The U.S. has reported a record single-day number of daily Covid cases, with more than 1 million new infections.
A total of 1,082,549 new coronavirus cases were reported Monday, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, as the highly infectious omicron variant continues to spread throughout the country.
The new daily tally brings the total number of cases confirmed in the U.S. since the start of the pandemic to 56,189,547. In total, the virus has caused at least 827,748 deaths across the country.
The record single-day total may be due in part to delayed reporting from over the holiday weekend. A number of U.S. states did not report data on Dec. 31, New Year’s Eve, and many do not report data on weekends, meaning that some of these cases could be from positive tests taken on prior days.
Nonetheless, as of Jan. 3, the seven-day average of daily new U.S. cases is 480,273, the highest such metric of new cases in any country tracked by Johns Hopkins.
About 98,000 Americans are hospitalized with Covid-19, according to a seven-day average of data from the Department of Health and Human Services as of Jan. 3, up 32% from a week ago. That figure is approaching peak delta wave levels when about 103,000 people were in hospital beds with Covid across the country in early September, but remains lower than last winter’s high mark of roughly 137,000 U.S. hospitalizations.
Remember when they said the "highly effective vaccines" would get us back to normal?
Remember when they said the "highly effective vaccines" would prevent people from catching COVID?
Remember when they said masks weren't effective against respiratory viruses?
I think you get the picture. But, this article is yet another example of misinformation. They are saying the surge in COVID cases is from the new Omicron variant, but the CDC just came out and said that Omicron is only 22% of cases:
The CDC has significantly revised the estimate of the percentage of new COVID-19 infections in the U.S. caused by the Omicron variant.
As of Saturday, Omicron accounted for about 59% of U.S. infections, according to the latest CDC data updated Tuesday. Last week, the CDC said Omicron made up 73% of all cases as of Dec. 18, which has now been revised to 22.5% of cases.
It's almost like they're just guessing at this point. Wait, they are just guessing:
“With Omicron in particular, it’s been very difficult to have any sort of projections because things are changing just so, so rapidly,” Nathan Grubaugh, PhD, an epidemiologist at the Yale School of Public Health who is tracking Omicron samples in Connecticut, told the newspaper.
The estimates will likely become more accurate as scientists collect more data on Omicron and test more samples.
“I just want people to be very aware that this is an estimate, that’s not actually from sequence-confirmed cases,” Grubaugh said.
We have been fed meals of misinformation about COVID from the beginning. It's like no two statistical datasets produce the same results. It seems to be just a big guessing game.
I can only come up with two theories as to why there is so much misinformation circulating amongst the experts:
1. They're incompetent and just don't really know that much.
2. They're liars.
It's not my place to assume intent. Or to get in another person's mind and speak on their behalf. But it's obvious that they have been wrong about a lot. And instead of them acknowledging their mistakes (e.g., "Hey, we're human here, and we make mistakes, too. But we are doing our best."), they gaslight us by doubling-down or pretending they didn't say some of the stuff they said.
When your society is based on high-trust and people don't trust those people in positions of leadership, there's a big problem. I just don't see any amount of damage control the establishment can do to regain the trust of the population.
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