Covid data

AllahPundit reports,

Five months ago, in the thick of the winter wave, the share of tests in America that were positive for COVID nearly touched 14 percent. One out of every seven people tested. Today that rate has declined to slightly below one in 50. The virus has never been scarcer in the United States than it is right now.

During the worst of it in January, nearly 138,000 people were hospitalized. As of yesterday we were just north of 20,000. That’s less than half the number who were hospitalized as recently as mid-April, less than two months ago. ER doctors lately have begun tweeting about how unusual it is for them to see a COVID patient nowadays:

Feels like we’re headed for a carefree hot vax summer, doesn’t it? Well, hold on. The UK thought the same thing, as not only have they given out a higher share of first doses of the vaccine than we have, as of two days ago they’ve inched ahead in the share who are fully vaccinated. But thanks to the Indian/Delta B.1.617 variant, it looks like Boris Johnson is going to postpone their grand reopening by another month.

Eric Topol reports,

The UK and US have the same 43% of their populations fully vaccinated. In the UK, cases went up from 12,131 to 42,323 week to week, >90% delta. Latest @PHE_uk: delta is 60% more transmissible than alpha, 2.2X hospitalizations We are equally vulnerable and need a big, fast💉jump

One more datapoint via Axios:

Read more here: https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2021/06/11/for-the-first-time-during-the-pandemic-u-s-positivity-rate-drops-below-2-n396142