From the New York Times this morning, authorities in the U.S. are considering delaying that second Moderna and Pfizer second shot so more people can be vaccinated.  While Anthony Fauci is against doing this, the UK has better controlled this infection by doing so: And remember, this is the country from which came that B.1.1.7 variant.  The two key points are that more of the population can be made partially immune after only one shot, and it is possible that a slight delay from the three-weeks to a month period to, say, three months or four, might make the vaccine even more effective than the 95% announced rate.  From the NYT: B ritain and the U.S. have now given a roughly similar number of   total shots per capita . The difference is that Britain has deliberately delayed second shots, by up to 12 weeks. The results are   impressive . Further, the FDA and CDC called for a pause of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine because 6 out of 6.8 million experienced extremely rare blood clots th

  From  Worldometer  (new deaths yesterday):          DAY    USA    WORLD     Brazil      India      South Africa June     9    1093     4732        1185        246        82 July    22     1205     7128        1293      1120       572 Aug    12     1504     6556        1242       835       130 Sept     9     1208      6222       1136      1168        82 Oct     21     1225      6849         571       703        85 Nov    25     2304    12025        620       518      118 Dec     30     3880    14748      1224       299      465 Jan      14       4142    15512       1151         189      712                       19       2804    14760      1183        161     839               20      4385    17350      1382        152     566           21       4363    16578      1335        161     647 Well, it's not getting worse.  Should be lower in a week, and even more so in a month.  The worrisome region is Africa, for in addition to South Africa, which yesterday had 11,381 new cases, Tunis