The COVID death rate by vaccination status in the US.
[From our post by @redouad and @maxcroser on death rates by vaccination status: https://t.co/oIThAQHc09] pic.twitter.com/cxKWOhArM8— Our World in Data (@OurWorldInData) January 25, 2022
Breaking: Covid-19 deaths in the U.S. reached the highest level since last February after Omicron, though milder for some, spread with record-breaking speed https://t.co/POFb7IbMkc
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) January 25, 2022
#NEWS: Covid-19 cases in children top 1 million for the first time, American Academy of Pediatrics reports https://t.co/pfNrdPdEio
— Jen Christensen (@jechristensen) January 25, 2022
To the extent that I have a point here, it's that I think it's occasionally easy to treat people's reactions to Covid as static, but in contrast to fixed political opinions, this is a topic where a lot of the public really is updating their behavior as things evolve.
— Ariel Edwards-Levy (@aedwardslevy) January 25, 2022
Most recent data from NYC continues to show that those who were unvaccinated were far more likely to get infected during Omicron surge than vaccinated. Unfortunately, the tenor of much of media coverage really suggested everyone was getting infected at relatively equal rates. pic.twitter.com/uHOk8or17d
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) January 25, 2022
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#COVID19 vaccine dose donations carry ancillary costs for essentials like syringes, safety boxes, transportation and insurance. Urgent funding is needed to help cover those costs and turn vaccine deliveries into vaccinations: https://t.co/nf4m3H37yN
via @FT— Seth Berkley (@GaviSeth) January 25, 2022
Beijing has begun a third round of mass testing of millions of people in the run-up to next week's Winter Olympics. The city reported 14 new virus cases. China has stepped up already strict pandemic measures to quash any outbreaks ahead of the Games. https://t.co/l6FjqEp6XR
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 26, 2022
The Chinese capital reported 14 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday as it began a third round of mass testing of millions of people in the run-up to the Winter Olympics.
The mass testing announcement, made late Tuesday by Beijing’s Fengtai district on its social media account, prompted complaints from some residents who were asked to line up yet again outside as daytime temperatures hovered around freezing.
Beijing has stepped up China’s already strict pandemic response measures as it tries to quash any outbreaks ahead of the Olympics, which open in nine days. The city announced this week that anyone who buys fever, headache or two other types of medicine will be subject to a COVID-19 test within 72 hours.
All 2 million residents in Fengtai district, where most of the cases in Beijing have been found, are being tested for the third time since last weekend. Testing was also being carried out for residential communities and neighborhoods elsewhere in Beijing.
About 90 people commented online on the mass testing announcement, mostly making complaints. Some said the frequent testing wastes resources, disrupts work and daily life, and burdens health care workers and community officials…
Caveats: IMO, it would not be tremendously surprising if some expats chose to say ‘too much quarantine’ instead of ‘worried about increasing crackdowns by the PRC’. Also, given the fraught local history (FILTH = Failed in London, Try HongKong), perhaps not every HongKonger will be sad to see the gweilo go…
'We anticipate an exodus of foreigners, probably the largest that #HongKong has ever seen, and one of the largest in absolute terms from any city in the region,' says a draft report by the city's EU chamber. @FayCortez & @iainmarlow report https://t.co/TPLbSlJrPO
— Douglas Wong (@WongDouglas) January 26, 2022
S.Korea's daily COVID-19 cases surge as new testing scheme begins https://t.co/I9TA6WjOPV pic.twitter.com/Xg5EizmaeR
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 26, 2022
singapore is massively vaccinated and is seeing case numbers go up too, but you know what isn't going up? the tiny bit of this pie that isn't green pic.twitter.com/ns0F0pPewW
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) January 26, 2022
The Australian navy was allowed to unload humanitarian supplies for disaster-stricken Tonga despite nearly two dozen sailors being infected with COVID-19. The South Pacific nation is one of the few countries in the world currently completely virus free. https://t.co/daQ5wgTPvt
