244,838,122 total cases
4,970,301 dead
221,971,173 recovered
In the US:
46,417,525 total cases
757,849 dead
36,271,327 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
I’m noticing a slight upward trend with the worldwide numbers.
245,321,425 total cases
4,979,605 dead
222,403,510 recovered
In the US:
46,497,719 total cases
759,932 dead
36,375,189 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
A course of treatment that costs about $10 and is widely available reduced hospitalization about 60% and death about 90% in a study of unvaccinated people who had developed covid.
If that’s a medication that people take regularly, I would guess that there should be similar results in people who were already on fluvoxamine for their depression when they got COVID. They could look at that population to see if they generally avoided having to be hospitalized.
Very intriguing, when coupled with the recommendation by the CDC today that people suffering from depression should be added to the groups of people who should get boosters, because for some reason they fare worse than average when they get Covid, and are hospitalized at a much higher rate.
A definite upward trend is visible now on graphics for both global cases and deaths. The one I check is Worldometers and it definitely is an end to the steady decline in both since mid-August.
Just a few days shy of 5 million official deaths [plus the rest], most of them preventable.
246,279,146 total cases
4,996,480 dead
223,161,546 recovered
In the US:
46,685,145 total cases
763,784 dead
36,565,948 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
By the end of tomorrow there will be more than 5,000,000 people killed by COVID-19 worldwide.
Oahu is about to remove all restrictions on large indoor gatherings. The state governor disapproves but will not try to stop it. At least all attendees will have to be vaccinated.
Today the FDA formally approved the vaccine for kids. One step closer to making it happen!
My son’s school district announced today that one of their sites will be a vaccination center for kids as soon as it’s approved.
Apple’s iOS 15.1 update has a way to put your vaccination card into your iPhone wallet. Very cool.
Yep. I’m very non-techie, but I was able to do it. Easy-peasy.
I noticed today that when I double-clicked the side button to bring up Apple Pay, the vaxx record was peeking up at the bottom of the screen. You touch it and it’ll pop up over the credit card graphic (after you let the phone read your face). So you can bring it up as easily as you do Apple Pay.
I found the Wallet app. It wants me to add a credit card. (Don’t wanna, because my phone is unlocked so my wife can use it without my finger.) I don’t see anything that looks like a ‘side button’ in the app, and the only ‘side buttons’ on my phone are the volume and power buttons. I don’t see anything that says ‘vax record’.
246,785,332 total cases
5,005,015 dead
223,563,156 recovered
In the US:
46,771,979 total cases
765,722 dead
36,646,900 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
Side double click is for phones with face recognition. For phones with finger scan, I believe you double click the home button.
Hopefully someone with better tech skills than I will come along and explain it better. And I accessed my records through California’s state vaccine health records website, and I’m not sure how Washington state’s website operates. But for what it’s worth, this is what I did:
Make sure your iPhone is updated to to iOS 15.1.
Using the internet browser on your phone, find your state’s official vaccination record website. This might involve some kind of sign-up.
Once you find your record online through your phone, look for some option on the screen that says “add to Apple wallet”. (California’s state health website had this, and I don’t know if Washington does.) Click that.
Go to the Apple Wallet icon and click it open and see if you find the vaxx records there. If you do find it there:
You can bring it up quickly the same way you bring up Apple Pay. If you haven’t done this before, you do it by rapidly double-clicking the power button on the right side of your iPhone. When I do this, it brings up an image of whatever credit card I have loaded there. Now that the vaxx record is in the Wallet, it’ll also bring up a partial image of it peeking up at the bottom of the screen. Touch that, and it’ll kick the image up to the forefront. If you have no credit card in your Wallet, perhaps the vaxx record will already be the primary image that you see.
If this doesn’t help, as I say, someone more technically apt will hopefully come along and give some guidance.
Thanks, teela!
Nevada has no such option that I could find.
I just wanted to mention that Nevada’s mask compliance is amazing compared to Arizona. I got so used to seeing masked faces while I was in Las Vegas that I was shocked when I stopped for gas on the AZ side of the border.
247,137,539 total cases
5,010,545 dead
223,881,629 recovered
In the US:
46,799,970 total cases
766,117 dead
36,692,264 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
For Pennsylvania, I used the CLEAR app.