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All Good and Favorable Trends

Good Morning,

The trends are very favorable, new cases, fatalities, recoveries, and a significant drop in those with the virus in intensive care. At the end of last week, there were only 6,100 in need of intensive care, compared to earlier periods in which there were more than 35,000. Cross fingers, the best news is that there is not another variant.

The “New Case” graph (below) shows the continual drop in new cases. We are getting back to this past summer levels when Covid 19 and Covid Delta were believed to be disappearing. In the United States, 215 million, or 64%, have completed their respective vaccination regimen. That combined with those that have achieved natural immunity, probably has our country at a better than 80% Herd Immunity Factor. We wish data were distinguishing those that were vaccinated but still became infected and those that weren’t so we could eliminate any double counting.

Another uplifting trend is the number of active germ carriers, or as we term, Open Net Carriers (ONC’s), is down to 504,000. A very small number considering at the beginning of this year there were more than 7 million.