January 5, 2023 - 662,096,600 confirmed infections; 7,507,700 deaths
January 6, 2022 – 298,194,650 confirmed infections; 5,468,100 deaths
January 6, 2021 – 87,157,000 confirmed infections; 1,882,100 deaths
US (Map)
January 5, 2023 - 101,043,100 confirmed infections; 1,095,225 deaths
January 6, 2022 – 57,826,000 confirmed infections; 823,359 deaths January 6, 2021 – 21,294,100 confirmed infections; 361,100 deaths
SA (Coronavirus portal)
January 5, 2023 - 4,049,460 confirmed infections; 102,568 deaths
January 6, 2022 – 3,494,700 confirmed infections; 91,561 deaths January 6, 2021 – 1,150,000 confirmed infections; 30,525 deathsbr />
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January 6, 2022 – “Enough already!”
January 6, 2021 – “Over-the-top whackidoodle-itude”
News blues…
US Congress is at a standstill. It appears there’s no way to move beyond the whacky shenanigans of the whackidoodles. No Speaker of the House of Representatives – after at least 9 sessions of voting for a Speaker – and still no one and nothing accomplished!Meanwhile…
… [recently] the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Covid-19 variant dashboard revealed a new dark horse that could soon sweep the field: XBB.1.5.Read “Omicron offshoot XBB.1.5 could drive new Covid-19 surge in US”
The CDC estimates that XBB.1.5 has more than doubled its share of the Covid-19 pie each week for the last four, rising from about 4% to 41% of new infections over the month of December. In the Northeast, the CDC estimates, XBB.1.5 is causing 75% of new cases.
“For a few months now, we haven’t seen a variant that’s taken off at that speed,” said Pavitra Roychoudhury, director of Covid-19 sequencing at the University of Washington School of Medicine’s virology lab.
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Is China’s data ‘under-representing’ the true impact of its Covid outbreak?
The UN agency released data provided by the Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a day after WHO officials met Chinese scientists. China has been reporting daily Covid deaths in single figures.Read more >>
“We believe that the current numbers being published from China under-represent the true impact of the disease in terms of hospital admissions, in terms of ICU admissions, and particularly in terms of deaths.”
China has recorded only 22 Covid deaths since December and has dramatically narrowed the criteria for classifying such fatalities, meaning that Beijing’s own statistics about the unprecedented wave are now widely seen as not reflecting reality.
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The Lincoln Project:McCarthy (v) (1:00 mins)
MAGA vs. MAGA (0:56 mins)
Meanwhile, back at the ranch…
On the eve of her second PET scan, Mary (diagnosed with pleural mesothelioma) got word that the PET scan equipment was out of order so her appointment had been rescheduled. It went from Wednesday January 4 to Friday, 13th.Recall Mary had surgery on July 14 last year and proceeded to and completed her first set of 4 chemotherapy treatments on November 17. The results of her follow up CT scan on Dec 14 were troubling enough (no clear indication “nodules” were gone) that a follow up PET scan was ordered for January 4.
Now, we wait some more….
Meanwhile…
California is amid continuing flooding from yet another “atmospheric river” – with more on the way.
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SF Bay Area: Sunrise: 7:24am
Sunset: 5:04pm
More rain, rain, rain….
KZN, South Africa:
Sunrise: 5:05am
Sunset: 7:03pm
More rain, rain, rain….
With all the rain, I continue to send letters with photos to local KZN road works departments to ensure the disastrous flooding the occurred December 29 does not happen again this year as the rains continue.
Getting effective action is like peeing into the wind: all that happens is more flooding.
