Exercise your freedom to live without fear. Get vaccinated.
— President Biden (@POTUS) June 2, 2021
62.9% of all American adults have received at least one vaccine shot; 51.9% are now fully vaccinated. But at this rate, it will take another 5 months to cover 75% of the population. pic.twitter.com/9BTBVHNAvB
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) June 3, 2021
Four of the largest child care providers in the U.S. have agreed to offer free child care to parents and caregivers while they get vaccinated during the next month, President Biden will announce on Wednesday. https://t.co/p6viFRFSWY
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 2, 2021
The US had +16,974 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 today, bringing the total higher above 34.1 million. The 7-day moving average declined to 16,501 new cases per day, its lowest level since March 28, 2020. pic.twitter.com/ECG8NMwtrU
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) June 3, 2021
COVID-19 Testing, Treatment, and Vaccines are FREE For Uninsured Patients, Regardless of Immigration Status pic.twitter.com/tSwASkcIV2
— Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (@JohnsHopkinsSPH) June 2, 2021
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Summit secures $2.4 bln for COVID shots for poor countries https://t.co/EeMQdMkHfC pic.twitter.com/VrPLOZYqMR
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 2, 2021
After a slow start, China is now doing what virtually no other country in the world can: harnessing the power and all-encompassing reach of its one-party system and a maturing domestic vaccine industry to administer shots at a staggering pace. https://t.co/D9NyyASpOH
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 3, 2021
Vietnam has issued mass text messages calling for public donations for the government’s COVID-19 vaccine fund to purchase, import, research and produce vaccines.
The $1.1 billion fund will be launched on Saturday. https://t.co/h4PpmrtTbw— James Pearson (@pearswick) June 2, 2021
594 doctors succumbed due to COVID-19 in second wave of virus: Indian Medical Association https://t.co/dRj7QU6tcu via @NewIndianXpress
— Crawford Kilian (@Crof) June 2, 2021
Covid-19: India top court criticises vaccination drive https://t.co/s0Yhp3QjZ1
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 3, 2021
India signs deal with domestic vaccine maker Biological-E for 300 mln doses https://t.co/XWtyaH5Unt pic.twitter.com/MW8WwrF7CA
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 3, 2021
India’s government signed its first purchase order for unapproved COVID-19 vaccines on Thursday, a day after it faced criticism from the top judiciary about a bungled vaccine rollout that has left millions of people vulnerable…
The government will buy 300 million doses from local firm Biological-E and has put down an advance of $205.6 million, the health ministry said, even though the vaccine is still undergoing phase-3 clinical trials, before approvals can be given.
India has been inoculating its people with the AstraZeneca (AZN.L) vaccine produced locally at the Serum Institute of India (SII), Covaxin made by local firm Bharat Biotech and has begun rolling out Russia’s Sputnik V.
But supplies are running tight after the government opened vaccinations to all adults last month. Some vaccination centres have had to close down, prompting criticism from the Supreme Court about a lack of proper planning…
So far, about 4.7% of the country’s 950 million adult population have been given both doses. The government said this week supplies are improving and it could have as many as 10 million doses each day in July and August, up from just under three million now…
India announced on Thursday 134,154 new COVID-19 infections over the past 24 hours, still high but down more than 65% from a peak of 414,188 reported on May 7. The official recorded case load since the start of the pandemic now stands at 28.4 million.
Coronavirus curbs shutter thousands of Bangkok restaurants https://t.co/p7vWDAaZvZ pic.twitter.com/lPD5Ki7z67
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 3, 2021
Not too many anti-Vaxxer wingnuts in South Korea. A first US step out of vaccine nationalism.
