Numbers across the world are insane. Infection rates in NYC have gone up 10x in 3-4 weeks. One out of every 50 people in Manhattan contracted Covid just within the past week. In other words, I suggest getting the booster as soon as you can.I haven't seen any official stats on the boosters yet. I will certainly add them once more data becomes available.
I am not worried either, but it is evident that infections are again increasing. I might start adding prefecture-specific data soon.
The latest figure was 68 more than the tally for the previous Monday, and it brought the daily average of new cases over the week through Jan. 3 to 75.7, an increase of 96.1 percent from the average for the week earlier, according to officials. Osaka Prefecture logged 79 new cases on Jan. 3, the seventh straight day for the daily count to top 50. The patients included 19 students and teachers at the public Kitano High School in Osaka city. In Yamaguchi Prefecture, 56 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed on Jan. 3, prefectural officials said, adding that community infections appear to be spreading. Forty-four of the new patients live in Iwakuni, home to a U.S. military base.
Shot 1 of the " vaccines " were never vaccines in first place rather immunity boosters.
SourceA vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins, or one of its surface proteins. The agent stimulates the body's immune system to recognize the agent as a threat, destroy it, and to further recognize and destroy any of the microorganisms associated with that agent that it may encounter in the future. Vaccines can be prophylactic (to prevent or ameliorate the effects of a future infection by a natural or "wild" pathogen), or therapeutic (to fight a disease that has already occurred, such as cancer). Some vaccines offer full sterilizing immunity, in which infection is prevented completely.
| 29/12 (Wed) | 30/12 (Thu) | 31/12 (Fri) | 01/01 (Sat) | 02/01 (Son) | 03/01 (Mon) | 04/01 (Tue) |
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501 (+ 239) | 516 (+ 221) | 510 (+ 208) | 535 (+ 213) | 554 (+ 291) | 782 (+ 568) | 1,268 (+ 881) |
| 29/12 (Wed) | 30/12 (Thu) | 31/12 (Fri) | 01/01 (Sat) | 02/01 (Son) | 03/01 (Mon) | 04/01 (Tue) |
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4 (+ 2) | 0 (- 2) | 0 (± 0) | 0 (- 1) | 2 (+ 2) | 1 (+ 1) | 1 (- 1) |
| 29/12 (Wed) | 30/12 (Thu) | 31/12 (Fri) | 01/01 (Sat) | 02/01 (Son) | 03/01 (Mon) | 04/01 (Tue) |
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49 (+ 23) | 46 (+ 18) | 49 (+ 15) | 51 (+ 14) | 53 (+ 15) | 52 (+ 8) | 54 (+ 8) |
The Okinawan prefectural government on Wednesday reported 623 new coronavirus cases, the highest number in the island prefecture since Aug 28 last year, and more than double Tuesday's number. The prefecture has seen an explosive rise in cases due to the Omicron variant, health officials said. Up until Dec 20, the prefecture was reporting less than 10 new cases a day. Local media reported that the Okinawan government is preparing to ask the central government in Tokyo to declare a quasi state of emergency for the prefecture ahead of the three-day weekend which includes Coming-of-Age Day on Monday. In Tokyo, the number of reported infections was 390, more than double Tuesday's 151, and 314 more than last Wednesday.
You are most likely right.Okinawa is sure picking up in infections. I'd expect cases in the thousands soon after this report of 600~.
I'd say that the evidence so far is that the vaccine is far better protection than a healthy diet. A healthy diet doesn't directly build up antibodies in your body.I think our best protection is a healthy diet.
yea true. Not sure how different the virus acts after dark myself.
That could be a problem. But maybe the bigger problem is the fraternizing they are doing with the locals.According to the news, the main issue of contention was that most US service members didn't wear masks off base.
