A Tyrannosaurus rex joined anxious Malaysians waiting in line at a vaccination center pic.twitter.com/zEIW00W7cY
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 13, 2021
If you are railing against the vaccine from a media pulpit and have yourself been vaccinated, you are the worst kind of hypocrite – one who is indifferent the fact that those who have the misfortune of listening to you are putting their lives and others at risk.
— Dan Rather (@DanRather) July 12, 2021
The vast economic divide between the vaccinated and unvaccinated. https://t.co/JR6baZdKlF
— David Beard (@dabeard) July 12, 2021
Good point, and those lower-income folks might be better targets for vax outreach. But in rural areas where vax rates are lowest, $50K is not necessarily a low income. https://t.co/rOnTHg8x37
— Richard Skinner (@richardmskinner) July 12, 2021
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“There are two dozens countries that have its epidemic curve vertical right now.” https://t.co/ZaadOdaWl0
— Jen Zhu (@jenzhuscott) July 12, 2021
The countries currently leading the world in cases per capita, and on the rise pic.twitter.com/jN0i9fsfC6
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) July 12, 2021
Malaysia reports record 11,079 new coronavirus cases https://t.co/K6ZtUN1lZC pic.twitter.com/Msl2CLFaw4
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 13, 2021
India reports 32,906 new COVID-19 cases, death toll rises by 2,020 https://t.co/9CWB13GfOC pic.twitter.com/8K6gCiTmR9
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 13, 2021
Top India doctors say third Covid wave inevitable https://t.co/FrBHSPOjkn
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 13, 2021
S.Korea reports new coronavirus cases top 1,000 for 7th straight day https://t.co/yEaBOP9ucv pic.twitter.com/7C59LKOZjn
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 13, 2021
Virologist in Hong Kong:
Most of us are eventually going to catch COVID-19.
If vaccinated beforehand, this infection is highly likely to be mild.
If not, the outcome of infection depends on many uncontrollable factors.
Can't run from the virus forever. Arm our immune systems & get it over with ??— Dr Siddharth Sridhar (@sid8998) July 12, 2021
At least 44 people were killed after a fire engulfed a hospital treating COVID-19 patients in Iraq's southern city of Nassiriya. The blaze was likely caused by an oxygen tank explosion, officials said https://t.co/Jl3aaJpeKS pic.twitter.com/rMcJaYwdKr
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 13, 2021
Israel has begun administering a 3rd dose of Pfizer vaccine to at-risk adults. The Ministry of Health is offering the 3rd dose to severely immunocompromised adults in what could be the 1st phase of an experiment to provide coronavirus booster shots https://t.co/kyEgQ6vorS
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) July 12, 2021
⚡ Russia has reported 780 deaths — a new single-day mortality record — as the country battles the surging Delta variant https://t.co/UuxDHpxu7B
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) July 13, 2021
Europe is racing to vaccinate residents. But in some countries, undocumented immigrants have been left out. https://t.co/F914lOHiNN
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 11, 2021
Greece orders COVID-19 vaccinations as infections rise https://t.co/c7rTb7lVRa pic.twitter.com/Ipd31OObfE
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 12, 2021
Nearly 1 million people in France made vaccine appointments in a single day, after the president cranked up pressure on everyone to get vaccinated to save summer vacation and the French economy. https://t.co/LrFuX5fzmd
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) July 13, 2021
All health care workers in France must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 by September or risk not being paid https://t.co/fu0PjTxt0P
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 13, 2021
Dutch PM Mark Rutte 'sorry for easing restrictions too soon' https://t.co/dgh2wjQfmD
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 12, 2021
"There will never be a perfect time to take this step because we simply cannot eradicate this virus”
Lockdown easing to go ahead in England on 19 July, Health Secretary Sajid Javid sayshttps://t.co/ynel6YM9TK
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) July 12, 2021
Brazil registers 745 COVID-19 deaths on Monday https://t.co/sa3GjMj8lg pic.twitter.com/RZsbtuiaAD
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 13, 2021
Brazil's federal police open probe into Bolsonaro over vaccine deal – source https://t.co/vhowxoC8Rp pic.twitter.com/SowNmgDzZP