Johnson & Johnson Vaccination Fully Booked in 1 Day https://t.co/fMnZZseP8N— Robert Manning (@Rmanning4) June 2, 2021
Taiwan says too early to talk of lockdown, but "no optimism" over COVID trends https://t.co/pbNZoZdpWs pic.twitter.com/3SEyAiVrrP
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 3, 2021
Taiwan appreciates Japan considering COVID-19 vaccine donations https://t.co/cwSDtQ7r8B pic.twitter.com/AvbQQX0QO9
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 3, 2021
"In a separate, unpublished, real-world study of Sinopharm in Serbia, 29% of 150 participants were found to have zero antibodies against the virus three months after they received the first of two shots of the vaccine." https://t.co/ZEeLcytaZu
— Gregg Carlstrom (@glcarlstrom) June 3, 2021
Australia's Victoria state reported its lowest rise in new COVID-19 cases in more than a week, a day after a snap lockdown in capital Melbourne was extended for another week https://t.co/J96rPV6ROk pic.twitter.com/kp8LgvRg2q
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 3, 2021
The Australian millennials desperate for Covid vaccines https://t.co/DTKuJexajS
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 2, 2021
Germany's confirmed coronavirus cases rise by 4,640 – RKI https://t.co/oG8lytkqOO pic.twitter.com/SPaqMwSn74
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 3, 2021
Britain says 75% of U.K.'s adult population has received at least one dose of coronavirus vaccine and nearly 50% are fully vaccinated. The health secretary says the U.K. reached the milestone in less than six months. https://t.co/SmP0O6zQtm
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 2, 2021
Brazil defends hosting of Copa America tournament
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 2, 2021
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Moderna has applied for full FDA approval of its Covid vaccine. It currently has emergency-use approval. Full approval would make it easier for schools, employers, govt agencies & the military—which has encountered vaccine hesitancy—to mandate the shots https://t.co/tDjrEG0Q0U
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) June 2, 2021
Scientists have found clues that the world’s leading COVID-19 vaccines offer lasting protection that could diminish the need for frequent booster shots, but they caution that more research is needed and that virus mutations are still a wild card. https://t.co/pBoz3QHz6L
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 2, 2021
India's Serum Institute seeks approval to make Russia's Sputnik V vaccine -local media https://t.co/iVyUKEesEj pic.twitter.com/9I7g0MK8xe
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 3, 2021
Israeli researchers now feel pretty confident there is a link between the Pfizer vaccine and myocarditis in young men, @GretchenVogel1 and @jcouzin report. Most cases were mild and resolved within a few weeks. More research needed. https://t.co/EsAgm1xbi1
— Martin Enserink (@martinenserink) June 2, 2021
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NY is the 1st state to have a vaccine passport. Will the Excelsior Pass catch on? More than 1 million passes have been downloaded since they were introduced, but officials are hoping they will be adopted more widely https://t.co/ipmaJCerKI
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) June 2, 2021
Git yer SHOT!
West Virginia to give away guns as vaccine incentive https://t.co/YkFJsQpyHg pic.twitter.com/LnBdukTzZl
— The Hill (@thehill) June 2, 2021
Cermet
The daily death rate is outrageously high considering we have a vaccine that is essentially 100% effective at prevent .. .wait for it … death! As I posted before, we have entered the time frame for the virus of stupid. Many of the people now dying and soon the vast majority will be solely due to being too stupid to get their free vaccination. Simply tragic that hundreds of humans in this country will die for this reason.
Soapdish
It’s a small price to pay to own the libs, @Cermet:
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY stats:
42 new cases – 69% were people under 40, including 14 children between 0 and 19. Adults in their 20s, 30s and 40s pretty much had the same number of cases.
Deaths are now at 1303.
1.9% test positivity
57.2% with at least 1 shot
50% totally vaccinated
For about the last week we’ve been under 100 cases per day, but still with over 100 people hospitalized, around 40 in the ICU and we’re losing 10 to 12 per week.
Matt McIrvin
Today’s the day I take my teenage daughter for her second COVID shot–that rate of myocarditis in teens is higher than I’m entirely comfortable with, but, as with most vaccine side effects, that’s the kind of thing you can easily get from a COVID infection too, so I don’t imagine it changes the overall risk calculation.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the next revision of the vaccine has a lowered dose for young people.
