We have seen it after almost every holiday period: Unvaccinated people get together — indoors — and cases go up. Now, two weeks after the Thanksgiving holiday, cases were up 27 percent to 120,071 for Dec. 7 and deaths were also up, 13 percent to 1,298 for the same day. Watch for the 700,000 death mark to be achieved before the end of the year. We have already surpassed all deaths in the Civil War.
At this writing, the jury is still out on the omicron variant as to its final impacts as far as spread and lethality. The above increase in cases and deaths is primarily all from the delta variant.
There are selected regions of the nation that have their hospitals and their critical care facilities once again being overwhelmed with patients. Some report that this is the biggest surge in cases that they have had since the pandemic began.
Once again, these cases are are largely unnecessary. Vaccinations provide excellent protection from serious illness and hospitalization. There are all those rumors and misinformation that people are gleaning their information from, and then there was one woman patient on TV news who said, “I just didn’t think I would get it, and I almost died.” She was older, however, it is this type of thinking that you can find prevalent in young people who think they are invincible. They make excellent infantrymen until their buddy next to them gets killed and reality sets in.
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