COVID-19 2020

[Space Freely]

DC has so few cases…wouldn’t surprise me if the indoor mask requirement is dropped in next few weeks

I think it would make sense

You don’t want to insist people wear masks if there is little need or people might not wear them when there is a need…

I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with you, but what do you consider "so few cases?" The current seven day daily average is 161. That's still 60% of the all time high, which was just two weeks ago (269).

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/washington-district-of-columbia-covid-cases.html

[Starsky]

I consider 150 pretty few but I will leave it up to the professionals to make that determination


Just saying wouldn’t surprise me.

[Space Freely]

I consider 150 pretty few but I will leave it up to the professionals to make that determination


Just saying wouldn’t surprise me.

They re-instituted the current mask mandate on July 31. The daily average on that date was 61. Now it is at 161. I realize we are headed in the right direction (and on July 31 were headed in the wrong direction.) But I say give the mask mandate a while longer. Isn't it funny that I would say that?

[Starsky]

A few weeks more would not surprise me


But guess DC is running things fairly conservative so who knows

[grateful]

There's really no reason to speculate.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view|District%20of%20Columbia|Risk|community_transmission_level

[ye-ole-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

well MD is out in front in the Vax horse race
% Eligible Population Fully Vaccinated
MD : 75.4
NY: 74.5
WA: 71.5
VA: 71.1
DC: 70.0
CA: 69.6

[Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI]

I had to look at that 12 times before I realized I was missing the word "eligible".

[Space Freely]

well MD is out in front in the Vax horse race
% Eligible Population Fully Vaccinated
MD : 75.4
NY: 74.5
WA: 71.5
VA: 71.1
DC: 70.0
CA: 69.6

Are those the top six in order, or are you just listing states that boardies are from? Don't forget Sparx, over in West Virginia.

[ye-ole-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

Are those the top six in order, or are you just listing states that boardies are from? Don't forget Sparx, over in West Virginia.

just listing states that bordies are from...isn't chaz in NC
don't even know Sparx

I had to look at that 12 times before I realized I was missing the word "eligible".

that was key and I made sure to include that word

[Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI]

These are really not bad numbers. If the government would get off their ass and extend vaccines to all school-age children so you see those numbers increase by another 6-8% and stop being so skimpy with the boosters, we'd beat this thing down pretty quickly.

[ye-ole-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

I agree they are good numbers, but I think we wanted to hit those numbers with the entire population
So what are the numbers with the 'ineligible'

but I was giving the rare pat on the back for those heathen MD folks...they just can't be trusted and they have sweaty palms

[Space Freely]

These are really not bad numbers. If the government would get off their ass and extend vaccines to all school-age children so you see those numbers increase by another 6-8% and stop being so skimpy with the boosters, we'd beat this thing down pretty quickly.

Looking at this:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/241488/population-of-the-us-by-sex-and-age/

I would say maybe 10.35% of US populaton is 5-11. Are you saying 60-80% of 5-11 age group will be vaccinated? Highly doubt it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/30/covid-delta-variant-live-updates/

[ye-ole-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

Looking at this:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/241488/population-of-the-us-by-sex-and-age/

I would say maybe 10.35% of US populaton is 5-11. Are you saying 60-80% of 5-11 age group will be vaccinated? Highly doubt it.

unfortunately this has become a MAGA vs the Libs thing
but I think in general kids that age are vaxed up to the 90% level on previous vaxes, so why not this one (see point above)
I don't have any stats

[Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI]

I agree they are good numbers, but I think we wanted to hit those numbers with the entire population
So what are the numbers with the 'ineligible'

Here's your same 6 states without factoring out "ineligibles":

Fully vaxed % of entire population
MD 64.4%
NY 64.1%
DC 61.5%
WA 61.0%
VA 60.8%
CA 59.3%

At least one dose % of entire population
DC 72.5%
CA 72.1%
NY 71.8%
MD 70.9%
VA 68.6%
WA 67.4%

[Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI]

Looking at this:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/241488/population-of-the-us-by-sex-and-age/

I would say maybe 10.35% of US populaton is 5-11. Are you saying 60-80% of 5-11 age group will be vaccinated? Highly doubt it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/30/covid-delta-variant-live-updates/

OK, fair. 6% is probably your ceiling not your floor. But the underlying point remains that start to get real close to that 70-75% figure that we still think is the "when does R become < 1".