COVID-19 in other countries 2021

Mayo Clinic. It is pretty good I think as the presentation is clean and simple.

U.S. COVID-19 vaccine tracker: See your state's progress

 

Yes you are correct. I misread an article of the Guardian which stated:

“The challenge in Florida, and in far too many states, is [that] we still don’t have vaccination rates high enough, and in some pockets we have actually vaccination rates quite low,” Murthy said in an interview with McClatchy newspapers.

“The consequence is that Covid is now spreading very quickly in those populations.”
“These vaccines are saving lives,” he said at a news conference at which he noted that more than 95% of new infections in Florida were of those who had not received a shot. The state ranks 25th in the US, with 48.1% of those eligible fully vaccinated, 0.7% below the national average.

Florida urged to ramp up vaccination effort amid ‘alarming’ Covid rise

 

The CDC has data by county. Usual caveats where data is concerned.

COVID-19 Vaccination

 

You'd think - with 83 Covid threads and several overlapping into politics - I'd find somewhere to put this snippet of info, but nope. If there is somewhere more suitable then the mods can move it.

Now, I'm a fan of Faucci - not so much Rand - but Rand does raise an interesting connection.

In 2014 the NIH (National Institute of Health) - under which the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), of which Faucci is a long time director, falls - apparently gave to EcoHealth $3.7mil ... of which EcoHealth then gave the Wuhan Institute of Virology $600,000 towards conducting research into Coronavirus in bats ... a funding that was only pulled in 2020.

Coronavirus: Was US money used to fund risky research in China?

The question is - was the money used for "gain of function" studies ... gain of function can include:

- develop virus' that are potentially more dangerous to gain an understanding of viral evolution
- develop better treatments against potential evolution
- develop bio-weapons

What is Gain-of-Function Research?

I'm not drawing any conclusions - am fully aware that this sort of research goes on all the time - but it does raise some questions about what was really going on in Wuhan, who knew what and what is not being disclosed.

 

Taiwan is like Australia and has struggled with the virus over the last few months.
It's an island nation of around 25 million, so naturally they were relying on borders to do the protection. Well, the virus got in and the population is highly unvaccinated, so they did the same thing we are doing to bring the case numbers down and they are also rushing to vaccinate too now... imo the population is more compilant to government orders than Australians are as a whole though. From my observations, Taiwanese people tend to live in more dense/urban housing than Australians do, so Australians may be more able to avoid encountering the virus than Taiwanese due to sheer luck of Geographical factors. Still best to vaccinate asap though.

COVID-19: Taiwan exits lockdown and steps up vaccine race

 

Rapidly becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated (100mil still unvaccinated in the US)

US coronavirus: Nation could again see 200K Covid-19 cases daily, former CDC director says - CNN

 

I don't know if I should even laugh at this.

Olympics 2021: Tokyo Governor wants more hospital, hotel beds for record COVID infections

"Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga says there is no need to cancel the remainder of the Tokyo Olympics despite another record jump in the number of daily COVID-19 infections, because fewer people are arriving for the Games."

Taken to it's extreme it is akin to attrition warfare strategy.

 

I heard (and may be wrong) that the positive 3,000 were out of a mere 8,000 tests. Suspect they're not game to test and risk the games getting shut down.

It's also throwing me that every background banner reads Tokyo 2020 ... feel like I lost a year somewhere

 

The olympics are extremely unpopular with the japanese people and therefore japanese companies will not sponsor it....Lets see how US companies spend in bejing to capture their chinese audience next year. Cheers Ivan

 

I'm with the paediatricians on this - not an experiment I'd like my kids to be part of, with no results known for 5-10-15 years

 

Other countries opening up? Yes to a degree but some are placing restrictions on that. Whoo!

Positive - or maybe it's actually negative - discrimination based on being vaccinated or not.

Europe tried to boost Covid-19 vaccine takeup with carrots. Now some leaders are breaking out the sticks - CNN

 

Well, the English were continually telling the world during Euro 2020 that 'Football's coming home' and we all know how that ended up. Maybe they have a bit of built-in delusion about them.

 

China reports 75 new COVID-19 cases as Delta cluster expands

Delta gaining a foothold in populous china now. Get ready for the market dip

 

I heard that they locked the entire city down and tested all 9.3million ...

 

I feel like that’s the plan here. There’s no plan to vaccinate kids under 12 and no plan to vaccinate kids over 12 any time soon. And Gladys seems to talk about vaccinating adults then opening up.

 

Putting aside any position regarding tardiness or hesitancy in getting a vaccination, you do have to feel for these people. The stress and worry they must be under I cannot imagine.

Coronavirus update: Latest Covid-19 vaccine and US reopening news

"There are “no more beds left” at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, which is Louisiana's largest hospital, Chief Medical Officer Katy O’Neal said at a news conference Monday.

Currently there are 23 patients waiting for a transfer into the Baton Rouge hospital for an intensive care unit bed.

“We have almost 800 beds, we have 713 people admitted today, and no one diagnosis should take up one quarter of your hospital,” O’Neal said, noting that there are at least 155 Covid-19 patients at the hospital today. “We no longer think we're giving adequate care to anybody, because these are the darkest days of the pandemic.”

“You have people with chest pain sitting in an ER right now, where their families sit in the waiting room and they are wringing their hands and they're calling everybody they know,” O’Neal added. “Because there are no more beds left. Those 23 patients are a glimpse of what we have been doing for the last two weeks while we have been trying to get everybody vaccinated. And it's not helping enough, because it's not happening fast enough.”