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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOmicrons not messing around. New York Time's covid 14 day % increase today...
Puerto Rico 4,595--- +3,610%
Hawaii 1,186--- +922%
Florida 17,825--- +818%
Washington, D.C. 1,313--- +622%
New York 25,769--- +165%
...makes one more than a little nervous. Wisconsin hasn't been reporting, as well as others. I can't imagine what it's going to be like in a week.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html
Blues Heron
(5,951 posts)is that week over week increase?
Ellipsis
(9,124 posts)Blues Heron
(5,951 posts)some hefty increases there
madville
(7,413 posts)Id say theres about a 99% chance I get it at work so maybe it would be better to get it now before my booster immunity wanes. I got the booster about 8 weeks ago and the articles I was reading yesterday said effectiveness against Omicron begins to wane after 10 weeks.
Blues Heron
(5,951 posts)you really don't want this- either to have it or spread it to others
madville
(7,413 posts)I need a vacation lol (luckily Im scheduled off work for vacation the last two weeks of January, that may be when Omicron is everywhere).
Ellipsis
(9,124 posts)nycbos
(6,044 posts)Sorry couldn't resist. In these stressful times we need to keep our sense of humor.
Ellipsis
(9,124 posts)I was out and about on 24th and maybe 20% of people were masked. It's just nuts.
Skittles
(153,298 posts)yup
Ellipsis
(9,124 posts)We flew out to Arizona for short trip on the 9th. We were both a little nervous about going. I surely wouldn't fly now.
Skittles
(153,298 posts)it will continue
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Orrex
(63,263 posts)I'm sure that you won't be banned in seconds or anything.
NickB79
(19,297 posts)FYI, that's 4 million globally per year, not just in US.
4 MILLION died in India alone from COVID in 2021 from Delta.
former9thward
(32,136 posts)The death toll in India from Covid since the start of the pandemic is 480,000. Where are you getting 4 million???
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/india-covid-cases.html
NickB79
(19,297 posts)Drawing death data from civil registries and other sources, the report came up with three estimates for undercounts. The conclusion is that between 3.4 and 4.7 million more people died in that pandemic period than would have been predicted. That's up to 10 times higher than the Indian government's official death toll of 414,482.
former9thward
(32,136 posts)I will go by the number accepted by the global health community.
NickB79
(19,297 posts)The same government that downplayed reports of bodies floating down the Ganges, hospitals running out of oxygen, and who's run by a Trumper? Ok.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/14/world/asia/india-modi-science-icmr.html
The results dovetailed neatly with Prime Minister Narendra Modis two main goals: restart Indias stricken economy and kick off campaigning for his party in state elections that coming spring. But Anup Agarwal, a physician then working for Indias top science agency, which reviewed and published the study, worried that its conclusions would lull the country into a false sense of security.
Dr. Agarwal took his concerns to the agencys top official in October. The response: He and another concerned scientist were reprimanded, he said.
former9thward
(32,136 posts)Skittles
(153,298 posts)I BET YOU ARE A GUN HUMPER TOO
Orrex
(63,263 posts)Skittles
(153,298 posts)Last edited Sun Dec 26, 2021, 10:48 PM - Edit history (1)
jeez, that one was truly off the rails
Orrex
(63,263 posts)It was not a difficult decision.