Perak reports 101 cases: 83 in existing clusters, 11 close-contact screenings, and seven other screenings.
Kuala Lumpur reports 55 cases: 26 close-contact screenings, and 29 other screenings. Sabah reports 39 cases: five in existing clusters, 25 close-contact screenings, and nine other screenings. Terengganu reports 37 cases: 21 in existing clusters, 10 close-contact screenings, and six other screenings. Kedah reports 33 cases: three in existing clusters, 11 close-contact screenings, and 19 other screenings. Kelantan reports 26 cases: three in existing clusters, 18 close-contact screenings, and five other screenings. Negeri Sembilan reports 21 cases: two in existing clusters, 14 close-contact screenings, and five other screenings.
Pahang reports five cases: one close-contact screening, and four other screenings. Melaka reports four cases: two in existing clusters, and two close-contact screenings. Putrajaya reports two cases: one close-contact screening, and one other screening. And Labuan reports one case, found in other screening.
Perlis reports no new cases today.
14 new cases today are imported: eight in Selangor, and six in Sarawak.
The deaths reported today are an 87-year-old man in Kuala Lumpur with diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease; a 61-year-old man in Sarawak with diabetes and nasopharyngeal carcinoma; a 79-year-old man in Selangor with hypertension, heart disease, Parkinson’s disease, and stroke; and a 27-year-old man in Kuala Lumpur, bed-ridden with leukemia and transverse myelitis.
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY yesterday:
New cases = 108. Currently at 1174 deaths.
Positivity at 1.5%
147 cases in the hospital, 38 in the ICU
42% hospital beds available, 38% ICU beds available.
lowtechcyclist
Here in Maryland, the new case numbers had plateaued for a couple weeks (at a level twice where we were at the end of June last year, so hardly worth declaring victory over) when our idiot governor announced that other than sports venues (50%), all capacity limits were being lifted, including restaurants, bars, and gyms. By the end of the week, when the limits were officially lifted, the new case numbers were already moving up again. Be a bit of a spike in a week or ten days, I’d expect.
Need to replace that #HoganStrong hashtag with #HoganDumb.
WereBear
Still not seeing any open appointments… but I’m sure our area will expand. Next door neighbors drove an hour away for their two jabs. With Mr WereBear’s chronic illness, we might be better off waiting for such to get closer.
OzarkHillbilly
Yo Yo Ma got his 2nd shot, and spent his 15 min in observation entertaining everyone. (click thru to the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th frames for video)
Nicole
@rikyrah: Yeah. I have sympathy for communities that have a history of being underserved or actively harmed by the medical profession, but rich White people spreading this nonsense, and especially targeting those communities – I swear, they make me think of that line from The Dark Knight about how some people just want to watch the world burn.
Shame on RFK Jr. Shame on him.
Cameron
Now I know what the USA would look like if Trump had won – Brazil.
Anya
@rikyrah: They are ignorant scumbags. What makes them dangerous is they use real events to advance their dangerous propaganda.
Anya
Does Li Yuan only hang out with health care providers in the USA? This assertion doesn’t make sense.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@OzarkHillbilly: Well, our next door neighbor told us she got her first jab a couple days ago. Not her husband, as he’s an anti-vaxxer.Other than that, why I can name… nobody else I know who’s gotten jabbed.
PA Health has new info up on their vaccination site telling us WHY we’re getting so few vaccines, explaining their distribution algorithm in detail. So I guess that’s progress.
No really, all info helps.
Statewide, 27% percent of the population has gotten at least one shot. That’s the whole population, not just adults. Our county is at 16.7%, which is a vast improvement over even a week ago. So I’m actually not that grumpy about this, I think we’ll meet Biden’s targets.
Ohio Mom
I don’t like the sound of the Delthia Ricks tweet:
“Vaccine-induced antibodies may be less effective against several new SARSCoV2 variants…Variants…may possess an ability to evade the human immune system”
Yikes if further research proves this preliminary work true.
Cameron
I’ll just count my blessings that I lucked into my first shot last weekend with second one scheduled for 3/27. Florida is weird; I think every county does things differently. Here in Manatee they have county-run sites (that have achieved some degree of notoriety recently) as well as sites at CVS, Publix and Winn-Dixie. No two of them appear to use the same criteria for selecting eligible people. I tried for weeks to get an appointment at either Publix or Winn-Dixie with no luck at all. I couldn’t go to the county site, since it’s drive-through and I don’t have a car. I got an appointment at CVS the first time I went on its website.
YY_Sima Qian
On 3/13 China reported 0 new domestic confirmed & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
Imported Cases
On 3/13 China reported 10 new imported confirmed cases, 10 imported asymptomatic cases, 1 suspect case:
Overall in China, 11 confirmed cases recovered, 3 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation & none were reclassified as confirmed cases, and 353 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 183 active confirmed cases in the country (179 imported), none in critical/serious condition, 262 asymptomatic cases (all imported), 1 suspect case (imported). 4,596 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
On 3/14 Hong Kong reported 24 new cases, all domestic (10 of whom do not yet have source of infection identified, 10 are from the fitness club cluster). There are another 20+ cases preliminarily positive, awaiting retesting for confirmation.
