# Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Thread - 2022 Breaking News **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 25
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2022, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/481 "2022-03-22T12:28:13Z")
A big study in the Lancet find that those who survive covid have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes. > [@Long Covid - what's the prevalence and prognosis?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-covid-whats-the-prevalence-and-prognosis/937157/77): > > Covid increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. A big review of data from the US veteran’s administration hospitals finds that those who survived covid for 30 days were about 40% more likely to develop diabetes than if they hadn’t had covid. That was an increase in the number of cases of about 13.5 per 1000 at twelve months. The increased risk was greater for those who were seriously ill with covid than for those who had milder cases, but were still significant for those who weren’t hos… ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2022, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/482 "2022-03-23T02:49:40Z")
We almost hit the one million mark. Also the deaths per million population is creeping up for both the world and the USA, with the USA rate about 3x that of the world as a whole. ETA: 7.0 more deaths per million versus 2.3 million deaths per million | Case count update as of | 3/23/2022 | 02:43 GMT | | --- | --- | --- | | | | | | _Worldwide_: | | | | | | | | Total cases | 474,083,375.0 | | | Dead | 6,121,946.0 | | | Recovered | 410,072,574.0 | | | Deaths / 1M pop | 785.4 | | | | | | | _In the US_: | | | | | | | | Total cases | 81,476,269.0 | | | Dead | 999,792.0 | | | Recovered | 63,450,626.0 | | | Deaths / 1M pop | 2,990.0 | | | | | | | **Differences since last time** | | | | | | | | _Worldwide_: | | | | | | | | Total cases | 2,157,465.0 | | | Dead | 17,526.0 | | | Recovered | 1,798,757.0 | | | Deaths / 1M pop | 2.3 | | | | | | | _In the US_: | | | | | | | | Total cases | 35,267.0 | | | Dead | 1,278.0 | | | Recovered | 231,501.0 | | | Deaths / 1M pop | 7.0 | | | | | | | | | | | **Last Time’s Numbers** | **March 22, 2022** | **01:18 GMT** | | | | | | _Worldwide_: | | | | | | | | Total cases | 471,925,910.0 | | | Dead | 6,104,420.0 | | | Recovered | 408,273,817.0 | | | Deaths / 1M pop | 783.1 | | | | | | | _In the US_: | | | | | | | | Total cases | 81,441,002.0 | | | Dead | 998,514.0 | | | Recovered | 63,219,125.0 | | | Deaths / 1M pop | 2,983.0 | | ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2022, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/483 "2022-03-23T21:35:44Z")
[Worldometer’s count](https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/) for the US has now crossed the 1 million deaths mark, while Johns Hopkins is still a bit shy of the mark. Globally its a sixth of the recorded and acknowledged deaths from this virus over 27 months, and obviously a fraction of the real mortality, and lingering deaths and poor future quality of life for many more. Its been a great tragedy and shown very clearly many of the failings of our leaders and how our societies look after their people. Am I being negative in feeling that aside from new vaccine technologies that we’ll ignore the bigger lessons? ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2022, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/484 "2022-03-23T22:27:39Z")
> [@Banksiaman](#): > > Am I being negative in feeling that aside from new vaccine technologies that we’ll ignore the bigger lessons?- Realistic. And yeah, that can be negative. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2022, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/485 "2022-03-23T23:51:59Z")
It’s hard to learn lessons when such a large number of people deny there was ever a problem to begin with. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2022, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/486 "2022-03-24T00:41:47Z")
> [@Banksiaman](#): > > Am I being negative in feeling that aside from new vaccine technologies that we’ll ignore the bigger lessons? We won’t ignore them. We will mock and vilify them. The next pandemic will be magnitudes worse. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2022, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/487 "2022-03-24T04:09:01Z")
