Coronavirus Growth in Western Countries: June 9 Update

Here’s the officially reported coronavirus death toll through June 9. The raw data from Johns Hopkins is here.

2 thoughts on “Coronavirus Growth in Western Countries: June 9 Update”

golack June 10, 2021 – 9:53 am at

Ed Yong has a nice write up about vaccinations--and how public health people are upset on the framing of vaccinations as an individual choice and not something needed for the collective good:
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/06/individualism-still-spoiling-pandemic-response/619133/

Vaccination rates took a hit over Memorial day, and numbers are not falling as fast now (CDC covid tracker)--and may be increasing in some places (see Chicago's dashboard). Still, unless they really pick up, we won't hit 70% of adults with at least one dose by July 4th. Maybe August 4th?
I was thinking DC and maybe NY would pass that 70% marker by the end of this week, but not it seems they may not make it until until early next week, e.g. Sun or Mon. IL should follow next week, then VA shortly afterwards.

State and even county figures can hide what's going on. Again look at Chicago maps by zip codes. Pick ones with numbers >10,000, and vaccination rates vary from 34% to 72%. Bigger swings if areas lower numbers included.
cld June 10, 2021 – 3:54 pm at

I think this is saying the Pfizer vaccine is more effective against variant viruses out in the real world than it is in the lab but it's somehow unclear about it,

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-06/asfm-pcv061021.php

and I might be wrong.

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