Still at 2.5k covid dead daily. We have been above 1k daily covid dead since Aug’21 and above 2k covid dead since Jan’22. It has been so long that it seems normal.
Deaths have lagged 2-4 weeks for every wave so far. Given we had 1,000,000+ infection days this wave, 2000 a day is considerably better than 5000 a day last year with just half the new daily infections and people still adhering to mitigation. Realistically, we will not fall below 100 deaths daily even if everybody was boosted. The vaccines reduce risk of death 20 fold.
It's inevitable we're going to get over 1 million in COVID deaths. Something that many thought was alarmism back in 2020. That said there is room for hope as our spike in new infections nationwide appears to be coming down and as deaths are the most lagging indicator.
Yes. In MN which has a Democratic governor statewide mask mandates were lifted last summer. It's only recently that Minneapolis and St. Paul put one back in in response to Omicron.
Yes, much better thx to inherit less deadly omicron (as compared to Delta) and a populace with much more covid immunity. This is the gap that we are living in - it is almost normal at an individual level on average yet it’s still far from normal at a societal (and health care system) level. Since now the mass feels that it's "normal", we are witnessing the political landscape shifting quickly toward as if it's normal. What's left behind are the vulnerables (as usual) - those that can't be vaccinated and are at risk and those that are immunocompromised. (The unvaccinated by choice is surely part of the vulnerable but it's their choice to be so). It's not of a choice - there is nothing much our gov can do with our type of society. There are other gov and societies that have done much better and didn't have to choose to leave some behind.
