NZ campaign for vaccination pic.twitter.com/3gu4N3lmwl
— Dr Bec Szabo ??✋?????➡️?? (@inquisitiveGyn) July 11, 2021
here’s a theory, the “I need more facts” line is pure concentrated horseshit designed to lure you into an argument about how you insulted me and now my decision is your fault https://t.co/RNiHpOz4PI
— kilgore trout, a metaphor with artistic license (@KT_So_It_Goes) July 11, 2021
The Delta hit to the US is now extending from cases to hospitalizations, 13 states with >65% Delta prevalence now with ≥25% increase of hospitalizations over past 14 days pic.twitter.com/shuWiAyBxQ
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) July 11, 2021
Dr. Anthony Fauci says there should be more #Covid vaccine mandates at the local level https://t.co/QAa14G1WJC
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) July 11, 2021
the way the vaccination rates track so closely with political affiliation is really sad. and will probably not result in any backlash for the politicians involved https://t.co/dggNsPsYC6
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) July 12, 2021
A Trumpkin has assured me that Trump got a placebo, not the actual vaccine.
In case you’re wondering how they’re dealing with this particular fact. https://t.co/jwNPg45rN5
— Peter Wolf (@peterawolf) July 12, 2021
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Globally, the pandemic is worsening—and poorer nations are bearing the brunt.
Here's what to know about the Covid-19 pandemic this week ▶️ https://t.co/XpWz9Xe7Np pic.twitter.com/9bvsPyP2IA
— Bloomberg (@business) July 11, 2021
Indonesian sales of Chinese vaccines to public postponed amid criticism https://t.co/Y8cG1IZkIT pic.twitter.com/aNZ9R4PMsm
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 12, 2021
An Indonesian pharmaceutical firm has postponed a plan to sell a Chinese COVID-19 vaccine directly to the public, amid criticism by health experts that such commercial schemes could bypass vulnerable groups in a country that promised free shots to all.
The decision came as coronavirus cases and deaths from the virus have hit record highs, pushing the healthcare system close to breaking point in parts of densely populated Java island.
State-owned pharmaceutical company Kimia Farma said on Monday it had put the scheme to sell the Sinopharm vaccine on hold to allow more time to explain it to the public…
The Sinopharm vaccine is already available in Indonesia through a programme that allows private firms to purchase vaccines for employees.
Budi Gunadi Sadikin, Indonesia’s health minister, said on Monday extending it to individuals was because some companies were unable to purchase shots for staff, adding it could go ahead once there was sufficient supply of free vaccines…
Indonesia has recorded more than 2.5 million coronavirus cases and 64,000 deaths in total from the respiratory disease, one of the worst outbreaks in Asia…
Indonesia has ordered four foreign tourists to leave the resort island of Bali after violating health protocols as the country endures a devastating wave of COVID-19 illnesses and deaths. https://t.co/NAPWP9rJmD
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 12, 2021
India reports 37,154 new COVID-19 cases in last 24 hours https://t.co/Fkvhj5Pt8u pic.twitter.com/v760M5NHwB
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 12, 2021
Thailand starts tighter coronavirus lockdown around capital https://t.co/0fvJ405TOy pic.twitter.com/BEfAHqdtJ3
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 12, 2021
S.Korea reports 1,100 new coronavirus cases, toughest curbs in force in Seoul https://t.co/eRYD7d1nBx pic.twitter.com/DQbfeY2l1m
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 12, 2021
Taiwan is struggling with the pandemic, short on vaccines and locked in a geopolitical spat with China over access to BioNTech's shot. Now, in a twist, Taiwan's TSMC, Foxconn are stepping in to buy doses on behalf of their government.@joyuwang @Chao_Denghttps://t.co/9EYK9ZGL7w
— Jonathan Cheng (@JChengWSJ) July 12, 2021
Taiwan tech giants Foxconn and TSMC to buy 10m Covid jabs https://t.co/jP8GMY43fS
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 12, 2021
Australia reported its biggest daily rise in COVID-19 cases this year, fueled by a fast-growing outbreak of the Delta variant in Sydney despite the country's biggest city entering its third week of lockdown https://t.co/tVoBlHqQQk pic.twitter.com/DaV1LESwNC
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 12, 2021
"Graphic" vaccine advert sparks backlash in Australia https://t.co/IrzoFurPWn
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 12, 2021
Fair chance that it’s just relabeled Sputnik, maybe expired. Who knows? No transparency or free media in Putin’s dictatorship. Bad for the world, terrible for Russians. https://t.co/tsmkarM8jk
— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) July 12, 2021
