ALSO BENJAMIN FRANKLIN – “In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the smallpox taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of the parents who omit that https://t.co/3AbxBGwDIR
— J.W. Emmerich (@JustinWEmmerich) October 3, 2021
American kids ages 5 to 11 could get a coronavirus vaccine as soon as the 1st week in November, @josh_wingrove reports.https://t.co/cqPARFhbKI
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) October 7, 2021
#Covid deaths in the US have declined since last winter but they are by no means low. +35,000 people have died since Sept 20 – more than Canada has lost in the entire pandemic. And yesterday 25% of the Covid deaths worldwide occurred in the US. Where is the outrage? pic.twitter.com/E9j1JevUd6
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) October 8, 2021
The USA?? #COVID19 new #vaccination rates among Asians & whites have plateaued, even gone down. But the pace is quickening among LatinX and Black Americans.https://t.co/7zcPAD8vRl pic.twitter.com/7XxpZYfLnI
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) October 7, 2021
“I know that if I had been in the room voting, I would have voted to offer boosters to that group." — @CDCDirector Rochelle Walensky explains why she overruled #ACIP. https://t.co/t04L3vRuHv
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) October 7, 2021
Britain's transport minister Grant Shapps said there was still no exact date on when the United States would open for travelers from the United Kingdom, beyond guidance of early November https://t.co/3gim31meBP
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 8, 2021
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From a longer thread:
“The development and approval of vaccines in record time took us to the summit of scientific achievement”, says @DrTedros in #covid19 presser.
“Now, we stand on the precipice of failure. If we don't make the benefits of science available to all people in all countries right now."— Kai Kupferschmidt (@kakape) October 7, 2021
"Today, WHO is launching the strategy to achieve global #COVID19 vaccination by mid-2022”, says @drtedros. Goal is 40% coverage in all countries by the end of this year, 70% by middle of next year.
"This is not a supply problem. It is an allocation problem"— Kai Kupferschmidt (@kakape) October 7, 2021
(Here is the strategy by the way: https://t.co/cdh1LyU8TW)
— Kai Kupferschmidt (@kakape) October 7, 2021
Malaysia approves Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for booster dose https://t.co/SZ3oF1nwTi pic.twitter.com/9fmwyyHipF
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 8, 2021
Singapore eyes quarantine-free travel with U.S. before year-end https://t.co/Cr5Qqrz5PZ pic.twitter.com/PoyEHMgpav
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 8, 2021
Japan secures 120 mln more Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses for next year https://t.co/X0KobLNYur pic.twitter.com/EIfWuTXYnz
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 8, 2021
Israeli use of 3rd @pfizer #COVID19 dose >60-yr-olds vs #DeltaVariant:
Infection "decrease to approx 5% relative to that in an unvacc'ed person & bring the vaccine efficacy [VE] among booster recips to 95%, a value similar to the VE against alpha variant"https://t.co/PYHjSaSMqa— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) October 7, 2021
Australian doctors warned a too-rapid easing of COVID-19 curbs in Sydney could put pressure on health systems and risk lives, as the city prepares for key restrictions to be relaxed next week after more than 100 days in lockdown https://t.co/iAowqoXuCa
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 8, 2021
Until vaccines available everywhere, along with, diagnostic tests, treatments, oxygen, PPE, there will continue to be waves of the pandemic around the world, more illness, deaths & an increased risk new variants. Vaccine inequity will prolong the pandemic https://t.co/9G7FTSbdAO
— Jeremy Farrar (@JeremyFarrar) October 8, 2021
Russia on Thursday reported 27,550 new coronavirus cases and 924 fatalities from the coronavirus https://t.co/jttrOOrIwk
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) October 7, 2021
The World Health Organization said it is about to restart the process of approving Russia's Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine following a series of problems with the dossierhttps://t.co/YQPYgFlMNu
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) October 8, 2021
EU envoy says Russia delays EMA Sputnik V vaccine inspections – media https://t.co/wwByaWuqOW pic.twitter.com/QtcaEXWPR2
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 8, 2021
Finland has joined other Nordic countries in suspending or discouraging the use of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine in certain age groups because of an increased risk of heart inflammation, a rare side effect associated with the shot. https://t.co/JHdUx8U2w1
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) October 8, 2021
