Covid stats for April & May 2022
I...kinda slacked on this last month, oops. It appears we're easing out of things; even Dr. Fauci last week said we're basically out of the pandemic phase and into the endemic phase, though this was not made official by anybody that I'm aware of. For me, personally, I feel like I've been sleepwalking through the past couple months. March and the beginning of April were so busy and mentally taxing that I've had a hard time focusing on stuff, even more than what's been usual. It wasn't until about mid-April that I realized, hey, I haven't done this month's covid post, and then a few more days went by, and by that time it was like, might as well just hold off until May. So here we are.
I do want to continue keeping track of things, at least until this officially is declared an endemic. I'm a little bummed I didn't get early April's numbers, but oh well.
From Johns Hopkins University
Global Confirmed: 513,585,708
Global Deaths: 6,235,725
U.S. Confirmed: 81,349,065
U.S. Deaths: 993,712
Vaccine doses yesterday in the US (7-day average): +535,362
Fully vaccinated: 67% of US population; total 219.5M
IDPH Information
Vaccines Administered: 21,871,464
Total Cases: 3,138,682
Confirmed Deaths: 33,614
Variant Cases
Omicron: 100%
Probable Deaths: 4,284
There's a link at the website that you can click on for variant details, but it's pretty impressive that 100% of reported cases in Illinois are the omicron variant. That's just how virulent it is.
At this point, since I last made a post, there is no longer a mask mandate in Illinois. Many of my coworkers and our room renters no longer wear masks. I still do for the most part, and honestly I freak people out when they walk into my job. They'll ask, do I need a mask? And I'll tell them, no, you're fine. I don't really care if other people wear a mask or not at this point. I feel more comfortable doing so. Dad and I still wear them when we go grocery shopping, and we're very much in the minority. I still wear one in band. I have yet to go massless in Regular Band, though for our final concert for Fancy Band, I did take my mask off there.
It's still out there. My boss recently went to lunch with his mom and an acquaintance. Within a couple days, my boss got a phone call: The acquaintance had tested positive. His mom subsequently tested positive. However, because my boss has had all his shots and even came down with the virus himself back around the holidays, he didn't have to quarantine. So long as he wore a mask for 5 days, he was okay. I think he did have to test at that point, but he never had any symptoms that I was aware of, and I believe he's now in the clear. I'm not sure how his mom's doing but I think she was just staying at home. Her risk factor is that she's elderly, but otherwise I think she's okay.
It would be nice to have things move officially to the endemic stage. Two years of this has been exhausting. Also, with regard to long covid, I really haven't heard anything about the NIH study I signed up for. I get emails every week or two about these webinars they hold on Tuesdays at noon. ...I work. And I'm not interested in anything like that. I did get one email about "studies in your area happening soon!" but nothing else has come of that. There's still residual stuff I'm dealing with, where coffee every so often smells funky and of course there's the inflammation that just won't go away. I'm not sure if the fatigue I've been dealing with is just general malaise relating to how March and early April panned out, or if it's something else. I just keep plugging along. What else can you do.
I do want to continue keeping track of things, at least until this officially is declared an endemic. I'm a little bummed I didn't get early April's numbers, but oh well.
From Johns Hopkins University
Global Confirmed: 513,585,708
Global Deaths: 6,235,725
U.S. Confirmed: 81,349,065
U.S. Deaths: 993,712
Vaccine doses yesterday in the US (7-day average): +535,362
Fully vaccinated: 67% of US population; total 219.5M
IDPH Information
Vaccines Administered: 21,871,464
Total Cases: 3,138,682
Confirmed Deaths: 33,614
Variant Cases
Omicron: 100%
Probable Deaths: 4,284
There's a link at the website that you can click on for variant details, but it's pretty impressive that 100% of reported cases in Illinois are the omicron variant. That's just how virulent it is.
At this point, since I last made a post, there is no longer a mask mandate in Illinois. Many of my coworkers and our room renters no longer wear masks. I still do for the most part, and honestly I freak people out when they walk into my job. They'll ask, do I need a mask? And I'll tell them, no, you're fine. I don't really care if other people wear a mask or not at this point. I feel more comfortable doing so. Dad and I still wear them when we go grocery shopping, and we're very much in the minority. I still wear one in band. I have yet to go massless in Regular Band, though for our final concert for Fancy Band, I did take my mask off there.
It's still out there. My boss recently went to lunch with his mom and an acquaintance. Within a couple days, my boss got a phone call: The acquaintance had tested positive. His mom subsequently tested positive. However, because my boss has had all his shots and even came down with the virus himself back around the holidays, he didn't have to quarantine. So long as he wore a mask for 5 days, he was okay. I think he did have to test at that point, but he never had any symptoms that I was aware of, and I believe he's now in the clear. I'm not sure how his mom's doing but I think she was just staying at home. Her risk factor is that she's elderly, but otherwise I think she's okay.
It would be nice to have things move officially to the endemic stage. Two years of this has been exhausting. Also, with regard to long covid, I really haven't heard anything about the NIH study I signed up for. I get emails every week or two about these webinars they hold on Tuesdays at noon. ...I work. And I'm not interested in anything like that. I did get one email about "studies in your area happening soon!" but nothing else has come of that. There's still residual stuff I'm dealing with, where coffee every so often smells funky and of course there's the inflammation that just won't go away. I'm not sure if the fatigue I've been dealing with is just general malaise relating to how March and early April panned out, or if it's something else. I just keep plugging along. What else can you do.