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 12, 2021
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Citing the #DeltaVariant, Pfizer will pursue booster shots and a new vaccine. Scientists were critical of the announcement, pointing to evidence that the current 2-dose regimen is powerfully effective against the coronavirus https://t.co/u5PkBi3Bqi
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) July 12, 2021
People who think the US is on the verge of authorizing #Covid booster shots "are jumping the gun," Tony Fauci told me after today's White House meeting with Pfizer. My colleagues and I dove into booster-ism in this piece. https://t.co/Tz9beepbeO
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) July 13, 2021
Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine produces a weaker immune response against aggressive new mutations of the coronavirus such as the Delta variant, the jabs’ developers announced Monday in a new peer-reviewed studyhttps://t.co/I6AyxuksEr
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) July 13, 2021
The J&J #Covid vaccine may be linked to a small increased risk of developing Guillain-Barré syndrome, @US_FDA says. With the EMA saying last week that AstraZeneca's vaccine may also trigger GBS, people will be looking to see if there's a class effect. https://t.co/RLZdaNxeZ5
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) July 12, 2021
Covid origins: Scientists weigh up evidence over virus's origins https://t.co/9tRBUI1P2X
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 10, 2021
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Will moving #Covid19 vaccines from emergency use authorizations to full licensure encourage the vaccine hesitant to roll up their sleeves? Some argue yes, but others aren't sure that's what's standing in the way of more acceptance, @levfacher reports. https://t.co/ET7pzqKn6z
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) July 12, 2021
The U.S. has seen a string of COVID-19 outbreaks tied to summer camps in recent weeks. Some fear these infections could be a preview of the school year to come.https://t.co/JEpAnaWb1c
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 13, 2021
BREAKING: The Tennessee state government just fired its head vaccine official. She says she was scapegoated to appease Republican lawmakers who were angry about routine efforts to vaccinate minors. Scoop from me. https://t.co/zJvkfHHk6s
— Brett Kelman (@BrettKelman) July 12, 2021
I mean, it’s a real head-scratcher. pic.twitter.com/Vrb5erLgg3
— Radley Balko (@radleybalko) July 11, 2021
I’ve witnessed disinformation campaigns in authoritarian countries from Russia to China but have rarely seen one as transparent & quantifiably deadly as the current right-wing attack on vaccinations here: 99.2% of US Covid deaths in June were among unvaccinated.
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) July 12, 2021
It’s not going to happen (because big businesses don’t need another layer of craziness), but this Bold Patriotic Proposal will make a lot of money for the GOP Death Cult grifters fronting it… while killing more of their voters:
This is utter lunacy that not only will embolden anti-vaxxers, but have serious ramifications for public health https://t.co/5cm5K4AQEI
— Evan Siegfried (@evansiegfried) July 12, 2021
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY stats for last week:
Vaccinations in Monroe County:
60.6% with at least 1 jab – we seem to have slowed to a crawl on this
57.4% totally vaccinated
New COVID cases:
91 new cases since 7/5/21. 34 of them are children 0-19.
Children 0-9 had the most cases at 18.
.8% test positivity. Uh oh, this is going back up again.
When I have my car serviced in 2 weeks I’m going to bring a camp chair and sit outside the dealership.
Deaths now at 1343.
Cermet
While Pfizer knows full well a third dose of the vaccine will create a massive windfall profit for them if everyone got it, I will say that for immune compromised people this might be a life saver so I see no down side to that for them, at the very least.
Wvng
Thank you Anne for continuing this series. It is a uniquely invaluable resource.
YY_Sima Qian
On 7/12 China reported 2 new domestic confirmed & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
Yunnan Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed (mild, a Burmese national), at Jiegao sub-district in Ruili, Dehong Prefecture. There currently are 60 domestic confirmed & 1 domestic asymptomatic cases. 1 community remains at Medium Risk.
