More vaccinations or testing policies in some workplaces….
Resurgent of masks requirements…
All this while MORE things continue to open and officials try to pump up the economy ….
Still a LOT of help wanted signs in the windows of businesses….
Evictions…
It’s difficult to know how many people could be served with eviction notices in the coming days and weeks, housing experts say. Moody’s data shows there are still well over 6 million renters behind on payments….
Delta virus variant…
In yet another unexpected and unwelcome twist in the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released on Friday a report strongly suggesting that fully immunized people with so-called breakthrough infections of the Delta variant can spread the virus to others just as readily as unvaccinated people.
The vaccines remain powerfully effective against severe illness and death, and the agency said infections in vaccinated people were comparatively rare. But the revelation follows a series of other recent findings about the Delta variant that have upended scientists’ understanding of the coronavirus….
Washington Post….
In the past week in the U.S. …
Among reported tests, the positivity rate was 8.3%.
The number of tests reported rose 11% from the previous week.
Since Dec. 14, more than 344,928,000 doses of a coronavirus vaccine have been administered in the U.S.
More than 164,184,000 people have completed vaccination, or about 49.45% of the population. Read more in our vaccination tracker….
WashPost Link....
“I believe the Covid virus is real.I don’t know it’s any worse than the common cold.”
Rep. Rick Crawford (R- Ak)
On Fox News
Around 609000 Americans have died from Covid .I have no statistics on deaths from the common cold.S
As we see….
For some people with inherent immunity the virus is NOT even a common cold….
For some yes a cold or flu like reaction (Colds ARE virus’s)
For some it sends them to hospital….
For some….
They don’t come back….
Just this afternoon, I saw my long-time neighbours up the street in Providence with an open tail-gate and what looked, from a distance, like household goods on the sidewalk.
It might have just been laundry but they may have to move out by tomorrow.
And where the hell is that $44 billion that Congress gave the states to help renters and landlords?
Hard to see how anyone except Bekins benefits from leaving landlords with empty balance sheets from unpaid rent and tenants unsure where they’ll sleep next month.
Post coming up to answer ur question DSD…..
Truthfully, the eviction moratorium can’t last forever. It actually unintentionally encourage renters to NOT pay their rent because they know the government will pay it for them. I’m not with most Democrats on this issue.
Yes at some point this has to end.
There is more support in Rhode Island for a COVID-19 vaccine mandate from the federal, state, or local government than almost anywhere in the country.
Nearly 74 percent of Rhode Islanders said they support a requirement from the government to get the vaccine, according to a new survey from the COVID-19 Consortium for Understanding the Public’s Policy Preferences Across States.
At 73.9 percent, Rhode Island ranked behind only Massachusetts (81.1 prevent), Washington, D.C. (80.5 percent), and New York (76.8) when it comes to favoring a vaccine mandate. The only states below 50 percent were Wyoming (45.7 percent), South Dakota (49.5 percent), and North Dakota (49.8 percent).
Nationally, 64 percent of respondents said they favor a vaccine mandate.
Governor Dan McKee has not expressed support for a universal vaccine mandate, but has touted Rhode Island for becoming the first state in the country where all colleges and universities are requiring students and faculty to be vaccinated.
As of last week, 79 percent of Rhode Island adults were at least partially vaccinated, 67.6 percent of all residents were partially vaccinated.
The consortium, which includes researchers from Harvard, Northeastern, Rutgers, and Northwestern, has polled more than 280,000 people across every state as well as Washington, D.C. since the beginning of the pandemic. The most recent survey was conducted between June 9 and July 7, and the margin of error in Rhode Island was plus or minus 7.5 percentage points.
Dan McGowan inThe Boston Globe’s “Rhode Map” newsletter today
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/08/02/metro/survey-most-rhode-islanders-support-mandatory-covid-19-vaccine/
Obama has cancelled his birthday party.
Happy 60th nonetheless.
As well Obama should have….
The idea was simply not consistent with the Democratic political narrative right now….
Very true that it was not consistent with the political narrative coming from Democrats
Is it a correct narrative though? Do vaccinated people really need to fear each other at this point?
Vaccinated people CAN and DO get and carry the virus… Only so far… in a small amount of cases….
This is NOT gonna have any effect on the resuming of LARGE crowds at sports and additional events around the country….
.08 percent of vaccinated people have gotten the virus. Less than 1 percent.
And those people did not get it from another vaccinated person.
POLITICO
@politico
Anthony Fauci urged on Sunday that more coronavirus testing be done among vaccinated people to learn more about breakthrough cases
Federal health officials on Wednesday bolstered their recommendation that pregnant people be vaccinated against Covid-19, pointing to new safety data that found no increased risk of miscarriage among those who were immunized during the first 20 weeks of gestation.
Earlier research found similarly reassuring data for those vaccinated later in pregnancy.
Until now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said the vaccine could be offered during pregnancy; the recent update in guidance strengthens the official advice, urging pregnant people to be immunized….
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