I think these charts and your explanation are exactly what people need to see. Hospitalizations will go WAY down due to vaccinating older folks. In the mean time community spread will provide stronger immunity in younger folks as they then turn to get the vaccine. I do think as your charts illustrate, taking care of the at risk first will help end the danger of this pandemic quite quickly. Great stuff.
Hmm, what happened to the vaccinations in FL this weekend? Quite a large drop-off from the previous weekend.
Lag reporting, 3 day weekend
While I agree that doing LT care, healthcare workers and the elderly first is a good plan to eliminate people more likely to have serious illness I can see the argument that the focus next should be to reduce community spread and also focus on certain demographics like minority communities that are more susceptible to serious illness next. I think waiting on essential and front line retail workers will prolong the excessive community spread, especially in lower income communities. I think the best plan would have probably been do 65+ first and then go on to people who are both an essential worker under 65 and also have a comorbidity. That narrows the essential worker group by at least half but still captures many of the people likely to have serious illness. So a person with a comorbidity who is retried (under 65) or works from home gets less priority than someone with the same medical condition but working outside the home.
It’s good practice to sanitize before and after masking too. And to just touch the ear loops. So I always wait until I’m in my car where I keep the sanitizer.
Hey, remember when people were wary of vaccinations because they thought they were being rushed?
I have to admit I’ve heard some funny ones since this started. One person asked if it’s okay to de-mask when showering. And another in my town actually passed out driving at an intersection this summer and blamed their mask. The police had to explain that they’re allowed to take it off when alone. Obviously the situation wants funny, but it does show that some people are very literal. It’s a good case for better education. I hope we learn to better educate the public in our next national emergency.
To put it simply they messed up their UK study so the data is not nearly as sound as the other vaccines.
www.reuters.com
Masks are mandated in the parking lots here same as you can get within 6 feet accidentally
We are not removing 2 million hosts per day. There are 1.667 million DOSES per day with about .957 million new first doses. We are also certainly vaccinating some people who already had the virus. So the only certainty is that we are vaccinating 0.29% of potential hosts daily.
DH takes his lunch/drink bag everywhere so there's one in the pocket. I keep one in each of the 2 purses I rotate. Edit dh is mandated to have his mask on before he drives onto work propertyNo, not everyone does. We were warned when it was hot not to leave them in the car, so we never did put them back. I usually carry in my purse, but often I go bagless and sometimes forget to put it in a pocket. It's also stupid cold here and I am not taking my gloves off to get my hands wet and have them freeze more. The mask can really wait!
Plus I really prefer to wash my darn hands properly to remove the mask as that is best.
I personally cannot believe people actually care and judge people for doing it. Like I said here, my mask keeps me warm and I keep it on for that reason too while driving. Edit: I'm half tempted to wear masks more in the winter next year because they are better than any scarf I've had
Holds hand up....
They’ve literally told us to do so. My family had COVID-19 11 months ago. There’s no data to suggest we have any significant immunity at this point (I hope we do, but I won’t hang my hat on hope. I’ll get vaccinated when it’s my turn).
What was the warning?
I'm not having to use chapstick/balms either