Hungary has offered neighboring Romania help in caring for coronavirus patients as the country faces an alarming surge of COVID-19 cases and a shortage of intensive care beds. By @McGrathWriter and @jspikebudapest https://t.co/14OTOuU6al
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) October 7, 2021
England's travel red list cut to just seven countries https://t.co/xinkwAG29t
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) October 7, 2021
UK relaxes travel restrictions for fully vaccinated Indians https://t.co/VzOlBvOlyL
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) October 8, 2021
The movement to treat COVID with bleach has made enormous inroads across Latin America—from Argentina, where a popular TV anchor drank chlorine dioxide on live television, to Mexico, where local mayors were distributing it. https://t.co/xJYEINme1U
— VICE News (@VICENews) October 7, 2021
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Can I get the flu and COVID-19 vaccines at the same time? Yes. Health officials say the shots should work as expected whether they’re given separately or in the same visit. https://t.co/eFpwGlIGUA
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 7, 2021
"Portable air filters effectively remove #SARSCoV2 particles from the air — the first such evidence in a real-world setting"#COVIDisAirborne the value of inexpensive high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filtershttps://t.co/zUKiFXltsQ @nature pic.twitter.com/glsbIOHirz
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) October 7, 2021
Merck drug less effective against moderate COVID -India regulatory source https://t.co/ymLVxV9eJJ pic.twitter.com/Lhm1Fj87Xr
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 8, 2021
Any effort to use convalescent plasma in the treatment of severe Covid is 'futile,' according to findings reported in JAMA. The plasma is composed of antibodies from Covid survivors & once was thought to speed recovery. Plasma is now seen as useless https://t.co/IMaV5q1VoJ
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) October 8, 2021
Natural infection vs. vaccination: Vaccination produces greater amounts of antibodies than natural infection. While vaccination gives rise to memory B cells—antibody factories—that evolve over weeks, natural infection triggers B's that evolve over months https://t.co/8tQ3xyDNfi pic.twitter.com/bgyhs4rT5L
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) October 7, 2021
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Young, pregnant and unvaccinated: Hospitals confront a wave of severe illness and death https://t.co/vW5YtXRIGX There needs to be a clearer message about vaccine safety #ONEV1
— Craig L. Ph.D. (@CL2Empower) October 8, 2021
An @AP analysis of federal data finds about one-third of U.S. nursing homes have lower levels of nurses and aides on hand than before COVID-19 began spreading. https://t.co/qkqi2I98DL
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 7, 2021
Incredible nugget in this story.
United Airlines received 20,000 applications for 2,000 flight attendant positions – a ratio HIGHER THAN BEFORE THE PANDEMIC.
Americans *want* to work for companies with vaccine requirements. https://t.co/vSCYrapKop
— Ben Wakana (@benwakana46) October 7, 2021
A federal jury has sentenced a Texas man to 15 months in federal prison after finding him guilty of staging a COVID-19-related hoax on social media, prosecutors said. https://t.co/qpXho8RrIz
— The Seattle Times (@seattletimes) October 7, 2021
Baud
Video, via Reddit.
https://streamable.com/xgam03
Baud
Commenter Le Compte dug into this quote and found out that the “essential liberty” Ben was talking about was the right to tax to William Penn family in Pennsylvania.
Interesting nugget.
NotMax
Locally,
lowtechcyclist
Now do this for Fox News.
OzarkHillbilly
At school board meetings.
SATSQ.
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY:
The Monroe County website says 261 new cases yesterday, 3.7% test positivity. NYSDOH says 276 new cases. Sure doesn’t look like cases are plunging around here.
YY_Sima Qian
On 10/7 China reported 0 new domestic confirmed cases & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
Fujian Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 9 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 186 active domestic confirmed cases.
Heilongjiang Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 2 domestic confirmed case recovered. There currently are 76 active domestic confirmed & 6 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Yili Prefecture in Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed (at Horgos) & 4 active domestic asymptomatic cases (2 each at Cocodala & Horgos) at the prefecture.
Yunnan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 9 active domestic confirmed & 4 domestic asymptomatic cases remaining in the province, all at Ruili in Dehong Prefecture.
At Henan Province 1 domestic confirmed case recovered. There currently are 6 active domestic confirmed cases remaining in the province, all at Shangqiu.
