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Coronavirus Growth in Western Countries: July 22 Update

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Here’s the officially reported coronavirus death toll through July 22. The raw data from Johns Hopkins is here.

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  1. rational thought

    In case anybody is interested, I did check with my mom's nursing home in florida.

    Their overall staff vaccination rate is now just over 70% . That is not near as good as I would like but better than general population and much better than overall fla nursing home %age. And this includes all staff and many do not really interact with the residents much at all such as office staff or groundskeepers. She assured me that the rate for those who interact with residents is much higher, especially for the nursing staff.

    No, they are not allowed to mandate vaccinations as it is not yet fully approoved by fda. If it is, they expect to mandate it for their staff. One thing she mentioned is that the SEIU union, which I guess is the biggest for nursing home staff, is lobbying against any proposal to allow vaccines to be mandated.

    And their vaccination rate among nursing home residents is over 99% . Outstanding. They have one single nursing home resident unvaccinated and that is because of medical reasons. No nursing home resident is unvaccinated because they or their family objected.

    Overall, reasonably satisfied. About as good as I could have expected even if should be better.

    Note this is a very good nursing home with staff who really do seem to care and never abuse the residents. We are lucky there. But fairly expensive. Thank God my parents bought long term care insurance in the 80s when it was affordable.

    1. golack

      I was going to say, the nursing home could try an everyone masks with weekly (or more) covid tests--or offer proof of vaccination. But that might violate FL's law now.

      1. rational thought

        Not sure re covid testing. There is a very valid argument that should not be able to mandate taking an emergency vaccine, especially by govt. But testing is different as it does not impose any significant health threat.

        I think they are still requiring all staff to be masked whether vaccinated or not. With flu vaccine during season, they did require any unvaccinated staff to mask while vaccinated did not have to. Which was enough of an annoyance to encourage staff to get vaccinated. Plus it made them stand out like the scarlet letter.

        Now, as I am sceptical anyway how much masks really help, maybe it would be better to allow only covid vaccinated staff to unmask. As they did that with flu, maybe they can legally do that here. The idea being that, if cannot mandate vaccine, they can make life easier only if you get it. That might encourage enough vaccinations so that helps more than letting vaccinated unmask might hurt.

        In fact, any other annoying but ineffective restrictions, pile them on and only require for unvaccinated. Just to make their life a hassle until they give in.

        From discussions when I found out about the flu vaccine, it was the "scarlet letter" effect that really did it.

  2. golack

    AR still in the lead, with FL coming on strong. MO has fallen back to third, with LA nipping at it's heels. NV is a couple lengths behind, followed by MS that's on a tear and looking to make up ground.....

    The infection rate is at least 1.1. everywhere in the US, except NMI which are case free (?). And this is mainly the un-vaccinated, who make up >90% of hospitalizations and >>90% of the deaths.

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