South Korea Reaches New Record of Over 8,500 Daily COVID Cases
Just like nearby Japan, South Korea has reached a new record for daily new COVID cases:
South Korea’s daily coronavirus cases hit a record high of 8,571 on Tuesday, driven by the fast spread of the new dominant omicron variant, as the country is set to put in force revised virus curbs to rein in the highly transmissible variant.
Tuesday’s cases, including 8,356 local infections, took the total caseload to 749,979, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said.
It marks the first time the daily caseload has surpassed the 8,000 mark since the country reported the first COVID-19 infection on Jan. 20, 2020. The previous all-time high was 7,848 on Dec. 15 last year.
South Korea has seen the daily counts skyrocket over the past week, from 3,857 on Jan. 17 to 7,513 reported Monday.
The death toll from COVID-19 came to 6,588, up 23 from Monday. The fatality rate stood at 0.88 percent.
Yonhap
You can read more at the link, but with the Lunar New Year holiday coming up it will likely rise to a much higher level before eventually declining.
“Cases.” Is that sick people or asymptomatic people who failed an unreliable test?
How many (and what percentage) were hospitalized?
How many (and what percentage) passed away from Covid without being over 80 and having three or more comorbidities?
Don’t give in to fear.
Yes, the Omicron variant which is now the dominant variant is far more infectious than the Delta variant. However, it’s also good news that the Ominicron variant causes far less number of people needing critical care. The people who are in the ICUs currently are 35% of the number of people in the ICUs last month when the Delta variant was the dominant strain. There is optimism in the air, mixed in with a cautious warning that if we don’t keep the restrictions, there will be other strains that will develop which could be deadlier than the Omicron.
“There is optimism in the air, mixed in with a cautious warning that if we don’t keep the restrictions, there will be other strains that will develop which could be deadlier than the Omicron.”
Let’s look at that statement.
– keep restriction, drag herd immunity out, develop other strains in a population that continuously has “ping-pong infection”
– abolish restrictions, develop broad herd immunity as quickly as possible (as opposed to narrow vaccines), don’t go live opportunity for other strains to develop
I don’t see that second one working well to destroy small business and empower perpetual fascism.
Gonna have to go with option #1.
Chickenhead, let’s put it this way. As the number of critically ill continues to go down as it has been lately, there may come a point in time where I predict they may even stop counting the number of infected, and just treat this like the flu, and get rid of all restrictions.
Korea Man, I am in agreement with this wishful thinking.
However, I have no evidence of a history of logic, competence, effectiveness, integrity, or the desire to relinquish power in any government decisions.
With this in mind, I have no great hope the Korean government will manage the end of covid any better than they are managing the middle.
You know, the hardest part of “15 days to flatten the curve” is the first 3 years.
Anybody watch the Senate covid hearings?
Here is a highlight you won’t see in the media.
“During the hearing, attorney Thomas Renz, representing three Defense Department officials, said the actual data showed, among other findings, a 300% increase in miscarriages, a 300% increase in cancer, and a whopping 1,000% increase in neurological disease in U.S. military.”
…plus yet-unconfirmed documents indicating these are lies and the real number is actually much higher.
Instead of increasing readiness by weeding out the weak, they reduced readiness with an experimental medical intervention with no control group.
Good job, government.
My agency’s HR Dept announces employee deaths. There have been seven since October — and they weren’t geezers — two were active duty in their 30s. The rest in their 40s and 50s. I suspect all were vaccine-induced deaths, but two are now confirmed to have died from sudden onset of stage 4 cancers (one brain, one spinal cord). These two had to have been vaxx deaths. Not a passing suspicion, I got this directly from close friends in their office.
Neither one had a history of cancer, nor a previous cancer diagnosis; neither were being treated for anything else. They were heathy males just living their life, and boom! Both contracted SUDDEN ONSET stage 4 cancers. The guy with spinal cord cancer suffered with it horribly for 4 months, it metastasized to every major organ before it finally took him. The brain cancer victim you could say was lucky; he died in two weeks … from diagnosis to death, two weeks.
My agency is 98% vaxxed.
Maybe a little late for surviving family members, but effective last Fri federal employees no longer have a vaccine mandate.
Well then…
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/stacey-lennox/2022/01/25/military-whistleblowers-may-blow-up-the-covid-vaccine-narrative-n1552966
Mcgeehee…
Too bad about those forced to get vaxxed.
So what is the baseline to evaluate this.
Thalidomide.
It took 3 years to collect enough data that people started to recognize a problem. Then it took another year to convince government and pharmaceutical companies to stop it… and that was with the media looking for problems.
Now we have a media perpetuating the narrative… which is written by bureaucrats… under the direction of the pharmaceutical companies.
We have soccer players dying of heart problems at 5 times the worst year ever… yet the problem was denied, then recognized but but but, then rationalized with impossible excuses… and nobody really questions it now.
But what about the military? One hundred percent vaccination rate. Similar to soccer player demographics. Heavy exercise. Why aren’t they dropping at 5 times the normal rate?
I am starting to suspect they might be.
You can’t hide a soccer star collapsing on live TV… but you can hide a LOT more than 5 times the military guys having a problem.
Help me out, military guys. How many heart-related deaths did you see and how often?
Let’s see if 5x increase would be noticed.