You aren’t legally allowed to know which variant gave you COVID-19
Written by Steven Hansen
The U.S. new cases 7-day rolling average are 6.6 % HIGHER than the 7-day rolling average one week ago and U.S. deaths due to coronavirus are now 50.1 % HIGHER than the rolling average one week ago. Today’s posts include:
- U.S. Coronavirus New Cases are 266,147
- U.S. Coronavirus deaths are at 1,359
- States Can’t Block Federal Funds for School Districts That Mandate Masks
- You aren’t legally allowed to know which variant gave you COVID-19
- Biden’s misguided about-face on COVID testing puts us all at risk
- NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, MD, said that if most eligible people get vaccinated, the U.S. could get COVID-19 under control by spring of 2022
- CDC: Unvaccinated people are 29 times more likely to be hospitalized with Covid
- Which interventions can help prevent SARS-CoV-2’s spread in schools?
- Breakthrough infections may be less transmissible, study suggests
- Antibodies Fade Faster After Vaccine vs Actual Infection
- Federal Judge Orders ICE to Test Detainees for COVID-19
- The shipping crisis is getting worse. Here’s what that means for holiday shopping
- CDC adds 6 destinations to ‘very high’ Covid-19 travel risk list, including the Bahamas
- Fed’s Jackson Hole shift shows Delta variant’s ability to skew plans
- Australian Truck Drivers Vow To Block Every Major Highway In Radical Anti-Lockdown Strike
- Plus Many More Headlines …
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Hospitalizations Are The Only Accurate Gauge
Hospitalizations historically appear to be little affected by weekends or holidays. The hospitalization growth rate trend continues to improve.
source: https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/covidnet/COVID19_3.html
Historically, hospitalization growth follows new case growth by one to two weeks.
As an analyst, I use the rate of growth to determine the trend. But, the size of the pandemic is growing in terms of real numbers – and if the rate of growth does not become negative – the pandemic will overwhelm all resources.
The graph below shows the rate of growth relative to the growth a week earlier updated through today [note that negative numbers mean the rolling averages are LOWER than the rolling averages one week ago]. As one can see, the rate of growth for new cases peaked in early December 2020 for Thanksgiving, and early January 2021 for end-of-year holidays – and it now shows that the coronavirus effect is improving.
In the scheme of things, new cases decline first, followed by hospitalizations, and then deaths. The potential fourth wave did not materialize likely due to immunizations.
Coronavirus and Recovery News You May Have Missed
Which interventions can help prevent SARS-CoV-2’s spread in schools? – News-Medical
With schools and other educational institutions having been closed for much of the school year globally, the need to recommend and evaluate methods to minimize the spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) during the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is essential.
A new study shows that leaving the windows open all day is the most effective intervention, with higher efficacy in winter relative to summer. Still, the use of surgical face masks was also very effective. However, combined modality use carried the greatest effectiveness against viral transmission, even when a super-spreader was present.
A preprint version of the study is available on the medRxiv* server while the article undergoes peer review.
The shipping crisis is getting worse. Here’s what that means for holiday shopping – CNN
The vast network of ports, container vessels and trucking companies that moves goods around the world is badly tangled, and the cost of shipping is skyrocketing. That’s troubling news for retailers and holiday shoppers.
More than 18 months into the pandemic, the disruption to global supply chains is getting worse, spurring shortages of consumer products and making it more expensive for companies to ship goods where they’re needed.
Unresolved snags, and the emergence of new problems including the Delta variant, mean shoppers are likely to face higher prices and fewer choices this holiday season. Companies such as Adidas (ADDDF), Crocs (CROX) and Hasbro (HAS) are already warning of disruptions as they prepare for the crucial year-end period.
“The pressures on global supply chains have not eased, and we do not expect them to any time soon,” said Bob Biesterfeld, the CEO of C.H. Robinson, one of the world’s largest logistics firms.
The latest obstacle is in China, where a terminal at the Ningbo-Zhoushan Port south of Shanghai has been shut since August 11 after a dock worker tested positive for Covid-19. Major international shipping lines, including Maersk (AMKBY), Hapag-Lloyd (HPGLY) and CMA CGM have adjusted schedules to avoid the port and are warning customers of delays.
