Covid-19 Update -- August 21, 2023

Locator: 45438COVID.   

Provisional mortality data, US, 2022, CDC: link here.

COVID-19 mortality update, US, 2022, CDC, May 5, 2023: link here.

Mortality analyses, coronavirus research center, Johns Hopkins University, data as of March 10, 2023: link here.

Leading cause of death, 45 - 54 years old, 2022: link here.

Covid-19 cases and deaths, per capita, globally: link here.

• Cases / capita:
• Norway: #73 -- 269,751 / one million
  
• Sweden: #78 -- 265,595 / one million.

• Deaths / capita:
• Norway: #101 -- 1,020 / one million.
• Sweden: #44 -- 2.420 / one million.

Sweden now has one of the highest rates of vaccination in the world; I wonder what changed their mind? As folks may remember, the Swedes said "no" to the lock down and were going to depend on herd immunity to beat this thing. Michael Lewis, in Premonition, explains why that did not work.  

I remember in the mid- to late-1950s when the polio vaccine came out, how that vaccine was distributed, and the Americans' response to that vaccine. Of course that was before Joe Rogan and RFK, Jr.

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My Covid-19 Library

The Genetics Of Corona Virus, link here. 

Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus, David Quammen, 2022. Link here.

Spike: The Virus vs. The People - the Inside Story – Sage Scientist’s Revelatory Covid Memoir -- Jeremy Farrar -- October 15, 2022. Link here.

Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live, Nicholas A. Christakis, c. 2020. 614.5924CHR. Link here.

Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City, Fang Fang, translated by Michael Berry, c. 2020. 614.5924FAN.

Covid-19: The Pandemic That Never Should Have Happened And How To Stop The Next One, Debora MacKenzie, c. 2020.  614.5924MAC. Credentials: a journalist, with history of "working as a biomedical researcher.” LOL. Book jacket does not say what her degree was in and where she got her degree.

The Premonition: A Pandemic Story, Michael Lewis, c. 2021. 614.5924LEW. Credentials: best-selling author, to include: The Fifth Risk; Moneyball; Liar's Poker; The Big Short.

Fifth Risk: written during the first half of the Trump administration, The Fifth Risk framed the federal government as a manager of a portfolio of existential risks; natural disasters, nuclear weapons, financial panics, hostile foreigners, energy security, food security, and on and on and on. [He could have included other risks: loss of free speech; loss of rights to own guns; loss of right to privacy and on and on and on.]

This, Premonition, may be one of the most interesting of the lot. Told by a great story-teller. No index. Will have to find out for myself his thoughts on Fauci and gain-of-function. Later: review over at The [London] Guardian. Less than impressed. I agree. Explains why Trump did not fire Fauci: he did not have that authority.