COVID-19 updates based on what experts on Twitter are talking about.
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Percentage vaccinated with at least one dose
| AK
39.1% | AL
29.8% | AR
32.8% | AZ
36.6% | CA
41.7% |
| CO
40.8% | CT
47.4% | DE
40.6% | FL
36.7% | GA
31.8% |
| HI
38.8% | IA
39.9% | ID
31.5% | IL
40.4% | IN
32.4% |
| KS
39.4% | KY
38.0% | LA
30.6% | MA
47.0% | MD
41.5% |
| ME
47.7% | MI
37.4% | MN
41.2% | MO
33.1% | MS
28.9% |
| MT
37.7% | NC
35.5% | ND
37.6% | NE
40.1% | NH
57.5% |
| NJ
44.8% | NM
46.5% | NV
35.5% | NY
41.5% | OH
36.9% |
| OK
36.3% | OR
37.6% | PA
42.1% | RI
43.6% | SC
33.7% |
| SD
42.3% | TN
31.3% | TX
34.3% | UT
34.7% | VA
41.1% |
| VT
45.5% | WA
39.1% | WI
41.0% | WV
34.3% | WY
32.2% |
| DC
39.0% |
| A.Samoa
36.4% | M'nesia
17.2% | Guam
41.3% | Marsh.I
23.3% | N.Mar'na
35.0% |
| P'rto R.
30.4% | Palau
49.9% | V'gin Is
29.4% |
Percentage 65+ vaccinated with at least one dose
| AK
76.3% | AL
70.0% | AR
71.0% | AZ
76.3% | CA
84.9% |
| CO
80.8% | CT
87.7% | DE
84.7% | FL
81.2% | GA
73.8% |
| HI
68.7% | IA
83.4% | ID
74.7% | IL
80.8% | IN
76.3% |
| KS
85.9% | KY
78.3% | LA
73.0% | MA
88.5% | MD
81.3% |
| ME
88.8% | MI
76.2% | MN
85.4% | MO
72.4% | MS
70.1% |
| MT
75.8% | NC
75.0% | ND
79.9% | NE
82.4% | NH
99.9% |
| NJ
81.4% | NM
83.3% | NV
74.4% | NY
74.2% | OH
76.7% |
| OK
78.1% | OR
77.1% | PA
86.1% | RI
88.6% | SC
78.1% |
| SD
87.2% | TN
71.1% | TX
88.3% | UT
81.7% | VA
80.5% |
| VT
92.4% | WA
83.2% | WI
84.5% | WV
69.3% | WY
71.8% |
| DC
74.1% |
| A.Samoa
24.9% | M'nesia
9.3% | Guam
46.9% | Marsh.I
8.9% | N.Mar'na
24.1% |
| P'rto R.
67.6% | Palau
48.5% | V'gin Is
59.1% |
Percentage of supply administered
| AK
68.6% | AL
63.6% | AR
68.0% | AZ
77.6% | CA
78.4% |
| CO
81.7% | CT
80.3% | DE
78.1% | FL
73.9% | GA
66.6% |
| HI
73.7% | IA
84.1% | ID
76.1% | IL
77.8% | IN
75.8% |
| KS
75.2% | KY
81.6% | LA
70.7% | MA
86.4% | MD
80.2% |
| ME
87.5% | MI
76.7% | MN
88.4% | MO
72.2% | MS
64.6% |
| MT
76.2% | NC
75.5% | ND
87.2% | NE
83.5% | NH
99.4% |
| NJ
87.2% | NM
85.6% | NV
81.9% | NY
83.4% | OH
78.0% |
| OK
71.9% | OR
78.4% | PA
79.8% | RI
86.5% | SC
74.0% |
| SD
78.9% | TN
70.5% | TX
77.1% | UT
84.9% | VA
83.6% |
| VT
82.0% | WA
81.9% | WI
88.8% | WV
72.8% | WY
69.7% |
| DC
73.0% |
Source: CDC
Really good piece by @TomChivers about the stats of covid testing—it’s one of the hardest things to communicate. Now do it in a three minute TV package.... https://t.co/8rDhlkQVdy
— Deborah Cohen (@deb_cohen) April 18, 2021
#COVID19 infections approaching highest rates ever, @WHO warns | | UN News https://t.co/6CmtJbCbnX
— Maria Van Kerkhove (@mvankerkhove) April 18, 2021
NEW: Rather than get vaccinated, some Americans are buying blank CDC cards — or making their own — to pretend they’ve gotten shots.
