New Cases: 392,583 (⬆︎ .38%)
New Deaths: 9,260 (⬆︎ .41%)
USA
New Cases: 125,454 (⬆︎ .47%)
New Deaths: 1,904 (⬆︎ .42%)
Vaccination Scorecard
Total Vaccinations: 26.2 million
Total Priority Population: 22.9%
Total Population: 7.9%
There's some weirdly and seemingly contradictory information going around - not in the "fake news" kinda way, but in some of the things being talked about regarding vaccines and new Rona variants.
On the one hand, we've got people telling us that while the vaccines aren't iron-clad, and we're not getting enough people vaccinated quickly enough, even at current levels, the vaccines are preventing a lot of negative outcomes.
And even though the virus is doing what viruses do (ie: mutate in an attempt evolve its way around our defenses), the vaccines in their current form should be of some use against the new strains, plus they're engineered so as to be tweakable - they can be "reprogrammed" to be more bug-specific.
All of which sounds about right.
While on the other hand - WaPo:
New coronavirus cases in the U.S. declining, but deaths still on the rise as variants spread
The rate of new coronavirus infections is declining in the United States after rapid increases over the holiday season. The seven-day average of new U.S. cases was down 13 percent as of Tuesday, with an especially dramatic drop of 30 percent in Arizona. Deaths, however, increased across the country by 2 percent, following record hospitalizations early in January, according to data tracked by The Washington Post.
More than 441,000 people have died after contracting the coronavirus in the United States, and there have been more than 26 million infections over the past year. Data also shows growing instances of new variants of the virus, particularly the one identified in Britain.
So I guess we're still stuck in "We don't know enough yet" mode, which is another reason to stay pissed off. Because of Former President Stoopid, we lost a whole year while his Qult45 assholes got deeper and deeper into their willful negligence bullshit.
The word genocide runs through my mind with a great degree of regularity. Death panels as well. Murder in the name of profit & greed. Yessiree,it ain't pretty and you are right, we need to stay pissed.
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