we are entering second wave
Experts say it will be very bad -- a LOT of sick people coming soon to a neighborhood near you.
But most will survive -- as the most vulnerable are taking far more strict precautions now than ever before.
Despite that, the death rate which was averaging down around 400-500 per day in the summer lull period, has now risen back up to over 700 deaths from covid per day -- and expected to rise higher.........again
. (Paul Sakuma/AP)
The Defense Department is closely involved in the effort, prompting concerns that an agency not accustomed to delivering vaccines might be charged with the critical task. Perna insisted, however, that the department is helping with logistics and program support — not distribution.
“There will not be this vision some people have of army trucks driving through the street delivering vaccine,” he told listeners on the online forum. “This is not feasible nor the proper way to do this.”
States also have a role to play. They’ve all submitted to the federal government plans for distributing a vaccine, with varying standards for who should get a vaccine first and how quickly the process should move.
New Jersey, for example, wants to administer the vaccine 70 percent of non-pregnant adults within six months. Nebraska laid out two initial phases of vaccine distribution in which the vaccine first goes to medical staff and later to the elderly and people with underlying conditions.
The vaccine news couldn't come at a more critical time as cases of the novel coronavirus are surging across the country – and public health officials warn things could deteriorate further over the winter. Trump, however, continues to insist the country is “rounding the corner” in the disease as the election approaches next Tuesday, and his chief of staff said this weekend that the virus could only be controlled through a vaccine and therapeutics.
The process is moving with unprecedented speed, but there are plenty of challenges.
For one thing, vaccines require cold storage. Medical professionals distributing a vaccine will also need equipment including needles, syringes, alcohol, pads, bandages and masks.
And government officials say it’s critical to track who is getting the vaccine and where. Five of the six vaccines being developed as part of Warp Speed — excluding the vaccine being developed by Johnson & Johnson — require two doses. People who receive a first dose will need to be given the same vaccine in their second dose.
© Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Gen. Gustave Perna testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee during his confirmation hearing to co-lead Operation Warp Speed. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
The administration is working on two parallel tracks to get a vaccine approved and ready to distribute.
Perna said he, along with Warp Speed chief Moncef Slaoui, recently visited the Tennessee offices of McKesson, the major vaccine distributor that has contracted with the government to head up distribution of eventual coronavirus vaccines.
“At the end of the day I chose [McKesson] because they know how to do it,” Perna said.
Once the Food and Drug Administration approves a coronavirus vaccine for emergency use — expected to happen in late November or early December if trials continue going well — McKesson will partner with FedEx and UPS, along with a number of pharmacies and grocery stores including Walmart, CVS, Walgreens and Kroger, to get the doses shipped around the country, Perna said.
End of November early December is the soonest to expect an FDA approved covid 19 flu shot. Then shortages market driven mandates for selection of what who where what type of vaccine will be available.in what areas. It seems a major opportunity exists to tag everyone who receives the shot so a scanner can be utilized to determine what the second dose should be.
Very clever if they pull this off but they can register and track us all with the shot.
US coronavirus cases hit record daily high
and experts warn daily death rates
will triple by mid-January
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington
School of Medicine says it is most likely that by the middle of January,
2,250 Americans will be dying every day from the coronavirus --
three times more than the current rate.
And it could get much worse.
"If states do not react to rising numbers by re-imposing mandates,
cumulative deaths could reach 514,000 by the same date,"
the IHME said in its latest forecast.
"The fall/winter surge should lead to a daily death toll that is
approximately three times higher than now by mid-January.
Hospital systems, particularly ICUs, are expected to be under
extreme stress in December and January in 18 states."
And hospitals are already under increased strain.
As of Thursday, more than 46,000 people were hospitalized,
according to the Covid Tracking Project, with 39 states
seeing a rise in hospitalizations this week.
Aren't Deplorables anti-vaccinators?
States continue to break
daily case count records
43 states have shown an increase in cases compared to last week
"We are at an unsustainable growth rate," said Dr. Jason Mitchell Thursday.
Mitchell is the chief medical officer at Presbyterian Healthcare Services,
which operates nine regional hospitals in New Mexico.
Mitchell says the state's rate of case growth is averaging about 5% a day,
which would result in catastrophic numbers if there's no effort to change
the trend.
"By December, we would have so many cases that we would
be in MASH tents," Mitchell said during a state health briefing.
10 months into this nightmare, Piggy's administration has still not developed a national testing & tracing program promised by Azar.
And this POS continues to ridicule people who are attempting to slow the spread by wearing a mask & social distancing.
Instead he mocks the country by holding these super-spreader ego stroking rallies & his supporters aren't smart enough to come in from the cold.
He's not too smart literally turning his supporters blue!
"We're like a dog chasing our own tail,we'll never give up and we'll never give in".
Then you got "little donny douchebag" saying covid deaths are "almost nothing" on a day where 1,000 Americans died of it,at what point will these idiots take it at least somewhat seriously.Can you imagine if there was another tragedy that claimed 1,000 American lives in 1 day(granted its lower then some of the other days death totals,due to this presidents incompetence,but its still 1,000 Americans),and you get the presidents kid up there saying its almost nothing.
Reporter:"Hey would you like to comment on the 1,000 Americans who tragically died today from anthrax poisoning".
Little donny d-bag:"Hey dont worry about it,thats almost nothing".
Pretty f*ckin sickening if you ask me.
It makes me laugh to when you get these buffoons who say its all a hoax,and will disappear right after the election.Like all these other countries are all behind the hoax and are shutting their countries down,just so trump loses the election.Its all one giant worldly conspiracy,just to get trump out of office,always playing the "poor me" victim,everbody's out to get "poor wittle donny".
True!
Meanwhile, there's this:
Higher rates of Covid-19
after Trump campaign rallies
A CNN investigation of 17 Trump campaign rallies finds that 14 of the host
counties had an increased rate of new Covid-19 cases one month after the rally.
The 17 rallies occurred between August 17 and September 26.
CNN evaluated the rate of new daily cases per 100,000 residents at four weeks
before the rally, on the rally date, and four weeks after the rally at the county
level and at the state level.
Of the 14 host counties that had increased infection rates, eight of them
had declining rates of infection in the month before trump's rally.
October 30:
Top 15 governments which have FAILED to protect their citizens.
(There are 129 nations with at least 4 million population)
Covid "death rates" per million population:
1039 Peru
987 Belgium
< big gap >
767 Spain
749 Brazil
743 Bolivia
739 Chile
712 Ecuador
709 trump's-denialist regime <--- 8th worst! 
706 Mexico
680 UK
679 Argentina
634 Italy
620 Panama
610 Columbia
587 Sweden
Stat source: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
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