The Vaccination Campaign

The Local Vaccination Campaign Total People Fully Vaccinated (two doses of Moderna or Pfizer or one dose of Johnson & Johnson) Massachusetts: 5,192,287 (up 9,002 from Tuesday) Rhode Island: 828,398 (up 2,270 from Tuesday) Reported changes from the last issue of this newsletter. View all vaccine news and numbers on Globe.com Top Stories: Vaccinations Antibodies created from a Moderna booster shot persist six months after the third shot, the Cambridge biotech found.   Over 10 billion vaccine doses have been administered around the globe, according to the Bloomberg Vaccine Tracker.

 

 

The Local Impact Massachusetts:  1,466,315 cases (up 16,534 from Tuesday)  ·  21,271 deaths (up 164 from Tuesday)  ·  2,521 hospitalizations (down 167 from Tuesday) Rhode Island:  339,571 cases (up 4,990 from Tuesday)  ·  3,288 deaths (up 25 from Tuesday)  ·  441 hospitalizations (down 199 from Tuesday) 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 number of coronavirus hospitalizations has sharply decreased in the Northeastern United States, including New England.  About a half-dozen unmasked people disrupted a Boston City Council meeting and heckled Council President Ed Flynn Wednesday afternoon.  College students in Providence, who returned for in-person classes this week, are learning to "live with" the virus.

 

 

Across the US and Around the World US 537,171,553 vaccinations 73,272,376 cases 877,837 deaths Sources: Johns Hopkins Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The Most and Least Vaccinated US States (% of population fully vaccinated) Top Ranked Vermont (79.2%) Rhode Island (78.7%) Maine (77.4%) Connecticut (76.4%) Massachusetts (76.2%) Bottom Ranked Alabama (49.3%) Wyoming (49.7%) Mississippi (49.9%) Louisiana (51.6%) Idaho (52.1%) Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Worldwide  9,891,159,846 vaccine doses administered 364,917,498 cases 5,632,945 deaths Source: Johns Hopkins  Top Stories: US and Worldwide A Utah doctor shared that she's at high risk for COVID on Twitter, inspiring hundreds to do the same.  Neil Young demanded that Spotify remove his music from the platform in protest of Joe Rogan's vaccine misinformation-laden podcast. They did. A new study identified four potential factors that increase a patient's chances of developing long COVID: antibody and viral load levels, reactivation of the Epstein-Barr virus, and a Type 2 diabetes diagnosis.