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 Today in Health it, it's Friday, so I'm gonna go through my junk drawer. I've got a lot of stories as you would imagine. I cover a lot of stories with the Newsday show and doing a daily show on Health IT News and one of the topics is obviously Covid and the vaccine update. I have a lot of stories around it and I'm gonna share them with you today.

My name is Bill Russell. I'm a former CIO for a 16 hospital system and creator of this week in Health IT at channel dedicated to keeping Health IT staff current. and engaged no show sponsor today, but in this space, I just wanted to say check out the website. We launched a new website and it has podcast summaries, feature articles.

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Any kind of suggestions you have will help and we appreciate your help on this. Alright, as I said, I have a junk drawer. I throw a lot of articles in there and then I come back to 'em, try to determine which ones are important. Uh, for this. For the case of this, I have a bunch of articles around how things are going around the vaccine, how things are going around the pandemic.

Uh, in terms of progress and positivity rates and those kind of things, a bunch of CDC numbers. And I'm gonna do something you don't see that often these days. I'm just gonna share the numbers with you with as little commentary as possible and let you do with it as you wish. I trust you. You're smart people.

You can handle this information and you won't use it to club people over the head or. Make your political points. All right. It appears we've gotten to that point where supply and demand has shifted. Supply of the vaccine is greater than the demand for the vaccine. Here's just a taste of some of the stories why Mississippi has few takers for 73,000 covid shots.

Another headline, vaccine supply increases while demand falters across Ohio. Another one here. Let's see. COVID 19. Vaccine supply, starting to exceed. Demand in Fargo. Keeps going state to send Covid vaccine to primary care doctors as supply outpaces demand. That's in Louisiana. Also as vaccine supply increases, some parts of Kentucky see falling demand.

So we have that going across the board. Demand for Covid 19 vaccine decreases in Arkansas. That's just a sampling of what's going on. There was a poll done by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The polls found that hesitant. Respondents expressed concerns that the vaccine adverse events might be worse than getting C Ovid 19.

That's in the state of Michigan. As of April 8th, 434 cases of the P one variant first identified in Brazil have been reported in the US primarily in Massachusetts, Illinois, and Florida. It is the second most prevalent variant in the country. A study published in JAMA found that C Ovid 19 mobility restrictions stay-at-home orders disproportionately impacted women, Hispanic Latino persons, and lower income black African-American populations with negative outcomes, including a higher risk of unemployment, food insufficiency, and mental health issues.

All right, let's go into the meat of the report here. There's some key metrics. Let me just give you the seven day daily average on some key items, roughly 65,000 confirmed Covid hospital admissions, roughly 5,000 deaths. 663 positivity rate. Again, seven day average, roughly 5.4%. This is a little bit down from what it was.

Vaccine doses administered again over the last seven days. About 3 million persons fully vaccinated over the last seven days, roughly 1.5 million. Let's go down a little further. In the report case rate by county, there's a series of heat maps in here. And this is always interesting to look at. Can't make too many conclusions, but you can tell where their hotspots are in the country.

The state of Michigan obviously is the most red, Minnesota, Pennsylvania. A lot of the Northeast is still red. Southeast Florida along the coast is also red. I. Of note on this map is probably the state of California, which is all the right colors. It's very little red. It's pink going down to gray on a heat map.

The less heat, the less red the better. So that's really of note positivity rates. I. In terms of testing, state of Michigan, bleeding over into Ohio is probably the, uh, hotspot right now. Confirmed Covid admissions. This is interesting only because really what it shows is we don't necessarily have a hospital problem outside of Michigan and maybe some spots in Pennsylvania, but really this is impacting rural America probably more than other locations.

Maybe Kentucky has a couple of areas. That are of note going down a little further. Areas of concern. This is also a heat map. Again, this is hard to really determine other than the fact that the Northeast, a lot of Red Michigan, a lot of red Minnesota, southern Florida, a lot of red rural areas in South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Colorado, a bunch of areas in Colorado.

So those are areas of concern, outcomes by demographic I always find to be an interesting . Chart in that it gives us a lot of information that I think dispels a lot of rumors that are out there. Again, without any commentary from me on this, here's what the chart says, the age group, age, 85 years and older.

Case fatality rate 25%, 75 to 85 years of age case fatality rate, and this is all the cases to date, roughly 12.4%, 65 to 75 years of age, 5% case fatality rate, 50 to 64, 1 0.2% case fatality rate. So now we get into the, a little bit of the younger population, 40 to 50. . Roughly 0.34% case fatality rate 30 to 40.13%.

Case fatality rate 18 to 29 years of age 0.04. Case fatality rate five to 17 years old 0.01 case fatality rate, and zero to four years 0.02%. Case fatality. And again, these are CDC and HHS numbers, outcomes by race and ethnicity. And this is, as you would think it is, the virus does not see race and ethnicity.

It crosses all of us. And so just to give you a little. Sampling of this American Indian, Alaska native, non-Hispanic, 1% of cases, 1% of deaths, Asian non-Hispanic, 3% of cases, roughly 4% of deaths, black non-Hispanic, 11% of cases, 13% of deaths Hispanic Latino, 28% of cases, 18.6% of deaths, multiple other 6.2% of cases, 4.2% of deaths.

A Pacific Islander 0.3% of cases, 0.2% of deaths, white non-Hispanic, 50% of cases, 58.6% of deaths. Alright, progress on the vaccine program. I. people fully vaccinated. At this point, 68 million, roughly 20% of the population persons over the age of 65, which is the high risk group, is 32 million, 32 and a half million.

Roughly 59% of that age group in that population have been fully vaccinated. Some of the numbers that we have, there are roughly 300 million doses in the pipeline. 233 million of those doses have been delivered to. People that can administer those doses, and the amount of doses that have been administered to date is roughly 178 million doses.

And so we had that goal of a hundred million shots in arms in the first a hundred days. If you wanna know how we're doing towards that. They have actually upped that number and the target now is 200 million doses in arms. In the first a hundred days, we're roughly at day 80 something, I don't know, 84, 85, and the number of doses that have been administered is 162 million, which is fantastic, right?

So we are heading in the right direction. We just have a challenge of getting people . In line. There's an interesting chart here, population fully vaccinated. It's a map of the United States. It shows which states have made the most progress, and I would say, you know, Northeast Upper . A mountain states, New Mexico, some of the smaller states, and then we have some of the lighter colors, which is fewer people.

Vaccinated is Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Utah. Let's see. Is there anything else in this report? Medical supplies and pharmaceuticals. There's some raw materials that they're tracking and they're concerned about. There's also some transportation issues, port congestion. You have the Suez Canal issue.

You have just backlogs in the ports in the United States, and getting the equipment out of those ports, getting it through those ports. There's just an awful lot of stuff being shipped around these days, so. That it just is what it is. So that's it as promised. No summary. No. So what, just presenting you the numbers.

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