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Sorry if Ambergris already reported on this. I haven't had a chance to read everything yet. I'm having computer eyes and don't want to risk a headache.  Sorry about the double spacing too. 

 

Vietnam detects highly contagious new coronavirus variant as infections surge

Variant is a mix of coronavirus strains first detected in the United Kingdom and India, country’s health minister says

May 29, 2021 at 8:26 a.m. EDT

 

Vietnam’s Health Ministry announced Saturday that it had detected a highly transmissible new variant of the coronavirus that has helped fuel a recent wave of infections in the country.

 

Genetic sequencing indicated that the new variant was a mix of the coronavirus strains first detected in the United Kingdom and India, said Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long, according to the VnExpress newspaper.

 

The minister said the new variant was particularly contagious via air and viral cultures have revealed it replicates extremely quickly, the newspaper reported.

 

“The new variant is very dangerous,” Long said in a statement.

The Health Ministry didn’t return a Saturday afternoon request for comment.

 

Scientists said further study was needed to determine the effect of a variant in “real-world settings.”

 

“A lot of different mutations happen as the virus is transmitted and most of them are not of clinical significance,” said Todd Pollack, a Hanoi-based infectious-disease expert for Harvard Medical School. “Just because they say [the new variant] has features of one and the other … doesn’t mean they got together in one patient and spit out some combined hybrid ‘supervirus.’ ”

 

There were seven known coronavirus variants in Vietnam before Long’s announcement, according to Reuters.

 

Vietnam, which has reported around 6,400 coronavirus infections and 47 deaths, has been one of the world’s coronavirus containment success stories. A well-run public health-care system, quarantine camps operated by the military and strict, targeted lockdowns kept case numbers low until late April, when a spike in infections began.

 

Many of the recent infections were detected in two industrialized provinces in northern Vietnam, where factory employees often work in proximity. Plants there that manufacture for such global brands as Apple have implemented social distancing measures, Reuters reported. Such factories are key to Vietnam’s export sector, which has boomed amid trade tensions between the United States and China.

 

Restrictions are also in place in Hanoi, the capital, and Ho Chi Minh City, the country’s economic hub.

 

Singapore and Taiwan, which had effectively eliminated transmission of the coronavirus at the start of the year, recently reintroduced curbs as infections return.

 

Many countries that managed the pandemic with “non-pharmaceutical interventions are finding that more transmissible variants are more difficult to control with these measures,” Pollack said. “This is the biggest challenge that [Vietnam is] facing since covid-19 came onto the scene.”

 

Vietnam is operating one of the slower inoculation programs in the world, with fewer than 0.1 percent of its 103 million residents having been fully vaccinated as of Friday. It has approved the Oxford-AstraZeneca and Sputnik V shots and recently signed a deal to buy more than 30 million Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses. Vietnam is also developing its own Nanocovax vaccine, whose final-stage trials are set for completion in the second half of the year.

 

Hanoi has a rocky relationship with Beijing and, unlike many other middle income nations, it has not approved the use of Chinese-developed vaccines.

 

Vietnam detects highly contagious new coronavirus variant as infections surge - The Washington Post

 

 

 

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Yes, Jeepers.  I have been watching Al Jazeera and the South China Morning Post for a couple of months, waiting to see where this would show up.  I expected it in Egypt actually, but Vietnam was on my second-tier short list. 

The Chinese Synopharm vaccine is only about 30% useful in females against the Indian variant, it seems, so Vietnam rejecting it is just as well.  Looks like the Synopharm vaccine would be next to useless against something with Indian resistance and hybrid vigor.  Hopefully, the Vietnamese vaccine will be better than the oak leaf pills my great great grandfather peddled.  

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Too little, too late but at least it's now a law on the books.  "The Senate approves Rand Paul's (R-KY) amendment to a bill that bans all gain of function research in China from receiving US funding by unanimous voice vote."  (Forbes Breaking News)

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For the week ending May 29, the US has averaged 21,422 reported new cases per day, 655 deaths per day, 23,358 hospitalizations per day attributed to Covid.

 

Remember the flu season we didn't have?  Well, the southern hemisphere isn't having one either.  This means the flu shots for next year will be much more of a dice roll than usual, because the usual thing is that next year's northern hemisphere shots are based on this year's southern hemisphere flu variant.  Which there isn't one.  

  

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Countries reporting the most new infections each day 
INDIA              194,953

BRAZIL             60,594

ARGENTINA     31,083

COLOMBIA       21,753

USA                   21,422


Countries reporting the most deaths each day  
INDIA            3,815

BRAZIL          1,836

USA                 655

COLOMBIA      503

ARGENTINA    490

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Mon, May 31, 2021

WHO wants Covid variants to be given Greek alphabet names

Global health leaders have announced new names for Covid-19 variants using letters of the Greek alphabet.  Many variants of Sars-CoV-2 - the virus that causes Covid-19 - have been identified around the world.  They include B.1.1.7, known in the UK as the Kent variant and around the world as the UK variant - but now labelled by the WHO as Alpha. The B.1.617.2 variant, often known as the Indian variant, has been labelled Delta, while B.1.351, often referred to as the South African variant, has been named Beta. The P.1 Brazilian variant has been labelled Gamma.