Imported Cases
On 10/7, China reported 22 new imported confirmed cases (1 previously asymptomatic), 13 imported asymptomatic cases:
Overall in China, 46 confirmed cases recovered (33 imported), 9 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (all imported) & 1 was reclassified as confirmed case, & 844 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 786 active confirmed cases in the country (516 imported), 1 in serious condition (imported), 360 active asymptomatic cases (344 imported), 2 suspect cases (both imported). 25,380 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 10/7, 2,217.563M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 1.181M doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 10/8, Hong Kong reported 2 new positive cases, 1 imported (from the UK), 1 domestic (a logistics worker at the airport). This is Hong Kong’s 1st domestic case in over 50 days.
Joe Falco
If some anti-vax covidiot willfully gives up a good job, there will be plenty of sane vaccinated people wanting to take their place.
NotMax
Tangentially related accelerated stress.
New Deal democrat
With another slight decline, nationwide cases are down 40% from their Delta peak, and deaths are down 15%. Only PA, MI, and MN are continuing to rise. Somewhat more concerning is that about a dozen States have not declined in the past two weeks, e.g., NY, and are even in slight renewed uptrends, viz., AZ, MT, UT, NM, WI, and IL. I suspect we will start to see the beginning of the winter wave within the next three weeks.
On the plus side, for the whole of the Delta outbreak, 3 of the 4 US census regions had death rates of only about 1/3rd of prior waves at peak. Only the unvaccinated South had a death rate fully equal to their winter 2020-21 peak. Vaccinations work!
NotMax
@lowtechcyclist
One thing which we can now dismiss outright is his receiving a presidential pardon.
debbie
@Baud:
So in other words, pettiness is nothing new. //
RSA
@Baud: I think that almost every time a conservative uses that quote, it actually goes against their own argument. Including in the vaccination context.
Cermet
I guess that this finding – “convalescent plasma in the treatment of severe Covid is ‘futile,’ ” is likely due to the fact that Covid tends to kill certain people (i.e. people that get extremely ill) via the body’s own late inflammatory response (cytokine storm); also,I’d think that the build up of blood clots in various vital organs would be deadly and this treatment would do zero for that as well. So, antibodies against the virus is useless at that point.
Vaccines are doing a great job in South America but why then is bleach being used by people? Is the trump effect still that powerful (I guess it can cause latent stupidity in some types of people?)
New Deal democrat
On minority vaccinations, I checked Mississippi and Missouri yesterday, and was pleased to see that the counties with the biggest Black populations had some of the best vaccination rates in both States. OTOH, I found a White county in southern Missouri where less than 25% had received even one dose!
Baud
@RSA:
Very funny. That should be better known.
We tend to accept the framing that the framers were conservatives (for obvious reasons), but they were in many ways the liberals of their time.
Baud
@New Deal democrat:
That is good news.
OzarkHillbilly
I’s so proud…
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Well, they were fighting the status quo of the time.
NotMax
@Baud
Jackals, being astute and canny, are probably already aware that Ben’s other son was the last Royal Governor of New Jersey and decamped to Britain after the Revolution.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Sure. A lot of their ideas were great. Their biggest blind spot was not accepting the universality of those ideas, instead limiting it to their own elite cohort.
Kay
@lowtechcyclist:
For this one, I really think they could apply it to Fox news personalities, depending, because they’re using a statute about biological weapons. It’s classified as threatening to use a biological weapon. And there’s a group on the Right who claim or claimed that covid was released as a biological weapon (by China, or Dr. Fauci, or both) so it even fits neatly into that conspiracy theory.
Ken
Just makes you want to cry, doesn’t it?
Regarding the bleach, I doubt it will see widespread use in the US since it can be easily bought. The push for ivermectin etc. is because a lot of people are making money selling prescriptions.
Baud
@NotMax:
Thanksgiving dinner in the Franklin family must have been very interesting.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Baud: The guy doing the quote that claims to be a doctor, who is running for governor. Sounds like a useless quack to me.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
American exceptionalism!
We’re no. one! ☝
We’re no. one! ☝
We’re no. one! ☝
Spanky
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: Are there useful quacks?
MomSense
That Benjamin Franklin exchange is just classic orthodox Qonservative. The extreme Christianists and Republicans love to prooftext the Bible and the founding fathers for snippets that support their bullshit. Whenever you dig deeper you find the context changes the meaning or you find plenty of contradictory material.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reports 9,751 new Covid-19 cases today in its media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 2,323,478 cases. It also reports 132 new deaths as of midnight, for a cumulative total of 27,113 deaths – 1.17% of the cumulative reported total, 1.24% of resolved cases.
