Biden posed for selfies, shooting some himself, for a full half an hour at North Carolina event meant to encourage people to get vaccinated. pic.twitter.com/nPW2v7uxV1
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) June 24, 2021
Potential surge: Mathematical modeling predicts US #coronavirus infections could surge this fall if vaccination rates lag. Former FDA chief says transmission of the more contagious delta variant could spur a fall wave if vaccination rate is under 75% https://t.co/7tBreMLXBr pic.twitter.com/iR0UFYqCh6
— delthia ricks ?? (@DelthiaRicks) June 23, 2021
NEW: There was an extraordinary effort to get Trump experimental lifesaving drugs when he was sick with covid-19. His medical advisers hoped it would be the turning point. They were wrong. Excerpt from "Nightmare Scenario," out Tues. w/ @damianpaletta https://t.co/tUsWFxDPNW
— Yasmeen Abutaleb (@yabutaleb7) June 24, 2021
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Blistering statements today from @WHO's @DrMikeRyan & Bruce Aylward about lack of access to #Covid19 vaccines for distribution to countries without access. "Let's be real…. The problem is lack of vaccines. It's not delivery…. It's not hesitancy," said @DrTedros.
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) June 25, 2021
"As a global community, we're failing," said @DrTedros. "The whole world is tired of lockdowns…. The whole world wants to be opened up. The tools are in our hands."
Impassioned plea from @WHO's director general for #Covid19 vaccines for countries that cannot access them.— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) June 25, 2021
India's daily COVID-19 deaths rise by 1,183: health ministry https://t.co/WLJ94pJAIf pic.twitter.com/kqaIzFrYpW
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 26, 2021
Taiwan reports first domestic case of Delta COVID variant https://t.co/5IpWyqkuvR pic.twitter.com/OXZQHk68TM
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 26, 2021
Covid: Australia extends Sydney lockdown as Delta outbreak grows https://t.co/1pVDatYP8D
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 26, 2021
Israel reimposes masks amid new virus fears https://t.co/yeeBcI3UVd
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 25, 2021
The U.S. will donate 3 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to Afghanistan, @KJP46 tells press on Air Force One.
— Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) June 24, 2021
Russia reported 20,393 new coronavirus infections Friday — the highest number since Jan. 24.
Moscow recorded its highest number of fatalities since the start of the pandemichttps://t.co/mejKhMf16G
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) June 25, 2021
Note that these Russian fake vaccination cards include getting your name into the vax registry as well. So this isn't just a quickie scam, it's corruption as well. AKA, the usual. https://t.co/DO6fb1Dadt
— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) June 24, 2021
An ambitious plan of vaccinating 30 million Russians by mid-June has fallen short by a third. Now, many regional governments across the country are requiring some workers to get vaccinated and requiring the shots to enter certain businesses. https://t.co/Yo9kMidyXl
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 25, 2021
Russia could have found its first cases of the ultra-transmissible Delta Plus coronavirus strainhttps://t.co/Mzyg6LXuLM
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) June 26, 2021
The UK's cases, virtually all Delta and almost all among the unvaccinated/not fully vaccinated, are still rising. Hospitalizations not so much, fortunately.
