[COVID NEWS] Every adult American eligible for vaccination no later than May 1

By artappraiser on Thu, 03/11/2021 - 7:07pm |

see addition in his thread

Big news: White House says it will direct states and localities to make every American eligible for a Covid-19 vaccine **no later than May 1st.**

They say they’ll have the supply and will ramp up distribution with more places for people to get vaccinated.
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) March 11, 2021

Previous COVID NEWS thread HERE, covering 3/2 thru earlier today, 3/11

URL:

https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1370161605070176258

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Important numbers on vaccine hesitancy we highlighted on @NewsHour.

Americans who will choose NOT to be vaccinated if one is available to them:

49% GOP men
41% Republicans
40% White non-college educated men
38% White evangelicals
37% Latino
28% White
25% Black
11% Democrats pic.twitter.com/tqaGRsjw04
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) March 12, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/11/2021 - 7:14pm

Do not miss the President’s prime time speech for more details and reflections on the last year and what’s ahead.
— Andy Slavitt @ (@ASlavitt) March 12, 2021

States opening up May 1 doesn’t mean everyone will be able to get their vaccine by that day. It does mean we are on a path to get everyone vaccinated within a few months.
— Andy Slavitt @ (@ASlavitt) March 12, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/11/2021 - 7:16pm

More than 312 million doses have been administered across 116 countries, according to data collected by Bloomberg.

The biggest vaccination campaign in history, tracked in interactive charts https://t.co/XYyQJaXMV3
— Bloomberg (@business) March 9, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/11/2021 - 7:40pm

BIDEN: "My fellow Americans, you're owed nothing less than the truth. And for all of you asking when things will get back to normal, here is the truth. The only way to get our lives back, to get our economy back on track, is to beat the virus."
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) March 12, 2021

edit to add:

"Finding light in the darkness is a very American thing to do. In fact, it may be the most American thing we do." @POTUS
— Jen Psaki (@PressSec) March 12, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/11/2021 - 8:08pm

Biden's speech suggests he is hoping for a July 4 celebration (asks--just wonderfully, mho--for every person's help getting there-making sure everyone gets vaccinated)

Soon https://t.co/eMEmVHK1Ck pic.twitter.com/p2wab1DP3e
— Jon Lieber (@lieber2k) March 12, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/11/2021 - 8:12pm

yesterday:

JUST POSTED: Former presidents Obama, Bush, Clinton, Carter join ad campaign to win over vaccine skeptics.

“This vaccine means hope,” Obama says in one of the new ads going up today, part of @AdCouncil’s national effort. pic.twitter.com/ffmuOsVjSE
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) March 11, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/11/2021 - 10:06pm

Dolly Parton didn't do it alone. Turns out we had kicked in $150 million tax money during the Obama admin:

The Obama Administration, through DARPA, funded $150 million in research into the mRNA technology used to develop vaccines for pandemics.

Operation Warp Speed is the result of Obama’s foresight.https://t.co/Q1Y0PYVIv7
— Deb WARRIOR WOMAN Farmer (@realdebfarmer) March 12, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 03/12/2021 - 1:08am

Vanderbilt *tested* 2 vaccines, not develop, as did other testing facilities. Dolly's $1 million helped prime the pump for speeding up these tests. But yes, to develop a drug is hundreds of millions of dollars, and requires time even with fast track approval. And it needs strong government support in many cases.

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 03/12/2021 - 1:51am

Europe > WTF!?

