North, good to hear about your Aunt in England. As I’ve noted, the UK is doing very well now. In about 3 weeks they’ll start with a phased reopening. You mentioned this as well. I believe that this time around it will work out. I’m hopeful that a travel bubble of sorts will be created between the U.S. and U.K. at some point during the summer. We’ll see.
441 MA cases as of yesterday due to the U.K. variant.
I caught the tail end of Baker’s daily update, but if I understand correctly, there is a new program that shut-ins can get the J&J vaccine just by calling a 1-800 number. Someone will come over to the residence and give a shot.
It is specifically the J&J vaccine since it needs no refrigeration and only one dose.
You are correct.
I just drive through northbridge where the high school was getting out. I’d say conservatively, about 20 percent of the kids wore masks as they walked in fairly large, close groups.
Today Baker said hospitalizations are down. They attribute that to vaccinations in older, more vulnerable folks. But he said they are seeing more younger ….he mentioned under 30….folks with positives
If you read those two paragraphs, you might stop to wonder why we are now grouping younger folks in close proximity and then adding more risky folks such as teachers and staff into that mix.
On another note, I was getting a curb side pickup. I chatted….masked and through my car window….with the person who put boxes in my trunk. She had both vaccines in February and a week after the second had a covid positive. She said she wouldn’t have known except she lost all taste and smelled smoke all of the time.
Drove not drive
American optimism is a great thing. But right now, we Americans are blindly optimistic. Caution is warranted. This pandemic is NOT over. Not here, and certainly not in many parts of the world. Globally, case numbers are climbing towards their January peaks. France set a new record today – 45k! – and its ICU usage is headed towards its previous peak. Across much of Europe it’s a very similar story. We know about the travails in Brazil. India is in some trouble. Closer to home, Canada is dealing with a rather dramatic rise in P.1 variant cases in British Columbia. At home, our case numbers are rising, hospitalizations are mostly flat as are deaths this week, with modest increases in about 14 states. I would challenge Baker on the hospitalization figures. In fact, I’m sure he’s wrong. They’ve ticked up slightly for several days this week and may increase again today.
Philip, the actual number of B117 cases in Massachusetts is MUCH larger than 441. In the U.S. we do minimal genomic sequencing – less than 0.3% of all cases – which means that any verified number of B117 cases is much, much smaller than the actual number. My guess is that B117 is between 10 and 20% of cases in Massachusetts. In some states like Michigan it is now dominant, at more than 50%.
The numbers in Massachusetts today are not good. There’s no sugar-coating it, which Baker is prone to do. We’re in better shape than we were before, due to vaccinations. There’s light at the end of the tunnel. Yet, we’re not out of the woods.
Baker did just that, Joshua.. I’ve watched him enough to be able to read him fairly well. He was prissy. And oddly Lt Giv Polito seemed a bit out of character.
Pissy….my iPad is not used to me saying that so cleaned it up 😉
Cases in MA schools this past week. One is enough but 672 kids and 218 staff. Sadly the cases in the two towns I’m aware of in this are are majority elementary age kids
North, good to hear about your Aunt in England. As I’ve noted, the UK is doing very well now. In about 3 weeks they’ll start with a phased reopening. You mentioned this as well. I believe that this time around it will work out. I’m hopeful that a travel bubble of sorts will be created between the U.S. and U.K. at some point during the summer. We’ll see.
This is not good.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/25/india/india-covid-double-mutant-variant-intl-hnk/index.html
Oh boy.
441 MA cases as of yesterday due to the U.K. variant.
I caught the tail end of Baker’s daily update, but if I understand correctly, there is a new program that shut-ins can get the J&J vaccine just by calling a 1-800 number. Someone will come over to the residence and give a shot.
It is specifically the J&J vaccine since it needs no refrigeration and only one dose.
You are correct.
I just drive through northbridge where the high school was getting out. I’d say conservatively, about 20 percent of the kids wore masks as they walked in fairly large, close groups.
Today Baker said hospitalizations are down. They attribute that to vaccinations in older, more vulnerable folks. But he said they are seeing more younger ….he mentioned under 30….folks with positives
If you read those two paragraphs, you might stop to wonder why we are now grouping younger folks in close proximity and then adding more risky folks such as teachers and staff into that mix.
On another note, I was getting a curb side pickup. I chatted….masked and through my car window….with the person who put boxes in my trunk. She had both vaccines in February and a week after the second had a covid positive. She said she wouldn’t have known except she lost all taste and smelled smoke all of the time.
Drove not drive
American optimism is a great thing. But right now, we Americans are blindly optimistic. Caution is warranted. This pandemic is NOT over. Not here, and certainly not in many parts of the world. Globally, case numbers are climbing towards their January peaks. France set a new record today – 45k! – and its ICU usage is headed towards its previous peak. Across much of Europe it’s a very similar story. We know about the travails in Brazil. India is in some trouble. Closer to home, Canada is dealing with a rather dramatic rise in P.1 variant cases in British Columbia. At home, our case numbers are rising, hospitalizations are mostly flat as are deaths this week, with modest increases in about 14 states. I would challenge Baker on the hospitalization figures. In fact, I’m sure he’s wrong. They’ve ticked up slightly for several days this week and may increase again today.
Philip, the actual number of B117 cases in Massachusetts is MUCH larger than 441. In the U.S. we do minimal genomic sequencing – less than 0.3% of all cases – which means that any verified number of B117 cases is much, much smaller than the actual number. My guess is that B117 is between 10 and 20% of cases in Massachusetts. In some states like Michigan it is now dominant, at more than 50%.
The numbers in Massachusetts today are not good. There’s no sugar-coating it, which Baker is prone to do. We’re in better shape than we were before, due to vaccinations. There’s light at the end of the tunnel. Yet, we’re not out of the woods.
Baker did just that, Joshua.. I’ve watched him enough to be able to read him fairly well. He was prissy. And oddly Lt Giv Polito seemed a bit out of character.
Pissy….my iPad is not used to me saying that so cleaned it up 😉
Cases in MA schools this past week. One is enough but 672 kids and 218 staff. Sadly the cases in the two towns I’m aware of in this are are majority elementary age kids
https://www.doe.mass.edu/covid19/positive-cases/
Boston has delayed full in person learning until April 26.
C-19 for 3-26 is ready.