Very thorough overview of the deadly politics of Covid in Putin’s Russia. It’s better to let it spread and blame the people (or the West, et al) than to be seen as trying to stop it and failing. Horrific. https://t.co/wJZ2OKVO5w
— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) July 11, 2021
Lack of COVID awareness at Euro final 'devastating' – WHO https://t.co/CVKaHszXZ4 pic.twitter.com/ObQtGTQ4XK
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 12, 2021
Is France’s summer over already? The country threw open its nightclubs only a few days ago. But potential new restrictions loom with the delta variant of the coronavirus now driving resurgent infections as the government tries to boost vaccination rates. https://t.co/rqYQQLTd8x
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) July 12, 2021
New infections in South Africa have risen to record levels in recent days. It's part of a rapid rise across the continent. And experts say the surge here hasn't yet peaked. South Africa has reimposed several restrictions to fight the new wave. https://t.co/MmBrwIowsk
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 11, 2021
Cubans stage rare protests over Covid measures https://t.co/LkeregpTXw
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 11, 2021
Canada's vaccinations have reached 70% of their total population (the US is at 55%) for 1st dose —moving at a very fast pace for 2nd doses, vaccinating >1.2% Canadians each day (US 0.2%) pic.twitter.com/QrWMqycixU
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) July 11, 2021
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Scientists have been struggling to pin down the origin of the coronavirus that caused Covid-19. Singapore "bat man" and noted connoisseur of Yunnan bat guano Linfa Wang knows they may never succeed—he's still searching for the source of SARS.@AmyDMarcus https://t.co/YjR76kI6qQ
— Jonathan Cheng (@JChengWSJ) July 12, 2021
Flu vaccine protects against some of the severe effects of #Covid19, reducing the potential for ICU admissions, sepsis & strokes. Research on a possible new flu shot benefit is based on a retrospective study at the Univ of Miami's Miller School of Medicine https://t.co/a7Qyitpplr pic.twitter.com/ckMMsVEwV8
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) July 12, 2021
A number of breath-based coronavirus tests are in development around the world. Scientists have long been interested in creating portable devices that can quickly and painlessly screen a person for disease simply by taking a whiff of their breath https://t.co/hEHFn7XEeH
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) July 11, 2021
What we really know about #COVID19 #vaccines versus the #DeltaVariant nicely summed up by @EricTopol https://t.co/uLdpKS86j1
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) July 11, 2021
Aspirin and other common anti-inflammatory drugs can probably help prevent Covid deaths. A Canadian pharmacologist says there should be a clinical trial of common anti-inflammatory medications, such as aspirin, to treat Covid's most harmful outcomes https://t.co/5DDi8eYUV0 pic.twitter.com/0R4LFpOHJH
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) July 11, 2021
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"It is heart-wrenching to see unvaccinated individuals come into the hospital with regret," said Dr. Ryan Dare, an infectious diseases physician. They are patients who, "if they could do it all over again, would have had the vaccine in a second." https://t.co/K9m61FNDaB
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 11, 2021
How Missouri’s inaction allowed the delta variant to spread. Even though the United States as a whole is experiencing the fewest number cases & hospitalizations in months, Missouri is in crisis https://t.co/Vp3LSSGXRL pic.twitter.com/ahrPDsuUX9
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) July 11, 2021
More on the new Ozark hotspot: https://t.co/A7QNaBZOrA
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) July 11, 2021
“And despite having the same population as San Francisco, we ended up with 4 times as many Covid deaths.” https://t.co/KwghguKA0R
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) July 12, 2021
Lapassionara
Many thanks, AL. Day after day, after day. I don’t know how you keep this up.
OzarkHillbilly
lowtechcyclist
Dear Dollar-Store Palin:
Personal responsibility only entered into it with the arrival of the vaccines. And it’s been less than two months since anyone who wanted the vaccine, could finally get their second shot.
Before that, all we had was masking and social distancing. And we’ve known for over a year that my mask protects you, and your mask protects me.
It was the exact opposite of a situation where taking “personal responsibility” could protect you. OTOH, to all the good Christians in your state, I’d remind them that, given that truth, masking was the epitome of “love your neighbor as yourself.” And probably remains so in your state, given the low vaccination rate there.
p.a.
