COVID 19 UPDATES: 2 / 4 / 2021

02/04/2021 Community Coronavirus 0

COVID-19 HEADLINES AT A GLANCE

  • New cases and hospitalization declines, states opening up restrictions.
  • The highly virulent UK variant is expected to become dominant by March.
  • The Brazil and South African variants have some level of antibody and vaccine resistance, and are more difficult to detect in testing
  • The Johnson and Johnson vaccine expected to make a HUGE impact in fighting Covid since it’s a single shot vaccine that doesn’t have to be frozen like other vaccines.
  • The AstraZeneca vaccine will also be hitting the US market soon.
  • Racial Disparity Alert:  So far, all minorities have been under-represented in vaccine distribution, with white women making up the majority of all people vaccinated.

WORLDOMETER

  • Yesterday:  114,036 new cases, 4,033 new deaths
  • In February (3 days):  356,933 new cases,  9,668 new deaths
  • Over last 7 days:  952,602 new cases, 22,127 new deaths
  • Total Cases:  27,151,037
  • Total Deaths:  463,466

JOHNS HOPKINS

  • America’s positive test rate 7.7%
  • 19 states + DC with rate of 5% or less
  • 17 states with rate of 10% or more
  • 6 states with rate of 20% or more

COVID TRACKING PROJECT

  • hospitalization:  91,440
  • in ICU:  18,147
  • on ventilator:  5,920

Data compiled by, snake.

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