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 26, 2022
Israel's advisory group recommends 4th shot for all adultshttps://t.co/gncSxYZEnd @mroliverbarnes @donatopmancini
Expected to soon be approved by @IsraelMOH
In context of a country w/ circulating virus at unprecedented levels (see "Omicronized" post earlier) https://t.co/DP6fIXcjvj pic.twitter.com/ZCnxlN5rku— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) January 25, 2022
Russia set a sixth consecutive daily record for coronavirus infections Wednesday as officials warned that the surge fueled by the more-contagious Omicron variant could continue for another two weeks https://t.co/mIf97QTRoi
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) January 26, 2022
As Russia escalates tensions w/ Ukraine, the Russian population is being waylaid by #OmicronVariant. The country keeps setting daily virus records: The Russian Coronavirus Task Force reported a jump in new cases —a spike of >25% since late last week https://t.co/utSkit2edl pic.twitter.com/VYzpRILIvk
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) January 26, 2022
Bulgaria posts new record of 12,399 daily COVID infections https://t.co/uJsaWQdYvs pic.twitter.com/HgAGVtx8Pd
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 26, 2022
A growing number of people in Germany have joined grassroots initiatives and demonstrations as a counterweight to COVID-19 vaccine skeptics, conspiracy theorists and far-right extremists who have been protesting coronavirus measures. https://t.co/cpF9iQd0em
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) January 26, 2022
German COVID cases hit record as parliament debates vaccine mandate https://t.co/elgKIF4YgY pic.twitter.com/WwwSVYJiXj
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 26, 2022
Both our countries have reputations to uphold. https://t.co/nDp8GCSLvr
— Bruno Tertrais (@BrunoTertrais) January 25, 2022
The Netherlands is further easing coronavirus restrictions, allowing bars, restaurants, museums, theaters and other venues to reopen from Wednesday for the first time this year. https://t.co/cjROMffGKH
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) January 25, 2022
An English COVID-19 study reported record prevalence in January after an Omicron-fueled spike in infections, Imperial College London said, adding that infections had dropped back from their peak but were now plateauing https://t.co/H4rvYSwPlR
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 26, 2022
“Imagine Africans working so hard to contribute to a database used to make or update vaccines, and then we don’t get access to the vaccines. It’s very demoralizing.” – Christian Happi @acegid in Nigeria.
I wrote this 9 months ago & STILL just 2% of Nigerians are fully vaxxed. https://t.co/MJpCYAm51r
— Amy Maxmen, PhD (@amymaxmen) January 25, 2022
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Pfizer & BioNTech have launched research into an #Omicron vaccine w/ initial results expected in the 1st half of the year. Study expected to include ~1420 volunteers & will evaluate the safety/tolerability of the vax & how well it raises antibody levels https://t.co/ytrgtOp98Z
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) January 26, 2022
Scientists are keeping their eyes on a descendant of the omicron variant that has been found in at least 40 countries. https://t.co/CTqV2kQqBK
— AP Health & Science (@APHealthScience) January 25, 2022
Covered and translated @nytimes by @PamBelluck with @VirusesImmunity
Potential for early antiviral treatment to clear virus
Caveats such as 70% in-patients, short follow-uphttps://t.co/VKcqAmexzf— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) January 26, 2022
… One of the four factors researchers identified is the level of coronavirus RNA in the blood early in the infection, an indicator of viral load. Another is the presence of certain autoantibodies — antibodies that mistakenly attack tissues in the body as they do in conditions like lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. A third factor is the reactivation of Epstein-Barr virus, a virus that infects most people, often when they are young, and then usually becomes dormant.
The final factor is having Type 2 diabetes, although the researchers and other experts said that in studies involving larger numbers of patients, it might turn out that diabetes is only one of several medical conditions that increase the risk of long Covid…
The primary purpose of vaccines is to prevent disease. The vaccines do this.
