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    From  Worldometer  (new  COVID-19 deaths yesterday):     DAY    USA    WORLD      Brazil      India      South Africa June     9     1093     4732         1185        246       82 July    22      1205     7128         1293      1120     572 Aug    12      1504     6556        1242        835     130 Sept     9      1208      6222       1136       1168       82 Oct     21      1225      6849         571        703   ...

The Omicron variant is causing record shattering new cases in the U.S. and Europe.  Nearly a year ago on January 11, we reached the record seven-day average of 252,00 daily cases.   Yesterday, it was 265,427 . Tomorrow, more details. However, the  good news  from Dr. Matthew Bai of Mount Sinai Queens in New York City: The general trend that I’m seeing is, if you’re boosted and you get Covid, you really just at worst end up with   bad cold symptoms.   It’s not like before where you were coughing, couldn’t say sentences and were short of breath. Further: Dr. Joseph Varon , chief of critical care services and the Covid-19 unit at Houston’s United Memorial Medical Center, said of the roughly 50 patients admitted to the hospital’s Covid unit in the last four weeks, 100 percent of them were unvaccinated . The bottom line is that if you were vaccinated with a booster, and got infected, the ailment was minor.  If unvaccinated, the Omicron variant seems to...