Category: COVID-19

  • COVID death numbers studied

    COVID death numbers studied

    A new study of “excess deaths” estimates the pandemic’s true toll has already surpassed 1 million in the U.S.

    Some 1.13 million Americans have died due to the pandemic, the researchers estimate. By comparison, the current total of reported COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. stands at around 960,000.

    The new figures, published Thursday in The Lancet, are based on the number of “excess deaths” in countries around the world.

    Researchers determined how many additional deaths occurred from January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2021 by modeling the number of “expected” deaths in years unaffected by a global pandemic, compared to the total number who actually died from any cause.

    Meanwhile in the COVID is not over category:

    COVID CASES USA
    44,358 MAR 11 2022
    62,387 MAR 11 2021

    DEATHS
    1,684 MAR 11 2022
    1,524 MAR 11 2021

  • Gramps ready to take his mask off

    Gramps ready to take his mask off

    A sampling of headlines seals the deal: COVID, it seems, is over!? 

    Abrupt end to mask mandates reflects shifting political landscape…
    No vax proof for Oscars…
    Restrictions ‘will soon be thing of past’…
    Hawaii will NOT require tourists to be boosted…
    UK to drops isolations…

    But is it!?

    So there are some voices in the wilderness of “science” who ponder the question: What should we follow now!?

    The harsh lockdowns and mask requirements are quickly waning. Those who wanted jail time for the maskless a month ago are now urging to fasten your seatbelt and watch the restrictions go away like magic.

    Eric Fiegl-Ding.. I know you’re stunned.

    Science magic, after all?

    The science, we are now told, “changed.”

    What in the world does that mean!?

    There are a chosen few still on social media that are shocked at the rapid turn of events. People are are questioning how this can be happening when there are ambulances shortages in rural America, hosoitals still overrun, a 900,000+ death toll, children still spreading like wildfire, and a large cauldron of long haulers that don’t seem able to shake the symptoms that never go away.

    But follow the science we must!!!
    Just one week ago cloth masks were ruled ineffective. Science said.
    N95s were a must!This week tear them off and go hog-wild!! Endemic-ity is here to stay!  

    Into the wild blue yonder!
    Into the abyss!?

    We will see..
    And just think of the possibilities! If we stop counting cases, COVID goes away..

  • PROFIT$ SOAR FOR PFIZER!

    PROFIT$ SOAR FOR PFIZER!

    PFIZER EXPECTS $54 BILLION IN 2022 SALES ON COVID VACCINE AND TREATMENT PILL →

    • Pfizer expects to sell $32 billion of its Covid-19 shots and $22 billion of its antiviral coronavirus treatment pill Paxlovid
    • But the drugmaker posted mixed fourth-quarter results, beating on earnings but missing on revenue.
    • Pfizer forecasts $98 billion to $102 billion in sales for 2022, and adjusted earnings per share of $6.35 to $6.55.
    • On an unadjusted basis, fourth-quarter profit soared more than fourfold to $3.39 billion.

    ….and profits are theirs..

    Pfizer Inc said on Tuesday it expects 2022 sales of its COVID-19 vaccine and antiviral pill to top $54 billion, but that fell short of lofty Wall Street estimates and its shares were off about 3%.

    Still, Chief Executive Albert Bourla said final sales for its oral COVID-19 antiviral, Paxlovid, could be “way bigger” than what Pfizer has forecast since its current outlook only included contracts that have been or are close to being signed.

    Pfizer currently expects $22 billion in 2022 sales of the treatment, compared with Wall Street estimates of $22.88 billion.

  • Omicron high USA

    Omicron high USA

    Though considered milder than other coronavirus variants, omicron has infected so many people that it has driven the number of daily deaths beyond where it was last spring, before vaccines were widely available, according to Washington Post data.

    Omicron has been particularly lethal to people over 75, the unvaccinated and the medically vulnerable, according to doctors and public health officials. The soaring death toll also illustrates why experts pleaded with the public to beware of the highly contagious variant even though it is less virulent than others.

    Covid deaths highest in a year as omicron targets the unvaccinated and elderlyOmicron has been particularly lethal to people over 75, the unvaccinated and the medically vulnerable, according to doctors and public health officials..

    “That feels quite jarring to people who may have assumed omicron is generally on a per-case level less severe and given the fact we have vaccinated at least some portion of the country,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Even if on a per-case basis fewer people develop severe illness and die, when you apply a small percentage to a very large number, you get a substantial number.”

