The Johns Hopkins site map of Daily Reported Cases (7-day average) shows all states in the red again today, meaning it’s going up in all of them. For January 6, new record highs were reported in:
Vermont – 1874 New Hampshire – 3321 New York – 84652 Massachusetts – 27358 Rhode Island – 7254 Connecticut – 13362 Washington DC – 3133 Pennsylvania – 25522 Virginia – 21052 South Carolina – 14984 Georgia – 22266 Florida – 69087 Michigan – 24603 West Virginia – 4848 North Carolina – 25310 Wisconsin – 12460 Illinois – 47496 Indiana – 16958 Kentucky – 12193 Tennessee – 12674 Mississippi – 9009 Minnesota – 8506 Iowa – 5199 Missouri – 13310 Arkansas – 5897 Louisiana – 16233 South Dakota – 2066 Nebraska – 3700 Kansas – 7458 Oklahoma – 5554 Texas – 77264 Colorado – 12450 New Mexico – 3704 Nevada – 5022 Utah – 8894 Arizona – 9958 Washington (state) – 16226 Oregon – 7001 California – 84100
That’s 38 states plus DC. Notice that it’s now spread to the center of the country, as well. A couple of days ago it was mainly on the coasts. States not on this list either had their peak a day or two ago, or are frighteningly close to setting a new record in the first time since a year ago.
The US as a whole registered 845175 new cases (7-day average) as of yesterday, setting a new daily world record that is more than three times the record we’d set a year ago and more than four times our nearest competitor, which is now France. Almost all countries are seeing steep rises in cases that is almost truly exponential.
They complain when you bring your COVID-positive kid out in public, but then they complain when you lock them in a trunk for quarantine. You just can’t win with some people.
New record daily reported cases (7-day average) as of January 7 2022:
Maine – 1359 Rhode Island – 8742 New Jersey – 34406 Florida – 99140 Pennsylvania – 26470 South Carolina – 18233 Georgia – 22266 Alabama – 11061 Wisconsin – 13428 Minnesota – 8770 Iowa – 5199 Missouri – 15978 Arkansas – 7568 South Dakota – 2357 Hawaii -3144
North Dakota will break its record by tomorrow – It has 1386 today and is rising very rapidly
Wyoming will probably do so, as well – 844 today
Idaho, too – 1566 today
Over the past two days, then, we had 40 states and DC setting new record high daily reported cases, with three more about to do so for the first time since a year ago.
The US set a new record of 856306 new reported cases as of yesterday (7-day averaged)
“The highly transmissible omicron variant chases and catches you. But our politicians are out there to welcome it with a hug,” said Dr. T. Jacob John, an Indian virologist. “I fear it is beginning to look a lot like last year.”
An update on Omicron in Ontario, Canada. It implies that being unvaccinated might increase risk of ICU admission by about 14 times. The unvaccinated ICU admissions may also be aged 40-60 rather than elderly people with other conditions.
The city began mass testing of its 14 million residents on Sunday after a cluster of 20 children and adults tested positive for COVID-19, including at least two with the omicron variant. Officials said the virus has been circulating so the number of cases could grow.
The Johns Hopkins site didn’t update since Saturday morning, January 8. Here are the updates since then, with new Record High Daily Reported Cases (7-day averaged) from January 8 and 9:
New Jersey – 33845 Delaware – 3168 Pennsylvania – 28736 Alabama – 11596 Arizona – 10518 Hawaii – 4289
There’s something very odd about these trends. States that had been shooting upwards at dizzying clips suddenly reversed. States poised to set new records suddenly stopped. The country went from completely red on the map (indicating upward trends in new cases) to many blue. There had been about 40 states setting new records over January 7-8, and now only 6 new records. It’s not as if I’m rooting for COVID, but this suddenly stop seems – untrustworthy. Of course, the extreme rise just before it was unprecedented, as well. We’ll see what happens over the next week.
The US as a whole did the same thing – braking from a skyrocket, unprecedented rise in cases to suddenly braking and reversing course. we’re down to just under 600,000 new cases reported as of yesterday 97-day average), down over 100,000 from the previous day.
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The current surge in COVID cases will likely drop off as suddenly as it began, both doctors said. [Dr. Jan] Patterson [an infectious disease physician at UT Health San Antonio] predicts this surge will be of shorter duration than those in the past and may die down in a month or two based on what’s occurred in other countries, though she can’t say that with 100 percent certainty.
The number of COVID cases is rapidly and sharply declining in South Africa, for instance, after case counts started to surge there around Thanksgiving.
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