Minnesota, U.S., and World Report updated late January 4, see #7 below

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6. Minn daily new cases, 7dma, up 62% in 7 days. UPDATE: Tuesday's report is BAD. And RANT

Last edited Tue Jan 4, 2022, 07:19 PM - Edit history (5)

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/minnesota-covid-cases.html

7dma = 7 day moving average
Vacation is over.

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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html

U.S. daily new cases 7dma up 238% in 14 days (that's 3.38 fold), and nearly double the all-time high of last winter

Hospitalizations up 2.1 fold since a November 10 low point

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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-cases.html

World daily new cases 7dma is 1.84 times the previous all time high of April 25 (excluding recent days in the current ramp-up that were also above the April 25 level)

EDIT: UPDATE 1130a Tuesday January 4, per the 1100 AM Minn Dept of Health, Tuesday (usually the big day when Friday through Monday, 3 days, are reported), we had 16,204 cases, up from 9,873 the previous Tuesday, so the 7 day will make another big upward move.

A word to the Mr. and Ms. Cools out there, you know, its mild blah blah blah. That's fine, but don't assume every one is where they should be - some of us are immunocompromised, or other health issues, old, and not everyone is boosted that should be. Like the half dose Moderna booster on top of the original one-shot Johnson & Johnson vax, argghhhh, that's supposed to work?. Nor do we want to be subject to a fucking experiment to see if we will get the mild version or the hospitalization version of Omicron. And we don't know yet if there will be a long-Covid with this or not.

Anyway, I have a neighbor, by the way, a Democrat who should know better. I'm standing inside my doorway behind my closed storm door looking out the big storm door window, and he walks up, maskless and opens my fucking storm door while I'm still standing right there, so we have nothing but air between us, and wishes me a happy new year and tells me about some plumbing issue that affected the whole village for a couple of hours. We get in a short conversation, including about Covid, I hope he saw the extreme tension on my face and noticed I was standing back somewhat, but some of the Mr. and Ms. Cools, including some of the Democratic versions of those, can be oblivious.

The maskless neighbor by the way was probably talking to other people along the row about the plumbing issue (he's on the home owner association board). Yeah, you don't have to wear a mask every time you go outside. But if you're going deliberately to talk to your neighbors, wear your goddam mask