In one of the interviews with Fauci - he was asked why there aren't medical staff going around in vans door to door to vaccinate. He said because there aren't enough vaccines (probably a month back). Hopefully thats what they will do - get FEMA or other medical teams going door to door offering vaccines.
Somewhat scary because someone could be giving fake vaccines, asking for money, or use it as an excuse to enter the home. A better plan would be to have an official van go to a neighbourhood on a publicized day.
In our county (King, includes Seattle) the 7-day avg has gone up from 135 to 200 this month. Fatalities has reduced to 2/day and may hold steady because younger people are getting covid more now.
Yeah, the messaging is all messed up. I don't understand why it's so difficult to tell people that although it's ~100x less dangerous than it is for older people, the disease is still exceedingly dangerous to younger people, and that it is far from harmless, and they do not want to get it. It's like political leaders have just conceded the argument pushed by misinformation artists, and are not willing to communicate the message from their public health officials. Excess deaths in young people are way up! That's a big problem and it's not a difficult concept to grasp! Deaths are fairly uncommon in young people, but obviously far too common to be ignored.
I have an appointment for my first shot tomorrow,I'll let you know if my arm falls off.
While true - we shouldn't overlook the fact that a lot of younger people who get covid are service/blue-collar who have little choice.
So far ~800k people have been vaccinated in MN. They obviously didn’t test all those people and ended up with 89 total reinfections so far. There’s no data released on how much time after second dose these patients tested positive. But, Pfizer and Moderna’s studies were based on the fact that there were zero hospitalizations from 2 weeks and 1 week after the second dose, respectively. (I also wish they would have used a longer metric post second dose). I doubt every single one of those 89 reinfections happened within just 1-2 weeks of getting the vaccine. So, obviously, the vaccines don’t work just quite as excellently as they showed in trial results. I’m leaning towards there being at least some more reinfections than 89 if they tested all 800k residents right now.
At least for MN they seem to only count re-infections as a vaccine breakthrough if tested positive more than 2 weeks since second dose.
I've been Pfizerized. Second shot is done with no side effects at all. I wish they'd made this vac card wallet size.
Even more galling are the Florida statistics that ignore every spreader who contracts the virus but then return to their home state to spread it and get counted there. So the actual rate of infections in the Sunshine State is obfuscated.
If they are not handing out those cards, they are not in compliance with the protocol.
tldr: Right now, this pandemic doesn’t matter whether someone can prove they got a vaccine or not. What matters is that people do get vaccines.
Um, no. Please don't make up crap, especially specific to California as I practice in this very area and also know the laws. Every vaccination is entered into the California Immunization Registry. Until about four years ago, each locality or county had their own vaccine registries, which led to predicable gaps and resulting in duplicated vaccinations.
All vaccinations in California must be reported, regardless of patient age. It is the law, and regardless of the locus of immunization (e.g., mega vaccination center vs community vaccination center vs hospital system). See California Immunization Registry » COVID-19 Vaccine Reporting Information and Resources and https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH Document Library/Immunization/IMM-1300.pdf
