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Old 04-08-2021, 10:23 AM
 
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Still need a COVID vaccine? It’s about to get easier in Manatee and Sarasota counties

https://www.bradenton.com/news/coron...250503939.html

People who want to get a COVID-19 vaccine in Manatee and Sarasota counties will soon no longer need an appointment.

Both counties will stop taking new appointment registrations at 5 p.m. Monday. Instead, they will transition to first-come, first-served vaccination sites.

As COVID-19 vaccines began to roll out across Florida earlier this year, counties were left to establish their own distribution systems. Manatee County opted for a random selection process, while neighboring Sarasota County offered a first-come, first-served waiting list.

Both counties have seen a major slowdown in new appointment sign-ups in recent weeks, prompting the change to an appointment-free system.

Manatee County Director of Public Safety Jacob Saur said he’s proud of the work that county and state health department workers have done to get shots in the arms of those who want them. But demand for vaccines is dropping.

“We have seen a decreased demand for vaccines, particularly in the younger age groups,” Saur said. “Now that it is readily available at pharmacies and soon to be at physician offices, residents wanting to get it will have more options.”

Saur said that the county’s emergency staff are looking to “ramp down” vaccine efforts to begin preparing for hurricane season.

MANATEE COUNTY

Manatee County will offer vaccination appointments next week for the final patients that remain in the standby pool. As before, those residents will receive an automated message with appointment details. Registration for the standby pool close at 5 p.m. Monday.

Manatee will hold its first appointment-free, drive-thru vaccine clinic from 8 a.m. to noon April 21 at Tom Bennett Park, 280 Kay Road in Bradenton. Those patients will be scheduled for their second shot on May 19.

After that, county officials say that they will “gauge interest” in vaccinations at the Tom Bennett site and determine how long to keep offering first doses.

“If we see participation in the first-come, first-serve, we can expand that,” Saur said. “If not, we will reassess.”

For more information residents can visit: https://www.mymanatee.org/

SARASOTA COUNTY

Sarasota County will also honor existing appointments on its vaccine waiting list. Registrations for the list will close at 5 p.m. Monday.

Sarasota will hold its first appointment-free, walk-up vaccine clinics at 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. April 9 and 10 at Sarasota Square Mall, 8201 S. Tamiami Trail in Sarasota. Patients with existing appointments on the county’s waiting list will be able to skip the line.

“This will also allow us to evolve our vaccine clinics at the Mall to a hybrid appointment/walk-up format that will quickly become an all walk-up format,” Sarasota County shared in a Wednesday COVID-19 update. “This will also allow [Florida DOH-Sarasota] to try expanded hours, geographic focused pop-ups and to work with local communities as we work to find the best ways to getting vaccines to our community.”

For more information residents can visit: https://www.scgov.net/
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Old 04-08-2021, 01:19 PM
 
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Young people key to ending coronavirus pandemic

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/med...ic/ar-BB1fpTpE

With COVID-19 cases rising once again in Florida and other parts of the country, getting young people vaccinated is critical to reversing the trend and finally ending the pandemic.

The Verywell Vaccine Sentiment Tracker found that 47% of respondents under 30 said they won’t get the COVID-19 vaccine, as compared with just 17% of those over 50. The South Florida Sun Sentinel recently interviewed more than three dozen young adults visiting or living in South Florida, finding just a handful who said they would get vaccinated if it were convenient.

They will have a chance starting Monday, when the age that Floridians are officially eligible to receive vaccines drops to 16. Getting younger residents to get the shots is key to achieving the 70% to 85% vaccination rate that experts say is needed to achieve herd immunity, which provides broad protection to the population.
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Old 04-08-2021, 02:06 PM
 
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California has America's best COVID numbers. Michigan has the worst. Which way is the U.S. heading?

https://news.yahoo.com/california-ha...122629141.html

After enduring a steep, nationwide surge over the holidays — followed by a decline in cases that was just as steep and just as widespread — America has entered a strange new phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.

How strange? Just look at the wildly uneven outbreaks unfolding right now in California, Florida and Michigan.

These big states have some things in common. All three previously experienced large waves of infection. All three have at least partially vaccinated about a third of their residents, with California at 35 percent, Michigan at 31 percent and Florida at 31 percent, in line with the U.S. overall. And all three appear to be rife with variants; nationwide, Florida, Michigan and California currently rank No. 1, No. 2 and No. 6, respectively, in the number of B.1.1.7 cases detected to date.

Yet their COVID-19 outbreaks couldn’t be more different.

