COVID Bits

  • Just 4 percent of Africa’s population is fully vaccinated.
  • Approximately 98 percent of those eligible for vaccines in Portugal have been fully vaccinated.
  • Pfizer/BioBTech has formally asked the FDA to authorize their COVID pediatric vaccine for emergency use for children age 5-11. An estimated 28 million children in the U.S. would be eligible if regulators give the go-ahead. Authorization could occur some time between Halloween and Thanksgiving.
  • According to Pentagon data, about 24 percent of (2.8 million) active-duty troops, National Guard and reserves had received no vaccine.
  • More unconscionable misappropriations of famous quotes from vaccination-mandate protesters in New York. “We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn’t tell us.” And “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” Arguably, neither Ronald Reagan nor Martin Luther King Jr. would feel honored.
  • 67 million: The approximate number of unvaccinated American adults.
  • The U.S. has surpassed 700,000 Covid deaths.
  • An overwhelming majority of Americans who have died in recent months were unvaccinated.
  • The number of Americans now in the hospital with COVID has declined by about one fourth since its recent peak of almost 94,000 a month ago.
  • The indie-pop duo Tennis has canceled its Jannus Live concert because the venue refused to allow them to require a vaccine or a negative COVID test for entry. It speaks pandemic volumes when a band is more public-health conscious than a concert venue.

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