October 27th COVID-19: Slow Progress

The CDC is the source for all data.
According to the CDC, on Vaccinations.  Total doses administered: 416,154,424, as of a week ago 409,438,987, or 0.96 million doses per day.

COVID Metrics
  Today Week
Ago
Goal
Percent fully Vaccinated 57.5% 57.1% ≥70.0%1
Fully Vaccinated (millions) 191.0 189.5 ≥2321
New Cases per Day3 68,151 77,011 ≤5,0002
Hospitalized3 46,206 52,123 ≤3,0002
Deaths per Day3 1,098 1,242 ≤502
1 Minimum to achieve “herd immunity” (estimated between 70% and 85%).
2my goals to stop daily posts,
37 day average for Cases, Currently Hospitalized, and Deaths
🚩 Increasing 7 day average week-over-week for Cases, Hospitalized, and Deaths
✅ Goal met.


IMPORTANT: For “herd immunity” most experts believe we need 70% to 85% of the total population fully vaccinated (or already had COVID).  Note: COVID will probably stay endemic (at least for some time).

KUDOS to the residents of the 4 states that have achieved 70% of total population fully vaccinated: Vermont at 71.0%, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Maine at 70.3% .

KUDOS also to the residents of the 12 states and D.C. that have achieved 60% of total population fully vaccinated: Massachusetts at 69.4%, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, New Mexico, New Hampshire, Washington, Oregon, Virginia, District of Columbia,  Colorado, California and Pennsylvania at 60.2%.
The following 20 states have between 50% and 59.9% fully vaccinated: Delaware at 59.7%, Minnesota, Hawaii, Florida, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, Kentucky, South Dakota, Texas, Arizona, Kansas, Nevada, Alaska, Utah, North Carolina, Ohio and Montana at 50.2%.
Next up (total population, fully vaccinated according to CDC) are Oklahoma at 49.8%, Indiana at 49.7%, South Carolina at 49.7%, Missouri at 49.5%, Georgia at 48.0%, and Arkansas at 47.7%.
COVID-19 Positive Tests per DayClick on graph for larger image.

This graph shows the daily (columns) and 7 day average (line) of positive tests reported.