Thursday, January 6, 2022
Wednesday, January 5, 2022
Omicron has completely overrun Pfizer in Israel
Daily new cases per million since Nov 24: up >2,300% !
Percent received at least one dose of vaccine by Nov 24: 67.8%
Percent fully vaxxed as of Nov 24: 62.2%
Number dosed at least once by Nov 24: 6.3 million
Number fully vaxxed by Nov 24: 5.78 million
Number boostered by Nov 24: 4.07 million
Total doses administered by Nov 24: 16.14 million
Omicron cases soar globally, but daily deaths per million from COVID globally are down ~17% since Nov 24 when Omicron was first identified
Omicron is running over everyone like a runaway train, vaccinated or not, but 6 weeks after its identification it is contributing no added lethality to the pandemic curve.
Global daily new deaths per million are still as low now as they were 14 months ago and appear to be headed even lower.
Tuesday, January 4, 2022
Not an auspicious start: Hope she knows how to drive that thing
In a historic first, aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln deploys under command of female captain
Five sailors were killed during those work-ups in September when their helicopter crashed into the carrier’s flight deck and tumbled into the sea. Bauernschmidt, who came up through the ranks flying helicopters, had only been in command for 12 days when the crash occurred. She offered condolences to the families of those killed and talked about the effect the crash had on the crew.
Monday, January 3, 2022
And to think World War III was only a year ago
Seems longer ago than that.
See what I mean?
At least Billy Pilgrim knows what I mean.
Sunday, January 2, 2022
Alex Berenson still thinks The Atlantic was wrong about Georgia's Experiment in Human Sacrifice
You can still read Alex Berenson, at Substack, as I do. He continues to be an important source for stories our media continues to ignore (censor) because they don't fit the narrative. But sometimes the takes can be odd.
Alex today still thinks the Georgia story way back when was a bad covid take, and that Germany's troubles presently somehow invalidate The Atlantic's positive opinion on the record of Europe's biggest country outside of Russia.
Neither point is defensible.
The US State of Georgia today ranks 10th worst in the US for deaths per million of its population, at 2961/m. Mississippi is our very worst, at 3511/m. In between there, there are red and blue states, including New Jersey and New York.
But Germany today is at 1361/m. Worst place in the world Peru by contrast is at 6336/m.
Germany's done pretty damn well considering it has a population of 83 million compared with Georgia's paltry <10 million.
The situation in Georgia to date, in fact, is 118% worse than in Germany. And if Georgia were a country, it would be ranked in the top 15 worst performers in the world today for deaths per million.
I think Alex is letting animus cloud his judgment. Animus certainly for The Atlantic, but perhaps also for Germany.
Gee, why would that be?
Georgia's done a very poor job. Not as poor as New Jersey and New York, and not poor enough by comparison with them to be singled out the way they were. "Stupid hicks" elitism, right? On that we agree. But Germany's done remarkably well, and we should care enough to understand why.
But Alex is too busy to go into that right now. The drive-by-shooting of the "little homily on the brilliance of Germany’s Covid response" will have to do for now.
COVID-19 in the USA by the numbers: About as infectious as the flu, but 10-13 times more deadly in the first two years of the pandemic
Deaths 2020: 346,050
Deaths 2021: 477,867
Cases 2020: 20.0m
Cases 2021: 34.7m
Case fatality rate 2020: 1.73%
Case fatality rate 2021: 1.38%
Case prevalence 2020: 6.1% of 328m population
Case prevalence 2021: 10.4% of 332m population
Typical annual prevalence of influenza: 8% of population (9.2% in the previous decade)
Typical annual deaths from influenza: 36,000
Alpha and Delta have produced 22% more cases in 2021 in the USA but 20% fewer deaths
Alpha dominated in the US during April, May, and June. Delta has dominated since July 1.
Alpha and Delta cases in the US, April through December 2021: 24.2 million
US COVID-19 cases April through December 2020: 19.8 million
Alpha and Delta deaths in the US, April through December 2021: 272,259
US COVID-19 deaths April through December 2020: 341,746
The data is consistent with the theory that viruses mutate to become more infectious at the expense of lethality.
All indications so far indicate that this will also continue to be the case with Omicron.
Axios finally updated its Variant Tracker: So far "Delta" still dominates in the US, with Omicron most prevalent in Louisiana at just shy of 27%
Check it out here.
Politico reported last week that the CDC had to climb down about its estimate of the prevalence of Omicron in the US.
It had originally estimated prevalence of 73.2% in the US on Dec 18, but revised that down to just 22.5%.
Quite the doozy, that.
This was very amusing coming as it did with all the other messaging shifts last week:
Ditch the cloth masks for N95s;
Walensky at CDC claiming suddenly that PCR tests are unreliable;
You need only 5 days of quarantine, not ten, because, you know, Omicron is different;
Mr. I'm Going to Shut Down the Virus blurting out that there's no federal solution;
And Fauci suddenly admitting the distinction between being admitted to hospital for Covid as opposed to just with it.
Saturday, January 1, 2022
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