Friday, April 29, 2022

PBS NewsHour features Fauci and Hotez for a pandemic update on Flashback Friday

Happy Arbor Day! I'm skipping any further celebration of the oldest environmental holidays today — maybe next year — to make good on my promise to write a retrospective of the top posts about the pandemic for Flashback Friday. Those will be over the jump, but first I am sharing PBS NewsHour's segments on the state of the disease with Dr. Fauci on why the U.S. is ‘out of the pandemic phase’.

As COVID cases begin to pick up across the U.S. the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday said that three out of every four children have been infected by COVID. This comes as the White House moved to make Paxlovid pills, which can reduce serious illness, more widely available. Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Biden's chief medical adviser, joins Judy Woodruff to discuss.
PBS NewsHour excerpted the last minute of this interview with the following video description: "The U.S. is 'out of the pandemic phase,' said Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top public health official who has helped lead the national response to COVID-19 for more than two years." That's the part of the interview that people from CNN to Trevor Noah picked up on, but Dr. Fauci also said that, while the U.S. is not currently in a pandemic phase, the planet is still in a pandemic. Stopping the disease in the rest of the world requires more widespread vaccination on a global scale. PBS NewsHour covered part of that effort when it asked Can the 'vaccine for the world' help end the global pandemic?

It’s a tiny vial with big ambitions to help bring an end to the pandemic everywhere on earth. The developers of the so-called “vaccine for the world” hope what’s inside can ease the equity issues surrounding global covid vaccine distribution. John Yang has the story.
Dr. Peter Hotez's and Dr. Maria Elena Bottazzi's Corbevax could be the solution to the issue covered in the second part of CNBC examines at-home testing and vaccine patents, a double pandemic update.
I find it particularly pertinent that India and South Africa asked for patent waivers. The Delta variant was first detected in India during late 2020 and Omicron in South Africa and Botswana during November 2021. Both of those arose after the two countries asked for the patent waivers and both might have been prevented if vaccinations had been more available sooner. We'll never know, but both cases still serve as cautionary tales.
If Corbevax passes its clinical trials in India and elsewhere, it will mean that low- and middle-income countries won't need the patent waivers for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.

Speaking of the Moderna vaccine, PBS covered the latest about it in News Wrap: Moderna seeks FDA approval for its Covid vaccine for children under 6.

In our news wrap Thursday, Moderna filed for FDA authorization of its Covid-19 vaccine for children under the age of 6, Oklahoma lawmakers gave final approval to ban abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, new research warns thousands of new viruses could spread in the next 50 years due to climate change, and President Biden is considering canceling additional federal student loan debt.
As I wrote in PBS NewsHour on U.S. death rate, long COVID, vaccines for preschoolers, and coronavirus in deer, a pandemic update, "Here's to the pediatric vaccine being found safe and effective so that the FDA approves it."

Follow over the jump for last year's top posts about the pandemic.


CNN defends Big Bird after Ted Cruz calls one of the character's tweets 'Propaganda,' a pandemic update from November 8, 2021 was the most read entry about the pandemic other than 'SNL' opens with holiday greetings from Fauci and others, which I covered in 'SNL' satirizes 'Fox & Friends' in its Supreme Court cold open. I shared at the Coffee Party USA Facebook page then TenGrain included the link in Mike's Blog Round-Up at Crooks and Liars, hence the two peaks in readership in the graphic above. Those shares played a big part in the post earning ~1,420 default and 1,603 raw page views, making it the third most read entry during November 2021. While it lost default page views during December 2021, ending the calendar year with ~1,410, it continued earning raw page views, ending the calendar year with 1,663. Those were enough for it to end 2021 in eleventh according to raw page views, fourteenth among entries posted during 2021 and sixteenth overall according to raw page views. It ended the 2021-2022 blogging year with ~1,590 default page views, a rare instance of gaining default page views over time, and 1,672 raw page views, ranking it eleventh according to raw page views, fifteenth among entries posted during 2021 and seventeenth overall according to raw page views.


I shared Colbert on the Supreme Court and Omicron variant from December 3, 2021 at the Coffee Party USA Facebook page. It was the third most read entry during December 2021 according to its ~1,250 default page views and second according to its 1,459 raw page views. Those also ranked it thirteenth among posts during the 2021 calendar year based on its default page views and sixteenth among entries posted during 2021 and eighteenth overall according to raw page views. It continued to earn page views during 2022, ending the eleventh year of Crazy Eddie's Motie news with ~1,460 default and 1,468 raw page views, ranking it thirteenth among posts during the 2021-2022 blogging year based on its default page views and seventeenth among entries posted during 2021 and nineteenth overall according to raw page views.


