Berlin public transport wants you to socially distance and keep in mind that means being one pony apart or three corgis away. #weilwirdichlieben pic.twitter.com/Tc64Niko1z
— Melissa Chan (@melissakchan) April 23, 2021
Asked about Americans resuming travel to Europe, given Biden's upcoming trip, @PressSec: "Obviously, everybody wants that to be reopened. Europeans, we do, American people who would like to travel. …Those conversations are really happening between health and medical experts." pic.twitter.com/1h4emxFgT6
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) April 23, 2021
52.6% of all American adults have received at least one vaccine shot; 35.2% are now fully vaccinated.
8 out of 10 Americans age 65 and older have received at least one shot; 2 out of 3 are now fully vaccinated. pic.twitter.com/yiJwklEkp5
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) April 24, 2021
BREAKING: A U.S. health panel says it’s time to resume use of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine, despite a very rare risk of blood clots. https://t.co/lnT4DK23Z5
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 23, 2021
VOTE is 10 yes, 4 no, 1 abstain: The #ACIP @CDCgov has voted to bring the J&J @JanssenGlobal #COVID19 #vaccine back into emergency use in the United States, with no specific limitations. pic.twitter.com/YnmqEgvIWn
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) April 23, 2021
The US had +66,515 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 today, bringing the total to over 32.7 million (9.9% of the US population). The 7-day moving average fell back to just above 62,000 new cases per day. pic.twitter.com/JteAOFnQPd
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) April 24, 2021
WATCH: Fauci calls out GOP Sen. Johnson's questioning of vaccine effort: "How can anyone say that 567,000 dead Americans is not an emergency?" https://t.co/oYQUlhFTDM pic.twitter.com/RFPsOK0zuU
— The Hill (@thehill) April 24, 2021
One year ago today, Trump encouraged health officials to study the injection of bleach into the human body as a way to fight COVID.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 23, 2021
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The world has administered 1 billion Covid shots in just 150 days. Here’s what happens next. https://t.co/DYOtluVocq via @bbgvisualdata
— Viktoria Dendrinou (@v_dendrinou) April 23, 2021
“In countries where cases have been falling in recent months, the vaccines have saved lives. And in countries that are still struggling to suppress a third or fourth wave, the vaccines have also saved lives.”https://t.co/zzGwFqNAXK
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) April 22, 2021
India’s daily COVID-19 cases rise by record 346,786 – health ministry https://t.co/mw0gCLOC5j pic.twitter.com/5v2XCjIcuz
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 24, 2021
It is 3:35 a.m in India and I just counted 72 people on my timeline desperately either searching for a bed in a hospital or an oxygen cylinder. These are Indians having access to social media, what is happening in countryside we don’t know & with those who don’t use Twitter.
— Sameer Yasir (@sameeryasir) April 22, 2021
'Day after day the staff works here, knowing full well that if their families get sick, even they will struggle to find medical care. There is helplessness and anger.'
Report by @yogital pic.twitter.com/ZxfZC3FtOx— Mohammed Zubair (@zoo_bear) April 24, 2021
Japan declares coronavirus emergency in Tokyo as Olympics near https://t.co/2Htxu17awn
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) April 23, 2021
Vietnam banned travel to fight Covid-19, defying experts. It worked. – How the country has kept coronavirus deaths to just 35, and grew its economy in 2020 @julioaoftoronto https://t.co/5OXYmzLaFA
— Equity & Health (@equitylist) April 23, 2021
Malaysia taps oil-backed trust fund to pay for vaccines https://t.co/e2qLwTRRz2 pic.twitter.com/AHbPuFCwbI
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 22, 2021
Singapore –
Opinion: A tiny island nation has lessons for the next stage of the pandemic https://t.co/AT0CYG862P
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 22, 2021
Russia reports 8,828 new COVID-19 cases, 399 deaths https://t.co/XuSiVCBFZb pic.twitter.com/BlkyWe9zAN
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 24, 2021
Russia has relaxed its coronavirus entry requirements to give citizens from 29 countries, including the UK, more options to cross its borders https://t.co/JezdS1ddsU
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) April 23, 2021
Covid-19: Israel records no daily deaths for the first time in 10 months https://t.co/Z5qzGDsNVX
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) April 24, 2021
France and other European countries are preparing to relax coronavirus restrictions while still pouring massive human, financial and technological resources into keeping thousands of critically ill COVID-19 patients alive. https://t.co/cjWw0IG3KV
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) April 24, 2021
Germany's confirmed coronavirus cases rise by 23,392 – RKI https://t.co/WJXm3l3Eua pic.twitter.com/JhjVu1XxXv
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 24, 2021
— Bad COVID-19 Takes (@BadCOVID19Takes) April 22, 2021
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Pfizer's CEO says its mRNA vaccine will become easier to ship and store. Albert Bourla says a new version can be stored in a standard freezer and comes diluted & ready to use https://t.co/w7pHduah3b via @medical_xpress
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) April 23, 2021
Vaccines are effective against the New York #coronavirus variant, studies find. The research adds to a growing number of findings suggesting the Pfizer and Moderna shots are protective against the variants identified so far https://t.co/zVd8kQFwd2
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) April 23, 2021
As variant strains swept the UK, Brazil & SoAfrica we in the US were sequencing a paltry 0.3% of #SARSCoV2 viruses, flying blind. In this great @trvrb thread you can see how #COVID19 genomics have improved tremendously in the US, raising hope that we won't get caught, pants-down. https://t.co/CcTuDyYbKa
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) April 23, 2021
Fine, time for new public health messaging:
COVID breaks your dick and balls and gives you low T.
