Conservative love CBD for the same reason they love colloidal silver and other scam cures -grifters love snake oil. Deregulation of “nutritional supplements” has been a conservative thing for forever.
The CBD and Hemp industries love Mitch McConnell in particular.
After a couple of days without new record highs in new reported COVID infections, we get new ones reported as of yesterday, January 27
Tennessee – 29660
Maine – 1156
South Carolina – 18168
Indiana – 15620
Kentucky – 17224
Minnesota – 15969
Nebraska – 4877
Oklahoma – 12637
Montana – 3468
Wyoming – 1940
Idaho – 3956
Washington (state) – 26521
That’s 12 states with record highs as of yesterday. Although much of the country had its peak a week or more ago, we’re still seeing rises away from the coasts (except for Maine and Washington)
The US, as a whole, is still down, but it’s starting to creep back up.
Both yesterday and today the entire country (except for Maine) has been “blue” on the Johns Hopkins Corionavirus New Reported Cases page, meaning that the rates are going down everywhere, except Maine. And even there, it’s only slightly rising.
There are no new record high levels of reported new cases (seven day average) for the past three days. We appear to finally be over this recent hump, the biggest blip so far.
On the world chart, the US is still going down in reported new cases, and we have been surpassed, for the first time, by France. It’s the first time we’ve lost first place since July. My condolences to France, but it appears they will be decreasing soon, if the experience of India is a guide.
This was an interesting (and depressing) story.
The whole country’s blue on the Johns Hopkins site, including Maine this time. Again, no new records set.
On the World map, current data has the US back above France in overall reported new cases again, although we’re still down from our peak.
At the other end of the dial Tonga is at the very bottom spot [position 225] on the Worldometers chart, with one case in October 2021, who recovered.
While controlling covid entering was much easier as an island, there is a huge Tongan diaspora community that has been cut off, and I’m sure it has been incredibly hard for everyone to endure this isolation.
The breaking news is that the recent volcanic eruption and tsunami, which caused a great amount of damage, required bringing in supplies and assistance from off-island. While great care was taken to avoid introducing covid, unfortunately it has not been successful, so on top of everything else Tonga now has this to deal with. Vaccination is at 85% double-dosed, but as we are experiencing in Australia, people without boosters remain vulnerable and the number of cases rises very fast and is likely to flood their hospital system, which is when vulnerability from other factors will be harder to fight.
Not a good story at all.
Still no new record high reported cases of COVID anywhere in the country, and al the states are in the blue (decreasing trend), except South Carolina. But they had their record high on January 29.
The US daily reported cases are still going down. Now about 320,000 new cases a day, way down from our peak of over 800,000 cases a day, almost down to the levels of civilized countries like India and France
Palau looks terrible in the NYT case stats.
Good news. Although three states are in the red on the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus site as of February 2 (meaning increasing numbers of new reported COVID cases – 7-day average), no states have reported new record high levels of new cases since January 29 (last Saturday) On the wall in the changing room, that would be a sign reading “4 days without an incident”. Reported new cases in the US as a whole continue to decline, although we’re still beating the rest of the world.
Keep it up!
Just the fact that we are and remain so much higher than the rest of the world should make it abundantly obvious that it’s the programs and practices that many in the US have put in place that are keeping us outrageously high (and keep us from being able to relax the pracice that ARE in place, unlike the rest of the world). But some people need to see it spelled out:
Last January, a team of researchers searching for the coronavirus in New York City’s wastewater spotted something strange in their samples. The viral fragments they found had a unique constellation of mutations that had never been reported before in human patients — a potential sign of a new, previously undetected variant.
For the past year, these oddball sequences, or what the scientists call “cryptic lineages,” have continued to pop up in the city’s wastewater.
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Viral fragments with novel patterns of mutations appeared repeatedly at a handful of treatment plants, the researchers found.
Basically, their two main hypotheses are that it might be coming from nursing homes or from rats. Nobody knows. It’s in the wastewater in a few specific areas of NYC, and in California.
I’m guessing rats.
Oh goodie, a source for our next nasty variant.
From today’s (Feb. 3, 2022) New York Times (paywalled):
Covid News: Austria’s Vaccine Mandate Is Becoming Law
Phase 1, starting immediately: Austria will send advisory letters to everyone.
Phase 2, starting mid-March: Police will conduct random checks, including at traffic stops. Fines possible up to about $600.
Phase 3, later if needed: Create a registry and automatically fine everyone who doesn’t have their shots.
ETA: Another article (possibly not paywalled?) from Feb. 1 discussing the plan, and comparing with similar discussions happening in other Euro countries:
ETA: Yet another article on the subject, from CNN:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/20/europe/austria-covid-vaccine-mandate-vote-intl/index.html
Americans who have received a COVID-19 booster shot are 97 times less likely to die from the coronavirus than those who aren’t vaccinated, according to a new update from the CDC.
In addition, fully vaccinated Americans – meaning those with up to two doses, but no booster – are 14 times less likely to die from COVID-19 than unvaccinated people.
The number of average weekly deaths for those who were unvaccinated was 9.7 per 100,000 people, as compared with .7 of those who were vaccinated and .1 of those who had received a booster.
I miss @Snowboarder_Bo’s updates.
Same. I’ve tried to figure out where he got his numbers but haven’t had any luck.
@Snowboarder_Bo should be off of suspension, yes?
I don’t think he’s been back since he was suspended. Last I checked, he hasn’t read anything for about 6 days.
This is too bad. He always struck me as a fairy level-headed and rational guy. I hope he returns.
Masks work. The better masks are at filtering, the better they work at preventing positive test results.
This study was pre-omicrin.
Here is the money shot.
Hawaii hit a record single-day Covid death count of 18 today.