 

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New reported infections
May 30  7-day average
Countries reporting the most new infections each day 
INDIA              175,167

BRAZIL             60,685

ARGENTINA     31,378

COLOMBIA       22,432

USA                  17,361

 

Countries reporting the most deaths each day  
INDIA          3,523

BRAZIL        1,848

USA               606

ARGENTINA  516

COLOMBIA   510

 

 

In trouble: Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, Bahrain, Afghanistan, Cambodia, and really most of the poor and/or densely populated places in Asia and the Middle East; Bolivia and Paraguay(thinly populated, isolated, and thus protected until now), Uruguay (a tropical jewel city/state with a tiny country around it, basically), Argentina, Colombia, Trinidad & Tobago, Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil; Angola, Namibia, Uganda, Egypt, Burundi, maybe others in Africa; Fiji and still Papua New Guinea.

 

Today is one of the days when India is reporting one of every three cases of Covid that is reported in the world.  Which might be about as accurate as when the US was reporting one out of three cases that was being reported in the world.  More accurate?  Less accurate?  Who knows?  At least we can compare the ups and downs in these numbers.  Also, we have hospital figures and death figures, which are much more concrete.

 

On May 26, the US reported 1000 new deaths. On May 28, the US reported 634, which is close to the average of the prior couple of weeks.  This indicates a correction of paperwork on May 26, because an actual uptick in deaths would have lasted more than one day.  Bear in mind this correction will, like a leap year, mess up the week's average.  

 

 

 

 

 

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Countries reporting the most new infections each day 
INDIA           164,291

BRAZIL          61,467

ARGENTINA 32,915

COLOMBIA   23,115

USA              17,552


Countries reporting the most deaths each day 
INDIA           3,388

BRAZIL        1,881

USA              604

ARGENTINA 525

COLOMBIA   519

Where the population has been vaccinated

Most recent data as of May 30, 2021

State First dose Fully vaccinated Total doses
United States 50.8% 41.0% 296,912,892
Vermont 70.7% 56.6% 778,794
Hawaii 66.9% 47.8% 1,592,196
Massachusetts 66.7% 54.0% 8,081,349
Maine 63.6% 55.0% 1,493,486
Connecticut 63.5% 53.7% 4,048,712
Rhode Island 61.2% 51.9% 1,166,826
New Jersey 60.6% 49.1% 9,150,101
New Hampshire 60.1% 49.6% 1,406,869
Pennsylvania 58.6% 43.9% 12,648,220
New Mexico 57.9% 48.0% 2,154,695
Maryland 57.6% 48.2% 6,163,133
Washington, D.C. 57.2% 46.5% 791,412
California 57.0% 43.3% 38,517,344
Washington 56.9% 46.9% 7,681,161
New York State 56.0% 47.2% 19,761,096
Virginia 55.5% 45.5% 8,403,979
Illinois 55.2% 40.2% 11,718,643
Oregon 55.1% 45.6% 4,087,801
Delaware 54.9% 43.5% 944,812
Minnesota 54.5% 46.2% 5,429,911
Colorado 54.4% 45.6% 5,640,374
Wisconsin 51.2% 44.6% 5,489,190
Puerto Rico 51.1% 37.4% 2,721,924
Iowa 49.4% 44.0% 2,854,445
Florida 49.4% 39.3% 18,864,968
Michigan 48.9% 42.3% 8,720,932
Nebraska 48.6% 42.5% 1,706,314
South Dakota 48.3% 42.5% 777,353
Kansas 46.9% 38.5% 2,330,805
Kentucky 46.5% 38.6% 3,657,162
Arizona 46.4% 36.2% 5,983,627
Alaska 46.2% 39.4% 612,892
Ohio 46.0% 40.3% 9,930,040
Nevada 45.8% 37.0% 2,518,129
Utah 45.3% 32.5% 2,589,348
Montana 45.3% 38.4% 868,824
Texas 44.4% 35.7% 23,095,348
North Carolina 43.5% 36.2% 8,164,473
Missouri 42.3% 34.5% 4,689,451
North Dakota 42.2% 36.6% 614,692
Indiana 41.9% 35.5% 5,120,352
Oklahoma 41.6% 33.8% 2,962,779
South Carolina 41.0% 33.9% 3,786,610
West Virginia 40.9% 34.1% 1,319,864
Georgia 39.9% 32.1% 7,610,659
Arkansas 39.6% 31.3% 2,083,064
Tennessee 39.3% 31.9% 4,862,445
Idaho 37.7% 32.9% 1,240,621
Wyoming 37.2% 32.0% 397,488
Alabama 36.1% 29.3% 3,025,283
Louisiana 35.9% 31.4% 3,095,398
Mississippi 34.3% 27.4% 1,786,563

How the number of cases changed in the last week

For the week ending Sunday, May 30, 2021

  CASES TO DATE ONE-WEEK TOTAL
State Total cases Per 100K New cases Per 100K 1-wk chg.
United States 33,422,704
 
