According to the Miami Herald for August 27, 2021, there were 21,765 new cases and a record 901 deaths in Florida.
This site gives 21,183 new cases
These aren’t seven day averages.
Don’t get your hopes up too high just yet. This is the paper in Nature that your ref cites.
It’s about the process of designing/identifying monoclonal antibody candidates for investigation. I skimmed the piece and did a quick google. So far as I can tell there has been zero clinical work so far on s2h97.
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Mississippi Has Quarantined 15% of All K-12 Students For COVID Cases or Exposures
About 15% of all Mississippi K-12 students have now been quarantined since the start of the year either for testing positive for COVID-19 or due to known exposures. That figure, based on new data from the Mississippi State Department of Health, includes 65,525 students who have been ordered to isolate in the weeks since classes began.
The latest report, which includes figures from 835 schools in 75 counties, shows that the state identified 5,763 new cases among students for the week of Aug. 16-20 and ordered 28,990 of them to quarantine for exposure, with both figures up since the prior week.
The total number of student cases identified this month so far reached 11,766 by the end of last week. At the same point in August 2020, schools had confirmed just 533 cases among students. For the entirety of the fall 2020 semester, Mississippi’s schools confirmed just 7,212 cases among students. About 443,000 students are enrolled in Mississippi’s public-school system.
It’s looking dire in Hawaii. Yesterday saw a record one-day total of eight deaths, and today that was broken with nine. Even more ominous, new cases for a single day were recorded at 1035 today, the first time they’ve surpassed 1000. (There was one other day that was slightly higher, but it included cases from previous days that had not been included before due to a reporting glitch. Today’s is a clear 24-hour figure.) It’s sounding like another lockdown is in the cards, as our hospitals are full to capacity.
The vast majority of new cases and hospitalizations are Delta and among the unvaccinated.
216,224,351 total cases
4,499,191 dead
193,208,547 recovered
In the US:
39,540,401 total cases
653,405 dead
30,786,368 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
The Honolulu morgue is overflowing. They’re stuffing the extras in a refrigerated mortuary trailer.
The US as a whole is well over 1,000 deaths per day at the moment.
ETA: 1,304 and 1,291 the past two days, for instance.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/28/world/covid-delta-variant-vaccine
People who are infected with the highly contagious Delta variant are twice as likely to be hospitalized as those who are infected with the Alpha variant, according to a large new British study.
The study, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal on Friday, is an analysis of more than 40,000 coronavirus infections in England. It adds to evidence suggesting that Delta may cause more severe illness than other variants do.
Fewer than 2 percent of the infections occurred in fully vaccinated people, and there was not enough data to draw firm conclusions about hospitalization risks in that group specifically, the researchers said.
“The main takeaway is that if you have an unvaccinated or only partially vaccinated population, then an outbreak of Delta can lead to a higher burden on hospitals, on health care, than an Alpha outbreak would,” said Anne Presanis, a senior statistician at the University of Cambridge and one of the study’s lead authors.
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On a paper that has published almost 45 days ago. I think it’s a bit misleading to point out lack of clinical work on that timescale.
216,766,774 total cases
4,508,172 dead
193,697,396 recovered
In the US:
39,617,417 total cases
654,381 dead
30,812,242 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
My point was that it’s way too early to get excited about s2h97. It’s interesting that these monoclonal antibodies are being developed, but we have to remember that we’re just at the start of a very long road. It’s an attritional process, and the large majority of candidates, even the promising ones, will likely fall by the wayside.
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217,217,358 total cases
4,515,093 dead
194,123,341 recovered
In the US:
39,665,515 total cases
654,689 dead
30,826,478 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
For some reason the Johns Hopkins Data Visualizations pages were not operating earlier this morning. They’re up now, with the following results for seven-day averaged new cases:
Florida – not surprisingly, a new high of 37,940
Hawaii – a new high of 1120
Alabama – a record high of 6450
West Virginia – at 1427 cases, rapidly approaching its previous high of 1524 back on January 4
Several states are surprisingly rapidly retreating from very recent record highs or near-record highs, including Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Alaska. I have no idea why this should be.
South Dakota, as a state, doesn’t show the effects of the Sturgis rally, although I understand it’s still evident locally. The rate has even decreased there, although it’s still rising in North Dakota.
The US as a whole seems to be decreasing, as well. Malaysia and the Philippines, though, have hit new record highs.
Based on the first country to be hit by the delta variant (India), it seems to burn itself out in about 8 to 10 weeks. Likely some kind of herd immunity effect. That’s probably why parts of the US and the US as a whole are decreasing.
The COVID-19 vaccines’ ability to keep people out of the hospital appears to be dropping slightly, particularly for those 75 and older, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Monday during an advisory panel.
The CDC has previously estimated that 97% of people in the hospital being treated for COVID-19 are unvaccinated, but that data was collected before the spread of delta, a hyper-transmissible variant that many doctors have warned appears to be making people sicker.
The latest CDC analysis estimates that the ability of the COVID vaccines to keep a person out of the hospital is now between 75% to 95%.
To be clear, this is still a good efficacy rate, but I have been suspicious of the claims of just how good the vaccines were at keeping people out of the hospital since the arrival of Delta. All of the data appear to be showing two things: 1) the vaccines are extremely important in that they are a great first line of defense we didn’t previously have, but at the same time 2) it is a potentially a very costly mistake to assume that the vaccines will keep you from experiencing major illness. We should be adhering to many of the same guidelines we were following since before vaccines were available
The Delta variant is ravaging the Gulf Coast in much the same way it did India, which is to say that it’s a forest fire that has burnt up about all the wood that it can for now. @dtilque is correct: several countries peaked sharply and then fell just as dramatically.
This is not necessarily good news, though. New variants are beginning to emerge worldwide and they are almost certainly more transmissible. A pattern we’re seeing is that the virus is adapting to those with COVID immunity, whether it’s acquired from previous variants or from the vaccines. This is to be expected, and vaccines will probably enable to return to a semi-normal lifestyle. But as COVID evolves around the virus, it becomes extremely dangerous for vaccine holdouts. It’ll get to the point where death rates for the unvaccinated are alarmingly high.
No comment. That board rules will let me make in this thread.
I disagree. Delta is much more contagious and is capable of defeating the vaccines. We need to be MORE diligent, not less.
And we need to shut down the goddamned schools until the idiot parents figure out that their kids can die along with other peoples’ kids.
That or have opt-out schools. The opt-out schools will be staffed by teachers and admin folks who are un-vaccinated and don’t want to mask, the kids won’t need to mask or practice social distancing and the opt-in schools will follow all those pesky guidelines. Everyone will be happy, right?