The Omicron variant is causing record shattering new cases in the U.S. and Europe.  Nearly a year ago on January 11, we reached the record seven-day average of 252,00 daily cases.   Yesterday, it was 265,427 . Tomorrow, more details. However, the  good news  from Dr. Matthew Bai of Mount Sinai Queens in New York City: The general trend that I’m seeing is, if you’re boosted and you get Covid, you really just at worst end up with   bad cold symptoms.   It’s not like before where you were coughing, couldn’t say sentences and were short of breath. Further: Dr. Joseph Varon , chief of critical care services and the Covid-19 unit at Houston’s United Memorial Medical Center, said of the roughly 50 patients admitted to the hospital’s Covid unit in the last four weeks, 100 percent of them were unvaccinated . The bottom line is that if you were vaccinated with a booster, and got infected, the ailment was minor.  If unvaccinated, the Omicron variant seems to be more effective in inducing pneumoni

                                         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