YY_Sima Qian
Today, Beijing Municipal Health Commission reported that 10M vaccine doses has been injected in the city to date, in 6.66M individuals, with 3.34M individuals vaccinated with 2 shots. I know several colleagues and family members in Beijing have been vaccinated, so it is extremely surprising that Li Yuan (the NYT columnist) only knows a single contact in the city who has taken the shot. People are not publicly announcing their vaccinations on social media, though. It is just not seen as a big deal in China.
Recognizing only Chinese vaccines for incoming visitors is crazy, even to start. On the flip side, the I have read that the EU would not recognize Chinese or Russian vaccines for their planned vaccination passport scheme, until they have passed EMA. Not sure what the US’ policy is. Of course, only the Chinese SinoPharm, Sinovac and CanSino vaccines have received authorization in China so far. Fosun Pharma based in Shanghai is the sole exclusive agent for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in Greater China, and indeed invested into the vaccine back in Mar. 2020. Taikang based in Shenzhen is the exclusive agent for the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine. I would think approval for these two vaccines should be straight forward. Not sure about Moderna.
I sure hope vaccine nationalism does not extend that far. Dad’s shots were Pfizer/BioNTech, but Mom’s are Moderna.
artem1s
absolutely floored at how good this administration is at messaging.
artem1s
@Cameron:
I think this was the main point of Biden’s statements the other night. To put pressure on states that are messing around with distribution and favoring some communities and doing a poor job of getting the word out to ‘those’ people.
wvng
@artem1s: what a fine thing. I got something in.my eye while watching it.
Also, the trolls on every official Biden admin social media site are swarming constantly. I wonder if they will every five it up?
Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!)
@Ohio Mom: I haven’t read that article yet, but here is a good MedCram video where Dr. Seheult *talks about the variants, the antibodies produced by our current vaccines and the amount of the antibodies needed to neuatralize the variants. The variants are still neutralized, but it takes 2 – 6 x more to do it, The vaccine are already being tweaked for later booster shots too.
*And a big shout out to whoever it was here at BJ that turned me on to MedCram last March! It has be a lifesaver for my sanity, with actual physiology and anatomy clearly explained.
Uncle Cosmo
@rikyrah: I would love to see a rule from the Feds that anyone who refuses vaccination for any disease for any reason (other than a medically-valid and independently confirmed condition) effectively signs a waiver that their health insurance provider is under no obligation to cover treatment for that illness.
(No measles vaccine for your kids? Oh, we’ll treat them to the best of our ability. But be prepared for bankruptcy when you get the bill.)
IMO that’d wake a lot of these nitwits up right quick.
Uncle Cosmo
@lowtechcyclist: Need to replace that #HoganStrong hashtag with #HoganSucks.
FTFY.
I am not complaining for myself – I got my first
AntiquaModerna jab a week ago via sheer luck – BUT:When the MD Dept of Sickness jacked the initial age cutoff up to 74, it rather conveniently excluded nearly all of my de-de-degeneration[1] probably because they didn’t want to be swamped with applications. But when they decided that comorbidities[2] didn’t matter that really pissed me off – because type-2 diabetes (along with a bunch of other comorbidities like high BP) is a real problem in the AA community and no doubt an important factor in COVID’s disproportionate impact therein.[3] Of course they overwhelmingly voted for Hogan’s opponents, so…
[1] If your daddy didn’t rush right back from the war and rush right into babymaking you were on the wrong side of the line.
[2] E.g., the type 2 diabetes I’ve lived with since 2004 which was & still is on the CDC list as a significant factor in COVID severity.
[3] NB while I myself am seriously melanin-deficient, my cherished neighbors are >85% AA & have been since 1987 when I moved here.
Cameron
I could understand anti-vaxxers if this was some new medical discovery, but vaccination has been around for a very long time (like a couple hundred years). At this point their ideas have about as much credibility as belief in a flat Earth.
Lyrebird
Yep. And if any flat-earthers start the kind of harassment campaigns that these folks have started, including against parents who have lost children to infectious diseases, they should see serious consequences.
Tern
Yesterday, I posted that I was able to get my mom scheduled for this coming Tues for her 1st shot down in Florida. She’s 79 years old and lives in a little town of about 1200 people. She said that she will be the first person that she knows of in her community to get the vaccine.
As I kept thinking about how difficult this is to get people in communities notified and immunized, I’m just flabbergasted that states are handling this so poorly. My mom is computer literate but in poor health right now. She has been in seclusion for over a year now with very little contact outside of doctor visits and the occasional grocery store pickup.