Deadly complacency that lead to a criminally botched rollout of the vaccine. https://t.co/dcWXM8eky7
— Yascha Mounk (@Yascha_Mounk) March 12, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 03/12/2021 - 5:17pm

U.S. joins a trio of countries in pledging millions of vaccine doses to other nations
via @agearan https://t.co/GsJXArdief
— Missy Ryan (@missy_ryan) March 13, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 03/12/2021 - 7:42pm

remembering the horror; never forgetting:

"One of my most vivid memories from last April is the sound," writes Jennifer Murphy, an E.M.T. "The sound inside ambulances conveyed, at least to me, a desperateness even more dire than the wailing sirens ricocheting across the city." https://t.co/VU4sQpZrLR
— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) March 11, 2021

This article is part of The Week Our Reality Broke, a series reflecting on a year of living with the coronavirus pandemic and how it has affected American society.

excerpt

[....] That April, overwhelmed hospitals running out of beds began discharging far-from-recovered Covid patients to make room for those needing ventilators. Soon, many of the discharged sick-fever coughers, back home and some still wearing their hospital bracelets, would call 911 again. They were still having difficulty breathing.

Then things got worse. Scores of “diff breathers” turned into cardiac arrests, and worse — 83Rs and 83Ds — codes for dead after resuscitation initiated and for dead on arrival. That deep cough we once heard when we arrived on the scene was replaced by the agonized wails of inconsolable family members. A father or mother or grandparent had just died, and we couldn’t even offer the comfort of a hug because the virus was so contagious.

On one day in April, 800 people died.

The E.M.T.s and paramedics of the pandemic are the firefighters of Sept. 11. First in, last out. The risks have been consequential.

From January to August 2020, Emergency Medical Service workers in the New York City Fire Department had a risk of dying 14 times that of the department’s firefighters, according to an analysis in The Journal of Emergency Medical Services. The pandemic took a severe and immediate toll on the mental health of rescuers. John Mondello, a Fire Department E.M.T. based in one of the city’s hardest-hit areas in the Bronx, took his life a week after the pandemic’s peak in mid-April, having been on the job for less than three months. He was 23.

His age is important, because I want you to know how young E.M.T.s are in New York, and they have seen more death than I could ever have imagined. Many on the front line are in their 20s and have only a few years of experience. E.M.S. also has more ethnic and gender diversity, compared with firefighters. Wages are so demoralizingly low, and the work is so grueling, sad, violent, terrifying and disrespected, that personnel shortages plague the field.

Roughly 13,000 to 14,500 E.M.T.s and paramedics work in New York City’s E.M.S. system. The Fire Department controls all ambulances in the 911 system; 70 percent of the ambulances responding to 911 calls are operated by city crews, and the rest are operated by hospitals. Private transport companies and volunteer ambulance corps help the 911 system in times of crisis and high call volumes. I ride as an E.M.T. with the Park Slope Volunteer Ambulance Corps in Brooklyn. My partners are in their 20s, and several work part time in E.M.S. while studying to become paramedics, nurses, physician assistants or doctors.

The losses emergency responders witnessed during the godawful spring are beyond what human minds can grasp. It’s impossible to see my E.M.S. friends without thinking of all the terrible things they’ve been through in the past year, the doomed choices they’ve been forced to make, how many patients they’ve lost — and continue to lose.

And a year later, Covid-19 is not done with us [....]

by artappraiser on Sat, 03/13/2021 - 1:20am

Wuhan Flu & "gain of function"

(the push to claim calling the pandemic "Wuhan Flu" has helped get China off the hook for it's responsibilities, even if a racist demagogue was doing the loudest cheerleading with "China Flu", which actually served to deflect the blame as unhinged, rather than obvious. But all that chatter about Chinese markets and bat caves was bullshit)

https://nypost.com/2021/03/12/former-us-investigator-covid-19-may-have-c...

What do you think? Former US investigator: COVID-19 may have come from bioweapons research accident https://t.co/TkWvtnKHr2 via @nypost
— mjhoogeveen (@mjhoogeveen) March 13, 2021

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 03/13/2021 - 3:06am

This so hard. pic.twitter.com/2g8JkU3Oob
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) November 18, 2020

by artappraiser on Sat, 03/13/2021 - 12:54pm

Vaccination Update:

21.7% of New Yorkers have received at least one vaccine dose and 11.0% have completed their vaccine series.

