I forget where it was on the SDMB someone responded to me wondering why the south seemed to have a lower infection rate (recently). The article linked above suggests one possibility:
Mokdad said states such as Florida have a false sense of security.
“Florida has a large population of the elderly, who went and got vaccinated. And the young people simply got infected. So the virus ran out of people to infect,” he said.
But he said immunity on both groups is waning.
“There will be a lot of winter travel to Florida,” he said. “Infections will start all over again,” he predicted. “We are so interconnected.”
According to my state’s numbers, more than 100% of those aged 65-74 have received at least one dose of vaccine. My best guess is that people lied to get a booster before the FDA approved it for everyone over 65.
I’m sure the number of those over 65 who’ve been vaccinated is high, but i don’t really believe the published “first doses”.
Vermont hit a new record high of seven-day-averaged new reported cases on November 14 – 473, much more than twice the previous record.
The seven-day-averaged newly reported COVID cases in Pennsylvania is suddenly rising very sharply, and looks as if it will set a new record number of cases in a day or two. The non-averaged daily reported cases has already broken the previous record in that state.
The other states are either not rising, or else , if rising, are far below previous record highs.
Pennsylvania was rising, but it looks like they just reported some backlogged numbers which caused a huge spike. In general, COVID reporting has gotten really sloppy across the country, which makes distinguishing trends at the state level kind of hard.
Does Johns Hopkins 7-day-average case data for Pennsylvania differ from what Worldometers has? From WM, they show that Pennsylania’s 7-day-average case count peaked at 10,629 on 12/16/2020 – and also that Pennsylvania is trending way up now, with the 7-day-average case count rising from around 3,900 on Halloween to over 4,900 yesterday.
Johns Hopkins, though, shows that Pennsylvania will reach a 7-day-average case count record any day now?
“The NHL postponed three Ottawa Senators games on Monday amid a COVID-19 outbreak on the team, the first time any North American major professional sports league has been hit by rescheduling this fall because of the coronavirus.
Games scheduled for Tuesday at New Jersey, at home Thursday against Nashville and at home Saturday against the New York Rangers were postponed.
Ten Senators players are currently in the NHL’s COVID-19 protocol.”
…and today Kickl just announced that he’s got Covid-19 and will be quarantining at home for the next two weeks.
In other Austrian news, you may already have heard that yesterday Austria imposed a nationwide lockdown on the unvaccinated. As the first country in the world to do so, this event made headlines around the world. The government has announced that police will be conducting random checks to ensure compliance with the lockdown.
Predictably, the announcement led to a modest-sized public protest in front of the Federal Chancellery the day before the lockdown took effect. One protestor was interviewed for the national news and proudly proclaimed that she stopped reading newspapers months ago and that she now gets all her pandemic-related information from her own “trusted sources”. It will be interesting to see whether any of these protestors will try holding a demo again during the lockdown. If so, that might be a perfect opportunity for the police to show up conduct some “random” checks.