Hope the underserved and underground populations here in the US get vacc’d soon, then we will truly be in the Darwin Award Zone. What they thought they’d do to Blue states early on they’re doing to themselves.
mrmoshpotato
Aussie assholes, the superyacht slapdicks
rikyrah
@p.a.:
So true?
Soprano2
@p.a.: This, 100%. It wasn’t a coincidence that they quit caring about Covid when they thought it was mostly killing Democrats in states and cities they hate. People here in SWMO thought Covid wasn’t going to get them “because we don’t live on top of each other like they do in those (nasty) cities.” Joke’s on them now, only it’s a deadly joke.
YY_Sima Qian
On 7/11 China reported 9 new domestic confirmed & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
Yunnan Province reported 9 new domestic confirmed (2 previously asymptomatic, 2 moderate & 7 mild, 5 Burmese & 4 Chinese nationals), all at Jiegao sub-district in Ruili, Dehong Prefecture. There currently are 59 domestic confirmed & 1 domestic asymptomatic cases. 1 community remains at Medium Risk.
Imported Cases
On 7/11, China reported 18 new imported confirmed cases, 15 imported asymptomatic cases, 1 imported suspect case:
Overall in China, 15 confirmed cases recovered, 13 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation & 6 were reclassified as confirmed cases, and 669 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 478 active confirmed cases in the country (415 imported), 3 in serious condition (all imported), 471 asymptomatic cases (465 imported), 4 suspect cases (all imported). 7,349 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 7/11, 1,382.482M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 8.32M doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 7/12, Hong Kong reported 0 new positive cases.
Baud
At least the vaccine dead enders proved that free universal health care isn’t the political winner that many think it would be.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Someone else who just cuts and pasts from the NYT Pitchbot.
Anyway this shits off the same territory as Young Earth Creationism and Flater Earther.
Matt McIrvin
@Soprano2: The urban Northeast got hit so hard in the first wave of spring 2020, before we had vaccines or remotely effective treatments or mass testing (and when Trump was literally stealing our medical PPE), that they’ve still got a long way to go before as many of them die as we had over here. Most of the claims that some red state or other “won the pandemic” are based on that. They happened not to be the site of the brutal first wave, so they won.
Kay
Sorry but the idea that people refusing to vaccinate need more information is nonsense. The vaccine refusers regularly accept all kinds of medical directives, no questions asked. Everyone does. The MOST people do is get a second opinion. They don’t spend a year independently researching all medical decisions. They do whatever the medical professional tells them to do, which is completely rational – no one could function at all if the anti-vacc individual review of everything was standard practice. “Should I get my wisdom teeth pulled? Time to read the peer reviewed studies!” This is not how anyone operates.
They’re applying a special, insanely high bar just for vaccines, a standard they apply to no other medical care they receive. Do they know how a knee replacement works? Have they watched videos, read studies, pored over schematics? No. They’re told they need one so they go make an appointment which is good because if they actually reviewed everything they do “independently” they wouldn’t have time to do anything else.
The basis of the thing is irrational. It won’t get more rational with more explanation.
germy
Baud
If scientific facts make them feel that way, there’s nothing left to do with or for them.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Director-General of Heath Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 8,574 new Covid-19 cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 844,870 cases. He also reports 102 new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 6,260 deaths — 0.74% of the cumulative reported total, 0.83% of resolved cases.
As of 11th July, Malaysia’s nationwide Rt was at 1.15. 12 states and federal territories posted an Rt of at least 1.0, led by Putrajaya with 1.31.
There are currently 91,272 active and contagious cases; 964 are in ICU, 452 of them intubated. Meanwhile, 5,041 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 747,338 patients recovered – 88.46% of the cumulative reported total.
16 new clusters were reported today, for a cumulative total of 3,093 clusters. 865 clusters are currently active; 2,228 clusters are now inactive.
8,534 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 4,290 local cases: 91 in clusters, 2,548 close-contact screenings, and 1,651 other screenings. Negeri Sembilan reports 792 local cases: 119 in clusters, 456 close-contact screenings, and 217 other screenings.
Kuala Lumpur reports 589 local cases: 157 in clusters, 265 close-contact screenings, and 167 other screenings.