The variant, spreading in many parts of Japan, "is highly transmissible but tends not to result in severe symptoms," according to the analysis. So far, studies have shown that the tendency of symptoms among omicron carriers in Japan matches that reported by other countries dealing with the new variant. In Okinawa, the number of suspected omicron cases made up 73% of all new coronavirus cases found in the week to Jan. 2, suggesting that the omicron variant is increasingly replacing the delta variant in the prefecture. The share stood at 34% in Tokyo and 60% in Osaka Prefecture. Of 675 omicron carriers in Okinawa as of Jan. 4, 92.3% had no or mild symptoms, 7.7% had moderate symptoms, and there were no severely ill patients in need of a ventilator or other special equipment, according to a report submitted to an expert panel of the health ministry. As of July 18 last year, the percentage stood at 72.8% for cases with no or moderate symptoms and 26.2% for cases with moderate symptoms. A detailed study of symptoms of 50 people with the omicron variant diagnosed by Jan. 1 this year found that 72% of them developed a fever of 37.5 degrees Celsius or higher. Coughing was seen in 58%, and fatigue in 50%. Meanwhile, only 2% developed taste and smell disorders, major symptoms among patients with other variants.
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2,491 (+ 1,990) | 4,475 (+ 3,959) | 6,214 (+ 5,704) | 8,311 (+ 7,776) | 8,078 (+ 7,524) | 6,438 (+ 5,656) | 6,239 (+ 4,971) |
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1 (- 3) | 1 (+ 1) | 1 (+ 1) | 2 (+ 2) | 1 (- 1) | 2 (+ 1) | 2 (+ 1) |
| 05/01 (Wed) | 06/01 (Thu) | 07/01 (Fri) | 08/01 (Sat) | 09/01 (Son) | 10/01 (Mon) | 11/01 (Tue) |
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60 (+ 11) | 64 (+ 18) | 91 (+ 42) | 89 (+ 38) | 90 (+ 37) | 90 (+ 38) | 100 (+ 46) |
| 05/01 (Wed) | 06/01 (Thu) | 07/01 (Fri) | 08/01 (Sat) | 09/01 (Son) | 10/01 (Mon) | 11/01 (Tue) |
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390 (+ 314) | 641 (+ 577) | 922 (+ 844) | 1,224 (+ 1,145) | 1,223 (+ 1,139) | 871 (+ 768) | 962 (+ 811) |
| 05/01 (Wed) | 06/01 (Thu) | 07/01 (Fri) | 08/01 (Sat) | 09/01 (Son) | 10/01 (Mon) | 11/01 (Tue) |
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623 (+ 596) | 981 (+ 931) | 1,414 (+ 1,370) | 1,759 (+ 1,707) | 1,533 (+ 1,482) | 779 (+ 649) | 775 (+ 556) |
| 05/01 (Wed) | 06/01 (Thu) | 07/01 (Fri) | 08/01 (Sat) | 09/01 (Son) | 10/01 (Mon) | 11/01 (Tue) |
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244 (+ 183) | 505 (+ 453) | 676 (+ 598) | 891 (+ 821) | 880 (+ 823) | 449 (+ 420) | 613 (+ 489) |
| 05/01 (Wed) | 06/01 (Thu) | 07/01 (Fri) | 08/01 (Sat) | 09/01 (Son) | 10/01 (Mon) | 11/01 (Tue) |
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34 (+ 8) | 74 (+ 42) | 94 (+ 73) | 132 (+ 109) | 117 | 106 | 117 (+ 91) |
| 05/01 (Wed) | 06/01 (Thu) | 07/01 (Fri) | 08/01 (Sat) | 09/01 (Son) | 10/01 (Mon) | 11/01 (Tue) |
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138 | 273 | 429 (+ 406) | 547 (+ 526) | 619 (+ 561) | 672 (+ 623) | 588 (+ 479) |
The government will shorten by one month the interval between the second and third vaccination shots for people aged 18 to 64 from the current eight months, and by one month for those over 64 to six months in principle, Shigeyuki Goto told reporters. The change is likely to present municipal governments, which are responsible for carrying out the inoculation drive, with the daunting task of executing it, however, including sending out vaccine tickets to residents in a timely manner. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on a TV program on Thursday that the government will strive to shorten the booster shot interval for people aged 18 to 64 by another month to six months, if at all possible.