Unsurprisingly the world COVID figures are dominated by India. Official new cases are now up to 400,000 a day. Given that the case...

Great news from Israel. On Friday, Israel recorded no new daily Covid-19 deaths for the first time in ten months. The last time Israel...

This week the number of people who have officially died from COVID-19 exceeded 3 million. Moreover, the number of new cases reported...

The World It was looking like South America, which has seen a massive increase in daily deaths since the end of February, was turning...

Well, what goes around comes around. As talked about in previous posts ( Thought of the Day - March 19 2021 - Meanwhile in the US of A...

The World Despite the press' focus on the significant increases in cases across Europe of late, South America is also in the same...

Back last summer we talked about monitoring waste for SARS-CoV-2 residue ( Thought of the Day - July 6 - Oh Shi-ooot ). Wastewater...

Almost a year ago I talked about the rebates that car insurance companies across the country were providing their customers due to the...

Today we will focus on Canada. The Bottom Line (in case you are pressed for time): The third-wave is here; We are in for a bumpy ride in...

On Monday we talked about Russia and how looking for alignment between excess deaths and the tally from COVID was one approach to ensure...

One country that does not get talked about a lot in the context of COVID, is Russia. In short Russia is really a good news - bad news...

In the news this week are a number of countries seeing a significant increase in cases in Europe. Last week we talked about eastern...

The land border between the US and Canada has been 'closed' for a year now. Border communities, which thrive on cross-border traffic,...

We talked about the dire situation in Czechia (Czech Republic) earlier this week ( Thought of the Day - March 8 - Czechia ), however,...

Yesterday we woke up cold at our place. The furnace went out overnight. When I was picking up a replacement thermocouple, I witness my...

They have hit what all countries have tried to avoid: COVID cases overwhelming support services. In response to the second wave, the...

Globally the number of new COVID daily cases remains fairly flat. The southeast Asian countries, who got serious about eliminating...

Well, here we are, the last day of February. The world has seen a shade under 115 million official cases, 90 million of whom have...

The world has had over 110 million official COVID cases. The big story though is how new cases around the world are dropping. ...

Thought I would change gears a little today, to put things into perspective. Deaths from COVID-19 are a real tragedy, but let's do some...