Know your target market!
Krispy Kreme will you give you a free doughnut every day this year — if you've been vaccinated https://t.co/ZLkGUa8QGH
— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 22, 2021
Progress. pic.twitter.com/kFuqPoFcFZ
— President Biden (@POTUS) March 21, 2021
The faster America gets vaccinated, the sooner we can return to our lives with our loved ones. That’s why I’m proud to share we set another record this weekend with 6 million shots reported administered across the country.
— President Biden (@POTUS) March 22, 2021
Over the weekend, the US recorded back-to-back days w/ 3+ million vaccine doses administered. Should only get better in the next few weeks, as more supply comes online https://t.co/jeRWzPF31N pic.twitter.com/EUuNf7kNCR
— Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome) March 22, 2021
The US administered 2.0 million vaccine shots today, bringing the total to 127 million, or 38.1 doses per 100 people, enough to cover 19.4% of the population. The 7-day moving average remained largely unchanged at 2.49 million shots per day. pic.twitter.com/LEvgx79pXG
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) March 23, 2021
The expectation has always been that production would ramp up around now. There was an initial stockpile of 3.9 million. J&J had promised a total of 20m (including the 3.9) by the end of March.
— Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) March 22, 2021
The US had +45,748 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total closer to 30.6 million. The 7-day moving average rose back above 56,000 new cases per day. pic.twitter.com/2xBfkUNEpe
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) March 23, 2021
"Of course we have to vaccinate our whole population, but from what I'm told we're going to have more than enough supply to do that."
Hillary Clinton says the U.S. should be exercising more "vaccine diplomacy" by distributing Covid shots to poorer countries pic.twitter.com/9q8uY9iNKu
— Bloomberg Quicktake (@Quicktake) March 22, 2021
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Global coronavirus deaths have risen sharply for the 1st time in 6 weeks. The increase is driven, in part, by the B117 UK variant. "In the last week, cases have increased by 8% [globally]," said Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove of WHO. In Europe the increase is 12% https://t.co/xBHsunGatR pic.twitter.com/tYlOmE1lf1
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) March 22, 2021
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says he will get a coronavirus vaccine shot on Tuesday.
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) March 22, 2021
How Iceland clamped down to conquer coronavirus https://t.co/9VKi4M144l
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) March 23, 2021
Germany's Merkel banks on Easter circuit-breaker to combat 'new pandemic' https://t.co/pAWo1Vw2V9 pic.twitter.com/uDbM27eKwm
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 23, 2021
England slaps 5,000 pound fine on most travel abroad https://t.co/LaXErTUpQF pic.twitter.com/aRypf1tic9
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 23, 2021
Israel: Fully open economy, R still declining, now 0.62
40 days after exiting lockdown
From the peak of mid-January:
85% fewer daily deaths
72% fewer daily critically ill
86% fewer daily cases40 days after exiting the previous October lockdown, R was already at 1.15 pic.twitter.com/44Gw86nynq
— Eran Segal (@segal_eran) March 22, 2021
Also interesting to look at it by age group. This chart is indexed to the peak of cases and shows the relative decline since then.
The plateau was mostly due to a plateau and even slight temporary rise among the younger people (who get vaccinated last). pic.twitter.com/85NtQ7DEg6
— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) March 22, 2021
In Brazil, Covid is increasingly hitting younger people. There are fewer wrinkles & less gray hair among patients in ICUs as the country reels amid a Covid surge that is hitting people under 60. Brazil is also where the P.1 variant emerged https://t.co/1hbmy7J2W4 pic.twitter.com/8x3GksXhn2
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) March 23, 2021
This thread from #Brazil regarding the P.1 mutant strain of #SARSCoV2 is scary stuff. The variant — based on 3 separate studies — is 2.2 times more transmissible & people who previously had normal #COVID19 can be reinfected with P.1. Hope somebody makes a @threadreaderapp of: https://t.co/3kfOsU8KB6
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) March 22, 2021
Vaccines and vaccine passports being sold on darknet https://t.co/NPDsUe8nYl
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) March 23, 2021
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AstraZeneca may have provided an incomplete view of efficacy data on its COVID-19 vaccine from a large scale trial in the United States, a U.S. health agency said, in a fresh setback for the shot https://t.co/iGAIuPnVI7
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 23, 2021
It is very good to have data from a large, well-designed clinical trial that shows that the AstraZeneca #Covid19 is highly efficacious. These results are better than what was shown from the previous compilation of smaller trials. @matthewherper reports. https://t.co/VtYf9OrB6D
