Coronavirus vaccine news, updates and information for 7-05-2021

<p>This is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for July 5th, 2021.</p><p><br></p><p>We know the U.S. did not reach its goal of partially vaccinating 70% of Americans by July 4. But 20 states did. But there are some states where the vaccination level is 35% or less.</p><p><br></p><p>The World Health Organization said the variants are moving faster than the global vaccine rollout. It’s urging leaders to speed up vaccinations or risk being overwhelmed. Delta’s been detected in at least 98 countries and is spreading in countries with both low and high vaccination coverage.</p><p><br></p><p>And now there’s another Covid-19 variant to track called Lambda. And it has scientists puzzled because of its unusual set of seven mutations. This variant was first discovered in Peru and has spread to nearly 30 countries in four weeks. Lambda accounts for 82% of all new cases in Peru, which has the highest Coronavirus death rate in the world.</p><p><br></p><p>It’s not really news anymore when a world leader gets COVID-19. It becomes news when the case is severe enough to cause hospitalization. And that’s what has happened to Luxembourg’s Prime Minister. He’s been hospitalized since yesterday morning after contracting the virus a week ago. The 48-year-old was isolating at home, but his case grew more threatening. He had had one dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Probably won’t get many more downloads from Singapore because as far as they’re concerned, COVID-19 is over. It could become one of the first countries to stop even recording daily case numbers. Instead, they’ll monitor things like ICU cases and how many had to go on a ventilator. Health officials there said, “We can't eradicate it, but we can turn the pandemic into something much less threatening, like influenza, and get on with our lives.”</p><p><br></p><p>In the United States cases were up 15%, deaths are down 26%, and hospitalizations are down 8% over 14 days. The 7-day average of new cases has been trending up since June 2