POST 101. December 30, 2020.CORONAVIRUS. Is there a point where the increasing Coronavirus trajectory so far exceeds the slow growth of the vaccination rate that reaching herd immunity through vaccinations becomes less likely?

December 30, 2020

“..264 million people, would need to be inoculated for the nation to reach herd immunity “..“at the current rate, it would take… approximately 10 years to reach that level..” to read POSTS 1-100 in chronological order, highlight and click on “The Trump administration’s Covid-19 vaccine distribution program needs a major shot in the arm because

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December 30, 2020

CORONAVIRUS TRACKING Links to POSTS 1-100 Doctor, Did You Wash Your Hands?® Curated Contemporaneous Case Study Methodology Jonathan M. Metsch, Dr.P.H. PART 1. January 21, 2020. CORONAVIRUS. “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday confirmed the first U.S. case of a deadly new coronavirus that has killed six people in China.” PART 2.

POST 100. December 29, 2020. CORONAVIRUS. Front line hospital workers – in the ER, ICUs, EMS, acute medical care, behavioral health – are amongst the most courageous, heroic and dedicated colleagues you will ever meet.

December 29, 2020

As President and CEO of Jersey City Medical Center for seventeen years I watched them work tirelessly through many complex and challenging events. I’ve seen many mega-emergency events, but even if taken together they pale in comparison to the magnitude and personal risk of the Coronavirus response. In 1989 when I started at JCMC we

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December 29, 2020

CORONAVIRUS TRACKING Links to POSTS 1-99 Doctor, Did You Wash Your Hands?® Curated Contemporaneous Case Study Methodology Jonathan M. Metsch, Dr.P.H. PART 1. January 21, 2020. CORONAVIRUS. “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday confirmed the first U.S. case of a deadly new coronavirus that has killed six people in China.” PART 2.

POST 99. December 29, 2020. CORONAVIRUS. “ICUs are being overwhelmed across many parts of California. Statewide aggregate ICU availability has been at 0% since Christmas Eve…. a surge on top of a surge on top of a surge.”… “hospitals are getting close to the point where they would begin putting COVID-positive patients under the care of COVID-positive staff who are asymptomatic.”

December 28, 2020

“This does not mean there are zero ICU beds vacant across California; rather, it means the two regions with 0% capacity — Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley — have reached extremely deep into surge protocols to continue treating severe patients, COVID-19 or otherwise. Those two regions were placed under the state’s strict stay-at-home

POST 98. December 28, 2020. CORONAVIRUS. “Governor Andrew Cuomo announced new penalties in order to rein in possible vaccination fraud…

December 28, 2020

“A New York health care provider is being probed over accusations that it illegally acquired COVID-19 vaccines and inoculated people against state guidelines. The State Department of Health received reports that ParCare Community Health Network in Orange County “may have fraudulently obtained COVID-19 vaccine, transferred it to facilities in other parts of the state in

POST 97. December 27, 2020. “A new variant of the coronavirus that has been spreading through the UK and other countries has not yet been detected in the United States..”.. . But if new-wave medicines like antivirals and antibody therapy contributed to the development of viral variants, it will be “a reminder for all the medical community that we need to use these treatment options carefully.”

December 27, 2020

“I wouldn’t be surprised that it’s already here,” said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease professor at UCSF School of Medicine, referring to the new coronavirus variant. He says unlike the UK, the United States has not done much genomic testing on positive COVID-19 samples to track emerging variants. “Mainly because we have so many