Seth Meyers and CNN take closer looks at Trump exposing 500 people to COVID last year, a pandemic 'update' from December 8, 2021 barely made the 1,000 raw page view cut to be included in this year's retrospective series based on page views. Like the posts above, I shared its link at the Coffee Party USA Facebook page. That helped it earn 849 default and 976 raw page views, ranking it third among entries posted during December 2022 and fourth overall. While those were not enough for the post to earn entry into the top twenty for calendar year 2021, it entered the default top twenty shortly afterwards, only to fall out when Colbert and Klobuchar on the insurrection one year later displaced it on January 6, 2022, so it didn't last long. It ended the 2021 blogging year with 971 default and 1,020 raw page views, ranking it twenty-second according to the former, thirtieth among entries posted during the blogging year and thirty-fourth overall.

Now to recycle my history of an entry about the pandemic I included in 'SNL' satirizes 'Fox & Friends' in its Supreme Court cold open.

'SNL' opens with holiday greetings from Fauci and others from December 12, 2021 was the second most read entry of the eleventh blogging year and the most read entry of the 2021 calendar year with ~8,080 default and 8,723 raw page views. I shared the link at the Coffee Party USA Facebook page, which was enough to make it go "viral" (pardon the pun). It passed Ten years ago, we were partying like it was 1929. Are we about to do it again?, knocking it out of the top 20 (Sic transit gloria mundi), and Instructions on how to deal with an active shooter between 9:00 A.M. and 10:00 A.M. on December 13, 2021 to reach 19th on the all-time top 20 according to default page views. It passed John Oliver on feelings over facts and Colbert on Trumpiness between 11:30 A.M. and 1:30 P.M, then Update to 'Suit against John Oliver and HBO dismissed,' top post for the seventh year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News and U.S. leaving Iran nuclear agreement pushes U.S. oil price above $70 plus driving update for May 2018: Pearl between 2:30 P.M. and 6:00 P.M. to rank 16th. It passed Flu killed 80,000 Americans last year, including 183 children, the CDC reported, so get a a flu shot at 10:27 P.M. (I watched it happen) to reach 15th. Between Midnight and 7:00 A.M. on December 14th, it passed both The tax bill and the U.S. economy in 2018 and beyond and Trump thinks Sanders is the right enemy to reach 13th. Between 9:30 A.M. and 10:00 P.M. on the 14th, it climbed over Seeker explains how television entertainment can shape our political opinions and John Oliver on stadiums and NFL cheerleaders for Super Bowl Sunday to land at 11th on the all-time list, where it remained until 1:45 P.M. EST on Christmas Day, when it passed Last Week Tonight examines Clinton and Trump foundations after winning three Emmy Awards to enter the all-time top 10, ending the month and calendar year at 8.02K default page views, the top post of calendar year 2021. This was the only addition to the all-time top 20 list during 2021. The entry continued its climb in the new year, passing A comparison of two measures of media bias shows readers and viewers respond to both ideology and quality between 11:00 A.M. and 2:00 P.M. on January 5, 2022 to reach ninth overall with 8.11K default page views. It reached 8.22K default page views before 'SNL' lampoons Fox News in its Ukraine cold open passed it about 5:52 P.M. on March 6, 2022 and pushed it down to tenth. To add insult to injury, it lost ~110 page views according to the default counter to fall to 8.11K page views and eleventh place slightly behind A comparison of two measures of media bias shows readers and viewers respond to both ideology and quality by 7:00 P.M. EST that night. Despite the default page views falling to 8.08K, the entry continues to earn readers, as the graphic shows it currently has 8.78K raw page views.
Now for the entries about the pandemic that got their attention through Twitter.


'Contagion' vs. COVID-19 updates last year's most commented entries on Throwback Thursday from April 29, 2021 and tweeted August 4, 2021 earned 2,350 impressions and 139 total engagements, the most for August 2021 in both, including 110 detail expands (most), 15 link clicks, 8 likes (most for the month), 3 retweets (most for the month), and 3 profile clicks (most for the month). The tweet of the same link on February 11, 2022 had the most impressions for February 2022, 1,141, and 26 total engagements, including 23 link clicks (most for the month) and 3 detail expands.



PBS NewsHour on U.S. death rate, long COVID, vaccines for preschoolers, and coronavirus in deer, a pandemic update from February 5, 2022 and tweeted the next day earned 612 impressions (fourth most) and 43 total engagements (second most and most on one of my tweets for the month), including 15 detail expands, 14 link clicks, 7 likes, 3 profile clicks, 6 replies in 2 threads (most replies and threads on one of my tweets for the month), and 2 retweets (tied for most for the month).

That concludes the look back at the top posts by page views for the eleventh year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News. Stay tuned as I finish the series by the most active posts by comments and on Twitter and Pinterest.

Previous posts in this series Previous retrospectives about disease outbreaks. Previous retrospectives about Twitter
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