Kedah reports 415 cases: 91 in clusters, 210 close-contact screenings, and 114 other screenings. Melaka reports 411 cases: 221 in clusters, 161 close-contact screenings, and 29 other screenings. Johor reports 407 cases: 210 in clusters, 137 close-contact screenings, and 60 other screenings.
Pahang reports 314 cases: 128 in clusters, 129 close-contact screenings, and 57 other screenings.
Sabah reports 298 cases: 94 in clusters, 115 close-contact screenings, and 89 other screenings. Sarawak reports 235 local cases: 44 in clusters, 142 close-contact screenings, and 49 other screenings. Penang reports 231 local cases: 73 in clusters, 94 close-contact screenings, and 64 other screenings.
Perak reports 168 cases: 79 in clusters, 64 close-contact screenings, and 25 other screenings. Terengganu reports 140 cases: 84 in clusters, 41 close-contact screenings, and 15 other screenings. Kelantan reports 133 cases: 58 in clusters, 45 close-contact screenings, and 30 other screenings.
Labuan reports 66 cases: 21 in clusters, 29 close-contact screenings, and 16 other screenings. Putrajaya reports 45 cases: 17 in clusters, 17 close-contact screenings, and 11 other screenings. Perlis reports no new cases today.
40 new cases today are imported: 20 in Kuala Lumpur, 18 in Selangor, and two in Negeri Sembilan.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Kay: the argument is even more Orwellian that that; they are resisting vaccination because they have too much proof of its effectiveness.
germy
MJS
@Baud: The faction famously known for “Fuck your feelings” has always been about “feelings” instead of “facts”.
germy
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@germy: In LA that would be mostly Hispanics, they have their own separate source of disinformation because South American leaders have labeled masking and vaccines as wussy.
debbie
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
Facts are evidence last time I looked. ?
Kay
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
The question is why tens of millions of people who regularly accept expert medical advice without a second thought all of a sudden need a short course in virology before they’ll accept this advice.
Something is going on here but it isn’t a lack of information or some failure by health care people. The same health care people succeed with these people on all the other medical care they receive, none of which the recipients exhaustively research.
You know what made them wear seat belts? It wasn’t peer reviewed crash test results, where they checked the math on the force/mass ratio and said “that checks out- I’ll wear one now that I personally have reviewed the data”. It was seat belt laws.
Matt McIrvin
@Kay:
And in most cases, it’s not for all vaccines, it’s only for COVID-19 vaccines–which is how you can tell this is a politically ginned-up moral panic.
rikyrah
@Soprano2:
All the while their Orange Savior HAS BEEN FULLY VACCINATED SINCE DECEMBER ?
Amir Khalid
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
It’s not about these people being presented with too much pro-vaccination evidence; they have already decided that they’re refusing to get vaccinated, no matter what. They’re entrenched in that position, and they’re not open to any kind of suasion. They’re of an ilk with those who, even as they lie on their deathbeds with Covid-19, still insist that it’s all a hoax.
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
Exactly right. Fauci and Biden can’t say it, but no reason for us not to name it.
Baud
@Kay:
Someone on Reddit posted a stat that 10% of people still don’t wear seatbelts.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
That’s because another authority figure said vaccines are bad.
What I am observing is that reporter is playing wannabe Insoc Ministry of Truth with that lame “facts are ignorance”
Matt McIrvin
@Kay:
I would make an exception to this: some of these people are being told not to get vaccinated by health-care professionals who themselves got the brain worms. Mostly MAGA-addled nurses and pharmacists, but a few doctors as well.
New Deal democrat
Well, about half the States have decided that since COVID is O-V-E-R, they don’t need to report statistics on the weekend, so no new information today.
Nevertheless, if the current trend continues, the worst States will have numbers fully equal to last summer’s outbreak by the end of the month.
I had a long telephone conversation with my Sibling Unit yesterday. We both said we are officially Out Of Patience. So here’s what I want: everyone who is determined not to get vaccinated should all get together and have COVID parties. They should all get infected now and get it over with. It’s our best chance at herd immunity. And if they get sick, no going to the hospital and using society’s resources. Stay at home and tough it out. Good luck.
Kay
@Matt McIrvin:
It’s not even true that they reject “science”. They blindly accept plenty of “science”- we all do, every day, because no one could possibly “research” each and every decision they make, so they turn it over to an expert or a professional. All these idiots boasting that they don’t accept things without “evidence”- of course they do. They accept the consensus medical view almost daily, on a whole range of personal decisions.
