Day: 14 February 2022

Status update of Covid-19 cases worldwide

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Here we provide a daily update of the data available for select countries and jurisdictions as of February 14, 2022, at 4:45 pm EST.

On Monday, health officials in Germany logged 28,630 new infections, pushing the total number of confirmed positive cases passed 12.5 million. Of the cumulative total number of cases 70.6% are considered recovered. In the last 24-hours, authorities have reported 127 Covid-related deaths for a total of 120,707 fatalities attributable to Covid-19.

Political maxim: a week is a lifetime in politics

TORONTO – Suddenly, or so it seems, we are no longer talking about vaccines. That is not entirely true – we are talking about mandates and the relative effectiveness or futility vaccinations. For two years, as a willing public we have trusted our political-administrative and medical-scientific leadership to make the right choices. We complied. In the last two weeks that trust has snapped.