COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.] (17 Viewers)

[superchuck500]

I just heard my daughter (age 6) telling my other daughter (age 7) about a new friend she met on the playground after school yesterday.

I just caught the tail-end but I heard her say ". . . and she believes in coronavirus, so she wears a mask."

 

[Wisco Steve]

What did this say originally? Looks like it's been taken down.

Going off memory, but I believe it was a tweet about how the White House is now expecting an additional 50 million vaccine doses (over what was expected in the order) from one of the first 2 manufacturers, think it was Pfizer...which would be pretty cool

 

[Doug B]

Going off memory, but I believe it was a tweet about how the White House is now expecting an additional 50 million vaccine doses (over what was expected in the order) from one of the first 2 manufacturers, think it was Pfizer...which would be pretty cool

I thought that was legit news -- CNN reported on the "50 million doses" story early this morning -- but I see now why the tweet was pulled -- the White House had a press conference a few hours ago that went against the "50 million" report:

MODERATOR: Next we’ll go to Josh Wingrove at Bloomberg.

Q Hi there. Thank you so much for doing this. Can you just maybe run through the topline numbers? You said 11 million a week to states. Jeff, Dr. Nunez-Smith, did you put a number? I didn’t quite catch it on how many would go to community health centers. And, of course, there was pledge of up to a million to pharmacies. Should we be adding these all together for total shipments?

And secondly, I wanted to ask that there’s a report that you’ve told — the governors, excuse me, that Pfizer is boosting its shipments this quarter by 50 million doses. Is that accurate? Can you give us any more detail on that? Thank you.

MR. ZIENTS: Yeah, on the Pfizer piece — I’ll take the second one first: Not to my knowledge whatsoever. What I think Pfizer did announce a couple of weeks ago was that they were going to deliver 120 million doses in the first quarter, up from 100 million, and that they would fulfill their commitment for their first 200 million doses by the end of May. But I’m not aware of any additional Pfizer announcements. So Pfizer did announce those accelerated deliveries a couple of weeks ago, which is obviously good news.

I’ll remind people also that the President ordered the next 200 million doses, which will provide us with 600 million doses — 100 each from Moderna and Pfizer to bring us to a total of 600 million this summer, which is enough vaccine to vaccinate all Americans.

Press Briefing by White House COVID-19 Response Team and Public Health Officials | The White House

Via Teleconference 12:16 P.M. EST MR. ZIENTS: Thank you for joining us. I’m Jeff Zients, White House COVID Coordinator. I’m pleased to be joined today by Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, Chair of the Biden-Harris COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force. We’ve just completed our weekly call with...

www.whitehouse.gov

 

[faceman]

not good news. If you have extra doses,don't let them go to waste.

Georgia clinic suspended from vaccinating after giving doses to teachers

Georgia’s health department shut down Covid vaccinations at The Medical Center of Elberton for six months because it wasn’t following the state’s guidelines.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[kat5s]

The deleted tweet stated that 50 million extra doses were going to be made available from Pfizer this quarter...below is the correction..

 

[Saint_Ward]

I just heard my daughter (age 6) telling my other daughter (age 7) about a new friend she met on the playground after school yesterday.

I just caught the tail-end but I heard her say ". . . and she believes in coronavirus, so she wears a mask."

Good job Dad.

 

[superchuck500]

Good job Dad.

Mostly mom. She's on-message.

 

[EGLSShin]

I've been largely unimpressed with vaccination strategies in the local areas. Not-good-enough. This was something that was supposed to be wrapping up near the fall of this year and wouldn't be surprised if this goes on much further into 2022 at this rate. Parents have been getting the run-around for weeks despite them both being of the age group that is supposed to be getting the vaccine.

 

[Saint_Ward]

Mostly mom. She's on-message.

Smart move there Dad. Give mom the credit.

 

[bonnjer]

317 new cases for Louisiana today. The last time we were in that neck of the woods was mid-May. The light at the end of the tunnel continues to grow.

 

[SaintRob]

317 new cases for Louisiana today. The last time we were in that neck of the woods was mid-May. The light at the end of the tunnel continues to grow.

Per ldh.la.gov: "On 2/10/21 LDH is reporting incomplete counts for tests and cases due to a server issue."

 

[jrdbrn]

317 new cases for Louisiana today. The last time we were in that neck of the woods was mid-May. The light at the end of the tunnel continues to grow.

My boss thought he had it since Sunday... Lost his taste. Kept his smell. Results came back today as negative.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

317 new cases for Louisiana today. The last time we were in that neck of the woods was mid-May. The light at the end of the tunnel continues to grow.

did you see the news where Metairie was gearing up for mardi gras?

 

[bonnjer]

Per ldh.la.gov: "On 2/10/21 LDH is reporting incomplete counts for tests and cases due to a server issue."

Ah ok, didn't see that. Regardless, we're definitely on the downward portion of the rollercoaster for now.

 

[bonnjer]

did you see the news where Metairie was gearing up for mardi gras?

Nope, didn't see that. So we'll have another spike coming in soon. Awesome. At least with all of the vaccinations rolling out and all of the people who've already had it, the spike shouldn't be as big.