New Cases: 739,217 (⬆︎ .56%)
New Deaths: 13,913 (⬆︎ .48%)
USA
New Cases: 80,161 (⬆︎ .25%)
New Deaths: 1,009 (⬆︎ .18%)
Vaccination Scorecard
Total Vaccinations: 112 million (⬆︎ 1.82%)
Total Eligible Population: 41.9%
Total Population: 33.7%
There's been a little weirdness in the reported Deaths (USA) at Worldometer, where I get my numbers. Yesterday, the total on their scorecard jumped by more than they reported in their chart.
I corrected the scorecard yesterday, but today I decided just to go with what they've put up.
It seems arbitrary, but since practically every source has different numbers anyway, it's kind of a 6-to-5-n-pick-'em proposition to begin with. So there ya have it.
All that said - the uptick in the numbers is unsettling no matter what else, and that's the point to remember.
The pros are being proved right again - on two counts:
- One, that we've got another wave coming - assuming we're not already in it now.
- Two, we're in a race with that wave - trying to get the vaccination numbers ahead of the rising infection numbers.
U.S. cases involving Brazil variant on the rise, according to CDC data
As new U.S. coronavirus cases trend upward — with nearly 80,000 new infections reported Thursday — health officials are warning about the spread of multiple, more transmissible variants, some of which have seeded outbreaks in states such as Michigan and California.
On Thursday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data on emerging variants, including those first identified in Brazil, Britain and South Africa. The B.1.1.7 variant initially detected in Britain accounts for almost 20,000 cases in all 50 states — and has become the dominant strain, officials say.
For the first time, however, the P.1 variant that originated in Brazil has taken the No. 2 spot. At least 434 people in the United States have been infected with the variant, which has devastated Brazil, with the largest number of cases found in Massachusetts, Illinois and Florida.
Here are some significant developments:
- In the United States, nearly 20 percent of the population has been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, giving some 66 million people a strong measure of protection against a disease that has killed more than 559,000 people nationwide.
- U.S. intelligence officials have little comfort to offer a pandemic-weary planet about where the world is heading in the next 20 years. Short answer: It looks pretty bleak.
- The U.S. 7th Fleet that operates throughout the Indo-Pacific says 96 percent of its personnel have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, the Associated Press reported.
- Variants of the coronavirus are increasingly defining the next phase of the pandemic in the United States, taking hold in ever-greater numbers and eliciting pleas for a change in strategy against the outbreak.
- Japan announced stricter virus curbs to halt the spread of a more contagious variant ahead of the Summer Olympics.
As India grapples with a rising tide of coronavirus infections, people arriving at vaccination centers in some parts of the country are being told there are no shots available.
On Friday, dozens of hospitals in Mumbai, India’s financial capital, halted vaccinations because their supply ran out, according to a list prepared by the municipal authority.
If no additional supplies are received, the city’s vaccinations will completely stop on Saturday, said Kishori Pednekar, Mumbai’s mayor. “We are anxious,” she said. “To stop the second wave, we need this.”
Several Indian states have reported dwindling vaccine inventories in recent days. In the eastern state of Odisha, authorities temporarily shuttered 700 vaccination centers — half the total — due to a lack of supplies, said P.K. Mohapatra, the state’s health secretary.
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