COVID-19 Update

World

New Cases:   279,919 (⬆︎ .16%)
New Deaths:      6,049 (⬆︎ .16%)

USA

New Cases:   9,306 (⬆︎ .03%)
New Deaths:     213 (⬆︎ .04%)

Yesterday, June 21, 2021:

6,049 Un-Vaccinated people

were killed by COVID-19

177.3 million vaccinated

Including more than 150 million people who have been fully vaccinated in the United States.

In the last week, an average of 1.13 million doses per day were administered, a less than 1% decrease over the week before.

Except for the Hot Spots, the numbers for USAmerica Inc remain pretty encouraging.

Here's a vid-cap I got from Mayo, showing 60 days of Avg Dly Cases per 100K, and projecting out an additional 2 weeks:

Also, our little experiment in Darwinian Selection may be starting to catch up with the Anti-Vax gang. ie: here comes that Delta strain, guys - the monster is hungry.

WaPo:

Models predict U.S. coronavirus infections could surge this fall if vaccination rates lag, former FDA chief says

Scott Gottlieb also expressed concern about U.K. study showing brain-tissue shrinkage after covid-19

(Brain tissue shrinkage!?! Great - exactly what we can't afford in the MAGArube population -  ain't that just won-fuckin'-derful)

The transmission of the more contagious delta variant in the United States could spur a fall surge in coronavirus infections if only 75 percent of the country’s eligible population is vaccinated, former Food and Drug Administration chief Scott Gottlieb said Sunday.

Although Gottlieb cited one projection forecasting an increase in infections reaching as high as 20 percent of last winter’s peak, he called that an “aggressive estimate,” saying he doesn’t “think it’ll be quite that dire.” But he said states with low vaccination rates already are showing a concerning rise in cases with the spreading of delta, which is up to 60 percent more contagious than earlier variants.

Delta variant could become dominant strain in U.S. this summer, CDC head says

“So Connecticut, for example, where I am, shows no upsurge of infection, but Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri show very substantial upsurges of infections. That’s based entirely on how much population-wide immunity you have based on vaccination,” Gottlieb said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” program.

He urged a renewed vaccination push closer to the fall, as people prepare to return to school and work, when he said they may be more open to the shots.

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