NEW: CDC vaccine advisers to meet Nov. 2-3 to discuss Pfizer covid vaccine for kids 5-11, so no Halloween vaccine. But if advisers + @CDCgov OK use, children could get shots immediately afterward. My story on the rollout. https://t.co/HcCms8n1hc
— LenaSun (@bylenasun) October 8, 2021
The number of Americans getting COVID-19 vaccinations has hit a three-month high and demand could spike as regulators mull Pfizer authorization for younger children. Some states are reopening mass vaccination clinics in anticipation. https://t.co/tdNIbLKNKK
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 9, 2021
Covid booster shots are now surpassing initial vaccine doses https://t.co/xvmqUZno8A pic.twitter.com/L4QQsL4ey9
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) October 9, 2021
Nevada became one of the last states to publicly report rapid antigen tests as part of its coronavirus tallies — a move that experts said could provide a fuller picture of the pandemic but also upend metrics used to gauge how the virus is spreading. https://t.co/yl5zcNoCRj
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 9, 2021
… The change leaves Maryland as the lone U.S. state that doesn’t incorporate rapid tests in its online dashboard or include them in virus statistics, as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control recommends, according to an Associated Press review of dashboards and policies for all 50 states.
Nevada has been among the states hit hardest by the pandemic. The state’s hospitals have been pushed to near capacity, its unemployment has broken national records, and 435,000 people have tested positive for COVID-19. Omitting rapid tests from its tally limited the public’s understanding of the pandemic’s spread in the state, Nevada health officials acknowledge…
The rapid antigen tests, which detect the presence of viral proteins rather than the coronavirus itself, return results in minutes, unlike traditional molecular tests sent to labs, which can take days to process but are shown to be more accurate. Their quick turnaround times have led to their widespread use in prisons, schools and nursing homes.
President Joe Biden praised rapid tests last month, but supply shortages and the varied ways that states report them reflect the continued absence of a national testing strategy. Some states report antigen tests separately, with positive results as “probable cases” while others combine them with molecular tests for an overall tally.
On Monday, Nevada added more than 600,000 new tests to the online dashboard that shows coronavirus case and death counts, vaccination rates and positivity rates. The infusion spiked the number of COVID-19 cases reported statewide by 9,700 and decreased the positivity rate by one-sixth, from 10.1% to 8.8%…
At-home tests, including those that consumers can purchase on Amazon or at their local drug stores, do not require any reporting to health departments. Nevada recommends people whose at-home antigen tests return positive results to confirm it with molecular tests, which gives the state more complete data and allows them to contact trace.
“As epidemiologists, this is something that we are very conscientious of. The data that you have tells the story in either complete or incomplete ways,” Hamilton said. “We are telling an incomplete story around the total number of people that actually have COVID-19.”
The United States, a place that must consider it progress when its hospitalizations have come down, yet still remain above the peak of its 1st and 2nd waves, when there were no vaccines pic.twitter.com/2SKVhjoyzc
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) October 9, 2021
Front-line medical workers are growing weary of COVID-19 denial and misinformation. We asked six doctors what they say to their unvaccinated patients. https://t.co/hs9OetIBkB
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 9, 2021
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Moderna—racing for profits—keeps Covid vaccine out of the reach of poor countries. Some poorer countries are paying more & waiting longer for the company’s vaccine than the wealthy — if they have access at all https://t.co/hgi8fP5gFx
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) October 9, 2021
Malaysia lifts travel restrictions for fully vaccinated people https://t.co/omURSD7AdY pic.twitter.com/AT8nMSq8Kp
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 10, 2021
New normal: Singapore plans to reopen its borders to vaccinated travelers from the US & 7 other countries. “We're charting a course for the new normal, toward living w/ Covid-19,” S. Iswaran the transportation minister for Singapore said in a Facebook post https://t.co/I7gfydAohT
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) October 9, 2021