-182,584 total doses were administered over the past 24 hours
-6,446,720 total doses administered to date

Details: https://t.co/S1OmTSRTWp pic.twitter.com/l9MBloWNtH
— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) March 13, 2021

Gov. Cuomo says New York lost 77 people to COVID-19 on Friday and the statewide positivity rate is just under 3 percent.https://t.co/i3tqMBOOXE
— News 8 WROC (@News_8) March 13, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 03/13/2021 - 1:07pm

Watch: King Abdullah II of #Jordan visited the new Salt government hospital west of the capital Amman to confront the hospital director after seven #COVID19 patients died following an oxygen outage.https://t.co/7kjXECpFkX pic.twitter.com/qmV6UcbD8M
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) March 13, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 03/13/2021 - 5:02pm

Important story from @mariasacchetti —> ICE has no clear plan for vaccinating thousands of detained immigrants fighting deportation https://t.co/HoeFJsOhjY
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) March 13, 2021

Blind Americans face roadblocks booking online vaccine appointments.

“This has been a real rough year for folks with the kinds of disabilities that affect computer and internet use,” one expert said. https://t.co/ULpVCP2nUS
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 14, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 03/13/2021 - 11:45pm

worth a try, you never know with Trumpster:

NEW: Fauci says that "it would make all the difference in the world" if Trump urged his supporters to get the coronavirus vaccine.

Republicans — particularly men — are the least likely demographic to say they plan to get vaccinated, recent polls suggest. https://t.co/vchpGzwxqR
— Dr. Joseph Frusci (@JFrusci) March 14, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 03/14/2021 - 4:51pm

GOP 2nd Amendments itself - what's to mind?

(counteracts their vote repression offensive)

polling shows a majority of Republicans are vaccine skeptical pic.twitter.com/PYsthrBmJ9
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 14, 2021

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 03/14/2021 - 5:01pm

Wowser! TRUMP DID IT! Took up Fauci's taunt! Recommends Americans get vaccinated! ON FOX NEWS YET!!! GOOD JOB FAUCI!

Seems like a positive development https://t.co/lCUNGrMvVM
— Blake News (@blakehounshell) March 16, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/16/2021 - 7:48pm

More than 117 million people around the world have been infected with Covid-19.

If at least one in 10 experience symptoms that persist for weeks or months after the virus has left their body, that’s a lot of disability, however temporary https://t.co/2ImEGc34Yp pic.twitter.com/3REiBGxIQS
— Bloomberg Opinion (@bopinion) March 13, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 03/14/2021 - 4:56pm

Fauci to @jaketapper

CDC guidance on 3 ft vs 6 ft may be changing

Good

Because 6 ft doesn't protect teachers

But it does keep kids out of school

Want to open schools safely?

Masks
Ventilation
Testing
Vaccinating teachers/staff

That's the list

And no deep cleaning please https://t.co/A7yVpPqlUo
— Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH (@ashishkjha) March 14, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 03/14/2021 - 6:19pm

^ comes to mind after reading that: I haven't bought HEPA filters for my two air cleaners in quite some time, betcha they are real hard to find now, kinda like toilet paper last spring...cut up some of the surplus masks allover the place now and make my own?

by artappraiser on Sun, 03/14/2021 - 6:23pm

SCOOP @axios @kadiagoba Up to 25% of House members refuse COVID vaccine! Fracas over return to normal rules, slowing votes https://t.co/SDclFsCdzG
— Mike Allen (@mikeallen) March 14, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 03/14/2021 - 6:25pm

Why do many Republicans say they won't get a COVID vaccine? Here are insights from our focus group with Trump voters, led by @FrankLuntz. 1/7 pic.twitter.com/SIy143YLI4
— de Beaumont Foundation (@deBeaumontFndtn) March 15, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 03/15/2021 - 12:44pm

