204,158,038 total cases
4,316,453 dead
183,352,006 recovered
In the US:
36,780,480 total cases
633,799 dead
29,923,320 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
ETA: 
I copy/pasted last night; the timestamp even says so.
EATA: Apparently I did the copying and the pasting but not the replacing. Doh! 
Seven-day averages of daily reported new cases from the Johns Hopkins site data –
Florida – A new record high – 33688 – beating the previous day’s
Mississippi – only a hair shy of its record value from January 11 – 2499 vs. 2516
Louisiana – a new record high of 5665
Hawaii – A new record high of 596, more than double any previous day’s record
That’s four states with new record highs. That hasn’t happened in months.
Still going up and getting close to previous record highs:
Oklahoma
Alabama
Georgia
South Carolina
North Carolina
Puerto Rico
Washington state
Oregon
Vermont
Kansas
Lots of other states are still increasing, as well, but not quite as close to their earlier highs. Yet .It’s hard to tell where to draw the line.
The Dakotas and surrounding states are still pretty low and not going up, but we’ll see what happens in the aftermath of the Sturgis rally.
And, on the international scene, the US has far and away the highest number of daily new cases, above our recent competitors like India and Brazil. We hadn’t been the leading country since back in April sometime.
With schools about to open, there’s a very real chance that we end up with a series of new mutations of concern. It’s interesting that some of the notable variants of interest/concern started emerging at around the same time - Q4 of 2020. Probably had more to do with the holidays as some variants came from the southern hemisphere. But the more we have large groups of people together, the worse it’ll get.
Over one hundred Floridians perish each day, but we aren’t even in a state of emergency!
Hurricane Charlie only killed thirty-five people…
~Max
204,776,810 total cases
4,326,877 dead
183,901,366 recovered
In the US:
36,892,215 total cases
634,662 dead
29,966,321 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
In my district, teachers are required to be vaccinated but students are not. So expect to see a surge this month and next month while politicians scratch their head wondering why.
Students under 12 aren’t even eligible for the vaccine yet, so yeah. But there are places that don’t require and apparently won’t even allow enforcement of masking, so there’s that.
Oregon has reinstated the statewide, indoor, face mask mandate.
But those over 13 i.e. high-schoolers can. But nope, not required.
Agreed - absolutely should be required unless there’s a medical reason not to do it.
With several hundred new cases a day for a while now, Hawaii just reimplemented 50% capacity for bars and restaurants.
205,542,853 total cases
4,337,580 dead
184,545,357 recovered
In the US:
37,060,454 total cases
635,219 dead
30,050,064 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
I don’t know where to post this, so hopefully this is an OK spot.
I live on the ID/WA border. There has been a huge difference between the two sides with regards to mask usage. WA universities have not yet mandated mask wearing indoors for all. So I was extremely shocked to see that all ID universities are requiring them as of today:
Watching the press conference now so no written story to link yet, but Chicago Public Health Dep’t is saying that Lollapalooza (began 14 days ago) was not a super-spreader or surge event. Commissioner gave very detailed numbers on vaccinated vs. unvaccinated attendees with Covid.
Express caveats from the commissioner’s mouth: (1) Lolla was an outdoor event with about 90% of attendees vaccinated, and (2) Chicago is not undergoing a Covid spike as in New Orleans, where cancelling Jazz Fest made sense.
New daily record highs in reported cases (seven day average)
Mississippi (3391)
Louisiana (7010)
Oregon (1874)
I suspect Florida, as well, but they’re not reporting daily cases.
Many others states are still rising rapidly, and might register new highs in the next few days (Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, etc.)
Texas Hospitals Are Already Overloaded. Doctors Are ‘Frightened by What Is Coming.’ (yahoo.com)
[T]he vast majority of patients hospitalized in Texas are not vaccinated…
To help manage the surge, Abbott appealed this week to health care workers outside the state to travel to Texas and help the overloaded hospitals.
Here’s an idea: Let unvaccinated health care workers (nurses, etc.) who refuse to take the vaccine care for the unvaccinated patients who refused to take the vaccine.
What’s not to like about this idea?
I’m ThelmaLou and I approve of this idea. And let’s send all the unvaccinated to their own facility. Maybe that jail that Greg emptied out. There’s probably still plenty of room in it.
To follow up on my own post, now there’s a Tribune article on the Lollapalooza thing.
As I’m not interested in becoming a subscriber, even for a low, low price, could you summarize?