Based on cases reported yesterday, Malaysia’s nationwide Rt is at 0.86.
715 confirmed cases are in ICU, 302 of them on ventilators. Meanwhile, 12,724 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 2,170,289 patients recovered – 93.4% of the cumulative reported total.
10 new clusters were reported today, for a cumulative total of 5,570 clusters. 874 clusters are currently active; 4,696 clusters are now inactive.
9,736 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 1,791 local cases: 23 in clusters, 1,091 close-contact screenings, and 677 other screenings. Sarawak reports 1,339 cases: 38 in clusters,475 close-contact screenings, and 826 other screenings. Kelantan reports 1,052 cases: 21 in clusters, 680 close-contact screenings, and 351 other screenings.
Johor reports 864 cases: 45 in clusters, 480 close-contact screenings, and 339 other screenings.
Sabah reports 701 local cases: three in clusters, 410 close-contact screenings, and 288 other screenings.
Terengganu reports 650 cases: 487 close-contact screenings and 163 other screenings. Perak reports 643 cases: 48 in clusters, 283 close-contact screenings, and 312 other screenings. Penang reports 631 local cases: 19 in clusters, 206 close-contact screenings, and 406 other screenings.
Kedah reports 578 cases: 14 in clusters, 387 close-contact screenings, and 177 other screenings. Pahang reports 551 cases: 130 in clusters, 310 close-contact screenings, and 111 other screenings.
Kuala Lumpur reports 312 local cases: 16 in clusters, 117 close-contact screenings, and 179 other screenings.
Negeri Sembilan reports 242 local cases: 10 in clusters, 127 close-contact screenings, and 105 other screenings. Melaka reports 241 local cases: 12 in clusters, 131 close-contact screenings, and 98 other screenings.
Perlis reports 94 cases: three in clusters, 49 close-contact screenings, and 42 other screenings. Putrajaya reports 45 cases: 31 close-contact screenings and 14 other screenings. Labuan reports two cases: one close-contact screenings and one other screening.
15 new cases today are imported: five in Selangor, four in Sabah, three in Melaka, one in Negeri Sembilan, one in Kuala Lumpur, and one in Penang.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 196,647 doses of vaccine on 7th October: 108,092 first doses and 88,555 second doses. As of midnight yesterday, the cumulative total is 45,204,479 doses administered: 24,309,648 first doses and 21,004,275 second doses. 74.4% of the population have received their first dose, while 64.3% are now fully vaccinated.
NotMax
@Ken
And thus began what history later came to know at The Great OxiClean-Clorox War.
//
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
@NotMax:
considering how things turned out, maybe a constitutional monarchy wasn’t such a bad thing.
I mean, who wouldn’t want to be governed by Claire Foy or Olivia Colman
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: My only point was that upholding the status quo is by definition the conservative thing to do.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Usually. I suppose you occasionally have situations in which the status quo is more left and reactionaries fight it to install a more right wing regime.
Amir Khalid
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch:
Ahem. Absolute monarchs govern; constitutional monarchs don’t. In a constitutional monarchy, an elected government does the governing.
OzarkHillbilly
@Ken: I live in Washington county. We are at 30.2% fully vaccinated, with 34.3% having at least one shot. Which, iirc, is pretty much where we were the last I checked a month or more ago.
About what one would expect of people living in a state of Misery.
OzarkHillbilly
@Spanky: Well, ducks are at least tasty.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Religion. Go read up on Millennialism. To them disease is the wrath of God so taking medication is defying God’s will.
Matt McIrvin
@New Deal democrat: I’m already seeing Floridians gloating that their state has one of the lowest COVID case rates in the country–now that the peak of the wave has burned through them and killed so many. There is no past and no future for these people. Expect the demands for DeSantis’s apology to start up again, as the states that the summer Delta wave hit early become the ones that it leaves early.
Matt McIrvin
@New Deal democrat: When the Delta wave was spreading across the South, there was a moment when you could see the Black Belt on the maps as a belt of slightly lower case rates (though still bad).
Nelle
CDC notes that the 7 day positivity rate up to Wednesday in Polk County, Iowa is 13.08%. Orangeman is coming to town tomorrow for a mass grifter/worship event. I’ll be watching the positivity rate for the next few weeks.
