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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Saturday / Sunday, Oct. 23-24

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There will be 28 million kids newly eligible for vaccination.

There is little doubt that they are at risk from COVID & Delta. 6 million kids have had COVID, over 1 million in the last 6 weeks. 2/

While few kids end up of dying of COVID, cases aren’t all mild, nor do they all end when the acute illness ends. MIS-C is quite problematic.

And cases can be severe in kids. This summer thousands of kids per week were being hospitalized. 3/

Kids are also not terminal COVID cases. Kids spread COVID unknowingly to teachers, parents, grandparents & other adults— as well as kids in school with childhood cancer.

Kids play a vital role in the chain of infection. 4/…

So vaccinating kids 5-11 takes on great importance in reducing spread & deaths & hastening the pandemic’s end with more blanket immunity.

Still for many these reasons may not matter in the face of the slight but non-zero risk of heart problems among some kids. 6/…

Unlike adult vaccinations, 25,000 pediatricians are signed up to vaccinate kids.

Pediatricians are used to communicating directly with parents 1:1 about vaccinations & answering their questions. They are best positioned for this conversation. 14/

Most pediatricians will be able to discuss the mild side effects & the much more rare serious cases & counsel parents about the school, sports & camping situations where they are at real risk— all while asking about family situations & other exposures. 15/…

Sadly not all kids have pediatricians— a more important underlying issue— so community clinics, schools & pharmacists must be armed with the information to answer questions. 16/

The case for vaccinating kids is powerful & doesn’t require shortcuts. It does call for nuance & a real appreciation of how parents will face & consider the question.

Let’s enlist pediatricians & match our scientific progress with great public delivery. /end

Let’s get it done.

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In a pair of Cape Town warehouses converted into a maze of airlocked sterile rooms, young scientists are assembling and calibrating the equipment needed to reverse engineer a coronavirus vaccine that has yet to reach South Africa and most of the world’s poorest people.

The energy in the gleaming labs matches the urgency of their mission to narrow vaccine disparities. By working to replicate Moderna’s COVID-19 shot, the scientists are effectively making an end run around an industry that has vastly prioritized rich countries over poor in both sales and manufacturing.

And they are doing it with unusual backing from the World Health Organization, which is coordinating a vaccine research, training and production hub in South Africa along with a related supply chain for critical raw materials. It’s a last resort effort to make doses for people going without, and the intellectual property implications are still murky…

Some experts see reverse engineering — recreating vaccines from fragments of publicly available information — as one of the few remaining ways to redress the power imbalances of the pandemic. Only 0.7% of vaccines have gone to low-income countries so far, while nearly half have gone to wealthy countries, according to an analysis by the People’s Vaccine Alliance.

That WHO, which relies upon the goodwill of wealthy countries and the pharmaceutical industry for its continued existence, is leading the attempt to reproduce a proprietary vaccine demonstrates the depths of the supply disparities.

The U.N.-backed effort to even out global vaccine distribution, known as COVAX, has failed to alleviate dire shortages in poor countries. Donated doses are coming in at a fraction of what is needed to fill the gap. Meanwhile, pressure for drug companies to share, including Biden administration demands on Moderna, has led nowhere…

Arguing that American taxpayers largely funded Moderna’s vaccine development, the Biden administration has insisted the company must expand production to help supply developing nations. The global shortfall through 2022 is estimated at 500 million and 4 billion doses, depending on how many other vaccines come on the market…

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  1. 1.

    NeenerNeener

    Monroe County, NY:

    Monroe County website doesn’t report on weekends anymore.
    NYSDOH says we had 252 new cases yesterday.

  2. 2.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reports 5,666 new Covid-19 cases today in its media statement, tfor a cumulative reported total of 2,431,716 cases. It also reports 42 deaths as of midnight, for an adjusted cumulative total of 28,354 deaths – 1.17% of the cumulative reported total, 1.20% of resolved cases.

    Based on cases reported yesterday, Malaysia’s nationwide Rt is at 0.87.

    522 confirmed cases are in ICU, 222 of them on ventilators. Meanwhile, 6,978 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 2,327,369 patients recovered – 95.7% of the cumulative reported total.

