Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 10-11-2021

<p>This is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for October 11th, 2021.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>You might want to send Italy a congratulations. That country announced it’s reached its goal of 80% of the population over 12 being fully vaccinated. That amounts to 43 million people out of 60 million. However, a lot of people hit the streets not to celebrate, but to protest vaccine passports. Many of these gatherings turned into violent riots.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A comprehensive CBS News poll shows that most Americans are still worried about the pandemic with winter on the way, and a bit pessimistic in saying things are going to get worse in the coming months, not better. As for parents of young children, it’s split down the middle in terms of will they get their children vaccinated. Masking for kids in school does seem to have majority support. About half feel the information they hear from America’s health leaders has been confusing.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The deadline is right around the corner and at the moment, hundreds of thousands of U.S. service members are still unvaccinated. Most of those deadlines are in November and December. Different branches are delivering different levels of compliance. For instance 90% of the active-duty Navy is fully immunized while only 72% of active-duty Marines are.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The news is usually bad enough without getting it completely wrong. The New York Times issued a correction after their health and science reporter said 900,000 children have been hospitalized in the US with Covid-19. Not even a little bit close. The actual figure is a 63,000. The piece also got actions taken by regulators in Sweden and Denmark wrong. Wait, we’re not done. She also got the timing of an FDA meeting on authorizing the Pfizer vaccine for kids wrong.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Typically cautious and often a full-on buzzkill about holidays, Dr. Anthony Fauci says don’t worry about trick or treating outdoors this Halloween. While he says we shouldn’t declare premature victory and he