From Worldometer (new COVID-19 deaths yesterday):
DAY USA WORLD Brazil India South Africa
Summary: I generally avoid showing this table on a Saturday, but the increasing new cases for the U.S. is a bit alarming.
- New cases for the USA are creeping up, reaching 848,346 yesterday.
- However, the World Bank says the U.S. new cases yesterday were just above 2 million.
- They must somehow include asymptomatic individuals.
- Projects continuing increases until January 25 to 2.8 million new cases.
- Both sources reasonably agree on total deaths:
- Worldometer 858,346
- World Bank 836,656
- They also had somewhat similar new deaths yesterday:
- Worldometer 2025
- World Bank 1700
- If Omicron is dominant, on February 13, World Bank predicts:
- 2895 new deaths
- but as low as 984 new deaths would be possible with 80% mask-wearing, which, of course, won't happen
- The World Bank shows that 64% of Americans have been fully vaccinated (but not necessarily boosted), with 75% having at least one dose. Worldometer does not include vaccinations.
- World Bank also tracks hospitalizations:
- 22January21 (a time frame when new deaths reached the highest)
- all beds 49,204
- ICU beds 11,152
- 11September21
- all beds 37,281
- ICU beds 9804
- 7January22
- all beds 37,419
- ICU beds 7,992
- Projected for 14February22
- all beds 52,815
- ICU beds 13,727
- To summarize, the U.S. today was yesterday below the record maximums of 22January21, a year ago.
- However, the World Bank predicts the requirements of all and ICU beds on 14February22 will exceed the needs of 22January21.
- About mask-wearing in the U.S., the observed percentage from World Bank,was 75-77% a year ago, dropping to 23% during the summer of 2021, and is now at 38%.
- New cases will increase until around January 25.
- Hospitalizations will continue to increase until mid-February.
- New deaths will go up from the 2025 to nearly 3000 in mid-February, but will not reach the all-time high established a year ago.
- If you're still unvaccinated, you are the likely target of the Omicron variant to be hospitalized or killed by COVID-19.
- For those fully vaccinated and boosted, you are largely protected from the Omicron variant. However, if you're so unlucky as to get infected, the odds are very high that the worse you will suffer will be from mild flu symptoms, and more likely that of a cold.
- As you will want to take the Pfizer and Moderna series of inoculations, which require at least two months to fully protect you, is it too late for the unvaxxed to now do so? Yes, but if you start soon, and somehow escape getting infected, you will by March be able to attend any indoor event and travel.
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- On New Year's Day, at 11:30 AM a meteor exploded in the atmosphere near Pittsburg. It was surmised to be a half ton rock about a yard in diameter. The explosion was calculated to be the equivalent of 30 tons of TNT.
- If this happened at night, this blast would have been 100 times the brightness of a full moon. So that is the answer.
- What is equivalent to 3o tons of TNT?
- Two pounds of TNT can destroy an automobile.
- 2.4 to 240 tons of TNT is the energy released by each lightning bolt.
- 500 tons of TNT is the estimate of the Beirut explosion of 2020.
- 15,000 tons of TNT is about Fat Man, the atomic bomb that fell on Hiroshima.
- 5,000,000 tons of TNT was the energy released by the Soviet Union's Tsar Bomba, a hydrogen bomb.
- 1,460,000,000 tons of TNT represent the global nuclear arsenal.
- 104,000,000,000 tons of TNT = the total solar irradiance the energy striking the Earth per hour.
- 875,000,000,000 tons of TNT = yield of the last eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. That was 174,000 years ago.
- 2,390,000,000,000 (2.39 x 10 to the 12th power) tons of TNT = energy of that asteroid striking our planet 66 million years ago that killed off the dinosaurs.
- 5.972 x 10 to the 15th power = the explosive energy of TNT the size of Planet Earth, which is a little less than the total solar output of our Sun/day.
- 1.3 x 10 to the 32nd power = merger of two black holes.
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