Florida is closer to the center of the spectrum. There, masks are not mandatory, bars and restaurants have been open for months — and test positivity (9.5 percent) is more than nine times as high as California’s, with a daily case count that’s twice as high in absolute terms (5,500, on average) and nearly four times as high on a per capita basis. Infections are also heading in the wrong direction, rising 20 percent over the last two weeks — just like the U.S. as a whole. Hospitalizations may be starting to tick up as well.
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Old 04-09-2021, 10:47 AM
 
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America may be close to hitting a vaccine wall

https://www.axios.com/america-corona...775581f6f.html

For the last few months, the primary focus of the U.S. has been getting shots to everyone who wants them, as quickly as possible. Soon, that focus will abruptly shift to convincing holdouts to get vaccinated.

An analysis released by Surgo Ventures yesterday concluded that "the supply-demand shift for the vaccine will happen earlier than expected — as early as the end of April — and before the nation reaches the 70-90% threshold for achieving herd immunity."

It released a survey finding that 59% of U.S. adults say they're either already vaccinated, or plan to be as soon as the shot is made available to them. At the current U.S. vaccination rate, all of those vaccine-enthusiastic adults could be inoculated by the end of April.

Vaccination rates will then slow, and Surgo's projections show that only around 52% of Americans will be vaccinated by July. When combined with people who have already been infected, the immunity rate overall may be around 65% by then — still not high enough for herd immunity.
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Old 04-09-2021, 11:16 AM
 
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Key Takeaways From April 8, 2021

https://www.wsj.com/amp/livecoverage/covid-2021-04-08

- Newly Reported U.S. Covid-19 Cases Rise as U.K. Variant Takes Hold

- More nations limited the rollout of AstraZeneca’s vaccine.

- Sluggish vaccination progress outside the U.S. is a threat to the economic outlook, Powell said.

- Florida sued U.S. health authorities to restart cruises.

- Two vaccination sites in North Carolina and Colorado closed after some people had adverse reactions.

- Covid-19 is the most significant global disruption since WWII, a new intelligence report said.

- Developing countries face rising hunger and poverty.

- Most Canadians are still waiting to be vaccinated.
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Old 04-09-2021, 02:31 PM
 
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People who got Moderna COVID vaccine report more side effects than Pfizer recipients

https://nypost.com/2021/04/08/people...ecipients/amp/

More people taking Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine reported side effects than those who got the Pfizer shot, according to a recent study.

Researchers analyzed reports from more than 3 million vax recipients collected via v-safe, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention program that tracks reactions to the immunizations.

Close to 82 percent of people who got their second Moderna vaccine had injection site pain, compared to under 69 percent of those with Pfizer.

Overall, 74 percent of Moderna recipients said they experienced full-body symptoms, versus 64 percent of people who got the Pfizer vax.

Some 40 percent of people with Moderna specifically reported getting chills, compared with just 22 percent of Pfizer recipients.

“Data from millions of v-safe participants indicate that injection site pain is common after both the first and second doses of either mRNA-based vaccine,” the researchers noted.

The study was published Monday in the peer-reviewed medical journal JAMA.
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Old 04-09-2021, 03:26 PM
 
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Johnson & Johnson vaccine deliveries plunge as company backs off previous April target

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...outputType=amp

Johnson & Johnson has backed off a previous pledge to deliver 24 million additional doses of its one-shot vaccine by the end of April amid the continued failure of its troubled contract manufacturer in Baltimore to win government manufacturing certification.

With domestic production of the company’s vaccine still unapproved, the government slashed its national allocation of the J & J vaccine to states by 86 percent to just 700,000 doses next week, down from nearly 5 million, a cut that Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) called “very concerning".
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Old 04-11-2021, 02:29 PM
 
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Week over week new Covid-19 cases in Sarasota County increased by 29.51% while in Manatee County new Covid-19 cases increased by 13.8%. In Sarasota County we had a substantial increase in testing thus there wasn't much change in the test positivity ratio. While in Manatee County we had a fairly big increase in the test positivity ratio to 7.44%. Hospitalizations ticked up slightly in both counties.

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Hospitalizations
As per the state data-base that lists hospitalizations with a primary diagnosis of Covid-19:

Sarasota County:

*February 28th = 59.57 Covid-19 patients hospitalized
*March 7th = 63.57 Covid-19 patients hospitalized
*March 14th = 54.43 Covid-19 patients hospitalized
*March 21st = 41.28 Covid-19 patients hospitalized
*March 28th = 38.57 Covid-19 patients hospitalized
*April 4th = 41.86 Covid-19 patients hospitalized
*April 11th = 42.14 Covid-19 patients hospitalized

Manatee County:

*February 28th = 54.28 Covid-19 patients hospitalized
*March 7th = 62.71 Covid-19 patients hospitalized
*March 14th = 49.57 Covid-19 patients hospitalized
*March 21st = 35.43 Covid-19 patients hospitalized
*March 28th = 29.43 Covid-19 patients hospitalized
*April 4th = 25.43 Covid-19 patients hospitalized
*April 11th = 27.85 Covid-18 patients hospitalized

*I report hospitalizations as the seven day average.

