[Owen]

Several big states missing. IL, TN a few others. IL will kick it over 2000 by itself. I’ll target about 2200 dead for today when the laggards are in.

A descent slope is forming for the Spring. Angle looks more like Sept than last winter. This is not how it should be. Vax was just barely underway last Feb/March and deaths plummeted. The senior pop is well vaxed now, but deaths are falling in a more shallow way.

[SaxxonWoods]

You like death, don’t you Owen.

You never speak of anything else.

[Paul R.]

On some other thread I believe I mentioned my wife has several family members & friends in Philippines who were probably sick enough with Omicron to be hospitalized a day or two here, but in RP most people don't go to the hospital unless financially pretty well off, or, very sick. None of this group died, that I know of, but it seemed to me quite a lot of those "fairly sick" cases dragged on, certainly more than a cold or even most flu cases. Maybe that extends the opportunity for a complication or bacterial infection?

Troubling Omicron post case peak fatalities' curves seem to be somewhat common. I know you've mentioned S. Africa: While I would expect calmly (is that cold of me?) SA's Omicron wave fatalities to rise above the "bottom" between Delta and Omicron, it is more noteworthy to me that SA's Omicron fatalities are still rising, 8 weeks after SA's (very sharply defined) Omicron case peak.

[Paul R.]

2 clarifications:

SFAIK, one of the family / friends that I mentioned in RP w/ significant COVID cases was vaccinated. But, my wife says “she’s always sick”. SFAIK the rest who were vaxed have been fine (asymptomatic or extremely mild cases at most.)

My wife and I don’t know directly of anyone vaccinated who had a really severe or worse case of COVID (any variant), a stark contrast to those unvaccinated, given the size of the group monitored. (I still support the truckers, though!)