Pandemic diary – November 2022

Wednesday, 2 November 2022
Austria becomes the first country in the EU where 60.00% of population have been officially tested positive. Further rank: Slovenia (59.39% of population) and France (56.19% of population)

Saturday, 5 November 2022
Conspiracy theorist keep holding strong, though COVID-19 is nearly forgotten in the public discourse. The article about increased risk of myocarditis after vaccination against COVID-19 with patients aged below 40 is heavily cited by anti-vaxxers in Poland. They forgot to mention the risk is miniscule anyway and that risk of myocarditis as complication after the coronavirus disease is much higher

Sunday, 6 November 2022
The 7-day average number of new infections in Poland declines below 500, for the first time since 4 July 2022. Positivity rate in turn has fallen below 10%.

Thursday, 10 November 2022
Oddly enough, the number of daily death worldwide has not fallen below 1,500 for a month. This implies infections do not decrease, but more and more countries give up on testing.

Friday, 18 November 2022
The 7-day average of new infections in Poland bottoms out at 318, with positivity rate somewhat below 10%.

Saturday, 19 November 2022
I go through the most severe cold since 2012. This is not COVID-19 (tested twice), but it turns out two years of masking up, isolation and averting germs have taken their toll on immunity.

Wednesday, 23 November 2022
The number of tests carried out per 1 million citizens in Poland reaches… 1,000,000. Poland remains at the bottom of the ranking of EU27 countries which best test their citizens, although truth be told testing has been abandoned in several civilised countries.

Wednesday, 30 November 2022
The next wave apparently has begun, with week-ok-week increases in new cases above 20%. The winter is coming.

Next week comes the final weekend of Szlachetna Paczka, so the next post will appear in two weeks.