“after the relaxation of some restrictions”
Singapore reports highest single-day rise in COVID-19 cases https://t.co/iH8KXVespp— Soos (@Soos808) October 9, 2021
Singapore offers #COVID19 booster shots to persons aged 30 years and above who have completed their vaccination regimen around six months agohttps://t.co/Ehb0oQQubb
— MicrobesInfect (@MicrobesInfect) October 9, 2021
'Blood, sweat, no beers': Sydney set to ease COVID-19 curbs https://t.co/fe4YYj5RKG pic.twitter.com/U7iblzp47F
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 10, 2021
Italy hits target of fully vaccinating 80% of people over-12s https://t.co/nT91Is7otL pic.twitter.com/F3Y5na9iv2
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 10, 2021
With Italy’s vaccination campaign now advanced, the government has finally given the green light for nightclubs to reopen next week. It’s been a long wait. https://t.co/g4qFlwjgtm
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 9, 2021
Thousands of demonstrators marched down Rome's Via Veneto and other main streets on Saturday, many clashing with police, to protest a government rule requiring COVID-19 vaccines or recent negative tests to access workplaces starting next week. https://t.co/6LqOehWUsn
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 9, 2021
Coronavirus in DR Congo: How funds went missing – report https://t.co/s4NXwvuUcL
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) October 9, 2021
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COVID-19 is linked to new diabetes cases—but long-term problems could be more severehttps://t.co/0Zs3AVBQRc
— Global Health Observ (@GlobalPHObserv) October 9, 2021
A clinical case definition of #LongCovid has been published by @WHO The World Health Organization.https://t.co/1HsMxxzarP pic.twitter.com/1Tvzn0OArv
— Medical Research Library of Brooklyn (@DMCLibraryBKLYN) October 8, 2021
The Covid pandemic led to a substantial rise in depression & anxiety disorders in 2020, according to a new study reported in The Lancet. Cases of major depressive & anxiety disorders increased by 28% & 26%, respectively. Women were affected more than men https://t.co/nCVCMMwzVM pic.twitter.com/mPVtaxY0Dv
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) October 9, 2021
Finland to start vaccinating minks against Covid. An experimental vaccine will be administered on fur farms. The shots have been granted temporary approval. Covid epidemics have struck mink farms throughout Europe. Minks catch SARSCoV2 from infected humans https://t.co/LaQxpdSiL8 pic.twitter.com/rVtW3WhJNP
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) October 9, 2021
The @WSJ is consistently beating the drum of claims that China "made" #SARSCoV2 — either accidentally, or deliberately, and let it leak from the Wuhan Inst. Virology. Other media echo the charges, often a day or 2 later. https://t.co/GN4uFi4Cqz
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) October 8, 2021
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Despite having some of the highest vaccination rates in the U.S., the six New England states are still grappling with a surge of cases due to the delta variant. In some areas, hospitalizations are approaching the pandemic peak and ICUs are filling up. https://t.co/Vtt1NgRr5i
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 9, 2021
Despite a decline in Covid cases and mortality throughout the U.S., a delta-driven surge is pushing North Dakota hospitals to the brink https://t.co/U4b5xAaYA1
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) October 9, 2021
Arizona reports increase in new COVID-19 cases and deaths https://t.co/qLEEnjkYel pic.twitter.com/RwmOtKSHY7
— The Hill (@thehill) October 8, 2021
BREAKING: Tea party firebrand Allen West, a candidate for the GOP nomination for Texas governor, said that he has received monoclonal antibody injections after being diagnosed with COVID-19 pneumonia. West said he would likely be hospitalized. https://t.co/jZOWxBF6G7
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 9, 2021
Yeah, that’s not going to work. pic.twitter.com/uYD8YuB9dB
— PatriotTakes ?? (@patriottakes) October 9, 2021
Conservative speaks to ‘conservative’ —
Yes, and I know a lot of people who knowingly voted for an awful man for President just to stick it to people who said they shouldn’t. I’m betting there’s some overlap. https://t.co/lRvbECLxoT
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) October 10, 2021
He then relayed a story from [counterpart] where some kid comes into the dean’s office to complain about textbook cost for a course and, when the asst dean points out their $100 vax bounty the kid says something like “Sir, I’ll not sell my soul for $100.”
What an enormous tool.