You need good endothelial function for an erection and you have ACE2 in your testis. COVID goes for those first. 6x higher ED. Hypogonadism.
Get a prick for your dick. https://t.co/urEkddYbcL pic.twitter.com/08HneU1tWP
— Max Kennerly (@MaxKennerly) April 22, 2021
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The latest map from https://t.co/6kWMww3KUq shows where COVID-19 has still be spreading most rapidly in the US. https://t.co/jPKoWAeGRX pic.twitter.com/gS84raCZga
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) April 24, 2021
BREAKING: ALL NYC-run vaccine locations are OPEN for walk-ins
NO age restrictions
NO geographic restrictions
NO excuses#nbc4ny https://t.co/d5XORTuOtL— Steven Bognar (@Bogs4NY) April 23, 2021
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY stats:
249 new cases again today
4166 active cases
1226 deaths
3.1% test positivity
47.2% with at least 1 vaccination
34.6% totally vaccinated
YY_Sima Qian
On 4/23 China reported 0 new domestic confirmed & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 4 domestic confirmed cases recovered & 1 domestic asymptomatic case was released from isolation, all at Ruili in Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province. There are currently 48 domestic confirmed & 11 domestic asymptomatic cases in Yunnan Province. 3 communities remain at High Risk. 3 residential compounds, 1 factory & 2 villages remain at Medium Risk.
Imported Cases
On 4/23 China reported 9 new imported confirmed cases, 12 imported asymptomatic cases, 3 imported suspect cases:
Overall in China, 10 confirmed cases recovered, 10 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation & 2 were reclassified as confirmed cases, and 1,102 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 305 active confirmed cases in the country (257 imported), 4 in critical/serious condition (all imported), 324 asymptomatic cases (313 imported), 5 suspect cases (all imported). 10,022 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 4/23, 216.084M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 4.861M doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 4/24, Hong Kong reported 3 new case, all domestic (1 of whom for does not have source of infection identified).
La Nonna
First dose AstraZeneca for me this week, Il Nonno is fragile, gets BionTech tomorrow. 11 week wait for my second dose (gah), 3 weeks for Il Nonno dose 2. At least he will be fully vaccinated soon, it’s been quite a scary 15 months in Puglia…oh, and the EU vaccine buying mistakes have really hurt us. High hopes that our fully vaccinated US family can visit this summer.
Baud
Europeans mocked Americans for hating the metric system. Who’s laughing now?
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Yeah but how many Americans know how long 6 inches is?
Starfish
You have been doing this for more than a year. Do you think you can give more focus to what’s going on in India with tomorrow’s? Indian Twitter seems super pissed. Can Schroedinger’s Cat help?
India is having a straight vertical line of COVID cases. Two days ago, they passed the highest number of cases per day that we have ever had. Yesterday, Jen Psaki said something really vague about how we are going to help India. It was not particularly specific at all. India has likely overrun their hospital capacity. People have been posting photos of the funeral pyres.
One thing that the part of India Twitter that I have seen has pointed out is that we are not exporting the ingredients to make the vaccine. Since we have production up and running, should we be sending them a ton of vaccine, or should we be sending them ingredients to expand their own production? What, if anything, are we doing?
p.a.
US moving towards a hard core of unvaccinated who deserve to get covid. Feel real sympathy for minors and family living under their influence.
If it was a liberal-specific disease they would be laughing their asses off (see HIV/AIDS).