Nanjing in Jiangsu Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed case (unvaccinated), a traced close contact of an imported asymptomatic case reported by Anhui Province on 7/9. The imported asymptomatic case reported by Suzhou in Anhui Province is a Chinese national returning from Indonesia, arriving at Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province on 6/23, passed through the 14 days of centralized quarantine & tested negative multiple times. Upon release from quarantine on 7/7, the case took high speed rail back to Suzhou & re-entered centralized quarantine, testing positive on 7/8. The confirmed case reported by Nanjing took the same train as the imported asymptomatic case case on 7/7, getting off at Nanjing. The case was traced as a close contact & placed under centralized quarantine since 7/9, testing negative on 7/9 but positive on 7/11. This is the 1st case I can recall that an imported case infected someone else while on public transportation, in transit from port of entry to final destination, after 14 days of centralized quarantine at port of entry. Some jurisdictions in China have already extended centralized quarantine at port of entry from 14 days to 21 or 28 days. Expect this policy to become more wide spread after this case. The 3 traced close contacts of the domestic confirmed case have all tested negative so far.
Imported Cases
On 7/12, China reported 27 new imported confirmed cases, 22 imported asymptomatic cases:
Overall in China, 15 confirmed cases recovered, 19 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation & 3 were reclassified as confirmed cases, and 331 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 492 active confirmed cases in the country (427 imported), 3 in serious condition (all imported), 471 asymptomatic cases (465 imported), 4 suspect cases (all imported). 7,430 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 7/12, 1,392.432M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 8.95M doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 7/13, Hong Kong reported 1 new positive case, imported (from Cambodia).
CindyH
@Wvng: Yes, this is such a help – thank you Anne Laurie!
Baud
@Wvng: thanks to Republicans, AL’s morning covid series will never end.
oldster
New case counts in the US are going up fast. I’m no expert, but just looking at the numbers on the front page of the NYT tells a scary story — it was near 10k/day a week ago, and up to 24k/day today. Doubling in a week? Not good, Bob.
Rusty
I think the piece on the income distribution of unvaccinated is misleading. It’s shown as a percentage of the unvaccinated. People making over $500,000 are a very small part of the population, while those making less than $50,000 are a large percentage, so we would expect many more of them. Really it should be shown as the percentage of each income group that are unvaccinated to be informative.
Ramiah Ariya
I read the BBC News article (in the tweet above) on India’s “top doctors” and their opinion on Covid third wave.
Within the article you find that they are actually referring to the statement by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) as “India’s top doctors”.
The fame that the IMA has cornered, being quoted in international media comes as no surprise to me – International reporting on Covid in India is a free for all, that invites all kinds of charlatans.
Prior to Covid, the IMA was an unknown organization – that was involved in the promotion of dubious products in the Indian market.
I caught them doing this in two cases documented here:
https://www.facebook.com/arramiah/posts/10156221332162776; and
https://www.facebook.com/arramiah/posts/10156461590807776
In one they had a financial relationship with an entity while lending their recommendation to it. In the other, they were promoting “germ killing lights” in houses, a dubious product.
The idea that they are now India’s “top doctors” would come as a total surprise to Indians.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@oldster: do keep in mind that tweet about the vaccine doesn’t prevent getting infected, but it vastly reduces the severity.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Cermet: Maybe, considering Pfizer along with Modera have the most effective vaccines they are going to be rolling in the money as it is. Most of the world isn’t vaccinated.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Director-General of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports a record 11,079 new Covid-19 cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 855,949 cases. He also reports 125 new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 6,385 deaths — 0.75% of the cumulative reported total, 0.84% of resolved cases.
Dr Noor Hisham says that his ministry conducted 825,373 Covid screenings from 6th July to 12th July, up 32% from 624,645 the week before, and the increased number of new cases is consistent with increase in screenings.
As of 12th July, Malaysia’s nationwide Rt was at 1.14. 11 states and federal territories posted an Rt of at least 1.0, led by Putrajaya with 1.32.