YY_Sima Qian
On 6/2 China reported 15 new domestic confirmed (4 previously asymptomatic) & 5 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
Guangdong Province reported 15 new domestic confirmed (4 previously asymptomatic) & 5 domestic asymptomatic cases. There currently are 61 domestic confirmed & 27 domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Anhui Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 2 domestic asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. There are 1 domestic confirmed & 3 domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Liaoning Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There are 6 domestic confirmed & 3 domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
In Yunnan Province, there currently are 4 domestic confirmed & 2 domestic asymptomatic cases.
Imported Cases
On 6/2 China reported 9 new imported confirmed cases, 13 imported asymptomatic cases:
Overall in China, 6 confirmed cases recovered, 21 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation & 4 were reclassified as confirmed cases, and 507 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 364 active confirmed cases in the country (293 imported), 7 in serious condition (2 imported), 373 asymptomatic cases (335 imported), 2 suspect case (both imported). 8,539 traced contacts are currently
As of 6/1, 704.826M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 22.918M doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 6/2, Hong Kong reported 1 new positive case, imported (from Indonesia).
hells littlest angel
For right-wingers, a day without fear is like a day without
sunshinehatred.Chyron HR
“You can still be a public health hazard, just not an infectious one, okay?”
Soprano2
In WVa they know who’s resistant to vaccination.
Anne Laurie
If it helps, the little I’ve seen so far is that those very rare incidents of myocarditis seem to be among young men.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Director-General of Heath Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 8,209 new Covid-19 cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 595,374 cases. He also reports 103 new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 3,096 deaths — 0.52% of the cumulative reported total, 0.60% of resolved cases.
There are currently 83,331 active and contagious cases; 880 are in ICU, 446 of them intubated. Meanwhile, 7,049 patients recovered and were discharged, for a cumulative total of 508,947 patients recovered – 85.48% of the cumulative reported total.
24 new clusters were reported today.
8,145 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 3,123 local cases: 201 in clusters, 2,298 close-contact screenings, and xx other screenings. Kuala Lumpur reports 795 local cases: 65 in clusters, 447 close-contact screenings, and 283 other screenings. Johor reports 697 local cases: 297 in clusters, 287 close-contact screenings, and 113 other screenings.
Sarawak reports 594 cases: 103 in clusters, 366 close-contact screenings, and 125 other screenings. Negeri Sembilan reports 576 cases: 110 in clusters, 212 close-contact screenings, and 254 other screenings.
Kelantan reports 414 cases: 93 in clusters, 235 close-contact screenings, and 86 other screenings.
Perak reports 384 cases: 163 in clusters, 113 close-contact screenings, and 108 other screenings. Kedah reports 373 cases: 27 in clusters, 237 close-contact screenings, and 109 other screenings. Melaka reports 322 cases: 112 in clusters, 163 close-contact screenings, and 47 other screenings. Penang reports 303 cases: 95 in clusters, 83 close-contact screenings, and 125 other screenings.
Sabah reports 202 local cases: 21 in clusters, 122 close-contact screenings, and 59 other screenings.
Pahang reports 135 cases: 73 in clusters, 47 close-contact screenings, and 15 other screenings. Terengganu reports 127 cases: 18 in clusters, 62 close-contact screenings, and 47 other screenings.
Labuan reports 62 cases: 18 in clusters, 19 close-contact screenings, and 25 other screenings. Putrajaya reports 33 cases: four in clusters, 25 close-contact screenings, and four other screenings. Perlis reports five cases: two close-contact screenings, and three other screenings.
64 new cases today are imported: 55 in Johor, six in Kuala Lumpur, two in Selangor, and one in Sabah.
sab
@Cermet: @Soapdish:
Do they have to pass a background check?
Matt McIrvin
@Anne Laurie: I think the thing that makes vaccine risk hard for people to think about is that they’re not entirely wrong to be leery of taking drugs that are so new and not yet FDA-approved–it’s just that the people who refuse vaccination for that reason are consistently underestimating the risk from catching the virus.