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) April 18, 2021
Inside the race between scammers and regulators — and how CDC’s decision to use a paper card created openings for fraud. https://t.co/V0FGoCsQuG
Read this very powerful piece by @JeremyFarrar on why rich nations must share vaccine doses with COVAX👏👏👏👏👏
— Prof. Gavin Yamey MD MPH (@GYamey) April 18, 2021
[Disclosure: I was in an unpaid working group that advised Gavi on COVAX design; I have advocated for rich nations to "tithe" doses to COVAX]https://t.co/HPQTq9fosM
Still the most popular article on @TheAtlantic this weekend. Thank you to @danengber and @PaulBisceglio for the opportunity to dive into the issue of vaccine-relate blood abnormalities. Here's the full story ICYMI: https://t.co/AVyg966Jhd pic.twitter.com/gJwhFXr3Bx
— Roxanne Khamsi (@rkhamsi) April 18, 2021
1/ TEN SCIENTIFIC REASONS IN SUPPORT OF AIRBORNE TRANSMISSION OF SARS-CoV-2
— Jose-Luis Jimenez (@jljcolorado) April 17, 2021
Peer-reviewed publication in @TheLancet
An honor to have collaborated in multidisciplinary team across medicine, infectious diseases, epidemiology, aerosol science, sociology
https://t.co/93NL6GhAPm
“In mere months, Moderna transformed an old Polaroid factory in America into a state-of-the-art vaccine-production centre. Why can’t we do the same in Africa?” https://t.co/hAjgQ7YzI0
— Philip Schellekens (@fibke) April 18, 2021
'Clinically severe MIS-C patients displayed skewed memory T cell TCR repertoires and autoimmunity characterized by endothelium-reactive IgG.'https://t.co/BITW9LaTXB
— Thiago Carvalho (@CyrilPedia) April 17, 2021
Sharing my new piece in @npr @NPRGoatsandSoda — the hypocrisy of the global health “experience”https://t.co/5S5YvP9Wh9
— Abraar Karan (@AbraarKaran) April 18, 2021
CDC statistics on vaccine breakthrough cases are available here.https://t.co/NTPBxgGNst pic.twitter.com/WITkc9mvxh
— Benjy Renton (@bhrenton) April 17, 2021
HOTEL ROOM CROSS-INFECTION: Australia 🇦🇺 hotel outbreak suggests #COVID19 jumped between hotel rooms—7 returned travellers cases arriving from different countries at different times have same genetic sequence—likely jumped between neighboring hotel rooms.https://t.co/EckYXm7Esy pic.twitter.com/K1AZMxX1TV
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) April 17, 2021
New from @noahweiland and me: The federal government invested more than $800 million in convalescent plasma. But a year later, the effort has fizzled. What did we learn? https://t.co/ZDxSly9KUT
— Katie Thomas (@katie_thomas) April 17, 2021
It's interesting to see the debate on the J&J "pause" and #ACIP's punt on a recommendation. We're talking trade-offs on Twitter because that's what we have here, not one right answer about what to do. #ACIP could have weighed them in their deliberations and made a call. 1/
— Gregg Gonsalves (@gregggonsalves) April 18, 2021
Breakthrough infections by CDC. If we take out 29% of the 5814 who were asymptomatic, the rate of breakthrough infection is actually 0.00005 (or 0.005%). That is amazing! I took out asymptomatic infection because those actually show vax works: IgA in nosehttps://t.co/83MMPFXstc
— Monica Gandhi MD, MPH (@MonicaGandhi9) April 19, 2021
1/ "...the #BLM movement & ... COVID... are stark reminders of the pernicious effects of systemic racism..."https://t.co/pbh7uF70fV
— Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA (@celinegounder) April 18, 2021
by @ShirleyTilghman (one of my molecular biology profs at @Princeton), my dear friend @KafuiDzirasa, former @NIH Director Harold Varmus & more.