The vaccines don’t prevent transmission entirely but they do significantly reduce it. With a booster, VE against infection is approaching 70%. So this is entirely wrong. https://t.co/a6v36e5OF3
— Dr. Angela Rasmussen (@angie_rasmussen) January 25, 2022
Fun fact: the Salk polio vaccine isn’t sterilizing but it eliminated polio in the US in a decade. But it took a decade & it took decades more for polio to be mostly eliminated globally. It’s still around today, due to incomplete vaccination in the few countries where it remains.
— Dr. Angela Rasmussen (@angie_rasmussen) January 25, 2022
"Malaria killed more than 600,000 people in 2020. Ten million fell ill with tuberculosis that same year and 1.5 million died."
"A disease can be endemic and both widespread and deadly." https://t.co/mSAwUlTv76
— Katarina Gray-Sharp, PhD (@DrGraySharp) January 25, 2022
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The US CDC updated its data on deaths by vaccination status.
One key takeaway: the large relative reduction in death rates after full vaccination doesn't only apply to older people.
Here are weekly deaths among 12-17 years old, 18-29, 30-49, 50-64.
[From https://t.co/u2s10IcZMC] pic.twitter.com/gRWoYcVTi9— Edouard Mathieu (@redouad) January 24, 2022
L.A. County is also averaging about 60 COVID-19 deaths a day, a rate that exceeds all past surges except for last winter’s.
(Reposted thread to make clearer a math thing in an earlier thread.) https://t.co/z8JUeUztST
— Ron Lin (@ronlin) January 26, 2022
Perhaps the pandemic will not be over until every last celebrity B-roll Repub gets their sixteenth minute of fame…
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's defamation lawsuit against The New York Times will be delayed after she tested positive for COVID-19. Palin has had COVID-19 before and has urged people not to get vaccinated.https://t.co/Altjj86ePo
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 24, 2022
The whole thing could be done remotely — the judge explicitly offered that alternative — but of course Palin dreams of all the Noo Yark teevee ME-eeja attention that she imagines will be riveted by her live performance. (Also, you can’t embarrass an upscale Manhattan restaaurant over Zoom… )
… The Republican’s positive test was announced in court just as jury selection was set to begin at a federal courthouse in New York City.
Palin claims the Times damaged her reputation with an opinion piece penned by its editorial board that falsely asserted her political rhetoric helped incite the 2011 shooting of then-Arizona U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords. The newspaper has conceded the initial wording of the editorial was flawed, but not in an intentional or reckless way that made it libelous.
U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff said the trial can begin Feb. 3 if Palin, 57, has recovered by then…
Rakoff said that courthouse rules would permit her to return to court Feb. 3, even if she still tests positive, as long as she has no symptoms. If she does have symptoms, she can be looked at on Feb. 2 by a doctor who provides services to the courts, he said.
On Saturday, Shawn McCreesh, a features writer for New York Magazine tweeted that Palin was seen at Elio’s restaurant on Manhattan’s Upper East Side and he quipped in a follow-up tweet: “My mom thought she was Tina Fey.” Fey was widely praised for her portrayal of Palin on Saturday Night Live when Palin was campaigning for vice president in 2008…
Elio’s, a restaurant in Manhattan, said it was investigating after Sarah Palin, who's not vaccinated against the coronavirus, dined indoors there on Saturday despite a city vaccine mandate. She tested positive for the virus on Monday. https://t.co/cuzmsUiKLX
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 24, 2022
“But in general, what’s standing in the way of normal life is Covid, not Covid prevention.”
Preach @michelleinbklyn https://t.co/3hzwM8Ms2U pic.twitter.com/DMCcxFUeuW
— Megan Ranney MD MPH ? (@meganranney) January 26, 2022
On The Road – BigJimSlade – Hiking in the Italian Dolomites – 2021 – Day 2, part 2
Baud
It shouldn’t have taken long to put that first chart together.
