Our "Meme of the day" says it all -- the pessimists have lost corona control. So it's time to move the goal-posts again. In "Recommended Reading" read a New York Times story about how "experts say" that the crisis won't really be over until all the children are vaccinated.
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Saturday, May 15, 2021
With today's vaccine monitor on page 3, we introduce for the first time a demographic breakdown of US immunization by age. 6% of Americans between the ages of 12 and 17 have already been fully immunized.
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Friday, May 14, 2021
The CDC announces vaccinated people can go maskless and end social distancing. So did "the science" suddenly change? It was just March 29 when the CDC's director was having feelings of "impending doom." This is a master class in how to lose institutional legitimacy.
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Thursday, May 13, 2021
45 of 50 US states are now in 2-week downward trajectories for new cases -- while Ohio starts a lottery with federal money to encourage stragglers to get vaccinated.
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Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Cases and fatalities fall to near zero in Israel, first out of the box with widespread vaccination. In case you missed it, learn more about the concept of herd immunity in our video yesterday.
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Monday, May 10, 2021
It's been a long time since we've bothered to track the always-wrong performance of the epidemiological modelers at the University of Washington's IMHE. Now, having failed to predict the future for over a year, they are failing to predict the past. See "Recommended Reading" for their report on how already-exaggerated Covid death counts are more than 33,100 too low!
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Sunday, May 9, 2021
In "Recommended Reading" -- the astonishing story of a Brazilian town that has shocked the world by succeeding in controlling Covid with an innovative concept in public health: vaccinating everybody. We used to call that a "BGO."
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Saturday, May 8, 2021
On our vaccine tracking page, we've changed the color coding. States with the most vaccinations are blue, transitioning through purple all the way down to red for states with the least vaccinations. That new schema reveals the observation in our video that "blue states" are getting more vaccines than "red states."
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Friday, May 7, 2021
India makes another new high in new cases. But Brazil is looking like cases are rolling over finally.