COVID Thread 2: Operation Ludicrous Speed ! (Super Political!!!)

[PhDeac]

Money used to trickle down because the law didn’t allow wealthy to hoard as much of it. Republicans changed those laws to lower taxes and create more ways to hoard money.

 

[WakeForestRanger]

 

[plama]

The numbers in Los Angeles starting to get scary. The hospitalized patients just consistently go up 200-300 per day, every day, for like a month straight. We have very good reporting and data at least.

 

[plama]

Looked again, it does seem to be peaking. Past week it only went up 100 some days. Hopefully Christmas didn't just blow everything up 2 weeks from now.

 

[mako1331]

I thought only old sick fat people died from this.

 

[ConnorEl]

It is what it is.

 

[warak]

Ts and Ps

 

[vtwhat etc]

Looked again, it does seem to be peaking. Past week it only went up 100 some days. Hopefully Christmas didn't just blow everything up 2 weeks from now.

FWIW, hospitalizations have been wonky for the past week because of fewer facilitates reporting their numbers over the holiday.

I've seen local news outlets celebrating a ~1% decrease in hospitalized patients, but not realizing that only 89% of hospitals were reporting for that day. Really irresponsible reporting, IMO.

At least in NC, it's been a very steady rise.

 

[vtwhat etc]

Somebody should probably go delete the maskless pics of him in a crowd at an indoor rodeo in November.

https://twitter.com/LukeLetlow/status/1323028326823448580?s=19


He seemed relatively responsible for being a 'pub in the deep south, but I just don't get why you'd share this stuff on your own.

 

[PhDeac]

COVID Thread 2: Why Aren't More Democrats Getting Infected?! (Super Political!!!)

Wow. Not a mask in sight at the rodeo.

 

[BarcaDeac]

First case of that new strain detected in Colorado, guy had no travel history

 

[Resilient Deac]

FFS

 

[warak]

First case of that new strain detected in Colorado, guy had no travel history

kid in his 20s...that shit is probably spreading everywhere by now. sounds like he is not the carrier.

 

[bym051d]

kid in his 20s...that shit is probably spreading everywhere by now. sounds like he is not the carrier.

If it’s already being spread in the wild, Dustin Hoffman from Outbreak probably couldn’t trace the source with the help of Poirot and Batman.

 

[WakeForestRanger]

 

[warak]

querido Dios, no

 

[Biff Tannen]

Wow. Not a mask in sight at the rodeo.

Guess that was his last rodeo.

 

[Tobacco Road]

Guess that was his last rodeo.

Holy shit. I laughed out loud.

 

[PhDeac]

Guess that was his last rodeo.

https://www.military.com/daily-news...pe-korea-us-falls-short-of-year-end-goal.html

Factors ranging from snowstorms and holidays to poor coordination with the states led to the U.S. falling nearly 18 million doses short of its year-end goal of having 20 million Americans vaccinated against COVID-19, the general overseeing the distribution effort said Wednesday.


About 20 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna two-dose vaccines have been produced and are available, and 14 million doses have been delivered to the states, but only about 2.1 million Americans have received the shots, said Gen. Gus Perna, the chief operating officer of Operation Warp Speed.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/americas-vaccine-rollout-disaster.html

As a whole, the country has administered barely 10 percent of even the first doses allotted — and 20 million (identical) doses are being reserved for a second shot. A group modeling the Canadian rollout suggested that rushing to get as many first doses as possible out, and waiting for new supply to deliver second doses, could avert as many as 34 to 42 percent of new infections, which is why Canada has now embraced that approach — as has the U.K. Here in the U.S., we are continuing to hold back half of the vaccine doses we have, and hardly any state in the country is significantly above 10 percent of that initial allotment — which is to say, 5 percent of available doses. Though refrigeration capacity varies from location to location, vaccines are only cleared for 30 days of storage in the most common units (including those in which they have been shipped). States have been rushing to build out their storage capacity, but have been warned of monthslong waits for ultracold freezers that could extend shelf life to about six months. That means that, in many places, this first batch of vaccine is set to expire in late January, around the time Joe Biden, who has been criticizing the rollout and promising to accelerate it, is set to take office. Presumably, the American pace will accelerate somewhat even before then. But on the current pace, by that point about 6 million Americans — perhaps 10 million — would have been vaccinated. And, depending on local bureaucracy and storage capacity, perhaps many million doses will be set to expire.

Expire.

The fact that we're even talking about how long we can store a vaccine for a disease that has killed so many people is wild. Store them in people's arms!

Facing a reality in which life saving vaccines could expire is just mind-boggling.

 

[dartsndeacs]

So it seems like we’d have been better off letting the free market decide who gets the vaccine