The partial closure of the world’s third busiest container port is disrupting other ports in China, stretching supply chains that were already suffering from recent problems at Yantian port, ongoing container shortages, coronavirus-related factory shutdowns in Vietnam and the lingering effects of the Suez Canal blockage in March.
Breakthrough infections may be less transmissible, study suggests. – Week
A new study from the Netherlands concluded that when rare breakthrough COVID-19 infections occur in vaccinated individuals, the viral loads are comparable to those in unvaccinated, infected people. But there’s simultaneously less infectious viral particle shedding, which in other words suggests that vaccinated people are probably still less likely to transmit the virus, though further study is necessary.
The non-peer reviewed findings are based on an analysis of 161 breakthrough infections — the majority of which were caused by the Delta variant — among a population of 24,706 vaccinated health-care workers. They seem to line up with some other evidence that indicate a reduced transmission risk among the vaccinated who contract the virus.
Biden’s misguided about-face on COVID testing puts us all at risk – The Hill
In August 2020, the Food and Drug Administration granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the Abbott BinaxNOW COVID-19 Ag Card, a $5, 15-minute rapid test now widely used to detect highly infectious variants. The test is an affordable, portable tool in the battle against COVID-19 infection, as well as a textbook example of the Trump administration’s close collaboration with the private sector to develop solutions for complex problems.
Fast-forward to August 2021. The New York Times found Abbott Laboratories’ leadership instructed employees to dismantle and destroy thousands of rapid tests before announcing widespread layoffs at their Maine plant.
The reason? A de-emphasis on the importance of testing over the last nine months by the Biden administration.
Diagnostic testing innovations such as the Abbott BinaxNOW rapid test didn’t happen by accident. Early in the pandemic, private companies who could quickly scale production collaborated closely with a cross-departmental interdisciplinary team of federal experts to guide research, investment and deployment of new innovations.
Literally a card with chemicals on it, the BinaxNOW test has a sensitivity of 91.7 percent and specificity of 98.5 percent to detect an individuals’ infectiousness in near real-time. Shortly after FDA issued the BinaxNOW EUA, The Department of Health and Human Services immediately procured and deployed the first 150 million tests produced in weekly shipments to states, nursing homes, Historically Black Colleges and Universities and other vulnerable populations. It made a difference.
The BinaxNOW test wasn’t the first diagnostic test that Abbott collaboratively developed with the Trump administration. In late March 2020, the company received an EUA for Abbott ID NOW COVID-19 test. At the time, the ID NOW was a novelty, and desperately needed to expand testing capacity. Once the FDA issued the emergency authorization, HHS immediately procured half of their production line and deployed them to every public health lab in every state and territory in the U.S., including an increased number to assist rural and tribal areas that did not have access to central laboratory COVID testing.
Purported lack of widespread availability of COVID tests was a hallmark issue during the 2020 Presidential campaign. Media coverage often clouded the Trump administration decisions to invest in and scale the diagnostic testing supply chain with distrust and demagoguing about how the lack of testing during the global pandemic had failed the American people. When we left office in January 2021, there were 170 million tests available for use, not counting pooled testing which could have easily doubled if not tripled this total.
One day after being sworn into office, President Biden issued an executive order to establish a “COVID-19 Pandemic Testing Board to ensure a sustainable public health workforce.” As the U.S. and other countries experience the devastating rise in hospitalizations for individuals suffering from the highly transmissible delta variant, Biden’s Pandemic Testing Board should be working seamlessly with the private sector to ensure the development and production of diagnostic testing, vaccines and other necessary supplies critical to combat COVID-19 and prevent the needless destruction of resources.
CDC adds 6 destinations to ‘very high’ Covid-19 travel risk list, including the Bahamas. – CNN
The Bahamas and Morocco are now among the highest-risk destinations for travelers, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s regularly revised travel advisories list.
People should avoid traveling to locations designated with the “Level 4: Covid-19 Very High” notice, the CDC recommends. Anyone who must travel should be fully vaccinated first, the agency advises.
Six destinations moved to the Level 4 list on August 23:
- Bahamas
- Haiti
- Kosovo
- Lebanon
- Morocco
- Sint Maarten
The CDC’s evolving list of travel notices ranges from Level 1 (“low”) to Level 4 (“very high”).
