Covid-19 Vaccinations: County and State Tracker – The New York Times
County and State Tracker – The New York Times
According to the NY Times, 19 out of 20 Hamilton County, NY residents who are age 65+ are fully vaccinated.
Trail to Balsam Mountain
CDC dropping mask requirements for fully vaccinated people
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday that people who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 no longer need to wear masks or physically distance, indoors or outdoors in most circumstances.
"We have all longed for this moment when we can get back to some sense of normalcy," CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said during a media briefing Thursday afternoon.
"Based on the continuing downward trajectory of cases, the scientific data on the performance of our vaccines, and our understanding of how the virus spreads," Walensky said, "that moment has come for those who are fully vaccinated."
NO MORE MUZZLE WEARING ! 😷
Most COVID-19 Infections and Hospitalizations are in Unvaccinated – Cleveland Clinic Newsroom
Preliminary data from Cleveland Clinic suggests most people hospitalized for coronavirus aren’t fully vaccinated.
“From January first to around mid-April, we’ve had around 4,300 admissions to the hospital with COVID. Of those patients, 99% were not fully vaccinated,” said Eduardo Mireles, MD, Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit.
In addition to showing the majority of COVID-19 hospital admissions were in people who had not received a full vaccine series, another set of data looking at hospital employees shows a similar trend.
Researchers looked at nearly 2,000 hospital workers who had contracted COVID-19. They studied infections in the four months after the vaccine was offered. Results show 99.7% of infections in this group occurred among those who were unvaccinated.
They also found coronavirus MRNA vaccines to be more than 97% effective in protecting against COVID-19.
Along Forest Road 73
Driving along Forest Road 73 in the Green Mountain National Forest over Memorial Day Weekend.
Sierra Club sues Weitsman scrap metal yards over water pollution
Albany, N.Y. — The Sierra Club is taking a major upstate operator of scrap metal yards to court, contending the company, Ben Weitsman and Son, hasn’t taken adequate steps to protect against storm water discharge washing hazardous metals into streams and rivers including the Hudson.