This was a very strange weekend. On Saturday we blew past every previous record by vaccinating 4.6 million people in a single day. Then on Sunday we plummeted down to 1.4 million. Overall, though, this is good news. Saturday's performance demonstrates that we have the infrastructure to vaccinate 4-5 million people in a day, while the three-day weekend average of 3 million is well above any previous weekend. At this point, I think the only thing really limiting us is supply.
My wife and I were Moderna-ized last Tuesday, so we contributed a few micro-pixels to that day's point on the chart.
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and then we run up against the reluctant
These numbers apparently aren't individually comparable to previous ones because the time of day that was used as a cut-off point was changed. This greatly inflated the first number and deflated the second one, so maybe the more accurate way to deal with these two numbers is to take the average of 3 million. Which is still pretty fancy!
I wish I could remember where I saw this, but probably it'll be in Slavitt's twitter timeline, or maybe on the CDC site.
This is what I've read as well -- the 4.6 needs to be averaged with the next day to get a correct value.
Apparently it was a one-time thing where they didn't end the data-collection day at the usual time. Discussion here, based on CDC and other information and with links: https://twitter.com/ArmstrongDrew/status/1370903729894002688
(Not to worry if you don't have an account. Everybody probably knows already, but I didn't for quite a while, that non-tweeters like me can read twitter feeds on their browsers as long as they don't mind seeing newest entries at the top.)
You should really use the CDC's data set that reports data by date of administration to avoid these reporting irregularities.
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccination-trends
Large areas of the country were experiencing or preparing for winter storm conditions on Sunday.
What's our progress vs Biden's 100 million in 100 days goal?
Ask, and NPR answers:
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/01/28/960901166/how-is-the-covid-19-vaccination-campaign-going-in-your-state
107 million doses administered
21% population single shot; 11% fully vaccinated.
If target was 100 million doses--we've beaten it. If it was 100 million fully vaccinated, were ca. 40% there, and vaccination rates increasing.
Wrong. you need to remove children under 18. Or about 224. Looks like about 42%+ with a single dose. Pretty hefty rates.
Thanks, Trump!
Numbers are numbers. Compare that to Italy which only has 8% of their adult population with one shot and you see the difference. US cases aren't going up despite reopening. Even where they are, hospitalization isn't going up.
Shootie, you could save us all a bit of trouble and simply tell us when was the last day you didn't have more than couple of boilermakers.
Before noon, of course.
I get the sense you know your failings and are mad about them.
Awww, Shootie, you shouldn't have 😉
Biden promised 100 million doses in the 100 days after his inauguration. Although 100 million doses have been administered, that includes about a month before his inauguration.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/12/us-tops-100-million-covid-vaccine-doses-administered-13percent-of-adults-now-fully-vaccinated.html
Biden's goal should be reached in a few days, well before the 100 day deadline.
Just looking at Kevin's graph, it looks like the last time the daily number was below a million was Feb. 23. It looks like there have been 11 days since then when more than two million were vaccinated. If the hundred days starts with Biden's inauguration, it looks good.
Supply to the actual vaccination points has apparently always been the constraint. They open and close on a daily basis as they get allotments. Is this due to manufacturing or transportation limits? Probably both.
Speaking of vaccinations, if Kevin wasn't eligible before, it would seem he is now: https://www.kron4.com/news/california/covid-19-vaccine-eligibility-opens-for-new-groups-of-californians/ as having cancer is one of the added criteria. (Unless he doesn't qualify as having a weakened immune system).
Locally, some of the mass vaccination sites and "pop up" sites were just open on Sat. Still working out some details too--like getting second vaccination scheduled when getting the first shot.
Relating to the Saturday-only sites--I suspect that many sites simply don't have enough qualified personnel to run seven days a week continually. In ORs and ICUs many medical personnel were working incredible shifts for amazingly long times. If those personnel are now back to a 48-hour week for a while, I don't think it would be smart to push them back to 7 days per week for vaccinations. I think it's more sensible to let them take off a little time, so they can be ready 7 days per week if they're needed for emergency expansion.
Also relating to the above, I think a more sensible way to look at capacity would be the way Kevin has consistently been looking at the Bad News--with a rolling average. We are in this vaccination business for "the long haul." I think a rolling seven-day average number would be a sensible way to see how we are doing and to project future progress in meeting our goals.
Meanwhile, in Europe (so far, at least) something for the anti-vaxxers to latch-onto: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-suspends-use-of-astrazeneca-vaccine-along-with-italy-france-spain/a-56878920
The timing of course, is ... "wonderful" and makes Italy's refusal to allow an export to Australia: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/world/europe/Covid-AstraZeneca-vaccines-Europe.html look that much more foolish along with the rest of the EU's getting up in arms about shipment delays.
The shipment delays have been resolved for weeks. Europe simply doesn't want vaccine like NA does.
Shootie's so good he doesn't just read minds; He reads the minds of nation-states! What will the amazing Shootie do for his next trick?!?