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) March 22, 2021
New evidence supports a link between Covid and hearing loss. A systematic review of multiple studies established the association. Pooled data from 24 of 56 analyzed studies estimate the prevalence of hearing loss was 7.6%, tinnitus 14.8% & vertigo 7.2% https://t.co/EdkTEDm45u pic.twitter.com/0Y0JH1jH4p
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) March 22, 2021
Rare COVID reactions might hold key to variant-proof vaccines
Moderna’s updated vaccine, based on sequence of the #B1351 variant, was given to trial participants. People infected with this variant have immune responses that work against multiple variantshttps://t.co/OlHRbHtfJu
— MicrobesInfect (@MicrobesInfect) March 22, 2021
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New cases of COVID-19 are up again in a majority of U.S. states. That's according to a @Reuters analysis that found COVID cases in the U.S. rose 5% to more than 394,000 last week https://t.co/PWNbZEPAUB pic.twitter.com/r2q6686oQR
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 23, 2021
New cases of COVID-19 in the United States rose 5% to more than 394,000 last week, the first increase after declining for nine straight weeks, according to a Reuters analysis of state, county and CDC data. https://t.co/qH8zDiYKVq
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) March 22, 2021
As variants spread and travel increases, the CDC director is urging caution to prevent ‘another avoidable surge' https://t.co/3Ehra74i0E
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) March 22, 2021
Navajo Nation has reported 0 new COVID-19 cases for the first time in six months!!!!!
— Arlyssa Becenti?? (@ABecenti) March 22, 2021
Well, I've had COVID19. So smelling is not really my strength right now anyway …
— DR. SIVA VAIDHYANATHAN?????? (@sivavaid) March 22, 2021
DeSantis has to be worried about this primary challenge. https://t.co/EqVxZS60S7
— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) March 21, 2021
I'll take yours if you don't want it. https://t.co/EbP2mpK9uK
— Michael Freeman (@michaelpfreeman) March 22, 2021
Baud
Volcano. Volcano killss the virus.
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY stats:
New cases = 91
Deaths at 1194 now
1.7% positivity
29.6% vaccinated with at least 1 shot
107,619 people fully vaccinated
219,630 people with at least 1 jab
The new case numbers are starting to improve again. Here’s hoping they continue to go down.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud:
Yes, but also destroys everything else that the lava consumes.
Betty Cracker
I preregistered for the vaccine last week (when the option first became available), and yesterday, the first day FL opened eligibility to people in my age group, I got a call to set up an appointment on 3/30! I’m psyched, BUT: the person I talked to said I’d get a follow up email after the call that would tell me where to go to get the shot, and 12 hours later, it still hasn’t arrived.
The preregistration form had all my contact info, but the caller asked me for all that info again. I’m hoping she just screwed up entering the email and they’ll contact me again via text or whatever. There’s no place I can call to follow up. Arrrgh!
Mary G
OC numbers still going down – 102 new cases, one death. Hospitalizations continue to drop. Four sites have super pod vaccinations, up from one when I got mine, plus pharmacies, clinics, mobile units for homeless. More than 400,000 people have been fully vaccinated with Moderna or Pfizer, 22,000 plus with J&J. Another 335,000 plus have had their first shot of a two step vaccine.
ETA: they say they are still getting short supplies of shots and have the medical people to administer more and the people who want to have one, so if there is a big surge in supply we’ll use it. It’s so encouraging.
p.a.
@Betty Cracker: did they say which shot(s)?
p.a.
@Mary G: Hopefully that short-circuits the reich-wing ‘recall Newsome’ bullshit.
Mary G
@p.a.: Republicans are throwing money at the effort even though they have no candidate but Darrell Issa, who is to say the least, very unpopular. The LAT had a big article over the weekend about how the right wing in the OC is making a comeback, to which I call bullshit. It’s totally astroturfed, with the same people showing up from all over SoCal.
YY_Sima Qian
On 3/22 China reported 0 new domestic confirmed & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
Imported Cases
On 3/22 China reported 9 new imported confirmed cases, 14 imported asymptomatic cases:
Overall in China, 12 confirmed cases recovered, 11 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation & 1 was reclassified as confirmed case, and 238 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 158 active confirmed cases in the country (156 imported), none in critical/serious condition, 237 asymptomatic cases (all imported), 2 suspect cases (all imported). 3,181 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
On 3/23 Hong Kong reported 12 new cases, 8 imported & 4 domestic (1 of whom does not yet have source of infection identified).
