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Vaccinations On March 3, there were 51,708 cases and 1,882 deaths. There were 41,063 in hospitals. The WHO dashboard shows what is going on country by country. Globally, as of February 11, 2022, there have been 430.2 million confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 5.9 million deaths. In the U.S. there have been 76,613 new cases in last 24hrs. […]
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Vaccinations The WHO dashboard shows what is going on country by country. Globally, as of February 11, 2022, there have been 430.2 million confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 5.9 million deaths. In the U.S. there have been 76,613 new cases in last 24hrs. The cases are in decline and deaths finally in decline because of the time lag. […]
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Vaccinations The Omicron variant has often been described as milder than prior variants. Unfortunately, the vocabulary got converted to mild. Milder is correct. Mild is not. The death rate from Omicron is much lower than prior variants but the number of cases was far higher because of how transmissible omicron has been. On February 17, […]
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Vaccinations I got my second Moderna booster on Thursday, five months after the first booster. I asked the CVS pharmacist where I could get the QR code so I would have digital proof of the vaccination. He said, “What is a QR code?” Healthcare has a long way to go when it comes to IT. […]
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Vaccines No question about it that we will be seeing more variants. Hopefully not more virulent. The big hope on my radar is a universal pan-covid vaccine which could protect against the flu, RSV, and all future coronavirus variants. The mRNA vaccines by Moderna and BioNTech-Pfizer have shown the new modern technology can be adapted […]