I yesterday posted on how COVID is changing.  To conclude,  Time  magazine reported on  The New Vaccines to Get in 2024 : This week the CDC provided their new guidelines on everything from COVID-19 to the flu to chickenpox. There is a new updated COVID vaccine targeting the Omicron variant XVV.15, which protects against evolving strains like the  JN.1 variant . This version is now responsible for more than half on U.S. cases. JN.1 is more infectious or severe than other SARS-CoV-2 variants. Anti-vaccine sentiment is on the rise in the country. Much of this resistance comes from Republicans. In fact,  two years ago it was revealed that Donald Trump, through his policies when president, killed more than 400,000 Americans!!! However, attitudes today reflect a broader avoidance, as only 20% of U.S. adults got the previous latest booster. Vaccinated individuals are four times likelier to AVOID LONG COVID! The good common sense today is to still wear masks ...

Using   Worldometer   data, the USA had 66,046 new cases during the past week.  This was 55% the World total of 119,320 cases.  This past week, however, saw a 48% drop in the U.S. from the previous full week. That 55% rate is far too high, as many countries, such as Japan and South Korea, don't report anymore, and I know from  other sources  that South Korea at more than 10,000 or so cases/week. South Korea began to have covid outbreaks after most of its citizens were vaccinated.  Thus, their overall mortality rate is  only 0.1%.  Today it is still at 0.1%, twice that of the seasonal flu at  0.05%.  The USA overall is now at 1%.  However, in recent weeks, the mortality rate has dropped to 0.2%, or four times the flu mortality rate. The USA during the 2021-2022 flu season had 9 million cases, or divided by 365 meant 25,000 flu cases/day.  Of course most people got sick during the colder months.  So let's double that to...