COVID-19 Megathread 6: Return of the Omicron

[GeorgiaModerate]

Incredible how quickly case numbers have dropped. Looks like deaths are starting to drop too! We may have this virus under control by summer!

May-June looks good for the end of this thing*.

*(But I promised that last year as well)

Keep trying, you'll get it right one of these years.

(Seriously, though, I agree with you that things are looking much brighter this year.)

[GP270watch]

https://twitter.com/TimFullerton/status/1361031758091849731

[Darthpi – Anti-Florida Activist]

https://twitter.com/TimFullerton/status/1361031758091849731

Incredibly encouraging.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

https://twitter.com/TimFullerton/status/1361031758091849731

You love to see it, folks.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

I don't know about hospitalizations yet, but new case numbers in the U.S. just absolutely crashed today - 64,297.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

I don't know about hospitalizations yet, but new case numbers in the U.S. just absolutely crashed today - 64,297.

Real or just reporting delays?

[Bandit3 the Worker]

I don't know about hospitalizations yet, but new case numbers in the U.S. just absolutely crashed today - 64,297.

Real or just reporting delays?

I'm pretty sure it's legit. This is the number Worldometer gave at the end of the day.

[Dr. Arch]

The updated numbers for COVID-19 in the U.S. are in for 2/14 per: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

I'm keeping track of these updates daily and updating at the end of the day, whenever all states finish reporting for that day.

ΔW Change: Comparisons of Weekly Day-to-day Growth or Decline of COVID-19 Spread/Deaths.

• IE: Comparing the numbers to the same day of last week, are we flattening the curve enough?

Σ Increase: A day's contribution to overall percentage growth of COVID-19 cases/deaths.

• IE: What's the overall change in the total?

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2/7: <Sunday>

• Cases: 27,611,403 (+91,767 | ΔW Change: ↓9.58% | Σ Increase: ↑0.33%)
• Deaths: 474,933 (+1,405 | ΔW Change: ↓25.97% | Σ Increase: ↑0.30%)

2/8: <M>

• Cases: 27,700,629 (+89,226 | ΔW Change: ↓38.10% | Σ Increase: ↑0.32%)
• Deaths: 476,405 (+1,472 | ΔW Change: ↓23.89% | Σ Increase: ↑0.31%)

2/9: <T>

• Cases: 27,799,756 (+99,127 | ΔW Change: ↓14.53% | Σ Increase: ↑0.36%)
• Deaths: 479,772 (+3,367 | ΔW Change: ↓7.58% | Σ Increase: ↑0.71%)

2/10: <W>

• Cases: 27,897,214 (+97,458 | ΔW Change: ↓20.84% | Σ Increase: ↑0.35%)
• Deaths: 483,200 (+3,428 | ΔW Change: ↓15.86% | Σ Increase: ↑0.71%)

2/11: <Þ>

• Cases: 28,002,240 (+105,026 | ΔW Change: ↓14.91% | Σ Increase: ↑0.38%)
• Deaths: 486,922 (+3,722 | ΔW Change: ↓26.41% | Σ Increase: ↑0.77%)

2/12: <F>

• Cases: 28,106,704 (+104,464 | ΔW Change: ↓21.71% | Σ Increase: ↑0.37%)
• Deaths: 492,521 (+2,908 [+5,599] | ΔW Change: ↓14.90% | Σ Increase: ↑1.15%)

2/13 (Yesterday): <S>

• Cases: 28,196,964 (+90,260 | ΔW Change: ↓19.63% | Σ Increase: ↑0.32%)
• Deaths: 496,063 (+2,272 [+3,542] | ΔW Change: ↓19.52% | Σ Increase: ↑0.72%)

2/14 (Today): <Sunday>

• Cases: 28,261,470 (+64,506 | ΔW Change: ↓29.71% | Σ Increase: ↑0.23%)
• Deaths: 497,174 (+1,111 | ΔW Change: ↓20.93% | Σ Increase: ↑0.22%)

[Bandit3 the Worker]

The positivity rate today was only 4.79%, and the 7-day positivity rate is down to 5.75%.

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

No more red on the charts!

[It’s so Joever]

No more red on the charts!

Winning!

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

No more red on the charts!

Winning!

Thank you President Biden!

[Joe Biden is your president. Deal with it.]

Could we have a sense of normalcy by June??

[Dr. Arch]

Could we have a sense of normalcy by June??

If we can keep this trend up and vaccine distribution keeps picking up alongside it, then yes.

