Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

I'm getting worried about Mama. We've been stuck on Omicron for the last 14+ months and so sign of a freshly-baked Pi yet.

 

Given the lack of reporting in most places, I just don't find the daily numbers all that useful anymore. Especially with so many "with COVID" deaths being tallied as COVID deaths.

 

Are we overcounting Covid deaths?

Or undercounting them?

COVID-19 deaths in the US continue to be undercounted, research shows, despite claims of ‘overcounts’ | SPH

 

I'd say "Yes."

 

This is why I count on you* to do the maths, brother!



*arithmetic pun

 

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

‘We still don’t know it’s over’: will Covid surge after US ends emergency?

COVID Data Tracker

 

COVID Data Tracker




Meanwhile, on the right . . .

House votes to kill CDC's vax requirement for foreign travelers entering the US

New research shows CDC exaggerated the evidence for masks to fight COVID

 

COVID Data Tracker

 

I read that mask article and then found out it was written by a senior editor at Reason magazine.

 

exactly

 

‘Crazy interesting’ findings by Australian researchers may reveal key to Covid immunity

Australian researchers have found a protein in the lungs that sticks to the Covid-19 virus like velcro and immobilises it, which may explain why some people never become sick with the virus while others suffer serious illness.