  • Covid leading to ‘mass disability event’

    Covid leading to ‘mass disability event’

    Ed Yong is a writer for The Atlantic.. according to this report from the Australian news, Yong has been chronicling symptoms of sufferers of the post Covid “long Covid“ cases…

    According to his writings, tens of thousands of people across the world are now being known as long haulers. They are people who still report sometimes debilitating symptoms long after the “recovery“ from Covid..

    We are not trying to raise any undue alarms here, but this story does seem to be worth paying attention to. There are countless articles of those who have had Covid still stating that they have yet to regain taste and smell months if not now years after recovering.

    Along with that, a recent study actually compared brain deterioration in Covid patients to those who have early onset of dementia. That seems to be pretty alarming right?

    Yong now says that the planet is about to have a “mass disability event”..

    He basically says that some will recover but others will be disabled for the foreseeable future.

    Read more: https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/human-body/mass-disability-event-warning-as-huge-numbers-diagnosed-with-long-covid/news-story/d541286fc71ac1b2a262ac798238d4ec

  • Covid cases increasing at China Olympic village

    Covid cases increasing at China Olympic village

    The cases among Olympics-related personnel were up from 21 a day earlier while cases in the bubble that restricts the movements of Games participants, reached 19, compared with seven a day earlier.

    Feb. 2 saw the highest daily figure in the loop so far with 26 and the highest total daily figure with 55.

    Games organisers said that while cases within the loop could continue rising, there was no reason for concern.

    Meanwhile, absolutely no medals for the United States team in day 1..

  • The Covid games

    The Covid games

    NBC is dealing with a choice about how to cover and handle political charges Olympus games in China..

    Meanwhile the virus which may have originated there is suddenly surging amongst athletes and coaches..

    The AP reports: Athletes and team officials are testing positive for COVID-19 at much higher rates than other people arriving in China for the Beijing Olympics, organizers said Tuesday.

    Figures released by local organizers showed 11 positive tests for COVID-19 among 379 athletes and officials arriving Monday. They have been taken into isolation hotels to limit the spread of the infection and could miss their events.

    The positive test rate of 2.9% for athletes and officials compared to 0.66% for Olympic “stakeholders,” a group which includes workers and media, in the same period. There were 1,059 people in that category.

    Meanwhile could World War 3 break out while the games play on?
  • AP reports on ‘All-out effort’ to keep Biden COVID-free

    AP reports on ‘All-out effort’ to keep Biden COVID-free

    When President Joe Biden met with U.S. governors at the White House on Monday, he was the only one given a glass of water — lest anyone else remove their mask to take a drink.

    The president was seated more than 10 feet from everyone, including Vice President Kamala Harris and members of his Cabinet.

    A White House staffer who was wearing a surgical mask when Biden entered the room was quickly handed an N95 version.

    These are just some of the extraordinary efforts on the part of the White House to keep the president from getting COVID-19, even though he’s gotten both of his regular vaccinations and his booster.
    — Read on apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-health-pandemics-kamala-harris-648f64eafd0b4f58e05f75e236b65e00

    The Associated Press goes on to describe a White House being extremely cautious that the President does not catch Covid at a time when the Administration is touting the advantages of vaccination..

  • Spikevax approved

    Spikevax approved

    Perhaps we can call at the Covid vaccine formally known as Moderna.

    Today, full FDA approval is granted for Moderna’s vaccine for the virus. However, the name seems to be quite frightening and it reminds us of a human character called Spikor.. .

    They had two years to name it. This is what they come up with?

  • Joe Rogan responds to Spotify controversy

    Joe Rogan responds to Spotify controversy

    For days, headlines have been written in media circles concerning the war between Neil Diamond, and now Joni Mitchell, and Joe Rogan. Diamond and Mitchell both have stated they want their music off of the streaming service Spotify because of controversial broadcasts from Rogan.

    Rogan has been embroiled in some form of COVID-19 controversy since he came down with a virus, it was lampoon by media outlets for using ivermectin during his recovery.

    Recently he had some controversial guests who did not say the same thing about the pandemic that other main stream sources say. In response, and he called for Rogan to be silenced and censored from the streaming service all together.

    Rogan responded to the fallout on Sunday, saying in a video on Instagram that he was only seeking to have conversations on his podcast with people who have “differing opinions.”

    “I’m not trying to promote misinformation, I’m not trying to be controversial,” Rogan said. “I’ve never tried to do anything with this podcast other than to just talk to people.”

    He also said that he schedules the guests on his podcast himself, and that he would try to book doctors with different opinions right after he talks to “the controversial ones.” Rogan noted that he earlier sat down on the show with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the chief medical correspondent for CNN, Dr. Michael Osterholm, who is a member of President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 advisory board, and Dr. Peter Hotez from Baylor College of Medicine.

    Developing..