Interesting how close together those 5 states are.
The celebrations are not only way too early, they are bizarre.
South Africa had 181 deaths today. That’s about 15X their typical pre Omicron totals. And it’s summer there. Pre Omicron they were logging fewer dead counts with much cooler weather. SA doesn’t get so hot they are driven into AC. Pretty hard to conclude anything other than Omicron is NOT more mild.
US death counts are vicious. These 1000+ dead days are heading into month 5. Do you realize what the Excess Death curve is going to look like with 5 solid months of this? And no real sign of it stopping.
Every Wall Street prediction of peak is based on nothing other than some other country with different season/weather, or the shape of last winter, which was a different virus.
No one knows anything other than a huge number of people are getting killed by the virus every day. That is ALL anyone knows. Anything else is pretense. Whistling in the graveyard.