{"id":13812,"date":"2021-04-05T17:31:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T00:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13812"},"modified":"2021-04-05T17:47:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T00:47:41","slug":"vaccination-nation-bradcast-452021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13812","title":{"rendered":"Vaccination Nation: ‘BradCast’ 4\/5\/2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

Both Desi and I, as seen in the photo, got our first COVID vaccine shots over the weekend! It was on the same day that a record 4 million Americans also received shots. And it was, in various ways, both revelatory and relieving as discussed on today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>. [Audio link to full show follows summary below.<\/i>]\n

There are additional signs<\/a> today that there is, indeed, light at the end of the COVID tunnel (and that the light is not<\/i> an oncoming train, as Desiree often warns!), but there are also serious concerns as confirmed infection rates are back on the rise<\/a> in more than 30 states, including some where it’s absolutely spiking<\/a> in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

Overall, cases rose more than 5% in the past week in the U.S., even as testing declined by 13%. We have significantly better news in that the new daily death rate has fallen<\/em> by some 20% over the past week, but COVID-related hospitalizations are once again on the rise. That’s usually followed by an increase in deaths.<\/p>\n

Moreover, there have been some very disturbing spikes in cases of younger people<\/a> becoming hospitalized in recent weeks in several states, as we are now in a race to distribute vaccine quickly enough to avoid allowing for deadlier and more transmissible variants to develop.<\/p>\n

As it has been a while, and as I’m in a reasonable good mood after Moderna #1 over the weekend, today seemed a good day to open up the phones to listeners to hear about how their own experiences getting vaccinated — or trying to — has been going and how it has gone for them. (I experienced mild fatigue for a day or so. Desi felt pretty much nothing.) And, for those listeners who do not plan to get a vaccine for some reason, we’re open to hearing why would be.<\/p>\n

Lots of different calls today made for another lively BradCast<\/i>! Please give it a listen!…<\/p>\n

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