Worldometer just totaled # 1 Million US Covid Deaths this evening. 😢 ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2022, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/488 "2022-03-24T15:05:50Z")
Can’t find zip about it on CNN or the BBC, though… ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2022, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/489 "2022-03-24T15:57:23Z")
Johns Hopkins still shows 975K. I expect it will become newsworthy when their meter crosses 1M. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2022, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/490 "2022-03-24T15:59:09Z")
Yeah, most of the US media seems to use Johns Hopkins as their source, so I expect that to trigger the media blitz about 1M dead. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/491 "2022-03-25T02:48:10Z")
| Case count update as of | 3/25/2022 | 02:38 GMT | | --- | --- | --- | | | | | | _Worldwide_: | | | | | | | | Total cases | 478,183,630.0 | | | Dead | 6,133,665.0 | | | Recovered | 412,791,461.0 | | | Deaths / 1M pop | 786.9 | | | | | | | _In the US_: | | | | | | | | Total cases | 81,565,957.0 | | | Dead | 1,002,259.0 | | | Recovered | 63,821,573.0 | | | Deaths / 1M pop | 2,998.0 | | | | | | | **Differences since last time** | | | | | | | | _Worldwide_: | | | | | | | | Total cases | 4,100,255.0 | | | Dead | 11,719.0 | | | Recovered | 2,718,887.0 | | | Deaths / 1M pop | 1.5 | | | | | | | _In the US_: | | | | | | | | Total cases | 89,688.0 | | | Dead | 2,467.0 | | | Recovered | 370,947.0 | | | Deaths / 1M pop | 8.0 | | | | | | | | | | | **Last Time’s Numbers** | **3/23/2022** | **02:43 GMT** | | | | | | _Worldwide_: | | | | | | | | Total cases | 474,083,375.0 | | | Dead | 6,121,946.0 | | | Recovered | 410,072,574.0 | | | Deaths / 1M pop | 785.4 | | | | | | | _In the US_: | | | | | | | | Total cases | 81,476,269.0 | | | Dead | 999,792.0 | | | Recovered | 63,450,626.0 | | | Deaths / 1M pop | 2,990.0 | | ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/492 "2022-03-25T21:13:17Z")
Here’s some food for thought from the UK > **[UK Covid infections climb by a million in a week](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-60872687)** > > About 4.3 million people - or one in every 16 - are thought to have the virus, compared to 3.3 million the week before. As @Novelty_Bobble pointed out up thread (#480), the actual effects of COVID now are generally much less serious (given mass vaccination, herd immunity etc). So whilst rates of hospitalization are rising, [usage of ventilator support has barely increased](https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare). Similarly, deaths per day is pretty level (same ref, different tab) - though admittedly, there may be a lagging increase just round the corner. From the BBC story: > According to the [latest figures](https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/), there were 17,440 patients in hospital with the virus on 24 March. About half will have been admitted for something else, rather than Covid, but tested positive. > > Just over 300 of them needed an intensive care bed with a ventilator to help them breathe. > > England’s chief medical officer Prof Sir Chris Whitty said earlier this week that while the virus was causing pressure in the NHS, the high rates of transmission were fortunately not translating into lots of intensive care cases and deaths. j ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/493 "2022-03-25T22:19:04Z")
Yes it is a curious situation at the moment. I know lots of people who are testing postitive but very very few that are having any problem with it. Life is definitely on the road back to normality, Ukraine is the big story, not covid. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2022, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/494 "2022-03-26T00:34:32Z")
| Case count update as of | 3/26/2022 | 00:23 GMT | | --- | --- | --- | | | | | | _Worldwide_: | | | | | | | | Total cases | 479,312,411.0 | | | Dead | 6,137,896.0 | | | Recovered | 413,891,716.0 | | | Deaths / 1M pop | 787.4 | | | | | | | _In the US_: | | | | | | | | Total cases | 81,595,899.0 | | | Dead | 1,003,075.0 | | | Recovered | 64,030,552.0 | | | Deaths / 1M pop | 3,000.0 | | | | | | | **Differences since last time** | | | | | | | | _Worldwide_: | | | | | | | | Total cases | 1,128,781.0 | | | Dead | 4,231.0 | | | Recovered | 1,100,255.0 | | | Deaths / 1M pop | 0.5 | | | | | | | _In the US_: | | | | | | | | Total cases | 29,942.0 | | | Dead | 816.0 | | | Recovered | 208,979.0 | | | Deaths / 1M pop | 2.0 | | | | | | | | | | | **Last Time’s Numbers** | **3/25/2022** | **02:38 GMT** | | | | | | _Worldwide_: | | | | | | | | Total cases | 478,183,630.0 | | | Dead | 6,133,665.0 | | | Recovered | 412,791,461.0 | | | Deaths / 1M pop | 786.9 | | | | | | | _In the US_: | | | | | | | | Total cases | 81,565,957.0 | | | Dead | 1,002,259.0 | | | Recovered | 63,821,573.0 | | | Deaths / 1M pop | 2,998.0 | | ---
