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California up through British Columbia...

How do fires and anti-vaxxers weigh up?

Sound mean? It's realistic.

Gonna be a long summer.

Believe me, it already has been a long summer. In addition to what you mentioned am dealing with some potentially real bad medical stuff on a personal level. I'm in some trouble, the question is how much. I hope (sort of) to find out in the next few days. Fingers crossed it's only a little trouble.

Sending my very best to you, hope your fears prove unfounded.

crholmstrom, add me to the list of Best Wishers. Hope you have a good result, fingers crossed for you.

Went to the Hollywood Bowl July 4th. 18,000 people few masks. It was a little scary, knowing there's a bunch of a-holes who won't get vaccinated, but it sure felt good to be out and see new faces.

Best wishes to you crholmstrom.

I sincerely hope all works out fine for you.

When wearing a mask became a must do, seems such a long time ago back then and didn't relish the thought of it.

Now as the months, and at least a year has gone by, it just comes as a thing you do every day.........like putting your socks or underpants on, which comes naturally.

I will still be wearing a mask on public transport and shops, as well as other places where keeping your distance is down to the individual.

Only Pubs I been to have a garden or plenty of room to keep your distance.

I've had both jabs and quiet happy to see live music in a pub, meeting other people there, and having a great time.

It's time now for everyone who wants to get out and about enjoying yourself, to do a risk assessment of when you are out, you are doing the right thing for yourself as well as everyone around you.

You know it makes sense.

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California up through British Columbia...

How do fires and anti-vaxxers weigh up?

Sound mean? It's realistic.

Gonna be a long summer.

Believe me, it already has been a long summer. In addition to what you mentioned am dealing with some potentially real bad medical stuff on a personal level. I'm in some trouble, the question is how much. I hope (sort of) to find out in the next few days. Fingers crossed it's only a little trouble.

Damn. That sucks. Sorry to see that. That really blows. Hopefully it's good and not bad.

From the Washington Post:

Britain’s daily infections could reach 100,000 this summer, health secretary says

Coronavirus

Britain’s daily coronavirus cases could reach 100,000 this summer as the government moves to end nearly all covid-related restrictions later this month, the country’s health secretary said Tuesday.
Sajid Javid told BBC Radio that coronavirus case numbers, currently hovering around 25,000 each day, were expected to double ahead of the July 19 deadline to lift restrictions, as the more transmissible delta variant drives a new surge in infections. “As we ease and go into the summer, we expect them to rise significantly, and they could go as high as 100,000 case numbers,” Javid said. Even at its worst peak in January, Britain’s daily cases never surpassed 60,000 a day. The health secretary added it was more important to track the number of hospitalizations and deaths caused by the virus — outcomes that he said have been tempered by new covid-19 treatments and a successful vaccination campaign. “What matters more than anything is hospitalization and death numbers, and that is where the link has been severely weakened,” Javid said. “Just to put a number on that — at the moment, we are seeing around 25,000 new cases a day. The last time was saw numbers like that, we sadly had deaths of around 500 a day. And now we are at about one-thirtieth of that,” he said.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Monday that almost all government-mandated restrictions to control the pathogen’s spread would end in England on July 19, even as he cautioned that the pandemic was not over. The decision has alarmed some health experts who say it is too early to lift curbs like public mask mandates, pointing to the devastation wrought by the delta variant in India, where it was first detected. According to Public Health England, the variant accounts for at least 95 percent of new cases in Britain.

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^ Even if the vaccine isn't 100% the odds of infection are much lower. I would take my chances with magnetism, side effects, whatever than taking those odds.

It doesn’t matter if the infection-rate goes up post-‘Freedom Day’ on 19 July. So long as hospitalisations are minimised and our ‘blessed’ NHS isn’t ‘overwhelmed’, we’ll, hopefully, be fine. It’s time to do this.