That's in face of excellent vaccination rates: 83.3% 1st, 61% both@OurWorldInData and https://t.co/pItJxXPpv6 @PHE_uk pic.twitter.com/rFSPaXH0EE— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) June 25, 2021
Covid infection rates have risen steeply in Scotland, ONS data reveals https://t.co/GsvyGUV40H
— The Guardian (@guardian) June 25, 2021
A rapid resurgence of COVID-19 is slamming South Africa’s largest city, Johannesburg, and threatens to overwhelm its hospitals. Africa is fighting a devastating wave as its 54 countries struggle to vaccinate even a small percentage of their populations. https://t.co/IS75Z7N57S
— AP Africa (@AP_Africa) June 25, 2021
Two young unvaccinated passengers on Royal Caribbean cruise test positive for coronavirus https://t.co/GLq8Q9Twwf
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 25, 2021
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There are ~200 known cases of the #delta-plus coronavirus variant globally. Here's what's known: Delta-plus is very contagious & is a new & slightly changed version of *delta variant* now spreading in several countries including the US. It emerged in India https://t.co/WNBmlkrVkz
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) June 25, 2021
.@CDCgov scientists say there still isn’t enough data to recommend #COVID19 booster shots to the general population—but didn’t rule it out in the future if vaccine immunity wanes or variants are found to evade current formulas.https://t.co/aSIRQO3UqY
— Global Health NOW (@ghn_news) June 25, 2021
In the lab: Diagnostic test distinguishes SARSCoV2 from other coronaviruses with 100% accuracy. Duke Univ biomedical engineers have demonstrated that a tiny device can reliably detect multiple coronavirus antibodies & biomarkers simultaneously https://t.co/W8xaYIsKpJ
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) June 25, 2021
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Doctors & nurses need to get more involved in the effort to get Americans to agree to be vaccinated against #Covid19, @SaadOmer3 writes. But they need to be armed with techniques that have been shown to help persuade people who are hesitant. https://t.co/usL9u2WPqj
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) June 25, 2021
U.S. Senate Republicans press CDC to end mask mandate on airplanes, transit https://t.co/TZq2qP1EWv pic.twitter.com/iHuKe3fAeI
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 26, 2021
Trump's goal of convincing 40% of the population to not get the vaccine as a matter of personal freedom from decency and reality, however, has been successful. https://t.co/fMhqIFLvef
— A.R. Moxon (@JuliusGoat) June 25, 2021
I’m interested to see what this pressure does. I ran into a woman I know is an anti-vaxxer yesterday. The place where she works no longer requires masks for vaccinated people and there she was behind her counter the only one left wearing a mask. Will that influence her? https://t.co/35o39Gjf9W
— Emily Flitter (@FlitterOnFraud) June 24, 2021
Half of Texas Republicans say they won’t get COVID-19 vaccine, new poll finds
Doing what I can to fix this, but for now it’s hard to imagine something more self-defeating, especially ahead of the delta variant train headed our way https://t.co/6ZFWokTikT
— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez) June 25, 2021
team sports are hard when your teammates are selfish. https://t.co/YkkgNqxVJs
— World Famous Art Thief (@CalmSporting) June 25, 2021
baseball in general and college baseball in particular is a very hard nosed and team oriented sport so i bet it’s pretty infuriating to have your season derailed by selfish teammates that completely ratfuck your entire college career. big sad. pic.twitter.com/jEwEyfn8l2
— World Famous Art Thief (@CalmSporting) June 26, 2021
mrmoshpotato
They realize they can’t vote Rethuglican, or at all, if they’re dead, right?
Is this some bazillion-dimension owning-the-libs chess that we libtards are too stupid to see?
OzarkHillbilly
Washington County has a 20.6% vaccination rate. Things are about to get interesting here.
eta Pulaski Co, home of fort lost in the woods, has a vaccination rate of 11.4%
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: Hope you’re recovering well. I’m sure you’ve been vaccinated a long time, but was curious, did they require it before your surgery?
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: No, and now that you mention it, they didn’t even require a test. A little surprised by that.
Eta they didn’t even have a screening station at the door
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: Wow. And not in a good way. That shocks me.
Anne Laurie
Suspect it’s a variation on ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ — if the hospital doesn’t ask whether patients have been vaccinated, they don’t have to (a) wrestle with convincing them to do so, or (b) make the hospital’s stats look worse than all their deliberately-ignoring-it neighbors.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: @Anne Laurie: Don’t know that it really matters but it was a surgical center, not a hospital. This was up in STL, not out here, I’d expect better up there. This was originally ordered back in December and I decided to hold off and wait for the vaccine. Looks like that was the right move.
I’ve got to go back for another round because… shit happens I guess. I’ll find out more Thursday.
YY_Sima Qian
On 6/25 China reported 0 new domestic confirmed & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
Guangdong Province did not report any new domestic confirmed cases.
Guangzhou Municipal CDC released details of the shortest contact that resulted in transmission of the Delta Variant – 2 restaurant patrons sharing the same public restroom for 14 sec.
Imported Cases
On 6/25, China reported 25 new imported confirmed cases, 23 imported asymptomatic cases:
Overall in China, 37 confirmed cases recovered, 12 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation & 2 were reclassified as confirmed cases, and 1,790 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 474 active confirmed cases in the country (389 imported), 14 in serious condition (11 imported), 472 asymptomatic cases (453 imported), 0 suspect cases. 19,057 traced contacts are currently under quarantine.