— The Mall Krampus (@cakotz) October 9, 2021
For when that unvaxed distant cousin tests positive for COVID. pic.twitter.com/mC6UjvzrZx
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) October 10, 2021
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY:
The Monroe County website is taking the weekend off again. Also, they stopped sending out the daily “Are You Having COVID Symptoms?” email that I’ve been getting for the last 18 months or so. Delta is still very active around here but the county health department is tired of tracking it, I guess.
NYSDOH says 217 new cases yesterday.
My brother and niece are here visiting. Both are vaccinated but they made 3 trips to Lowes yesterday to get parts for all the things they fixed around my house. Everybody cross your fingers that none of the three of us got COVID this weekend. It’s really nice to see them, though, I just wish Rochester wasn’t a Delta hot bed.
NotMax
FYI. A bit more on Rome.
mrmoshpotato
Fuck. You. AP.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reports 7,373 new Covid-19 cases today in its media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 2,339,594 cases. It also reports 74 new deaths as of midnight, for a cumulative total of 27,265 deaths – 1.17% of the cumulative reported total, 1.23% of resolved cases.
Based on cases reported yesterday, Malaysia’s nationwide Rt is at 0.86.
702 confirmed cases are in ICU, 293 of them on ventilators. Meanwhile, 10,959 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 2,195,669 patients recovered – 93.8% of the cumulative reported total.
Eight new clusters were reported today, for a cumulative total of 5,588 clusters. 810 clusters are currently active; 4,778 clusters are now inactive.
7,371 new cases today are local infections. Two new cases today are imported. Again, no state-by-state breakdown today.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 141,897 doses of vaccine on 9th October: 39,183 first doses and 102,714 second doses. As of midnight yesterday, the cumulative total is 45,521,196 doses administered: 24,424,885 first doses and 21,207,610 second doses. 74.8% of the population have received their first dose, while 64.9% are now fully vaccinated.
Platonicspoof
The LA Times article linked in the tweet cited by Laurie Garrett is really damning for the Wall Street Journal in general and specifically for one article:
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Matt McIrvin
It’s a bit frustrating that this sort of antivaxxer-bait statement is the tweet, when if you look into the county-by-county numbers it’s clear that the worst surges are in areas where vaccination rates are only mediocre. The Trump-voting part of Maine has a problem. Similarly, the big surge in Vermont is in the one corner of the state where vaccination coverage isn’t great.
smith
@Matt McIrvin: Also, if you actually look at current state-wide numbers (see 91-DIVOC), of the 6 states, only VT has a clear upward trend after showing a steep decline up to a few days ago. NH is equivocal, and the other 4 are all declining. It’s almost as if the author of that tweet hasn’t looked at the stats for a week or so.
New Deal democrat
@Matt McIrvin:
So let’s flip the story on its head. The other day we were discussing this variation by region. Are there counties in Maine, NH, and VT that have *not* seen a significant increase in cases over the last 4 or 8 weeks? If so, what is their average vaccination rate?
(And let me know which site you are getting the data from, since many such sites do not play well at all with my iPad.)
lowtechcyclist
I’ve started to be of the opinion that the best comparison with the ‘freedom’ to go unvaxxed and unmasked would be the ‘freedom’ to let your household waste water to flow directly into the gutter, rather than into a septic system or municipal sewer line.
Either way, you’re helping the spread of deadly diseases by freely releasing germs (using the term loosely to encompass both viruses and bacteria) into the commons that you should be using established procedures to keep under wraps.
@mrmoshpotato: They seem to have misspelled ‘nutcase.’
Chetan Murthy
@lowtechcyclist: Libertarians have opposed regulation of pollution forever, yes? This is just another case.
smith
@Chetan Murthy: They oppose regulation but still expect to have clean air and water. Ah, the wonders of magical thinking!
YY_Sima Qian
On 10/9 China reported 0 new domestic confirmed & 1 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
Fujian Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 13 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 159 active domestic confirmed cases.
Heilongjiang Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 64 active domestic confirmed & 6 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Yili Prefecture in Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed (at Horgos) & 4 active domestic asymptomatic cases (2 each at Cocodala & Horgos) at the prefecture.