There are currently 96,236 active and contagious cases; 972 are in ICU, 456 of them intubated. Meanwhile, 5,990 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 753,328 patients recovered – 88.01% of the cumulative reported total.
23 new clusters were reported today, for a cumulative total of 3,116 clusters. 870 clusters are currently active; 2,246 clusters are now inactive.
Today’s media statement omits for some reason the usual breakdown of each state’s new-case number, so this is all I have. 8,534 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 5,263 cases. Kuala Lumpur reports 1,521 cases. Negeri Sembilan reports 1,033 cases.
Kedah reports 497 cases. Sarawak reports 472 cases. Johor reports 406 cases.
Perak reports 329 cases. Melaka reports 323 cases. Pahang reports 321 cases.
Sabah reports 239 cases. Penang reports 234 cases. Kelantan reports 211 cases.
Terengganu reports 93 cases. Labuan reports 60 cases. Putrajaya reports 77 cases. Perlis reports no new cases today.
40 new cases today are imported.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 421,479 doses of vaccine yesterday, its highest one-day number so far. As of yesterday, Health Minister Dr Adham Baba tweeted, 8,104,068 people have received their first dose and 3,684,121 have received their second.
Sloane Ranger
Monday in the UK we had 34,471 new cases. This is an increase of 28.1% in the rolling 7-day average. New cases by nation,
England – 30,619 (up 2198)
Northern Ireland – 528 (down 77)
Scotland – 2134 (up 86)
Wales – 1190 (up 492).
Deaths – There were 6 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. This is an increase of 56.2% in the rolling 7-day average. All were in England.
Testing – On Sunday, 11 July, 1,118,189 tests were administered. This is an increase of 0.8% in the rolling 7-day average. The PCR testing capacity reported by labs on this date was 625,033.
Hospitalisations – Not updated since Thursday 8 July.
Vaccinations – As of 11 July, 45,923,721 people had received the 1st shot of a vaccine and 34,872,131 had had both. This means that, as of this date, 87.2% of all adults aged 18+ had had 1 shot and 66.2% were fully vaccinated. Looking at the figures the number of people receiving both 1st and 2nd shots are increasing by 0.1-0.2% per day.
General – In England, we are still set for “Freedom” Day next Monday but the government’s rhetoric has changed over the last week from throw the masks away and party to ‘well we’re not mandating any precautions but you really should take precautions’. This will go well – not. Sensible people will continue to wear masks and try to social distance and do dynamic risk assessments when considering any activity but all the arrogant selfish people (and there’s a lot of them) will throw away all sense of self-restraint, get into all sorts of situations where they stand a good chance of catching the virus and then blithely go about spreading it to everyone because they don’t have to wear masks/social distance anymore and you’re violating their civil rights by objecting to them getting in your face, breathing all over you.
oldster
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
Good point. So we can hope that the hospitalizations and deaths will not spike at the same rate as the new cases, to the degree that those new cases occur among the vaccinated.
rikyrah
Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) tweeted at 1:05 PM on Mon, Jul 12, 2021:
BREAKING: Fully vaccinated Mississippians now account for 12% of COVID-19 hospitalizations, State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs says.
Two weeks ago, that figure was just 5%.
Dr. Dobbs says the Delta variant is driving the shift. https://t.co/0WnlLhItnG
(https://twitter.com/ashtonpittman/status/1414647163024510984?s=03)
rikyrah
@Cermet:
I see no problem with a third shot
rikyrah
Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) tweeted at 2:16 PM on Mon, Jul 12, 2021:
“We are way undervaccinated as a state. We have a vast pool of unimmunized people who are a perfect breeding ground for Delta variant, and it’s gonna kill folks. And it’s already killing folks,” Mississippi State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs said
https://t.co/0WnlLhItnG
(https://twitter.com/ashtonpittman/status/1414665036782579712?s=03)
Another Scott
@rikyrah: That’s a disconcerting thread, but not surprising. Mississippi can’t fight the laws of probability, and having a poor population and weak infrastructure (as well as actively hostile governance) is horrible for public health in a pandemic.
Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
Robert Sneddon
Scotland — 2,529 new cases of COVID-19 reported, four new deaths reported (these will include deaths over the weekend when the Register offices were closed). Test positivity rate is 11.5%. The number of people in ICU beds increased by one to 41.
There were 17,000 vaccinations carried out yesterday, about 40% first-dose. This number is noticeably down compared to the previous couple of weeks and even the weekends. There’s no clear explanation for the drop in numbers given in the bare-bones report by the Scottish government. 88.4% of adults in Scotland have now received their first dose of vaccine with 65.3% fully vaccinated.
As I type this the First Minister is briefing the Scottish Parliament in a special session regarding the expected reduction of restrictions to level zero in Scotland next Monday. It is apparently to go ahead with some modifications such as the continuance of mandatory face masking in various places including public transport. The lifting of all restrictions planned for next month may be put back depending on how the next few weeks work out. The key factor is the pressure on the health services, hospital occupancy and the like. If there is a big uptick in bed numbers then the 9th August target date may not be met.
WereBear
Grateful to be House Moderna.
Yutsano
@WereBear: We are in a noble house, we are.
Chris Johnson
@Yutsano: Ain’t that the truth.
phdesmond
@CindyH:
hear, hear!
WereBear
@Yutsano: I figure when we mutate, it will be in the same direction :)
rikyrah
@Yutsano:
@Chris Johnson:
You all are cracking me up
BWA HA HA HA HA HA AH AHA
The Moar You Know
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: no longer. That award, hands down, belongs to Novavax. 96% effective, 90+ against all variants.
frosty
@rikyrah: I’m happy to have contributed to Mississippi’s vaccination stats. We got our first jab in Hattiesburg last March while we were traveling. Thanks to us they got to almost 30% vaccinated!
ETA: House Moderna!
Peale
@Rusty: Yep. There is a link, but its not that great. Median household income in the US is about 70K. So according to my rough math those households making less than the median are 70% of the unvaccinated population when they make up 50% of the households. However….what this tells me is that young and single people probably aren’t getting vaccinated since the concept of “household income” is very much tied to age and marital status. Yes, its also tied to race and ethnicity and gender as well…but honestly, I’m going to guess that the fact that young people don’t feel the need to vax is behind that distribution.
Anoniminous
The more we learn about how Covid-19 affects the brain the worse it gets.
“Lingering questions — what the virus actually does to the brain, who will suffer the most, and for how long — are still unanswered, and probably won’t be for a long time. The varied and damaging effects of lockdowns, the imprecision doctors and patients use for describing symptoms (such as the nonmedical term “brain fog”) and the indirect effects the virus can have on the brain all merge, creating a devilishly complex puzzle.”
The Know-Unknowns include fundamental questions such as “what percentage of patients are infected in their brain” and “how many will go on to exhibit Long Covid symptoms” I’ve seen estimates [read: guesses] ranging from 10% to 70% due to statistically invalid studies on too small samples projected to the global population.
And before people start casting stones … yes that’s bad but researchers can only do what they can do with what they’ve got with what little money is available. Nobody AFAIK is getting directly funded to investigate brain damage caused by Covid-19; it’s all being done ad hoc.
Peale
@NeenerNeener: You guys upstate are doing better than we are down in Rockland. Stuck at 51% with at least one dose. 7 day cases up 100% since July 4. I wish I could put a finger on what the issue is. Well, I kind of know, but I’m surprised that after getting hit with a measles outbreak and hid hard by COVID last Spring that we’d be a bit more eager to get shots. Although the same factors that made the county vulnerable to measles probably is at play here.
Mike Field
@Wvng:
Yes! I second this. I am so reliant on reading this every day.
Thank you so much Anne!
Also, does anyone know who the WHO spokeswoman is? I am in love. She is so good and I wish she led off every TV news program with that hard-hitting no-nonsense message.
Other MJS
Let the T-Rex-posting feud continue!