My neighbor was accused by one of her patients of making his oxygen rate drop into the 60’s when, following dr. orders, she had him sit up on the side of his bed. He told her it was her fault for “making him stand too soon after breakfast when he has COPD.” She said she can’t coddle that type of remark. She told him, no, he has Covid and she never asked him to stand. She is barely holding on at work. So burned out from the sheer workload even before the sheer stupidity.
NotMax
@Baud
See: 20th century history of Afghanistan and its monarchy.
New Deal democrat
@Matt McIrvin:
Thanks. Yeah, I figured we might start to see that. Of course, FL ranks #3 or #4 for total confirmed cases per capita, and #9 for deaths. I wish 91-Divoc would have a way to graph total cases and deaths since June 30, 2020 (I.e., delete the first wave when nobody was prepared), because then FL would be #4 for total deaths.
JML
I think if I hear another anti-vaxx fool compare a vaccination mandate to rape I’m going to set them on fire.
Matt McIrvin
@New Deal democrat: It looks like upstate, central and western NY might be participating in the Northern Tier increase while cases stay lower in greater NYC.
lowtechcyclist
@Matt McIrvin:
While I have no doubt that their case and death rates are decreasing, there’s the question of just how they’re putting their thumb on the scales these days.
I certainly wouldn’t trust their current numbers enough to say whether they’ve been doing better or worse than other states lately. We know that one of the ways they’ve been fudging is to report Covid deaths by date of death rather than date reported, so due to the lag, there’s always only a few Covid deaths attributed to the past day, but plenty of deaths three weeks ago.
Matt McIrvin
@lowtechcyclist: The other thing is that, at this point, even if they had the lowest COVID case rate of any state in the US it would still be pretty bad. Official rates put them at 4th lowest per capita today behind Connecticut, California and Hawaii (and Puerto Rico is beating them all)
Massachusetts’ official graphs do the same trick as Florida, but they also report new deaths every day so it’s easy enough to create a graph that doesn’t do that, like 91-DIVOC’s.
Soprano2
Let me guess, somewhere in south central or eastern central MO. Here in Springfield we’re up to 50.64% fully vaxxed, 55.54% with at least one shot. The 7-day case average is down to 50, which is the best it’s been since spring; our low here was 16. There are 74 people in the hospital with Covid, down from the high of 271 in July. They announced the first Covid death of a teenager here yesterday. :-( All this illness and death is totally unnecessary; it breaks my heart to see it happening.
Just like the national template, there was a front-page story about one nurse (prominent for going to anti-vax demonstrations) who refused the vaccine and quit her job at a local hospital. She had all the usual excuses – freedom, the vaccines came too soon, suspicion of “just this vaccine, not any others”, which to me is the real tell. She had dropped out of nursing for 15 years to homeschool her kids. The story about how 95% of the workers at Mercy were vaxxed by the deadline was inside the paper.
I have a friend who manages a music program for homeschoolers; it’s a business she’s built for the past 20 years. She has teachers who give music lessons and an orchestra and choir. When she sent out the e-mail in July saying they were going to start the program up in the fall but the students would have to be masked or vaccinated, she said it set off a “shitstorm”. She lost 2/3 of her kids because, she said, “Homeschoolers don’t want to get vaccinated or wear masks”. She said one mother told her she was hurt that my friend wanted her child to wear a mask. My friend told her she was hurt that the mother didn’t want to protect my friend and the other children from disease! She said two of the mothers were talking on Facebook about trying to start a group where they don’t have to wear masks; my friend says they have no idea of everything that’s involved, it’s not just kids showing up and playing music! Covid has revealed something ugly in a lot of people.
lowtechcyclist
@New Deal democrat:
Same idea, but I’d pick since June 30 of this year. Reason being that people who wanted to get vaccinated had largely done so by then, so we’d see the effects of vaccine refusal.
Soprano2
@lowtechcyclist: Second this, I’d like to see some good data on the true effect of vaccination. Numbers since the vaccine was available aren’t any good; it has to be since most people could easily be fully vaxxed.
Cameron
@Matt McIrvin: …and the winter wave will take everybody by surprise….
kindness
Yesterday my employer, Kaiser announced they had put 2200 employees nationwide on unpaid leave for refusing to get vaccinated for Covid. These folk have until December 1st to get it or they will be terminated that day. One of my co-workers was mysteriously announced to have gone on leave yesterday. Of course bosses won’t say why. I liked her but she did have some odd notions. Could be. We’ll see I guess. She’d been working from home since March 2020 so I have had no contact with her. Still that 2200 people amounts to a tad over 1% of their nationwide workforce. Crazy stuff. Glad Kaiser made this move.