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 numbers. Director-General of Heath Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 1,384 new cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 335,540 cases. He also reports six new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 1,244 deaths — 0.37% of the cumulative reported total, 0.39% of resolved cases.
There are currently 14,454 active and contagious cases; 148 are in ICU, 62 of them intubated. Meanwhile, 1,058 patients recovered and were discharged, for a cumulative total of 319,842 patients recovered – 95.32% of the cumulative reported total.
Three new clusters were reported today: Balakong Jaya Dua in Selangor, Jalan Indah Gemilang in Johor, and Teknologi Bukit Minyak in Penang. All are workplace clusters.
1,375 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 623 local cases: 348 in older clusters, 27 in Balakong Jaya Dua cluster, 182 close-contact screenings, and 66 other screenings.
Johor reports 160 local cases: 41 in older clusters, 73 in Jalan Indah Gemilang Satu cluster, 21 close-contact screenings, and 25 other screenings. Sarawak reports 140 cases: 20 in existing clusters, 85 close-contact screenings, and 35 other screenings. Penang reports 100 cases: two in older clusters, 28 in Teknologi Bukit Minyak cluster, 39 close-contact screenings, and 31 other screenings.
Kelantan reports 65 cases: 21 in existing clusters, 31 close-contact screenings, and 13 other screenings. Kula Lumpur reports 61 local cases: one in an existing cluster, 34 close-contact screenings, and 26 other screenings. Sabah reports 60 cases: one in an existing cluster, 31 close-contact screenings, and 28 other screenings. Kedah reports 51 cases: 24 in existing clusters, 13 close-contact screenings, and 14 other screenings. Melaka reports 45 cases: 43 in existing clusters, and two close-contact screenings. Pahang reports 38 cases: 29 in existing clusters, five close-contact screenings, and four other screenings.
Labuan reports 11 local cases: six in existing clusters, three close-contact screenings, and two other screenings. Negeri Sembilan reports 10 cases: four in existing clusters, three close-contact screenings, and three other screenings. Terengganu reports seven cases: four in existing clusters, one close-contact screening, and two other screenings. And Perak reports four cases: two in existing clusters, and two other screenings.
Perlis and Putrajaya report no new cases today.
Nine new cases today are imported: three in Kuala Lumpur, three in Labuan, two in Selangor, and one in Johor.
The deaths reported today are a 56-year-old woman in Kelantan with hypertension and chronic kidney disease; an 81-year-old woman in Johor with diabetes; an 85-year-old man in Selangor with hypertension and heart disease; a 72-year-old man in Sarawak with heart disease, stroke, and intestinal cancer; an 84-year-old man in Selangor with diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidaemia; and a 69-year-old woman in Sarawak, DOA with no co-morbidities listed.
JPL
If you have a BMI 25 or larger, you qualify for a vaccine in GA. Because of HIPA A laws, they can’t pry though. Today Kemp is suppose to open it up to everyone.
debbie
I was surprised when I got my second shot yesterday that it was only half as crowded as it had been for the first. I don’t know whether it was timing or decreasing interest in being vaccinated.
NotMax
Renewed gladness that I don’t live on Oahu.
Mousebumples
@Betty Cracker:
1) My Walgreens registration info took over 12 hours to arrive – and that was earlier this month.
2) Technologically speaking, i would be unsurprised if they had a database the sent out the emails starting at end of day. Depending on how many emails need to go out, it might take more time to arrive.
3) if it’s not there by the weekend, I’d suggest trying to find a Facebook page for Florida Covid shots. You’re unlikely to be the only person with this issue, and others may have figured out who to call or where to go.
Good luck!
Betty Cracker
@p.a.: No. The preregistration form allows you to select which manufacturer or first available. I went with the latter.
@Mousebumples: Good to know — thanks!
tom
The Krispy Kreme thing is a great way to overcome vaccine hesitancy in cops.
lowtechcyclist
I’ll go ahead and get Shot #2 this weekend anyway.
I loved those donuts when I was seventeen (especially when they were hot off the machine!) – but that was half a century ago. My tastes have changed a bit since then.
rikyrah
After seeing that insanity in Florida this weekend with those Spring Break folk… should have taken the J and J vaccine for 18-27 year olds with NO UNDERLYING CONDITIONS. They want to be phucking insane ? , they should not be carriers against the rest of us
rikyrah
@tom:
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rikyrah
@Betty Cracker:
I know that you are out there, but don’t you have pharmacies that you can drive to?
rikyrah
I know that I have said it before, but I appreciate the reports from outside of the United States. During 2020, they helped keep me sane- reassurance that good government DOES make a difference.
