September 15, 2022 – 610,350,100 confirmed infections; 6.520,350 deaths
September 9, 2021 – 223,101,000 confirmed infections; 4,604,450 deaths
September 17, 2020 – 29,902,200 confirmed infections; 941,400 deaths
US (Map)
September 15, 2022 – 95,490,500 confirmed infections; 1.052,300 deaths
September 9, 2021 – 40,601,000 confirmed infections; 654,,600 deaths
September 17, 2020 – 6,630,100 confirmed infections; 196,831 deaths
SA (Coronavirus portal)
September 15, 2022 – 4.014,725 confirmed infections; 102,150 deaths
September 9, 2021 – 2,843,100 confirmed infections; 84,327 deathsv
September 17, 2020 – 653,445 confirmed infections; 15,705 deaths
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September 9, 2021, “Category of critter”
September 17, 2020, “Alas”
News blues
Official Covid-19 response has been, let’s say, confusing. And that continues. Just as We the People learn Covid boosters will likely become an annual event, we also learn to titrate this news with reality.As the promotional push to get people vaccinated with one of the updated, bivalent Covid vaccines heats up, federal health authorities are urging Americans to consider getting their Covid shot and their flu shot at the same time. And with concern about a fall wave of Covid paramount in this effort, the messaging is stressing the importance of doing this sooner rather than later.But…
It’s still early to get a flu shot.
The protection generated by influenza vaccines erodes pretty quickly over the course of a flu season. A vaccine dose given in early September may offer limited protection if the flu season doesn’t peak until February or even March, as it did during the unusually late 2021-2022 season.On the other hand, should we be talking about vaccines that offer "mucosal immunity"? A growing chorus of experts say it's a mistake not to focus on treatments that boost immunity through mucous membranes.
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Brain fog, a misunderstood symptom of Covid 19 >>
And, “the end is in sight.”
The World Health Organization head said the end of the COVID-19 pandemic “is in sight,” saying reported global deaths last week reached their lowest point since March 2020.Read more >>
For the week starting on Sept. 5, the agency recorded over 11,000 deaths worldwide, a 22% decrease from the week before. Global case numbers also fell by 28% from the previous week.
As of Sept. 13, the U.S. had the world’s highest number of reported deaths in the previous seven days, and the second-highest number of reported cases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention projected that COVID deaths in the U.S. “will remain stable or have an uncertain trend” over the next four weeks.
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On war and the culture warEscaped chimpanzee returns to Kharkiv zoo on keeper’s bicycle
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The Lincoln Project:Rematch (0:56 mins)
Rick Reacts: Trump’s Meltdown (2:08 mins) (Warning: Use of “strong” language, aka American.)
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OMG: The city of Oakland plans to return five acres of Joaquin Miller Park to permanent Indigenous control, in what’s thought to be the first case of a city giving land back to Native people.
On the other hand, Meso Mary and I had enough to do to prepare for her first chemo session today.
Yes, we fret about what’s to come but doing something, even chemo, helps to tackle what comes next.
Statistics show two percent of patients receiving cisplatin and pemetrexed chemo die from it. I have an image of Mary accepting the infusion then keeling out of her oncology clinic BarcaLounger. Horrible!
Last Friday, Mary did the first of a series of acupuncture sessions that, we hope, will help alleviate chemo-related nausea. She’ll do a second acupuncture session the Saturday following the chemo session. If all goes well, Mary will continue this acupuncture pattern – one session before, one after - for all four chemo sessions.
Last Saturday, Mary visited the dentist for her regular 6-month cleaning and checkup. This is also advised by the chemo team – to ensure no infections in the mouth or gums prior to chemo. One’s mouth is liable to infection during and after chemo and Mary has been directed on infection prevention.
Today, Mary and I baked up a storm: spanakopita filling (spinach, onion, garlic, parsley, feta cheese – I use plain yogurt too – eggs…) wrapped in hand-sized pastry crescents. Pretty tasty; next time less pastry and more filling.
Homemade lemon curd apple crisp. Yum!