Matt McIrvin
@Cameron: The existence of a winter wave will be taken as proof that Florida’s let-it-rip strategy was a good one (and that the vaccines don’t work), with little attempt to do quantitative comparisons.
Aaron Rodgers Mustache
@NotMax: doing it for billy mays!
death was not in vain.
Robert Sneddon
The British medical authorities are pushing the influenza vaccination programme hard right now. The epidemiologists are predicting a Flu Season From Hell this winter given that it didn’t really happen last year due to lockdowns, mask-wearing and hand sanitisation, closures of schools etc. One headline number is a possible death toll of 60,000, even with high vaccination takeup which is not guaranteed.
The general advice here in the UK is that flu vaccines and COVID-19 vaccines can be administered close together. There is no apparent issue that would require any significant delay between the shots, and this includes COVID-19 boosters.
Platonicspoof
From a commenter at LGM, NBC cites a study released Thursday in Pediatrics (link in story doesn’t work):
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Wag
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: Scott Jensen is a family practice physician from my wife’s hometown. He is a fool and a crappy physician. Just trying to ride his “credentials” on to bigger and better things.
Platonicspoof
@Platonicspoof:
LGM commenter was Monala in this post.
Robert Sneddon
Scotland — 2,627 new COVID-19 cases reported today. The test positivity rate is 7.9%. There were 16 new deaths reported overnight. ICU bed occupancy numbers are 64, down five from yesterday while hospitalisations are 957, down 21.
There were about 8,500 vaccinations carried out in Scotland yesterday (Thursday) with about 70% of these being first vaccinations. 91.6% of 16+ adults are now vaccinated with their first dose and 84.8% are fully vaccinated. 72.6% of 16 and 17-year-olds have now received their first vaccination, up 0.1% from yesterday. 31.6% of 12-15 year olds have now received their first vaccination, up 2.0% from yesterday.
smith
Looking for the champion vax-resistant counties, you can find them via the CovidActNow data base. Here they are:
2.6% Mellette County, SD
3.2% Ziebach County, SD
3.7% Oglala Lakota County, SD
4.9% Todd County, SD
7.7% Dewey County, SD
8.5% Corson County, SD
Kristie Noem must be so proud.
Sloane Ranger
Thursday in the UK we had 40,701 new cases. The rolling 7-day average is now down by only 0.2%. New cases by nation,
England – 33,305 (down 145)
Northern Ireland – 1305 (down 54)
Scotland – 2691 (down 364)
Wales – 3400 (up 1393).
Deaths – There were 122 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. The rolling 7-day average is down by 12.1%. 71 deaths were in England, 4 in Northern Ireland, 39 in Scotland and 8 in Wales.
Testing – 1,072,740 tests took place on Wednesday 6 October. The rolling 7-day average is down by 13.4%. The PCR testing capacity reported by labs on the 6th was 863,315.
Hospitalisations – There were 6817 people in hospital and 807 on ventilators on Wednesday, 6 October. As of 3 October, the rolling 7-day average for hospital admissions was down by 3.4%.
Vaccinations – As of Wednesday, 6 October, 49,068,705 people had received 1 shot of a vaccine and 45,078,529 had had both. The issue with 12-15 year old’s has been resolved so the percentage of people vaccinated now shows the percentage of the population aged 12+ who have been vaccinated. This is 85.3% for 1st shots and 78.4% for 2nd. At the rate we’re currently going it will take quite a while to get into the high 80/low 90 percentages for both shots. I don’t know why they don’t have people going round the schools to administer the vaccine. That’s what they did when I had my childhood shots (although that was in the 1960’s).
bluefoot
@Platonicspoof:
My sister is a public schoolteacher in NYC. She said 15-20% of her students lost at least one close family member to COVID, that she knew of. Not necessarily a caregiver. Nearly all of those were last year – she’s in Queens, so the high percentage makes sense. And a lot of her students live in homes where it’s hard to self-isolate if someone in the household gets sick.
bluefoot
@JML:
I can bring lighter fluid.
Ruckus
@New Deal democrat:
We have a job for you. Convince the 30-40% of idiots around the world that decent vaccines are actually good for them to take, because they massively prevent death, massively prevent the worst of the disease if you do contact it, and if taken by well over 90%, stop a pandemic. Now if only there was a vaccine for willful ignorance and political suicide…..