Yunnan Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case, at Ruili in Dehong Prefecture. There currently are 4 domestic asymptomatic cases remaining in the province, all at Ruili in Dehong Prefecture.
At Henan Province there currently are 6 active domestic confirmed cases remaining, all at Shangqiu.
Imported Cases
On 10/9, China reported 24 new imported confirmed cases (3 previously asymptomatic), 13 imported asymptomatic cases:
Overall in China, 59 confirmed cases recovered, 13 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (all imported) & 3 were reclassified as confirmed cases, & 1,171 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 731 active confirmed cases in the country (500 imported), 1 in serious condition (imported), 369 active asymptomatic cases (352 imported), 1 suspect case (imported). 25,406 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 10/9, 2,222.128M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 1.302M doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 10/10 Hong Kong did not report any new positive cases.
On 10/10 Macau did not report any new positive cases.
Matt McIrvin
@New Deal democrat: The Delta wave hit all of them, but if you look at, for instance, Chittenden County, VT (where Burlington is, currently 73% fully vaxxed according to covidactnow.com), the worst it got there was about 35 cases/100,000/day back in August, and now it’s down in the 20s. Receding frustratingly slowly, but it’s receding.
Addison County, just to the south, is 72% vaxxed and now down to 8 cases/100,000/day, which is really good by current US standards.
Essex County, VT (52% fully vaxxed) just spiked up to 92 cases/100,000/day. That corner of the state is driving the increase in statewide numbers. I would not be too surprised, though, if that spike spilled over to Burlington and made the situation worse there.
The vaccination numbers here are the CDC’s and the New York Times, which is probably more accurate, doesn’t seem to consider them reliable enough to cite vaccination data for Vermont. So take them with a slight grain of salt; I wouldn’t be surprised if they are underestimates.
New Deal democrat
@Matt McIrvin:
Thanks. Checking the NYT data via google, it does appear, like you say, that “Delta hit them all” which seems to confirm that even in the best vaccinated counties, 70%+ was not enough – it’s just better than the less vaccinated counties.
New Deal democrat
@Chetan Murthy:
Traditional libertarianism posited a worldview epitomized by the phrase, “your rights end where my nose begins.”
The new, AynRand style libertarianism posits that “my rights are whatever I can get away with, including punching you in the nose. If you fail to get your nose out of the way, that’s your fault, not mine.”
Dorothy A. Winsor
Fabulous graphic showing the spread of COVID in the US
Sloane Ranger
Yesterday in the UK we had 34,950 new cases. Despite offices being closed over the weekends and Wales not reporting on a Saturday, this means that the rolling 7-day average is now up by 5.2%. New cases by nation,
England – 31,259 (down 898)
Northern Ireland – 1274 (down 2)
Scotland – 2417 (down 210)
Wales – Does not report on Saturday’s).
Deaths – There were 133 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. This is a decrease of 1.2% in the rolling 7-day average, but office closures mean this is probably an undercount).111 deaths were in England, 4 in Northern Ireland, 18 in Scotland. Wales does not report on Saturday’s.
Testing – Not updated at weekends.
Hospitalisations – Not updated at weekends.
Vaccinations – As of Friday, 8 October, 49,132,678 people had had 1 shot of a vaccine and 45,135,589 had had both. This means that 85.4% of all UK residents aged 12+ had had 1 shot as of that date and 78.5% had had 2.
Personal – I’m going away for a few days so I won’t be posting updates from the UK until probably, next Saturday.
Robert Sneddon
@smith: There’s a problem with just looking at regional vaccination totals without taking the social and age spread of the vaccine rollout into consideration.
Here in the UK we’ve got world-leading vaccination rates with nearly 90% of 18+ adults fully vaccinated and with promising rollout figures for secondary school-age children (12 – 17 year olds). However we’re also currently getting lots of new cases reported each day with high hospitalisation numbers and worrying numbers of deaths too. How is that happening?
