4 million vaccination shots in a single day

Another check of Michigan’s coronavirus cases and deaths. The data now extends back 400 days to March 1, 2020. The high this week was over 6700 new cases in a day. The high last week was revised upward from 4900 to almost 5400 new cases a day. Several other days were also revised upward. This recent high is now two thirds of the November peak. The level now matches one week before the earlier peak. The number of deaths per day has risen a bit with two days the week before revised upward to 30. The news today (not yet in the data I downloaded) is that Michigan reported 8000 new cases. By the time I see it some of those will be allocated to other days as the date of onset of symptoms. I am annoyed at what Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has been saying over the last few days, as reported in the news (alas, no link). She has been saying why have new virus mandates if people aren’t going to follow them? That statement is way too general. Some people, perhaps a great number of people, will follow the mandates and the ones following the mandates means fewer people will get infected. Not issuing mandates implies the state is safe. And it is clearly not. I got a call from my pastor this evening. The Easter service tomorrow will not be in-person. The pastor asked if the bell choir wanted to come in to record for the online service the music we were planning to do live. The sudden switch was because a person who attended last week’s in-person service felt ill after the service and today tested positive for COVID. The church has been following safety protocols – masks, safe seating, no congregation singing – and so far the staff and musicians have not shown symptoms. Even so, the bell choir will save it’s music for later. One person can’t make it, a personal emergency, though it has nothing to do with COVID. Ronald Klain, White House Chief of Staff, bragged that the US administered 4 million vaccination shots in a single day. Bill in Portland, Maine, in his Cheers and Jeers column for Daily Kos, quoted late night commentary. One bit:

[Biden] is proposing a $3 trillion infrastructure plan, which in the broadest sense of the word means child care, energy efficiency in buildings, 5G, rural broadband, retraining of workers, roads, bridges, ports, rail lines, redoing the electrical grid, [and] recharging stations. It sounds very ambitious considering the last guy couldn’t build a wall. —Bill Maher