Checking Worldometer, there were 122,971  new World Covid cases this past  week , 84,153 for just the USA.  This probably means that many countries are just not reporting anymore.  Japan and South Korea had for the past few months always been at or close to #1.  They must have given up keeping score. The World on 21 January 2022 had 3,847,291 new cases, just on that date. On a daily basis, the world new cases/day dropped by a factor of 219 from the peak last year.   The deaths/day fell to around 700,000 around mid-December of last year. I can count eight to ten waves, with the final one this summer unworthy of being included. The USA had 108,386,688 total covid cases, with 1,174,847 deaths. Thus 32% of Americans have been infected. Actually, probably closer to one in four, for many got it more than once. There was only a 0.3% chance that you died from covid if you were in the U.S. The mortality rate was 1.1% Since the beginning the World had 695,250,823 total cases, with 6,915,134 tota

From the beginning of this covid pandemic till a few months ago I weekly on Thursday showed a table of vital statistics.  I still on this day tend to feature some facet of this disease because it remains with us, and the older you are, the more prone you are to an earlier death.  In fact, at 15 Craigside, we have returned to wearing masks in the building because of a minor outbreak.  Not residents, but mostly dining staff members. So today I'll show the latest weekly data on SARS-CoV-2 from  Worldometer .  Note though that many countries no longer are even reporting.  Most cases this past week: World  149,666 #1      South Korea  82,165 ( 55% of all world cases ) #2      USA  18,654 #3      Brazil  9,634 Deaths this past week: World  661 #1      Brazil  167 #2      USA  98 #3      Russia  86 Deaths this past week per million population World  0.1 #1    Turks and Caicos  25 #2    Malta  7 #3    Singapore  6 #4    New Zealand  3 #7    Australia 2 #10  Brazil  0.8 #13  Thailand  0.6 #