New COVID-19 cases in US soar to highest
levels on record
Associated Press,
by
Kathleen Foody
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
12/29/2021 2:02:49 PM
CHICAGO — More than a year after the vaccine was rolled out, new cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. have soared to their highest level on record at over 265,000 per day on average, a surge driven largely by the highly contagious omicron variant. New cases per day have more than doubled over the past two weeks, eclipsing the old mark of 250,000, set in mid-January, according to data kept by Johns Hopkins University. The fast-spreading mutant version of the virus has cast a pall over Christmas and New Year’s, forcing communities to scale back or call off their festivities
Reply 1 - Posted by:
clayusmcret 12/29/2021 2:07:32 PM (No. 1022194)
....highest levels on record.....based on results gathered by a PCR test that's being pulled off the market because of so many false negatives.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bighambone 12/29/2021 2:09:30 PM (No. 1022197)
Remember Biden’s claimed plan during the presidential campaign to “shutdown” the virus? Obviously we now see that there was no such plan! The was just the first in a ongoing effort by Biden to continuously lay a “snow job” on the American people.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 12/29/2021 2:12:10 PM (No. 1022203)
The tests are flawed for one thing. The virus is 99.8% survivable for another thing. I don't believe anything the media says about anything... for a third thing.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
SALady 12/29/2021 2:13:52 PM (No. 1022206)
And the highest numbers are coming from the Demon-Rat controlled areas of the country where the dictator-wanna-be governors and mayors keep the tightest reigns on the masses of peasants through mandates and draconian rules!!!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
JayD 12/29/2021 2:15:16 PM (No. 1022207)
Gosh, maybe because people are getting tested at a high rate since the MSM has been on a 24/7 campaign about the terrible Omicron variant (with symptoms similar to a nasty cold).
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Rich323 12/29/2021 2:15:23 PM (No. 1022208)
Didn’t the CDC say last week they had miscounted the Omicron virus and it was really the delta variant running rampant? If so this article is fake news because it attributes the case rise to Omicron. The CDC needs to be shutdown along with the lying media.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jntsrgn 12/29/2021 2:24:12 PM (No. 1022216)
The CDC just today corrected their numbers. Omicron is only 23% of new infections. Not that it matters, but this reporter can’t do even a little research.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
curious1 12/29/2021 2:29:46 PM (No. 1022221)
Who cares about 'cases'? How many are actually dying? South Africa says nobody is...because it's a cold.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
msjena 12/29/2021 2:33:41 PM (No. 1022223)
What difference does the number of cases make if people are not getting seriously ill or dying? Should we start collecting data on the common cold?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 12/29/2021 2:46:07 PM (No. 1022234)
Omicron is nothing more than a bad cold. Omicron will eliminate COVID by natural immunity.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
planetgeo 12/29/2021 2:51:53 PM (No. 1022236)
No, it's not even a bad cold in most instances. We personally know several people who have it right now (if you can even believe the asserted positive cases) and their symptoms are essentially mild colds). This is a complete fraud.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 12/29/2021 2:54:06 PM (No. 1022240)
To paraphrase the execrable FDR:
'All we have to fear, is fear porn itself.'
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 12/29/2021 3:01:46 PM (No. 1022252)
Oh, shut up.
Nothing they say helps.
All they do is cause fear.
They are causing more harm than good.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 12/29/2021 3:13:59 PM (No. 1022269)
A good friend's son is in the Marine Corps.....got home very early this AM for after Christmas leave. My friend tells me his son arrived sick, testing indicates Wuhan flu.
Several in the family who live in that home are unvaccinated. Challenging times.
And, of course, this young Marine had gotten The Shots.....and, predictably, it didn't prevent infection.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 12/29/2021 5:04:42 PM (No. 1022359)
I'm going back into hiding.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
bedub 12/29/2021 5:33:13 PM (No. 1022381)
Wait, but what about masks, vaccines, distancing.....
I keep saying, to everyone who will listen, if masks and vaccines and social distancing work, why aren't they working?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Doc1 12/29/2021 6:00:41 PM (No. 1022396)
The article really means the number of positive tests not cases. If you double the testing you will "double the number of cases." Fauci knows better but won't state what I just stated. In fact, everyone who has finished the second year of medical school knows the difference, as well as anyone with common sense.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
kono 12/29/2021 8:06:03 PM (No. 1022506)
"driven largely by the highly contagious omicron variant"
You mean the highly contagious, mild-symptomed 'omicron variant'.
"The fast-spreading mutant version of the virus"
Notice how the mainstream media have collectively forgotten the mitigating aspect of it that should have everybody saying "ho hum". They can't whip everybody into a panic if we don't forget that part, so just leave it out...
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DVC 12/29/2021 9:49:18 PM (No. 1022565)
"Cases"......and how many are false positives? How many are like the common cold?
How many deaths?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Ribicon 12/30/2021 10:10:10 AM (No. 1022985)
President Trump was slammed by political opponents including the national news media for "cases," even noting that more testing equates to more "cases" (whether correct or asymptomatic), so pResident Biden should be held to the same standard. Even more so because Biden claimed to have a secret plan but did not, and because the health system under his watch (nap?) had a year of experience under its belt plus these fantastic vaccines that do not work.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Ribicon 12/30/2021 10:14:59 AM (No. 1022988)
A lot of people should be arrested for this farce, beginning with Doctor Fauci and the shot pushers, but there's little chance of that happening because so many people are involved, and there are fortunes being created out of thin air and arbitrary power given to eager tyrants who force us out of work and make us take shots and wear masks, at their whim. Pride and vanity preclude the possibility of reversing course, with even Donald Trump claiming to have developed the vaccines himself, and saying the fault lies with the unvaccinated.
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So much for shutting down the virus.