Suboptimal COVID-19 vaccination coverage in Florida and Texas

[struggle4progress]

Implications of suboptimal COVID-19 vaccination coverage in Florida and Texas
Pratha Sah
Seyed M Moghadas
Thomas N Vilches
Affan Shoukat
Burton H Singer
Peter J Hotez
et al.
Published:October 07, 2021

... We found that enhanced vaccination would have markedly blunted the increase in cases, hospital admissions, and deaths in Florida and Texas ...Achieving 74·0% vaccination coverage by July 31 and continuing with the associated daily rate would have averted 664 007 additional cases .. in Florida and 647 906 additional cases .. in Texas ... By Aug 31, the enhanced vaccination in Florida would have reduced hospital admissions by 61 327 .. and deaths by 16235 ... The reduction in hospital admissions in Texas during the same period would have been 37 587 .. and the reduction in deaths would have been 6353 ... Collectively, these two states could have averted more than 95 000 hospital admissions and 22 000 deaths had they reached the vaccination coverage achieved by the top five states and continued at the same pace until Aug 31, 2021 ...

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(21)00620-4/fulltext

[BigmanPigman]

1. I read another article which said that we will

all eventually get Covid in some form since vax rates are too low for herd immunity. England has a 60% vax rate and the US has 56%.

"The reason for their pessimism is the delta variant of COVID-19, now dominant throughout the U.K. Vaccines are less effective against this more transmissible variant, meaning Britain needs to achieve a much higher level of vaccination if it hopes to control the disease. About 60% of the U.K. population has been fully vaccinated."

“We know very clearly with coronavirus that this current variant, the delta variant, will still infect people who have been vaccinated and that does mean that anyone who’s still unvaccinated, at some point, will meet the virus,” Pollard said. “If you’re going to rely on the vaccines, OK, then vaccinate everybody,” said Ravi Gupta, a University of Cambridge professor who did some of the pioneering studies on the delta variant. “But they’ve done a half vaccination job and then they’ve opened everything up. And this is a recipe for … things not going well in the next few months.”

https://accesswdun.com/article/2021/8/1030080

[The King of Prussia]

2. % of UK population fully vaccinated as at 6th October 2021

Is 78.4. That's the population aged 12+.

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/.

[BigmanPigman]

4. That seems even worse.

If that many are vaxxed and they are still seeing relatively high numbers that plateaued (according to Worldometers) then I am even more concerned. What would account for their number of new cases remaining almost the same for several months?

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/

[The King of Prussia]

5. Well there's still 22% percent of 12+ who aren't fully vaccinated

That's an awful lot of people and all restrictions have been removed. The link between cases, hospitalizations and deaths has been massively weakened. We are coming off a huge outbreak locally - much bigger than anything we have had before - but hospitalizations
have gone down. No- one has died for nearly 3 weeks, and the latest figure for patients on ventilation is 1.

If you check those worldometer stats UK is way down the list on death rate compared to case rates.

The sad thing is that if we'd had a functioning government rather than a bunch of bone idle, bone headed, corrupt racists tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths would not have happened. The vaccine roll-out has been a success, everything else has been a ghastly, tragic shit show.

[CaptainTruth]

3. Thank you Ron DeathSantis & Floriduh freedumb lovers.