Fed’s Jackson Hole shift shows Delta variant’s ability to skew plans. – Reuters
Health officials in Teton County, Wyoming, announced last Thursday what was in part an administrative change, swapping a local five-point index for assessing COVID-19 risk for a four-point scale used by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
But that change promptly pushed the county into the CDC’s highest risk category, and shifted the Federal Reserve’s plans to hold its Jackson Hole central banking conference as an in-person event into non-compliance with local health guidance. Within a day, the U.S. central bank had cancelled the in-person portion of the conference at the local mountain resort.
The annual symposium, organized by the Kansas City Fed, will still take place online and the substance will be the same. Academic research papers will be presented and Fed Chair Jerome Powell will give a speech via webcast on Friday.
Yet the sequence of events last week shows the day-to-day recalibration underway over what is and isn’t safe during the current U.S. COVID-19 surge, which is being fueled by the highly contagious Delta variant of the virus. The Fed’s reaction to a county government’s communication choices served as a high-profile example of how the pace of the economic recovery is being reshaped.
The decision certainly diminished public health risks. The guest list for the Fed’s Jackson Hole event had already been pared perhaps by half from a typical year’s crowd of around 150, COVID-19 vaccination was mandatory, and masks required indoors. The cancellation further eliminated travel and two days of in-person sessions, meals and receptions, as well as a typically large slate of sidebar meetings.
It also meant dozens of canceled plane trips, rental cars and hotel rooms for the attendees, their family members or guests, an entourage of press, and others, and refunds of the $1,100 conference fee.
That occurred even though nothing much had changed between the start of the week, when Fed officials were nailing down last-minute plans, and late Friday afternoon, when Kansas City Fed officials called off the in-person gathering “due to the recently elevated COVID-19 health risk level in Teton County, Wyoming.”
States Can’t Block Federal Funds for School Districts That Mandate Masks – Epoch Times
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said Monday that public schools that impose mask mandates in defiance of state laws or executive orders can’t be denied federal funding, as the political battle over masking requirements in schools roils on.
Cardona’s remarks, made in an Aug. 22 interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” come amid controversy over school mask mandates, which some states have banned while threatening to block some state funding to school districts defying the bans.
“We have to do everything in our power to keep them safe,” Cardona said in the interview, adding that he had spoken to superintendents in several districts embroiled in the mask mandate controversy to “let them know that we have their back.”
“And yes, they can draw down on the funds that were promised to them so they can safely reopen schools,” he said.
Cardona’s remarks come as governors and lawmakers in at least eight states—Florida, Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, Iowa, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah—have banned school districts from imposing mask mandates.
The Florida Board of Education on Friday moved to deduct the cost of school board members’ salaries from the state’s funding for two districts—Alachua and Broward—that have imposed mask mandates in defiance of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ executive order (pdf) and the Parents’ Bill of Rights, which he signed into law in June. DeSantis’ order called on state agencies to create protocols in line with the Parents’ Bill of Rights that protect parents’ right to decide whether their children should wear masks.
Cardona was asked in the interview whether governors have the ability to block federal funds made available under the American Rescue Plan Act that Cardona said in a blog post last week were meant to help states “adopt a plan for the safe return to in-person instruction.”
The Education Secretary replied: “They do have access to federal funds that they can draw down at any moment to make sure that schools are opening safely and that our students and staff have the confidence of returning to in-person learning. They do not have to get the green light from the governor to use these funds—they’re made available to them.”
Australian Truck Drivers Vow To Block Every Major Highway In Radical Anti-Lockdown Strike – ZeroHedge
One driver, according to the Daily Mail, declared in a video that truck drivers are ‘planning to shut down the country’ to ‘remove the shit government’ on August 31 beginning at 9 a.m.
“It’s on. The truckies are doing it. The truckies are going to shut down the country,” the man says, adding “What that means is you need to go shopping now, get what you can for the next week or two, load your fridge, freezers.”
He said supply chains would soon be interrupted and urged Aussies to stock up on groceries to get them through the next couple of weeks.
A GoFundMe page has since been launched to support the truckies financially as they prepare to strike from 9am on Tuesday August 31, which will involve ‘blocking every highway entering into every state at the same time’. -Daily Mail
According to the man, truck drivers have been in discussion with people from around ‘the world,’ and have been working with war veterans to carry out the protest.