Spanky
@Baud: I thought three corgis was a British unit of measure.
Catherine D.
Cornell vet school has signs to stay one cow length apart.
mrmoshpotato
@Spanky: I believe one corgi is also a unit of measure. See foot/yard.
Barbara
@Starfish: My understanding is that India needs medical equipment and supplies. India is one of if not acually the largest manufacturing site for drugs in the world and had been exporting vaccines to other developing nations, which it has now curtailed. There may be things we could help with, but I’m not sure we can help with what seems to be the acute need for more hospital beds and faster vaccine roll out. Probably we can make a bigger difference in Latin America, which has actually been harder hit proportionately than India, at least so far.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
It’s what every right winger with an assault weapon wishes he had.
mrmoshpotato
Is Cornell known for bovine medicine? Do their cow alumni donate millions?
NotMax
3 corgi lengths = 1.5 St. Bernards Fidoheit.
;)
Enhanced Voting Techniques
That was a pretty brutal 24 hours after that first shot, but my left arm moves again so good enough.
And they want to open travel to Europe, are these people really that damn pig ignorant?
Incidentally in the deep blue California County I live in; 54% of white have been vaccinated, pretty much the same for East Asians, 60% of the Pacific Islanders but only 34% of the Hispanics. But I am sure that won’t distract from the narrative that white men are the REAL problem, eh? I mean just because the leader of the two biggest Hispanic countries in the world are out idiot twatting Trump and calling men who take precautions against the virus girly men, this number is totally a mystery that can’t be explained.
Catherine D.
@mrmoshpotato: Well, it is known as the cow college of the Ivy League
Starfish
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: I had my second shot yesterday. My arm hurts a lot, and I feel queasy.
OzarkHillbilly
@p.a.: They thought it was a liberal-specific disease at first.
Geo Wilcox
Why everyone needs to be vaccinated in one story:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/health/vaccine-nursing-homes-infections.html
An unvaccinated healthcare worker set off a COVID-19 outbreak at a nursing home in Kentucky where the vast majority of residents had been vaccinated, leading to dozens of infections, including 22 cases among residents and employees who were already fully vaccinated, a new study reported Wednesday [21 Apr 2021].
Most of those who were infected with the coronavirus despite being vaccinated did not develop symptoms or require hospitalization, but one vaccinated individual, who was a resident of the nursing home, died, according to the study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Altogether, 26 facility residents were infected, including 18 who had been vaccinated, and 20 healthcare personnel were infected, including 4 who had been vaccinated. Two unvaccinated residents also died.
Ron Johnson is an asshole of epic proportions and is spewing Russian propaganda daily.
sab
@mrmoshpotato: It is known for its vet school.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Their wives and girlfriends all think 4″ is 6″.
Spanky
@NotMax: I’m gonna guestimate that you’re off by at least a factor of 2.
mrmoshpotato
Haha. Didn’t know that.
Princess
This is how Covidian Darwinism is going to pan out. People who don’t believe in science and refuse to vaccinate won’t be able to reproduce.
mrmoshpotato
@Spanky:
And if you’re talking about the dog from The Sandlot, it would just eat the corgis.
Starfish
@Barbara: I am concerned about the variants we are going to see out of this.
p.a.
@mrmoshpotato:
Ezra Cornell had a farm
E I E I O
And on that farm he had a cow
E I E I O
With an Aggie here and an Aggie there… etc
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Director-General of Heath Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 2,717 new Covid-19 cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 390,252 cases. He also reports 11 new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 1,426 deaths — 0.37% of the cumulative reported total, 0.39% of resolved cases.
There are currently 22,926 active and contagious cases; 272 are in ICU, 124 of them intubated. Meanwhile, 2,292 patients recovered and were discharged, for a cumulative total of 365,900 patients recovered – 93.76% of the cumulative reported total.
10 new clusters were reported today: Jalan Abdul Karim and Jalan Melor in Selangor; Lebuh Ipoh-Lumut and Jalan Datoh in Perak; Tingkat Mak Mandin in Penang; D’Lahar in Terengganu; Desa Mawar in Pahang; Jalan Kolam Dua in Perak; Dambai Inanam in Sabah; and Jalan St. Thomas in Kuala Lumpur.
Jalan St. Thomas is an education cluster at a Ministry of Education school. Jalan Kolam Dua and Dambai Inanam are community clusters. The rest are workplace clusters.
