Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Idaho Has One Of The Lowest COVID-19 Vaccination Rates.
NPR |9 Jun 2021
 
 It's 'Impossible' To Not Link Voting Patterns With COVID Deaths
Raw Story | 10 Sep 2021
 
 Idaho's Hospitals Are Overwhelmed,
But Many Locals Remain Skeptical Of Vaccines
NPR | 12 Sep 2021

Idaho Fully Vaccinated - 40%
(#48 by State ranking)
Valley County - 50%
The New York Times | 13 Sep 2021
Becker's Hospital Review - 13 Sep 2021
 

99.5% of Covid-19 deaths now occurring in the U.S. are among the unvaccinated.
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy

U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC):  the average number of new reported cases (26,306 per day) has grown by 69.3% since last week, while the average number of hospitalizations (2,794 per day) and deaths (211 per day) have grown by 35.8% and 26.3%, respectively, during the same time period.

55.8% of the total U.S. population have received at least one dose of the vaccine, while less than half (48.4%) have been fully inoculated.

Pandemic Of The Unvaccinated
NPR - 16 Jul 2021

WaPo - 09 Jul 2021
"...preliminary data from several states show that 99.5 percent of deaths from covid-19 in recent months have been among people who were unvaccinated."
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky
          “If we continue to let the virus run loose ... future variants will likely be worse than the current crop — and yes, we’ll likely have several circulating at the same time,”
Kristian Andersen
 “Virtually all Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths in the United States are now occurring among unvaccinated individuals.”
Jeff Zients
White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator

853,000 people hospitalized throughout the U.S. in May
     1,200 were vaccinated = 0.1%.
  18,000 Covid-related deaths ...
        150 were vaccinated = 0.8%.
CNN - 05 Jul 2021
to Minors
Tennessean - 13 Jul 2021


Anti-Vaxx Propaganda
CNN - 14 Jul 2021


Nearly 70% of adults vaccinated by July 4 are from those states Democrats won in last year’s presidential election. The states that are coming up short of the vaccine goal are those states won by the Republicans.

          If you want to know how a state voted in 2020, you can get more information from knowing its current vaccination rate than from knowing how it voted 20 years ago.

          In nearly all fifty states, a strong relationship between county-level presidential election results and vaccination rates.

          Differences in vaccine rates are likely driven by partisanship at the individual level. Sometimes the relationships we see at aggregate levels (like states or counties) actually obscure a different pattern at the individual level. But not in this case.
Denver Post -25 Jun 2021

 
 
"Three things are happening at once: The virus is getting more transmissible, vaccination is stalling, and people have let their guard down. Some kind of bump is “almost inevitable.”
Look to the South as a bellwether for the fall.
Ed said that a lot of the experts he’s spoken with are concerned about the fall. “If we start seeing big spikes in southern states, and especially given that many of them have not done that well in terms of vaccination, that would certainly increase my concern about the shape of the fall and winter.
     “Virtually all Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths in the United States are now occurring among unvaccinated individuals,” White House coronavirus response coordinator Jeff Zients said at a White House press briefing today.  Anthony Fauci went on Meet the Press on Sunday to announce that 99.2 percent of Covid deaths in June were unvaccinated people.  State statistics are beginning to trickle in.  Tennessee is reporting that 99 percent of Covid deaths in the state are unvaccinated.  Maryland reported the other day that 99 percent of deaths and 98 percent of hospitalizations due to Covid were unvaccinated.
     "The Wall Street Journal reported last month that 8 in 10 Democrats have gotten at least one dose of the Covid vaccine, compared to a little less than half of Republicans.  Twenty-seven percent of Republicans say they won’t get vaccinated under any circumstances, and 9 percent will do so only if it is required.  Among Democrats, those numbers are astonishingly smaller.  Only 3 percent of Democrats say they won’t get vaccinated ever, and the same percent report that they will get the vaccine only if required to.
Ed Yong & Scripps Research Institute (Virology)

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