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Govt ineptitude – perhaps too large – too overburden – too much responsibility? – as noted by the person its simple if you have time and motivation what one can do – https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/nyregion/vaccine-website-appointment-nyc.html#click=https://t.co/k2i8RJLQ2G

“Huge Ma, a 31-year-old software engineer for Airbnb, was stunned when he tried to make a coronavirus vaccine appointment for his mother in early January and saw that there were dozens of websites to check, each with its own sign-up protocol. The city and state appointment systems were completely distinct.

“There has to be a better way,” he said he remembered thinking.

So, he developed one. In less than two weeks, he launched TurboVax, a free website that compiles availability from the three main city and state New York vaccine systems and sends the information in real time to Twitter. It cost Mr. Ma less than $50 to build, yet it offers an easier way to spot appointments than the city and state’s official systems do.

“It’s sort of become a challenge to myself, to prove what one person with time and a little motivation can do,” he said last week. “This wasn’t a priority for governments, which was unfortunate. But everyone has a role to play in the pandemic, and I’m just doing the very little that I can to make it a little bit easier.””

Discussed before was the use of inhalers to combat covid – here is another confirmation and drug used to treat covid- https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-asthma-treatment-int-idUSKBN2A92M7

“A commonly used asthma treatment appears to reduce the need for hospitalizations as well as recovery time for COVID-19 patients if given within seven days of symptoms appearing, researchers at the University of Oxford said on Tuesday.

The findings were made following a mid-stage study of the steroid budesonide, sold as Pulmicort by AstraZeneca Plc and also used for treating smoker’s lung.

The 28-day study of 146 patients suggested that inhaled budesonide reduced the risk of urgent care or hospitalization by 90% when compared with usual care, Oxford University said.”

“Initial data from the study also found volunteers treated with budesonide had a quicker resolution of fever and fewer persistent symptoms.

“I am heartened that a relatively safe, widely available and well studied medicine … could have an impact on the pressures we are experiencing during the pandemic,” said Mona Bafadhel, lead investigator of the trial.”

US death only 3.1K Brazil almost 2K

Vaccination in US seems to follow a wave pattern

Israel over 25% vaccinated

TX leads confirmation CA leads death

Confirmation in TX looks to be centered around population locations.

LA county still leads all but the gap is coming smaller between 1st and 2nd. Only 2 counties now greater than 2K confirm – this has fallen a great deal.

Miami-Dade almost at 15% per capita confirmed – similar to El Paso. Harris is the lowest below but still approaching 8%