THE AGE --- 8 July 2021



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Meanwhile, back in California....from ABC10:

Mask mandate, rapid testing reinstated at California Capitol after COVID outbreak

According to the mandate, masks must be worn inside the Capitol, legislative office building, and district offices, regardless of vaccine status.

Coronavirus

SACRAMENTO, Calif — The California Capitol and state offices are reinstating a mask mandate after nine confirmed COVID-19 cases were diagnosed in employees over the last week – four of whom were fully vaccinated against the virus. The mask mandate was implemented immediately following a recommendation of the California Department of Public Health (CDPH). According to the mandate, masks must be worn inside the Capitol, legislative office building, and district offices, regardless of vaccine status. Additionally, all unvaccinated employees will be required to undergo COVID-19 rapid testing twice weekly, every Monday and Thursday between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. Rapid testing begins on July 8. Any vaccinated employees who wish to be tested are encouraged to participate. The mandate applies to all state employees, including lawmakers.

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Youth COVID vaccinations still trail older adults by wide margin in California

Vaccine hesitancy, myths, misinformation or simply saying no to the shot among the reasons

CALIFORNIA, USA — It appears younger people are not so excited about their chance to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Although the vaccines only became available for youth ages 12-17 in Mid-May, the latest state statistics show only about one in three kids ages 12 to 17 are fully vaccinated. That compares to about two out of every three older adults ages 65 and up who are fully vaccinated. "I have talked to many parents, many kids about vaccination and there is some vaccine hesitancy," says Dr. Dean Blumberg, professor and Chief of Pediatric Diseases at UC Davis Children's Hospital. He says he still sees a number of children's COVID cases, some as young as newborns. "COVID is still with us. It's still a risk and your risk of getting COVID are much higher than any side effects from the vaccines," Blumberg said.

In Sacramento County, 28% of people age 12 to 17 are fully vaccinated. However, further south the numbers drop off even more. In San Joaquin County, close to 20% are fully vaccinated, and the numbers drop to 18% in neighboring Stanislaus County. Youth leaders like 21-year-old Valentino Silva of Stockton, who got vaccinated over a month ago, said his friends have a number of reasons why they are saying "no" to the vaccine. "It's the mark of the beast. They're implanting you with a chip. Some may not even believe it; some think it may be water," Silva said. Silva and other youth leaders organized and launched a COVID Social Media Campaign and Memorial/Candlelight vigil tonight at Stockton's MLK Plaza to honor those lost in the pandemic. Silva is also hoping to raise awareness for more funding from the City of Stockton and San Joaquin County to go toward communities most impacted by COVID-19, like the Latino and African-American communities. "Just to ensure that they are provided with the proper resources so that they can make an informed decision," Silva said.

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San Diego County stats:

[www.countynewscenter.com]

Time to follow Singapore's lead.

From the United Nations website:

COVID variants ‘winning the race against vaccines’ warns WHO chief

Variants like Delta are “currently winning the race against vaccines” said the World Health Organization (WHO) chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday,
pinning the blame squarely on a lack of equitable vaccine production and distribution.

Coronavirus

During his biweekly conference in Geneva, he added that passing the four millionth recorded death worldwide from COVID-19 was a “tragic milestone” which “likely underestimates the overall toll” of the deadly virus.
Tedros warned that far too many countries are seeing “sharp spikes in cases and hospitalization”, while rich nations with high inoculation rates, were dropping public health measures “as though the pandemic is already over.”

A wave of death

The situation is leading to an acute shortage of oxygen and treatments, and driving a ‘wave of death’ in parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America. “At this stage in the pandemic, the fact that millions of health and care workers have still not been vaccinated is abhorrent”, he added. Tedros reminded that ‘vaccine nationalism’, where a handful of nations have taken the lion’s share, is ‘morally indefensible’ and an ineffective public health strategy against a respiratory virus that is mutating quickly and becoming increasingly successful at infecting new hosts. “Variants are currently winning the race against vaccines because of inequitable vaccine production and distribution…It didn’t have to be this way and it doesn’t have to be this way going forward”, he underscored. He said the spread of variants would also threaten the global economic recovery, noting that from a “moral, epidemiological or economic” standpoint, now is the time for the world to come together. Tedros called on leaders of the G20 economies, set to meet later this week, to take urgent steps to end the acute stage of the pandemic, providing the necessary funding to scale up equitable manufacturing and distribution of health tools.

