Japan reports 108,281 new coronavirus cases

Looks like there could a general trending drop. What do my esteemed impartial commenters think?

The weirder the better!!!

It's dropping. Should be down to the single figures within a few weeks. Then wait a few weeks, bring classification to class 5, remove masks/partitions/sanitizers. Then on wave no. 9. And so on, ad nauseam.

One thing that became clear with the last wave in August and September was that Covid had never ripped through the population, unlike in North America or Europe. With that wave and the current one finally we've reached a figure of where there have been over 30,000,000 positive PCR tests.

I wonder if it will be higher or lower tomorrow?

"related"

If Europe and the US are representative patterns, expect these waves to continue until at least 50-60% of the population has had it. I.e. we're only halfway there, and closing the border only delayed the inevitable..

and closing the border only delayed the inevitable..

Not only delayed, it served other purposes as well

And speaking for myself I would like to delay the inevitable for as long as possible

I mean, come on…unsafe but go ahead and take it anyway cause you probably be ok?

CDC identifies possible safety issue with Pfizer's updated Covid-19 vaccine but says people should still get boosted

Yes but, did the 415 die of covid or simply with covid?

It will be useful to know if those who passed away had other illness or medical conditions or was COVID only, in the past this info was available but not anymore!!?

It will be useful to know if those who passed away had other illness or medical conditions or was COVID only, in the past this info was available but not anymore!!?

This is mistaken, for example no patient dies from "malnutrition" alone, just "with" malnutrition but from other causes (like opportunistic infections) if you find out that 100% of the deaths are "with" malnutrition how is this useful?