A New Jersey man is in the hospital with COVID-19 — just five weeks after being vaccinated. Francisco Cosme, 52, was ecstatic when he booked an appointment for the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine at the Javits Center on March 6. After Cosme was vaccinated, he continued to wear a mask and follow social distancing…

Illinois is seeing a troubling upward trend in its coronavirus data as the state continues to vaccinate residents at a record pace.

Illinois is seeing a troubling upward trend in coronavirus cases as the state continues to vaccinate residents at a record pace.

State health officials on Sunday announced 2,942 new and probable COVID-19 cases and an additional 16 virus-related deaths.

The new cases were detected among 69,600 tests processed by the Illinois Department of Public Health in the last day. That keeps the statewide seven-day positivity rate at a 10-week high of 4.2%.

Illinois is averaging about 3,204 new cases each day this month, up sharply from the first 11 days of last month when the state recorded a daily average of 1,610.

The state has also seen an uptick in coronavirus hospitalizations over the last month. As of Saturday night, 1,834 beds were occupied by COVID-19 patients — a 23% increase from last week. Of those, 409 were in intensive care units and 173 were on ventilators, officials said.

The rise in cases comes as Illinois is vaccinating more people than ever.

The state injected 131,285 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine Saturday, marking the fifth consecutive day Illinois has inoculated more than 130,000 in a single day. Over the last week, Illinois has reported three record-setting vaccination days, including Friday when the state administered an all-time high of 175,681 shots.

The seven-day rolling average of vaccines administered daily is 126,827 doses.

In total, the state has doled out nearly 7.2 million coronavirus vaccines since mid-December. However, only 2.85 million Illinoisans have been fully vaccinated, meaning two weeks removed from their final dose, according to the IDPH website. That’s just over 22% of the state’s population — well under the 80% needed for herd immunity.

Illinois is expanding eligibility for the vaccine this week. All residents 16 or older will be eligible for inoculation, starting Monday, though that excludes Chicago providers who won’t expand eligibility to all adults until April 19.

For help finding an appointment, visit coronavirus.illinois.gov or call (833) 621-1284.

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Over 2,500 people said “Absolutely not!” when asked whether they support “vaccine passports” in the latest unscientific poll at SharylAttkisson.com. That represents 97% of those who responded to the poll. Two percent (2%) of the respondents answered “not much”, to the question about “vaccine passports”, representing the next most popular answer. And less than 1% […]

Biden regime medical advisor Anthony Fauci proclaimed on Monday that it was “still not okay” for people who have received a Covid vaccine to visit bars, restaurants, or other indoor businesses, dashing the hopes of many who had hoped getting the shot would enable them to return to normal life.

“No, it’s still not okay for the simple reason that the level of infection, the dynamics of infection, in the community are still really disturbingly high,” Fauci pontificated during an appearance on MSNBC.

“Like, just yesterday, there were close to eighty thousand new infections, and we’ve been hanging around sixty, seventy, seventy-five thousand, so, if you’re not vaccinated, please get vaccinated as soon as the vaccine becomes available to you, and if you are vaccinated please remember that you still have to be careful and not get involved in crowded situations, particularly indoors where people are not wearing masks,” Fauci continued.

Fauci is at it again. “It’s still not ok for vaccinated Americans to eat and drink indoors.” pic.twitter.com/yWHTnRN18f

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) April 12, 2021

Navy veteran and U.S. House candidate Jarome Bell slammed Fauci’s remarks on Monday, tweeting “This Fauci clown keeps moving the goalposts for the precise reason that he wants you inured to following random, senseless orders. Real patriots ought not tolerate this idiocy. Fauci was a bad actor under Trump, and remains so under Biden. Reject him and his nonsense.”

This Fauci clown keeps moving the goalposts for the precise reason that he wants you inured to following random, senseless orders.

Real patriots ought not tolerate this idiocy.

Fauci was a bad actor under Trump, and remains so under Biden.

