The Vaccination Campaign

The Local Vaccination Campaign Total People Fully Vaccinated (two doses of Moderna or Pfizer or one dose of Johnson & Johnson) Massachusetts: 5,407,294 (up 3,937 from Thursday) Rhode Island: 894,591 (up 13,225 from Thursday) Reported changes from the last issue of this newsletter. View all vaccine news and numbers on Globe.com Top Stories: Vaccinations New Hampshire is closing its state-managed mobile vaccination clinics. New Hampshire governor Chris Sununu vetoed a bill that would have permitted pharmacists to dispense ivermectin — a parasite drug some have used to treat COVID — without a prescription.

 

 

 

 

The Local Impact Massachusetts:  1,765,659 cases (up 9,981 from Thursday)  ·  19,709 deaths (up 52 from Thursday)  ·  491 hospitalizations (up 32 from Thursday) Rhode Island:  402,769 cases (up 1,935 from Thursday)  ·  3,609 deaths (up 4 from Thursday)  ·  54 hospitalizations (no change 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 Mayor Michelle Wu has enlisted a local event planner to host weekday events downtown through mid-October in the hopes of reviving the neighborhood from its COVID slump. Thrift stores are doing record sales while the country suffers from pandemic-era inflation. A Massachusetts man who lied on his application for federal COVID funds and then used part of the $400,000 he received to pay his mortgage has pleaded guilty to wire fraud.

 

 

Across the US and Around the World US 593,784,055 vaccinations 87,581,054 cases 1,017,120 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  11,742,362,152 vaccine doses administered 547,052,437 cases 6,334,904 deaths Source: Johns Hopkins  Top Stories: US and Worldwide Dr. Anthony Fauci was forced to miss his daughter’s wedding after being infected with COVID. (He also believes the antiviral drug Paxlovid kept him out of the hospital.) The World Health Organization said new COVID cases worldwide rose by 18 percent in the last week. ​​Congress passed a bill Friday that aims to keep up the expanded, pandemic-era distribution of free meals for all students this summer. Aside from COVID, there are now confirmed monkeypox cases in 27 states, and the officials announced more steps to fight the outbreak this week.