Falling Diphthong
Not gonna lie, on reading the Krispy Kreme thing yesterday–a few hours after my first Moderna shot–I looked up Krispy Kreme on google maps. Because gosh darn, I felt like a celebratory doughnut. None anywhere near me (I am deep in Dunkin territory) and not worth any effort to go out of my way here. If there were one on the nearest corner, though, I’d totally have gone to get a doughnut.
I think the pearl clutching on this is beyond ridiculous–no one was eating a perfect diet (whatever this would be) before the siren song of saving 80 cents a day on glazed doughnuts lured them off the path of righteousness. Making it “per day for the year” is a nod to the problem of enforcing any limited offer–it means people who got vaccinated in the past three months are not left out; people can get a celebratory doughnut for their vaccination and then when they take their teenagers and then with their mom for hers.
Sloane Ranger
Monday in the UK we had 5342 new cases. This is an increase of 40 from Sunday, but a decrease in the rolling 7-day average of 4.7%. New cases by nation,
England – 4746 (up @290)
Northern Ireland – 87 (down 38)
Scotland – 359 (down @ 173)
Wales – 150 (down 46).
Deaths – There were 17 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. This is a decrease of 41.5% in the rolling 7-day average.Deaths by nation, England – 16, Northern Ireland – 1, none in Scotland or Wales.
Testing – A total of 1,893,830 tests were conducted on Sunday, 21 March. This is an increase of 4.4% in the rolling 7-day average. The estimated testing capacity of the labs, as reported on Thursday, 18 March, was 764,492.
Hospitalisations – Not updated.
Vaccinations – As of 21 March, a total of 27,997,976 people had received the 1st shot of a vaccine and 2,281,384 had received both shots. This means that 53.2% of adults (aged 18 and over) have received the 1st shot and 4.3% have received both shots.
Amir Khalid
@Falling Diphthong:
I envy you. Krispy Kreme is not making this offer available in Malaysia.
NotMax
@rikyrah
You might find this story of interest.
Soprano2
I saw in our weekly management team minutes that 21.5% of City employees have been fully vaccinated. That percentage should go way up by the middle of April, after a bunch of us get our second shots. I hope most people come back to the office once we’ve all had the chance to be vaccinated – I personally hate all this remote work!
I heard that my county had 8 new cases on the latest day they report, which is the first time that number has been in single digits since sometime last summer. Here at least all the numbers are trending in the right direction; I figure by the end of April we’ll enter the “yellow” phase of reopening, when some capacity restrictions will be eased. The key is getting 25% of the population fully vaccinated; right now we’re at 11.83%. Progress, slow but steady. I hope it continues.
Soprano2
@NotMax: Well, what that article doesn’t tell you about Missouri is that those idiots had big mass vaccination events out in the middle of the boonies where there wasn’t much demand, which is a big reason for the problems. I guarantee that if they had been held near or in St. Louis or Kansas City or Springfield or Columbia, there wouldn’t have been any problem filling those appointments. Many people suspect our governor was rewarding the parts of the state that voted for Republicans and punishing the parts that didn’t, especially because of how stupid is it to provide 1,500 does of vaccine to areas where many fewer eligible people lived! Plus, I wish they would still go to where the workers are – go to WalMart, go to Target, go to grocery stores and vaccinate those workers! Don’t make it so hard for them to get the shot.
Cameron
@Betty Cracker: It really is a mess down here. I just happened to get lucky and got hold of CVS within a couple days of their beginning Florida distribution. I’d been waiting (and applying) for months before that.
ET
Bad Legal Taxes has a screenshot of a few of the crazier tweets related to the free Krispy Kreme donut. One person brings in the Nuremberg Codes and other says it is a HIPPA violation.
dnfree
@p.a.: at least by us (Illinois), they do not say which shots if it’s Moderna or Pfizer (two required). It’s what they have on hand when your first appointment comes up. Sometimes the same site is administering first shots of both the same day.
NotMax
@ET
Why anyone would voluntarily put a lump of KK’s greasy, tasteless slodge with a hole in the middle into their mouth eludes understanding.
PJ
@NotMax: Dunkin’ Donuts rep has entered the chat.
The Pale Scot
@NotMax:
Back in the day they were pretty good, then they changed the recipe. Getting a minute old KK in Penn station at 6am, walking into work on a KK&coffee buzz ready to start work. Good times.
Burnspbesq
@rikyrah:
Would have been a smart move for South Padre Island as well, but noooooooo … Texas will get another surge in new cases in two weeks.