WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Deaths in USA 12/30/2021: 1,362 with 572,029 new cases

Worldometer ^ | December 30, 2021

[MinorityRepublican]

Places with highest daily reported cases per capita

Seven-day average of daily new reported cases per 100,000 residents

[BeauBo]

“The USA Case Fatality Rate for Covid has been going down - in big chunks - for three straight weeks.”

That is what we are all hoping to see with Omicron.

Is that from Worldometers, or another source?

[BeauBo]

“We have not seen spread this fast before from COVID.”

The charts I was referring to, were those posted at the top of this thread - All American.

“South Africa... rapidly subsided after several weeks”

That is the hope here as well, but in South Africa, a big Delta wave had already burned out naturally, so a lot of folks had fresh natural immunity, when their omicron wave hit.

[olivia3boys]

I believe the case numbers. Millions in the United States are getting sick in between Christmas and New Year’s. I was one (confirmed with a positive test, but it’s kind of obvious when the fever and chills and a need for hours of daily napping come on). It’s OK. It’s just like a cold (for most of us).

[Owen]

Deaths are the least corrupted stat.

There is far too much happy talk perspective and grasping for some justification for optimism.

SA has a weird reality in their data. The US sees scarce numbers on weekends. SA’s “weekend” seems to be Monday/Tuesday. So you filter that out with your eyeballs.

What you see is death count. It doesn’t matter if it took fewer cases to generate the death numbers. Death is the uncorrupted parameter.

It is summer there. Competitive time periods that generated more deaths per case count does not say Omicron is less deadly. It’s summer now. Summer slows deathcount. The comparison case counts were in cooler weather.

Their daily death counts are about X8 of Spring counts.

There is no way to declare this good.

[olivia3boys]

I agree with you as I was able to be off work easily as I was sickest most from Sat to Sun and work lightly this week Mon to Thurs—a quiet week in between Christmas and New Year’s. And even then I cancelled meetings and didn’t feel 100%.

I think if 1/3 of the nation gets covid next week, it will be noticeable.

I see why the CDC changed from 10 to 5 days quarantine. They likely know MILLIONS will be off work next week.

[Mozilla]

It’s January 1st in Tahiti. 12:08 am now. The first place. New Zealand in a hour. Australia in two.

[maddog55]

Whooohooo... We’re beating yesterday’s numbers!! Wish this was the stock market I’d be doing great.

Fear porn for the covid cultists... Hope the triple jabbed, double masked, self quarantined are feeling good about how safe their pathetic lives are.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

— “They faked 126 in South Africa today. Russia faked 926.” The sarcasm seems amusing, except:

South Africa data as of 31 December 2021 —

( 91,061 COVID deaths / 59,308,690 South Africans ) x 100 = 0.154 percent over two years since the Corman-Drosten RT-PCR test was written two months before the pandemic was declared.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/south-africa

Russia data as of 31 December 2021 —

( 301,791 COVID deaths / v Russians ) x 100 = 0.207 % over two years, the “offical” data showing two tenths of one percent “officially” dead from the “pandemic,” the taxonomy of which includes “presumed” and “assumed” and other wiggle words from the WHO — April 2020 — is what the hysteria in the big-name media is all about.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/russia

[Owen]

Unlike last year, under President Trump, there were no CDC fingers in the polling winds to decide what policy would be.

Now, you get phrasing like “what the country can tolerate”. Not what minimizes deaths. What the country can tolerate.

Trumps CDC never used that criteria. But in their defense, they had never seen the impact of national lockdown, and they have now.

Still, it’s not their place to making that judgement. They should make decisions strictly on what avoids deaths. It’s someone else’s responsibility to decide to let people die in order to generate GDP growth (and get votes).

This Administration would rather that come from CDC. The decisions were from the WH last year, but having the CDC decide now insulates the WH from reaction.

[BeauBo]

“I think if 1/3 of the nation gets covid next week, it will be noticeable.”

!!!!!?

Wow, I thought if 5% of the population (15-20 million) was infected in a week, some people would be freaking out. That is the scenario I anticipate as most likely for next week. But who knows. Some folks think Omicron might work through 100-200 million Americans before its done, but that is one of the high end estimates.

It will hit some places hard, even at my lower (but still record high ) projections. I saw a report that 20% of the NY Police Department is out sick right now.

After next week, I’ll be looking for it to peak (give or take a week). London already has. Even on the way down, there are still a lot of infections - people just won’t worry as much.

Glad to hear that you are feeling better.