**Author:** ![mistymage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mistymage/32/459_2.png) [@mistymage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mistymage)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2022, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/495 "2022-03-26T15:57:10Z")
Well, crap. I was quite happy to get the J&J “one and done” shot back when it was that or waiting and waiting. I got “boosted” with I think a Moderna shot (too lazy to go get my vax card). Now I’m worried and have no idea as to whether I should beg my doc for another shot or just wait. " For the week of January 8, COVID-associated deaths among Americans who were vaccinated with Johnson & Johnson reached a rate of more than 5 out of every 100,000, according to [the CDC’s figures](https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#rates-by-vaccine-status). That’s higher than the rate among recipients of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, which was around 2 deaths per 100,000 people. It remains a fraction of the rate of COVID-19 deaths for unvaccinated Americans, which was close to 20 per 100,000. Among only boosted Americans, those who had been vaccinated initially with the Johnson & Johnson shot had higher rates of COVID deaths than those who started with doses of Pfizer or Moderna." > **[Omicron deaths of Johnson & Johnson recipients were double the rate of...](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-omicron-johnson-johnson-vaccine/)** > > Rates of breakthrough COVID-19 cases were largely similar among all three vaccines in the CDC's data. ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2022, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/496 "2022-03-26T17:22:17Z")
You might not need to beg…I was at a grocery store pharmacy a couple of weeks ago and asked if I was going to need a second Moderna booster. The nice young lady I was talking to said that they weren’t officially doing second Moderna boosters but she’d be happy to give me one, do I have my vax card? I didn’t get it, but there certainly didn’t seem to be any barriers if I had wanted to. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2022, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/497 "2022-03-26T19:47:18Z")
A friend of mine had the two Pfizer shots and a booster, and yesterday she got a Moderna booster at CVS. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2022, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/498 "2022-03-26T20:24:48Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#): > > The nice young lady I was talking to said that they weren’t officially doing second Moderna boosters but she’d be happy to give me one > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > A friend of mine had the two Pfizer shots and a booster, and yesterday she got a Moderna booster at CVS. The doctors or pharmacies giving these shots aren’t doing it for free. They send the bill to Medicare or whatever gov’t agency is paying for it. It’s possible they disallow it and send the bill on to you. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2022, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/499 "2022-03-26T22:02:22Z")
I didn’t say it was free. (I know, you didn’t say I did. Just clarifying.) It would be perfectly fine with me if I got the shot followed by a bill. TNSTAAFL. ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2022, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/500 "2022-03-26T22:22:29Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > The doctors or pharmacies giving these shots aren’t doing it for free. They send the bill to Medicare or whatever gov’t agency is paying for it. It’s possible they disallow it and send the bill on to you. My young lady also didn’t say if it would be free, but they also have my insurance details so I assume they would bill my insurance if the state didn’t want to pay for it. I was good with that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022.md?page=24) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022.md?page=26)