Covid 5/14/21

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The big news is the CDC stance on mask – a big reversal from just a few weeks ago when Biden gave a speech to give you only 2 freedoms from mask out of 14 ( https://covid19mathblog.com/2021/04/covid-4-28-21/ ) ….now you get all activities without mask. Did they get so much knowledge since 4/28/21? Vaccination drop stimulated to give more carrots to get vaccinated?

On the same day we hear about Yankee players and Bill Maher being part of the breakthrough club – https://myfox8.com/news/fully-vaccinated-bill-maher-tests-positive-for-covid-19/ & https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2021/05/13/covid-19-outbreak-among-8-fully-vaccinated-members-of-ny-yankee-organization-implications-for-cdc-guidance-on-masking/?sh=5eef74b63412

Interesting to note Bill Maher currently has no symptoms.

Interesting study shows second shot better to be 12 wks later vs. 3 wks – https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/may/14/delay-in-giving-second-jabs-of-pfizer-vaccine-improves-immunity

“Study finds antibodies against Sars-CoV-2 three-and-a-half times higher in people vaccinated again after 12 weeks rather than three”

“Dr Helen Parry, a senior author on the study at Birmingham, said: “We’ve shown that peak antibody responses after the second Pfizer vaccination are really strongly boosted in older people when this is delayed to 11 to 12 weeks. There is a marked difference between these two schedules in terms of antibody responses we see.”

India View – At the very least a geography lesson. There are 37 states – I am not sure I could come up with a song for all of them like I can do for the US 50 states.

Delhi leads in confirmation per capita 8.2% – Maharashtra leads in absolute numbers in confirms and deaths. Also one of the worse regions in terms of fatality rate – only Sikkim is higher at 1.8%.

There are positive signs of reduction in many states – however Tamil Nadu is rising along with Odisha and Assam.

You can see why we broke out India – it continues to be the top death and confirmation country by far

India such a large explosion did such a good job for so long. US confirmation back to Sept 20 levels.

FL leads the US and MI leads in Death

Philadelphia shows up as number 1 confirmation county.