As of 6/25, 1,143.805M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 23.162M doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 6/26, Hong Kong reported 4 new positive cases, all imported. The municipal health authorities also shared that the airport ground staff reported as positive case reported on 6/24 has the same genome sequence as those from 3 previous imported cases.
JPL
@OzarkHillbilly: ugh I’m so sorry, that you have to go through that again.
germy
Barbara
@OzarkHillbilly: Is it possible they already knew from your medical records?
JMG
Barnstable County, Mass. is 74 percent of total population fully vaccinated. Was in Provincetown for dinner last evening and night and felt totally comfortable in a mask-free and crowded environment, indoors and outdoors. Only person wearing a mask was (sensibly), the woman running the check-in at our motel. Republicans are thin on the ground in P-town of course, but there are plenty of them in the rest of the Cape and they still got vaccinated. I play golf with some of them. I don’t get the vaccine resistance in other parts of the country at all. Do people enjoy cutting off their noses to spite their faces?
Spanky
@mrmoshpotato:
Biden declared a goal of 70% vaccinated by July 4, and we can’t have that, now can we? Checkmate libtard!
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Director-General of Heath Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 5,803 new Covid-19 cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 728,462 cases. He also reports 81 new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 4,884 deaths — 0.67% of the cumulative reported total, 0.73% of resolved cases.
There are currently 60,646 active and contagious cases; 866 are in ICU, 435 of them intubated. Meanwhile, 5,193 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 662,932 patients recovered – 91.00% of the cumulative reported total.
14 new clusters were reported today. Of the cumulative total of 2,755 clusters, 868 clusters are still active; 1,887 clusters are now inactive.
5,793 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 2,105 local cases: 148 in clusters, 1,344 close-contact screenings, and 613 other screenings. Negeri Sembilan reports 741 cases: 281 in clusters, 268 close-contact screenings, and 192 other screenings.
Kuala Lumpur reports 622 local cases: 213 in clusters, 277 close-contact screenings, and 132 other screenings.
Sarawak reports 490 local cases: 93 in clusters, 312 close-contact screenings, and 85 other screenings.
Melaka reports 355 cases: 260 in clusters, 65 close-contact screenings, and 30 other screenings. Johor reports 329 cases: 195 in clusters, 102 close-contact screenings, and 32 other screenings.
Pahang reports 220 cases: 116 in clusters, 76 close-contact screenings, and 28 other screenings.
Sabah reports 189 cases: nine in clusters, 94 close-contact screenings, and 86 other screenings. Kedah reports 186 cases: 67 in clusters, 84 close-contact screenings, and 35 other screenings. Penang reports 160 cases: 88 in clusters, 33 close-contact screenings, and 39 other screenings. Perak reports 137 cases: 87 in clusters, 38 close-contact screenings, and 12 other screenings. Kelantan reports 103 cases: 31 in clusters, 43 close-contact screenings, and 29 other screenings.
Labuan reports 99 cases: 18 in clusters, 55 close-contact screenings, and 26 other screenings. Terengganu reports 29 cases: three in clusters, 20 close-contact screenings, and six other screenings. Putrajaya reports 24 cases: two in clusters, 13 close-contact screenings, and nine other screenings. Perlis reports four cases,all close-contact screenings.
10 new cases today are imported: six in Kuala Lumpur, three in Selangor, one in Sarawak.
OzarkHillbilly
@JPL: Meh, there’s worse things in the world.
@Barbara: The state has a data base, not that I would want to depend on that. This is Misery after all.
Barbara
@OzarkHillbilly:A lot of pharmacies participating in the vaccination effort interconnect with other providers that maintain electronic medical records. It’s usually disclosed somewhere that some information will be shared.
New Deal democrat
US now up to 8 States with rising new COVID cases over the past 2 weeks: AR, AZ, ID, MO, NV, OK, UT, and WY. All but NV and AZ have less than 40% of population fully vaccinated. The other two are at 40% and 41%.
By the end of July, the “delta wave” is going to be clear.
Sloane Ranger
Hi all, back from my short holiday in the Derbyshire Dales. Before getting into the latest stats from the UK, I just want to say a few words about my experience when away. Firstly, Derbyshire has broadly comparable COVID rates to Northamptonshire where I live, so I didn’t feel I was at any more risk there than here. Getting there required 3 changes of train. Everyone I saw on the trains was wearing a mask, perhaps helped by the frequent announcements over the PA system that it was a legal requirement to wear one on trains and railway stations and failure to comply was punishable by a fine of several thousand pounds. Also a reminder that said mask should cover both the mouth and nose. However, I noticed that some people pulled their masks down as soon as they actually got off the train and before they’d left the station. Staff did not say anything.
