100 million shots since January 20– 58 days. 42 days ahead of @POTUS commitment.
— Andy Slavitt @ 🏡🇺🇸 (@ASlavitt) March 18, 2021
-Now averaging 2.5 million/day & growing
-Accelerated production, speed & distribution
-Added hundreds of vaccine sites & thousands of vaccinators
-65% of seniors have their first shots
I look at cases increasing in Europe with high levels of masking and closed restaurants, and I worry.
— Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrTomFrieden) March 18, 2021
Worry variants will drive a 4th surge here.
Worry more dangerous variants may emerge with more uncontrolled spread.
Worry we won't have patience needed to keep the upper hand.
I stood in an overflow line for most of the day and got my first shot of Moderna, yay thanks science! 💉
— Alex Winter (@Winter) March 18, 2021
Here's how it's working in LA- they're offering 40% more vaccines in lower income neighborhoods and there aren't enough people to meet supply so there's surplus. I feel great!
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Over past week, number of infections in U.S. has stopped declining
— Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH (@ashishkjha) March 18, 2021
At about 50K infections every day
About where we were at height of summer surge
Why the stall?
Suspect B.1.1.7 is now starting to really have an effect
And states are opening up
This is a problem
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SARS-CoV-2 blazed across the world because it is so often spread by people who don't know they are infected.
— Dr. Angela Rasmussen (@angie_rasmussen) March 18, 2021
Reckoning with symptomless transmission is crucial to ending the pandemic, as Dr. @SaskiaPopescu and I argue in our new piece in @ScienceMagazine.https://t.co/qjrkdy4L8b
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