Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

The words do not have to be perfect.

This fight is for everything.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Republicans in disarray!

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

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  1. 1.

    NeenerNeener

    Monroe County, NY:

    Monroe County website: 285 new cases yesterday (up from 127 new cases the day before), and NYSDOH says 235 new cases yesterday.
    I knew those lower numbers two days in a row were too good to be true.

  2. 2.

    John S.

    I suspect we’re all gonna be getting annual covid vaccines for the indefinite future

    Only those of us that aren’t batshit crazy. There’s at least 27% (the crazification factor) of the population who have decided that vaccines are a hill they are literally willing to die upon.

  3. 3.

    Bruce K in ATH-GR

    @John S.:

    There’s at least 27% (the crazification factor) of the population who have decided that vaccines are a hill they are literally willing to die upon.

    If they want to die on that hill, let them follow through and die on it already. My issue is that they’re planning to kill a lot of us who don’t want to die on their hill.

  4. 4.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reports 6,377 new Covid-19 cases today in its media statement, tfor a cumulative reported total of 2,454,769 cases. It also reports 98 deaths as of midnight, for an adjusted cumulative total of 28,674 deaths – 1.17% of the cumulative reported total, 1.20% of resolved cases.

    Based on cases reported yesterday, Malaysia’s nationwide Rt is at 0.94.

    500 confirmed cases are in ICU, 207 of them on ventilators. Meanwhile, 6,637 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 2,354,622 patients recovered – 95.9% of the cumulative reported total.

    Eight new clusters were reported today, for a cumulative total of 5,752 clusters. 474 clusters are currently active; 5,278 clusters are now inactive.

    6,345 new cases today are local infections. 32 new cases today are imported.

    The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 147,242 doses of vaccine on 27th October: 18,493 first doses, 123,182 second doses, and 5,567 booster doses. As of midnight yesterday, the cumulative total is 49,581,855 doses administered: 25,431,328 first doses, 24,165,940 second doses, and 152,036 booster doses. 77.9% of the population have received their first dose, while 74.0% are now fully vaccinated.

  5. 5.

    Matt McIrvin

    Truth be told, I suspect we’re all gonna be getting annual covid vaccines for the indefinite future…

    It depends on what we consider the vaccines are for, I think. It’s possible that three or even two shots of the major vaccines are enough to give most people protection against severe COVID that lasts for years. But if we want to appreciably prevent people from getting infected at all, we’ll likely need regular boosters. Some of this depends on how bad breakthrough COVID infections really are over the long haul–there are a lot of unknowns.

  6. 6.

    The Thin Black Duke

    @Bruce K in ATH-GR: But what the rest of us (who aren’t batshit crazy) can do is subtract the idiots who refuse to get vaccinated from our lives. I recently left the best band situation I ever had (I liked our setlist, we rehearsed at my singer’s house, so we didn’t pay studio fees) because my singer lied to me about getting vaccinated, and hung out with other idiots who drank the Fox News Kool-aid. So I left. Cut these idiots loose if you can, and tell them why.

  9. 9.

    New Deal democrat

    Bad news first today: 3 Rocky Mountain States – CO, NM, and UT – now in confirmed uptrends. Most other States flat to slightly declining. In particular the big decline in the South looks like it is flattening out as of this week.

    Good news: a further decline in deaths below 1400, and cases nationwide have continued to decline, albeit at a slower rate, now driven by the heavily vaccinated Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States. Cases now at the same level as mid-May and mid-July. If the current slow rate of decline continues, we could be at late June’s lows in about 45 days if there is no winter wave. Vaccinations + recent mass infections by Delta may keep any such wave subdued.

  10. 10.

    John S.

    @The Thin Black Duke:

    Good for you. Now is the time when personal choices really matter. I choose to be vaccinated, get my kids vaccinated and keep my family out of harms way. I will also be choosing to leave Florida after 40 years because this place is a dumpster fire. And moving means I will have to quit my job after nearly 10 years.