This simple line also tested very well in Saturday afternoon’s focus group. If you look at Twitter, you can see Frieden and @GovChristie immediately moving to use it this weekend.https://t.co/Um5cfEePJY
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) March 15, 2021

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 03/15/2021 - 4:39pm

Survey says 64% of young black people in England are 'vaccine hesitant' https://t.co/ce9WglEaIr
— The Guardian (@guardian) March 16, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/16/2021 - 5:34pm

Chaos in Germany and Italy after suspension of Oxford vaccine https://t.co/Bcf4APNykF
— The Guardian (@guardian) March 16, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/16/2021 - 5:48pm

So why did so many of the countries of Europe and indeed throughout the Americas fail at roughly the same scale? And what does it say about the obvious American errors that they were reproduced in most of the places the country considers as peers?
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) March 16, 2021

From a global perspective, one year in two very large facts about the course of the pandemic loom above all others...
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) March 16, 2021

First, that the policy levers Americans have obsessed over all year (mask-wearing, social distancing, lockdowns) can not be the sole drivers of transmission, given that states taking very different measures (California and Florida, most famously) performed quite similarly...
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) March 16, 2021

...and given how country's that were very strict (Peru, say, or Italy), did not reliably "outperform" those places which took much looser measures (Japan, say, or Sweden).
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) March 16, 2021

Second, as a group, the nations of the world once often grouped as "the west" — most of Europe and the Americas — had a categorically more catastrophic experience than anyone else.
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) March 16, 2021

The U.S. had many reasons to expect to outperform "peer" countries like Germany, the U.K., or the Netherlands (larger state and medical capacity, for instance)...
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) March 16, 2021

... though there were also reasons containing a pandemic here might've been more difficult (a large and diverse country, full of comorbidities, at the center of global commerce).
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) March 16, 2021

But as awful as the American experience seems to Americans, compared to the rest of Europe and the Americans it was, by the crude metric of deaths per million citizens, probably just a little bit worse than average—that is, not at all exceptional.
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) March 16, 2021

And yet in nearly every forensic account of the American pandemic published in recent months, the country's poor performance was explained almost entirely with reference to American policy choices, with hardly any acknowledgment of the global context of "western" failure.
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) March 16, 2021

Many of these accounts are by writers I admire enormously, and they do illuminate failures in the American response that should be addressed and ideally fixed in preparation for "the next time."
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) March 16, 2021

I'm thinking of, for instance, "How the U.S. Guaranteed Its Own Failure," in the @nytimes: https://t.co/plBY5VTWmF
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) March 16, 2021

Along with this fantastic CDC retrospective, in the same paper: https://t.co/Pj4HXfX7MT
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) March 16, 2021

As far back as June, @DLeonhardt was writing about "the unique U.S. failure to control the virus." https://t.co/Iz9ZylCtqB
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) March 16, 2021

The @washingtonpost CDC retrospective was also fantastically rich—and yet blinkered, in its way: https://t.co/MvY0eEDwvE
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) March 16, 2021

Suggests it's behavioral driven and rooted in our shared western culture. Possible instructive contrast btwn US and Germany who got off to early bad start, stomped it down quickly, then lost its grip in the fall when people had had enough of restrictions. https://t.co/MRQGD6NmZK pic.twitter.com/3Kzvk2Ycnx
— Russ Conser (@russ_conser) March 16, 2021

Because of human nature, which only Republican governors and African presidents acknowledged as real for the past year.
— KangaRoo (@KangaMage) March 16, 2021

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by artappraiser on Tue, 03/16/2021 - 7:40pm

Generosity from the Osage, Choctaw and Citizen Potawatomi Nations to Oklahomans. https://t.co/HyRaQ9pfIK
— Andy Slavitt @ (@ASlavitt) March 16, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/16/2021 - 7:05pm

Long-haul covid is a killer too! It took this 40-yr. old middle-class picture-of-health black guy who lived in one of the toniest towns in the country. GET FUCKING VACCINATED, IT'S THE ONLY THING THAT CAN SAVE YOU, not money, not living in a good neighborhood, not having access to good health care. Doctors can't always save you, that's just the MAIN fact, forget all that other unfairness shit, it's a distraction, this virus is out for all human beings and you have to get vaccinated.