“The truckies are in, the VETS are in, I’m in. I’m willing to go to jail to save my country and children,” said the man.
It’s Pronounced Koe-mir’-na-tee. How The Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine’s Name Came To Be – NPR
Say it with me: Koe-mir’-na-tee.
Comirnaty, as it’s known, is the official, brand name for Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine. The Food and Drug Administration this week gave full approval to the vaccine for people 16 and older.
As part of the approval process, the vaccine also gets its brand name approved for use in the U.S.
So, how did Pfizer and BioNTech settle on this unique moniker?
The naming process started early on in the vaccine’s development.
Brand Institute, the naming agency behind the effort, started working with BioNTech in April 2020, according to the website FiercePharma. Pfizer would later join the branding team.
Scott Piergrossi, Brand Institute’s president of operations and communications, told FiercePharma that the goal in naming drugs is “to overlap ideas and layer meaning into a name.”
According to Pfizer, the pharmaceutical companies wanted to emphasize COVID-19 immunization and the vaccine’s core mRNA technology. They also wanted to encompass “community” and “immunity” into the final product.
Comirnaty touches all of the bases.
NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, MD, said that if most eligible people get vaccinated, the U.S. could get COVID-19 under control by spring of 2022. – CNN
Dr. Anthony Fauci urged the public to get vaccinated and said if the “overwhelming majority” of the population does so the US could have the pandemic “under control” by spring of 2022.
“We hope we’ll be there … but there’s no guarantee because it’s up to us,” Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the President’s chief medical adviser, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper Monday.
It isn’t yet clear to health experts what proportion of the population needs to be vaccinated to reach a level of protection that could sustain a return to normalcy, like safely going to restaurants and theaters, Fauci said. So the best way forward is to vaccinate as many people as possible, he said.
About 51.5% of the population is fully vaccinated, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On Monday, the US Food and Drug Administration granted full approval to the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for people 16 and older, a move that Fauci said could convince a significant portion of hesitant Americans to get vaccinated.
Still, Fauci’s spring 2022 timeline is daunting politically for President Joe Biden, who already declared partial victory over the virus on July 4. In addition, CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta questioned the definition of what it means to “control” a virus that looks to be here for the long haul.
“This is one of those situations where I think defining what it means to be in control of the pandemic is really important,” Gupta said Tuesday.
You aren’t legally allowed to know which variant gave you COVID-19 in the US, even if it’s Delta – Business Insider
… The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS), which oversees the regulatory process for US labs, requires genome-sequencing tests to be federally approved before their results can be disclosed to doctors or patients. These are the tests that pick up on variants, but right now, there’s little incentive for the labs to do the work to validate those tests.
“I don’t think there’s a lot of motivation, quite honestly, to get that done,” Kelly Wroblewski, director of infectious diseases at the Association of Public Health Laboratories, told Insider.
Some patients, however, feel they’re being denied access to their own health information.
In some cases, knowing which variant is involved in an infection could inform how patients do their own contact tracing, since it informs how likely they are to have spread the virus others. (If it’s a Delta infection, for instance, they may want to notify a much wider circle of family and friends.)
… more than 50 public labs in the US are capable of sequencing coronavirus samples to detect variants. But she’s not aware of any labs that have completed the validation process to get federal approval.
“The process of validating a next-generation sequencing test is burdensome,” Wroblewski said. “It takes a lot of time. It takes a lot of data. It takes a lot of resources. And the thing about the variants is that variants of concern and of interest are constantly changing, so you would have to do a whole validation every time you have a variant.”
For a sequencing test to be validated, a manufacturer needs to collect data to show that the test does a good job of detecting a specific variant, then request emergency authorization from the Food and Drug Administration. Alternatively, laboratories can validate their sequencing tests “in house,” meaning they collect the same data so CMS can approve their test.
SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant associated with more breakthrough infections – News-Medical
A US-based study conducted in the National Capital Region has recently compared the infectious virus loads in vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals infected with the delta variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).
The study highlights that compared to the previously circulating alpha variant, the delta variant is associated with higher infectious virus load and a lower level of humoral immunity in the upper respiratory tract. The study is currently available on the medRxiv* preprint server prior to peer review.
