Vaccinations and US hospitalizations

The vaccine race

Pfizer / BioNTech, mRNA, 2 doses

Military distribution logistics

7 am Monday

First shot, hangover, headache, fatigue, sore arm

Second shot, not as bad

Next up

Moderna / NIH, m RNA, 2 doses

Oxford / AstraZeneca, Chimp Adeno virus vector, 2 doses

Johnson and Johnson, Adenovirus, 1 and 2 dose trials

Van-Tam

COVID will be here for ever

EMA, 29th December

United States

CDC trends

Official US hospitalizations

Transportation Security Administration

25th to 29th November 2020

Air passengers, 4.6 million

Last year, 11.7 million

Still, busiest travel times since mid-March

Crowds Chicago O’Hare and Phoenix Sky Harbor, thigh security lines

Those who traveled during the holiday, get tested, 100% mask wearing, avoid crowds

Salt Lake County Health Department

Thanksgiving leftovers won’t taste as good if you’re on a ventilator. In fact, if you’ve got COVID-19, they probably won’t taste like anything at all

Hospitals filling

100,000 hospitalized

25% increase in past week in:

Arizona, California, Maine, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, West Virginia

Janis Orlowsky, chief health-care officer, Association of American Medical Colleges

If the number hospitalizations keep rising, hospitals may be forced to offer less care to those with numerous co-morbidities in favor of treating others with a better chance of surviving

Crisis standards of care may be needed in many hospitals at the same time

New York state’s Department of Health

Emergency hospital measures, an anticipated surge of admissions in the coming weeks

Preparing to increase bed capacity by 50 percent

California

Gavin Newsom warned that the state’s ICUs were already two-thirds full

Could reach 112 percent capacity by mid-December

Ohio

Hospitalizations up 200 % since November 1

US Advisory committee on immunization

CDC instructs States to be ready to distribute by 15th December

First doses, 21 million health related workers…

and 3 million residents and staff of care facilities

Residents and employees of long-term-care facilities, 6% of cases and 39% of deaths

Next, essential workers and older adults

Pfizer and BioNtech and Moderna / NIH together 40 million doses in 2020

Then 5 to 10 million doses per week

Pfizer, 6.4 million does in 24 hours

Staggering vaccinations in a work force

Russia, mass Covid-19 vaccinations

Mass voluntary vaccinations against Covid-19 next week

Phase 3 trials, 16,000, Sputnik – V, 92%

No unexpected adverse events

World Health Organisation, talks with Russia, for Emergency Use Listing