2,691 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 756 local cases: 13 in older clusters; six in Jalan Melor, Jalan Abdul Karim, and Jalan St Thomas clusters; 548 close-contact screenings; and 189 other screenings. Sarawak reports 570 cases: 137 in existing clusters, 360 close-contact screenings, and 73 other screenings. Kelantan reports 518 cases: 149 in existing clusters, 277 close-contact screenings, and 92 other screenings.
Kuala Lumpur reports 227 local cases: five in older clusters, two in Jalan St Thomas cluster, 116 close-contact screenings, and 106 other screenings.
Penang reports 134 cases: 15 in older clusters, one in Tingkat Mak Mandin cluster, 57 close-contact screenings; and 61 other screenings. Sabah reports 132 cases: 11 in older clusters, five in Dambai Inanam cluster, 91 close-contact screenings, and 25 other screenings. Johor reports 125 local cases: 67 in existing clusters, 33 close-contact screenings, and 25 other screenings.
Perak reports 54 cases: nine in older clusters; 17 in Lebuh Ipoh-Lumut, Jalan Datoh, and Jalan Kolam Dua clusters; 15 close-contact screenings; and 13 other screenings. Terengganu reports 50 cases: 17 in older clusters, 20 in D’Lahar cluster, nine close-contact screenings, and four other screenings. Kedah reports 34 cases: 10 in existing clusters, 15 close-contact screenings, and nine other screenings. Melaka reports 30 cases: nine in existing clusters, 14 close-contact screenings, and seven other screenings.
Negeri Sembilan reports 27 cases: 11 in existing clusters, 13 close-contact screenings, and three other screenings. Pahang reports 22 cases: 10 in older clusters, two in Desa Mawar cluster, five close-contact screenings, and five other screenings.
Putrajaya reports 11 cases: four in existing clusters, six close-contact screenings, and one other screening. And Perlis reports one case, found in other screening.
Labuan reports no new cases today.
26 new cases today are imported: 13 in Kuala Lumpur, 12 in Selangor, and one in Johor.
The deaths reported today are a 59-year-old woman in Selangor with diabetes, hypertension, and chronic kidney disease; a 61-year-old man in Sarawak with hypertension and chronic kidney disease; a 55-year-old woman in Sarawak with diabetes, hypertension, and chronic kidney disease; a 79-year-old man in Selangor with heart disease and chronic kidney disease; a 72-year-old woman in Sarawak with diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidaemia; a 36-year-old man in Selangor with no co-morbidities listed; an 80-year-old woman in Sabah with hypertension; a 55-year-old man in Sarawak with hypertension and stroke; a 41-year-old man in Kuala Lumpur with obesity; a 62-year-old man in Sarawak with hypertension and asthma; and a 39-year-old non-Malaysian man in Sabah, DOA with no co-morbidities listed.
Spanky
@Amir Khalid: Two in their 30s with no co-morbidities? Hmmm.
debbie
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
I wonder if those leaders secretly got vaccinated, like their Orange Hero.
Robert Sneddon
@Barbara: If it’s available as airlift cargo, India right now needs a lot of medical oxygen equipment, oxygen production gear etc. That will get a lot of sick people over the hump and help them survive a serious case of COVID-19 they would otherwise die from.
The US is, as usual, performing miracles of logistics and organisation in a pressure situation to vaccinate its own population and it has still taken over three months to get 200 million doses injected locally. There’s no way the world community can get a significant number of the Indian population vaccinated in a few weeks. The number of vaccination doses available worldwide just do not exist even if they were all funneled to India, which isn’t going to happen anyway.
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
OT.
Duly noted that both Singapore and Malaysia are deploying ships to aid the search for the missing Indonesian submarine.
debbie
@NotMax:
I just heard on BBC news that they have found significant debris, have located the ship at 800 feet, and now assume all have perished.
OzarkHillbilly
@p.a.: Overheard from my Alzheimered father while he was doing dishes:
Old MacDonald had a farm
E I E I O
And on this farm he had some…
Oh hell, just a whole lot of crap!
Baud
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
They’re not the only problem in the U.S. They seem to be the only problem driven by hate politics against Democrats.
rikyrah
@Starfish:
You do know that Dolt45 wrote contracts about these vaccine companies not sending stuff overseas. 46 needs to break those contracts immediately ?
germy
Why is it so difficult to get a vaccine in MA?
rikyrah
@Geo Wilcox:
No reason why anyone working in nursing homes isn’t required to be VACCINATED.
I will keep on this. Move the vaccines away from emergency.
