Covid 1/29/21

Covid19mathblog.com

Results from J&J not great but decent – one shot has a big advantage in this day in age – https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/johnson-and-johnson-janssen-covid-vaccine-results

“Officials from Janssen, a Johnson & Johnson company, said they planned to submit the clinical trial results — a 66% overall reduction in COVID-19 cases after vaccination — to the FDA for possible authorization as a third US coronavirus vaccine in February. While still effective, the reductions are less than the results for the US’s already-authorized COVID-19 vaccines, about a 95% for Pfizer-BioNTech’s and around 94% for Moderna’s.

The vaccine was 72% effective in its US testing, and 85% effective overall in preventing severe disease, as well as completely protective against death and hospitalization.”

“…vaccine relies on a harmless cold virus, called an adenovirus, that has been given the genes for the spike protein used by the coronavirus to infect people’s cells. The vaccine familiarizes the immune system against the spike protein, readying it against the actual virus when it attacks.

Already used for a successful Ebola vaccine, adenovirus vaccines require less care than the two already-authorized mRNA vaccines, easing their administration in pharmacies and smaller clinics. They can be stored in normal refrigerators for up to three months.”

J&J volume is already at 2million – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-28/j-j-covid-vaccine-supply-to-start-at-2-million-doses-gao-says?sref=qS0Eg2QL

“Johnson & Johnson will deliver about 2 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine when it receives an emergency use authorization in the U.S., according to a Government Accountability Office report published Thursday.”

“A spokesman for J&J said in an email that it expected to supply 100 million doses to the U.S. government in the first half of the year. He didn’t comment further on the GAO report.”

Already noted that a decent risk/reward relationship with melatonin and covid exist (https://covid19mathblog.com/2020/07/covid-7-20-20/ – study https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7211589/) another reason to take it – https://scitechdaily.com/finally-a-supplement-that-actually-boosts-memory-many-already-take-it-for-better-sleep/

“Researchers at Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) showed that melatonin’s metabolite AMK can enhance the formation of long-term memories in mice. Memory of objects were tested after treatment with melatonin or two of its metabolites. Older mice that normally performed poorly on the memory task showed improvements as dosage increased. The metabolite AMK was found to be the most important as melatonin failed to improve memory if it was blocked from metabolizing into AMK.”

There is a lot of refrigeration occurring as we can subtract the Distributed – Administered by state….over 22 Million Vaccine sit refrigerated….

US death 4K…Mexico, Brazil, Germany, and UK all above 1K

Worldwide confirmation coming down but death is not yet.

CA still leader in both categories

LA county still leading all other counties

NW seeing some confirmation now

Miami-Dade leading in confirmation per capita at almost 15%. LA is still coming down.