I was staying at a Premier Inn hotel (a budget chain) in Matlock and, as I said last Sunday, I was told before the holiday that my room wouldn’t be cleaned or I think you say valeted? during my stay. This was the case so I had to make my own bed. I put out the wastepaper bins in the morning and someone had emptied them when I got back in the evening. If I needed anything, coffee and tea making stuff, fresh towels or more toilet paper I asked at Reception and was given them without question. Another difference was that about a quarter of the tables in the restaurant were not in use because of social distancing requirements. This meant that, instead of just turning up for breakfast when you were ready, you had to book a time the night before, but it seemed to work OK, no-one complained within my hearing. Also, instead of it being buffet style it was waitress service. The staff were all great, very cheerful and helpful.
As far as the buses were concerned, the vast majority of passengers wore masks, except for a small number who prominently displayed exemption cards. During my time there though, I never saw an actual bus driver wearing a mask. I didn’t say anything as I needed their co-operation in chucking me off at the correct stop for the place I wanted to visit.
Tourist attractions varied as far as COVID compliance was concerned. Chatsworth House (I plan to send pictures to On the Road in due course) was very good, contactless payment only, everyone wearing masks, one way traffic through the house and guides in every room ensuring social distancing. One had to be be very firm with a woman who wanted to go back to the previous room! Crich Tramway Village – not so much. Lots of signs about wearing face coverings on the trams and in buildings and social distancing but no attempt to enforce it, perhaps because most of the staff/volunteers weren’t wearing them either. I got a free tram ride as part of the entry fee and I was the only person wearing a mask. Actually, that was the place of a very unpleasant incident. All the people, visitors, staff and volunteers were white but, as I was on the tram, we passed the only non-white family I saw in the attraction (they looked Indian, Pakistani or Bangladeshi) and I heard someone behind me do a send up of an Indian accent. I looked round but couldn’t identify who it was but it left a bad taste in my mouth.
Finally, I found this nice pub in Matlock, very welcoming and they did good food and drinks but they were intent on packing people in as much as possible. I was seated at 2 tables put together one evening and people came in after me. A member of staff moved the table joined to mine a few feet and invited the people to sit there. They questioned the distance and she swore it was 6 foot away. Both they and I eyed the distance and, in my opinion, it was nearer 4. We looked at each other, shrugged and they moved to the far end of theirs and I moved to the far end of mine.
Now, the boring stats. On Friday, the UK had 15,810 new cases. This is an increase in the rolling 7-day average of 47.9%. New cases by nation,
England – 13,498 (up 430)
Northern Ireland – 229 (up 31)
Scotland – 1747 (down 1252) but there is a possible under-reporting issue
Wales – 336 (down 102).
Deaths – There were 18 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. This is an increase of 52.8% in the rolling 7-day average. 15 were in England, 2 were in Scotland and 1 was in Wales.
Testing – On Thursday, 24 June, 1,068,088 tests were administered. This is an increase of 6.9% in the rolling 7-day average. The PCR testing capacity estimated by labs on that date was 584,073.
Hospitalisations – There were 1485 people in hospital on Wednesday, 23 June and 258 on ventilators on Thursday, 24th. The rolling 7-day average for hospital admissions was up by 13.4% on 21 June.
Vaccinations – As of 24 June, 43,877,861 people had received 1 shot of a vaccine and 32,085,916 had received both. In percentage terms this means that 83.3% of all 18+ in the UK have had 1 shot and 60.9% were fully vaccinated.
Soprano2
Yesterday I talked to a co-worker who said his doctor told him he didn’t need the vaccine because he’d had a (mild) case of covid. It was like banging my head against a wall. “CDC says we won’t know if it works for 5 years, “x” had a stroke from blood clots 2 weeks after getting the shot and had never had problems before (“x” is not in the best of health and is 60)”, but the main objection was that everyone wants him to get it. “Why are they trying to force me to get it?” (Because they care about you, idiot!) This seems to be their main problem, that people are trying to force them. Freedumb. I told him I hope he doesn’t get sick or die from it, because Delta is raging here. I’m really worried about these people I work with. Relieved that my manager finally said she is getting it after her nurse mother lectured her about it!
mrmoshpotato
@Spanky:
Shit. Well don’t I have
eggpwned on my libtard face! Pwned by people some of whom might be dead before Labor Day.Another Scott
Repost – Sinovac news from AlJazeera:
:-(
IIRC, Amir recently got the Sinovac vaccine. Please be careful, Amir!
