From  Worldometer  (new 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        85 Nov     11     1479     10178        564       550        60            25     2304    12025         620       518      118 Dec       1      2611    11891         697       500      109            29     3398    13791       1075       285      497            30     3880    14748       1224       299      465 Jan       5      3499    13106       1186       265      513                6      4100     14581      1266       221      392               7       4207     14812      1455       234      441 Summary: Well, the COVID-19 numbers reached another all-time high.   World: new

I grew up in my family, went to college and always had roommates, graduated and spent six months in Naalehu, mostly alone, then got married, until my wife passed away 47 years later.  I then lived a single life for five years, moving next door into 15 Craigside six years ago, joining 200 others in our seniors' community.  That pretty much sums up my 80 years.  I enjoyed the solitude, but feel comfortable around people. I'm now here at 15 Craigside for the rest of my life because they promised to take care of me forever, even if I run out of money.  Of course, the catch is that they only let you in if you can afford it, and make sure you never deplete your resources. Life here has been good...no, make that great.  We just got notified that our Moderna vaccination will come soon.  It is amazing that we have not had even one COVID-19 case among the 15 C residents.  In the USA, with less than 1% ( 0.8% ) of the national population,  45% of all pandemic deaths have occurred in nurs

COVID-19 summary : With 4% the World population, the USA had 33% of COVID-19 new cases yesterday. While Europe is suffering, ominously, Mexico is now #2 to the U.S. in new deaths. But California had four times more new cases than Mexico yesterday. Apparently, the British virus has mutated and can infect people 1.7 times more efficiently. New cases are increasing in Canada, Indonesia and Japan. China had 23 new cases and no new deaths. Taiwan had 3 new cases and no new deaths. From David Leonhardt of The New York Times : I’ve shown you   a version of this chart before . The basic idea is that if you track the number of new virus cases, you can fairly accurately predict the number of Covid-related deaths about three weeks later. Every 100 new cases in the U.S. has led to an average of roughly 1.6 deaths, with a 22-day lag. (Trevor Bedford, a scientist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle,   explains why  in this Twitter thread.) From colleagues in Florida: Why is this

From  Worldometer  (new 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        85 Nov     11     1479     10178        564       550        60            25     2304    12025         620       518      118 Dec       1      2611     11891         697      500      109              9     3265    12342         848       337      142            15     3538     13535        968       357      166 Summary:  The bad?  Worst day in new deaths ever for the USA and World.  This is just the result of the Thanksgiving holiday.  A longer one is coming for Christmas and the New Year, so we can expect another worst ever a week or two before Joe Biden's inauguration. Th