The Vaccination Campaign

The Local Vaccination Campaign Total People Fully Vaccinated (two doses of Moderna or Pfizer or one dose of Johnson & Johnson) Massachusetts: 5,364,131 (up 6,604 from Thursday) Rhode Island: 870,157 (up 1,646 from Thursday) Reported changes from the last issue of this newsletter. View all vaccine news and numbers on Globe.com Top Stories: Vaccinations The Food and Drug Administration last Friday set tentative dates in June to publicly review COVID-19 vaccines for the youngest American children. Vaccine sales helped Moderna triple its net income to $5.92 billion in a better-than-expected first quarter.

 

 

 

The Local Impact Massachusetts:  1,634,308 cases (up 19,501 from Thursday)  ·  19,181 deaths (up 52 from Thursday)  ·  547 hospitalizations (up 116 from Thursday) Rhode Island:  375,119 cases (up 4,199 from Thursday)  ·  3,542 deaths (up 4 from Thursday)  ·  96 hospitalizations (up 30 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 A D.C. woman flew into Boston on April 26 to surprise her long-distance boyfriend. But things took a turn for the worse when he tested positive for COVID. Sixteen workers and four patients at Eleanor Slater Hospital in Providence tested positive for COVID-19 a recent weeklong span.

 

 

Across the US and Around the World US 576,447,412 vaccine doses administered 81,661,982 cases 996,823 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 (82.6%) Vermont (81.2%) Maine (79.6%) Connecticut (79.2%) Massachusetts (79%) Bottom Ranked Alabama (51.1%) Wyoming (51.6%) Mississippi (51.8%) Louisiana (53.5%) Idaho (54.1%) Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Worldwide  11,325,027,135 vaccine doses administered 515,873,886 cases 6,246,498 deaths Source: Johns Hopkins  Top Stories: US and Worldwide Secretary of State Antony Blinken tested positive for COVID-19 after attending the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, after which several other attendees fell ill.  The WHO said that the number of newly reported coronavirus cases and deaths globally continued to fall in the last week. China is slowly beefing up restrictions in Beijing and continuing a punishing lockdown in Shanghai to control the spread of COVID — a strategy that Dr. Anthony Fauci said would likely not be successful in the long-term.