Lahaina on Maui is now no more. You can follow the devastation from where you are. I will provide special details tomorrow. For now, read my posting of 29April2023 about Lahaina, the one best day of our entire 53-day Seabourn Odyssey cruise. What we saw are now all gone.
- 32% have been infected, and the percentage is probably lower/person because many have caught it twice, and some more.
- 2% died from Covid.
- 1% of those who caught Covid died.
- Should you contract Covid today, there is now a 0.5% chance of dying.
- In South Korea, those who contract Covid today have only a 0.03% chance of dying.
- Why this significant difference? I don't know.
- The mortality rate of the seasonal flu is between 0.03% and 0.07%, depending on the year.
- Three years ago, the CDC thought that 35% of Covid cases were asymptomatic. Tony Fauci placed this figure at 40-45%.
- Two years ago, about a third of Covid cases were tested to be asymptomatic.
- Covid vaccines were introduced early in 2021, and by the end of 2022, over 13 billion doses had been administered. The world population is around 8 billion.
- Fully vaccinated as of early 2023.
- Qatar 99%
- China 91%
- Singapore 90%
- Taiwan 87%
- South Korea 86%
- Japan 82%
- G7 countries 75%
- European Union 73%
- India 69%
- USA 68%
- Russia 55%
- South Africa 33%
- The point of the immediate above is that asymptomatic rates clearly jump when a population gets vaccinated.
- By April of 2022 Shanghai showed an asymptomatic rate of 97%.
- Across China it was 95%.
- The USA had the most Covid cases during the past week. One reason is that our vaccination rate is not that high. See above data.
- But why are there so many new Covid cases in South Korea? They have a relatively high vaccination rate. Answer? I don't know. New Covid cases this past week (change from previous week in parentheses):
World 357,032 (-12%)
#1 S. Korea 296,617 (-7%)
#2 USA 28,333 (-31%)
So what is the latest info about Covid?
- There is yet another new subvariant, formally known as EG.5 and nicknamed Eris, that is now the most prevalent strain in the USA. But only 17%.
- #2 is XBB.1.16 with 15%.
- In other words, there is a spectrum of subvariants all around you.
- They are all related to the Omicron subvariant XBB.1.9.2.
- The next booster will also address EG.5, which is also expanding in dominance around the world.
Went out to lunch at Mian. Off Sheridan Street close to Walmart, Mian and sister restaurant Chengdu Taste, are worthy of your consideration.
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Meal okay. The pork belly skewer, though, was outstanding. At 15 Craigside, pork tonkatsu and o-toro sashimi, while watching the Seven Stars. Got $5400/person for 4 nights/3 days? Then this train ride on Kyushu, Japan is for you. It only starts at this price, and you need to win a lottery to earn a seat. Who can afford this?
I'm off to Ala Wai for a Buddhist golf tournament. Just went to West Loch. Summer flowers.
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