For once, Mary was eating well. She said planned to force as much natural nutrition into her body before chemo as she may resort to picky eating habits after chemo. (After surgery, she lost her appetite for some weeks, dropped weight, and wants to avoid that scenario this time around.)
She and I participated in the monthly online mesothelioma support group, too. It was a good session, made more so by one member ending the session with a positive, upbeat, forward-looking summary of his experience with the disease. Very helpful to us as he has the same version of meso - pleural eptheliod - and is only 6 months ahead of us in similiar tretment: surgery, recovery, chemo, and some acupuncture.
Under the proposed “cultural conservation easement,” Oakland would retain ownership of the designated area, but the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust would have nearly full control over the use of the land, for cultural, environmental, and educational uses, in perpetuity.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch…
The intense heat of the past week has cooled. Now the 7+ million residents of the San Francisco Bay face smoke contaminated air from the Mosquito Fire***
Blog wasn’t accessible for a few days due to lost password and Google’s 48-hour timeline to secure another. Grrrr. On the other hand, Meso Mary and I had enough to do to prepare for her first chemo session today.
Yes, we fret about what’s to come but doing something, even chemo, helps to tackle what comes next.
Statistics show two percent of patients receiving cisplatin and pemetrexed chemo die from it. I have an image of Mary accepting the infusion then keeling out of her oncology clinic BarcaLounger. Horrible!
Last Friday, Mary did the first of a series of acupuncture sessions that, we hope, will help alleviate chemo-related nausea. She’ll do a second acupuncture session the Saturday following the chemo session. If all goes well, Mary will continue this acupuncture pattern – one session before, one after - for all four chemo sessions.
Last Saturday, Mary visited the dentist for her regular 6-month cleaning and checkup. This is also advised by the chemo team – to ensure no infections in the mouth or gums prior to chemo. One’s mouth is liable to infection during and after chemo and Mary has been directed on infection prevention.
Today, Mary and I baked up a storm: spanakopita filling (spinach, onion, garlic, parsley, feta cheese – I use plain yogurt too – eggs…) wrapped in hand-sized pastry crescents. Pretty tasty; next time less pastry and more filling.
Homemade lemon curd apple crisp. Yum!
For once, Mary was eating well. She said planned to force as much natural nutrition into her body before chemo as she may resort to picky eating habits after chemo. (After surgery, she lost her appetite for some weeks, dropped weight, and wants to avoid that scenario this time around.)
She and I participated in the monthly online mesothelioma support group, too. It was a good session, made more so by one member ending the session with a positive, upbeat, forward-looking summary of his experience with the disease. Very helpful to us as he has the same version of meso - pleural eptheliod - and is only 6 months ahead of us in similiar tretment: surgery, recovery, chemo, and some acupuncture.
Mary's chemo treatment was streamline and the staff friendly, knowledgeable, and patient with their patient.
After the shot of vitamin B, and a dose of drugs, including Zyprexa, an anti-nausea agent that also makes recipient sleepy, the IV line was installed into a vein and saline and pemetrexed (aka Altima) infused. Following that, almost of liter of cisplatin (nurse donned a protective gown and gloves) was infused, then the second liter of saline. Two liters of saline over 4 hours to wash out the strong cisplatin in an attempt to lessen it's impact on the body that can include side effects such as tinittus and kidney damage.
Mary was sleepy when I drove home. Indeed, she napped for more than an hour, usual for her to nap during the day.
So far, so good.
May this continue.
SF Bay Area:
Sunrise: 6:51am
Sunset: 7:16pm
KZN, South Africa:
Sunrise: 5:56am
Sunset: 5:52pm
So far, so good.
May this continue.
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Weather person promise of heavy rain coming our way in a couple of days. We'll see. Meanwhile days are noticeable cooler in the Bay Area with shorter daylights hours: SF Bay Area:
Sunrise: 6:51am
Sunset: 7:16pm
KZN, South Africa:
Sunrise: 5:56am
Sunset: 5:52pm