    Choices matter in life, and nobody should feel like a bystander.

  12. 12.

    Peale

    So why do I get the feeling that the “I’d rather take invecterminobleach than get the death shot” crew (it’s approved and it’s a prophylaxis!) aren’t going to go rushing out to take fluvoximin? Or, if they do take antidepressants, they’ll focus specifically on ones that haven’t been studied.

  13. 13.

    AndoChronic

    Thanks for the WaPo mood disorders article. I just forwarded it to my boss lady at my rehab clinic and will touch base with the addiction Dr. Most of our pts come in with a mood disorder. Our RNs do a Covid and flu shot clinic once a month for our pts already, but this is huge. Saving lives one blog post at a time you are.

  14. 14.

    Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony

    @Matt McIrvin: Once more of the world is vaccinated and the unexposed and unvaccinated have all gotten sick (at least once), coronavirus shots will end up being like flu shots. It is in everyones best interest not to get sick and miss work or school. Just because the covidiots refuse to believe it, doesn’t make it less true.

  15. 15.

    Matt McIrvin

    It is a fact, whether we like it or not, that the vast majority of parents will not do anything that imposes a danger on their children just to benefit strangers.

    However, if we are interpreting facts correctly, it’s actually irrelevant to the COVID vaccination question, because the fact also remains that even for young children vaccination is less dangerous than catching COVID. As always, all the bad things the vaccine has any chance of doing, the virus is more likely to do. And the vaccines are extremely effective in children.

    When the myocarditis-in-teens scare happened I saw some people tie themselves into knots over the tricky medical-ethics question of whether it was OK to increase the danger to teenagers by vaccinating them, just to keep other people from getting COVID. But they were just assuming that that dilemma even existed in the first place, I think because they were the sort of people who found tricky medical-ethics dilemmas interesting. And it doesn’t exist–teenagers are more likely even to get myocarditis from COVID, so even if the risk from vaccination is there, the whole dilemma goes away.

  16. 16.

    The Thin Black Duke

    @Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony: Bottom line, why would anyone volunteer to be a permanent guest of America’s lousy health care system? When there are long-term medical issues connected to recovering from Covid, the idea of willingly subjecting yourself to a lifetime of bad health and onerous hospital bills is ridiculous. Then again, bad decisions is one of the rituals of their tribe.

  17. 17.

    Hoodie

    @New Deal democrat:  Just got back from western CO.  I know it’s a deep red area, but it was still surprising to see the degree of masking non-compliance, even more than I’ve witnessed in  deep red places like south Georgia.  Perhaps this is because CO as a state has fairly strict masking policies due to the political weight of the urbanized and relatively liberal Front Range, and these other areas of the state are into extreme performative rejection of that influence?

  18. 18.

    Cermet

    Extremely good news about Merck’s drug that they are turning the rights over to the UN for poor countries to produce – a 50% reduction in hospitalizations for people with Covid is pretty good. When locally produced, and since it is over-the-counter and would be within many poor peoples means this could be a game changer in many very poor countries when combined with their inevitable limited vaccination rates. As for fluvoxamine, depends on what they mean by reduction (10%, 50%, 99%, ?) and inexpensive (cost to treat – $1, $5, ?) In the poorest countries anything above a very low cost will be unaffordable.

  19. 19.

    Dan B

    @Matt McIrvin: I’m off to get Shingrix #2 this morning.  I’m anticipating (not in a happy way) being sick for a day or two.  But the stories about Shingles are persuasive.

     

    I’ve become convinced that there are a limited number of people who are adept at 1. Logic, and 2. Checking information thoroughly.  If they hear that the vaccination can cause myocarditis they do not know what that is but a scary big word and forever after vaccination = dangerous.  If they hear that Covid is more likely to cause myocarditis than the vaccination it will make no difference because their fear makes them forget that the word myocarditis with Covid is the same word, myocarditis, that was linked with vaccination.  If they hear that you are much more likely to get extremely ill, have permanent side effects, or die, from Covid than from the vaccination it might sink in but any message that activates fear will throw their limited logical capacity into the dust bin.  It’s also why simple messaging is very important.

