COVID-19 Update

World

New Cases:   837,751 (⬆︎ .60%)
New Deaths:    13,895 (⬆︎ .46%)

USA

New Cases:    74, 479 (⬆︎ .23%)
New Deaths:         895 (⬆︎ .15%)

Vaccination Scorecard

Total Vaccinations:           125.8 million (⬆︎ 1.53%)
Total Eligible Population:    47.1%
Total Population:                 37.9%

So, we're starting to get a fair handle on the numbers. The public discussion of the vaccines has turned momentarily back towards the issue of safety and efficacy, and we're finding out some interesting little quirks.

We were told that the vaccines, on average, would afford us protection at about the 85% level. ie: there would be roughly a 15% chance that a vaccinated person would develop a case of COVID-19 that included the usual symptoms.

(ie: cough, some level of breathing trouble, inflammation, fever, etc)

Turns out they were off by a bit.

There have been 5,800 cases of COVID-19 reported post-vax (not necessarily symptomatic, just COVID-positive).

In one important way, that works out to vaccination being about 99.9954% effective at preventing COVID-19.

Not bad for government work.