The Vaccination Campaign

The Local Vaccination Campaign Total People Fully Vaccinated (two doses of Moderna or Pfizer or one dose of Johnson & Johnson) Massachusetts: 5,206,092 (up 13,805 from Thursday) Rhode Island: 832,066 (up 3,668 from Thursday) Reported changes from the last issue of this newsletter. View all vaccine news and numbers on Globe.com Top Stories: Vaccinations Pfizer asked the Food and Drug Administration to authorize extra-low doses of its COVID-19 vaccine for children under 5.  Is it time to consider a second COVID-19 vaccine booster? Health experts said it's too soon, at least for the foreseeable future. US health regulators granted full approval to Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine.

 

 

 

 

The Local Impact Massachusetts:  1,488,251 cases (up 21,936 from Thursday)  ·  21,546 deaths (up 275 from Thursday)  ·  1,965 hospitalizations (down 556 from Thursday) Rhode Island:  344,841 cases (up 5,270 from Thursday)  ·  3,329 deaths (up 41 from Thursday)  ·  362 hospitalizations (down 79 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 detected in Eastern Massachusetts waste water has continued to decline in recent days. The United States is operating with patchy and incomplete COVID-19 data, which has hampered the response to new variants that emerge, my colleague Jess Bidgood reported.  Pregnant women who have COVID-19 when they give birth rarely transmit the virus to their babies, new research shows.

 

 

Across the US and Around the World US 539,921,122 vaccine doses administered 75,269,655 cases 890,040 deaths Sources: Johns Hopkins Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The Most and Least Vaccinated US States (% of population fully vaccinated) Top Ranked Vermont (79.4%) Rhode Island (79.1%) Maine (77.6%) Connecticut (76.6%) Massachusetts (76.5%) Bottom Ranked Alabama (49.5%) Wyoming (49.9%) Mississippi (50.1%) Louisiana (51.8%) Idaho (52.3%) Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Worldwide  9,955,396,548 vaccine doses administered 380,972,264 cases 5,683,918 deaths Source: Johns Hopkins  Top Stories: US and Worldwide Omicron is driving the United States' COVID-19 death toll higher than during last fall's Delta wave.  Some experts are warning that the decline in COVID-19 cases could be slowed by the arrival of a new Omicron subvariant, BA.2. A new study suggests that pleasant temperatures are connected to fewer COVID-19 cases.  COVID-19 hospitalizations are falling in dozens of states, according to data from the US Department of Health and Human Services.