The lower-than-usual 1M doses today is of an unknown cause. It's not the ❄️☃️🌨️, since we know doses reported typically lag the on-the-ground situation by a few days.
❄️Regarding the epic snow on the East Coast, we have heard of states/localities canceling/postponing vaccine appoints for the day, because of weather. This should show up in data in a few days, because of lag.
And yes, I know there were storms in the midwest as well. As somebody who grew up in Michigan, I'd note that it doesn't tend to shut things down there like it does here out east...
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As expected, the number of people completing vaccination is starting to pick up quickly. It should trail the first-dose rate by about 3.5 weeks (assuming supply remains steady)
In the U.S., states have started taking unused doses from nursing homes and pulling them back into their state distribution systems -- this should tighten up some of the slack in the system. Per @angelicalavito
In our global rate chart, China makes infrequent reports. Those reports are very big. So it ends up looking...weird. This will likely clean up over time, but the data are the data.
Here's how the chart of daily vaccinations counted looks in the reporting period for the storm (data avail on our tracker bloomberg.com/graphics/covid…)
As @jillrshah reports, many East Coast states basically canceled vaccinations over the last two days as the weather hit. NJ, CT, NY all had vaccination cancelations.
Ditto Maryland, which canceled many appointments. Look at their daily rate chart:
We will now show rolling 7-day averages for each state, as well as % of pop with first and second doses in our sortable tables. bloomberg.com/graphics/covid…
So what's up with California, which is always at the bottom of the ranking for "% of doses used"?
🤦♂️Basically it sounds like *part* of the problem was that people around the state weren't hitting "submit" at the end of the day, @angelicalavito reports.