I will keep them in my prayers :sorry:
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I will keep them in my prayers :sorry:
Still trending down:
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On the other side of the coin, deaths are rising.
And this could be a long term very detrimental "victim" of COVID:
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U.S. college enrollment has dropped by about 6 percent since the fall of 2019.
Today's numbers from the NYT:
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Sunday's numbers:
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I think it now safe to call this a trend:
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Looking better:
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While the US number continues to drop there are significant areas in the country that are not seeing these declines.
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And this from this morning's NYT:
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2. Low risks
Some of the clearest research on Covid’s risks comes from a team of British researchers led by Dr. Julia Hippisley-Cox of the University of Oxford. The team has created an online calculator that allows you to enter a person’s age, vaccination status, height and weight, as well as major Covid risk factors. (It’s based on an analysis of British patients, but its conclusions are relevant elsewhere.)
A typical 65-year-old American woman — to take one example — is five foot three inches tall and weighs 166 pounds. If she had been vaccinated and did not have a major Covid risk factor, like an organ transplant, her chance of dying after contracting Covid would be 1 in 872, according to the calculator. For a typical 65-year-old man, the risk would be 1 in 434.
Among 75-year-olds, the risk would be 1 in 264 for a typical woman and 1 in 133 for a typical man.
Those are meaningful risks. But they are not larger than many other risks older people face. In the 2019-20 flu season, about 1 out of every 138 Americans 65 and older who had flu symptoms died from them, according to the C.D.C.
And Omicron probably presents less risk than the British calculator suggests, because it uses data through the first half of 2021, when the dominant version of Covid was more severe than Omicron appears to be. One sign of Omicron’s relative mildness: Among vaccinated people in Utah (a state that publishes detailed data), the percentage of cases leading to hospitalization has been only about half as high in recent weeks as it was last summer.
For now, the available evidence suggests that Omicron is less threatening to a vaccinated person than a normal flu. Obviously, the Omicron wave has still been damaging, because the variant is so contagious that it has infected tens of millions of Americans in a matter of weeks. Small individual risks have added up to large societal damage.
3. Effective boosters
The final major piece of encouraging news involves booster shots: They are highly effective at preventing severe illness from Omicron. The protection is “remarkably high,” as Dr. Eric Topol of Scripps Research wrote.
Switzerland has begun reporting Covid deaths among three different groups of people: the unvaccinated; the vaccinated who have not received a booster shot; and the vaccinated who have been boosted (typically with a third shot). The first two shots still provide a lot of protection, but the booster makes a meaningful difference, as Edouard Mathieu and Max Roser of Our World in Data have noted:
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Credit...Source: Our World in Data
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The U.S. will make 400 million free N95 masks available at community health centers and retail pharmacies.
Today's numbers:
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Saturday 1/22:
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Sunday 1/23/21
Now the wait until deaths begin to reverse.
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Just maybe this is the beginning of a new trend in deaths, today's numbers 01/24/22
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Going the right way:
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Just when we thought it was safe to raise our heads above ground level, along comes the latest Chinese Commie variation...:duck:...Ben
Thanks for that bit of news Ben:down:
Added in edit:
A bit more detail:read: