Coronavirus, COVID-19, coronavirus variants, and vaccine updates for 9-21-2021
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Sep 21, 2021
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This is Coronavirus 411, the latest COVID-19 info and new hotspots for September 21st, 2021.

It is now official, at least according to the numbers from Johns Hopkins, COVID-19 has now killed as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu. 675,000 Americans died during the 1918 pandemic, in waves that played out over about two years. But back then there were no vaccines. It wasn’t until the 30s researchers even understood influenza was caused by a virus and not a bacterium.

Finally, some much needed good news for travel and tourism. The U.S. said it will allow foreigners to fly into the country this fall if they have vaccination proof and a negative COVID-19 test. That replaces a hodgepodge of rules that kept out non-citizens from countries that frankly, are doing better than the U.S. in containing outbreaks.

The school mask fight may soon switch to a vaccine for kids fight. Pfizer said its vaccine works for children 5 to 11 and it will seek U.S. authorization for this age group soon. For elementary school-aged kids, Pfizer tested a much lower dose — a third of the amount that’s in each shot given now. But after the second dose, the kids developed coronavirus-fighting antibody levels equal to that of teens and young adults getting regular-strength shots. Pfizer says the kid dosage also proved safe.

Someone just got COVID in American Samoa. That’s newsworthy because, it was their very first case. And even then it was a traveler from Hawaii. Believe it or not there are still countries and territories, mostly islands, that have yet to experience one case of COVID, including the Cook Islands, Saint Helena, the Federated States of Micronesia, Tonga, Tuvalu, and the Pitcairn Islands. Mostly the kinds of places where Survivor is filmed.  

No special treatment for the president of Brazil. He’s against vaccinations and would not get vaccinated before attending this week's UN General Assembly in New York. Therefore, he was not allowed inside a New York City restaurant and was told he’d have to eat his pizza slice outside. Which he did. 

In the United States cases were down 8%, deaths are up 29%, and hospitalizations are down 8% over 14 days. The 7-day average of new cases has been trending down since September 13.  

There are 9,748,413 active cases in the United States.

With not all states reporting daily numbers, the five states with the greatest daily number of deaths per capita are Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Idaho, and West Virginia.  

The top 10 counties with the highest number of recent cases per capita according to The New York Times: Knox, KY. Russell, KY. Scott, TN. Andrews, TX. Rockcastle, KY. Lewis, WV. Powell, KY. Perry, KY. Whitley, KY. And Lincoln, MT. 

There have been at least 676,059 deaths in the U.S. recorded as Covid-related.

The top 3 vaccinating states by percentage of population that’s been fully vaccinated: Vermont at 68.9%, Connecticut at 67.7%, and Maine at 67.5%. The bottom 3 vaccinating states are West Virginia at 40.1%, Wyoming at 40.6%, and Idaho at 40.8%. The percentage of the U.S. that’s been fully vaccinated is 54.6%.

The 5 countries with the largest recent 24-hour increase in the number of fully vaccinated people: Ethiopia up 4%. Kosovo 3%. And Oceana, Thailand, and India 2%.  

Globally, cases were down 12% and deaths were down 8% over 14 days, with the 7-day average trending down since August 27. 

There are 18,639,928 active cases around the world.

The five countries with the most new cases: The United States 85,913. The U.K. 36,100. Turkey 27,688. India 24,925. And Russia 19,744.  

 

There have now been at least 4,699,187 deaths reported as Covid-related worldwide. 

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