But entirely predictable, given the timing. I think we are seeing the holiday bump in numbers.
It takes several weeks for the immune system to fully rev up after vaccination plus the first dose does not give full immunity.
That too.
At least 3 new variants of the virus, some apparently more contagious, prolly has something to do with it as well.
There’s been “variants” throughout the pandemic, it’s just that since the more contagious UK version popped up everyone has started reporting on them again.
I understand vaccinated people can still GET the virus (and presumably test positive). For communities, widespread testing is seen as vital to getting a handle on where the community stands WRT COVID, i.e., “how many have tested positive in our community?” How will we sort out the reporting numbers once millions and millions of people are vaccinated but some will still test positive? I guess the hospitalization/death numbers will tell the accurate tale at that point? Correct me if my thinking doesn’t make sense.
For a little reality check, it’s been 3 weeks since Israel started their vaccine program and their covid cases are still rocketing up. In fact, weekly new case average worse than the US.
Does anyone have a data source for the number of vaccinations that are being carried out each day, either by state or for the U.S. as a whole? All I can find is aggregate totals, which I don’t find very helpful. We know things went poorly at the beginning, I’m interested in seeing how efficiently we’re implementing vaccination now, and whether it’s improving.
The Bloomberg vaccine tracker has that.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/
Scroll down and there’s a time/vaccination chart where you can highlight a state.
That’s still the aggregate total. It shows graphically how the aggregate total is increasing over time, but it’s visually hard to discern the first derivative of that line, which is what I’m interested in.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding what exactly you are going for. Doesn’t the height of each step on that graph show how well they did that day?
I’m interested in what the height of each daily step is now, and how the height of each daily step is changing over time. It’s very hard to discrern that from a plot of the aggregate height of all the steps. In other words, I want to see the first derivative of that plot.
The interactive graph is also terrible if you want to hover and see the underlying data - all the states are shown on the same graph with lines very close together, so it’s almost impossible to isolate the numbers for one state.
Yes, I was just playing with it and not being able to isolate a state on the graph is not good.
91 divoc has added a vaccination graph.
Doctors say that flu cases are lowest in history. They surmise it might be due to mask wearing, more flu shots taken and the lack of international travel.
Just under 13% of the deaths so far in New Hampshire happened in 2021…I don’t imagine it’s going to get much better for another 2-4 weeks because the vast majority of people who have died lived in nursing homes/assisted living and many of these folks have yet to get even their first shot.
West Virginia:
This demonstrates that Covid is much much more virulent and deadly than the flu (as if we didn’t know). We’re acting in a way that massively depresses spread of the flu and yet Covid is still raging.
It also strongly suggests that social distancing measures, even in the half-assed way thay have been implemented & followed, do have a very significant effect in quantitatively reducing spread, and that we would be in far deeper shit without them.
We may soon have to begin asking “what won’t this virus infect?”