Most odd times from a clinical perspective. Another issue is the “statistics “ which are difficult to compare, being collected globally. WHO has unusually been altering classifications and historic guidance throughout this period. CVD has in healthy people an approx 99.2% recovery rate, so a much better outcome than many infections. So CVD “case numbers” exclusively using a PCR test are in reality meaningless. Yet no issue as most people are not unwell. Or many of us would swab positive for MRSA which does us no harm (unless severely immuno-compromised ). adults carry a meningitis causing bacteria at the back of their throats, higher still in nursery and school children at 1:4. This is unusual in infectious disease epidemiology as a ‘case’ profile of symptoms and associated disease (eg Ebola) is the norm (apart from MERS oddly enough, and SARS has disappeared in a ‘revamped’ WHO website at a time when it would be useful to compare ). Hi ( as a former public health specialist) this is one of the few pathogens defined as a ‘case’ by WHO simply by a positive test. The European Central Bank, 1 January 1999, is also ploughing through heavy seas, perhaps for a variety of reasons with this December/January 2022 being especially fraught and financial disappointments and a discouraging slog throughout 2022. That may not all be Covid but it will be a bumpy ride one way or another. The UK also has its 8 th house Mars in Taurus being upended by tr Saturn square late this December across the New Year and tr Uranus conjunct through February. The Austria North Node in Sagittarius with the Solar Arc Saturn close by will catch this December’s Solar Eclipse for a crisis at a crossroads with a few hard lessons and sharp reality checks. The Austria, 12 November 1918 4pm chart, if accurate, has a 4 th house Neptune also catching the tr Saturn opposition till mid December which will accompany domestic uncertainty and unrest. The EU chart does look rattled from mid December through till early February with the tr Saturn square tr Uranus hitting on the Taurus Moon and Uranus with the Solar Arc Mars also opposing the Uranus now and shaking up its Fixed planets so it is on tenterhooks. The UK is 68%, Germany 67%, France 69%, Netherlands 73%, Slovakia 43%. Low vaccination rates tend to correspond to higher rates of Covid-related deaths. It is thought only countries with vaccination rates of over 80 per cent – such as Spain, Portugal and Malta – will escape pressures over winter. The ECDC puts the new wave down to the more transmissible delta variant, middling vaccination rates and a relaxation of social distancing measures. The Netherlands has imposed a partial lockdown. A small matter which Boris Johnson has skipped over.
Angela Merkel described Germany’s situation as “dramatic”, but its infection rate is lower than Britain’s which remains 30% higher than the average for the EU27. Case numbers are rocketing in central and eastern Europe, as well as in Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands. He is the first person Cassie kills, which she is forced to do when he turns his gun on her at Camp Ashpit.Covid rates are surging across Europe, with infections sweeping in from the east where vaccination rates are low. He is killed by Corporal el Branch just before Vosch drops the Eye on the camp.Ĭorporal Branch: One of the Others who appears to be a U.S. Hutchfield: An ex-Marine and unofficial leader of Camp Ashpit before Colonel Vosch arrives there.Ĭrisco: A teenage boy who tries to befriend Cassie at Camp Ashpit. At Camp Haven, Ben is brainwashed into believing that Chris is one of the Others, so Ben pushes a button to kill him. When Evan falls in love with Cassie, he turns against the Others and helps Cassie to rescue her brother.Ĭhris: A young man who befriends Ben during the Third Wave. After the Awakening, he becomes a Silencer, or assassin. Once Ben discovers their deception, he resolves to rescue Sammy from the same fate.Įvan Walker: A nineteen-year-old boy raised on an Ohio farm who is host to a Sleeper alien. He is brainwashed by the aliens and becomes a trained soldier in their children’s army. Sullivan: Cassie’s and Sammy’s mother, who dies of the pestilence that sweeps Earth during the Third Wave.īen Parish/Zombie: A former high school athlete who is riddled with guilt over his inability to save his younger sister from the aliens. Sullivan: Cassie’s and Sammy’s father, a kind and optimistic man who is shot to death by Colonel Vosch in the Fourth Wave.
Cassie and Ben are both determined to rescue Sammy. Sammy Sullivan/Nugget: Cassie’s five-year-old brother, who is taken by the aliens and begins training for their children’s army.
Cassie Sullivan: The central protagonist of the novel, a sixteen-year-old girl who has survived the alien apocalypse and is on a mission to rescue her five-year-old brother, Sammy.