Reject him and his nonsense. https://t.co/0nHwMHs5bX

— Jarome Bell (@JaromeBellVA) April 12, 2021

President Donald Trump excoriated Fauci as a “king of flip-flops” who “said he was an athlete in college but couldn’t throw a baseball even close to home plate” in a scalding statement last month.

Hawaii Gov. David Ige (D) on Friday approved a “vaccine passport” program for inter-island travel that could begin as early as May and expand to out-of-state travel by the summer, …

The remarks rebuff efforts by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to secure an extra supply of vaccine doses as Michigan is seeing a worst-in-the-nation surge of coronavirus infections.

Sen. Rand Paul doesn’t like Anthony Fauci. Sen. Paul isn’t alone. While some view their love of Fauci as a personality trait, I’d venture to guess many of you reading this have grown tired of the media’s favorite useless bureaucrat. But Rand Paul has a certain panache to how hard he hates Fauci. “Hate” may be too strong a word. I doubt Rand “Hitler-hates” Fauci. But he really, really, really doesn’t like him.

Fauci was in front of cable news cameras again, saying his usual Fauci things about what we’re not allowed to do. Yes, even while vaccinated. The vaccine we were told would get us back to normal. Rand was not impressed.

Fauci continues to ignore 100 years of vaccine science.

His only real theme is “do what I say” even when it makes no sense.

If you’ve recovered or been vaccinated – go about your life. Eat, drink, work, open the schools.

Enough with the petty tyrants!

And furthermore:

I agree with Sen. Paul’s sentiment. Both about Fauci and going about your life. My only thing is, who are the people who haven’t been going about their lives this whole time? Yeah, with adjustments. I own like ten different masks. But I eat. I drink. I work. Kids, where I live, are in school. I find it comical that there are real people living among us who turn to Fauci to see what they are and aren’t allowed to do. At first, I thought it couldn’t be true. Then I started to see more people double masking out in the wild, and it felt like I saw Santa Claus playing a pickup game with Bigfoot in the park. “Wow, you people really do exist.”

I get why Fauci keeps lecturing what we can’t do. He likes being on television. I get why the media keeps asking him on. If not, they’d be forced to report promoting lockdowns for the past year since “15 Day to Flatten the Curve” may have been a dunderheaded thing to do. But if you’re someone who is STILL living your life based on what Fauci says you are allowed to do, stop.

Because Rand Paul is right.

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Photo by Liz Flores, Star Tribune – Registered nurse Sherry Donnahoo filled syringes with the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to be used at the vaccination site at the Masjid Al Tawba Mosque.

 

The total is the highest since early January and includes 161 people who needed intensive care due to breathing problems or other complications of their COVID-19 cases. The state reported the latest hospital figures on Monday along with two more COVID-19 deaths and 1,994 newly diagnosed infections with the novel coronavirus that causes the respiratory disease.

Those additions bring Minnesota’s totals in the pandemic to 6,959 COVID-19 deaths and 544,046 known infections.

More than half of population in Hennepin County has received COVID-19 vaccine, statewide rate rises to 47%.

The state’s seven-day test positivity rate jumped to 4.4% and continued an incremental upward trend that could lead officials to again place stronger restrictions on businesses. The statewide positivity rate had dipped to 2.1% on March 13.

Officials on Monday announced that Illinois’ coronavirus test positivity rate has reached its highest point since late January, when a previous surge in cases was tapering off.

The seven-day positivity rate — a crucial figure for measuring the virus’ spread — jumped to 4.4% and continued an incremental upward trend that could lead officials to again place stronger restrictions on businesses. The statewide positivity rate had dipped to 2.1% on March 13.

The Illinois Department of Health also announced 2,433 new cases of COVID-19 diagnosed from 53,115 tests. Eighteen additional deaths were also reported.

Nearly 2,000 people diagnosed with the virus were hospitalized Sunday, according to the agency’s data. That’s the highest number of statewide hospitalizations since Feb. 10.

Meanwhile, the number of inoculations administered Sunday dove to 64,772 after five straight six-figure vaccination days, state health officials reported. So far, more than 7.2 million vaccine doses have gone into arms.

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