10,067 142,500 42.9
–20.7%
Vermont 24,209
 
3,880 103 16.5
–53.8%
Washington, D.C. 48,898
 
6,929 150 21.3
–26.1%
Nebraska 223,304
 
11,544 420 21.7
–23.5%
Connecticut 347,137
 
9,737 812 22.8
–39.8%
New Jersey 1,016,135
 
11,440 2,047 23.0
–38.5%
Oklahoma 452,777
 
11,443 947 23.9
–3.7%
Maryland 459,989
 
7,609 1,506 24.9
–34.1%
Alabama 543,405
 
11,083 1,281 26.1
–37.2%
Massachusetts 706,945
 
10,257 1,803 26.2
–41.9%
Hawaii 36,246
 
2,560 379 26.8
–82.0%
Wisconsin 674,003
 
11,576 1,581 27.2
–42.6%
Virginia 675,392
 
7,913 2,363 27.7
–16.9%
South Dakota 124,162
 
14,035 251 28.4
–6.0%
Iowa 401,783
 
12,735 919 29.1
–33.1%
California 3,789,942
 
9,592 11,843 30.0
+45.1%
New Hampshire 98,726
 
7,261 423 31.1
–32.5%
New York State 2,089,782
 
10,742 6,281 32.3
–32.3%
Tennessee 862,401
 
12,628 2,317 33.9
–23.5%
Kansas 313,997
 
10,778 1,000 34.3
–22.6%
Georgia 1,126,373
 
10,609 3,663 34.5
–16.9%
Mississippi 317,407
 
10,665 1,135 38.1
–27.3%
Texas 2,949,912
 
10,174 11,391 39.3
–7.7%
Ohio 1,101,934
 
9,427 4,634 39.6
–27.7%
Arkansas 341,351
 
11,311 1,214 40.2
–10.4%
South Carolina 593,092
 
11,519 2,111 41.0
–11.6%
Alaska 70,208
 
9,597 306 41.8
–30.1%
North Dakota 109,935
 
14,426 332 43.6
–33.5%
Nevada 323,748
 
10,511 1,396 45.3
–23.0%
New Mexico 202,821
 
9,673 953 45.4
–21.8%
Rhode Island 151,743
 
14,324 485 45.8
–44.4%
Minnesota 601,384
 
10,664 2,618 46.4
–39.7%
Delaware 108,821
 
11,175 456 46.8
–66.6%
Utah 406,027
 
12,665 1,550 48.3
–18.8%
Illinois 1,384,056
 
10,922 6,170 48.7
–33.4%
Pennsylvania 1,206,440
 
9,424 6,238 48.7
–35.2%
Florida 2,320,818
 
10,806 10,483 48.8
–42.8%
North Carolina 1,001,154
 
9,546 5,400 51.5
–15.8%
Indiana 744,113
 
11,053 3,507 52.1
–25.8%
Idaho 192,012
 
10,745 944 52.8
–18.6%
Missouri 618,052
 
10,070 3,247 52.9
+3.3%
Michigan 991,941
 
9,933 5,506 55.1
–45.5%
Kentucky 458,275
 
10,258 2,485 55.6
–23.6%
Maine 67,738
 
5,039 759 56.5
–40.0%
Montana 111,809
 
10,461 606 56.7
+17.0%
Arizona 881,089
 
12,105 4,357 59.9
+16.1%
Oregon 201,260
 
4,772 2,571 61.0
–14.4%
Louisiana 470,685
 
10,125 2,870 61.7
–3.8%
Puerto Rico 266,143
 
8,333 2,647 82.9
–9.7%
Wyoming 60,144
 
10,392 484 83.6
–16.7%
West Virginia 161,287
 
9,000 1,552 86.6
+22.5%
Colorado 542,889
 
9,427 5,488 95.3
–3.7%
Washington 435,849
 
5,724 8,355 109.7
+73.0%

 

deaths in the last week

For the week ending Sunday, May 30, 2021

  DEATHS TO DATE ONE-WEEK TOTAL
State Total deaths Per 100K New deaths Per 100K 1-wk chg.
United States 594,754
 