    Three new clusters were reported today, for a cumulative total of 5,722 clusters. 539 clusters are currently active; 5,183 clusters are now inactive.

    5,646 new cases today are local infections. 20 new cases today are imported.

    The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 113,547 doses of vaccine on 23rd October: 11,016 first doses, 94,354 second doses, and 8,177 booster doses. As of midnight yesterday, the cumulative total is 48,944,761 doses administered: 25,355,653 first doses, 23,660,153 second doses, and 93,151 booster doses. 77.6% of the population have received their first dose, while 72.4% are now fully vaccinated.

  3. 3.

    lowtechcyclist

    The elite anti-vaccination crusade, which is a combination of manufacturing grievances to juice ratings and an attempt to politically damage Biden by abetting a deadly pestilence, is one of the most breathtakingly cynical and nihilistic things I’ve seen in my life

    About time people started talking about it in this way, rather than as if it was a legitimate alternate point of view.

    ETA: The Faux News chyrons amuse me. “Dems’ War on the Unvaccinated”? Just get vaccinated, duh.

  6. 6.

    Betty

    Since Biden has supported waiving patent rights for the vaccine, it would be cool if he sent our CDC expert to South Africa to help. Take that, Moderna! The last I heard, Europe was still not on board with a waiver.

  9. 9.

    Nicole

    My kid’s pediatrician is already gearing up; I got an email from the office letting us know that they put in a large order and, assuming the approvals all go as scheduled, they’ll be offering appointments on Saturday and Sunday, Nov 6 and 7.  They asked parents to please dress their kids accordingly (i.e., short sleeved shirt) to speed up the process.  I am not a bit surprised they’re opening on their day off to do this; they’re a good office with staff who clearly care intensely about child health.  But I’m still so grateful to them; it’ll make it so much easier on the parents to be able to bring their kids in on a weekend.

  10. 10.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    The elite anti-vaccination crusade, which is a combination of manufacturing grievances to juice ratings and an attempt to politically damage Biden by abetting a deadly pestilence, is one of the most breathtakingly cynical and nihilistic things I’ve seen in my life

    The crazy thing is this started well before Biden and when Trump was president. It’s like the Hard Right plays way to much Warhammer 40K and are all LARPing as Nurgle, god of pestilence, worshipers.

  11. 11.

    Ken

    Someday there will be papers written on the people who sat in front of cameras and told obvious lies (“no vaccinations required”) to audiences that had to know they were lies. Whether those papers will be psychology and sociology dissertations, or indictments, I’m not sure.

  12. 12.

    Brachiator

    As outbreak worsens, COVID-19 cases in eastern Europe near 20 million.

    A sad irony is that a lot of the Covid misinformation hitting eastern Europe appears to be coming from Russia, and yet Russia itself has a huge problem with vaccine hesitancy and Covid conspiracy nonsense.  I think I saw that only about a third of Russians have been vaccinated, and with a lesser quality vaccine.

  13. 13.

    Scout211

    I am so relieved that my daughter got a Moderna booster last night at her county public health vaccine clinic.  The public health department in her Washington county finally opened up mid-day to J&J and over 65 Moderna recipients on their website. She was able to make an appointment and get her Moderna booster within an hour’s time at the vaccine clinic that was already being held yesterday. There still were openings late in the day yesterday. She encountered no problems and the public health department staff had no problems with the eligibility requirements for the shot being updated for them halfway through a day-long vaccine clinic. She has three kids under 12 and is a teacher in a room full of 5 and 6 year olds all day so we are all relieved that she now will be better protected with a Moderna booster after the original J&J. The funny thing was the Moderna vaccine clinic scheduled for next Saturday was already completely booked but last night there were openings. I guess it pays to have a mom who was watching that site all day while she was busy with errands, activities and team sports. Team work.

  14. 14.

    Brachiator

    Covid-19: Irish health service facing ‘one of the most difficult winters.

    And in Ireland 74.8 percent of the people are fully vaccinated. About 76 percent have received at least one shot.

    They are doing very well, but it is a tough fight.

  15. 15.

    Suzanne

    It’s talking about how people who got vaccinated are more likely to have better risk assessment and health consciousness than those who are unvaccinated.

