COVID-19 summary : The USA of course still remains #1 in new cases with 147,434 and 10 states now showing the Omicron variant.  Watch a  CBS news clip .   #2 was Germany with 70,681 new cases and the UK #3 with 50,120.  However, the U.S. is at 441/million versus Germany at 841/million and the UK at 734/million.  And this rate is all over Europe, for Poland with 26,964 new cases is at 713/million. Then there is South Africa, which had another increase, up to 16,055 new cases yesterday.  While that is "only" 266 new cases/million, their  positivity rate is 24.3% .  Botswana did not report. Still with little to no Omicron, though,  positivity rates : Slovenia  42% Croatia  40% Ukraine  38% Vietnam  8% U.S. 7% UK  5% India  1% Israel  0.5% Japan  0.3% Taiwan  0.0% For those who forgot,  positivity rate  is the percentage of people who test positive for the virus of those overall who have been tested. I bring back an old science fiction comedy today.  I was scanning through Prime