They reject two specific areas of “science”, climate change and this vaccine, both of which have been politicized by the Right. This is a political response. More information, more coddling, more attention paid to whether they feel insulted or not (they will, because they walk around perpetually insulted) won’t help.
I resent that this job is being given to me- it’s now my job to persuade these people to get this shot, to really examine their reluctance- is it me? Is it them? It’s them. It’s not my fault if they won’t.
Kay
@Matt McIrvin:
My daughter is a medical professional and she does feel bad. She does feel they failed. But that’s the nature of those professions. Most of them genuinely want to help people.
I don’t think it’s their fault. I’m glad they take responsibility for it! I think that means they take the work seriously and feel they have a duty and honestly we probably want that from those professions. But if you ask me? Not their fault.
These people are using a political lens for a medical problem. They should stop doing that, but I know they won’t.
Soprano2
You know why, but of course none of these media people can say it out loud. They’re refusing because they want to show liberals “you aren’t the boss of me”, and because they believe all this disinformation about the vaccine being more dangerous than Covid. Like I’ve said before, I’ve had two different co-workers tell me THEIR DOCTOR SAID THEY DON’T NEED TO BE VACCINATED AGAINST COVID BECAUSE REASONS. Here, in the middle of the worst outbreak in the U.S. right now, they’re claiming their doctor said they don’t need it. How can anyone argue against that? In spite of trying not to care about these people, I find myself worrying that one of my co-workers is going to get seriously ill or die, because I’m not a monster.
Soprano2
@rikyrah: But they lie to themselves about TFG being vaccinated; now they’re telling each other it was just a placebo. Anything to justify making sure we all know we aren’t the boss of them, like 5-year-olds.
Soprano2
I bet most of them have some kind of religious belief, so of course we know right then they are lying about this. “My god in the sky told me to do this, that’s why I do it” is the very definition of “accepting things without evidence”.
Kay
@Soprano2:
I think that’s bullshit though. I bet their doctor said what doctors always say, which is never ” I order you to take this or do that”. They always (ultimately) leave it up to the patient, because that is true- it IS ultimately up to the patient. There’s always “choice” involved. This is their choice. We’ll all have to live with the consequences.
Kay
@Soprano2:
As usual they want “choice” with no consequences. It will be their fault if there’s another variant, and there will be. That’s the consequences. I have no duty to exonerate them. They’ll have to do that themselves.
Chief Oshkosh
@Kay:
I agree. We’ve tried the nice approach. It’s not working. Now it’s time to get real. What is real? That they are fuck-ups and that they are now killing other people. The science is settled. Masks prevent transmission and vaccines prevent sickness and death. Anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers are killing other people. That’s the way viruses work. These fuck-ups are also directly causing a drain on the economy and on societal health at all levels.
Instead of cajoling, we should transition into rightly blaming these people. Every death is now THEIR fault. Every failed small business is THEIR fault. Pundits, “influencers”, etc. should start pointing out that, quite demonstrably, the anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers are now the problem. Eventually it will seep into conventional media.
Sure they’ll whine, but who cares? They’re fuck-ups.
Taken4Granite
@germy:
?And that scourge of public health, the antivaccionationist
?I don’t think he’d be missed. I’m sure he’d not be missed?
Soprano2
Well, SWMO is still making the news for Covid. Mercy hospital announced this morning that they’re opening a 6th Covid unit – they only needed 5 last year. As of Friday, we had 39.5% fully vaccinated, with 44.91% having a first shot. There are 205 people in the hospital, and the 7-day average of cases is 171. There were 14 people with Covid in the hospital total sometime in May.
In other idiotic Springfield, MO Covid news, this stupid woman is suing Cox Hospital for sharing her “private” Facebook post she put on her “private” Facebook page. She’s also upset because when she tried to register her son for a free telemedicine visit last year for a swimmer’s ear problem, they wanted her to put in the coupon code “COVID” to access the free visit. She has accused them of using this code to falsely increase their Covid numbers – that’s why the Cox official shared her post, in order to debunk it. She’s being represented by the idiot who got on our City Council in order to stir up trouble over things like not having “In God We Trust” on the wall of the Council chamber. *rolleyes* I was heartened to see that most local people commenting about her story were ridiculing her. It’s a ridiculous lawsuit.
