re: #256 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

According to Worldometer, we’ve surpassed our peak number of active cases in Nebraska a few weeks ago. Currently we have 82,315 (that would be from our state’s weekly summary reports). That rate is increasing; deaths will follow in a couple weeks.

The total number of deaths recorded is 2,368 (we’ve wiped out the population of our seventy-third largest county out of ninety-three).

The Nebraska Panhandle still has one of the lowest vaccination rates of any area in the USA. I live in a soup of Covid-19.

worldometers.info

Hospitalisations are rising here again, now at twenty. The weekly positivity rate is 10.8% (and testing is not available unless you present to a hospital with symptoms or have returned from international travel, cost about $200, cash or cheque only).

Largest groups by age: 20-29, then 30-39, then 40-49

Total cases in the Panhandle plus Grant County: 10,633 (about 1/8 of the populace)

Percentage fully vaccinated: 36% (vaccines are only available in eight counties out of twelve, mostly at hospitals by appointment)

pphd.org

Here in Kentucky, you can walk into any pharmacy and get vaccinated, no appointment necessary. I don’t understand why vaccine availability is so limited in Nebraska. Is it because demand is so low?