Fauci says: when high school students are vaccinated,
the US might reach herd immunity.
"We don't really know what that magical point of herd immunity is, but we do know that if we get the overwhelming population vaccinated, we're going to be in good shape. We ultimately would like to get and have to get children into that mix," Fauci said during a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
could b a long wait
Ignoring CDC warnings,
more than 1 million passengers have flown
from US airports for 10 straight days
That's a worrying sign for health experts:
Although millions of Americans have been
vaccinated, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
continues to recommend that people avoid travel.
Ignoring CDC warnings,
more than 1 million passengers have flown
from US airports for 10 straight days
That's a worrying sign for health experts:
Although millions of Americans have been
vaccinated, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
continues to recommend that people avoid travel.
"What we have seen is that we have surges after people start traveling,
we saw it after July 4, we saw it after Labor Day, we saw it after the
Christmas holidays," CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said last week
in response to a question from CNN's Kaitlan Collins during a Covid-19 briefing.
7 in 10 people hospitalized for Covid-19
have not fully recovered 5 months after discharge, study says
The Covid survivors continued to experience concerns with their mental and
physical health, with 1 in 5 people developing a new disability, and a similar
number either not working or having to change jobs due to their health,
according to findings by UK researchers.
"Our results show a large burden of symptoms, mental and physical health
problems and evidence of organ damage five months after discharge with
COVID-19," Rachael Evans, an associate professor at the University of Leicester
and respiratory consultant at Leicester's hospitals, said in a statement.
Justice Department under Biden nominated, previously snubbed, Merrick Garland!
Cases are rising again
New daily cases of COVID-19 are rising slightly in the U.S., and public health officials
are concerned. The U.S. has reported more than 80,000 new cases in recent days –
daily totals not seen since mid-February, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
said Friday that case numbers are headed in the wrong direction,
increasing 7% over the previous seven-day period, and she pointed out that
the average number of deaths is still hovering around 1,000 a day. Hospitalizations
also increased slightly this week compared with the previous seven-day period.
"I remain deeply concerned about this trajectory. We have seen cases and
hospital admissions move from historic declines, to stagnations, to increases,"
Walensky said during the White House Covid-19 task force briefing Friday.
"And we know from prior surges that if we don't control things now,
there is a real potential for the epidemic curve to soar again."
CDC study finds Pfizer, Moderna vaccines are 90% effective
*AFTER* 2 doses in real-world conditions
At full vaccination, the vaccines were 90% effective at preventing infections,
including infections that had no symptoms.
At least 14 days after first dose but before second dose, they were 80% protective,
according to the agency's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published Monday.
The CDC said it is the first of many planned Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness studies.
The study looked at how the vaccines protected nearly 4,000 health care workers
and first responders. The volunteers in the study worked in eight locations around
the country and had been observed from mid-December to mid-March.
NOTE: after second dose, 90% effective is very good, but this also shows why the
fight with Coronavirus is not over.....because of
1/ all those not yet vaccinated,
2/ all those who are or will REFUSE to get vaccinated but may still be disease spreaders,
3/ even when fully vaccinated, 10% still get ill from covid
Florida's variant cases more than double,
CDC report says
USA TODAY
Florida, which was already the country's hardest-hit state for two kinds of
coronavirus variants, more than doubled its tally of variants in a report
released Sunday by the CDC.
The U.S. as a whole reported another 2,303 variant cases Sunday,
more than double the worst increase ever seen in the thrice-weekly CDC updates.
The previous record was set last Tuesday.
That brings the country to 10,985 known coronavirus variants, a tally that
more than doubled in the last two weeks as new coronavirus cases overall
in the U.S. stopped their extended decline.
Most of the variant cases in Florida and the U.S. overall are of B.1.1.7,
which was first seen in the United Kingdom, spreads more easily and
may be more likely to kill its victims.
But Florida also nearly doubled its case count of P.1, a variant first seen in Brazil.
US tops 12K known COVID "variant" cases
The United States has reported more known coronavirus variant cases in the last week
– nearly 4,300 – than it reported through the middle of March, a USA TODAY analysis
of CDC data shows. Tuesday night's tally reflected more than 1,000 new cases just
since Sunday's report.
The U.S. now has 12,053 known cases of variants that can spread COVID-19
more easily, dodge some treatments and immunities, or both.
About 15 million doses of Johnson & Johnson's one-shot COVID-19 vaccine
have been lost after a mix-up at a Baltimore manufacturing plant,
the New York Times reported Wednesday night.
The plant, run by Emergent BioSolutions, is tasked with manufacturing two
COVID-19 vaccines, the Times reported. Workers at the plant conflated
ingredients of the vaccines, ruining the doses, the newspaper reported.
The factory mix-up does not affect Johnson & Johnson doses currently being delivered
and used nationwide, since those those were developed in the Netherlands.
*OBVIOUSLY the factory worker's error has NOTHING to do with President Biden.
Deadly covid "variants" are spreading
Thousands of cases of the B.1.1.7 strain have been reported across the US,
and experts fear the variant could drive another Covid-19 surge as states race
to get ahead and vaccinate.
The strain, first spotted in the United Kingdom, isn't just more contagious than
the original novel coronavirus, it appears to be deadlier as well.
B.1.1.7 has been wreaking havoc in parts of Europe, and health experts the US
could be next if Americans don't take precautions.
The highest B.1.1.7 case counts are in Florida, under Republican Governor,
Ron DeSantis, which has welcomed packed crowds of spring breakers -
- many of whom are unvaccinated and maskless.
Then these people return back to their home states......infected
Cases are rising again
New daily cases of COVID-19 are rising slightly in the U.S., and public health officials
are concerned. The U.S. has reported more than 80,000 new cases in recent days –
daily totals not seen since mid-February, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
said Friday that case numbers are headed in the wrong direction,
increasing 7% over the previous seven-day period, and she pointed out that
the average number of deaths is still hovering around 1,000 a day. Hospitalizations
also increased slightly this week compared with the previous seven-day period.
"I remain deeply concerned about this trajectory. We have seen cases and
hospital admissions move from historic declines, to stagnations, to increases,"
Walensky said during the White House Covid-19 task force briefing Friday.
"And we know from prior surges that if we don't control things now,
there is a real potential for the epidemic curve to soar again."
bad news
and it is infecting and hospitalizing younger citizens too
A third of Covid-19 survivors
suffer 'brain disease,' study shows
Researchers found 34% of Covid-19 survivors received a diagnosis for a
neurological or psychological condition within six months of their infection,
according to the study published Tuesday in the journal Lancet Psychiatry.
A third of Covid-19 survivors
suffer 'brain disease,' study shows
Researchers found 34% of Covid-19 survivors received a diagnosis for a
neurological or psychological condition within six months of their infection,
according to the study published Tuesday in the journal Lancet Psychiatry.
so theres more to covid that just hospitalizations and deaths
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