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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowMore than a year after the vaccine was rolled out, new cases of COVID-19 in the United States have soared to the highest level on record, at over 265,000 per day on average, a surge driven largely by the highly contagious omicron variant.
The previous mark was 250,000 cases per day, set in mid-January, according to data kept by Johns Hopkins University.
The fast-spreading mutant version of the virus has cast a pall over Christmas and New Year’s, forcing communities to scale back or call off their festivities just weeks after it seemed as if Americans were about to enjoy an almost normal holiday season. Thousands of flights have been canceled amid staffing shortages blamed on the virus.
Indiana released figures Tuesday showing a surge in COVID-related cases, hospitalizations and deaths. Gov. Eric Holcomb and state health officials are planning a press conference Wednesday afternoon to provide information about the situation.
The number of Americans now in the hospital with COVID-19 is running at around 60,000, or about half the figure seen in January, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
While hospitalizations sometimes lag behind case numbers, the figures may reflect not only the protection conferred by the vaccine, but also the possibility that omicron is not making people as severely ill as previous versions.
COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. have climbed over the past two weeks from an average of 1,200 per day to around 1,500.
Several European countries, including France, Greece, Britain and Spain, also reported record case counts this week, prompting a ban on music at New Year’s celebrations in Greece and a renewed push to encourage vaccination by French authorities.
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Let’s go Brandon!
No doubt, the virus is real and can effect people with underlying conditions and/or simply in poor physical shape and health…REGARDLESS OF VACCINATION STATUS. However, until Died “from” or Died “with” is clarified and ACCURATELY reported, these numbers mean squat!
Remind me again why exercise and proper nutrition aren’t being recommended?
the ruse is playing towards the next shut down…………can’t let it happen
RR –
I assume your very important question was rhetorical.
Why aren’t exercise and proper nutrition being recommended?
First, because it contradicts the narrative imbibed by so many collossolly stupid people that every person is at equal risk. This narrative is essential to government control and inimical to individual responsibility and liberty.
Second, identifying fat people as somehow culpable in their own demise would be “oppressive” and judgmental. Never mind that it’s accurate or TRUE. The more important question for those directing public policy is: “How would it make people FEEL?” Or in the lexicon of critical theory, “Would it trigger oppressed groups?”
And in case Wesley is on line …. I got my booster yesterday and I’m still universally opposed to social distancing, masks and all the other dumb ideas to “stop” or “slow” the spread of the virus, policies that can’t possibly work and only prolong the pandemic. Thank goodness (or nature) for Omicron. The faster this variant spreads, the faster we will be rid of pandemic and the bureaucrats who have so twisted responsible public policy.
Agreed. The faster we cease giving the willfully unvaccinated any health care past antibody treatments or the new pills, the faster the rest of the herd can get back to living. Because they’re just as culpable in their own demise as the obese or the smokers.
Let the unvaccinated die, victims of their own stupidity. Save medical care for the increasing number of pediatric cases among those children still not able to get vaccinated and the breakthrough cases.
and PS ….
you are also totally correct about reporting the “died with” in contrast to “died from” —- this would have been a simple and CRUCIAL data point that could have been recorded in each fatality.
I can tell you from first hand experience that cause of death (COD) on a death certificate includes Covid if a person has covid regardless of its role in the death. This is just a fact. And because public health officials insisted in slanting the data to support narrative at the outset, the lethality of the virus has been materially overstated. And yet, if you make this point to indoctrinated true believers who have been led faslely to believe they are “following the science” — you are treated like someone who voted for Donald Trump, God forbid.
top paid athletes that don’t get vaccinated are hurting the teams and the fans. I hope they are not getting paid when they test positive. Wentz is one of those bible thumpers and he has made a “personal decision.” give me a break