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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Tuesday / Wednesday, May 25-26

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First tweet on the official account…


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… AstraZeneca’s contract signed with the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, on behalf of member states foresaw an initial 300 million doses for distribution among all 27 countries, with an option for a further 100 million. The doses were expected to be delivered throughout 2021. But only 30 million were sent during the first quarter.

Deliveries have increased slightly since then but, according to the European Commission, the company is set to provide only 70 million doses in the second quarter. It had promised 180 million…

The EU has insisted its gripes with the company are about deliveries only and has repeatedly said that it has no problems with the safety or quality of the vaccine itself. The shots have been approved by the European Medicines Agency, the EU’s drug regulator.

While the bloc insists AstraZeneca has breached its contractual obligations, the company says it has fully complied with the agreement, arguing that vaccines are difficult to manufacture and it made its best effort to deliver on time…

Cheaper and easier to use than rival shots from Pfizer-BioNTech, the AstraZeneca vaccine developed with Oxford University was a pillar of the EU’s vaccine rollout. But the EU’s partnership with the firm quickly deteriorated amid accusations it favored its relationship with British authorities.

While the U.K. made quick progress in its vaccination campaign thanks to the AstraZeneca shots, the EU faced embarrassing complaints and criticism for its slow start.

Concerns over the pace of the rollout across the EU grew after AstraZeneca said it couldn’t supply EU members with as many doses as originally anticipated because of production capacity limits…

Several French social media influencers say they have received a mysterious financial offer to spread negative publicity about the Pfizer vaccine.

They say an agency claiming to be based in the UK has contacted them by email offering a “partnership”.

Léo Grasset, who has 1.17m YouTube subscribers, tweeted (in French) that a “colossal budget” was promised from a client “who wants to remain incognito”.

He said that the address the agency had given appeared to be bogus.

He said the LinkedIn profiles of the agency’s alleged employees he had managed to find later disappeared, but not before he noticed that “everybody there has worked in Russia”…

(Of course, this doesn’t necessarily mean the force behind the campaign is Russian; the Russians have a hard-earned reputation for their online skillz & ethical flexibility.)

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  1. 1.

    NeenerNeener

    Monroe County, NY stats:

    94 new cases – 67% were people under 40, including 26 children between 0 and 19. Adults in their 20s had the most new cases, followed by children 10 – 19.

    Deaths are at 1291, up by 24 from last week.
    2.7% test positivity

    171 patients hospitalized, 42 patients in the ICU

    55.9% of Monroe County has at least 1 jab
    48.8% are fully vaccinated

  2. 2.

    Mary G

    I’ve never been a big hugger, but the few I’ve had have given me all the feels.

    Huntington Beach had huge crazy crowds all weekend and into even Monday evening. Not Deplorables, though, some idiot named Adrian put up a TikTok Friday that it was his/her birthday and there would be dancing and every idiot young party animal for hundreds of miles around decided to attend. Cops arrested hundreds of people. Hope they were vaccinated.

    Spectacular numbers in the Orange County report today. Only 22 new cases. Only a total of 72 people hospitalized, with only 9 of them in ICU. I wouldn’t have believed this was possible in January when they had to keep raising the y axis of hospitalizations. It went from 800 to 2700 in days. Luckily it went down almost as fast once vaccinations became available.

  3. 3.

    YY_Sima Qian

    On 5/25 China reported 1 new domestic confirmed & 3 new domestic asymptomatic cases.

    Guangdong Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed (previously asymptomatic) & 3 new domestic asymptomatic cases by midnight of 5/25, additional 2 new domestic confirmed & 1 new domestic asymptomatic cases by 6 AM on 5/26. There currently are 4 domestic confirmed & 9 domestic asymptomatic cases as of 6 AM on 5/26

