Covid-19 Vaccine Accumulating Unused -- April 16, 2021

In a long note like this there will be typographical and content errors. In addition, it was done quickly while being distracted by a number of other things (like Sophia, and the grandsons in Portland, OR, via Facetime). So take this post with a grain of salt. I would recommend going to the sources but this is for my benefit for the archives. Weird stuff going on in Brazil.

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Unused Vaccine Piling Up In Some States

If will be interesting to see if there are any changes in these graphs after the CDC "paused" the JNJ vaccine due to "safety concerns." Serious side effects have been reported in one person in every 6.8 million given the JNJ vaccine. This accumulation is in addition to 10% wastage from 10-cc vials, as well as vaccine thrown out at the end of day because folks scheduled for their vaccination did not show up as scheduled.

On another note, it's likely that a sizable number of Americans are unable to identify the various companies that are providing vaccine for Americans. All they have heard is that "the Covid vaccine is unsafe."

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For The Archives

Yesterday it was India. Today it is Brazil. And Italy still has its problems. To some extent, one almost has to ask, at the global level, are "we" any better off than we were a year ago?

But, back to Brazil. 

It's now being called a humanitarian catastrophe in Brazil. I assume the Japanese are watching closely. 

Apparently something new is being reported in Brazil: many of the new deaths are "young people" and according to the New York Daily News, Covid has killed an alarming number of babies in Brazil." 

The new study, reported Thursday by the BBC, found that as many as 2,060 children under 9 years old may have died from coronavirus since February 2020, including 1,302 babies.

The government is advising women not to become pregnant.

Whatever happened to the Zika virus?

The numbers, link here. The numbers in Brazil are so extraordinary, two questions come up immediately:
status of vaccination program:
variants?

As of two days ago, raw numbers, 

• new deaths:
• Brazil, #1 in the world: 3,462 new cases
• India, #2 in the world: 1,037 cases
• population:
• at 1.4 million, India has 6.5x the population of Brazil
• new deaths:
• Brazil had more than 3x the number of new deaths reported than India;
• new cases:
• India: 0.014% of the population
• Brazil: 0.03555% of the population
• new cases corrected for population:
• Brazil is reporting 2.5x as many new cases per capita than India
• new deaths :
• Brazil: 0.00161965% of the population
  
• India: 0.000074568% of the population
  
• new deaths corrected for population
• Brazil is reporting 22x as many new deaths per capita than India