  20. 20.

    MattF

    It’s possible that there are as-yet unknown specific populations with specific traits that make them particularly vulnerable to as-yet unknown specific COVID strains. This would explain the very rapid rise and fall of Delta variant deaths and the clustering of deaths within family groups. It would have consequences for vaccination policy— after burning through any particular area, COVID would look like  a more typical endemic disease, bad for an unlucky few but controllable with vaccination.

  21. 21.

    New Deal democrat

    @Matt McIrvin: Agreed. Iirc, that myocarditis scare came from a study that was later debunked as a basic math error. But I still had it cited to me the other night as a reason not to vaccinate children.

    Even basic childhood vaccinations cause a (very) few deaths each year – but a much lower risk then the diseases themselves.

  22. 22.

    Soprano2

    @Dan B: I’ve become convinced that there are a limited number of people who are adept at 1. Logic, and 2. Checking information thoroughly.  If they hear that the vaccination can cause myocarditis they do not know what that is but a scary big word and forever after vaccination = dangerous.

    I think it’s as much about poor reporting as anything. Here’s an example – from what I’ve seen reported here and elsewhere, the vast majority of studies of people who have long Covid are of people who were sick enough to go to the hospital and/or be admitted to the hospital, yet they draw conclusions about long Covid for the whole population of people who have had Covid! Because of poor early testing and asymptomatic cases I think what those studies find only applies to people who were sick enough to go to the ER or be hospitalized, yet I bet the vast  majority of people who read those articles now think that if you’ve had Covid at all you have a one in two chance of having long Covid. The reporting of all kinds of things surrounding Covid has been sloppy IMHO, and some of it is just outright fearmongering. Covid is going to be with us for the long term, so we have to figure out how to live with it in the world, just like we live with the flu.

  23. 23.

    New Deal democrat

    @Hoodie: in re CO specifically, I really have no clue. But the red counties in the CDC’s weekly report of community spread follow the spine of the Rockies.

  24. 24.

    New Deal democrat

    @MattF: the circumstantial evidence from Delta suggests that this (specific particularly vulnerable populations) is almost certainly the case.

  25. 25.

    Scout211

    We got our Moderna boosters yesterday. Mr. Scout had zero side effects and I had a very mild version of Moderna #2 side effects last night but that seems to be over (other than a sore arm). It was the first time we had gone to CVS for our vaccinations and we were pleased with the whole vaccination process there.

  26. 26.

    The Moar You Know

    I’m off to get Shingrix #2 this morning.  I’m anticipating (not in a happy way) being sick for a day or two.  But the stories about Shingles are persuasive.

    @Dan B: shingrix #2 is by far the sickest I have ever been after a shot.  Really bad.  Thought I was going to have to go to the ER for about an hour, then it calmed down a bit, but I was flat on my back for two days and walking wounded for another.  So be prepared.

    Having had a bout of shingles in my past, it’s no contest.  I’d take that second shot every month just to make sure I never have an experience like that again.  It feels exactly like getting stabbed in the face, for days, and nothing helps.

  27. 27.

    MattF

    Getting a Pfizer booster at a local CVS this afternoon. Got my first shot (J&J) there as well, so all my COVID records will be in one place. Bonus CVS advantage is that you can get cvs.com to generate a .pdf file COVID verification QR code that follows the SMART standard that can be printed out and then scanned into the iPhone wallet app. Plan to get a Moderna shot if a third round is necessary.

  29. 29.

    Scout211

    @Dan B:

    @The Moar You Know:

    shingrix #2 is by far the sickest I have ever been after a shot.

    For me, Shingrix #2 side effects were milder than Shingrix #1, so everyone reacts differently.  I did drink lots of water and take Tylenol every 6 hours after #2, which I think helped.  Still, the Moderna #2 for me was worse and lasted longer.