Cermet
@Ruckus: there is – death. Guess that should be called willful death to be technically accurate.
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
@New Deal democrat: Yeah, but that is just a proxy for urban vs rural. In urban areas (St. Louis, where I am), the urban black population has a much lower vaccination rate than the urban white population. Its improving among urban black people (unlike rural white people, who are convinced COVID is over), but it is still low.
Ruckus
@Cermet:
We have a term for that – suicide.
Ruckus
@Soprano2:
It’s called republican political death.
A fight to the death of the true believers by trying to recall the political and actual time when the country was founded by their type, even if their historical facts are BS. Nothing can advance past what knowledge was held by their betters of that time. And when I say betters, I don’t really mean better. They want to regress and start over, or at least think they do. If they only understood, well anything, they would know that as screwed up as now is, then was worse.
Bill Arnold
@Robert Sneddon:
The median R0 for a novel flu seems to be about 1.6-1.8 but those numbers are pre availability of vaccines. (“The median R value for 2009 was 1.46”)
Estimates of the reproduction number for seasonal, pandemic, and zoonotic influenza: a systematic review of the literature (2014)
There was essentially no flu (and it *was* being tested for, contra RW lies) Winter 2020 Southern hemisphere, Winter 2020/21 Northern Hemisphere, Winter 2021 Southern hemisphere.
We (humans) now know what to do to halt influenza spread, because we did it.
NPIs in various jurisdictions in various combinations and to varying degrees did it, even though flu vaccination rates were down.
It should be sufficient to combine the minimal NPIs to reduce SARS-CoV-2’s (Delta in particular) R (e.g. masking indoors in public places) with vaccination and changes in behavioral habits (more distancing, more avoidance of close contact exhalation sharing). And maybe a continued push for hand washing, which might matter more for influenza than for SARS-CoV-2. (And does matter more for some other infectious diseases.)
Effectiveness of hand hygiene practices in preventing influenza virus infection in the community setting: A systematic review (2019)
ExpatDan
THAILAND: The number of new infections and fatalities announced on Saturday dropped from Friday’s figures of 11,140 cases and 116 deaths. On Thursday, there were 11,200 new cases and 113 fatalities.
The 73 people who died on Friday were aged 35 to 98. They were 72 Thais and one Danish national. the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) said.
Bangkok continued to log the most deaths, at 12, while a combined 17 were reported in its adjacent provinces of Samut Prakan (7), Nakhon Pathom (3), Pathum Thani (3), Samut Sakhon (3) and Nonthaburi (1).
Other central provinces further from the capital recorded 26 more deaths — Saraburi (5), Chon Buri (4), Suphan Buri (4), Prachin Buri (2), Ayutthaya (2), Phetchaburi (2), Rayong (2), Kanchanaburi (2), Chachoengsao (1), Lop Buri (1), Sa Kaeo (1) and Ang Thong (1).
The South reported 10 new deaths — Narathiwat (4), Nakhon Si Thammarat (3), Phangnga (1), Surat Thani (1) and Krabi (1).
The Northeast saw four new fatalities in Chaiyaphum (2), Si Sa Ket (1) and Nakhon Ratchasima (1). The North logged four new fatalities, one each in Phichit, Nakhon Sawan, Phitsanulok and Phetchabun.
Of the 10,630 new cases, 10,621 were local infections and nine were imported cases. Of the local infections, 9,881 were confirmed at hospitals, 673 via mass testing and 67 at the prisons.
Bangkok saw the most single-day cases at 1,280, up 25 from the previous day, followed by 650 in Yala (-126), 519 in Samut Prakan (-57), 504 in Songkhla (+60), 488 in Chon Buri (-199), 470 in Narathiwat (-122), 413 in Pattani (-90) and 359 in Rayong (+17).
Greater Bangkok reported 2,184 new cases (-230) and 29 new deaths (-13). Four southern border provinces had 2,037 new cases (-278) and four new fatalities (-15), while 67 other provinces recorded 6,333 new cases (+10) and 39 new deaths (-15).
The nine imported cases were from France (1), Switzerland (1), South Korea (1), Cambodia (4) and Malaysia (2). They were one French national, one American and seven Thai returnees.
A total of 110,128 people are receiving treatment at hospitals and related facilities. Of the total, 2,967 were critically ill, with 677 on ventilators.