No ‘flat curve’ yet

The Executive Director of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme, Dr. Mike Ryan, told journalists that while it has been good to see a drop in hospitalizations in countries with high levels of vaccination, this still should be “a moment for extreme caution for countries right now”. “[Almost] all the regions had an increase in cases in the last week…this is not a flat curve; this is an increasing curve. Making assumptions that transmission is not going to increase because of vaccines is a false assumption. “Transmission will increase when you open up because we don’t have vaccines (for all) and we are still not sure to what extent vaccination protects against the ability to be infected or have onward transmission”, he explained. Dr. Ryan added that with increased transmission in the community, the most vulnerable- the older and people with underlying conditions- will be at risk, especially in countries where vaccination programmes have not reach them yet.

Variants thriving.

There are more two dozen countries that have epidemic curves which are “almost vertical right now…This is not the situation we should be in, when we have tools right now”, WHO COVID technical lead, Maria Van Kerkhove also warned. The epidemiologist said the Delta variant has been now detected in 104 countries; the Alpha variant in 173; the Beta in 122; and the Gamma variant in 74. “Some countries have all four of these variants of concern circulating. The Delta variant has even more increased transmissibility than the Alpha variant. If that virus takes hold, it will spread”, she cautioned. She reminded that the virus continues to mutate and change, including the Delta variant, but said that “we can still have the upper hand”. “Let’s use the tools that we already have to keep transmission down. Be safe, be smart…the virus has a hold over us right now and we need to regain control”, she underscored.

The latest numbers

Last week, the number of new COVID cases increased slightly, while the number of new deaths continued to decrease, with over 2.6 million new cases and just under 54,000 new deaths reported globally. This is the lowest weekly mortality figure since early October 2020, according to the weekly WHO epidemiological update. The cumulative number of cases reported globally now exceeds 183 million. Last week, all regions reported an increase in new cases except for the Americas. The European Region reported a sharp increase in incidence (30%) whereas African region reported a sharp increase in mortality (23%) when compared to the previous week. All Regions, except for the Americas and South-East Asia, reported an increase in the number of deaths.

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Nearly all COVID deaths in US are now among unvaccinated (AP News June 29, 2021)

Nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. now are in people who weren’t vaccinated, a staggering demonstration of how effective the shots have been and an indication that deaths per day — now down to under 300 — could be practically zero if everyone eligible got the vaccine.

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It doesn’t matter if the infection-rate goes up post-‘Freedom Day’ on 19 July. So long as hospitalisations are minimised and our ‘blessed’ NHS isn’t ‘overwhelmed’, we’ll, hopefully, be fine. It’s time to do this.

Covid hospitalisation actually rising rapidly in uk. As of 6th July up 38% on a 7 day basis, on 7th July increase was 42% on a 7 day basis. Carry on at this rate and the NHS will be in trouble again before the end of summer. I personally think freedom day and all the media nonsense around it is a dreadful idea. Why we’d be encouraging no social distance and masks at this point is beyond me

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The world’s reported Covid death toll passes four million.

July 8, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
The world’s known coronavirus death toll passed four million on Thursday, a loss roughly equivalent to the population of Los Angeles, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.

It took nine months for the virus to claim one million lives, and the pace has quickened since then. The second million were lost in three and a half months, the third in three months, and the fourth in about two and a half months. The number of daily reported deaths has declined recently.

Those are officially reported figures, which are widely believed to undercount pandemic-related deaths.