179 4,514 1.4
+13.7%
Alaska 369
 
50 0 0.0
–100.0%
Vermont 255
 
41 0 0.0
–100.0%
Nebraska 2,249
 
116 1 0.1
–111.1%
Delaware 1,661
 
171 2 0.2
–75.0%
Utah 2,301
 
72 11 0.3
–65.6%
Maine 825
 
61 5 0.4
–72.2%
Rhode Island 2,708
 
256 4 0.4
+0%
Hawaii 500
 
35 6 0.4
+200.0%
Connecticut 8,230
 
231 18 0.5
–53.8%
Arkansas 5,832
 
193 15 0.5
–34.8%
Iowa 6,055
 
192 20 0.6
–31.0%
Idaho 2,090
 
117 10 0.6
–9.1%
Alabama 11,146
 
227 34 0.7
–54.1%
Massachusetts 17,872
 
259 49 0.7
–30.0%
Washington, D.C. 1,132
 
160 5 0.7
–28.6%
New Hampshire 1,353
 
100 9 0.7
–25.0%
Kansas 5,076
 
174 19 0.7
+0%
North Dakota 1,512
 
198 5 0.7
+66.7%
Puerto Rico 2,501
 
78 27 0.8
–25.0%
Virginia 11,173
 
131 67 0.8
–23.9%
Washington 5,765
 
76 63 0.8
–17.1%
New York State 52,983
 
272 152 0.8
–14.1%
California 62,927
 
159 325 0.8
+21.3%
Tennessee 12,441
 
182 61 0.9
–10.3%
South Carolina 9,732
 
189 48 0.9
+54.8%
Montana 1,613
 
151 10 0.9
+100.0%
Minnesota 7,426
 
132 56 1.0
–24.3%
Arizona 17,628
 
242 73 1.0
–18.0%
South Dakota 2,010
 
227 9 1.0
–10.0%
Indiana 13,620
 
202 67 1.0
–8.2%
Texas 51,705
 
178 277 1.0
–1.1%
Mississippi 7,310
 
246 31 1.0
+24.0%
Wyoming 719
 
124 6 1.0
+500.0%
North Carolina 13,078
 
125 120 1.1
+25.0%
Oregon 2,668
 
63 46 1.1
+31.4%
Nevada 5,586
 
181 34 1.1
+54.5%
West Virginia 2,792
 
156 20 1.1
+81.8%
Missouri 9,434
 
154 74 1.2
–49.3%
Louisiana 10,576
 
228 54 1.2
+22.7%
Ohio 19,861
 
170 152 1.3
–16.0%
New Jersey 26,207
 
295 116 1.3
–10.8%
Florida 37,512
 
175 305 1.4
–25.4%
Pennsylvania 27,263
 
213 173 1.4
–21.4%
Wisconsin 7,830
 
135 82 1.4
+127.8%
Illinois 25,185
 
199 184 1.5
–10.7%
Kentucky 6,782
 
152 66 1.5
+10.0%
Colorado 6,718
 
117 86 1.5
+22.9%
Georgia 20,837
 
196 176 1.7
+13.5%
Michigan 20,376
 
204 236 2.4
–32.6%
New Mexico 4,263
 
203 132 6.3
+633.3%
Oklahoma 7,291
 
184 373 9.4
+832.5%
Maryland 9,607
 
159 600 9.9
+669.2%

 

 

 

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On 6/1/2021 at 7:49 AM, Ambergris said:

WHO wants Covid variants to be given Greek alphabet names

 

:scratchhead:   Is this why they are no longer handing out Greek names to hurricanes if they run thru A B C alphabet?

 

MtRider  :pc_coffee:

 

 

 

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I think they are changing the names of the variants to Greek

On 6/1/2021 at 6:49 AM, Ambergris said:

Mon, May 31, 2021

WHO wants Covid variants to be given Greek alphabet names

 

Global health leaders have announced new names for Covid-19 variants using letters of the Greek alphabet.  Many variants of Sars-CoV-2 - the virus that causes Covid-19 - have been identified around the world.  They include B.1.1.7, known in the UK as the Kent variant and around the world as the UK variant - but now labelled by the WHO as Alpha. The B.1.617.2 variant, often known as the Indian variant, has been labelled Delta, while B.1.351, often referred to as the South African variant, has been named Beta. The P.1 Brazilian variant has been labelled Gamma.

 

 

I think there are nefarious reasons behind this change. It certainly makes if more difficult to determine the COUNTRY of origin of the variant and that would make it more difficult for the lay-person to track its path, etc. <_<

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How many true cases of Covid 19 are there? (June 4, 2021, Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom)

 

The CDC seems to be changing its definition of a “case. ”For over a year, they’ve counted all PCR positive tests, even those that it took up to 45 cycles to find a speck of virus. But now that the CDC is investigating breakthrough Covid-19 cases after vaccination, they only want specimens where the virus was found after 28 or fewer cycles. Apparently, these are the only tests they see as positive. Scientists have been cautioning against high cycle thresholds for a year. So how many true cases have there actually been?This is something that we will discover in years to come.“COVID-19 Breakthrough Case Investigations and Reporting,”CDC, Last reviewed May 14, 2021, https://bit.ly/2RLn2Ql“Predicting Infectious SARS-CoV-2 from Diagnostic Samples,”Jared Bullard, MD, et al, Clinical Infectious Disease, May 22, 2020: https://bit.ly/2R43DcU

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NY Post:

Fears have been sparked after cases of deadly black fungus from the Indian COVID variant have been found outside India.  Medics in Chile reported a case of virus-related fungus, with scientists in Uruguay logging a patient there suffering with the condition.  The Chilean Society of Infectology said: “Cases of fungal infections have been detected since the start of the pandemic but the frequency has increased and serious cases have risen.”

India, which is being ravaged by variants, is battling hundreds of black fungus infections.  About 750 patients in Delhi have been recorded, and more than 50 deaths.  The rare condition is caused by molds known as mucromycetes which can kill people whose immune systems are weak.

When the spores – which occur naturally in the environment — are breathed in, they attack the lungs and sinuses before spreading to the face and the brain.  Mucormycosis causes blurred or double vision, chest pain and breathing difficulties.  It is thought the condition has exploded in India due to a lack of drugs available to treat it.  Patients with suppressed immune systems are most at risk — and scientists fear a rise in infections is being triggered by steroids used to treat ill COVID patients.

