Alberta is at a 7 day average of 27 cases per 100,000, and they are freaking out because it’s so high. BC is at 9.3, Quebec is at 8.8 and Ontario is at 4.8
Is Alberta especially conservative or liberal compared to the others? (I really do not know)
I’ve heard it called the Texas of Canada, if that gives you an indication.
Alberta is the Canadian Texas. And yes, that applies to politics too, not just oil.
ETA dammit, ninja’d
Yeah as Leaper said, Alberta is North North Texas. A definite middle finger to the rest of Canada, probably because of its history as an oil producer.
Conservative, low vaccination rates, high COVID rates and dangerously high hospitalization rates. The premier came out this summer and declared the pandemic over. Reality had different ideas.
I’ve heard Alberta called the Canadian bible belt, too.
We’re number fifty! We’re number fifty!
The liberal northeast is also looking relatively less bad than most of the country right now. But our schools only just opened, so things might be getting worse.
229,292,520 total cases
4,705,482 dead
205,922,518 recovered
In the US:
42,900,906 total cases
691,880 dead
32,503,995 recovered
YesterdayTwo days ago’s numbers for comparison:
You want an effective vaccine with low side effects. I have read, though I don’t recall where now, that Moderna has slightly more side effects. Also, getting enough doses, as well as vials to hold the doses, etc. was a concern, especially at the outset. (So you don’t want to use up 20x as much as is needed per injection). Pfizer had a protocol that resulted in something like 95% efficacy, which was outstanding, and a set of side effects that happened commonly, but weren’t serious. That was an extremely successful vaccine.
No one knew when they designed the protocols how long the immunity would last for Pfizer, Moderna, or J and J.
Pfizer’s vaccine and protocol had an advantage of slightly lower side effects and reaching full vaccination status (full efficacy) earlier. It turns out that that was a bit of a trade off for how long it would last, but it’s not like they knew at the time that it would make much difference. The three vaccines available in the US were all built with different priorities. No one knew when they started which would be the Goldilocks formulation.
Pfizer has results from their trial of kids 5-11 and will apply for an EUA. They recommend a dose of 10 micrograms (as compared to 30 for adults) and find that generated antibodies comparable to the higher dose in older people. I assume they didn’t see any horrible side effects in the study, either.
They say they will have results for younger kids (6 months+) 4th quarter.
I also note that even the Moderna president is saying that their data shows an increase in breakthrough cases starting around the 6 month mark. He says their concern is the winter holiday.
(And, yes, I know he wants to sell more doses and thus will be more bullish on boosters.)
I’ve been away for a few days, and everything changes. Here are the new reported record daily highs (seven day average from Johns Hopkins)
West Virginia (2033)
Vermont (!) (262)
Surprisingly, Maine is high and shooting up fast. So is Delaware. But the states that a week or two ago were setting new records – Louisiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alaska, North and South Carolina, Mississippi, and even Florida - seem to have retreated. Maybe the latest variants burned out the available material.
And the Johns Hopkins site has a new “Data Visualizations” chart – the frequency with which states are now updating their reporting
That seems to be the case in other places where the delta variant was prevalent. About a 6 to 8 week run and then it goes back to previous levels, more or less. Mostly only in places with low vaccination levels, though.
Vermont is hitting a new high partially because they managed to keep their numbers low during the previous waves. Still not the best news, but it isn’t all that bad in Vermont (or Maine) relatively speaking. Most other states would love Vermont’s per capita numbers.
Anybody know what day of the week Florida updates? I’ve been tracking cases/deaths Snowborder Bo style since early 2020 and the data has gone incredibly noisy these last few months so I’m curious to know.
Alabama had more deaths than births last year, for the first time in recorded history. This is being attributed to the Delta variant.
It’s wrong to attibute it to Delta. Those numbers are about last year and Delta didn’t hit the US until mid this year. That was all OG Coronavirus, both directly and indirectly. I expect this trend to continue to this year and that will be mostly due to Delta (and vaxx-refusers).
And not just that state, but several, even many, others. In fact, I would not be at all surprised if the US as a whole had more deaths than births both last year and this year.