JMS
I’d wager healthcare people don’t get great compliance with eating healthy, exercising, stopping smoking, getting a flu vaccine or taking medication for symptomless conditions. Political polarization is a terrible thing to superimpose on a population that is already not great about following doctors orders.
Soprano2
Oh, that’s what I think too, but when I’m trying to persuade them to get vaccinated they throw that out, and how can I argue with it? I can’t say I know more than their doctor does, no one would buy that argument because I’m not a doctor. I also want to know when they were told this – back in March or April, when our numbers were trending way down? Probably.
Another Scott
@Soprano2: “99% of the people hospitalized and dying of COVID are not vaccinated. What else in life has 99% odds? Even the birth control pill isn’t that good (in real life application). Get the vaccine.”
It’s infuriating that the monsters who feed these fears suffer no consequences. Grrr…
Good luck.
Cheers,
Scott.
gvg
@Kay: I don’t think most of this kind of mindset DO accept doctors advise on non covid matters. I think doctors tell them to eat healthier and get more exercise and recommend this or that procedure and a lot of them don’t do that or hear what they want to hear. My sister expressed a lot of frustration in her first years practicing. People hear what they want to hear and rearrange quite clear words to mean what they want them to mean. Smokers are exceptionally good at that. “I didn’t think you meant that”
I am having trouble with doctors advise myself as a prediabetic. I do not like water or tea and can’t stand coffee. I like soda. I can cut back but quitting…..I hate the alternatives. But I am trying. Lots of people just want a pill and all better. People change what they hear or ignore.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Amir Khalid: Yes exactly, go watch some Flat Earther videos and it’s exactly the same arguments with the word “vaccine” replacing the word “round”. Also the instance is science can’t be trusted because of conspiracy and the only information they will accept is what they personally observe.
Lacuna Synecdoche
AP via Anne Laurie @ Top:
Umm, AP? Bali is about 90 miles long by 55 miles wide, with a population of 4.3 million – which means, by itself, it has more people than Panama, or Croatia, or Georgia (the country), or Mongolia, and so on.
It’s a little more than simply a “resort island.”
That’s like calling Manhattan, or Long Island, a resort island.
Sloane Ranger
Sunday in the UK there were 31,772 new cases reported. This is an increase of 27.3% in the rolling 7-day average but caution should be used with these and subsequent figures due to weekend reporting delays. New cases by nation,
England – 28,421 (down 1311)
Northern Ireland – 605 (up 160)
Scotland – 2048 (down 142)
Wales – 698 (includes Saturday’s figures).
Deaths – There were 26 deaths within 28 days of a positive test reported yesterday. This is an increase of 66.4% in the rolling 7-day average. 25 deaths were in England and 1 in Northern Ireland.
Testing – Not updated at weekends.
Hospitalisations – Not updated at weekends.
Vaccinations – As of 10 July, 45,881,721 people had received the 1st shot of a vaccine and 34,764,511 were fully vaccinated. This means that 87.1% of all adults had had 1 shot of a vaccine by that date and 66% had had both. The government still plans to do away with restrictions from next week. Most of those who have died or been hospitalised in the most recent wave were either not vaccinated or only partially vaccinated. Presumably they are gambling that deaths and hospitalisations will plateau and then fall once the virus has ripped through this group, giving the survivors at least some temporary immunity plus the remainder getting fully vaccinated.
Robert Sneddon
Scotland — 2,134 new cases of COVID-19 reported yesterday with zero deaths (noting that Register Offices are now generally closed at weekends so deaths may not have been reported yet), test positivity rate of 11.1%. Hospital bed occupancy and ICU bed numbers are stable.
There was another data problem over the weekend at the Glasgow Lighthouse lab which carries out RT-PCR testing. This problem may have delayed some case reports so the published numbers may be an undercount. Tomorrow’s reports will take this into account.
There were about 22,000 vaccinations carried out on Sunday in Scotland, down a little from the regular tempo as commonly occurs at weekends. The spread is one-third first-dose, two-thirds second-dose. Vaccination of the adult population is now at 88.2% first-dose and 65.1% fully vaccinated. Pretty much everyone in Scotland over the age of 55 is now fully vaccinated.
RSA
It’s not even a consistent political response. I was arguing the other day online with an anti-vaxxer who brought up that the vaccines are not FDA-approved (the emergency use authorization being distinct from approval).