Cheers,
Scott.
WaterGirl
@Another Scott: Yes, Amir got Sinovac and that was my first thought as well
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@JMG: log qabin republiqan erasure.
Fair Economist
@New Deal democrat:Cases are going up in LA County as well, in spite of a good Vax rate. I suspect the problem is mostly in Latinos who face barriers to vaccination – poverty and fear of ICE.
JaneE
The company I worked for just changed their protocols because the state & CDC guidelines changed. They don’t require vaccination, but unvaccinated must still mask and distance while unvaccinated don’t. Everyone is required to self-certify if they are vaccinated or not, or they can decline to state and be lumped in with the unvaccinated. The kicker is that if you lie about your status – that’s a suspension or firing offense.
J R in WV
@YY_Sima Qian:
Hope your quarantine is going OK, tolerable food, keeping online, tho I recall your connection is poor/slow. Hang in there, do take care.
Mask up all the time!
@Amir Khalid:
Also, you, too, Amir ! Be careful, wear a mask. A friend who has a public facing retail job wears two masks, a multi-layer surgical mask under a heavy cloth mask which keeps the underneath mask close to his face… he has a beard. Was very annoyed/angry with the large number of people not masked, compared with the relatively low count of vaccinated people here in WV.
We did pretty well at first, but then most people seeking vaccination had their shots, and the volume of people being vaccinated dropped like a stone down the well.
All of you jackals, be careful, mask up. This new Delta and Delta+ mutation of this plague may mean a whole new eruption of disease. I wish I could find Pfizer shot on top of my Moderna shots… can’t hurt, might help, right?
Ruckus
@JMG:
I’d say it might be more than just noses.
It would be common sense if more people had some.
Hitting the reality side, a lot of the people are not old enough to have lived before the major diseases were very well controlled or eradicated. The biggies, other than chickenpox were mostly gone by 1960. So if you are 55 or below you didn’t live through that, see friends with polio. Also medicine has changed a lot over the last 50 yrs, pacemakers, heart surgery, artificial joints, medicines that work and don’t make shit worse, look how long it took to come up with the idea of mRNA vaccines and how long it took to produce them in massive quantities. Those of us say 65 and older, lived through a huge growth in population, which made some of those diseases more prevalent and early on they had no vaccines. Now most of those diseases are eradicated or very rare in most of the world. The diseases are catching up. The medical profession has upped it’s game but many aren’t playing and will take innocent people with them. And the numbers in the medical profession who are vaccine resistant rather astonish me, and at the same time doesn’t at all.
rikyrah
@OzarkHillbilly:
Uh uh uh?
rikyrah
@Amir Khalid:
Keep on the mask?
lowtechcyclist
The Bible says to love your enemies, but I’ve run out of both compassion for and patience with these people. If they want to flirt with death, may death give them a kiss that will take their breath away.
dc
NCSU (the university with more than half of it’s baseball team unvaccinated and at risk of having contracted Covid) has been offering vaxes on campus since March. WTF with these young people.
LiminalOwl
Mental health care workers (probably all health care workers, but…) are forbidden to ask whether a client has been vaccinated and cannot refuse to counsel a client in person on the basis of vax status if client wants to be seen in person rather than by telehealth. I was told that if the worker is vaxed and both masked, there is no danger. I’m not so sure.
Matt McIrvin
@JMG: Last week, my parents came up from Virginia and rented a beach house in Newburyport. We went over there and had a 100% regular little beach vacation–eating out in restaurants, strolling on the beach, all without masks because we were all vaccinated and there have been zero cases of COVID in Newburyport lately.
I don’t suppose this is going to last–if the British experience is any indication, at some point Delta or something worse will get a foothold here and be so transmissible that the residual 30% or so of unvaccinated in the state are still enough to support a significant wave. And then we’ll all have to make the judgment of whether we trust our vaccinations enough to stroll naked through a major outbreak, like people in Missouri right now. I’ll probably dial back my behavior a bit.