CDC confirms what I have said here and Nate Silver says….
The virus cases HAVE peeked, based on the ‘reported numbers’ across almost all regions..…..
The full vaccination rate is reported at about 52% of the US Population….
IT’S BEEN A BLEAK WEEK, so the pandemic getting worse at a slower rate than before qualifies as good news today. At this morning’s Covid-19 briefing, CDC Director ROCHELLE WALENSKY said the seven-day average of new cases is up 3% week over week — that’s down from a 12% growth rate just a few days ago. Perhaps the peak of the country’s Delta variant surge is in sight…..
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Among reported tests, the positivity rate was 10.6%.
The number of tests reported rose 16.6% from the previous week.
Since Dec. 14, more than 366,838,000 doses of a coronavirus vaccine have been administered in the U.S.
More than 172,646,000 people have completed vaccination, or about 52% of the population.
Read more in our vaccination tracker.
Seven-day averages show virus trends better than single-day values, because not all states report their numbers every day…
Is this a game changer?
For how long?
A study into the immune responses of the two mRNA COVID-19 vaccines found that Moderna’s vaccine created twice as many antibodies as the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
Researchers analyzed the antibody levels of Belgium health care workers after they received both doses of the vaccines, including 688 vaccinated with Moderna and 959 who received the Pfizer shots, in the study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Monday.
Among those who had not been previously infected, the Moderna recipients averaged 2,881 units per milliliter, compared to the Pfizer recipients who counted 1,108 units per milliliter….
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