    • Guangzhou reported 1 new domestic confirmed (previously asymptomatic) case by mid-night on 5/25, the spouse of the 1st confirmed case reported on 5/21. Additional 2 new domestic confirmed & 1 new domestic asymptomatic cases were reported by 6 Am on 5/26. All 3 cases belong to the same family, one of whom had on 5/19 frequented the same tea house at the same time as the 1st confirmed case reported on 5/21. There currently are 4 domestic confirmed & 1 domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Liwan District. The District will test all residents by 5/27. 1 residential compound remains at Medium Risk.
    • Maoming reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case, a traced close contact of the domestic confirmed case reported by Guangzhou on 5/21, has been under centralized quarantine since 5/21. The case is a waitress at the same tea house that the 1st reported confirmed case at Liwan District had frequented on 5/19, and had served the party without wearing mask. As of 4 PM on 5/25, 19 F1 & 192 F2 close contacts have been traced and quarantined. As of 3 PM on 5/25, 3,160 individuals have been tested, all negative.
    • Shenzhen reported 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases, both at Yantian District. 1 of the new cases is also a dock worker, found via 2nd round mass screening of all employees after the initial asymptomatic case reported in 5/21. The case had boarded the same international cargo ship on 5/17 as the 5 previously reported asymptomatic cases, and had previously tested negative on 5/21. The other case’s spouse works at the Yantian Port, though transmission chain from existing cases are not yet clear. There currently are 7 domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. Genomic analysis of viral samples taken from 1st 5 cases indicate that they were infected with the B.1.1.7 strain (1st detected in Kent, UK), with 99.99% match in sequence. 450 F1 & F2 close contacts have been traced and quarantined, 159,917 individuals have been tested. All dock workers should have been vaccinated, which might explain why they are all asymptomatic. However, the 7th case, if traced to the same cluster, suggests that breakthrough infections of vaccinated people could still be infectious.

     

    Anhui Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 1 domestic asymptomatic case was released from isolation. There are 9 domestic confirmed & 9 domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.

    • At Liu’an, 1 domestic asymptomatic case was released from isolation. The city currently has 7 domestic confirmed & 9 domestic asymptomatic cases there. The city has completed the 3rd round of mass screening of ~ 1M residents. A shopping center & 5 residential compound are currently at Medium Risk. 
    • Hefei currently has 2 domestic confirmed cases, both traveling sales people who conduct photography seminars. A hotel remains at Medium Risk.

     

    Liaoning Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There are 12 domestic confirmed & 7 domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.

    • Yingkou currently has 8 domestic confirmed & 6 domestic asymptomatic cases there. 4 villages & 7 residential compounds remain at Medium Risk.
    • Shenyang currently has 4 domestic confirmed & 1 domestic asymptomatic cases there. 4 residential compounds remain at Medium Risk.

     

    In Yunnan Province, 1 domestic confirmed case recovered. There currently are 7 domestic confirmed & 3 domestic asymptomatic cases.

    Imported Cases

    On 5/25 China reported 12 new imported confirmed cases, 10 imported asymptomatic cases:

    • Shanghai Municipality – 6 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Cambodia, Malaysia, Russia, the US & Burkina  Faso (via Paris CdG), & a Taiwanese resident coming from Taiwan
    • Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 2 confirmed cases (1 previously asymptomatic), 1 Chinese national each returning from Ghana (via Amsterdam Schiphol) & Canada; 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Mexico (via Amsterdam Schiphol)
    • Guangyuan in Sichuan Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Pakistan; the case had arrived at Wuhan in Hubei Province on 5/4,  passed through the 14 days of centralized quarantined and tested negative for RT-PCR multiple times, upon release from quarantine on 5/19 the case returning to Guangyuan and re-entered home quarantine, tested positive for RT-PCR on 5/25
    • Nanjing in Jiangsu Province – 1 confirmed case, coming from the Italy; 1 asymptomatic case, no information released
    • Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province – 1 confirmed case, coming from the Netherlands; 2 asymptomatic cases, both coming from Nigeria
    • Xiamen in Fujian Province – 1 confirmed case, a Taiwanese resident coming from Taiwan 
    • Xi’an in Shaanxi Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Italy (via Lisbon); 2 asymptomatic cases, a Chinese national returning from Pakistan & a foreign national coming from Belgium (off a flight diverted from Beijing)
    • Dalian in Liaoning Province – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released
    • Zhengzhou in Henan Province – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released

    More confirmed & asymptomatic cases have arrived from Taiwan to Mainland China over the past 2 weeks than over the course of the entire pandemic until then, in line with the case count on Taiwan.

    Guangxi Province reported 1 new asymptomatic case.

    • Nanning reported 1 new asymptomatic case, a Chinese national who had returned from Rwanda, arrived at Guangzhou in Guangdong Province on 4/25 and was quarantined at a designated quarantine hotel in Liwan District. The case had passed through the 14 days of centralized quarantine and tested negative on RT-PCR multiple times. Upon release from quarantine on 5/10, the case took high speed rail to Nanning, it is not clear if there was further home or centralized quarantine at Nanning. On 5/24, the case was identified as a traced close contact of the domestic positive cases at Liwan District in Guangzhou, though specific connections has not yet been publicly shared. The case is classified as “imported” at this time. 21 F1 & 72 F2 close contacts have been traced so far, all have tested negative. A further 14,098 individuals deemed at risk have been tested, all negative so far.