“The numbers may not tell the complete story, and yet they’re still really staggering numbers globally,” said Jennifer B. Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Ms. Nuzzo said the number of excess deaths reported around the world suggested that “lower-income countries have been much harder hit than their official numbers would suggest.”
[www.nytimes.com]

The same people mocking the various government incentives to get vaxxed (lotteries etc) are now mocking the government having people and mobile vax units going door to door in mostly rural areas to help get people access to the vaccine
We send government census workers door to door, as well as voter registration workers etc., but going knocking on doors in an effort to help people get vaccinated, if they choose, is somehow beyond the pale. Fighting through the pandemic is tough enough, having to fight through the ignorance of the conspiracy theorists and the anti-government idiots doesn't help.

In Washington state alone, our vaccine lottery has motivated 30,000 people to get the shot(s). That equates to lives saved and a step closer to herd immunity, which the critics in the cheap seats apparently could care less about.

'Shot of a Lifetime' lottery boosted COVID-19 vaccine rates 24%, Inslee says
The increase is equal to about 30,000 Washingtonians becoming vaccinated, according to Inslee.

OLYMPIA, Wash. - Gov. Jay Inslee said in a tweet Tuesday that early estimates show Washington’s vaccine lottery resulted in a 24% jump in vaccination rates across the state.
The increase is equal to about 30,000 Washingtonians becoming vaccinated, he said.

Inslee cites estimates from the Washington State Department of Health (DOH), which were shared as part of a presentation by the Institute for Disease Modeling, a Seattle-based organization within the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Health Division.
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God bless Liberal Netherlands ..... but nor really!
Hardly any strict rules left since late June, the number of infected people (many young) skyrocketed in only a week time from virtually nothing to almost 5500 today and deaths appear on the surface too. Some countries already consider to colour our country to red again, with holidays ahead.
Our government has chosen from the very start to give the nation (strong) advice/recommendations to follow. They still refuse to understand that you can't advice Covidiots and juveniles ...
where have all the flowers gone ... when will they ever learn


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Covid hospitalisation actually rising rapidly in uk. As of 6th July up 38% on a 7 day basis, on 7th July increase was 42% on a 7 day basis. Carry on at this rate and the NHS will be in trouble again before the end of summer. I personally think freedom day and all the media nonsense around it is a dreadful idea. Why we’d be encouraging no social distance and masks at this point is beyond me

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I'm totally with you on this, Yorkshire. The way the whole thing's been handled here has been an unadulterated sh!tshow and so called 'Freedom Day' and the hype and frenzy around it is just asking for trouble. I would much prefer a gradualist approach to freedom than a triumphalist big bang. It's blindingly obvious that there are disagreements behind the scenes between the scientists and the charlatans in charge.

Not out of the woods yet, not by a long shot. We're starting to think and feel that way in the U.S. but I'm not sure that's a good thing given the trends with the Delta variant. In the end however, it seems there are just too many people who prefer the false sense of freedom from lifted restrictions over common sense and there's no turning back now. The proverbial cat is out of the bag; I hope it doesn't end poorly.

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It doesn’t matter if the infection-rate goes up post-‘Freedom Day’ on 19 July. So long as hospitalisations are minimised and our ‘blessed’ NHS isn’t ‘overwhelmed’, we’ll, hopefully, be fine. It’s time to do this.

Covid hospitalisation actually rising rapidly in uk. As of 6th July up 38% on a 7 day basis, on 7th July increase was 42% on a 7 day basis. Carry on at this rate and the NHS will be in trouble again before the end of summer. I personally think freedom day and all the media nonsense around it is a dreadful idea. Why we’d be encouraging no social distance and masks at this point is beyond me

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I'm totally with you on this, Yorkshire. The way the whole thing's been handled here has been an unadulterated sh!tshow and so called 'Freedom Day' and the hype and frenzy around it is just asking for trouble. I would much prefer a gradualist approach to freedom than a triumphalist big bang. It's blindingly obvious that there are disagreements behind the scenes between the scientists and the charlatans in charge.