    A little louder for the people in the back.

  16. 16.

    Laura Too

    I got Moderna booster yesterday. So funny-my arm hurts like hell and I have a slight headache and sniffles. The J&J knocked me on my ass. I had a virus in 2004 that was a lot like Covid. It caused a heart condition that I spent many years recovering from and still have some effects. With J&J I cycled through all of the symptoms I had for that virus for 24+ hours, most I had completely forgotten about. Made me pretty certain Covid would kill me. (And I was grateful every second for science to come up with a way out as I was pretty sure I knew what was happening)

    Thanks Anne Laurie for all of the work you have put into this. I know you have saved my sanity and most likely my life. I also appreciate all the daily updates from around the world. Feels like a smaller place that we all share.

  17. 17.

    Quinerly

    BOOSTERIZED yesterday AM at the Santa Fe Farmers Market!

    Pfizer. Everyone around me in the fast moving line had originally had the J&J. We were all discussing how relieved we were to be getting a booster 4-7 months later. And, my faith in old white men has been somewhat restored. Old white man behind me was somewhat emotional and very grateful.

  18. 18.

    Mike E

    @Laura Too: I’ll 2nd this, shared experiences can be a bit of relief from all the scary news headlines. My former coworker got covid and recovered without much of the damage associated with it, thankfully. He and I then signed up for the J&J shot in early March but a Pfizer slot opened for me sooner and I was eager to get the jab, any jab, asap…his reaction to that vaccine: “It felt way worse than having covid, but way shorter.” Wow. The 2nd dose of Pfizer kicked my ass for 3 solid days but it seems I chose the gentler option compared to J&J (for comparison the shingrix shot was far worse for me)

  19. 19.

    dr. bloor

    An FDA analysis suggests the benefit outweighs the risk of myocarditis currently, with lots of Covid spreading

    An honest analysis that I suspect will make a lot of parents of the five-to-eleven year old set somewhat nervous about jumping on the bandwagon.

  20. 20.

    YY_Sima Qian

    On 10/23 China reported 26 new domestic confirmed & 4 new domestic asymptomatic cases.

    Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region reported 7 new domestic confirmed cases. There currently are 43 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic suspect cases in the region.

    • Ejina Banner in Alxa League reported 2 new domestic confirmed (both residents at Dalaihob Township), both found via mass screening of all residents. There currently are 25 active domestic confirmed cases there. The Dalaihob Township remains at High Risk.
    • Alxa Left Banner in Alxa League did not report any new domestic positive case. There currently is 1 active domestic confirmed case in there, at Bayanhot. 1 sub-district of Bayanhot Township remains at Medium Risk
    • Erenhot in Xilingol League reported 2 new domestic confirmed cases, both traced close contacts already under centralized quarantine since 10/19. There currently are 14 active domestic confirmed cases there. 3 communities are currently at Medium Risk.
    • Hohhot reported 3 new domestic confirmed cases, 2 persons who had ridden the same sleeper train as domestic confirmed cases reported by Yinchuan in Ningxia & Beijing, as well as a traced close contact. There currently are 3 active domestic confirmed & 1 active suspect cases in the city.

    Xi’an in Shaanxi Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed case, a traced close contact already under centralized quarantine since 10/17. There currently are 12 active domestic confirmed cases in the city.

    Ningxia “Autonomous” Region reported 6 new domestic confirmed cases. There currently are 17 active domestic confirmed & 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.

    • Wuzhong reported 3 new domestic confirmed cases. There currently are 9 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
    • Yinchuan reported 3 new domestic confirmed cases. There currently are 8 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 3 residential compounds have been elevated to Medium Risk.

    Gansu Province reported 6 new domestic confirmed cases (1 mild & 5 moderate). There currently are 41 active domestic confirmed cases in the province.