For smaller and/or rural communities, why not send out postcards saying something like “Our COVID vaccination drive will take place at XXX (local school, church, post office, fire station, intersection of Highways XX and XY, Pat’s Diner) in one/two weeks, on XX date. Those wishing to get the vaccination can call, email XXX, or stop by XXX to schedule an appointment. If you don’t have transportation or can’t drive due to age or illness, contact us and we will send someone to your home.” Heck, you could make it for any adults in the community. For small and/or rural communities, you could probably have near 100% success, minus the stupids. Then you have traveling teams go to the areas for a day and mass inoculate. You could restrict it those served by the local post offices. In small or rural communities, everyone knows everyone who lives in the area. Not to mention, “everyone” knows who is elderly, ill, bed-ridden, whatever, and would legitimately need a home visit for the vaccine.
Sorry for the rant. I’m thankful for the Biden/Harris team and the difference they are making in moving us forward, as well as state/local govts that are doing a good job, but sooo very frustrated with so many state and local government officials in so many places, not having basic plans. My local community in KY is doing a terrible job too. You can only schedule appointments by calling between 0900 and 1500, Tues-Thur. No online scheduling, no scheduling at night, etc. Many people work those hours and can’t sit on the phone waiting for their call to be answered, or repeatedly trying to get through. They had 9 months to plan.
Geoduck
My WA state county appears to be getting its act together after being very unorganized. People have been scrounging around looking for shots and having to go to other counties, but now there’s a mass drive-in site run by the Health Department up and rolling at the local community college, and it’s quick and efficient. (And you register online, instead of having to hang on a phone all day.) As I said in a previous thread, I got my first shot there yesterday.
Sloane Ranger
Yesterday in the UK we had 5534 new cases. This is a decrease of about 900 from the day before and a reduction of 5.5% in the rolling 7-day average. The usual caution about interpreting weekend figures applies due to admin delays in processing data. Cases by nation,
England -4539 (down @1000)
Northern Ireland – 146 (down @60)
Scotland – 639 (down @40)
Wales – 210 (up 20).
Deaths – There were 121 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. This is a decrease of 32.2% in the rolling 7-day average. It is known, however, that the figures from England are incomplete. Known deaths by nation, England – 106, Northern Ireland – 1, Scotland – 8 and Wales – 6. There were 3196 deaths reported in the week ending 26 February where COVID was mentioned as a cause of death on the Death Certificate.
Testing – not updated at weekends.
Hospitalisations – There were 8029 people in hospital on Thursday, 11 March and 1110 people on ventilators on Friday, 12th. The rolling 7-day average for hospital admissions has fallen by 28.3%.
Vaccinations – On 12 March a total of 23,684,103 people (of which I am one) had received the 1st dose of a vaccine and 1,532,754 had received both doses.
General – Yesterday, the Welsh Government lifted some COVID restrictions. The message now is “Stay Local” rather than “Stay at Home”. This relaxation allows for up to 4 people from 2 households to meet outside and the re-opening of outdoor sports facilities. Hairdressers and barbers can re-open from tomorrow and primary schools and those studying for qualifications can return to in-person learning. No change to non-essential retail until 12 April at the earliest.
RobertDSC-Mac Mini
Never have I ever seen a meaningful statistic as displayed in yesterday’s injection totals and thought “I’m a part of that right there!”
My arm is dead an I can barely lift anything, but the first shot was a success. It was due to a clinic put on by a neighboring city which has been hard-hit by the pandemic. So bringing it down to the community center level has shown some benefits. There were hundreds of people waiting in line before and after me.
As a plus, with the California tier list opening up to food workers, my best friend and her husband are now eligible as they deliver for Uber Eats. My sister is also eligible, something my mom had to find remarkable once sister was scheduled for her first appointment.
Ohio Mom
Mike S:
I’m already assuming booster shots from here on out. Wondering if it can be combined with the flu shot, the way childhood disease vaccines are sometimes combined.
tokyokie
@eclare
That pretty much corresponds with the cold snap we endured in North Texas. I know my ISP has been semi-borked since then, so I’m sure other networks must have been affected as well.
Miss Bianca
@Cameron: And the anti-vax movement has been around, seriously, as long as vaccination. Read Pox: An American History, by Michael Willrich. It’s an eye-opening experience.
Ruckus
@Cameron:
That problem that everyone does everything differently is a huge part of the problem. It’s why some places are giving out shots like free air and some are holding on to some sort of structure that doesn’t seem to work at all. Remember we are less than 60 days into an actual working federal government, on not run by a moron who was trying to kill people he doesn’t like, a list that changes by the minute. That the large chain pharmacies, like CVS are working directly with the feds is why that’s working at all. In states that want to actually get shots in arms the distribution is doing somewhat well. 600+ million shots is a lot of shots/arms/coordination/distribution/effort. It took the VA a long time and healthcare is the biggest part of what they do. But setting this up, locations, supplies, people, vaccine storage/handling, all of that during a pandemic that also took medical people away from everyday medicine, we are just over a year into this and we are vaccinating millions in this country. Given the person not in charge of anything up to about 2 months ago, I’d say damn – progress!
JustRuss
In our county, the new-cases-per-day average has dropped by more than half in the past month, and 25% of adults have got at least one shot. I get my second on Thursday. They just opened up bars and restaurants, really wish they’d held off two more months.