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY:
967 new cases reported. Deaths now at 1672.
We’ve finally hit 70% of the local population vaccinated.
176 COVID cases in the hospital, 67% unvaccinated.
28 cases in the ICU, 78.5% unvaccinated
18 cases in the ICU are intubated, 77.7% unvaccinated
YY_Sima Qian
On 1/25 China reported 24 new domestic confirmed (none previously asymptomatic) & 20 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
At Xi’an in Shaanxi Province 35 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There are currently 176 active domestic confirmed cases in the province.
Guangdong Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed case. There currently are 59 active domestic confirmed & 6 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
At Guangxi “Autonomous” Region 2 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 5 active domestic confirmed (6 at Dongxing in Fangchenggang & 1 at Ningming County in Chongzuo) & 1 active domestic asymptomatic (at Chongzuo) cases in the province.
Tianjin Municipality did not report any new domestic positive cases. 41 domestic confirmed cases recovered & 1 domestic asymptomatic case was released from isolation. There currently are 229 active domestic confirmed & 4 active domestic asymptomatic cases (all presumed Omicron). 10 residential compounds remain at High Risk. 13 residential compounds & 3 villages are currently at Medium Risk.
Beijing Municipality reported 14 new domestic confirmed (7 mild & 7 moderate) & 5 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 16 of there new domestic positive cases are from persons under centralized or home quarantine & 3 from expanded screening of persons deemed at risk of exposure, all related to the Delta outbreak at cold storage warehouses in Fengtai District. There currently are 49 active domestic confirmed cases & 16 active domestic asymptomatic cases. 1 residential compound is currently at High Risk. 1 residential compound & 1 village were elevated to Medium Risk. 5 residential compounds, 1 village & 1 warehouse are currently at Medium Risk.
Liaoning Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed case, at Shenyang, a refrigerated truck driver who made pickups at cold storage warehouses w/ outbreaks at Fengtai District in Beijing. The case returned to Shenyang on 1/21, tested positive from voluntary testing. There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed (at Shenyang) & 4 active domestic asymptomatic (3 at Dalian & 1 at Shenyang) cases in the province.
Shandong Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently at 2 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Shanxi Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed cases in the province (1 each at Datong & Yuncheng).
Hebei Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed case, at Baoding, a person who had worked at a cold storage warehouse in Fengtai District in Beijing. The case returned from Beijing on 1/20, had tested negative on 1/21. There currently are 6 active domestic confirmed cases (5 at Xiong’an & 1 at Baoding) in the Province, all part of the transmission from the cold storage warehouses outbreak in Beijing.
Horgos in Yili Prefecture, Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region reported 2 new domestic confirmed & 6 new domestic asymptomatic cases. There currently are 8 active domestic confirmed & 24 active domestic asymptomatic cases at the border crossing. 4 residential compounds & 1 residential building were elevated to Medium Risk.
Mudanjiang in Heilongjiang Province reported 4 new domestic confirmed (3 mild & 1 moderate, 3 at Suifenhe & 1 at Dongning) & 9 new domestic asymptomatic cases (all at Suifenhe), all found via weekly screening of all personnel at border crossings. All are logistics workers that handle imported foodstuff from Russia, or their family members.
Shanghai Municipality did report any new domestic positive cases. 1 domestic confirmed case recovered & 1 domestic asymptomatic case was released from isolation. There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed & 18 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 1 village & 1 shop are currently at Medium Risk.
At Wuxi in Jiangsu Province there currently are 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases remaining.
At Zhejiang Province 3 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 67 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. A factory & a village at Jinhua remain at Medium Risk.
Henan Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed case. 37 domestic confirmed case recovered. There currently are 831 active domestic confirmed cases in the province.
Yunnan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 10 active domestic confirmed (1 at Dehong Prefecture, 5 at Kunming & 4 at Sipsongpanna Prefecture) & 6 active domestic asymptomatic (all at Sipsongpanna Prefecture) cases in the province.