A significantly higher frequency of symptomatic infections was observed in vaccine breakthrough cases with the delta variant compared to that in the alpha-related breakthrough cases. However, the duration between vaccination and breakthrough infection was considerably higher for the delta variant than for the alpha variant.
No significant difference in hospitalization was observed between alpha and delta infections in both vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals. However, unlike delta breakthrough infections, vaccine breakthrough infections with the alpha variant were associated with multiple comorbidities, including hypertension, kidney disease, heart failure, and coronary artery disease.
Among vaccine breakthrough cases, delta infections were associated with significantly higher viral loads compared to alpha infections. However, within each variant, no significant difference in viral load was observed between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals.
Similarly, more infectious viruses were detected in individuals with delta infection compared to alpha infection cases. Vaccinated individuals with alpha breakthrough infections showed a significantly lower amount of contagious virus than unvaccinated individuals. In contrast, an equivalent amount of infectious virus was detected in vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals with delta infections.
Among cases with alpha infection, significantly higher levels of IgG-specific anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies were observed in vaccinated individuals compared to that in unvaccinated individuals.
In the case of delta infection, the number of individuals with detectable antibody levels was higher in the vaccinated group compared to the unvaccinated group. However, no significant difference in antibody level was observed between the two groups.
Importantly, for both alpha and delta breakthrough infections, a lower antibody level in the upper respiratory tract was associated with a higher amount of infectious virus.
Antibodies Fade Faster After Vaccine vs Actual Infection – Reuters Health News
Protective antibody levels decline faster in recipients of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech than in COVID-19 survivors, according to doctors at one of Israel’s largest HMOs.
The research team tracked antibody levels in 2,653 adults who received two doses of the vaccine and in 4,361 COVID-19 survivors who were never vaccinated. Antibody levels fell by up to 40% per month in vaccinated participants, versus less than 5% per month in so-called convalescents.
After six months, about 84% of vaccine recipients still had detectable antibodies, whereas roughly 90% of convalescents still had detectable antibodies after nine months.
Dr. Ariel Israel of Leumit Health Services, coauthor of a reported posted on medRxiv ahead of peer review, noted that antibodies are not the immune system’s only weapon against the virus. Still, he said, the data suggests that antibody protection in Pfizer vaccine recipients wanes at a higher rate than in COVID-19 survivors.
Federal Judge Orders ICE to Test Detainees for COVID-19 – AP
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement must test detainees for COVID-19 before they are transferred to the immigrant detention center in Tacoma, a federal judge ordered Monday.
The ruling by Judge James Robart grants, in part, a temporary restraining order requested by lawyers representing vulnerable detainees in a class-action suit, the Seattle Times reported.
ICE must also take “all reasonable” measures to prevent cross-exposure at the Northwest ICE Processing Center to ensure that detained people testing negative are not exposed to those who test positive.
“It’s a really big deal because it provides a key safety mechanism that’s been lacking so far,” said Aaron Korthuis, a staff attorney at the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, which represented plaintiffs in the suit alongside ACLU.
The number of COVID-19 cases at the facility has climbed to more than 240 since June.
ICE has flown over 1,000 detainees to Washington state since April. Some appeared to have contracted COVID-19 during the transfer, said Eunice Cho, an attorney with ACLU’s National Prison Project.
CDC: Unvaccinated people are 29 times more likely to be hospitalized with Covid – CNBC
Unvaccinated people are about 29 times more likely to be hospitalized with Covid-19 than those who are fully vaccinated, according to a study released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The new study, published in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, also found that unvaccinated people were nearly five times more likely to be infected with Covid than people who got the shots. The results are based on data from Los Angeles County between May 1 and July 25, the agency said.
“These infection and hospitalization rate data indicate that authorized vaccines were protective against SARS-CoV-2 infection and severe COVID-19 during a period when transmission of the Delta variant was increasing,” the agency wrote in the study.
The data is in line with comments from federal and state health officials, who have been saying for weeks that millions of unvaccinated Americans have been putting themselves at serious risk of the delta variant, the most contagious coronavirus strain yet.
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Tuesday the data shows that “if you are not yet vaccinated, you are among those at highest risk.”
“Do not underestimate the risk and serious consequences of this virus,” she said during a White House briefing on the pandemic. “Vaccines are the best tool we have to take charge of this pandemic.”
