Monthly Archive: December 2021
Covid Dominance in the U.S. — Delta 21J at 57%, Omicron at 41%
You will find this interactive graph, by country and date, here:
If CDC is Correct that as of Christmas, Omicron was 58% of Cases, What Variant was the Other 42%?
The CDC recently revised their estimates of Omicron Covid infections to 58% of positive tests as of the week of Christmas. The fact that the CDC revised its estimates is should cause little to...
CDC Changed Isolation After a Positive Covid Test from 10 Days to 5 “to keep the country’s economic infrastructure from collapsing”
From The Hill: But officials said the change was necessary in order to keep the country’s economic infrastructure from collapsing. “The reason is that with the sheer volume of new cases that we are...
Fauci: “It’s conceivable that, sooner or later, that everybody will have been infected and/or vaccinated”
Between the lines: The silver lining of a tough January and February is that most of the country could have some degree of immunity afterward — either through vaccination, infection or both — that helps protect...
Omicron is “the end of the pandemic as a social phenomenon”
By Yascha Mounk in the Atlantic: ….I wager that, whatever course Omicron—or future strains of the disease—might take, we are about to experience the end of the pandemic as a social phenomenon. …From the first days of the...
Here is What I Hope President Biden says on Tuesday, and Why
Omicron is going to get bad but there be no lockdowns. Get vaxxed, and boosted. Getting vaxxed does not mean you won’t be infected but it will help keep you out of the hospital...
President Biden, It’s Time for Dr. Fauci to Go
At a meeting of state insurance regulators, the biggest laugh line from the podium of the conference was: “Dr. Fauci is the Jussie Smollett of immunology.” Side-splitting laughter from everyone in the audience means...