This is Coronavirus 411, the latest COVID-19 info and new hotspots… Just the facts… for February 1st, 2021.

AstraZeneca has agreed to supply 9 million additional doses of its vaccine to the European Union during the first quarter. The new target of 40 million doses by the end of March is still just half what the company originally aimed for before it announced a shortfall due to production problems.

New York City’s mayor acknowledged Black and Latino residents are getting vaccines at far lower rates than white or Asian residents. City health department data shows 48% of those who’ve gotten at least one vaccine dose are white. However, the numbers are incomplete because about 40% of those vaccinated in the city have not provided any demographic information.

China recorded more than 2,000 new domestic cases in January, that’s the highest monthly total since the tail end of the initial outbreak in Wuhan in March of last year. And that does not include another 435 infected who arrived from abroad. Two people have died in January, the first reported coronavirus deaths in China in several months.

Israel extended a national lockdown as new strains are offsetting its vaccination drive. While 24% of citizens have been vaccinated, a projected mid-January turnaround didn’t happen. Serious cases have surged among Israelis who have not yet been vaccinated.

If you get a card saying you’ve been vaccinated, maybe skip the cute selfie with it you were going to post on social media. The Better Business Bureau says these cards have personal information like name and birth date. And scammers can use these images to sell fake vaccine cards.

In the United States cases were down 33%, deaths are down 5%, and hospitalizations down 18% over 14 days. The 7-day average of new cases has been trending down since January 25th. 

There are now 9,911,107 active cases in the United States. The current top 5 states by number of active cases: California, New York, Florida, Arizona, and Georgia.

The top 10 counties with the highest number of recent cases per capita according to The New York Times: Chattahoochee, GA. Presidio, TX. Hitchcock, NE. Dimmit, TX. Upton, TX. Hartley, TX. Maverick, TX. Zavala, TX. Dallam, TX. And Culberson, TX.

The five states with the highest risk levels and most daily new cases per capita over 7 days are Arizona, South Carolina, Rhode Island, Oklahoma, and New York.

There’ve been a total 441,319 deaths in the US reported as COVID-related, with a current national fatality rate of 1.68%.

The states with the most new deaths reported as COVID-related: Iowa 250. California 226. Texas 179. New York 162. Alabama 122. Florida 120. Pennsylvania 113. Tennessee 76. Louisiana 58. And Ohio 54.

The top 3 vaccinating states by percentage of population that’s had at least one dose are Alaska at 12.5%, West Virginia at 10.7%, and Connecticut at 9.6%. The bottom 3 are Missouri at 5.1%, Idaho at 5.2%, and Kansas, Illinois, and Iowa at 5.8%.

Globally, cases were down 21%, and deaths up 4% over 14 days. The 7-day average of new cases has been trending down since January 11. 

Globally, there are now over 26 million active cases, at 26,154,213.

The five countries with the most new cases: the United States 107,816. Brazil 27,756. The U.K. 21,088. France 19,235. And Russia 18,359.

There have now been 2,227,074 deaths reported as Covid-related worldwide.

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