7.4 million Covid vaccine shots administered in the past 3 days

[RobDownSouth]

I'd say that's pretty good progress. Hope they can keep up this pace.

 

[CornusKousa]

Holy shit!! I agree with Rob!!

He must have given being the most vile sack of shit possible effort a break.

 

[Adre]

Competence and truth is so refreshing.

 

[siobhancan99]

wow that's awesome.

 

[CornusKousa]

Competence and truth is so refreshing.

Worshiping your lord and savior first thing in the morning.

Devout as they come.

 

[siobhancan99]

Worshiping your lord and savior first thing in the morning.

Devout as they come.

What's it like, under your bridge?

 

[ShagTimes]

In the UK just over a third of the whole population have had their first jab. Israel and the UAE are doing even better.

 

[siobhancan99]

i think Biden is getting them out as fast as he can. 8 times as many vaccines have been administered in America as there are people in Israel. it's easier to vaccinate more of your population when your population is small.

My grandparents household, for instance, has a 100 percent vaccination rate. My grandparents are thus by that measure the most effective at being vaccinated.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

Competence and truth is so refreshing.

It's a huge step up, that's for sure.

 

[missyunderstanding]

Then what do you think is going to happen?

Fast forward: The majority of the population is vaccinated. Then what happens?

 

[LLCox]

I got my first shot yesterday.

 

[siobhancan99]

Jealous

 

[coati]

Competence and truth is so refreshing.

You know what I really like about the change since January 20th? The fact that I don't need to check my news feed every hour to see what sort of embarrassing or dangerous move has just been made by our President.

My work productivity has increased. I had lost track of how much time I spent worrying about the consequences of having such a foolish and destructive President.

 

[CornusKousa]

Fast forward: The majority of the population is vaccinated. Then what happens?

More lockdowns...6 masks!!!

If it saves just one life.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Per the Bloomberg Vaccine Tracker, the pace continues on the same trajectory that it’s been on since early January with the exception of the blip caused by the bad weather. The FDA approval of the J&J vaccine should boost the rate even faster. Kudos to Trump for accomplishing what Fauci and others described as a miracle via Operation Warp Speed, and kudos to Biden for not screwing it up too badly. As Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight tweeted over the weekend, US has handled Covid much better that most of Europe.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/

https://twitter.com/natesilver538/status/1365651499834048513?s=21

 

[siobhancan99]

Boomer I don't understand your comment, about Biden "not screwing it up too badly" when there's no evidence that he screwed it up at all.

 

[Emerson40]

Perhaps he’s just a little worried, after the colossal fuck up by Biden’s predecessor.

 

[phrodeau]

Per the Bloomberg Vaccine Tracker, the pace continues on the same trajectory that it’s been on since early January with the exception of the blip caused by the bad weather. The FDA approval of the J&J vaccine should boost the rate even faster. Kudos to Trump for accomplishing what Fauci and others described as a miracle via Operation Warp Speed, and kudos to Biden for not screwing it up too badly. As Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight tweeted over the weekend, US has handled Covid much better that most of Europe.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/

https://twitter.com/natesilver538/status/1365651499834048513?s=21

That relay race would have gone much faster if Trump hadn’t played keepaway with the baton.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

That relay race would have gone much faster if Trump hadn’t played keepaway with the baton.

America First

 

[missyunderstanding]

Not sure what you mean?

That relay race would have gone much faster if Trump hadn’t played keepaway with the baton.

Could you explain what you have been told that Trump did to slow down the development and or distribution of the vaccine?

Also, what motive do you think he would have for slowing it down?

 

[2021Noobie]

First shot last week
Still masking !!
(Til when??)

 

[Dribble]

America First

You are so fucking stupid. We are TALKING about America.

 

[Paul_Chance]

Fast forward: The majority of the population is vaccinated. Then what happens?

I'll take a stab at this:

Once a majority of the US population is vaccinated (sometime during the summer) the R0 (rate of infection) should fall precipitously. It will "flat rate" at about R .5. Once it has reached a flat-rate then the traditional tools of virus management become more effective. Specifically:

Contact Tracing becomes a workable tool.
Isolation (of the infected) becomes a workable tool.
Outbreak management becomes an effective tool.

All of these are overwhelmed by a pandemic, just by sheer numbers. At R .5 a virus is essentially considered to be "under control".

Meanwhile, the pivot to effective therapeutics continues the medical developments. Hopefully, an effective therapeutic essential reduces the fatality rate to "the untreated". It an ideal situation, a therapeutic is discovered, developed that has 100% effectiveness against COVID-19 and it's variants. In the real world, where we mostly live, anything in the 80% range, combined with the vaccines, will be great.

Then, it simply become endemic, like the flu, with annual shots/boosters and good therapeutics should you catch it.

 

[RobDownSouth]

The United States broke it's own record yesterday, a record 2.9 million vaccine injections yesterday.

President Biden adjusted his prediction that the country would now be completely vaccinated by May 15th, two weeks earlier than the May 30th projection given just two weeks ago.

It goes without saying this sort of progress would not have happened had Trump been reelected.

 

[KeithD]

Got mine today. The J&J one shot. First shipment arrived in this area the day before yesterday, I was offered a reservation yesterday, and there was a massive clinic today dispensing them in a well-organized way in a local high school auditorium.

Good timing. Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of going into formal sheltering.