From  Worldometer  (new  COVID-19 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    25       2304    12025        620        518      118 Dec     30       3880    14748       1224       299      465 Jan      14        4142    15512        1151         189      712 Feb      3       4005    14265       1209       107      398 Mar      2       1989     9490        1726       110      194 April     6        906    11787         4211       631       37 May     4        853     13667        3025      3786     59   June    1        287    10637         2346      3205      95  July    7         251      8440        1595        817      411 Aug 

  From the Miami Herald:    Where are you most likely to catch COVID? Poorly ventilated movie theater with mostly unmasked audience:  14%. But jumps to 54% if you're unmasked and people are talking a lot. If the crowd is masked, the risk of infection drops to 5.3% with no talking and 24% with talking. DON'T GO TO A MOVIE THEATER YET! Heavy exercise in a poorly ventilated placed packed with maskless people:   99% .  Yikes. Just working out for a short amount of time in a well-ventilated gym with no one wearing masks:  17%. Poorly ventilated:  67%. From the  New York Times  this morning: More than three-quarters of all U.S. COVID-19 deaths have occurred among people 65 and older. Yet, seniors seem not be particularly concerned: The plausible explanation provided is that seniors tend to lean to the right ( Republican ), while younger generations to the left ( Democrat ). Of course you know this: Millions of Republican voters have decided that downplaying Covid is core to their ide

While the Omicron variant continues to attack pockets of vulnerability throughout the world, this pandemic is losing momentum, and the peak of new deaths reached exactly a year ago--16,503 on 24January2021--is now down to 7000.  Watch Japan, for example, which is on a definite upswing after doing so well the past two years. To appreciate how important it is to get vaccinated, let's look further in  Switzerland earlier this month in deaths/100,000 : Unvaccinated  11.56 Fully vaccinated, but not boosted  0.89 ( 13 times fewer deaths ) Fully vaccinated and boosted  0.07  ( 165 times fewer deaths ) This  same report  looked into the U.S. early in December  (almost no Omicron ): Unvaccinated:  9.74 Fully vaccinated, but not boosted  0.71  ( 14 times fewer deaths ) Fully vaccinated and boosted  0.10  ( 97.4 times fewer deaths ) Keep in mind that, while contagion is much higher with Omicron, the mortality rate is much lower.  Last week, White House press secretary  Jen Psaki announced :  

  There has been one question about this Pandemic that has long been been troubling me.  How many actual cases of COVID-19 have there been?    Worldometer   this morning said 315,382,956 total World cases ( 5,526,156 total deaths ) and 1,359,838 in the USA ( 864,193 total deaths ). In July of 2020 the  MIT Management Sloan School  thought that infections were 12 times higher and deaths 50% higher than reported!!!  They indicated that the CDC corroborated their study.  Also, if testing at a high rate occurred earlier, there would have been far fewer deaths.  This was 18 months ago. On 6February2021 NPR reported that  The Pandemic is 10 Times Worse Than You Think .  Columbia University built a mathematical model, providing a hint of how many people are never counted because they never get tested. The conclusion is that on any given day, the actual number of active still infectious cases is likely 10 times higher than the day's official number of reported cases. Back in May of 2020 th