As I said earlier, I have some anecdotal reason to believe that many people are being told not to get vaccinated by people who have medical credentials of some sort. I suspect those people are in part driven by an intuition about vaccine risk that was trained by a world in which infectious diseases were rarely major killers, so it makes sense to advise against vaccination at the slightest sign of trouble.
Soprano2
That’s why a lottery works on those people – they’re not good a figuring out the odds. I keep saying to people who say we don’t know the long-term effects of the vaccine “That’s true. We also don’t know the long-term effects of having Covid, but what we do know is that Covid can kill or sicken you, while the vaccine can’t. You do the odds of the choices”. They all think they’re going to get a mild case. Meanwhile, one of our nurse regulars at the pub has a daughter who’s also a nurse who works in the Covid ward of one of our hospitals. She says there is currently a 21-year-old woman in the Covid ward who isn’t expected to survive. *sigh*
When I was Chico’s on Monday, I saw that they were selling pretty “vaccinated” bracelets, so I bought one! It’s easier than remembering to wear the pin I got at work.
mrmoshpotato
@Soapdish:
And dying of a now-preventable disease is the ultimate owning of the libs.
Matt McIrvin
@Soprano2: There are intuitions that come into play there about natural vs. artificial causes, and harm from an intentional action vs. harm that arises naturally without intentional action. Many people seem to be willing to accept a far greater risk from just letting an illness occur than from taking a drug or getting a medical procedure, even if they know it is a greater risk. I think it’s because they regard the first as a normal thing that happens.
Robert Sneddon
Scotland — 835 new cases of COVID-19 reported, test positivity rate of 2.8%. Four deaths of people diagnosed with COVID-19 since yesterday.
That means we’re well into the third wave of COVID-19 here after getting the numbers down over the spring — at one point a few weeks back we were seeing less than 200 new cases a day in Scotland and they were mostly in well-defined clusters. The British government has said that over 75% of new cases are the Delta variant now indicating it seems to spread a lot more easily than the previous common variants or indeed the original virus.
Re-opening everything a few weeks back seems to have backfired but I don’t see there’s any political will to reimpose lockdowns to try and prevent the spread of this disease yet again while businesses and the general public are demanding more “freedom”.
Vaccinations — another 51,000 vaccinations since yesterday, still mostly second doses. This is about ten thousand or so vaccinations over the usual number for weekdays as the authorities attempt to push extra needles into arms during this period. I am still concerned how long this surge can be carried out given the supply chains for vaccines and consumables.
Sloane Ranger
Wednesday in the UK we had 4330 new cases. This is an increase of 34.7% in the rolling 7-day average. New cases by nation,
England – 3486 (up 947)
Northern Ireland – 84 (up 30)
Scotland – 677 (up 199)
Wales – 83 (down 11).
Deaths – There were 12 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. This is a decrease of 14.8% in the rolling 7-day average. New deaths by nation, England – 11, Scotland – 1.
Testing – 664,849 tests were conducted on Tuesday, 1 June. This is a decrease of 17.3% in the rolling 7-day average. The PCR testing capacity reported by labs on this date was 573,434.
Hospitalisations – There were 923 people in hospital on Monday, 31 May and 136 people on ventilators on Tuesday, 1 June. The rolling 7-day average for hospital admissions was up by 17.1% as of 27 May.
Vaccinations – As of 1 June, a total of 39,585,665 people had received the 1st shot of a vaccine and 26,073,284 had received both. In percentage terms this means that 75.2% of UK adults have received 1 shot of a vaccine and 49.5% were fully vaccinated.
smith
@Cermet: The stubbornly high death rate is a puzzle. Cases and hospitalizations have dropped dramatically, but deaths are declining only very slowly. I think we’re beyond the point of explaining it by the lag time between infection and death, as infections have been plummeting for more than six weeks, and new hospitalizations for almost as long.
Perhaps the ever-narrower slice of the population that remains unvaccinated is more vulnerable from dying from it? At this point it’s not a random selection that sorts people into vaxxed and not-vaxxed, and the characteristics that make people refuse vaccination may correlate with characteristics that lead them to die from covid.