And time for employers to lower the hammer
No Vaccination
No JOB
Starfish
@rikyrah: I feel that when it comes to international relations, we are not unwinding 45’s nonsense fast enough. A lot of questions are being asked in a way that normalizes 45’s nonsense as if there needs to be a deep explanation for moving away from policy that was completely insane.
Baud
The best way to get Trump voters to want the vaccine is to start sending some overseas.
Matt McIrvin
The new piece of antivax bullshit I’ve been seeing going around is the claim that the COVID vaccine is “not a vaccine” according to some official definition or other. I think it’s a reference to mRNA vaccines working differently from previous varieties, but I may be wasting time attempting this level of stupidology.
Starfish
@rikyrah: With the pandemic, there are a lot of staff shortages when it comes to medical workers on the lower end of the pay scale. Would they be able to have facilities properly staffed if they got rid of the anti-vaccine fools? It is not clear.
OzarkHillbilly
It takes time and not enough time has passed to do the things that need to be done.
Starfish
@Baud: Good point.
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
I saw that a few weeks ago. It’s not that new.
OzarkHillbilly
@Matt McIrvin: Anti-vaxxers being against a vaccine because it isn’t a vaccine. My cognitive dissonance meter just exploded.
Amir Khalid
@Spanky:
Neither seems implausible to me. Otherwise healthy young adults can still die of Covid, and the DOA in Sabah could have been found unconscious/dead and unable to give his medical history
Spanky
@Baud: One of your rare snarkless comments.
debbie
@Starfish:
Keeping them is more important than patients’ safety?
Starfish
@debbie: When it comes to patient safety, is it best to allow them to die of potential COVID explosure or neglect because their facility is understaffed?
It is not a choice between a safe thing and an unsafe thing. It is a choice between two unsafe things.
Central Planning
@OzarkHillbilly: When I got my first COVID test back in June, it was the one with the really long swab that feels like it is reaching deep into your head. After the nurse did the test, I saw the swab, and it was about 4” long. I told her that thing felt 12 inches long. She looked at me and deadpanned: “You’re a guy, you would say that.”
prostratedragon
@mrmoshpotato: The only currently designated land grant school in the Ivy.
OzarkHillbilly
Being fully staffed is central to patients safety.
ETA and Starfish beat me to it.
germy
OzarkHillbilly
@Central Planning: HA! I love her.
eta: both times I got tested they used swabs that were 8″ long. Tho I have no idea how much they stuck up in there, it felt like they were tickling my brain and the urge to sneeze was almost overpowering.
germy
Starfish
@OzarkHillbilly: Thank you. You have been on top of this issue for the whole pandemic.
My younger sister had an emergency surgery for a big cancer that she did not know she had a couple of weeks ago. She was suddenly thrown into menopause. The number of patients assigned to the person who bathes them seemed like too many. Because of COVID, the facility was only open for visiting hours for four hours a day.
Barbara
@Robert Sneddon: I don’t know how easy or practical it is to transport oxygen but it’s likely more feasible to set up an over land transport route. It’s just awful even more so because it didn’t have to be like this.
Ken
That last tweet by Steve Bognar: “NO age restrictions.” Except you have to be over 16. A lot of people seem to be ignoring this; combined with the push to get kids back in school, it’s almost like “eh, kids, I’m not one so who cares, anyway they’re replaceable…”
Ken
@OzarkHillbilly: The setup for that riddle/joke is usually “Why are women so bad at math?”
Matt McIrvin
@germy: For me, the first Moderna COVID shot was not as bad as the first Shingrix shot. It was comparable to a flu vaccination: sore spot on the arm, maybe a little general achiness that responded to a couple Tylenol. I can’t speak for the second shot yet.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Ken: Friend of a friend is now in the hospital on oxygen, having caught the virus from her 9 year old.
Matt McIrvin
@Ken: I’m hoping an authorization for, say, 13-16 happens very soon so my kid can get vaccinated–that seems an easier lift than approving it for younger kids. I suspect really good coverage of the population is not going to happen until we can require this thing in schools.
Robert Sneddon
@Barbara: It’s not oxygen that India needs in a hurry, it’s oxygen production equipment and distribution (cylinders, tankers, regulators etc.) and they need it soon, in the next 48 hours or so. Oxygen they can get from the atmosphere once they’ve got the pumps, concentrators, cryo-liquifiers etc. . Sadly they’re not going to get much extra gear and nowhere near enough of it.