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Cases, Tests, Positivity Rate

For the week of April 4th through April 10th:

Sarasota County:

total positive cases = 803 (114.71 cases per day on average)
total tests = 14,386 (2055.14 tests per day on average)
test positivity rate = 5.58%

Manatee County:

total positive cases = 766 (109.43 cases per day on average)
total tests = 10,298 (1471.14 tests per day on average)
test positivity rate = 7.44%

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For the week of March 28th through April 3rd:

Sarasota County:

total positive cases = 620 (88.57 cases per day on average)
total tests = 11,524 (1646.28 tests per day on average)
test positivity rate = 5.38%

Manatee County:

total positive cases = 673 (96.14 cases per day on average)
total tests = 10,777 (1539.57 tests per day on average)
test positivity rate = 6.24%

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For the week of March 21st through March 27th:

Sarasota County:

total positive cases = 620 (88.57 cases per day on average)
total tests = 10,959 (1565.57 tests per day on average)
test positivity rate = 5.6%

Manatee County:

total positive cases = 712 (101.71 cases per day on average)
total tests = 10,643 (1520.43 tests per day on average)
test positivity rate = 6.7%

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For the week of March 14th through March 20th:

Sarasota County:

total positive cases = 479 (68.43 cases per day on average)
total tests = 10,901 (1557.28 tests per day on average)
test positivity rate = 4.39%

Manatee County:

total positive cases = 597 (85.28 cases per day on average)
total tests = 9987 (1462.71 tests per day on average)
test positivity rate = 5.97%

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For the week of March 7th through March 13th:

Sarasota County:

total positive cases = 471 (67.28 cases per day on average)
total tests = 12,806 (1829.43 tests per day on average)
test positivity rate = 3.68%

Manatee County:

total positive cases = 601 (85.86 cases per day on average)
total tests = 11,723 (1674.71 tests per day on average)
test positivity rate = 5.13%

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For the week of February 28th through March 6th:

Sarasota County:

total positive cases = 400 (57.14 cases per day on average)
total tests = 11,087 (1583.86 tests per day on average)
test positivity rate = 3.61%

Manatee County:

total positive cases = 660 (94.28 cases per day on average)
total tests = 11,552 (1650.28 tests per day on average)
test positivity rate = 5.71%
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Old 04-11-2021, 03:25 PM
 
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Has Texas achieved herd immunity? “There is no way on God’s green earth,” an expert says.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/11/w...-governor.html

Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas may have been overly optimistic on Sunday when he said on Fox News that his state could be “very close” to herd immunity — the point where so much of the population is immune to Covid-19, either from being vaccinated or previously infected, that the virus can no longer spread.

Michael Osterholm, an epidemiologist and director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, said, “There is no way on God’s green earth that Texas is anywhere even close to herd immunity.”

He added: “Look no further than Michigan and Minnesota, which have much higher rates of vaccination than Texas. And we’re already seeing widespread transmission.”

About 19 percent of people in Texas are fully vaccinated, while Michigan has 22 percent and Minnesota has 24 percent.

Estimates of what it would take to reach herd immunity have edged up since the pandemic began, ranging from requiring immunity in 60 percent to more than 90 percent of the population to halt transmission.

What the level really is, “We don’t know,” Dr. Osterholm said. “Anybody who will tell you exactly what the level of herd immunity is, is also likely to want to sell you a bridge.”

He predicted that within a few weeks or a month, Texas and other parts of the U.S. south and west would see rising case rates like the levels now occurring in the Upper Midwest and Northeast.

“These variants are game changers,” he said. “They really are. It’s really remarkable.”
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Old 04-11-2021, 03:34 PM
 
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Covid-19 Live Updates: U.S. Travel Continues to Climb, Despite Anxiety Over Virus

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/04...onavirus-cases

- Travel continues to rebound in the U.S., fueled by Easter and spring break.

- You no longer have to live in some states to get vaccinated there.

- U.S. secretary of state calls for more thorough investigation of Covid origins in China

- Michigan’s governor continues to press for extra vaccine doses to fight virus surges.

- Has Texas achieved herd immunity? “There is no way on God’s green earth,” an expert says.

- Chinese official acknowledges low effectiveness of Covid vaccines.

- Many mayors have announced they will not run for another term, citing burnout from the pandemic.
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