This is page seven: March 23, 2022 -- present.
The best historic precedent: The Spanish flu, also known as the 1918 flu pandemic, was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. Lasting from February 1918 to April 1920, it infected 500 million people – about a third of the world's population at the time – in four successive waves. The death toll is typically estimated to have been somewhere between 17 million and 50 million, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in human history.Quick links:
- Coronavirus: statistics. By country. By state.
- The World In Data.
- WSJ - Johns Hopkins data.
- CDC: vaccine rollout.
Updates
August 21, 2023: lessons learned, Sweden. The hard way.
January 30, 2023: update -- President Biden has set May 1, 2023, as the date to end the two "emergency declarations."
January 20, 2023: update -- China has quit testing; Japan re-classifies Covid-19 as "flu."
January 10, 2023: the most under-reported story so far this year.
December 4, 2022: tea leaves suggest Joe Biden will lift Covid-19 vaccine mandate for the military. The Kennedy family fingerprints are all over this one. [Later: the military mandate was lifted.]
October 21, 2022: the leading cause of death for those age 45 - 54, in 2020 - 2021.
October 17, 2022: starting a library on Covid-19.
September 2, 2022: update here. New vaccine; statistics.
March 23, 2022: CDC quietly updates pediatric mortality data related to Covid-19. Deaths in children revised 24% lower.
March 23, 2022: many noted "celebrities" -- most likely fully vaccinated -- have recently tested positive with minimal symptoms: former President Obama; WH press secretary Jen Psaki (at least her second time to test positive); apparently still at work (needs to be fact-checked); former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
March 23, 2022: Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine works safely in young children; ages six months to five years; company plans to seek authorization for use. This would target the last "broad" reservoir of disease. Would add another layer of protection for immunosuppressed children.
Moderna said the vaccine’s efficacy against symptomatic infections was 43.7% in children ages 6 months to 2 years, and 37.5% in children ages 2 to 5.
The efficacy rates were lower than seen during adult testing, which took place before Omicron emerged, but comparable to the real-world effectiveness of two doses of Moderna’s vaccine found among adults during the Omicron wave. Pfizer is soon to release its own pediatric version.
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