Covid-2019 - 2021-12-19

In "Recommended Reading," a story in The Atlantic catches the mood about Omicron: The sub-head states, "More data will soon be coming in. But how much do they really matter?" In other words, we've made up our minds that this is a catastrophe. Don't confuse us with the facts if it turns out not to be.

Regional bias, perhaps? Look at page 11 -- there's all the difference in the world between cases in New York, and in the US ex-New York. What's so strange is that New York, with its surging cases, reports officially only 1% of cases are Omicron.