# Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Thread - 2022 Breaking News
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022
**Category:** The Quarantine Zone
**Tags:** covid-quarantine
**Created:** [January 1, 2022, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022 "2022-01-01T05:02:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2022, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/1 "2022-01-01T05:02:05Z")
Here we go again.
In case anyone wants to easily find the previous threads:
[Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Thread - 2020 Breaking News](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758)
[Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Thread - 2021 Breaking News](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2021-breaking-news/929428)
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.
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2022, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/2 "2022-01-01T05:05:57Z")
For those curious, here are the stats as I found them at 12:01am on 1 January 2021:
83,842,646 total cases
1,826,373 dead
59,345,329 recovered
In the US:
20,445,654 total cases
354,215 dead
12,125,806 recovered
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### Author:  [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2022, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/3 "2022-01-01T05:11:54Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2022, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/4 "2022-01-01T05:14:05Z")
Thanks again, @Snowboarder_Bo.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2022, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/5 "2022-01-01T05:44:20Z")
Hawaii has seen more than 3000 new cases both yesterday and today. Not looking good.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2022, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/6 "2022-01-01T22:07:25Z")
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)
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2022, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/7 "2022-01-02T02:02:57Z")
289,699,610 total cases
5,456,960 dead
254,133,915 recovered
In the US:
55,864,519 total cases
847,162 dead
41,518,472 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
> [@](#):
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> 288,513,266 total cases
> 5,452,900 dead
> 253,687,713 recovered
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> In the US:
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> 55,696,500 total cases
> 846,905 dead
> 41,502,739 recovered
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2022, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/8 "2022-01-02T15:52:46Z")
> **[Twitter permanently suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene's account for spreading...](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twitter-reportedly-suspends-marjorie-taylor-144455069.html)**
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> "We permanently suspended Marjorie Taylor Greene for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy," Twitter said in a statement.
> Twitter has suspended Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s personal account for spreading COVID-19 misinformation.
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> “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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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2022, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/9 "2022-01-02T20:07:24Z")
COVID is in Antarctica again.
> **[Belgian scientific base in Antarctica engulfed by Covid-19 despite strict...](https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium-all-news/199687/belgian-scientific-base-in-antarctica-engulfed-by-covid-19-despite-strict-measures)**
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> Despite having to undergo four PCR tests and a ten-day quarantine before entering the base, one staff member tested positive for Covid-19 one week after his arrival.
> **[Coronavirus pandemic: Antarctic outpost hit by Covid-19 outbreak](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59848160)**
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> Eleven staff members at the station were infected but officials say the situation is not serious.
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### Author:  [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2022, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/10 "2022-01-02T20:31:49Z")
This is seriously discouraging…
> …
> 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.](https://soirmag.lesoir.be/414962/article/2021-12-28/la-station-princesse-elisabeth-paralysee-par-le-covid)
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> “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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> All three people were evacuated on 23 December, but the virus continued to circulate.
> …
How can the rest of us hope to escape it?
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2022, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/11 "2022-01-02T20:36:58Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#):
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> How can the rest of us hope to escape it?
I don’t dare look but I get the feeling that the right-wing spinning this as “Why bother trying to escape?”
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2022, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/12 "2022-01-02T23:44:23Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2022, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/13 "2022-01-03T00:17:34Z")
No doubt she’ll just get another flack to post on her behalf exactly as 45 has done with absolutely no enforcement action on the part of Twitter.
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2022, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/14 "2022-01-03T02:13:43Z")
290,632,901 total cases
5,460,317 dead
254,530,059 recovered
In the US:
56,142,175 total cases
847,408 dead
41,543,060 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#):
>
> 289,699,610 total cases
> 5,456,960 dead
> 254,133,915 recovered
>
> In the US:
>
> 55,864,519 total cases
> 847,162 dead
> 41,518,472 recovered
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2022, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/15 "2022-01-03T15:01:01Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2022, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/16 "2022-01-03T15:06:43Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#):
>
> Alot of states
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> **[The Alot is Better Than You at Everything](http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html?m=1)**
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2022, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/17 "2022-01-03T15:33:43Z")
I know about this first hand:
> **[$29,000 for an average used car? Would-be buyers are aghast](https://apnews.com/article/business-lifestyle-prices-2c8831b6f2d6c3228e4ad88f55c73a0c)**
>
> DETROIT (AP) — A couple of months ago, a woman paid a visit to Jeff Schrier's used car lot in Omaha, Nebraska. She was on a tight budget, she said, and was desperate for a vehicle to commute to work.
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### Author:  [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2022, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/18 "2022-01-03T17:37:05Z")
I bought a 2020 Honda Civic Sport sedan with a 6-speed manual two days before Xmas 2019. It has a hair under 30k miles on it. I paid $19,500 for it.
I just did a cursory search. The average asking price for that model, that year, in that configuration is $24K.
Unreal.
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### Author:  [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2022, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/19 "2022-01-03T17:51:19Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2022, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/20 "2022-01-03T17:53:49Z")
I have a 2014 Escape. Shocked to find that used models in that year are selling for close to $20,000. I paid about $34,000 eight years ago.
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