The Vaccination Campaign

The Local Vaccination Campaign Total People Fully Vaccinated (two doses of Moderna or Pfizer or one dose of Johnson & Johnson) Massachusetts: 5,275,850 (up 12,382 from Thursday) Rhode Island: 848,595 (up 4,618 from Thursday) Reported changes from the last issue of this newsletter. View all vaccine news and numbers on Globe.com Top Stories: Vaccinations New studies suggest that three doses of a COVID-19 vaccine — or even just two — are enough to protect most people from serious illness and death for a long period of time.  The number of breakthrough COVID-19 infections in Massachusetts has been declining in recent weeks as the Omicron-fueled surge abated.

 

 

 

 

The Local Impact Massachusetts:  1,534,071 cases (up 6,101 from Thursday)  ·  22,445 deaths (up 84 from Thursday)  ·  573 hospitalizations (down 203 from Thursday) Rhode Island:  354,817 cases (up 1,041 from Thursday)  ·  3,404 deaths (up 7 from Thursday)  ·  150 hospitalizations (down 22 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 Local health department directors and board members say they're enduring ugly outbursts during meetings, nasty e-mails, and threatening phone calls. It has caused several to quit.  A number of Massachusetts colleges have announced that they'll ease COVID-19 measures, like mandatory testing and masking, on their campuses.

 

 

Across the US and Around the World US 550,924,900 vaccine doses administered 78,620,973 cases 938,567 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 (80.5%) Vermont (80.1%) Maine (78.2%) Connecticut (77.6%) Massachusetts (77.5%) Bottom Ranked Alabama (50.1%) Wyoming (50.5%) Mississippi (50.7%) Louisiana (52.4%) Idaho (52.9%) Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Worldwide  10,402,901,371 vaccine doses administered 427,198,181 cases 5,903,249 deaths Source: Johns Hopkins  Top Stories: US and Worldwide Long-lasting symptoms after a COVID-19 infection can be debilitating. Here's a look at how it exhausts the body.  An antiviral pill from Merck reduced the risk of COVID hospitalization by 65 percent, according to a new study.  For more than a year, the CDC has collected specific data on COVID-19 hospitalizations. But it has not made most of that information public.