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The United States has administered 2.3 million vaccination doses. Oh, lol no, not cumulatively. I mean Yesterday. We administered 2.3 million doses in about 14
by 015a 6y ago
The United States has administered 2.3 million vaccination doses.
Oh, lol no, not cumulatively. I mean Yesterday. We administered 2.3 million doses in about 14 daytime hours on March 12th.
Naturally, the number of vaccinated individuals grows every day. That's what vaccinations do. But the number of doses we are administering every day is growing every day. One week ago, on March 8th, we administered about 2.05 million.
There's no point to harvesting plasma. Why would we, as a society, try to do that on any meaningful scale when we have working vaccines, produced and administered on a global scale that humanity has in our entire history as a species never before reached?
People give Trump shit for his statement that, one day, the virus will just magically disappear. He deserves it, but not because it won't disappear; it will disappear, but it won't be because of magic. The effort that the Trump administration, the Biden Administration, Project Warp Speed, the CDC, and other Federal and State Health Agencies, have put into this is something that, in 100 years, our history books will write paragraphs about. Its invisible to most of us. We still feel the legitimate and necessary fear that kept people isolated and society going over the past year. That fear isn't forever; the US was hard-hit, but the US will be one of the first countries back to normalcy, and the rest of the world will quickly follow.
- Aaronstotle 6y agoReally like the last part of your comment. the fact that (collectively) we created, tested, released, and are now distributing vaccines in less than a year is an incredible achievement.
- Izkata 6y ago> People give Trump shit for his statement that, one day, the virus will just magically disappear. He deserves it, but not because it won't disappear; it will disappear, but it won't be because of magic. The "magic" part, I think, was about perception: Infection rates have been dropping almost worldwide for two months (more, in some places), but people seem to think infections are steady or still increasing despite vaccinations (concern about variants, old messaging (we still have signs up from November here), etc). For a lot of people, it will look like magic when it's suddenly no longer a concern.
- mhh__ 6y agoWell yes, but saying "It'll disappear" as a way of passing the buck is more subtle than how you describe it
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- mistersquid 6y ago> the US was hard-hit, but the US will be one of the first countries back to normalcy, and the rest of the world will quickly follow. Though I very much like this optimistic take, this is a bit revisionist. Specifically, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Taiwan, Australia, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand and a few others (including parts of mainland China) have already returned to “normalcy” in that their economies are growing and that all have high public confidence that contagion has been controlled.
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- DiogenesKynikos 6y agoMainland China as a whole has been close to normal for about a year now.
- erklik 6y ago>US will be one of the first countries back to normalcy I live in Australia. The country has been to normal for a long time now, and my state specifically had a lockdown at the start of the pandemic, and since August 2020, we have not had a major lock down (except for one week in Jan 2021 due to a outbreak scare) and have been living in normalcy since then. Just saying because it seems like people erasing and forgetting history that somehow America is the first out of this. No, many countries have done fairly well and have managed to be relatively normal.
- Skunkleton 6y agoNew Zealand comes to mind as well.
- hanniabu 6y agoI guess you could say there's a difference. Both Australia and New Zealand have returned to normal because of success in controlling the virus. Both countries have low double digit counts of infections per day (and teetering on single digits). So I guess you could say the US will be the first to get back to normal while there continues to be a high number of cases.
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- refurb 6y agoBack to normal except for any unrestricted travel in or out of the country. Isn’t there a massive backlog of Australian citizens who have yet to be able to return?
- EB-Barrington 6y agoRestrictions remain on large gatherings in Australia, with capacity limits. Most of Australia has regulations regarding social distancing. Australian cities are locked-down when a single case is detected. You mentioned the last lock-down in your city was as recent as January. There are currently ~40,000 Australian citizens registered with the government who are trying to get back to Australia, receiving little to no assistance. Flights are restricted into the country. Australian citizens are banned from leaving the country. This is not yet "normal", I hope.
- JeremyNT 6y agoThe US has bought its way out of the pandemic by funding the pharma companies and reserving doses. This was a smart play, of course, and ultimately the deciding factor, but this success is only being realized after a long string of failures and ongoing inefficiencies.
- tempestn 6y agoI believe the efficacy of convalescent plasma has been shown to be minimal to non-existent, so I agree it isn't likely worth harvesting. If it were effective though, it would absolutely be worth it, because the United States isn't the whole world. There won't be enough vaccines to fully vaccinate the global population for many months at the least - probably at least a year. If we had an effective treatment that could be donated to countries not fortunate to have an abundance of vaccine doses, it would clearly be the moral thing to do.