Medics in India are now seeing around five or six cases a day, but would usually see three or four a year.  It comes after we told how thousands of patients in India have had their eyes removed after an outbreak of black fungus.  Around 60 percent of patients treated in hospital have had at least one eye removed after the second wave of coronavirus caused an explosion of the creeping fungal disease.
“In this battle of ours, another new challenge of black fungus has also emerged these days,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted on Friday.  India has the second-highest tally of COVID-19 cases in the world and has been reporting around 250,000 infections and 4,000 deaths daily.  Mucormycosis mainly affects people who have health problems or take medicines that lower the body’s ability to fight germs and sickness.  It can be life-threatening in diabetic or severely immunocompromised individuals, such as patients with cancer or organ donor recipients.   In COVID patients, it’s more prevalent in patients who are on ventilatory support.  Doctors think this may be due to the use of steroid drugs, which are used to treat severely ill COVID patients.  Steroids reduce inflammation caused by an overactive immune response fight off coronavirus.  

It comes as the Indian variant threatens UK ministers plans to scrap social distancing, but keep face masks and work from home guidance in place after June 21.  The mutation is behind almost three quarters of all cases in the UK and has been found in more than 250 of England’s 300-plus authorities.   But the success of the UK’s vaccine rollout is believed to be responsible for recent low death tolls — despite rising cases of the Indian mutation in the UK.

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Countries reporting the most new infections each day  
INDIA             137,947

BRAZIL            64,211

ARGENTINA   30,425

COLOMBIA     25,068

USA                15,687


Countries reporting the most deaths each day  
INDIA              3,081

BRAZIL            1,685

MEXICO            815

ARGENTINA     530

COLOMBIA       526

 

Notice Mexico: the new country on the list.

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On 6/4/2021 at 12:05 AM, Jeepers said:

I agree Midnightmom. That and the fact that 'some people' were crying racist when we identified the variant by the country of origin. 

 

Hmph!  Truth is just so evil! 

 

MtRider  <_<  

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Countries reporting the most new infections each day 
INDIA          130,648

BRAZIL         62,261

ARGENTINA 29,537

COLOMBIA   26,279

USA              15,491


Countries reporting the most deaths each day
INDIA             2,970

BRAZIL          1,685

MEXICO           757

ARGENTINA    536

COLOMBIA      525

(And again the USA is not on this list)

 

How the number of cases changed in the last week

For the week ending Sunday, June 6, 2021

  CASES TO DATE ONE-WEEK TOTAL
State Total cases Per 100K New cases Per 100K 1-wk chg.
United States 33,522,313
 
10,097 99,609 30.0
–30.1%
Vermont 24,252
 
3,887 43 6.9
–58.3%
New Hampshire 98,877
 
7,272 151 11.1
–64.3%
South Dakota 124,261
 
14,046 99 11.2
–60.6%
Nebraska 223,558
 
11,557 254 13.1
–39.5%
Maryland 460,789
 
7,622 800 13.2
–46.9%
Virginia 676,741
 
7,929 1,349 15.8
–42.9%
California 3,796,336
 
9,608 6,394 16.2
–46.0%
Massachusetts 708,083
 
10,273 1,138 16.5
–36.9%
Connecticut 347,748
 
9,754 611 17.1
–24.8%
Oklahoma 453,552
 
11,462 775 19.6
–18.2%
Wisconsin 675,150
 
11,596 1,147 19.7
–27.5%
New Jersey 1,017,904
 
11,460 1,769 19.9
–13.6%
South Carolina 594,130
 
11,539 1,038 20.2
–50.8%
New York State 2,093,759
 
10,763 3,977 20.4
–36.7%
Tennessee 863,840
 
12,649 1,439 21.1
–37.9%
Iowa 402,489
 
12,757 706 22.4
–23.2%
Minnesota 602,686
 
10,687 1,302 23.1
–50.3%
Ohio 1,104,648
 
9,450 2,714 23.2
–41.4%
Rhode Island 151,992
 
14,348 249 23.5
–48.7%
Georgia 1,128,931
 
10,633 2,558 24.1
–30.2%
Washington, D.C. 49,068
 
6,953 170 24.1
+13.3%
Hawaii 36,616
 
2,586 370 26.1
–2.4%
Mississippi 318,189
 
10,691 782 26.3
–31.1%
Illinois 1,387,648
 
10,951 3,592 28.3
–41.8%
Pennsylvania 1,210,213
 
9,453 3,773 29.5
–39.5%
Kansas 314,855
 
10,808 858 29.5
–14.2%
Michigan 994,935
 
9,962 2,994 30.0
–45.6%
New Mexico 203,472
 
9,704 651 31.0
–31.7%
Delaware 109,126
 
11,207 305 31.3
–33.1%
North Carolina 1,004,669
 
9,579 3,515 33.5
–34.9%
North Dakota 110,199
 
14,461 264 34.6
–20.5%
Texas 2,959,933
 
10,208 10,021 34.6
–12.0%
Alaska 70,469
 
9,633 261 35.7
–14.7%
Arkansas 342,433
 
11,347 1,082 35.9
–10.9%
Missouri 620,299
 
10,107 2,247 36.6
–30.8%
Maine 68,232
 
5,076 494 36.8
–34.9%
Arizona 883,821
 
12,143 2,732 37.5
–37.3%
Oregon 202,995
 
4,813 1,735 41.1
–32.5%
Florida 2,329,867
 
10,848 9,049 42.1
–13.7%
Montana 112,260
 
10,504 451 42.2
–25.6%
Indiana 746,972
 
11,096 2,859 42.5
–18.5%
Idaho 192,795
 
10,788 783 43.8
–17.1%
Alabama 545,585
 
11,127 2,180 44.5
+70.2%
Kentucky 460,412
 
10,305 2,137 47.8
–14.0%
Louisiana 472,981
 
10,174 2,296 49.4
–20.0%
Utah 407,642
 
12,715 1,615 50.4
+4.2%
West Virginia 162,232
 
9,052 945 52.7
–39.1%
Nevada 325,392
 
10,564 1,644 53.4
+17.8%
Washington 440,057
 
5,779 4,208 55.3
–49.6%
Colorado 546,874
 
9,496 3,985 69.2
–27.4%
Puerto Rico 268,596
 
8,410 2,453 76.8
–7.3%
Wyoming 60,623
 
10,475 479 82.8
–1.0%

 