Imported Cases
On 1/25, China reported 20 new imported confirmed cases (2 previously asymptomatic), 44 imported asymptomatic cases, 0 imported suspect cases:
Overall in China, 173 confirmed cases recovered (49 imported), 31 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (29 imported) & 2 were reclassified as confirmed cases (both imported), & 3,395 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 2,487 active confirmed cases in the country (1,049 imported), 8 in serious condition (all domestic), 778 active asymptomatic cases (684 imported), 3 suspect cases (all imported). 41,953 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 1/25, 2,978.646M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 5.187M doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 1/26, Hong Kong reported 107 new positive cases, 7 imported & 100 domestic (93 are connected to previously reported positive cases & 7 do not have sources of infection identified, yet).
On 1/26, Taiwan reported 92 new positive cases, 46 imported (9 from the US, 3 each from India, Thailand & the US, 2 from Japan, & 1 each from Mainland China, Nigeria & Sweden, 6 still under investigation) & 46 domestic (12 from the port outbreak at Kaohsiung, 14 from the factory outbreak at Taoyuan & 8 cat a kindergarten outbreak at Taoyuan).
New Deal democrat
With MLK distortions out of the average, cases in the US declined to 20% off peak. Deaths rose to 2250, the highest number in any wave except for last winter’s. There are only 9 States with rates still increasing over 10% from one week ago, almost all of them rural: SD, KS, MI, MN, ID, MT, NV, KY, and TN. Rates in the Northeast are all declining sharply, as they are in the Mid-Atlantic States.
Cases in South Africa are now down 85% from peak, but still over 10x higher than their very low number before Omicron. Ireland and Canada are close behind. Just as happened with Delta, the UK’s decline has stalled out at 50% (perhaps because the government once again declared a COVID Jubilee). Anomalously, Portugal, Denmark, and Israel are all still rising about 8 weeks into their waves (the first two are very heavily vaccinated).
My concern at this point would be that the US once again follows the UK’s trajectory, rather than that of Canada or South Africa. And we still have about 3 weeks to go before deaths peak, now looking like the 2500-3000 range.
OzarkHillbilly
My physical therapist is now out with Covid. He’s probably fine, young, fit, and vaccinated. Hoping his wife and little girl are doing fine too.
Sloane Ranger
Tuesday we had 94,326 new cases. This is a decrease of 3.2% in the rolling 7-day average. New cases by nation,
England – 84,302 (up 7070)
Northern Ireland – 5023 (up 1091)
Scotland – 3024 (up 68)
Wales – 1977 (down 2350).
Deaths – There were 439 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. This is a decrease of 3.2% in the rolling 7-day average. 409 deaths were in England, 5 in Northern Ireland, 23 in Scotland and 2 in Wales.
Testing – 1,335,199 tests took place on Monday, 24th. The rolling 7-day average is down by 3.6%.
Hospitalisations – There were 17,162 people in hospital and 598 on ventilators on Monday, 24th. The 7-day average for hospital admissions was down by 14.5% as of 21st January.
Vaccinations – As of Monday, 24th, 52,252,579 people had had 1 shot of a vaccine, 48,224,978 had had 2 and 36,996,936 had had a 3rd shot/booster. This means that 90.9% of all UK residents aged 12+ have had 1 shot, 83.9% have had 2 shots and 64.3% have had a 3rd shot/booster.
Ken
@Baud: The only problem with the chart is that it’s based on science and math, so runs headlong into the adage about “You can’t reason people out of a position that they weren’t reasoned into.”
Kalakal
Daughter and Grandaughter now declared recovered from Covid. Neither had a serious case, am so happy.
