The gov't has an official tally which is published daily, and I'd generally regard it as being 99-percent accurate. What it misses? Well...people who had a very light case of Covid and never were tested....so they aren't in the official numbers. It's anyone's guess on that number.
Infections since day one across the country: 4,073,028 (as of last night). (Yes, some folks are on episode two of the virus, so you can't count these as one per person)
Deaths since day across the country: 92,607 (out of 83-million residents).
New deaths in past 24 hours: 47
Germans in some form of quarantine presently today: 162,521. (these include family members who haven't tested positive, so it's always a questionable number)
Germans in ICU situations: 1,439.
Germans on ventilators: 765.
Present number having the full vaccination deal: 62-percent, with another four percent waiting on the second vaccination....so the number ought to reflect 66-percent roughly.
If you asked on enthusiasm waning? No one from the government will suggest another 10-percent eager to get the vaccination. It's anyone's guess that they might be able to hit the 70-percent point by the end of 2021.
Last night night, I noticed a science report (brief in nature) where a German company is developing an inhalant that would whip the Covid-virus. You'd just inhale the mist (I assume at least once or twice a week) and you'd be 'saved'. Cost? Unknown (that might be worth asking). Delivery? Won't be anytime in 2021....you can only guess that it's coming by summer of 2022.
So we come to this odd new way of counting the bad nature of Covid.....the number of people who are actually hospitalized (not the number who get infected). This takes the rate or index.....compared against 100k people in a local, state, or national level.
This is an odd detail to lay out. Back around the Christmas holidays....things were considered pretty dire and bad....which the hospitalization rate would have been figured at around 15.5.
In simple terms....the peak or worst-of-the-worst was that Christmas period. Well....presently, even with people walking around with Covid-antibodies (having the virus before) and vaccinated people......the current hospitalization rate is only 1.95.
Yeah....it's barely 15-percent of what existed around the holidays period. One might go and suggest that a lot of the recent hype is still left-over vacation issues, and that the hospitalization rate ought to max here in mid-September and 'chill' a bit before winter starts up.
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