It's remarkable how short lived people's memories are, regarding the 'lag-effect' of this virus. You're looking at 2 or 3 weeks from exposure to full blown symptoms, and then another couple of weeks from hospitalization to death for those unfortunate souls.

I get the pent up nature of 'getting out finally', but why can't those in charge manage this a bit better? What are we on now, the 4th or 5th wave?

Summer is the time of year where we more naturally see declines. If the rates of infection are increasing in the summertime....wait until the fall.

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It doesn’t matter if the infection-rate goes up post-‘Freedom Day’ on 19 July. So long as hospitalisations are minimised and our ‘blessed’ NHS isn’t ‘overwhelmed’, we’ll, hopefully, be fine. It’s time to do this.

Covid hospitalisation actually rising rapidly in uk. As of 6th July up 38% on a 7 day basis, on 7th July increase was 42% on a 7 day basis. Carry on at this rate and the NHS will be in trouble again before the end of summer. I personally think freedom day and all the media nonsense around it is a dreadful idea. Why we’d be encouraging no social distance and masks at this point is beyond me

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Hospital admissions may be rising but they are still 50 times below what they were in January and highly unlikely to get anywhere near those numbers again now the vaccines are here.Most of these hospital admissions are younger people who only remain in hospital for a few days and don’t require the help of ventilators.

How many people calling for continued mask wearing are willing to dispose of their petroleum fuelled vehicles immediately to help reduce pollution and deaths caused by that pollution?

Nate

Delta variant said to be far more widespread than federal estimates

The reality on the ground is likely much higher because states and private labs are taking weeks to report testing results to the CDC.

“We’re one week into July and it is everywhere. It suggests that it is far, far more contagious than the Alpha variant.
It makes me nervous … how contagious it is and how quickly it has spread.” - Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health

Coronavirus

The more-transmissible Delta coronavirus variant is believed to be significantly more widespread than the current federal projections, according to two senior Biden administration health officials with knowledge of the situation. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data released late Tuesday shows the Delta strain accounted for more than 51 percent of new Covid-19 cases from June 20 to July 3. But the reality on the ground is likely much higher because states and private labs are taking weeks to report testing results to the CDC, the officials said. “It is everywhere now,” one of the officials said, adding that recent data shows the Pfizer Covid vaccine works well against the Delta variant. “The risk really is in the unvaccinated community. We’re starting to see more and more people get sick and need medical attention.”

Covid-19 hospitalizations are up more than 40 percent over the last two weeks in Arkansas, Iowa and Nevada. And emerging evidence from a repository of genetic sequences compiled by Scripps Research's Outbreak.info suggests that the Delta strain accounted for as much as two-thirds of new Covid cases nationwide over the past two weeks. The site notes the data "may not represent the true prevalence of the mutations in the population." The CDC's data on where the variant is spreading and at what rate relies on reports from state and private labs that sequence samples that test positive for Covid-19. But the process often relies on testing batches of samples that can take weeks to complete. That delays the speed with which Delta infections are reported, according to the Biden health officials and multiple state public health officials. The lack of real-time data has left local health officials unprepared as hospitalizations have surged in parts of the Midwest and Southwest. It also raises questions about how the officials can control the spread as the pace of vaccination slows. “I am a little surprised how quickly Delta has become widespread,” said Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health. “We’re one week into July and it is everywhere. It suggests that it is far, far more contagious than the Alpha variant. It makes me nervous … how contagious it is and how quickly it has spread.” Mike Cima, an epidemiology officer with Arkansas’ public health department, said it can take from five days to up to two weeks to get CDC data back, adding that his state works with the agency and the University of Minnesota to sequence Covid-19 samples.