Wife has knee replacement op today, just getting ready to go to hospital
Bruce K in ATH-GR
Greece: numbers may be unreliable for most of this week, because the winter storm that hit central Greece dropped OMGWTFBBQ levels of snow on the ground on Monday, and we’re still digging out of it Wednesday afternoon. Remember that storm that stranded people on that stretch of I-95 in Virginia/North Carolina at the beginning of the month? It was kind of like that. Except that Greece is even less used to major snowfall, so about 85% of everything is still shut down in the affected regions.
Worldometers report numbers in the area of 20,000 new cases and steady for the past few days, down a lot from the 50K peak on January 4, but like I said, numbers are not reliable this week. Deaths are reported in the neighborhood of 75 to 100 a day. Not sure what intubations in ICUs look like.
gene108
I learned a new word: insouciant
Thanks Balloon-Juice!
Mousebumples
@OzarkHillbilly: my massage therapist (vaxxed +boosted) was out the last 2 weeks with a mild infection. Waiting for PCR results the first week, and recovering the 2nd week. My muscles are looking forward to my appointment with her tomorrow!
Ken
This strikes me as one of those statements that is simultaneously true and misleading.
laura
Thinking of friend of the blog Amir Khalid this morning. I hope he is recovering and returns soon. Sure miss him.
Soprano2
@New Deal democrat: Looking at our dashboard yesterday, it looks like the case curve is starting to go down, which pretty much tracks with how it’s happened everywhere. My nephew’s whole family has it – him, his wife, and their three girls 7, 6, and 3. Mom says they are all doing OK, just not feeling well. I know the adults are vaccinated, but I’m not sure about the two oldest girls. I directly blame our stupid state attorney general, who is suing every school district with a mask mandate to get them to stop it. He got the local public school to rescind theirs, but the school board is meeting this Friday to vote on putting it back until the end of February. I hope they do.
Tazj
A conservative NY Supreme Court justice struck down the NY mask mandate causing some confusion in the schools and the expected performative mask refusal and calls for Freedom! from local Republicans. Of course, these parents were given plenty of local tv news time.
We got an email yesterday morning from the principal of one of our kid’s schools that since they expected the order to be stayed (it was)they were continuing with the mask mandate. They also mentioned that several families a week were still contracting COVID and this was to keep everyone safe.
Our county executive mentioned that 6 people under 40 had died from COVID in the past week. It’s maddening that when local officials are trying to control the spread of COVID, some Republicans are doing everything in their power to make things worse.
Robert Sneddon
Scotland — 8,516 new cases of COVID-19 and 33 new deaths of people who have tested positive reported yesterday. Some of those reported deaths will be delayed from the weekend when the register offices were closed.
32 people were in intensive care and 1,389 people were in hospital yesterday. These numbers are falling slowly from their recent peak driven by the spread of the Omicron variant which began here in Scotland in mid-November. Public Health Scotland has been carrying out an audit of hospital admissions and has determined that 64% of acute hospital admissions were determined to be ‘because of’ a recent community-acquired COVID-19 infection, as opposed to coincidental ‘with’ that infection.
Vaccinations and booster delivery continues at a slow pace with fewer than a thousand first doses yesterday, mostly in the 12-17 age group if I understand the charts properly. About three-quarters of the 18+ population have received their booster doses but the younger adults are lagging well behind, as expected whereas 90%-plus of those aged 50 and over have received booster shots, pushing the overall average up.
Ohio Mom
@laura: I’ve lost track of time (about just about everything), but didn’t Amir say he’d only be gone a short time and it’s been passed that for a while? Very worrisome.
In Covid news, I see from my daily stop at covidactnow.org that my area’s numbers are plunging down. Whew!
Tazj
@Tazj: Correction it was 5 people under 40 in 13 days who died of COVID.
Matt McIrvin
I think if you asked me right now, I’d say that while I believe my chances of getting COVID are fairly high, my level of concern is nowhere near what it was before I got vaccinated, because my chances of being seriously harmed by it are relatively low. A year ago, the possibility of dying of COVID was uppermost in my mind; now, it’s whether I’m going to be unpleasantly ill for a few days and have to isolate for a while. I’m still taking precautions, of course, because I don’t want to get this regardless. But the terror isn’t there.
