Here’s the officially reported coronavirus death toll through July 7. The raw data from Johns Hopkins is here.
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Cats, charts, and politics
Cats, charts, and politics
Here’s the officially reported coronavirus death toll through July 7. The raw data from Johns Hopkins is here.
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CNN has covered a report out of Georgetown about un-vaccinated clusters and Covid.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/08/health/undervaccinated-clusters-covid-risk/index.html
That can lead to states that have high levels of vaccinated people to still have high infection rates, e.g.:
CA 1.18 even tough 62% of population vaccinated (first dose, total population)
IL 1.14 at 60% vaccinated.
Granted. low case numbers mean a smaller increase in cases leads to higher infection rates than if a state has high case numbers.
Cats and dogs get COVID-19 from their owners at extremely high rates,
https://www.livescience.com/pet-cats-dogs-catch-covid-19-from-owners.html
Cats more susceptible than dogs.
And, it says they have no evidence pets can transmit the virus back to people, but I would ask, what of people with a compromised immune system?
Well cross-species transmission also depends on the kind of interactions that take place. My cats never get close enough face-to-face to send respiratory droplets or aerosols into my respiratory tract. My dogs, by contrast, often try to lick my face, and even without that, we often come face-to-face when I give them their food or refill their water bowl. So I would be surprised if cats can transmit to people, but I am surprised also if dogs do not.
Kevin, in the early days of the pandemic, wisely decided to use deaths as the best (if still imperfect) measure of how a country was doing with respect to the pandemic, particularly since testing rates were so different from place to place.
Isn’t it time to reconsider using deaths as the best indicator? Those who are vaccinated essentially have a minuscule chance of dying, but a country (e.g., us) can have a low death rate while still having a relatively high case and infection rate.