She didn’t get to wear her wedding dress because of the pandemic. So she put it on to get her vaccine. https://t.co/R2XsfSqbU8
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) April 15, 2021
49.7% of all American adults have received at least one vaccine shot; 31.8% have been fully vaccinated.
80.7% of all Americans age 65 or older have received at least one shot; 65.3% have been fully vaccinated. pic.twitter.com/45visTROaM
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) April 18, 2021
Coronavirus shots are now in the arms of nearly half of U.S. adults, but the states succeeding and struggling are divided red and blue. New Hampshire is on top, but five GOP-leaning states are at the bottom, including Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana. https://t.co/AfwzMK9xHK
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 17, 2021
The US had +82,010 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 yesterday and +63,581 today, bringing the total to over 32.3 million. The 7-day moving average declined to under 71,000 new cases per day. pic.twitter.com/6ZumC4gZcp
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) April 18, 2021
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"Globally, the number of new cases per week has nearly doubled over the past two months"
Covid-19 deaths pass three million worldwidehttps://t.co/hcW82fi8N7
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) April 17, 2021
'The situation is very critical': India's capital New Delhi is facing an acute shortage of hospital beds as COVID-19 cases spike https://t.co/aqLhpmNyfh pic.twitter.com/8GZQQ1PMZ6
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 18, 2021
New Delhi went into lockdown Saturday for the weekend as India is hit with a new wave of COVID-19 cases. India’s daily cases increased 234,692 nationwide, the eighth record daily increase in the last nine days.
Only 1.15 percent of the population is vaccinated. pic.twitter.com/dVOWY3r49a
— CGTN America (@cgtnamerica) April 17, 2021
Covid lockdown empties Delhi streets amid the deadly surge in India. The country added another record 234,000 cases Saturday to pass 14.5 million overall and 1,341 deaths, which took its pandemic total to 175,649 deaths https://t.co/nQEP5Xls0p
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) April 17, 2021
Pfizer agreed to supply additional COVID-19 vaccines, says Japan’s vaccine minister https://t.co/50gmlXGdbO pic.twitter.com/6zkeNc70pi
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 18, 2021
“Russians don’t trust the government. They don’t trust state institutes, agencies."
Good overview by @Mike_Eckel of why so few Russians have been inoculated despite a working vaccine. Widespread suspicion of anything homegrown seems an intractable problem https://t.co/bRMPq29bRb— Matthew Luxmoore (@mjluxmoore) April 16, 2021
Israel rescinds outdoor coronavirus mask requirement https://t.co/Fa78C5RzJW pic.twitter.com/kB7MM8Jm8b
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 18, 2021
Britain has vaccinated half of entire population, lockdown over, cases dropping and at 7 month low. pic.twitter.com/QIobfAhvtw
— Keith Humphreys (@KeithNHumphreys) April 18, 2021
France to impose 10-day quarantine for travellers coming from Brazil https://t.co/Kp9l3usFhs pic.twitter.com/LnXTigfCjG
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 18, 2021
.@ScienceMagazine: A new study based on daily #COVID19 data from Brazil details the fast spread of cases and deaths in the country, w/ distinct patterns by state https://t.co/nT6aQvlRHD pic.twitter.com/TmyQR24oLb
— Equity & Health (@equitylist) April 17, 2021
Covid in Brazil: Pandemic meets poverty in growing crisis https://t.co/zNo6n9SYGw
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) April 17, 2021
Sounds depressingly familiar…
… Three hours’ drive out of São Paulo, the corn harvest is underway on Frederico D’Avila’s farm. He has 1,300 hectares of the crop, as well as soybean, barley and fava, nestled beside dense pine forests.
And as the harvester cuts through the stalks of corn, he talks of how the president is slashing “the system of kleptocracy – chains of corruption – that have run here for 35 years”.
“President Bolsonaro wants to preserve liberty; he wants people to get out, work, feed their children,” he says. “He wants people to decide if they want the vaccine, not to be obligated by the state. Freedom in Brazil has always been under threat.”
I put it to him that the price of that policy is the public health disaster that Brazil is living through. “It’s not a disaster”, he replies. “We don’t have all the data from other countries so we don’t know true numbers of dead.”…
Police in cities across Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, refused to make random stops greenlighted by the provincial government seeking to impose a stay-at-home order amid a surge in COVID-19 cases https://t.co/DkLxRsduaX pic.twitter.com/jJlHJlUlJB
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 18, 2021
We can end the tragedy of #COVID19 by stopping the deaths, by stopping the hospitalisations – vaccines give us the power to do that. But we need to use vaccines in a much fairer and much more equitable way-@DrMikeRyan #VaccinEquity pic.twitter.com/lmNGp6hK1T
— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) April 16, 2021
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Moderna plans to have third vaccine booster shot ready by fall. Pfizer announced plans for a 3rd shot a few days ago. Moderna's vax is more than 90% effective 6 months after the 2nd shot. What remains unclear is how long immunity lasts https://t.co/ExonaUxTcZ
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) April 17, 2021
Experimental phase: The team of scientists who developed a successful veterinary vaccine against a porcine coronavirus, are working on candidate coronavirus vaccines to protect people against multiple coronaviruses in a single shot https://t.co/O0ERRNPpq9 via @medical_xpress
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) April 17, 2021
In the lab: An experimental antiviral, initially developed as a flu drug, proves effective in halting the spread & damage of Covid. Investigations involved test animals (hamsters). The antiviral doesn't have a formal name, but currently is known as MK-4482 https://t.co/DHSDw7lt4X pic.twitter.com/ruBMW9UfsM
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) April 17, 2021
I'm not a cyber-expert, but this paper blew me away: Detailed analysis of who is behind #COVID19 #vaccine disinformation executed by tracing all postings of #AstraZeneca over "blood clot" time frame. The brown below are bots, not humans.https://t.co/UY6fzugWrZ pic.twitter.com/L6jw3X4wY2
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) April 17, 2021
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This latest map from https://t.co/6kWMwvM9vQ shows where COVID-19 has been spreading most rapidly in the US over the past week. Michigan remains the hotest spot, driven by the UK variant. https://t.co/yKEwCLLAth pic.twitter.com/CzOGGw8mFn
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) April 18, 2021
While death rates to #COVID19 slowed in the US in early April, they are climbing again. And cumulatively, no other country is on track to match America's awful tally of loss and tragedy. So far.https://t.co/nKT7luPGdb pic.twitter.com/tAeOpqYKFG
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) April 17, 2021
the pandemic will be over in some states much sooner than in others https://t.co/gkEcc0XuTX pic.twitter.com/v2GlBjzMbe
— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) April 17, 2021
Alaska to start offering tourists Covid vaccinations on June 1 https://t.co/bWa30xWlCO via @medical_xpress
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) April 17, 2021
Some residents are fuming as Oregon considers a permanent mask mandate, even as some states loosen coronavirus restrictions. https://t.co/7L2EhoIMB7
— AP West Region (@APWestRegion) April 17, 2021
Lib'rul media bias is covering the life-altering pandemic, that killed over 500,000, too negatively.
What a party. https://t.co/Av807RuRRB
— Centrism Fan Acct ?? (@Wilson__Valdez) April 18, 2021
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