(Yes, long COVID is a big question mark, but there’s finally some data now indicating that being vaxxed-and-boosted provides significant protection against it. I get the impression that a lot of the free-floating anxiety out there, especially in Twitter land, is about the possibility that long COVID in “mild” cases means that vaccination provides no protection at all, but it’s hard for me to square that just with my experience of people I personally know who got COVID–the one person with lingering chronic issues is someone who got it unvaccinated in early 2021–agonizingly, just a couple of weeks before she would have been eligible for the vaccine–and needed hospitalization.)
NotMax
Very locally,
Meantime there’s something seriously, seriously wrong with the boy.
Tazj
@Matt McIrvin: I don’t have the fear I had last year about dying or getting really sick from COVID for myself or my kids. I do still worry a bit about my husband who has chronic health conditions and works with COVID patients.
My biggest concerns at this point is about people dying unnecessarily from the virus because of misinformation and stubbornness. Also, people getting sick of public health measures and Republicans doing what they can to undermine them.
Hopefully, I’m just being a worrywart. Cases are continuing to drop.
Chief Oshkosh
RFK, Jr really needs an intervention. Motherfucker could be doing ANYTHING else, but no, he’s got to be a fucking jackass. Hope his family disowns him and takes away all the money.
Scout211
In local news, California appears to be past the omicron peak.
But not for all California counties
And yes, those are (mostly) red counties, like the one we live in.
Chief Oshkosh
@Matt McIrvin:
@Tazj:
Agreed that my fears for my personal safety and, really, most everyone’s who has had double-mRNA shots plus booster, are much lower.
My two main concerns are:
(1) our rickety healthcare system is being crushed, mainly by unvaxxed assholes, and this impacts ALL patients;
(2) the more people carrying any form of the virus, the higher the probability that new variants will spring up. The next one could be more transmittable than Omicron and more deadly than Delta. There are no guarantees.
charon
@Chief Oshkosh:
My guess is go with the idea it jumped back from some animal reservoir where it gained so many mutations. Now that it is widespread among humans it will probably jump back to animals again, where it could accumulate more mutations. so …
WaterGirl
@Ohio Mom: Yes, Amir said “a few days” and it was 3 weeks yesterday. Hoping that Amir comes back soon.
mrmoshpotato
@Matt McIrvin:
Same. I was so relieved two weeks post-second dose, and scheduled my booster ASAP.
Hopefully the trials for 0-5 year olds are going well.
RaflW
Snowbilly Snookie dined at celebrity haunt with $28 spaghetti and $35-59 secondi. In New York City. But tell us how the Democrats are the party of the coastal elites.
I’d add that while we can’t expect the maître d’hôtel to know the ins and outs of every two bit ‘celeb’ guest, it does seem like Palin would be a really obvious anti-vaxer who has made public pronouncements like “over my dead body.” Good luck with that investigation.
J R in WV
@RaflW:
Alaskan bitch causing deaths just like all the other anti-vax Republicans. She should have to eat cold pizza on the sidewalk for every meal the entire time she spends in NYC. Hateful, spiteful, uugly person.
Can’t believe she managed to sneak into a nice place without a Vax card. And those prices are V reasonable for Manhattan. Last time I was in NYC we ate at a traditional Italian place in the Murray Hill neighborhood, staff all in black tuxes, owner took our compliments on our way out, told us his rent was $60,000/month !!
We all had Italian seafood dishes, was wonderful, The best was the Japanese place a block from the hotel, where we ate several times. No wait, best was the Michelin starred place on 42nd street!! V expensive, but wonderful performance food! On our last full day in town.
Dopey-o
a large hospital system in Missouri is predicting hospitalizations to peak in mid-February. Their previous projections have been accurate.