Paul Jones, a Hamptonite of Many Pursuits, Dies at 40

Real estate agent, bouncer, furniture maker, coach and also a new father, he was known all over Long Island’s East End. Engaged to be married, he died of Covid-19.

By Katharine Q. Seelye @ NYTimes, March 12, 2021

This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here.

Caption: Paul Jones was a “Covid
long-hauler,” having fought the coronavirus
from October to February.
Credit...Saland Photography
Paul Jones and Alexandra Saland used to work together on Long Island’s East End — he was a real estate agent and she photographed his listings. In 2016, a few years after she had left that job, she came across him on an online dating site. “Hi,” she said. He asked her out.

Within a year, they were living together in the hamlet of Water Mill in Southampton. And by 2018 Mr. Jones was down on one knee, in front of family and friends, asking Ms. Saland to marry him. Soon they were having a baby, and they put off the wedding. Then the coronavirus pandemic hit.

“We didn’t want to get married on iPads or Zoom, so we postponed the wedding indefinitely,” Ms. Saland said in a phone interview.

Mr. Jones came down with the novel coronavirus in the fall and was hospitalized in October. But like other “Covid long-haulers,” as they came to be known, he never fully recovered. He ended up in an emergency room on Feb. 8 with shortness of breath. Then he was transferred to Stony Brook University Hospital for a heart procedure; the virus had damaged his heart. Soon he went into cardiac arrest and was put on life support.

He died on Feb. 26 at 40. Ms. Saland said the cause was a combination of Covid-19 and pneumonia.

Mr. Jones seemed to make friends with nearly everyone he met in the Hamptons, better known as the summer playground of wealthy Manhattanites but also home to a community of local families, many of whom have lived there for generations.

“He was a magnet,” his mother, the Rev. Connie Jones, associate minister of Calvary Baptist Church in East Hampton, said in an interview. “He had a glow on him, and everybody felt it.”

He was a man of multiple pursuits. In addition to selling real estate, Mr. Jones tended bar and managed property. Last year, he and a friend started a remediation company franchise that cleans and disinfects properties [....]

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/16/2021 - 8:43pm

Dear God. https://t.co/nGErdDPDAU
— Claudio Dantas (@claudioedantas) March 17, 2021

two tweets from the middle of Dr. Eric's whole thread:

4) this is the most epic health emergency Brazil has every faced.

The world needs to GODDAMN WAKE UP and SEND HELP NOW!!! pic.twitter.com/CMCwcBWGCL
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) March 17, 2021

9) Brazil is suffering a “Genocide” says Brazil advocates. https://t.co/rDTxzVCJ1l
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) March 17, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/16/2021 - 11:14pm

Holy mola. Spain's high child mortality rate for coronavirus was likely a software error caused by storing ages as two-digits. 100+ year olds were marked as toddlers. https://t.co/llxNj59mzO
— Andrew Thaler (@DrAndrewThaler) March 17, 2021

(found retweeted by Josh Spero; I can't vouch for the accuracy as I don't read Spanish. This Thaler guy is an ecologist.)

by artappraiser on Wed, 03/17/2021 - 3:53pm

"Long Covid is not a footnote to the pandemic or a curious human-interest story," write @ahandvanish and @fi_lowenstein. "It is America’s next big health crisis, and we should prepare for it now." https://t.co/RpBHl13ymr nytopinion
— Dr. Joseph Frusci (@JFrusci) March 18, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/18/2021 - 2:35am

[COVID NEWS] Every adult American eligible for vaccination no later than May 1

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