Well, looking at that 90% figure more closely, nearly everyone (98%-plus) over the age of 40 is fully vaccinated while the 18-40 age group is perhaps 75% fully vaccinated. The bad news is that the 18-40 year olds are the folks who go out partying and pubbing a lot, spend hours in nightclubs breathing each other’s exhalations, attending music events in crowds of hundreds or sometimes thousands of similar-minded folks. This is a recipe for uncontrolled spread of COVID-19 in those age groups with collateral infection of vulnerable older people who, although vaccinated are still catching the disease from the younger cohort.
Matt McIrvin
@lowtechcyclist: Right-wingers like to paint pictures of California as a chaotic hell where homeless people shit in the street, but refusing vaccination and going around infected is a lot like shitting in the street.
Matt McIrvin
@smith: NH is frustrating because it’s more or less my backyard and I spend significant amounts of time over there. They got an admirable early start with mass vaccination but their ceiling of the willing was lower, and it’s currently the least-vaccinated state in New England. And they’re having a massive outbreak up in Coos County which is immediately adjacent to the parts of VT I was talking about.
New Deal democrat
@Robert Sneddon:
Good point. The statistics in my county and State are very similar. About 80% of people age 55 and above are fully vaccinated, but only 55% of those 18-45. The Young Immortals are going to have to be coerced by things like employer mandates and Interstate travel restrictions on regulated transport.
dr. bloor
@Matt McIrvin: Anyone writing on the topic with any regularity who comes up with obtuse nonsense like that is straight up trolling or failing in an effort to find a narrative other than “the goddamn vaccines are enormously effective.”
Matt McIrvin
@dr. bloor: Often the story is fine if you actually read the whole thing, but the headline or tweet summary has to find the counterintuitive angle that kind of sort of implies the vaccines aren’t working, because shocking man-bites-dog takes are how you get the clicks.
Cameron
Funny how after he’s hospitalized, we hear that Allen West is being treated with monoclonal antibodies. What happened to the “protocols?” They fall out of his pocket on the way to the hospital?
Cameron
Mighty generous of Moderna to slurp up money and research, both courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer, then tell poor countries to pound sand if they can’t pay Moderna’s prices.
WaterGirl
@Cameron: Greed appears to trump all.
Covid vaccines offered the opportunity for big pharma to change the way they are viewed, potentially changing their image from greedy bloodsuckers to saviors coming to the rescue.
But no, greed trumps all, so fuck that, let’s just go for the money.
A second chance at changing your image can be hard to come by, and they squandered it.
Just like cops. Pigs in the 60s, they managed to (mostly) come back from that, and then the last few years they are back to the same shit, or worse, that plagued them before.
Not just evil, but also stupid stupid stupid.
New Deal democrat
@Matt McIrvin:
You might find this of interest: Dr. Eric Topol thinks that a higher rate of prior COVID infections may explain why CA and southern New England are going better than northern New England as to Delta:
https://mobile.twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1446879476151816193
Robert Sneddon
Scotland — 2,363 new COVID-19 cases reported today. The test positivity rate is 8.7%. There was one new death reported overnight (noting that Register Offices are now generally closed at weekends). ICU bed occupancy numbers are 54, down seven from yesterday while hospitalisations are 935, down 8.
There were approximately 9,700 vaccinations carried out in Scotland yesterday (Saturday) with about 80% of these being first vaccinations. 91.6% of 16+ adults are now vaccinated with their first dose and 84.9% are fully vaccinated. 72.9% of 16 and 17-year-olds have now received their first vaccination, up 0.1% from yesterday. 36.3% of 12-15 year olds have now received their first vaccination, up 2.9% from yesterday.
The vaccination rate picks up at weekends here in Scotland, probably because of the 12-17 year olds who are newly eligible for the vaccine as of the beginning of September, since they’re usually at school during the week. I’m expecting a general pickup of vaccination numbers soon as the first large groups of 65+ folks (including myself) become eligible for a booster shot in the next few weeks.
Another Scott
@lowtechcyclist: It’s their synonym for “war criminal”, I guess.
AngryStaffOfficer
Grrr…
Cheers,
Scott.
Matt McIrvin
@New Deal democrat: I wouldn’t be surprised. Those more rural northern areas of New England, relative to most of the country, got off easy in the earlier waves. But vaccination is lower there than in the rest of New England too.