Hey, everybody, the CDC says we should stop eating raw cookie dough because 18 people were sickened.

Meanwhile, keep breathing in #COVID19 in big crowded spaces without a mask. It's only hospitalized 422,000 and killed 38,000 Americans so far in 2023.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/05/25/raw-cookie-dough-salmonella-illness/

The CDC wants people to stop eating raw cookie dough. But it’s so tasty.

A salmonella outbreak linked to raw cookie dough has sickened at least 18 people across six states, according to the CDC.

The Washington Post
@augieray That's insane. Has covid in 2023 really killed three times as many people in the US as gun violence???

@bcaligari @augieray

"In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 6:07pm CEST, 31 May 2023, there have been 103,436,829 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,127,152 deaths, reported to WHO"

Roughly 1.1m deaths from COVID in the US.

https://covid19.who.int/region/amro/country/us

"the US has seen more than 39,000 gun deaths a year since 2014, and as of 1 May at least 13,959 people have been shot dead in 2023"

About 351,000 US gun deaths in 9 years.

https://news.sky.com/story/americas-10-most-deadly-mass-shootings-of-2023-12875292#

China: WHO Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Dashboard With Vaccination Data

China Coronavirus(COVID-19) statistics. Total and daily confirmed cases and deaths.

@srfirehorseart @augieray It's just messed up. Totally unnecessary and no lessons ever learnt.

@bcaligari @augieray

Meanwhile, in Japan they still wear masks in public spaces. However, changes to testing meant results were harder to track
Japan's main weakness seems to be anong older citizens, who were harder hit last Winter.

"In Japan, from 3 January 2020 to 12:23pm CEST, 7 June 2023, there have been 33,803,572 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 74,694 deaths, reported to WHO"