Update on Viruses and Vaccines – COVID is not over until it is over, if ever

Top five Pandemic Death Counts before and/or without Vaccines

1. Black Death — 76-200 million (1346 – 1353)

2. Spanish Flu — 17-100 million (1918 – 1920)

3. Plague of Justinian — 15 – 100 million (541-549)

4. HIV/AIDS epidemic — 43 million as of 2024 (1981 – present)

5. Third Plague pandemic — 12-15 million (1855-1960)

“The United States lost 675,000 people to the Spanish flu in 1918-more casualties than World War I, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War combined. Pharmaceutical companies worked around the clock to come up with a vaccine to fight the Spanish flu, but they were too late.” — Pan American Health Organization

“Covid-19 overtakes 1918 Spanish flu as deadliest disease in American history. The Covid-19 pandemic has become the deadliest disease event in American history, with a death toll surpassing that of the 1918 Spanish flu.” — State News

The WorldOMeter reports up-to-date stats on the continuing Covid-19 pandemic, that is not over yet, and may never go away.

There have been 702,872,986 Coronavirus cases.

6,969,354 total global deaths

Total deaths in the United States: 1,192,248

Long Covid: Currently about 11% of the U.S. population lives with Long COVID: What Do the Latest Data Show?

“Long COVID, the condition where symptoms that surface after recovering from COVID-19 linger for weeks, months, or even years, is still a mystery to doctors and researchers. The symptoms, such as chronic pain, brain fog, shortness of breath, chest pain, and intense fatigue, can be debilitating.” — Yale Medicine

This Blogger’s Conclusion:

The data I’m reporting in this post is why I’m still isolating 90% of the time, and when I do go out for a supply run, two or three times a month, I wear a mask among the mostly maskless hordes of shoppers. I also (no one forced me to do this) keep up with the current COVID vaccines, five jabs so far.

Response to “Update on Viruses and Vaccines – COVID is not over until it is over, if ever”

  1. Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt Avatar

    I’ve had three shots and three boosters so far – same deal with the masking. It’s not over.

    I already live with something too similar to Long covid, ME/CFS – and my friends who have gotten covid on top of it say it’s been pretty horrible and left them in a worse place. I can’t afford to get worse.

    I don’t understand the unvaccinated.

    My eldest daughter and her two girlfriends went to Italy – and the three of them came back with covid. They masked, were careful – I have a picture of the three of them in front of The Last Supper – masked (they could have taken them off for the photo!). The three have had paxlovid, and are recovering. I have stressed the importance of rest and not trying to get back to full-blown activity too soon until they’re probably tired of hearing me. These are the first cases in the immediate family since the pandemic started. The planes and airports apparently were a horror.

    We are all vaccinated to the CDC recommendations.

    It’s still out there, folks, and can still kill. I prefer it not be me or my loved ones.

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