The Vaccination Campaign

The Local Vaccination Campaign Total People Fully Vaccinated (two doses of Moderna or Pfizer or one dose of Johnson & Johnson) Massachusetts: 5,409,817 (up 2,523 from Thursday) Rhode Island: 895,635 (up 1,044 from Thursday) Reported changes from the last issue of this newsletter. View all vaccine news and numbers on Globe.com Top Stories: Vaccinations Updated COVID boosters should be here by fall, but some Americans and virus experts are worried they’ll arrive too late.  The Food and Drug Administration announced that pharmacists are now allowed to prescribe Paxlovid, Pfizer’s antiviral COVID pill.  An experimental drug initially developed to fight cancer cut the risk of death for people hospitalized with COVID by half, a new study found.

 

 

 

 

The Local Impact Massachusetts:  1,774,241 cases (up 8,582 from Thursday)  ·  19,768 deaths (up 59 from Thursday)  ·  526 hospitalizations (up 35 from Thursday) Rhode Island:  404,204 cases (up 1,435 from Thursday)  ·  3,613 deaths (up 4 from Thursday)  ·  74 hospitalizations (up 20 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 Provincetown residents are using knowledge from the 2021 COVID outbreak to guide a new grassroots monkeypox prevention campaign.  Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that Black and Hispanic women in the Boston area who delivered babies during COVID were less likely than their white counterparts to schedule doctors' appointments after giving birth.

 

 

Across the US and Around the World US 596,278,015 vaccine doses administered 88,342,744cases 1,020,070 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 (83.7%) Vermont (82%) Maine (80.5%) Connecticut (80.1%) Massachusetts (80%) Bottom Ranked Wyoming (51.4%) Alabama (51.6%) Mississippi (52.3%) Louisiana (53.9%) Tennessee (54.9%) Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Worldwide  11,762,302,089 vaccine doses administered 553,070,941 cases 6,346,448 deaths Source: Johns Hopkins  Top Stories: US and Worldwide Almost 70 percent of American adults think their life is the same or somewhat the same as it was before COVID, according to a new poll.  North Korea has suggested that its COVID outbreak began in people who had contact with balloons flown from South Korea, a highly questionable claim. Hong Kong’s new Chief Executive John Lee said there is no immediate need for a universal compulsory COVID testing campaign in the city — a deviation from the “COVID Zero” strategy in mainland China.