Matt McIrvin
@smith: Last summer, Massachusetts had a persistently high death rate given our fairly low rate of cases, and for a while I thought it was time lag but eventually that was no longer a viable explanation. I think what was going on was that we just could not get COVID out of the nursing homes–the infected population was older than it was in much of the country.
Then this spring, Massachusetts went harder than a lot of states on restricting vaccination to high-risk groups for quite some time (which is why I got vaccinated so late), and we got really good coverage of 65+ people. And for a while, deaths were just decreasing linearly with cases. But at some point, the deaths just suddenly plummeted to this state where we were getting ~10 deaths/day even though our case rate was still higher than last summer. And it’s been decreasing from there lately. I think it was mostly because vaccination finally solved the nursing-home problem.
So if I had to guess, I’d say the deal nationally is that vaccination coverage of old people is still not as good as it should be. Get that right and the rest of the country will follow New England.
smith
@Matt McIrvin: it’s certainly true that the majority of deaths are still among people 65+. Given the WaPo story last week about the unvaccinated having the same rate of infection and death as we had last December, it’s probable that the slice of the population that’s both 65+ and unvaccinated is still being mowed down. With only 14% of old people having had no vaccinations at all, it’s a more and more select group.
Matt McIrvin
@smith: …the other thing about Massachusetts, though, is that we went pretty hard on testing.
In states where they don’t test a lot, they’ll miss a lot of mild and asymptomatic cases, which is probably going to be the vast majority of COVID in young healthy people. The cases they will catch are ones where people get really sick. And those people are more likely to be old and vulnerable.
Thinking about it some more, I suspect what’s actually happening is that kind of reporting bias–the states where vaccination coverage is relatively poor are the same ones where there’s not a lot of testing, so reported cases are bad cases. That will jack up the case fatality rate.
(In that earlier discussion where I was saying vaccination didn’t seem to bring the CFR down, someone else (Fair Economist?) argued, probably correctly, that this was likely to be the result of a similar reporting bias–contrary to the state-by-state effect, vaccinated people are individually less likely to be tested, which will create a skew toward more severe cases being reported, apparently negating the effect of the vaccine in reducing case severity.)
Matt McIrvin
@smith: That WaPo story annoyed me a little–if you looked closely at the charts in it, a lot of them didn’t support the headline. Part of what confused people was that the widget that generated the state-by-state charts had a bug, so that the caption on it always said the situation for unvaccinated people was like December 31, though if you looked at the chart you could see it was often not that bad. For instance, in Massachusetts the situation for cases was only about a month’s lag, deaths a little worse than that.
Origuy
Some research on the loss of taste and smell from Covid.
rikyrah
@NeenerNeener:
I appreciate the stats.
Always concerned about the children, because they can’t get vaccinated right now.
The others…I always wonder…are they vaccinated?
Fair Economist
@Cermet:
King County WA, where Seattle is, reports 97% of patients hospitalized for COVID haven’t been vaccinated, even though 70% of the adult population has been. So we’re already to “almost every death is because the person wasn’t vaccinated”.
@Matt McIrvin:
In addition, at this point, almost everybody getting hospitalized or dying didn’t get vaccinated, and I think COVID deniers and COVID minimizers (“it’s just the flu”) are probably a majority of those who aren’t yet vaccinated. They’re not going to get tested if they get flu symptoms unless they get hospitalized, because they don’t think it’s important. Even the unvaxxed who aren’t denialist are probably disproportionately poor and underinsured people who are going to have a hard time getting tested even if they want to.
So I think the very good case numbers (down 3/4s since the fourth peak) are probably overstating the improvement. The less good, although still improving (down by half), hospitalization statistics are probably better info on the real state of the epidemic.
Chris T.
@Fair Economist:
If I hear someone say “It’s just the flu” I’m going to spring up, put on my best panicked look, and yell: “OH MY GOD! THE FLU! Do you have any idea how deadly THE FLU is?! That’s why I get a flu vaccine every year! If it’s anywhere near as bad as flu you’d better get yourself vaccinated!”