How is US doing? 44 states doing well. In HHS/CDC/ASPR Report, 6 States have almost 50% of Confirmed COVID-19 Admissions in the last 7 days; these states represent 26% of the U.S. Population (MI, NY, FL, PA, NJ, IL). Reason such a mix of caution/optimism on the news.
Most of this still in Michigan although they have now reached peak hospitalizations and are coming down. Less natural immunity, B117 (but not all explained by that, see thread yesterday), seasonality?, vax rate slow in some counties esp at first
clickondetroit.com/news/local/202…
clickondetroit.com/news/local/202…
NY, NJ, PA: didn't vaccinate seniors (in SNFs) as fast as other states. So remaining 44 states + DC + the territories (74% of pop), have hospitalization rate of 8.5 per 100K overall (much less than 20-40K of flu) and approaching 5/100K in article washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/0…
Would therefore surge vaccine anywhere where needs more (those 6 states) or surge help there to get the vaccines out faster and continue as doing for 74% of population; vaccinating fast! Solution (vaccine is not a tool, it is a solution) is there
Overall, across the whole country (even including those 6 states) we are at a 21 hospitalized per 100K (8.5 per 100K in 44 states+DC+territories: even 21 is at the low end of hospitalization per 100K we see with flu in typical year (20-40/100K). Defanging this virus big time!
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