Deaths in the last week

For the week ending Sunday, June 6, 2021

  DEATHS TO DATE ONE-WEEK TOTAL
State Total deaths Per 100K New deaths Per 100K 1-wk chg.
United States 597,462
 
180 2,708 0.8
–40.0%
Alaska 369
 
50 0 0.0
N/A
California 62,735
 
159 -192 0.0 correction
Nebraska 2,249
 
116 0 0.0
–100.0%
New Hampshire 1,355
 
100 2 0.1
–77.8%
Vermont 256
 
41 1 0.2
N/A
Wyoming 720
 
124 1 0.2
–83.3%
Kansas 5,084
 
175 8 0.3
–57.9%
Utah 2,311
 
72 10 0.3
–9.1%
South Carolina 9,754
 
189 22 0.4
–54.2%
Connecticut 8,245
 
231 15 0.4
–16.7%
Hawaii 505
 
36 5 0.4
–16.7%
Nevada 5,600
 
182 14 0.5
–58.8%
Mississippi 7,325
 
246 15 0.5
–51.6%
Oregon 2,691
 
64 23 0.5
–50.0%
Tennessee 12,476
 
183 35 0.5
–42.6%
North Dakota 1,516
 
199 4 0.5
–20.0%
Iowa 6,072
 
193 17 0.5
–15.0%
Arkansas 5,846
 
194 14 0.5
–6.7%
Maryland 9,645
 
160 38 0.6
–93.7%
Oklahoma 7,316
 
185 25 0.6
–93.3%
Puerto Rico 2,519
 
79 18 0.6
–33.3%
Massachusetts 17,911
 
260 39 0.6
–20.4%
Washington, D.C. 1,136
 
161 4 0.6
–20.0%
Idaho 2,101
 
118 11 0.6
+10.0%
North Carolina 13,151
 
125 73 0.7
–39.2%
Minnesota 7,465
 
132 39 0.7
–30.4%
Virginia 11,236
 
132 63 0.7
–6.0%
New Mexico 4,280
 
204 17 0.8
–87.1%
New Jersey 26,279
 
296 72 0.8
–37.9%
Louisiana 10,615
 
228 39 0.8
–27.8%
Texas 51,937
 
179 232 0.8
–16.2%
New York State 53,132
 
273 149 0.8
–2.0%
Rhode Island 2,717
 
257 9 0.8
+125.0%
Colorado 6,770
 
118 52 0.9
–39.5%
Washington 5,836
 
77 71 0.9
+12.7%
Florida 37,717
 
176 205 1.0
–32.8%
Ohio 19,980
 
171 119 1.0
–21.7%
Missouri 9,495
 
155 61 1.0
–17.6%
Indiana 13,685
 
203 65 1.0
–3.0%
Arizona 17,700
 
243 72 1.0
–1.4%
Maine 839
 
62 14 1.0
+180.0%
Pennsylvania 27,408
 
214 145 1.1
–16.2%
Alabama 11,198
 
228 52 1.1
+52.9%
West Virginia 2,813
 
157 21 1.2
+5.0%
Illinois 25,352
 
200 167 1.3
–9.2%
Georgia 20,986
 
198 149 1.4
–15.3%
South Dakota 2,022
 
229 12 1.4
+33.3%
Delaware 1,677
 
172 16 1.6
+700.0%
Montana 1,632
 
153 19 1.8
+90.0%
Michigan 20,588
 
206 212 2.1
–10.2%
Wisconsin 7,954
 
137 124 2.1
+51.2%
Kentucky 7,091
 
159 309 6.9
+368.2%

 

People in hospitals in the last week

For the week ending Sunday, June 6, 2021

  CURRENTLY HOSPITALIZED
State Avg. this week Per 100K 1-wk chg.
United States 19,975
 
