United States
• Total Cases: 94,385,669 7-Day average: 85,762 (-6.6%)
• Total Deaths: 1,041,280 7-Day average: 404 (-5.4%)
• Total new hospital admissions: 5,235,025 7-Day average 5,106 (-5%) Worldwide [Source: WHO] - most recent day
• Total Cases: 600,555,262 (670,371 new)
• Total Deaths: 6,472,914 (2,676 new)
Very telling graph about the role of vaccination in preventing death:
FDA gave EUA to BA.5 bivalent boosts and USG has ordered 170 million doses to be administered starting next week. As usual some concern among some “talking heads” about doing this from Paul Offit who generally feels that most people really do not need boosters to a milder John Moore who is concerned about the immunology of a poor response. Eric Topol gives the pros and cons today in his usual blog:
Recent article in Salon (worthwhile reading whole article):
COMMENTARY
Farewell Dr. Fauci: How the
right turned a national hero
into a villain in service of
Donald Trump
The right's attack on science is the most dangerous of its cynical power plays. Fauci is just collateral damage
By HEATHER DIGBY PARTON
Columnist
Nice cartoon from 2020 by Mark Tatulli :
Other Tatulli cartoons with Lio:
Sep 1, 2022
Dr. Fauci’s released records hold 1 diary entry filed under Thursday, September 1, 2022, from the Tony's Diary Package. 194 words in total, reproduced below exactly as released. The diary text appears on pp. 1049–1052 of 2026.07.24_Tonys-Diary-Package.pdf.
Correspondents named on this day1
Matched by surname against the 108 correspondents in the release, so a common name may match more than the person intended. See the whole of 2022 as a calendar.