     

    Overall in China, 12 confirmed cases recovered, 18 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation & 2 were reclassified as confirmed cases, and 637 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 320 active confirmed cases in the country (290 imported), 2 in serious condition (both imported), 382 asymptomatic cases (355 imported), 2 suspect case (1 imported). 6,894 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.

    As of 5/25, 546.714M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 19.461M doses in the past 24 hrs.

    On 5/26, Hong Kong reported 1 new case, imported (from the UAE).

  4. 4.

    Matt McIrvin

    The numbers in the Garrett tweet are high enough to keep me taking some precautions when I’m fully vaxxed, until I’m sure that the overall case rate in my area is very low. It’s a level of risk/precaution somewhere near the level of remembering where the emergency exits are in a plane. You’re pretty safe but it’s a risk that it’s best not to ignore.

    Also, it seems like the hospitalization and death rates from breakthrough infections aren’t that different from the rates from COVID cases in general, so it’s not as if the vaccine guarantees you’ll get a mild case if you do get COVID–it’s just decreasing the chance that you’ll get sick at all, but if you do, the chance of a serious outcome is about the same.

  5. 5.

    satby

    Got word last night that a friend in India died of covid, I mentioned it yesterday too. He was mid-late 30s and leaves a devastated wife and two children, the youngest only 4. His father died only a month or so ago as well. It will take years of analysis to determine the true death toll in India and world-wide. We may never know how many were lost.

  7. 7.

    cckids

    @satby: I’m so sorry. The grocery store I work at is about a mile from Microsoft’s main campus, so we have a large percentage of our customers from India and the rest of the East. So, so many of them are losing family. It’s heartbreaking.

  10. 10.

    Sloane Ranger

    Tuesday in the UK we had 2493 new cases. This is an increase of 18% in the rolling 7-day average. New cases by nation,

    England – 2081 (up 109)

    Northern Ireland – 75 (up 22)

    Scotland – 318 (up 5)

    Wales – 19 (down 82).

    Deaths – There were 15 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. This is a decrease of 22.6% in the rolling 7-day average. 13 deaths were in England and 2 were in Scotland.

    Testing – 946,830 tests were conducted on Monday, 24 May. This is an increase of 2.5% in the rolling 7-day average. The PCR testing capacity estimated by labs on that date was 650,842.

    Hospitalisations – As of Sunday, 23 May, 916 people were in hospital and 121 were on ventilators on Monday, 24 May. The rolling 7-day average for hospital admissions was down by 6.1% as of 19 May.

    Vaccinations – On 24 May, a total of 38,192,417 people had received 1 shot of a vaccine and 23,228,511 had received both. In percentage terms, this means that 72.5% of all adults in the UK have had 1 shot and 44.1% were fully vaccinated.

  14. 14.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    My doctor-brother was telling me that there’s a debate in the medical community about whether deaths associated with delayed preventive care should be attributed to COVID. If someone has put off a mammogram or colonoscopy and turns up with advanced cancer, did COVID cause that?

  18. 18.

    trnc

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: My doctor-brother was telling me that there’s a debate in the medical community about whether deaths associated with delayed preventive care should be attributed to COVID.

    Seems like the actual cause of death should be listed with a footnote about the delayed treatment. In some cases, treatment may have been delayed because there were no dr appointments or hospital beds available, but in some cases the patient may have been able to get an appointment but chose not to. All of the toplines should be broken out to see where things went wrong, but just calling it a straight up covid death would be counterproductive.

    ETA: I am not a doctor, but I am a brother so I am fully qualified to weigh in on this debate. :-D

  19. 19.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: I think it depends on the application. For purposes of arguing with a COVID denialist, it doesn’t help to attribute these deaths to COVID because they’ll just say they were really caused by the COVID control measures.

    (I feel a little weird now when I hear all these reports of people scheduling medical appointments after they’re vaccinated, because I went ahead and got both a colonoscopy and a knee replacement in February while my town was absolutely teeming with COVID-19. Had to just assume the medical folks knew what they were doing. At that point, some of them were probably vaccinated, though I certainly wasn’t…)

  21. 21.

    Cermet

    @Matt McIrvin: What do you mean the risks are about the same? The rate of covid deaths w/o a vaccine is about 1.8%; the death rate for covid after vaccination is just 0.01%; chance to be put in a hospital if one has covid but no vaccination is about 10% (CDC; of course, age dependent but this was average) ; chance after vaccination, 0.01%!