The following are foreign headlines with hyperlinks to the posts
Harris rebukes China in major speech on Indo-Pacific. U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a sharp rebuke to China for its incursions in the South China Sea
Israel is testing 1.4 million children for COVID-19 antibodies.
US military gives Biden a deadline to decide on extending Afghanistan evacuations.
Taliban says Afghans are no longer allowed to go to the Kabul airport to flee the country
CIA director held secret meeting with Taliban leader in Kabul
Quantifying The “Staggering Costs” Of US Military Equipment Left Behind In Afghanistan
Airbnb to offer free temporary housing to 20,000 Afghan refugees fleeing Taliban takeover
U.S. helicopters and troops are entering Kabul, the Afghan capital, to extract stranded Americans.
The military has helped evacuate 48,000 people since Aug. 14, the White House said.
American officials are turning away some Afghan allies from the Kabul airport to give priority to U.S. citizens and green card holders, a State Department official said.
Carnival Cruise to require vaccination proof for all passengers 12 and over
Israel lowered the age for booster shots to 30, while the country sees hints that the campaign is making a dent in the Delta surge.
Life expectancy in Costa Rica is higher than it is in the U.S. — an emphasis on public health might be the secret.
880K Moderna doses donated by US arrive in Kenya
Indonesia is easing restrictions gradually as cases fall.
Swamped by Covid patients, the Philippines’ largest public hospital closes the doors to its E.R.
The following additional national and state headlines with hyperlinks to the posts
Royal Caribbean to require proof of vaccination on cruises from Florida.
Data leak exposed 38 million records, including COVID-19 vaccination statuses.
Antibody Levels Help Predict Immunity After A COVID Shot : Shots
Carnival Cruise Passenger Dies of Covid Amid Uptick in Cases.
Five Florida Hospitals Issue Dire Plea for COVID Vaccination, Masks
More than 14,000 Covid-19 cases and nearly 30,000 quarantined in Florida’s largest school districts
Case surges in Oahu have sparked officials to impose restrictions on gatherings, limiting outdoor events to 25 people and indoor events to 10, and Hawaii’s governor is asking tourists to stay away.
New York City’s public school system mandated the vaccine for all of its nearly 150,000 employees.
American Medical Association calls for public, private sectors to mandate vaccines
CVS Health mandates vaccines for some employees
New York Top Cop Won’t Impose Mandate, Less Than Half of Force Vaccinated
School-Age Children in Georgia More Likely to Have COVID Than Adults
Florida Becomes First State To Overtake Winter COVID Death Figures. Florida recently recorded 1,486 deaths among residents over one week, its highest ever figure.
3 Houston Emergency Rooms Close Amid COVID Surge. The temporary closures at Convenient Care Centers in Kingwood, Sienna and Spring will remain in effect “until further notice,”
Mississippi sets a new record for coronavirus-related deaths in the state
In Alabama, 15 in Every 16 COVID Deaths Are Among the Unvaccinated. The data showed that out of 118,612 COVID cases between April and August, 10.2 percent were breakthrough cases from fully vaccinated people.
The U.S. has more unvaccinated seniors than other wealthy countries, making Delta deadlier.
Bosch says the semiconductor supply chains in the car industry no longer work
Top health officials anticipate vaccine will be available for kids under 12 by end of the year
Today’s Posts On Econintersect Showing Impact Of The Pandemic and Recovery With Hyperlinks
July 2021 New Home Sales Continues To Confirm Significant Slowing
August 2021 Richmond Fed Manufacturing Survey Significantly Declined
August 2021 Richmond Fed Manufacturing Survey Significantly Declined
Pfizer Losing Efficacy Faster Against Delta Variant
Did The Fed’s Monetary Policy Experiment Just Fail?
Warning to Readers
The amount of politically biased articles on the internet continues. And studies and opinions of the experts continue to contradict other studies and expert opinions. Honestly, it is difficult to believe anything anymore.
I assemble this update daily – sifting through the posts on the internet. I try to avoid politically slanted posts. This daily blog is not an echo chamber for any party line – and will publish controversial topics unless there are clear reasons why the topic is false. And I usually publish conflicting topics. It is my job to provide information so that you have the facts necessary – and then it is up to readers to draw conclusions. It is not my job to sell any point of view.
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