worldwide vaccines and on children. this is the conditioning before they have us quantam entangled to artificial intelligence..Know as mark of the beast warned in the Bible.

Yeah totally.

Weekly update, the spread of Omicron continues


In total 22.6 million new cases were reported last week (up from 20.5 million) to a total of 346,822,805
Also another 55,699 more deaths were reported (up from 50,241) to a total of 5,603,100

The USA seems to have (temporarily) peaked, reported deaths are still rising though. Europe continues to climb.

The continents

Europe reported 9.09 million new cases (up from 7.98 million) and 20,779 more deaths (slightly down from 20,914)
North America reported 5.91 million new cases (down from 6.41 million) and 18,621 more deaths (up from 15,765)
Asia reported 4.33 million new cases (up from 3.15 million) and 7,772 more deaths (7,687 last week)
South America reported 2.48 million new cases (up from 1.91 million) and 5,593 more deaths (up from 3,275)
Oceania reported 559K new cases (down from 779K) and 459 deaths (237 last week)
Africa reported 266K new cases (down from 292K) and 2,475 more deaths (slightly up from 2,318)

Corners of the world

USA reported 5.19 million new cases (slightly down from 5.75 million) and 15,557 more deaths (up from 13,740)
India reported 2.05 million new cases (up from 1.48 million) and 3,131 more deaths (up from 2,317)
Brazil reported 831K new cases (up from 477K) and 1,800 more deaths (up from 969)
Australia reported 554K new cases (down from 775K) and 411 deaths (259 last week)
Japan reported 209K new cases (up from 65.5K) and 55 deaths (16 last week)
Canada reported 171K new cases (down from 236K) and 1,052 more deaths (up from 649)
South Korea reported 35.7K new cases (up from 26.1K) and 242 deaths (327 last week)
Iran reported 24.5K new cases (up from 13.1K) and 146 deaths (205 last week)
South Africa reported 24.3K new cases (down from 38.2K) and 832 deaths (865 last week)

Europe in detail

Countries are taking their turn shooting straight up. Testing capacity seems to be flattening the curve more than social distancing measures.

Global vaccination rate is now 51.77% (+0.89%)

South America 66.33% (+1.23%)
Europe 62.72% (+0.45%)
Asia 59.81% (+1.13%)
North America 59.74% (+1.07%)
Oceania 59.16% (+0.34%)
Africa 10.13% (+0.16%)

Africa finally passed the 10% fully vaccinated. Still going very slow despite promises to speed up vaccinations in Africa.

Locally hospitalizations are slowing down, still climbing though. The peak of the wave might have passed, yet it's all around atm. Advise is to keep things the same for now, not re-opening things yet as that will increase the cases further. One of our kids teachers has Covid now, so it's spreading in school. The new idea here is to scrap the busses next week since it's too cold to open the windows.... It's too cold to open the windows in school as ell and the kids spend 6 hours there, vs 10 minutes on the bus... I guess it's to 'close' the schools without actually closing them lol. Most people won't bring their kids to school (no capacity at the school for that either). We're keeping them home another week.

It is insane. Within 3 weeks, 16% of ALL reported Coronavirus were reported.

We have been at this for more than 2 years now, so more than 100 weeks.

So less than 3% of weeks makes more than 16% of cases.


Here in Japan, we have hit record numbers again. It is possible all 47 prefectures will ask for anti covid measures to be taken. I had a few days off for anti covid measures as well. I just hope this 6th wave ends before July, and that there won't be another wave during that time.

For the old crowd, non you tube generation :p
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/after-the-omicron-wave-here-s-what-u-s-experts-say-could-come-next-in-2022-1.5751292

"I anticipate in the short run -- being the next six weeks, four to six weeks -- that it's still going to be pretty rough," said Dr. John Swartzberg, an expert in infectious diseases and vaccinology and clinical professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley's School of Public Health. "It will be about the middle of February before we start to really see that things are getting better."

If this spike flames out quickly, many experts think, there could be a "quiet period."

Swartzberg believes March through spring or into summer will be like last year, with a continued decline in the number of cases. "There will be a sense of optimism, and then we will be able to do more things in our lives," Swartzberg said. "I think May or June is going to really look up for us. I'm quite optimistic."

