There's been a flurry of excellent vaccine news lately:
- A new CDC study suggests that people who are vaccinated don't carry the coronavirus and can't spread it.
- The Pfizer vaccine appears to be 100% effective in teens all the way down to age 12.
- In preliminary testing, the Pfizer vaccine was very effective against the South Africa variant.
- The Pfizer vaccine remains at least 90% effective after six months.
Most of this news is specifically about the Pfizer vaccine, but I'll bet that in a few weeks we'll get similar news about the Moderna vaccine and then about the others.
All that's left now is to get everyone vaccinated before the idiots who insist on celebrating early manage to produce yet another surge—though in some places it may be too late for that already. Sigh.
So what IS it with Michigan? Brain freeze? Lead in the pipes? Bonehead Republicans acting out their ODD against an outspoken woman Democratic governor?
My guess - a big hunting state. That results in a lot of radicalized doofuses with gun fetishes.
No more bigger than Ohio.
It isn't just Michigan. As I pointed out yesterday, there is a clear surge in the upper-Midwest and New England. Michigan's surge might be the most dramatic, but MA, NJ, IL, OH, CT, PA, and VT are all seeing fairly big surges.
Nationally, the data suggests a slow rise. That's because outside from the upper-Midwest and New England, in general, cases continue to drop or otherwise hover near their plateau floor.
As I suggested yesterday, perhaps the Biden administration needs to issue an emergency order and divert vaccines into these regions and push for faster vaccinations to quell the surge.
Dude, New Jersey has leveled off and New York is actually making new lows outside a big artifact dump. Florida has been "moderate bad" for awhile and that isn't changing. The sun belt has low number of Covid due to weather. Patience grasshopper. Let it play out.
Shooter, is the Sun Belt the upper-Midwest? Is Florida part of New England?
Shooter, what did I write?
"outside from the upper-Midwest and New England, in general, cases continue to drop or otherwise hover near their plateau floor."
Shooter, if you're too lazy to read what I write, I urge you to exercise further laziness and stop posting responses that expose your laziness.
Cases are rising in Maryland and now starting to rise again in Virginia because there's a lot of cross traffic between the states.
Not really. Maryland has been pretty flat for a week. Calling Virginia cases as rising is lol stupid comment
I live here, I'm five minutes from Maryland border. The cases are rising you doofus.
Yes, UK variant has reached 65% of MN infections. We went from under 1000 cases a day and a decline since November (no holiday surge here) to over 2k yesterday. Vaccines have been severely restricted here by age until recently.
Walz generally uses hospitalizations to decide when to shut down.
Going by https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/covid-michigan-cases-spike-kids/ a large chunk of case increase is among children via one of Kevin’s favorite things, reopening schools...
All indications are that the new surge is being driven by outbreaks of the UK variant.
The rush to open up will help the surge spread faster and farther. But I wouldn't get too hung up on the details of which places are spiking first.
Dude, the UK variant is everything. Michigan is just a late bloomer in certain areas.
Of course, the UK itself has seen a huge decline. Clearly, their strategy of First Doses First has been a major winner, Meanwhile, Fauci capers around jabbering that if you haven't had two doses, you are practically Typhoid Mary. Our public health bureaucracy has been a major failure, and blaming the UK is the strategy of Deep State despair.
We have too many that think that those that were planning to kidnap the governor were aiming too low. Outside of the big cities (and Grand Rapids is not that big) it is very conservative, and they want to recall Whitmer, and anything to do with her. As such, any and all policies she has promoted must be wrong.
Included in that, is that outside of Detroit, there has not been a huge crush on the hospitals. So many don't believe the hype.
In short, we can be a bunch of asses.
Fellow Travelers they are.
Looks to be topping. My guess with people lagging in previous infections
Of course, another big unanswered (and not yet answerable) question is how long does vaccine-induced immunity last. Will we be needing booster shots twice a year, once a year, every few years, every decade, never?
It lasts at least a year. Maybe more.
Currently we can say 6 months and probably a year as I understand they are checking the people who got the initial test doses a year ago.