6
–12.8%
Vermont 2
 
0
–70.7%
New Hampshire 30
 
2
–35.6%
Connecticut 94
 
3
–24.4%
Alaska 19
 
3
+11.5%
Iowa 90
 
3
–19.7%
Hawaii 39
 
3
–8.1%
Oklahoma 116
 
3
–18.5%
Puerto Rico 97
 
3
–26.1%
Massachusetts 205
 
3
–17.5%
Nebraska 63
 
3
–15.1%
California 1,337
 
3
–6.5%
North Dakota 28
 
4
–27.3%
Wisconsin 238
 
4
–13.7%
Kansas 119
 
4
+0.1%
South Dakota 39
 
4
–19.6%
Utah 142
 
4
–3.9%
South Carolina 232
 
5
–14.2%
Rhode Island 48
 
5
–28.2%
Minnesota 262
 
5
–23.4%
Delaware 47
 
5
–18.3%
New York State 949
 
5
–22.2%
New Mexico 103
 
5
–13.0%
Maryland 323
 
5
–20.3%
Oregon 227
 
5
–15.0%
Montana 57
 
5
–11.5%
Virginia 465
 
5
–9.7%
Alabama 263
 
5
–3.4%
Texas 1,590
 
6
–17.0%
New Jersey 500
 
6
–18.8%
Ohio 658
 
6
–12.0%
Mississippi 169
 
6
–6.9%
Maine 78
 
6
–32.1%
North Carolina 623
 
6
–9.9%
Idaho 108
 
6
–11.2%
Arkansas 188
 
6
–4.1%
Louisiana 292
 
6
+7.2%
Tennessee 444
 
7
–13.8%
Kentucky 307
 
7
–9.0%
Washington 536
 
7
–6.8%
Nevada 227
 
7
–9.5%
Wyoming 44
 
8
–4.0%
Arizona 555
 
8
+1.0%
Illinois 999
 
8
–24.9%
Colorado 477
 
8
–10.2%
Florida 1,826
 
9
–10.0%
Washington, D.C. 60
 
9
–6.5%
Georgia 909
 
9
–14.7%
Michigan 928
 
9
–27.1%
Indiana 663
 
10
–12.7%
Pennsylvania 1,315
 
10
+5.5%
West Virginia 189
 
11
–12.0%
Missouri 647
 
11
–1.3%

 

 

 

 

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I got called up for jury duty.  In a room of about 150 people, I think maybe 4 were wearing masks.  They're having everybody line up outside the building and turn in a COVID pre-screen form...that they completely ignore as long as you tell them you have a cold, based on what I heard from others.  They do still have capacity reduced from 300 to 150 in the sorting room.  I have to go back for jury selection tomorrow.

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The Delta/Indian variant now accounts for about 6% of new infections in the US.  The Delta variant has already become the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the UK.  A study by Public Health England found that the Pfizer vaccine is 88% effective against the Delta two weeks after the second shot, but just one dose of the Pfizer vaccine was only 33% effective against this strain.

 

41% of the people in the UK are fully vaccinated.  As of Thursday, only three fully vaccinated people were hospitalized there. 

 

There have been hints of trouble in Russia for a week or so.  Now they are reporting an upswing in cases,  sometimes topping 10,000 cases and averaging 9,200 cases a day, meaning 44 infections per 100k people.  Putin says it's nothing to worry about, but he doesn't let out news without a reason.  Watch how the new stories develop, and watch how the money flows.

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This article is from a subscription service and you may not be able to read the whole thing if you follow the link, so I am adding a PDF of the article to this post.

 

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Weight-Adjusted Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin Boosted Survival of Ventilated COVID-19 Patients by 200 Percent: Study

 
June 9, 2021 Updated: June 9, 2021

A new study has found that the use of weight-adjusted hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and azithromycin (AZM) improved the survival of ventilated COVID-19 patients by nearly 200 percent.

The observational study, which hasn’t yet been peer-reviewed, was based on a re-analysis of 255 patients on invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) during the first two months of the pandemic in the United States.

The researchers found that when the HCQ–AZM combination was given at higher dosages to treat ventilated COVID-19 patients, the risk of death was about three times lower.

 

https://www.theepochtimes.com/weight-adjusted-hydroxychloroquine-and-azithromycin-boosted-survival-of-ventilated-covid-19-patients-by-200-percent-study_3851028.html

 

Weight-Adjusted Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin Boosted Survival of Ventilated COVID-19 Patients by 200 Percent_ Study.pdf

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USA TODAY
People hospitalized with COVID-19 now have one overwhelming thing in common. They're not vaccinated.
Elizabeth Weise and Aleszu Bajak, USA TODAY
Wed, June 16, 2021, 5:38 AM
In Minnesota, the HealthPartners system has seen a “precipitous decline” in COVID-19 hospitalizations, says Dr. Mark Sannes, an infectious disease physician and senior medical director for the system, which operates nine hospitals and more than 55 clinics. But now, nearly every admitted patient he does see is unvaccinated.

“Less than 1% of our hospitalized COVID patients are vaccinated," he said.

In Ohio, at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, only 2% of the COVID-19 patients admitted in the last month were vaccinated, said Dr. Robert Salata, the hospital's physician-in-chief.

And at Sanford Health, which runs 44 medical centers and more than 200 clinics across the Dakotas, Minnesota and Iowa, less than 5% of the 1,456 patients admitted with COVID-19 so far this year were fully vaccinated, said spokesperson Angela Dejene.

Falling rates of COVID-19 across the United States mask a harsh reality – the overwhelming majority of those getting sick and being hospitalized today are unvaccinated, while vaccinated people are vanishingly rare.

Hospitals in states with the lowest vaccination rates tend to have more COVID-19 patients in intensive care units, according to hospital data collected in the past week by the Department of Health and Human Services and vaccination rates published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Wyoming, Missouri, Arkansas and Idaho currently have the highest percentage of COVID-19 patients on average in their ICUs; those states all have vaccinated less than 40% of their population.

