The Vaccination Campaign

The Local Vaccination Campaign Total People Fully Vaccinated (two doses of Moderna or Pfizer or one dose of Johnson & Johnson) Massachusetts: 5,287,810 (up 6,928 from Thursday) Rhode Island: 851,764 (up 2,274 from Thursday) Reported changes from the last issue of this newsletter. View all vaccine news and numbers on Globe.com Top Stories: Vaccinations Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine gave children ages 5 and older strong protection against hospitalization and death, even during the Omicron surge, according to new CDC data.

 

 

 

 

The Local Impact Massachusetts:  1,540,735 cases (up 4,170 from Thursday)  ·  22,748 deaths (up 122 from Thursday)  · 394 hospitalizations (down 118 from Thursday) Rhode Island:  356,095 cases (up 801 from Thursday)  ·  3,413 deaths (up 7 from Thursday)  ·  117 hospitalizations (down 23 from Thursday) Reported increases or decreases from the last issue of this newsletter. Sources: Massachusetts Department of Public Health Rhode Island Department of Health View all COVID-19 news and numbers on Globe.com Top Stories: COVID-19 Impact The amount of COVID-19 in Eastern Massachusetts waste water has dropped again, suggesting the decline in cases is continuing.  More than 140 million Americans or 43 percent of the country, has had COVID-19, according to the CDC.

 

 

Across the US and Around the World US 553,079,296 vaccine doses administered 79,062,905 cases 951,616 deaths Sources: Johns Hopkins Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The Most and Least Vaccinated US States (% of population fully vaccinated) Top Ranked Rhode Island (80.7%) Vermont (80.1%) Maine (78.3%) Connecticut (77.8%) Massachusetts (77.6%) Bottom Ranked Alabama (50.2%) Wyoming (50.6%) Mississippi (50.9%) Louisiana (52.6%) Idaho (53.1%) Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Worldwide  10,546,292,608 vaccine doses administered 437,898,115 cases 5,962,149 deaths Source: Johns Hopkins  Top Stories: US and Worldwide Queen Elizabeth II has returned to work after a COVID-19 scare, Buckingham Palace said.  Two extensive studies released over the weekend point to a market in Wuhan, China, as the origin of the pandemic, though they haven't yet been published in a scientific journal.