Part of his optimism stems from the fact that there will be a much larger immune population, between the increasing number of people who are vaccinated and boosted, and those who've caught COVID-19 during the Omicron surge.

"Generally speaking, the level of immunity in our population is going to be much higher than it was going into the Omicron pandemic, and that's going to help us not only with Omicron and Delta, if they're still circulating, but it will also help us with any new variants," Swartzberg said. "To what degree will depend on the availability of medicines to intervene."



"It's not at all clear what comes next," said Dr. George Rutherford, an epidemiologist at the University of California, San Francisco. He said the virus could mutate gradually, like what happened with the Alpha and Beta variants. Or it could make a really large jump, like with Delta and Omicron. "What's next? It's a crapshoot."

The U.S. still loses an average of about 35,000 people a year with the flu, according to the CDC. "And we go on with our lives," Swartzberg said. "I don't think it will ever go back to what it was, exactly."

Maldonado says "that's the best-case scenario."

With this flu-like scenario, the world needs to focus on protecting those vulnerable to severe disease, on making sure they get vaccinated and have access to monoclonal antibodies and antivirals, Maldonado said. Vaccine companies would need to make variant-specific vaccines so people can get a COVID-19 shot every year.

The in-between scenarios would be if there aren't enough antivirals or monoclonals to treat the people who get sick, or if vaccine manufacturers can't make variant-specific vaccines fast enough.

The worst-case scenario is if a variant escapes the protection of vaccines and treatments.

"I think that's less likely to happen," Maldonado said.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said he hopes that scenario doesn't come to pass. "I can't give you a statistic what the chance of that happen, but we have to be prepared for it.

As the experts say, it's in our hands now

"We have the weapons to transform Covid into nothing but a bad cold," Galiatsatos said. "We have the science. All people will need is access to the interventions, and we need to regain trust."

Only about a quarter of the U.S. population is fully vaccinated and boosted, according to the CDC. The more people who are unvaccinated, the more end up in the hospital. The more cases, the more opportunity for dangerous new variants.

previous infection + vaccination or without vaccination = similar levels of immunity.

The fact that 10% of NHS staff risk losing their jobs for not getting the vaccine (regardless of they had previous covid19 infections or not) is becoming more bewildering by the day. I am glad some brave doctors spoke out and stood their grounds against the vicious attacks from the media. 2 years in and we are not allowed to have nuanced discussions because of the hive mindset generation twitter has developed. 

Oh wow, way to get back at someone begging for a more nuanced approached to vaccinations..... I get a meme as a response lol

In the UK, and most European countries, testing has been available and free since the start of the pandemic (poor Americans, got a right wing president posing as a leftie). Many here know their previous infection status and absolutely can skip the vaccines knowing they're adequately protected, moreover, I specifically mentioned the NHS staff (aka healthcare providers who fall under the scientific community) because they have provided with home testing kits since 2020 and have been offered free blood tests to check for anti-bodies, I doubt any of the 10% refusing the vaccines don't know if they had or had not had the infection by now; in fact, doctors speaking publicly against it have all had the virus in the past, threatening with "get vaccinated or get sacked regardless of your immunity status" is revolting and doesn't particularly "follow the science". 

You should have natural immunity to the flu and cold virus as well by now, why do we still have the flu shot. Why am I still getting a cold.

Natural immunity helps, but is not enough to stop the spread of an ever mutating corona virus. Yearly updated vaccines, like the flu shot, will be needed to keep Covid-19 cases manageable. There is no end to Covid-19. It's here to stay and with vaccines we can reduce it to a severe cold instead of hospitalization and ICU.

Influenza is kept in check by the fact we're all exposed to it multiple times beginning in early childhood, a time when our immune system is far more able to deal with novel threats. When it got to the Americas, it decimated populations with a very high mortality rate.

The same probably applies for a lot of the other respiratory viruses too.

Personally, I doubt SARS-CoV-2 will be more dangerous than the other endemic coronaviruses. It could even be *less* dangerous than the other four since the little bastards, unlike Omicron, will happily infect lungs when given the chance, and have caused quite lethal outbreaks in care facilities.