    Good luck Dan B, I hope it goes well for you.

  32. 32.

    Robert Sneddon

    Scotland — 2,153 new COVID-19 cases reported today. The test positivity rate is 6.3%. There were 20 new deaths reported but note that Register Offices are generally closed at weekends. ICU bed occupancy numbers are 58, up one from yesterday while hospitalisations are 932, up seven.

    The number of vaccinations carried out yesterday in Scotland is not available right now due to data processing delays.

  34. 34.

    Scout211

    Judge denies   NYC police union’s challenge to the vaccine mandate.

    State Supreme Court Judge Lizette Colon denied a request from New York City’s largest police union to block Mayor Bill de Blasio’s mandate that all municipal workers get at least one covid shot by Monday. Meanwhile, the head of the city’s firefighter union said members should defy the mandate.

  35. 35.

    gvg

    @Scout211: ​
      I had no reaction at all to either Shingrex shot except a slightly sore arm. In fact so far I have only possibly had some tiredness from Pfizer, that may only have been working hard and getting older. Apparently shots don’t impact me so far. I may get a Moderna booster, so we will see.
    I don’t count slightly sore arms as a reaction. To me, that is to be expected, and usually I don’t even have that.

  37. 37.

    Fair Economist

    It would be great if fluvoxamine helped with COVID but there’s been so much bogus research I don’t trust any study not under the auspices of a major Western health agency. Even China put out some bogus HCQ research only (although looks to be wishful interpretation and p sniping, not full on fraud.)

  38. 38.

    Percysowner

    @gvg: Shingrex didn’t affect me with either shot, although #2 left my arm hurting for a week, but I don’t consider that a reaction.

    Moderna #2 had me feeling icky for 24 hours then I was fine.

  40. 40.

    Kalakal

    @Dan B: Good luck, I’m going for mine in a month or so. Can’t say I had much of a reaction to the first one but however bad it’s got to be better than Shingles.

    Most painful shots I have had were cholera every 6 months, they didn’t make you feel ill but your arm was really sore for a day or so

  41. 41.

    Matt McIrvin

    Looks like the apparent dramatic drops in weekly case averages for NH was the result of a reporting anomaly, so I don’t actually trust that their outbreak is abating.

  42. 42.

    Robert Sneddon

    @mrmoshpotato: Part of it is the union being reflexively against anything the Management impose on their members without consultation and/or negotiation. Unions in the US are, by their nature, reactive on this front given the history of the Robber Barons and Pinkerton strike-breakers in the past times of unfettered capitalism. Yes, getting vaccinated is a no-brainer but the union is still required to stand up for their members rights.

  45. 45.

    YY_Sima Qian

    On 10/27 China reported 23 new domestic confirmed (2 previously asymptomatic) & 11 new domestic asymptomatic cases.

    Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region reported 7 new domestic confirmed cases. There currently are 117 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic suspect cases in the region.

    • Ejina Banner in Alxa League reported 7 new domestic confirmed (all at Dalaihob Township; all from mass screening). There currently are 96 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 did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 16 active domestic confirmed cases there. 3 communities are currently at Medium Risk.
    • Hohhot did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 3 active domestic confirmed & 1 active suspect cases in the city. 2 residential compounds are currently at Medium Risk.
    • Ejin Horo Banner in Erdos did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently is 1 active domestic confirmed case in the banner.

    Xi’an in Shaanxi Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 14 active domestic confirmed cases in the city.

    Ningxia “Autonomous” Region reported 2 new domestic confirmed cases. There currently are 24 active domestic confirmed cases in the region.

    • Wuzhong did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 10 active domestic confirmed cases in the city.
    • Yinchuan reported 2 new domestic confirmed cases, both traced close contacts already under centralized quarantine since 10/17. There currently are 13 active domestic confirmed cases in the city. 3 residential compounds are currently at Medium Risk.
    • Zhongwei did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently is 1 active domestic confirmed case in the city

    Gansu Province reported 8 new domestic confirmed cases (all mild). There currently are 63 active domestic confirmed cases (including 12 serious & 1 critical) in the province.