Reading: Health officer urges caution as UK variant cases rise in Yolo County https://t.co/kF8nFDa6iO via @AllDENews
— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) April 18, 2021
Lots of good comments here from Dr. Aimee Sisson of @YoloCountyCA 1/n
These shootings are such uniquely American tragedies.
— Megan Ranney MD MPH 🗽 (@meganranney) April 18, 2021
Especially when we have so clearly failed as a society to heed the warning signs.
There is no way to move forward without acknowledging that some people - like this man - are not safe to own guns. https://t.co/HRBEOtzKYZ
India is supporting the🌍by producing vaccines for #COVID19
— Madhu Pai, MD, PhD (@paimadhu) April 18, 2021
The world must now support India with the devastating, monster second wave pic.twitter.com/D7kjnxFqg1
This is a reassuring and welcome thread on the B.1.617 variant that has been associated with India's major surge. It's been around for awhile; E484Q not incriminating like E484K, and other encouraging points https://t.co/RKJyY8u72G
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) April 18, 2021
THREAD on VARIANTS, VACCINES & POTENTIAL FUTURES:
— Prof. Christina Pagel (@chrischirp) April 18, 2021
I’ve been looking at data on sequenced variants. I’ve also been thinking about our vax programme & India.
TLDR: the Indian variant needs to trigger surge testing in England. And India needs to be on red list. 1/23
Behind the scenes on the J&J vaccine pausehttps://t.co/ADfwIVRa61
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) April 18, 2021
Waiting to see what ACIP recommends: "The two most likely options are restricting the shot to an age group such as men and women over 50 years, or allowing a return to widespread use but with added a warning"
Americans who refuse to get shots, and buy or make fake vaccination cards instead, “will extend the pandemic, resulting in more people sick and more people dead," North Carolina attorney general @JoshStein_ tells @ddiamond. https://t.co/mnfx9JxUp6
— LenaSun (@bylenasun) April 18, 2021
FDA should have led J&J #covid19 vaccine decision-making, former commissioner @ScottGottliebMD writes in @WSJ. “Putting the issue before the CDC confused the process and slowed the decision.” https://t.co/tAIs1H5ozF
— Meg Tirrell (@megtirrell) April 18, 2021
India's Covid-19 cases are skyrocketing. pic.twitter.com/zKnFw1xfHt
— Carl Zimmer (@carlzimmer) April 18, 2021
covering this pandemic has been the darkest, most uncertain year of my life. I’m so thrilled to finally get vaccinated and, hopefully, be covering the beginning of the end. pic.twitter.com/I6jyj3xHOb
— Stephanie M. Lee (@stephaniemlee) April 18, 2021
NEW: Health Minister @PattyHajdu says provinces and territories are “free to use AstraZeneca” in any age range they choose, it’s approved by Health Canada 18+. Says NACI reviewing 55+ recommendation. “There is nothing stopping the province of Ontario.” #onpoli #cdnpoli
— Laura Stone (@l_stone) April 18, 2021
Informative and well-balanced thread on lineage B.1.617 in India and the UK. https://t.co/qryN8D8oZH
— Oliver Pybus (@EvolveDotZoo) April 18, 2021
131 million Americans have had their first shot.
— Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉 (@ASlavitt) April 18, 2021
40% of all Americans
50% of adults
80% of seniors
Half of adults in the US have now been vaccinated.
— Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉 (@ASlavitt) April 18, 2021
And tomorrow all the restrictions to get vaccinated will be lifted for everyone over 16.
Best wishes to you @margbrennan and see you back soon! During a hard year for Americans, you shaped a forum that was a constant source of objective news and bottom-line perspective to help people inform their hopes and temper their fears. And I’m grateful to have been part of it. https://t.co/yvqHbOHS4t
— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) April 18, 2021
Fighting misinformation be like.... pic.twitter.com/fyUQBa9bT9
— Dr Ellie Murray (@EpiEllie) April 18, 2021
As the world turns, the virus keeps reminding us how formidable it is to contain
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) April 18, 2021
Highest global cases per capita since the pandemic began@OurWorldInData pic.twitter.com/ufX4wLRcDY