The CDC has offered to help several states battling the Delta variant speed up the sequencing process, multiple state public health officials told POLITICO. The Biden administration also is sending top health officials like Anthony Fauci, the president’s chief medical officer, to communities to help convince unvaccinated people to get the shot. But Biden health officials acknowledge that most of the salesmanship will fall to local officials and trusted community leaders. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky told reporters Thursday her agency's 51 percent estimate of the Delta variant's prevalence is the government's "best estimate at this point," adding that "it has some uncertainty around it." "Although we expected the Delta variant to become the dominant strain in the United States, this rapid rise is troubling," Walensky said. "We know that the Delta variant has increased transmissibility and it is currently surging in pockets of the country with low vaccination rates." The situation on the ground worries local officials. Arkansas' Cima said among the individuals the state has identified as having contracted the Delta variant, 11 percent are hospitalized. Four percent are admitted to the ICU. “Delta … is the dominant variant in the state. And it is fair to say there will likely be some increase in death,” Cima said. “It is far more infectious than the original strain that hit back in 2020. It is far more infectious than the Alpha variant. It is really important people understand this is a different situation we’re in. If you are unvaccinated … there is very good chance if you are going to become sick.”

In Missouri, more than 80 percent of ICU beds are already filled, the highest percentage the state has recorded since the winter. That includes more than 300 Covid-19 patients, the highest total since early February. On Tuesday, Steve Edwards, CEO of CoxHealth in southwest Missouri, tweeted that he desperately needed more respiratory therapists to deal with the surge in cases. As of Wednesday afternoon, more than three dozen had replied and offered help, but a hospital spokesperson said they could still use more. Nearby, at Mercy Hospital in Springfield, staff on Sunday called on affiliate hospitals to send ventilators. A spokesperson for Mercy said the Springfield location has more than 120 Covid-19 patients, the most it’s had at any point during the pandemic. Of those, only two were vaccinated. State officials asked the Biden administration for help, and the first CDC employee arrived on Tuesday to support efforts to track the variant in southwest Missouri. Lisa Cox, a spokesperson for the state health department, said more CDC personnel are expected in the coming weeks to assist with data collection, research and vaccine outreach. Nevada Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak has reached out to FEMA for additional resources, hoping to tamp down the outbreak spreading across Las Vegas and Clark County. The state is reporting that more than 500 people hospitalized with Covid-19 for the first time since mid-February — almost all in Clark County. Sisolak wants help with the state’s vaccination campaign but the governor’s office has not yet released details on exactly how surge teams would be used. Colorado Democratic Gov. Jared Polis asked the CDC to help investigate the proliferation of the Delta variant in the western part of his state.

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^ Even if the vaccine isn't 100% the odds of infection are much lower. I would take my chances with magnetism, side effects, whatever than taking those odds.

Hopefully the next time I go out to eat silverware flies through the air from every table and collects on me.

Where is it that the "doctors" talk about putting spoons and they fall off because... they didn't lick them right? Any specific area or just wherever skin is exposed? Aside from posing for a pic. Or telling a judge in a hearing that the vaccine is coordinated with the 5G towers.

Although, that could end the airline industry. Think of how climate chaos could do a 180 if we were all magnetized and just... flew around wherever we want to because of, I dunno, satellites.

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It doesn’t matter if the infection-rate goes up post-‘Freedom Day’ on 19 July. So long as hospitalisations are minimised and our ‘blessed’ NHS isn’t ‘overwhelmed’, we’ll, hopefully, be fine. It’s time to do this.

Covid hospitalisation actually rising rapidly in uk. As of 6th July up 38% on a 7 day basis, on 7th July increase was 42% on a 7 day basis. Carry on at this rate and the NHS will be in trouble again before the end of summer. I personally think freedom day and all the media nonsense around it is a dreadful idea. Why we’d be encouraging no social distance and masks at this point is beyond me

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Hospital admissions may be rising but they are still 50 times below what they were in January and highly unlikely to get anywhere near those numbers again now the vaccines are here.Most of these hospital admissions are younger people who only remain in hospital for a few days and don’t require the help of ventilators.