    • Lanzhou reported 5 new domestic confirmed cases (1 mild & 4 moderate), 2 are members of the same tour group w/ confirmed cases, 2 are traced close contacts & 1 is a tour guide who has been taking groups to Ejina Banner in Inner Mongolia, Gansu & Qinghai. There currently are 30 active domestic confirmed cases in the city. 1 residential compound has been elevated to Medium Risk. 3 residential compounds are currently at Medium Risk.
    • Zhangye reported 1 new domestic confirmed case (moderate), a traced close contact. There currently are 7 active domestic confirmed cases in the city. 2 residential compounds have been elevated to Medium Risk.
    • Jiayuguan did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed cases in the city.
    • Longnan did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently is 1 active domestic confirmed case in the city.
    • At Tianshui there currently is 1 active domestic confirmed case, who was previously reported as a case in Lanzhou.

    Hebei Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed case. There currently are 1 active confirmed & 4 active asymptomatic cases in the province.

    • Shijiazhuang reported 1 new domestic confirmed case, source of infect unknown, unclear if the case is related to the ongoing outbreak that started from Ejina Banner in Inner Mongolia. Within 36 hours, 519,108 individuals that are connected to the case have been swabbed (F1 & F2 close contacts, all residents of the compound the case & close contacts live in, all employees of the businesses & organizations that the case & close contacts work at), 456,767 tests performed have all produced negative results.
    • Xingtai did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
    • Baoding did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city

    Hunan Province report 1 new domestic confirmed & 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases. There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed & 3 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.

    • Changsha reported 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases, both traced close contacts. There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed & 3 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
    • Zhuzhou reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case, a possible close contact of a domestic positive case reported at Changsha (shared the same space at the same time).

    Zunyi in Guizhou Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed & 5 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 2 residential compounds are currently Medium Risk.

    Beijing Municipality reported 4 new domestic confirmed cases (2 mild & 2 moderate), all traced close contacts. There currently are 12 active domestic confirmed & 1 asymptomatic cases in the city. The Medium Risk community has been elevated to High Risk.

    Haidong in Qinghai Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently is 1 active domestic confirmed case in the city.

    Tianmen in Hubei Province did not report any new domestic positive cases, both tourists who had visited Gansu & Ejina Banner in Inner Mongolia in the 1st half of Oct., & were driving through Hubei on their way home in Guangdong.

    Dehong Prefecture in Yunnan Province reported 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases (both at Longchuan County, persons already under centralized quarantine). There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed & 20 active domestic asymptomatic cases at the prefecture.

    At Fujian Province 3 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 16 active domestic confirmed cases remaining in the province, all at Xiamen.

    At Heilongjiang Province there currently is 1 active domestic confirmed case remaining in the province, at Harbin.

    At Henan Province there currently are 5 active domestic confirmed cases remaining, all at Shangqiu.

    Imported Cases

    On 10/23, China reported 17 new imported confirmed cases (9 previously asymptomatic), 15 imported asymptomatic cases:

    • Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province – 8 confirmed cases (all previously asymptomatic); 1 asymptomatic case, coming from the South Sudan
    • Shanghai Municipality – 4 confirmed cases, 2 Chinese nationals returning from the UK (via Zürich) & 1 from Switzerland, & a Singaporean national coming from the US
    • Guangxi “Autonomous” Region (location not specified) – 1 confirmed & 3 asymptomatic cases, no information released
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 1 confirmed case (previously asymptomatic), a Chinese national returning from Singapore; 3 asymptomatic cases, 2 Chinese nationals returning from Saudi Arabia & 1 from Thailand
    • Yunnan Province (location not specified) – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Laos, via land border crossing
    • Ruili in Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province – 5 asymptomatic cases, no information released
    • Harbin in Heilongjiang Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Japan; the case had arrived at Dalian in Liaoning Province on 10/7, passed through the 14 days of centralized quarantine & tested negative for RT-PCR 4 times & antibodies once, upon release from quarantine on 10/21 the case returned to Harbin via high speed rail & re-entered centralized quarantine, testing positive on 10/22
    • Beijing Municipality – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Denmark
    • Zhengzhou in Henan Province – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released
    • Jinan in Shandong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a South Korean coming from South Korea
    • Dalian in Liaoning Province – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released

    Overall in China, 28 confirmed cases recovered (25 imported), 15 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (all imported) & 9 were reclassified as confirmed cases (all imported), & 522 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 564 active confirmed cases in the country (406 imported), 13 in serious condition (1 imported), 385 active asymptomatic cases (354 imported), 2 suspect cases (1 imported). 28,789 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.

