THEY FORGOT TO CHANGE THE BATTERIES IN THE CALCULATOR – OVERNIGHT:  You know how these cheap Asian calculators can just fail.  It happens at every level.  From Daily Mail: 

The impact that the Omicron variant has had on the nation's skyrocketing instances of Covid infections may have been completely overblown after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention slashed its estimate for the prevalence of the strain in COVID-19 cases by 50 percent on Tuesday.

The agency released a revised chart on Tuesday showing that the new variant accounted for 23 percent of all cases for the week ending on December 18, as opposed to the 73 percent it originally reported. 

The chart showed that the Omicron variant accounted for 59 percent of all new cases for the week ending on December 25, meaning the Delta variant has been accounting for far more infections than the agency initially thought. 

The CDC corrected its error, to the confusion of many, on the same day that the nation broke its record for the most daily COVID-19 cases with a seven-day average of 254,496 cases reported on Tuesday, according to a DailyMail.com analysis of Johns Hopkins University data. 

The country's previous record was about 251,989 daily cases, reported on January 11.

The record comes as the US hit a total of 53,170,421 cases as of Wednesday morning, amid a growing number of people who were tested before and after Christmas weekend. 

The CDC’s new data on the prevalence of the Omicron variant shows that the Delta variant, which is more severe and less contagious than Omicron, still has a hold on the country and is a driving factor behind the most current surge in cases.

It also begs the question of how the CDC could have recorded such a drastic difference in the strain’s prevalence than what was the reality.

COMMENT:  With mistakes like this, is it any wonder why Americans are confused, outraged, and angry?  We're talking about human life.  We're talking about the health of the nation.  But, not to worry.  Some of the major news outlets will get rid of this story in a day.  Count on it.

What mistake?

December 29, 2021