Medical centers say there's also an obvious change in the age of their sickest patients, as older people are much more likely to be vaccinated than younger.

"We're all seeing the same thing – when someone does get sick and comes to the hospital, they're much more likely to be young and unvaccinated," said Dr. Robert Wachter, professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

Cathy Bennett, president and CEO of the New Jersey Hospital Association, said the picture is the same in her state.

"As COVID vaccinations rolled out across New Jersey, there’s been a major shift in the ages of patients admitted to the hospital," said Bennett. "Unlike last spring, when those 65 and older accounted for the majority of hospitalizations, we’re now seeing more young people hospitalized with COVID."

In Ohio, Salata said the shift should be reassuring, showing the vaccines work.

"It sends a very strong message to the hesitancy people out there because the data speaks for itself," he said.

'It's not all about you'
Doctors say there are multiple reasons people aren't yet vaccinated. There are the hesitant, who still have questions and sometimes fall prey to misinformation, and the opposed, who often harbor anti-government or anti-science sentiments.

"We've had a little success when we've spoken to them on a one-to-one basis. We can give them the information that they need to make their decision," said Dr. Gerald Maloney, chief medical officer for hospital services at Geisinger health network, which runs nine hospitals in Pennsylvania.

Some still can't easily access vaccine, either because it's not available nearby or because they can't get time off work.

And while the U.S. government paid for all vaccines and vaccinations so no one should be charged, others remain fearful they will be on the financial hook for a shot, Maloney said.
Last week, Health and Human Services secretary Secretary Xavier Becerra clarified in a letter that providers may not bill patients for COVID-19 vaccines.

There's still a lot of work to be done to create the trust necessary for these groups to embrace vaccination, Maloney said.

"The people who say, 'It's my body, my choice?' Well, it's not all about you," he said. "It's also about the people that you're around."

At this point, every vaccination is a win, one more person who can't pass the virus along. That's especially true in families where children can't be vaccinated and are still at risk.

At Akron Children’s Hospital in Ohio, “we have not seen any kiddos who have been admitted to the hospital who have been vaccinated,” said Dr. Michael Bigham, a pediatric intensivist in the critical care unit.

Among children 11 and younger, who can’t yet get the vaccine, having vaccinated family members is keeping them out of the hospital, and protecting them against MIS-C, the multisystem inflammatory syndrome that can be a rare but dangerous aftereffect of a COVID-19 infection in children.

“Most of the kids we’re seeing in the hospital with COVID or MIS-C had COVID in their household, maybe a parent or a grandparent, and most of those individuals had not been vaccinated,” he said.

The message from health care workers is unanimous: They just aren't seeing many vaccinated people get sick.

In New Jersey, the percentage of COVID-19 hospitalizations among those ages 18 to 29 has increased 58% since the beginning of the year. By comparison, the percentage of COVID-19 hospitalizations among the 65 and older age group – with a statewide vaccination rate of more than 80% – declined by 31.2%.

The numbers are no coincidence, Bennett said.

"Vaccination," she said, "works in preventing severe COVID illness."

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14 hours ago, Ambergris said:

"The people who say, 'It's my body, my choice?' Well, it's not all about you," he said. "It's also about the people that you're around."

 


This is where I have to disagree. It 'IS' my body and my choice on an experimental drug that's not approved by the FDA. Abortion, on the other hand, always kills a person, on purpose.   :blush:

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On 6/16/2021 at 4:39 AM, Ambergris said:

The message from health care workers is unanimous: They just aren't seeing many vaccinated people get sick.

 

No, there just seeing (saw) a lot of vaccinated people suffer some unusual, dangerous, and sometimes deadly side effects!

And, nobody knows what the long term effects or efficacy of this GENE MANIPULATION THERAPY is going to be. :behindsofa:

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PDF of complete article is attached.

 

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New Study Links Ivermectin to ‘Large Reductions’ in COVID-19 Deaths

 
June 21, 2021 Updated: June 21, 2021

The use of the antiparasitic drug ivermectin could lead to “large reductions” in COVID-19 deaths and may have a “significant impact” on the pandemic globally, according to a recent pre-print review based on peer-reviewed studies.

For the study (pdf), published June 17 in the American Journal of Therapeutics, a group of scientists reviewed the clinical trial use of ivermectin, which has antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties, in 24 randomized controlled trials involving just more than 3,400 participants. The researchers sought to assess the efficacy of ivermectin in reducing infection or mortality in people with COVID-19 or at high risk of getting it.

New Study Links Ivermectin to ‘Large Reductions’ in COVID-19 Deaths.pdf

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We don't believe any of them...period!  Everything is "covid" now...and these dumb assertions of "variants" ... they never could get even the "seasonal" flu right!  This is not a vaccine...there's not one drop of the virus in it.  It's all chemicals the "science" has put together.  Regular flu shorts have some of the virus in it...this does not.  If you're poked then you shouldn't have to worry about those of us who say nope.  It's "control" ... wear a mask, don't wear a mask, don't take supplements and other currative meds, wear a mask, wear two masks, get a shot but still wear a mask.  Try to intimidate those who won't conform. That's it.  We will continue in our beliefs.  This concoction they say is 98% effective.  The recovery rate for the virus is 98% and above.  Now they're telling people that they'll need "booster" shots. 

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