12 May 2021 Coronavirus Charts and News: Lots Of Negative News On The Indian Variant And Its Effect Today And In the Future. India Wants It Referred To As 'B.1.617, A Coronavirus Variant First Identified In India'

Written by Steven Hansen

The U.S. new cases 7-day rolling average are 20.7 % LOWER than the 7-day rolling average one week ago and U.S. deaths due to coronavirus are now 14.0 % LOWER than the rolling average one week ago. Today’s posts include:

• U.S. Coronavirus New Cases are 36,451
• U.S. Coronavirus deaths are at 693
• U.S. Coronavirus immunizations have been administered to 78.7 doses per 100 people.
• The 7-day rolling average rate of growth of the pandemic shows new cases little changed and deaths improved
• Increased transmissibility of B.1.617 variant may be impacting Covid-19 spread in India
• Scientists race to study variants in India as cases explode
• Is the Real Risk From India Being Detected?
• Authorities scramble to provide drugs to treat a fungal disease affecting India’s COVID-19 patients
• Scientists warn U.S. lawmakers about the continued threat of coronavirus variants
• There Is No Johnson & Johnson Vaccine To Distribute
• Winter COVID Surges Will Bring Lockdowns, Travel Bans, Crammed ICUs
• Pfizer and Moderna’s mRNA vaccines appeared to be effective against the B.1.617.1 variant from India
• Cancun: COVID-19 cases are up and tighter restrictions are in place
• A fourth COVID Wave Avoided
• Nasal Vaccines for COVID-19?
• CMS will require long-term care facilities to report COVID-19 vaccination data for residents and staff every week to the CDC
• World could have prevented COVID catastrophe

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