Seven people who attended a convention of anti-vax doctors have come down with covid.
Major League Baseball all star pitcher Doug Jones has died from covid.
259,017,146 total cases
5,183,461 dead
234,355,445 recovered
In the US:
48,835,216 total cases
796,319 dead
38,709,704 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
Wait, 5000+ people died in the US over one day?
One interesting thought in the news at the moment regarding why the UK infection/hospitalisation/death figures are not doing what some European figures are doing.
The AZ vaccine was used extensively in the UK early with a large dose-gap and being given to the older, more at-risk groups. Initially in Europe there was an over-stated risk from AZ and some countries shunned it or limited it to certain age-groups. (remember Macron’s comments about it being “quasi-effective” for over 65’s?)
The suggestion is that it actually prompts a much stronger and longer lasting, T-cell response than other vaccines and so provides better long-term protection for the older cohorts.
Data is yet to be released on this but it wouldn’t be a huge surprise if we do see precisely this sort of distinction between vaccine protections. Important to pin down those differences and verify them so that optimal vaccine schemes can be proposed and administered.
Granted, we are well into the fourth surge, and more and more people are “tired of covid” and taking fewer and fewer precautions…(I’ve seen masking in the stores running 75% to only 50%.)
However, could this be caused by some states not reporting their daily numbers, so when the aggregated numbers do come in, it causes sudden jumps?
One of us is misreading the numbers. I see just under 3000 in the US and 5000 for the world.
The 1 week average deaths in the US is currently just over 1100 per day, so as @Bonum_Legatum noted, 3000 in one day is probably just an artifact of uneven reporting.
How about Grogu eating the elf?
South Korea:
259,699,491 total cases
5,191,762 dead
234,831,231 recovered
In the US:
48,969,792 total cases
798,242 dead
38,789,049 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
Germany:
No more indoor distancing rules in Hawaii from next Wednesday, although masking will still be required along with proof of vaccination for restaurants.
Here’s some news:
While it doesn’t really have more news, this BBC article gives a bit more context to what we know and don’t know:
Well, damn! Is this the Delta disaster all over again??
Same song, different verse.
It’s exhausting.
260,278,393 total cases
5,198,879 dead
235,244,309 recovered
In the US:
48,999,737 total cases
798,551 dead
38,799,986 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
It seems likely that by the new year the US will have well over 51,000,000 total cases and over 825,000 covid deaths.
Fatigue has hit and I no longer care. Here in Yavapai County, we are at about 50% vaccinated. The closest hospital with a trauma facilities is no longer accepting trauma patients because they don’t have beds left so folks bleeding to death from a car accident have to be airlifted to other hospitals. I’m totally over this. I’m sick of trying to help people who don’t want to be helped, I’m checking out. It’s over, I don’t care, now it’s all about me and mine. Fuck all those un-vaccinated people who refused to believe in science until they got sick and scared and then clogged up the hospital and fucking murdered a good man who died while being loaded into a helicopter.
All hospitals should have large field hospital annexes with cheap-ass cots for anti-vaxxer covid patients, leaving regular, “normal”, existing wards for everyone else. And if vax-compliant patients are admitted and if annex patients have to be abandoned, well, too bad, so sad.
And those tents should be staffed by all of the anti-vaxxer so called doctors and nurses and janitors who won’t be bothered by the facts and can use all of the sheep dip they want while smiling their unmasked smiles.
Oh, god, I am soooo pissed off right now. All of my words are strong and loud and likely to get me a warning because they are so hateful.
I honestly never knew what hate really meant until trump and the pandemic.