The COVID-19 Thread

[NFFrog]

Looks like we hit a million dead right about today-ish.

We had to work hard at it, but we did it.

[Lyle Lanley III]

The rolling 7-day average for Covid deaths in Texas is now lower than it has been at any point since April 2020.

[NFFrog]

My son was called up to Goose Bay to serve as medical backup to some USAF fighter pilots up from Florida doing low-level flight training last week. After 2 years hanging around nursing homes and ER's as an Advanced Care Medic just a couple of days with Americans from Florida has got him COVID. Thanks Guv DeS. You really make America "exceptional".

[Lyle Lanley III]

Today's tally for Covid hospitalizations in Texas is 1,426 - the lowest it's been since April of 2020.

[Lyle Lanley III]

Covid hospitalizations in Texas are below 1,500 for the first time since last June.

[Lyle Lanley III]

• 20,000 Americans have now died from Covid in March - making it the 21st month out of the last 24 in which we've passed that mark.
• 150,000 Americans have now died from Covid in 2022.

[Lyle Lanley III]

In Texas, the percentage of Covid tests coming back positive is now at 2.34% - the lowest it's been at any point since the onset of the pandemic.

[pcf]

The UK is having a surge in cases and hospitalizations because they're removing all restrictions and people think they should dump precautions and mingle. Much of Europe is wide open now

Essentially, they are giving up on the unvaccinated. It is what it will be.

[Friskyfrog]

Also rising in Europe. We may be facing a wave of the Omicron subvariant BA.2 in late April or early May. Here’s hoping having original Omicron provides protection because almost half of the US got it.

[Boston Frog]

Don't look now, but case numbers are rising in again in ... China

[Lyle Lanley III]

Nationwide, the 7-day rolling average of Covid deaths is down 64% from the Omicron peak it reached in late January, and is now under 1,000 for the first time since December 1st.

[Lyle Lanley III]

The American Covid death count has passed 990,000. This would make that population the 45th largest state in the union - just ahead of Delaware.

[Lyle Lanley III]

Good trends:

Nationally:

• New cases are now down 95% from their mid-January Omicron peak, and the rolling 7-day average is now lower than it's been since last July.
• Deaths are now down 55% from their late-January Omicron peak.

In Texas:

• New cases are now down 94% from their Omicron peak, and the rolling 7-day average is now lower than it's been since early December.
• Deaths are down 43% from their Omicron peak.
• Hospitalizations are down 80% from their Omicron peak, and are now below 3,000 for the first time since early December.
• Maybe most encouraging: the percentage of tests coming back positive is 3.6%, which is lower than it's been since June of last year.

[Lyle Lanley III]

6 million people now dead worldwide from this pandemic.

980k here in the U.S.

[NFFrog]

Nationally, deaths are not dropping again for the moment but rather increasing 16%/week.