    As of 10/23, 2,244,727M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 1.709M doses in the past 24 hrs.

    On 10/24 Hong Kong reported 4 new positive cases, all imported.

  21. 21.

    UncleEbeneezer

    We got our Moderna boosters and flu shots yesterday.  I’m J&J first dose, my wife was Moderna.  My arm is sore and am a little tired but nothing crazy.  My wife just woke up with chills and is REALLY achey.  It’s amazing how two bodies with the same shots can react so differently (so far).  Very glad to get my booster as I do most of the shopping and work with kids.  The whole process only took us an hour total with drive there and back.  Then we treated ourselves to Din Tai Fung takeout for dinner which really hit the spot on a chilly fall night.

  24. 24.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @rikyrah: The only downside (aside from my wife’s side effects) was that I cracked a joke to the pharmacist asking when they would activate the 5G, but she just gave me a confused stare.  I had to then try to explain my joke (never a good thing) but she was super-cool and thanked us for being so quick and eager to get vaccinated.  And of course, we thanked her profusely for her service too :)

  26. 26.

    Robert Sneddon

    Scotland — 2,528 new COVID-19 cases reported today. The test positivity rate is 9.9%. There were 21 new deaths reported — due to a data issue this number was not available yesterday and includes 20 new deaths from Saturday. As usual note that Register Offices are now generally closed at weekends. ICU bed occupancy numbers are 58, down three from yesterday while hospitalisations are 899, up three.

    There were just under 5,000 vaccinations carried out in Scotland yesterday (Saturday) with about 65% of these being first vaccinations. 91.9% of 16+ adults are now vaccinated with their first dose and 85.5% are fully vaccinated. 74.7% of 16 and 17-year-olds have now received their first vaccination, up 0.1% from yesterday. 52.0% of 12-15 year olds have now received their first vaccination, up 1.0% from yesterday.

    There were about 31,500 booster vaccinations carried out yesterday in Scotland with a total of over 489,300 boosters to date.

  29. 29.

    Princess Leia

    Got Boosted on Friday morning (team Moderna for shots and booster) by walking into my local CVS. Quick and easy. Asked the Pharmacist whether he thought this was going to be a regular thing…and he said he thought we would be seeing each other every 6 months for a while. Was happy to see others coming in, but too many unmasked folks for my comfort.

  30. 30.

    Laura Too

    @Mike E: My husband got J&J a week later than me. He had no symptoms from it. He’s having a bit more trouble with the booster. We are both very grateful to be able to get it. I will be an election judge at the U of M and I really wanted as much protection as I could get. Gonna be a long day and when I get tired I tend to not be as vigilant.

  31. 31.

    Sloane Ranger

    Saturday in the UK we had 44,985 new cases. This will be an undercount due to office closures and Wales not reporting on Saturdays’ but, even so, the rolling 7-day average is up by 15.2%. New cases by nation,

    England – 41,259 (down 486)

    Northern Ireland – 1323 (down 32)

    Scotland – 2403 (down 409)

    Wales – Does not report on Saturdays’.

    Deaths – There were 135 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. The rolling 7-day average is up by 12.1%. 125 deaths were in England, 10 in Northern Ireland, none in Scotland and Wales does not report on Saturdays’.

    Testing – Not updated at weekends.

    Hospitalisations – Not updated at weekends.

    Vaccinations – England has not updated it’s vaccination figures due to unknown reasons. As of Friday, 22 October, the number of known 1st vaccinations is 49,606,419 and of 2nd vaccinations, 45,489,980. In percentage terms this translates as 86.3% of people aged 12+ having had one shot and 79.1%, two.

    Pressure is building on the English Government to re-introduce some mitigation measures, like masks in crowded spaces, but they are resisting. They are putting all their hope in increased testing and vaccinations but are increasingly looking like the Captain of the Titanic to everyone except the Boris fan boys and girls.

  32. 32.

    Ohio Mom

    Ohio Dad and I got our boosters yesterday morning. He’s fine but my upper arm feels bruised. Big deal, I’ve had worse aches and pains.