Press reports suggest the Indian regional governments are planning to use industrial oxygen supplies for medical purposes; this is very much second-best but it might get them over the hump. There will be screw-ups, there has been at least one explosion which killed a bunch of people at a hospital in India probably due to jury-rigging an oxygen supply system to try and cope with the increased demand.
Robert Sneddon
@Matt McIrvin: Teenagers and young children are very much different biologically speaking from adults and the various vaccine test protocols started with adults-only trials for good reason. How younger people react to the adult-qualified vaccines may be different so I’m not really in favour of rushing the process. There are trials going on for several of the existing vaccines in teenagers, I’m not sure they’re even planning to trial these vaccines in children less than ten years old.
Starfish
@Robert Sneddon: Children as young as six months are in Pfizer trials now. In the next year or two, we will have some vaccine for kids.
Sloane Ranger
Friday in the UK we had 2678 new cases. This is a reduction of 4.1% in the rolling 7-day average. New cases by nation,
England – 2277 (down 38)
Northern Ireland – 88 (down 38)
Scotland – 255 (up 24)
Wales – 58 (down 5).
Deaths – Yesterday there were 40 deaths within 28 days of a positive test. This is an decrease of 12.4% in the rolling 7-day average. Deaths by nation, England – 38, 1 each in Northern Ireland and Scotland and none in Wales. COVID is no longer ther leading cause of death in the UK.
Testing – 1,111,876 tests were conducted on Thursday, 22 April. This is an increase of 16.8% in the rolling 7-day average. The PCR testing capacity estimated by labs on this date was 670,690.
Hospitalisations – On Wednesday 21 April there were 1879 people in hospital. There were 261 people on ventilators on Thursday, 22nd. The rolling 7-day average for hospital admissions was down by 20.2% as of 19 April.
Vaccinations – As of 22 April, a total of 33,388,637 people had received the 1st dose of a vaccine and 11,623,671 had had both shots. In percentage terms this means that 63.4% of all adults in the UK have had 1 shot and 22.1% were fully vaccinated.
Ohio Mom
My sister, who has made a life’s work of snobbery, is known to complain that our cousin’s husband says (please read with a sneer) “he graduated from Cornell but he didn’t, he went to the agricultural state school.”
That is the only reason I know about the land grant college part of Cornell. I have plenty of other examples of my sister’s airs but I’ll spare you.
Matt McIrvin
@Starfish: The risk/benefit comparison is different, too, since while serious COVID illness and even death is not unheard of in children, it is very rare. So the vaccine has to be extremely safe for any risk from it to be outweighed by that. Then one brings in the tricky ethical question of whether the much, much larger risk of transmitting the virus to others should bear on this. I lean toward thinking it should, but people get very defensive about their children, obviously.
Fair Economist
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: African-Americans are a little *less* recalcitrant than the population as a whole but a far behind on vaccination because of access. So I’d be reluctant to blame Hispanics for their lower vaccination rates. Maybe it’s difficulty getting to the sites, fear of ICE, etc.
Shakti
I mentioned this on another thread:
I have a large extended family.
I see stories like this and l wonder how we’ll even deal with this, psychologically. Pretending everything is fine and going back to normal. Watching people pretend it’s all an overreaction, stepping over all the dead and disabled people:
Starfish
@Fair Economist: The site where I had my first vaccine had some bilingual people to help the Hispanic folks, but the person asking people what time slot they were in was not bilingual so even with quite a few bilingual people helping out, it still seemed insufficient.
Starfish
@Shakti: I am so sorry. Early in the pandemic, an uncle of one of my cousins died. She was yelling at her family to not go to the funeral which required considerable travel across a country that had a lot of COVID. I think they went anyway.
Uncle Cosmo
Cornell has for many decades** been derided by the rest of the Ivies as a “cow college,” since it’s the only one of them with ag and vet schools. (Ezra Cornell, 1868: “I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.”)
Just for balance:
:^D
** At least since 1971-72 when I spent a year in grad school there.
Uncle Cosmo
@OzarkHillbilly: Old joke:
Matt McIrvin
@Fair Economist: The public vaccination clinic in my town has gone to taking walk-ins most days, but it only runs from about 10 AM to 2 PM, so busy people might have a hard time getting in there. I think they’re doing one at the UU church today though.
dc
@Central Planning: I hope you gave her a standing ovation :)
Steeplejack
@La Nonna:
Good to hear from you! I was wondering how you were doing.
Steeplejack
@Baud:
Where are they getting all the ponies—or corgis, for that matter?
J R in WV
@Matt McIrvin:
Fix’d that for you…
rikyrah
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
Were they vaccinated?