How many people calling for continued mask wearing are willing to dispose of their petroleum fuelled vehicles immediately to help reduce pollution and deaths caused by that pollution?

Nate

Actually (same source) deaths are accelerating at a fast rate (same source quoting exponential growth in hospital covid deaths in south east England this week - [mobile.twitter.com])

Convincing yourself this is over is not a sensible approach at present - and not wearing a mask and no social distance isn’t going to help matters

I think the swerve to environmental topics is a touch irrelevant to this discussion but if you’re interested I’ve driven an electric car for the last 18 months

I wasn’t making any assumption about any particular individual polluting the environment.I made the comparison because I was making a point about how much people in general who call for continued restrictions to help others are willing to sacrifice themselves in order to help other people.A lot of people talk the talk but don’t walk the walk.

Nate

At least in the US, the anti-vaxxers are generally the climate change deniers. They talk their talk and walk their walk.

And how many have died or suffered severe side effects from the vaccine? 1,000? 2,000? How many vaccinated people died of Covid in the US? Fewer people than on a single beer line at a Stones show.


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Covid-19 vaccines saved hundreds of thousands of lives and prevented more than a million hospitalizations in the United States, according to new estimates from researchers at Yale University and the Commonwealth Fund.

The researchers compared actual trends in Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths against a modeled trajectory of what those trends would have been if there had been no vaccinations.

By the end of June, the researchers estimate that there would have been about 279,000 additional deaths due to Covid-19 -- about 46% more than there were -- and as many as 1.25 million additional hospitalizations if there were no vaccinations. And if vaccinations had progressed at half the pace that they did, about 121,000 more people may have died and more than 450,000 more would have been hospitalized.

At a briefing Thursday, White House Covid-19 response director Jeff Zients called this new research "a powerful reminder about what's at stake in our vaccination efforts."

"This is further evidence that our whole-of-government strategy is working and has prevented significant further tragedy and disruption to Americans' lives and livelihoods," he said.

The researchers' model considered factors including the prevalence and transmissibility of new variants, vaccine efficacy rates, mobility patterns driving daily contacts and age-specific risks of severe health outcomes due to Covid-19.

Most of the additional deaths would have occurred because of an "increase and spread of the more transmissible Alpha variant," according to the researchers. The Alpha variant -- also known as B.1.1.7 and first identified in the UK -- became the dominant strain in the US in the spring. Without vaccinations, the researchers estimate there could have been a spring surge with nearly 4,500 deaths each day, even more than the January peak of about 3,400 daily deaths.

The researchers compared their model against actual trends between mid-December 2020 -- when vaccinations began in the US -- and the end of June 2021. However, the model was simulated using data back through October 2020 to balance lower incidence rates with the those from winter surge.

Nearly 48% of the US population -- about 156 million people -- are fully vaccinated, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Over the past week, an average of about 432,000 people became fully vaccinated each day, down about 76% from the peak pace of nearly 1.8 million people each day in mid-April.

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At least in the US, the anti-vaxxers are generally the climate change deniers. They talk their talk and walk their walk.

Lets see how their walk changes when they come down with the plague. My bet is they will be the first down there clogging up the emergency room demanding "help" when their own stupidity comes home to roost.

But yeah, flat-earthers, climate change deniers, anti-vaxxers, mostly the same people who fly confederate flags and attend certain chump's rallies. The "night rally" crowd for sure give em an inch and they burn a cross on your lawn.

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San Diego county stats:

Almost all COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths being reported in the region are occurring in San Diegans who are not fully vaccinated.

New data from the County Health and Human Services Agency shows that since Jan. 1, 2021, COVID-19 has been primarily occurring in San Diegans who are unvaccinated or partially vaccinated. They represent:

99.8% of deaths
99.88% of hospitalizations
99.1% of cases

[www.countynewscenter.com]