Worldwide stats provided by Worldometers put the global COVID-19 number of reported cases today at 112,232,804. (Deaths: 2,484,169 and Recovered: 87,678,046)
I emphasize reported because there is a wide variance in testing and manner of reporting from country to country and place to place.
As of 6:00 p.m. ET on Monday February 22, 2021:
Health Canada reported 845,642 confirmed cases of COVID-19, to date. 31,375 cases are active, there have been 21,674 deaths and 792,603 people have recovered.
The official Province of Ontario website is reporting 294,144 total confirmed cases and 6,861 total deaths. 10,371 are active. Currently, there are 646 people are in hospital with 280 of those cases currently in ICU. 276,936 cases have been resolved. The Ontario government has previously said that when the number of COVID-19 patients in the ICU exceeds 300, it becomes nearly impossible for health-care workers to provide care not related to the disease.
The Region of Durham reported 11,639 confirmed cases of COVID-19 (277 active). Clarington rose to 866 cases, of which 24 are active. Hospitalized in Clarington currently: "3", total deceased: "14"
In international news,
Mexico on Wednesday made a plea at the U.N. Security Council for countries to stop hoarding vaccines against COVID-19 as poorer ones fall behind in the race to vaccinate their citizens. Three quarters of the first doses have been applied to citizens in only ten countries that account for 60% of global gross domestic product (GDP), Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said, while in more than 100 countries no vaccines have been applied at all. “We urge countries to avoid hoarding vaccines and accelerate the first stages of COVAX deliveries, to give priority to countries with fewer resources,” Ebrard said before the council, which Mexico is currently a member of. Ebrard said that so far no vaccines have been distributed under the scheme. Officials from the Pan American Health Organization said on Wednesday that countries could expect confirmation of their COVAX vaccine shipments soon, although the first batches were expected to be small.
In national news,
Canada was too slow and risk-averse in funding domestic vaccine candidates, MPs told. 'This put the financial risk of vaccine development — and our country's national security — on (the companies), which I think was a mistake'. Canada could have done more to boost homegrown COVID-19 vaccines last spring but the federal government and its agencies were too slow and risk-adverse when it came to funding, a parliamentary committee heard Monday. John Lewis, CEO of Entos Pharmaceuticals, said his Alberta company has a vaccine candidate in development but never received the kind of early, up-front funding that the U.S. and U.K. governments put into their own vaccine production. “Canada was pretty slow to make the initial decisions for domestic vaccine development in manufacturing, despite having internationally recognized expertise in vaccine development,” Lewis told the House of Commons health committee. Lewis said Canada “took a careful, risk-averse and committee-based decision approach that lead to a relatively modest amount of scattered funding for companies in Canada to develop domestic vaccine.”
In Ontario,
Province's 34 public health units must design, carry out their own COVID-19 vaccination plan, Ford says. Each of Ontario’s 34 local public health units will be responsible for coming up with and carrying out their own plan to vaccinate residents in their region, the province confirmed on Monday. The provincial government has already provided guidance on which priority groups to inoculate in each phase of the vaccination program but details on how and when to vaccinate those groups will be left up to the individual public health units. “We are ensuring through our vaccine distribution that the people (who work) most closely to their communities, the public health units, are making the decisions on what is the fastest, and easiest, and most equitable way to ensure that people get the vaccines they need,” Sylvia Jones, Ontario’s solicitor general, said at a news conference at Queen’s Park on Monday. “It is why we’ve empowered 34 public health units to do that and we’ve ensured by doing a distribution based on population, that as a larger public health unit comes online and needs vaccines, we distribute it from the province based on population.” The Ford government has said that each local medical officer of health has submitted a plan to the province on how they will administer the vaccine to priority groups in the coming weeks and months.
One Additional Death Reported Today At Caressant Care In Lindsay Bringing The Death Toll To 17. The death toll at Caressant Care on McLaughlin Road in Lindsay has reached 17 residents. “We are sad to report one new COVID related death.” Stuart Oakley, Caressant Care spokesperson said, “Our hearts go out those affected.” 17 residents have now died of Coronavirus according to officials with the facility. “Test results from swabs done Friday are all negative. All staff and residents are being swabbed again today.” Oakley said. An outbreak was declared at the long term care home on January 9th after just one case. There have been more than 60 cases of the virus at the facility to date. Most of the residents have received their first dose of the Coronavirus vaccine. Meanwhile, two new cases of Coronavirus were reported in the City of Kawartha Lakes over the last two days.
In small town news,
Durham reports 34 new COVID-19 cases on Monday. On Monday, 34 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Durham. One more death was also reported bringing the death toll in the region to 294. Of those who have died 216 people were residents at long-term care or retirement homes. To date there have been 11,639 cases in Durham with 11,068 of those cases now listed as resolved. There are currently 277 active cases in the region. Of those 258 people are isolating at home and 19 are in hospital. Ten of the people in hospital are in the ICU. Some of the cases that were added to regional totals are from previous days.
Musing,
There are two categories of people that have collected CERB from the beginning to the present: Group 1-low-life/degenerate scammers Group 2-people that really, really need help I wish we could distinguish between the two and send all of the CERB to Group 2 and none to Group 1.
“It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear” (Donald TRUMP on COVID)
Did you know...the origin of the word Kindergarten?
Have you ever...seen an owl?
WTF is ...............a Vulturine Guineafowl?
On this day in history, 'El Chapo,' the world’s most-wanted drug kingpin, is captured in Mexico. On February 22, 2014, one of the world’s most-wanted criminals, Joaquin “El Chapo” (“Shorty”) Guzmán Loera, head of the Sinaloa cartel, the world’s biggest drug trafficking organization, is arrested in a joint U.S.-Mexican operation in Mazatlán, Mexico, after outrunning law enforcement for more than a decade. Guzmán had been the target of an international hunt since 2001, when he escaped from a Mexican prison where he was serving a 20-year sentence. During his years on the lam, Guzmán's elusiveness was celebrated in “narcocorridos,” Mexican ballads glorifying the drug trade, while in such places as Chicago, where his cartel supplied the majority of the narcotics sold in the city, he was declared Public Enemy No. 1.
Today is - NATIONAL CALIFORNIA DAY - NATIONAL COOK A SWEET POTATO DAY - NATIONAL MARGARITA DAY
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COVID-19 vaccination approximate dates here.
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