It was so ridiculous it made me laugh. As if conservatives who have spent months castigating federal public health agencies are just waiting for the FDA’s say-so.
Robert Sneddon
I wouldn’t bother. Anti-vaccination is a religious belief, not anything grounded in facts or reality. The anti-vaxx liturgy has well-established trench-lines such as the “not FDA approved” argument that can be defended until they’re overrun. When that happens the True Believers retreat to the next trenchline (some Internet “study” showing vaccines cause liberalism or leprosy or whatever). When that defence line is abandoned, they fall back to another one (fetal tissue or aluminium adjuncts or whatever) and so on and so on. If you persist you’ll find yourself preparing to assault the “not FDA approved” fortifications yet again.
Lacuna Synecdoche
@OzarkHillbilly:
Olivia Guidry was an ER RN, and a conspiracy theorist who refused to get vaccinated. A lot of her friends and acquaintances are bemoaning her loss, stressing what a good and dedicated nurse she was. And maybe she was. But all I’m wondering is how many people she infected before she became symptomatic.
Also, Guidry was studying to be a doctor. Talk about failing the ultimate final.
Lacuna Synecdoche
AP via Anne Laurie @ Top:
Reminder: It’s mid-winter in sub-Equatorial Africa (and sub-Equatorial everywhere, really), the equivalent of Jan. 12 north of the equator.
So most of Africa, as well as South America and Indonesia, are hitting or approaching winter peaks for disease – including Covid-19, of course. Australia and NZ would be in the same boat, but they’ve taken greater precautions.
rikyrah
@Kay:
It is so not their fault, and they should not remotely accept blame for this current foolishness.
Mike in NC
Trump told his worshippers that the virus was a hoax made up by Dummycrats to make him look bad, and 75% of those assholes believed it and refuse to get vaccinated.
rikyrah
@Kay:
No, it won’t.
All the while, their phucking Orange Savior, and all the rest of the GOP Leadership is vaccinated
rikyrah
@Soprano2:
Phuck your co-worker. Leave your sympathy for the family that co-worker will leave behind, if they don’t infect them too.
Peale
@Mike in NC: No. No. No. No. Those supporters were given “all the information” so they could make “informed, personally responsible decisions”. There wasn’t any interference by GOP pols and their media outlets muddying the waters. The message was very objective and based on “science” of some sort.
MisterForkbeard
@Kay:
I think this is absolutely correct. I’m sure there are also some people who haven’t been vaccinated because they feel like they’re being nagged, too – I have some (in hindsight) extremely stupid acquaintances from college who are on this train. But they were hesitant to being with because of the politicization.
I see this all over the place – people who get incredibly angry when you ask them to wear a mask, or who yell and scream about “emergency” approval isn’t real approval, etc. Most of these folks were gung-ho on vaccines until Trump lost, too – the response here isn’t based on information or argument, it’s political and tribal.
Like others have said, you can’t reason with a decision when that decision was made irrationally.
skerry
This weekend, I attended a funeral/memorial service for a friend who died of Covid in February.
It was indoors with approximately 3 dozen people in attendance.
I was the only one wearing a mask (except for funeral home staff).
emmyelle
Throughout the entire pandemic, I dutifully wore my mask, everywhere, without complaining that my glasses fogged up in winter or that it is hot and sweaty in summer. I had zero tolerance for anti-maskers. When the CDC came out and said that vaccinated people did not need to mask, I was initially hesitant. But than around the beginning of June I started being more comfortable unmasked, and now I never wear one unless I am in a place (such as everywhere at my work outside of my personal office, some grocery stores, and other public places) where masking is required.
And I really have not minded it when I have had to mask .
Until late last week.
I was in the city, riding public transportation, and it was a million degrees in the shade, except when it was raining buckets, and it suddenly occurred to me that I have to wear a mask because wignuts refuse to get vaccinated or practice the most basic safety measures.
Uncle Cosmo
Disagree emphatically. “Winter peak” is a meaningless term when so much of the population lives within 15 degrees of the equator, where the length of day differs by 1.76 hours from solstice to solstice. Less than 1/6 of Africa’s population lives below 15 S. Indonesia is an even worse example: all its territory lies within 10 degrees of the equator, where variations in climate in the course of a year have almost nothing to do with the sun’s position or duration in the sky.