    And yes, we are expecting to need boosters next April. It will be just another errand, up there with scheduling the annual heat pump servicing, getting the car’s oil changed, going to the dentist to have teeth cleaned, the list goes on and on. At least this errand is free.

  33. 33.

    Scout211

    I am a little frustrated with the California public health’s sign-up site. They have not updated their eligibility to the new guidelines yet. And all the county programs and doctors’ offices need either the state’s website for sign-ups or approval from the state to do their own scheduling. Mr. Scout wants to wait for our doctor’s office to schedule the booster but I talked him into going to the grocery store pharmacy near our old house yesterday (where we often get our shots) and the pharmacist there said they weren’t administering the Moderna boosters yet. What!? They are part of a national pharmacy chain! But she said something like “our company attorneys need to look over the guidelines, blah, blah, blah . . . “
    So we are back to calling our doctor’s office tomorrow and hoping the state gives them approval to start the boosters. Grrr. At least we aren’t going anywhere for the next couple of days due the crazy weather here. We can wait, I guess.

  34. 34.

    J R in WV

    @Quinerly:

    And, my faith in old white men has been somewhat restored. Old white man behind me was somewhat emotional and very grateful.

    I’m an old white guy, and I got my third Moderna vaccination in V late August, a full sized dose, as the Health Dept in the county next door had doses of all flavors of vaccine about to expire, and was willing to put those doses in arms instead of the medical waste incinerator.

    Our first and second doses were in our home county in Feb and March. We were glad to learn that those vaccinations were stored in the state-wide vaccination data base! At the very end of the booster shot experience, the EMT asked each of us which vaccine we wanted, so there was our chance to get a mixed media Pfizer booster. But we both went for the Moderna on top of Moderna.

    Glad you got a booster, Quinerly. Maybe you should lay low for a couple of weeks now… let that immunity build up a bit before you hit the road again !

  35. 35.

    Kent

    I thought Naomi Wolf got banned from twitter.  Why is she still polluting my screen?

    On boosters, here is a sampling of one.  My wife who is basically a front-line primary care physician in this pandemic decided to get our daughter boosted.  She had the J&J last spring.  My wife got her in for a 2-course regimen of Moderna as she is possibly taking a job in Charlestown SC.  She and her colleagues have basically settled on the idea that Moderna is now the gold standard and THEIR preferred booster if you have had the J&J previously.   Most of the doctors in her clinic are getting boosted with Moderna.

    Myself, I got the Pfizer booster last weekend.

  36. 36.

    Bill Arnold

    @Brachiator:

    A sad irony is that a lot of the Covid misinformation hitting eastern Europe appears to be coming from Russia, and yet Russia itself has a huge problem with vaccine hesitancy and Covid conspiracy nonsense.

    Another problem Russia has is its official lies about COVID-19 death statistics. (And case statistics.) The excess deaths figures show clearly that Russia’s official statistics are lying by about a factor of three. This reduces the urgency level in the general population.
    Stupid. And there are suggestions the V. Putin is genuinely surprised about the low Russian vaccine uptake. Which would not be surprising; even the Russian leadership appears to be caught inside their closed information silo(/constructed false reality).

  37. 37.

    StringOnAStick

    @Bill Arnold: You know it’s gotten much worse in Russia now that the daily official death toll has breached 1,000.  It’s been so obvious that they were fudging as much as they could to keep it below that “magic” number.

  39. 39.

    Ruckus

    @debbie: 
    You really think so?
    I don’t. They think their political intelligence makes them immune. They fail to realize that their political intelligence number is zero. Exactly the wrong direction for immunity. And they drive into that solid brick wall at the speed of stupidity, which brick walls withstand very well. They aren’t very smart, they work to make themselves stupider, and then they revel in it.

  40. 40.

    Ruckus

    @Mike E:

    We all react to vaccines in different ways. You may be able to sort those ways into various schemes but there are noticeable differences between them. For some the Covid vaccines are a big nothing, for others they are rather strong, at least on one of the three shots. And then there are the mass vaccination issues. I was hospitalized for 9 days after my boot camp vaccination day. I don’t know all the vaccines but there were a lot of them. Oh well, I’ve never gotten any of the diseases and I did actually get better.

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