Last 2 weeks (14 days) - 26.6 million doses distributed/ 22.2 million jabs given
Very impressive, especially with the weather interruption.
Single Pfizer vaccine shot provides strong protection for those who've had Covid-19, UK studies suggest. Just one dose of Pfizer/BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine can induce a strong enough immune response in people who have already had Covid-19 that it could protect from future disease, according to two new papers published in the journal The Lancet on Thursday. The researchers found that in those who had a previous natural infection, vaccination increased their antibody levels more than 140-fold.
2/25/2021 - YahooNews Novavax’s COVID-19 Vaccine Shows ‘Very Promising’ Efficacy in Early Research
In late January, Novavax shared positive results from its phase 3 clinical trials in the U.K., announcing it's its two-dose vaccine is almost 90% effective against preventing symptomatic forms of COVID-19. Worth noting: The vaccine was tested when the highly infectious U.K. variant (B.1.1.7) was widely circulating and 60% effective in study participants in South Africa. Still likely 2-3 months away.
J&J
J&J expected to deliver close to 3 Million doses this week (down from estimates), 20M doses for U.S. use by the end of March, and 20-30M doses in April, total of 100M doses by June30. “The company confirmed it will have capacity to provide 100 million vaccine doses to the U.S. by the end of June.” .
22Feb21 - ABCnews
French drug maker Sanofi, battling development delays with its own vaccine candidates against COVID-19, is turning over more of its vaccine production facilities to industrial competitors, teaming up with Johnson & Johnson to produce millions of doses of its rival coronavirus vaccine. Great news, J&J needed this support.
23Feb21 - Moderna
Moderna’s president, Dr. Stephen Hoge, plans to tell lawmakers Tuesday that the company received "positive feedback" from the Food and Drug Administration to increase the doses in each vial of vaccine from 10 to 15.
Hoge said the company is on track to deliver 100 million doses for its two-dose vaccine by the end of March, with 300 million doses available by the end of July. Moderna intends to double its monthly shipments again in April, reaching over 40 million doses each month.
Do lock-downs / mask mandates work?
Looking at data from lock-down states California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York vs open states Texas & Florida presents a perplexing finding.
When asked to explain the similar COVID results in CA & FLA, which have quite different approaches, President Biden’s senior White House health advisor on the COVID-19 response Andy Slavitt “Look, there’s so much of this virus that we think we understand, that we think we can predict, that’s just a little beyond our explanation,” “As we all have learned by this time, this is a virus that continues to surprise us,”. (MSNBC)
ABC News noted “With opposite COVID-19 strategies, you’d maybe expect the pandemic’s outcome to be very different in each of these two states. If you look at cases per 100,000 people in each of the two, taking away population as a factor, they’re actually doing just about the same. “
Operation Warp Speed
National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins (Fauci's boss) said the leaders who championed the effort deserves credit for the “breathtaking” coronavirus vaccine development.
“The Operation Warp Speed, for which I give a great deal of credit to former HHS Secretary Alex Azar, was an effort that many of us were not initially convinced was going to be necessary. And it was thought about as a Manhattan Project,” Collins said.
Collins noted vaccines “got done in 11 months from when we first knew about this virus is at least five years faster than it’s ever been before.”
At the rate we're progressing, we could reach a point in 3-4 months where we have more vaccine than arms to jab. This assumes vaccine will not be approved for under 16 by then.
Very impressive, especially with the weather interruption.
Single Pfizer vaccine shot provides strong protection for those who've had Covid-19, UK studies suggest. Just one dose of Pfizer/BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine can induce a strong enough immune response in people who have already had Covid-19 that it could protect from future disease, according to two new papers published in the journal The Lancet on Thursday. The researchers found that in those who had a previous natural infection, vaccination increased their antibody levels more than 140-fold.
2/25/2021 - YahooNews Novavax’s COVID-19 Vaccine Shows ‘Very Promising’ Efficacy in Early Research
In late January, Novavax shared positive results from its phase 3 clinical trials in the U.K., announcing it's its two-dose vaccine is almost 90% effective against preventing symptomatic forms of COVID-19. Worth noting: The vaccine was tested when the highly infectious U.K. variant (B.1.1.7) was widely circulating and 60% effective in study participants in South Africa. Still likely 2-3 months away.
J&J
J&J expected to deliver close to 3 Million doses this week (down from estimates), 20M doses for U.S. use by the end of March, and 20-30M doses in April, total of 100M doses by June30. “The company confirmed it will have capacity to provide 100 million vaccine doses to the U.S. by the end of June.” .
22Feb21 - ABCnews
French drug maker Sanofi, battling development delays with its own vaccine candidates against COVID-19, is turning over more of its vaccine production facilities to industrial competitors, teaming up with Johnson & Johnson to produce millions of doses of its rival coronavirus vaccine. Great news, J&J needed this support.
23Feb21 - Moderna
Moderna’s president, Dr. Stephen Hoge, plans to tell lawmakers Tuesday that the company received "positive feedback" from the Food and Drug Administration to increase the doses in each vial of vaccine from 10 to 15.
Hoge said the company is on track to deliver 100 million doses for its two-dose vaccine by the end of March, with 300 million doses available by the end of July. Moderna intends to double its monthly shipments again in April, reaching over 40 million doses each month.
Do lock-downs / mask mandates work?
Looking at data from lock-down states California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York vs open states Texas & Florida presents a perplexing finding.
When asked to explain the similar COVID results in CA & FLA, which have quite different approaches, President Biden’s senior White House health advisor on the COVID-19 response Andy Slavitt “Look, there’s so much of this virus that we think we understand, that we think we can predict, that’s just a little beyond our explanation,” “As we all have learned by this time, this is a virus that continues to surprise us,”. (MSNBC)
ABC News noted “With opposite COVID-19 strategies, you’d maybe expect the pandemic’s outcome to be very different in each of these two states. If you look at cases per 100,000 people in each of the two, taking away population as a factor, they’re actually doing just about the same. “
Operation Warp Speed
National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins (Fauci's boss) said the leaders who championed the effort deserves credit for the “breathtaking” coronavirus vaccine development.
“The Operation Warp Speed, for which I give a great deal of credit to former HHS Secretary Alex Azar, was an effort that many of us were not initially convinced was going to be necessary. And it was thought about as a Manhattan Project,” Collins said.
Collins noted vaccines “got done in 11 months from when we first knew about this virus is at least five years faster than it’s ever been before.”
- Experts warn that about 90,000 more deaths are likely in the next few months, despite the vaccination campaign.
- A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests teachers may be more likely to transmit the virus than students.
At the rate we're progressing, we could reach a point in 3-4 months where we have more vaccine than arms to jab. This assumes vaccine will not be approved for under 16 by then.