[jimrtex]

No more red on the charts!

Winning!

Thank you President Biden!

Thank you President Trump and Governors Burgum, Dunleavy, Justice, Lujan Grisham, and Noem!!!

Most of the recent increase is due to second doses being administered, and is due to planning by President Trump administration to not exhaust supplies on first doses.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

No more red on the charts!

Winning!

Thank you President Biden!

Thank you President Trump and Governors Burgum, Dunleavy, Justice, Lujan Grisham, and Noem!!!

Most of the recent increase is due to second doses being administered, and is due to planning by President Trump administration to not exhaust supplies on first doses.

I’m gonna get LMAO NOEM tattooed on my knuckles so I can punch Republicans who like her despite her horrific failure on Covid in the face. Especially when she’s Trump’s running mate in 2024.

[BudgieForce]

https://mobile.twitter.com/PatrickRuffini/status/1361305516866174984


I can't handle all the bad takes.

[BudgieForce]

Sorry for the double post:

The right is screaming about Biden being "beholden" to the teachers union. The left is pissed Biden is sending teachers back into "dangerous" environments.

I do not envy the tight rope Biden has to walk on this issue. Hopefully all schools are opened by September.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

I saw an article a week or two ago where the reporter visited a school in Montana that was pretty much normal. Many districts all across the country and the world are pretty much normal now, if not entirely normal. I don't know about Ohio, because they're a little bit behind there, but some states are better.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Sorry for the double post:

The right is screaming about Biden being "beholden" to the teachers union. The left is pissed Biden is sending teachers back into "dangerous" environments.

I do not envy the tight rope Biden has to walk on this issue. Hopefully all schools are opened by September.

When both extremes are mad at you, you're probably doing something right.

[DINGO Joe]

I expect the weather with create an even bigger mini-crash in numbers later this week.  Unfortunately a crash in vaccinations too.

[Horus]

Sorry for the double post:

The right is screaming about Biden being "beholden" to the teachers union. The left is pissed Biden is sending teachers back into "dangerous" environments.

I do not envy the tight rope Biden has to walk on this issue. Hopefully all schools are opened by September.

It's been almost a year. Numbers are way down. The vaccines are doing marvelously. Kids need to be back in school. I could've accepted the safety argument in September but not now, it's time to go back.

[Not Me, Us]

Sorry for the double post:

The right is screaming about Biden being "beholden" to the teachers union. The left is pissed Biden is sending teachers back into "dangerous" environments.

I do not envy the tight rope Biden has to walk on this issue. Hopefully all schools are opened by September.

It's been almost a year. Numbers are way down. The vaccines are doing marvelously. Kids need to be back in school. I could've accepted the safety argument in September but not now, it's time to go back.

I understand that argument, but I still feel that it's too early. We're making incredible progress, and I'm wary of doing anything that might jeopardize that. I say keep things remote for the rest of this school year, and then reopen fully at the beginning of next year, when the vats majority of US adults will have been vaccinated, and cases will probably be extremely low.

[Holy Unifying Centrist]

Sorry for the double post:

The right is screaming about Biden being "beholden" to the teachers union. The left is pissed Biden is sending teachers back into "dangerous" environments.

I do not envy the tight rope Biden has to walk on this issue. Hopefully all schools are opened by September.

Biden should re-open the schools. It's too costly not to. The teacher unions are corrupt and not acting in good faith. Fauci and other CDC directors said schools were safe to reopen months ago.

[Holy Unifying Centrist]

Sorry for the double post:

The right is screaming about Biden being "beholden" to the teachers union. The left is pissed Biden is sending teachers back into "dangerous" environments.

I do not envy the tight rope Biden has to walk on this issue. Hopefully all schools are opened by September.

It's been almost a year. Numbers are way down. The vaccines are doing marvelously. Kids need to be back in school. I could've accepted the safety argument in September but not now, it's time to go back.

I understand that argument, but I still feel that it's too early. We're making incredible progress, and I'm wary of doing anything that might jeopardize that. I say keep things remote for the rest of this school year, and then reopen fully at the beginning of next year, when the vats majority of US adults will have been vaccinated, and cases will probably be extremely low.

You do realize a ton of school districts are already open, right? There wasn't a huge spike in cases where schools were reopened. I would be beyond pissed if I were a parent and I was paying my taxes for horsecrap virtual schooling. Get my children in school. The social costs to virtual schooling is very high. We're hurting kids just to stop a little bit of spread? I think instead, we should be investing in our future.