    • Lanzhou reported 2 new domestic confirmed cases (both mild), both traced close contacts already under centralized quarantine since 10/19 & 10/26, respectively. There currently are 44 active domestic confirmed cases in the city. 3 residential compounds are currently at Medium Risk.
    • Zhangye reported 4 new domestic confirmed cases (all mild), 2 are traced close contacts already under centralized quarantine since 10/21, & 2 are found via 3rd round of mass screening in the city. There currently are 11 active domestic confirmed cases in the city. 2 residential compounds are currently at Medium Risk.
    • Jiayuguan reported 2 new domestic confirmed cases (both mild), both traced close contacts already under centralized quarantine since 10/19. There currently are 5 active domestic confirmed cases in the city.
    • Longnan did not report any new domestic positive case. There currently are 2 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 did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 3 active confirmed & 3 active asymptomatic cases in the province.

    • Shijiazhuang did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. Phylogenetic analysis has shown that the cases are connected to the ongoing outbreak spreading from Ejina Banner in Inner Mongolia.
    • Xingtai did not report any  new domestic confirmed cases (both previously asymptomatic). There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed 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 did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 4 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.

    • Changsha did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 4 active domestic confirmed cases in the city.
    • Zhuzhou did not report any new domestic positive cases, There currently is 1 active domestic asymptomatic case in the city.

    Zunyi in Guizhou Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 11 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 2 residential compounds are currently at Medium Risk.

    Beijing Municipality reported 3 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic, all mild) & 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all 4 new positive cases are traced close contacts. There currently are 23 active domestic confirmed & 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 1 community remains at High Risk & 1 community is currently at Medium Risk.

    Rizhao in Shandong Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed (2 mild & 2 moderate) & 4 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all traced close contacts. There currently are 6 active domestic confirmed & 4 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 1 residential compound is currently at Medium Risk.

    Zigong in Sichuan Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed case (previously asymptomatic), a person who had traveled through southern Gansu in mid-Oct. & had crossed paths w/ the tour group that reported positive cases at Lanzhou in Gansu.

    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. There currently are 2 domestic confirmed cases in the city.

    Heihe in Heilongjiang Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed (mild) & 3 new domestic asymptomatic cases. The domestic confirmed case was identified via screening at hospital intake. The 3 domestic asymptomatic cases are traced close contacts. Aihui District (where are cases are located) has completed the 1st round of mass screening of all residents, w/ 152,406 individuals swabs, all except the 4 aforementioned positive cases have tested negative. The 2nd round of mass screening started this morning. Heihe is on the border w/ Russia & a major border crossing. When the 1st identified case is found at hospital intake, history suggests a cluster has already developed, which explain by the municipal authorities issued order to restrict movement. This cluster is probably not connected to the outbreak that spread from Ejina Banner in Inner Mongolia.

    Dehong Prefecture in Yunnan Province reported 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases (1 each at Ruili & Longchuan County, found from screening of persons already under centralized quarantine). There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed & 27 active domestic asymptomatic cases at the prefecture.

    At Fujian Province 5 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 3 active domestic confirmed cases remaining in the province, all at Xiamen.

    At Heilongjiang Province the domestic confirmed case at Harbin recovered.

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

    Imported Cases

    On 10/27, China reported 16 new imported confirmed cases (8 previously asymptomatic), 20 imported asymptomatic cases:

    • Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province – 8 confirmed cases (all previously asymptomatic); 1 asymptomatic case, coming from Tanzania
    • Zhengzhou in Henan Province – 3 confirmed & 4 asymptomatic cases, no information released
    • Xiamen in Fujian Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Singapore
    • Putian in Fujian Province – 1 confirmed case, no information released
    • Beijing Municipality – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from the UK (via Stockholm); 1 asymptomatic case, no information released
    • Wuhan in Hubei Province – 1 confirmed case, coming from Pakistan; 3 asymptomatic cases, 2 coming from Pakistan & 1 from Myanmar
    • Guangxi “Autonomous” Region (location not specified) – 1 confirmed & 2 asymptomatic cases, no information released
    • Foshan in Guangdong Province – 3 asymptomatic cases, 1 each coming from Kyrgyzstan, Singapore & there UAE; all off flights that landed at Guangzhou
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a foreign national returning from the US
    • Shenzhen in Guangdong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Indonesia
    • Yantai in Shandong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released
    • Ruili in Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province – 3 asymptomatic cases, no information released

    Overall in China, 23 confirmed cases recovered (17 imported), 5 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (all imported) & 10 were reclassified as confirmed cases (8 imported), & 966 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 659 active confirmed cases in the country (378 imported), 33 in serious condition (1 imported), 408 active asymptomatic cases (366 imported), 4 suspect cases (3 imported). 39,121 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.

    As of 10/27, 2,254.252M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 2.913M doses in the past 24 hrs.

    On 10/28 Hong Kong reported 2 new positive cases, all imported.

  46. 46.

    YY_Sima Qian

    It is no accident that Ruili in Yunnan Province, Ejina Banner in Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region & Heihe in Heilongjiang Province are seeing domestic outbreaks. Ruili is a major border crossing w/ Myanmar, & has recently seen a flood of repatriated Chinese nationals from Myanmar (who were there illegally). The global energy crunch has forced China to significantly increase coal import from Mongolia & Russia. Ceke border crossing at Ejina Banner is the main port of entry for Mongolian coal, & Heihe is one of the key entry points for Russian coal. Due to lack of cross-border rail network, Mongolian & Russian coal are generally trucked across the border, making for greater human to human contact.

  47. 47.

    The Pale Scot

    @The Thin Black Duke:

    Paging thru the Herman Cain Awards, an amazing number of the winners, have children, spouses, multiple children, and no life or health insurance.

    So critical thinking is in short supply all around

  48. 48.

    Sloane Ranger

    Wednesday in the UK we had 43,941 new cases. This is a decrease of 4% in the rolling 7-day average. New cases by nation,

    England – 37,502 (up 5222)

    Northern Ireland – 1291 (up 167)

    Scotland – 2566 (up 304)

    Wales – 2582 (down 2706, but yesterday’s numbers were effectively 3 days’ worth of cases).

    Deaths – There were 207 deaths within 28 days of a positive test reported yesterday. This is an increase of 5.9% in the rolling 7-day average. 169 deaths were in England, 6 in Northern Ireland, 27 in Scotland and 5 in Wales.

    Testing – 802,547 tests took place on Tuesday. The rolling 7-day average is down by 4.5%. The PCR testing capacity reported by labs on that day was 861,316.

    Hospitalisations – There were 8801 people in hospital and 950 people on ventilators on Tuesday. The rolling 7-day average for hospital admissions was up by 14.4% as of 23 October.

    Vaccinations – As of Tuesday, 49,794,120 people had received 1 shot of a vaccine, 45,605,922 had received 2 and 6,706,468 had had a booster. In percentage terms this means that 86.6% of UK residents have had 1 shot of a vaccine, 79.3% had had 2 and 11.7% had had a booster shot.

  49. 49.

    StringOnAStick

    Move that arm around and use the muscle after any vaccination.  I immediately went stand up paddling after my second Shingrex, I never had even any soreness like I did with the first.  I was also that idiot at the mass Pfizer vax site who moved my arm around the whole 15 minute post waiting period, and my husband did not; his arm was too sore to sleep on, mine was a little sore but I could sleep on it immediately.

    Thanks so much for the CDC guidance on boosters for people with mood disorders; for once my depression issues have been helpful.  We’re 63 and while we got vaxed early because my hubby has CLL, there was no question on the sign up this time for if you are someone in close contact with an immunocompromised person, so I figured I was out of luck.  Now we’re both scheduled for a booster.

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