As I did last year, when I update tonight I’ll use the stats I posted in the old thread but here are the stats as I found them at 12:01am on 1 January 2022:
288,538,474 total cases
5,453,217 dead
253,714,393 recovered
In the US:
55,696,500 total cases
846,905 dead
41,502,739 recovered
That’s 2 years from the announcement of the discovery of this new virus: from zero to this.
Maybe some folks were more prescient than me, but I never thought we’d lose so many more people in 2021 vs. 2020.
The truly apocalyptic estimates of millions dead that first year in the U.S. never came to pass, thank the deity or vaccine of your choice. But I still recall those quaint days when some thought 2020 might just be like a “bad flu year” in terms of mortality.
The Johns Hopkins site has been updated for December 31. Bearing in mind the warning someone gave that statistics over a holiday weekend might not be completely trustworthy, take this cum grano salis. But it looks believably bad
New seven-day-averaged records of reported new COVID cases in
New York: – 64795
Vermont – 630 Dec 30
New Hampshire – 1736 Dec 30
Maine – 1236
Massachusetts – 17826
Rhode Island – 7467
Connecticut – 7126 Dec 30
New Jersey – 27652
Pennsylvania- 17714
Delaware – 1777
DC – 2944 Dec 30
Virginia – 13836 Dec 30
South Carolina – 7686
North Carolina – 19822
Georgia – 21256 Dec 30
Florida – 68439
Alabama – 6498
Mississippi – 3647 Dec 30
Michigan – 12949 Dec 30
Ohio – 19020
Wisconsin – 7918
Illinois – 25649 Dec 30
Indiana – 9186 Dec 30
Missouri – 6079 Dec 30
Arkansas – 3773
Louisiana – 7664 Dec 30
Colorado – 8605 Dec 30
Washington (state) – 7067 Dec 30
California – 47046
Hawaii – 2636
Puerto Rico – 9756
That’s 29 states , the territory of Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia all achieving record high daily reported cases of COVID (7-day average) on either December 30 or 31. That’s more than half the states. It seems to have hit the East Coast particularly hard, and the Midwest the least. Again, many states not listed here have either just rebounded from a record high, or are track to achieve on in the near future.
The United States as a whole hit a new world daily (averaged) record yesterday of 492,626 cases, almost twice the high reported last January and more than twice the number of cases reported by the nearest “competitor”, the UK (210,526 cases)
Twitter has suspended Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s personal account for spreading COVID-19 misinformation.
“We permanently suspended Marjorie Taylor Greene for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy,” Twitter said in a statement, as first reported by CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan. “We’ve been clear that, per our strike system for this policy, we will permanently suspend accounts for repeated violations of the policy.”
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Despite being located in one of the most remote places in the world, two-thirds of the station’s total 25 staff members have been infected. No severe symptoms have been reported as of yet, the Belgian Polar Secretariat confirmed to Le Soir Mag.
“All those present have received two doses of vaccine, and one person has even received a booster shot,” said Alain Hubert, the station’s executive operator and head of security measures.
All staff members preparing to depart to the station had to undergo a PCR test in Belgium two hours before leaving for South Africa, take a PCR test five days after their arrival in Cape Town, where they also had to quarantine for ten days. Another test was required when leaving Cape Town for Antarctica and another PCR test had to be undergone five days after arrival.
Despite the strict measures, one positive case was detected on 14 December among a group of people who had arrived at the base seven days earlier, and although this person was immediately placed in isolation, tests revealed that two others had also contracted the virus.
All three people were evacuated on 23 December, but the virus continued to circulate.
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Today’s reporting of Record new High Daily Reported New COVID Cases (7-day average) as of January 1 from the Johns Hopkins site:
New York – 62374 Massachusetts – 15238 New Jersey – 31941 Pennsylvania – 20026 Delaware – 2514 South Carolina – 7686 Florida – 61174 Puerto Rico – 9328 Alabama – 5570 Arkansas – 4208 Hawaii – 2761
Definitely concentrated along the East Coast now (except for Arkansas and Hawaii) ten states and one territory with new record highs. All states are in the red (meaning rising cases) except for New Hampshire. The United States, as a whole, did not set a new record high for new cases today, having tumbled slightly since yesterday.
Alot of states are now in the blue this morning. Many retreats from record high Saily New Reported COVID Cases (7-day average). But there are still a couple of record highs as of January 2:
Delaware – 3022 New Jersey – 31936 Maryland – 12740 Puerto Rico – 12261 Florida – 49444 Alabama – 7308 Pennsylvania - 24206 Arkansas – 3818 Hawaii - 3166
The US as a whole is continuing to fall from its record high a few days ago.
I have an adult trike with a basket and all. I can no longer use it due to bad back and hips. We paid 600 for it years ago. We have it up for sale for 1000 and a buyer is coming over this afternoon to look at it.
