Perhaps they could be encouraged to exile themselves to a small leaky old freighter somewhere in the open ocean.
169,091,368 total cases
3,512,481 dead
150,722,266 recovered
In the US:
33,971,207 total cases
606,179 dead
27,662,268 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
169,633,346 total cases
3,525,117 dead
151,337,796 recovered
In the US:
33,999,680 total cases
607,726 dead
27,701,879 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
I believe this is the first time that there have been no posts between the daily stats from one day to the next. Hopefully a sign that the virus is winding down, although those daily death numbers seem like they are going up.
Nah; it’s happened a bunch of times. Just not much “omg news” happening right now. It’s more just the slow, steady slog towards getting it firmly under control.
Of course, there’s also the Olympics to look forward to/dread:
…things (in the US) are essentially back to where they were between June and November last year before the start of the Christmas surge. From the NYT death numbers (which are slightly different to other numbers out there) there were 1300 deaths yesterday, 966 deaths the day before that, 699 deaths the day before that. I predicted after the CDC lifted the mask mandate that the daily death numbers would fluctuate between 200 and 1000 deaths a day for a long time yet: at least till the end of the year. My prediction remains unchanged.
Just enough people are vaccinated to hopefully prevent another massive surge. But not enough vaccinated to do anything but keep the curve relatively flat. The medical system won’t get overrun. But thousands of people are and will still die every week.
Maybe it will be like a flu season that never ends. Flu season is typically just 13 weeks long and may average around 250 deaths per day over that time. And actually, the total number of Covid cases at this point is similar to a flu season. But the number of deaths is much higher. A typical flu season might have around 35k deaths but Covid is over 600k from about the same number of cases.
Our county now has fewer new cases per day than any time since May 2020. We are also fairly higher vaccinated: over 60% fully vaxxed. Not a coincidence.
It’s not over. Especially not for the unvaccinated.
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Unvaccinated people are getting the wrong message, experts said.“They think it’s safe to take off the mask. It’s not,” said Lynn Goldman, dean of the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University. “It looks like fewer numbers, looks like it’s getting better, but it’s not necessarily better for those who aren’t vaccinated.”
The adjusted rates in several states show the pandemic is spreading as fast among the unvaccinated as it did during the winter surge. Maine, Colorado, Michigan and Washington state all have covid-19 case spikes among the unvaccinated, with adjusted rates about double the adjusted national rate. The adjusted rates of Minnesota, Oregon and Pennsylvania are slightly lower.
…Coronavirus vaccines are virtually perfect in preventing deaths, so the decline in deaths nationally hides the steady covid death rate among unvaccinated people.
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That’s a great article. It normalizes for vaccinated so you’re only looking at unvaccinated. For states that have large unvaccinated populations, the adjusted rates look like the winter surge. I think that’s due to the highly contagious variants. It’s also showing how much the vaccines are kickin’ Rona ass, even variant Rona.
That article is amazing!
Thank god everyone I know (> age 12) is fully vaccinated.
But it also shows that rates of infection are going down in most states, even among the unvaccinated.
170,142,545 total cases
3,537,778 dead
151,967,403 recovered
In the US:
34,022,657 total cases
608,961 dead
27,767,040 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
I don’t recall which state but the Washington Post noted in an article this morning that yesterday’s numbers are high because a state finally reported on hundreds of backlogged cases not previously accounted for.
Vietnam:
Guangzhou, China:
Paris:
Couldn’t load the article but no real reason why viral rates in unvaccinated people should change just because everybody is tired of this thing.
Thanks again to the SnowboarderBo for his diligence. I hear Vegas is “betting big” on vaccination efficacy and has decided to open way up.
Hawaii has dropped its mask mandate for outdoors. Still required indoors. Feels like everyone is poised to go crazy here this holiday weekend.