  22. 22.

    Matt McIrvin

    I recall seeing somewhere a graph of excess deaths from various causes over the course of 2020, and it did seem to me like there wasn’t any really noticeable change in the rate of people dying from cancer. (On the other hand, there was a considerable excess of deaths from heart disease, stroke and diabetes that rose and fell right along with the COVID deaths, and my understanding is that those were probably actually COVID deaths.)

  23. 23.

    Cermet

    Matt, statistics do not work by selecting an isolated group of known people that got sick after vaccination and doing the math selectively using deaths in that group – that isn’t how it works. First, many of the deaths were likely immune compromised or extremely old and/or sick that the vaccine can’t really help. Far and away a greater number got the virus (likely a few million) and had no symptoms so were never tested – that is the number one has to use for ‘break-through’ (which we can’t because there is no direct data available.) Those that got sick enough to get a test isn’t how real risk is done. The chances to get covid after vaccination is extremely tiny – more like 0.01% compared to like 10% unvaccinated (when exposed to a sick person in closed area.) That is many orders of magnitude different

  24. 24.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Cermet: I mean the ratio of deaths to cases is about the same for vaccinated people. 160 divided by 10,262 = 1.5%, which is on the same order of magnitude as the CFR of COVID-19 for the population as a whole (corrected for time lag).

    So the vaccine protects against death mostly by protecting against detectable/symptomatic infection, not by lessening the severity of the infections that do happen. I’d heard statements implying otherwise.

    I suppose those numbers might be skewed a bit by the fact that vaccinated people are less likely to get tested frequently, so the breakthrough COVID cases that are noticed would be ones with significant symptoms. But in most of the US there’s not a huge amount of testing of asymptomatic people in any event unless they have a job that requires it.

  25. 25.

    JMG

    @Matt McIrvin: I’m not sure that your estimate is accurate. Here in Massachusetts, the death rate from all covid cases is something over 2 percent (17.5 K deaths, 660K total cases). Even granted that many deaths took place in the early days of the pandemic when no one was sure how to treat it, there’s a big difference between 1 in 50 deaths and 1 in a million.

  26. 26.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s Director-General of Heath Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 7,478 new Covid-19 cases today in his media statement, a record for a second consecutive day, for a cumulative reported total of 533,367 cases. He also reports 63 new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 2,432 deaths — 0.465% of the cumulative reported total, 0.52% of resolved cases.

    There are currently 66,208 active and contagious cases; 756 are in ICU, 377 of them intubated. Meanwhile, 4,665 patients recovered and were discharged, for a cumulative total of 464,727 patients recovered – 87.13% of the cumulative reported total.

    22 new clusters were reported today: Kampung Tun Abdul Razak, Jalan Bersatu, Meranti Jaya 2, and Lestari Mewah in Selangor; Jalan Sukma and Kampung Semerah Padi in Sarawak; Jalan Bukit Satu, Jalan Satu Ayer Hitam, Jalan Tengar Industri, Jalan Temenggung Dua, and Jalan Harmoni Utama in Johor; Industri Zon Dagang Satu, Perusahaan Maju Sepuluh, and Jalan Cassia Selatan Lima in Penang; Jalan IKA in Perak; Industri Kampung Tersang, Delima Raya, and Chat Lipis in Pahang; Bandar Lama Machang and Kampung Kenjong in Kelantan; and Sungai Pukul and Kauran Durok in Sabah.

    Kampung Semerah Padi, Bandar Lama Machang, Kampung Kenjong, Sungai Pukul, Delima Raya, and Kauran Durok community clusters. Lestari Mewah, Jalan Harmoni Utama, and Chat Lipis are religious clusters. The rest are workplace clusters.

    7,473 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 2,453 local cases: 68 in clusters, 1,812 close-contact screenings, and 573 other screenings. Kuala Lumpur reports 760 cases: 58 in clusters, 456 close-contact screenings, and 246 other screenings. Sarawak reports 637 local cases: 88 in clusters, 448 close-contact screenings, and 101 other screenings.

    Johor reports 587 cases: 116 in clusters, 333 close-contact screenings, and 138 other screenings. Kelantan reports 547 cases: 84 in clusters, 306 close-contact screenings, and 156 other screenings. Kedah reports 542 cases: 36 in clusters, 338 close-contact screenings, and 168 other screenings.

    Penang reports 420 cases: 137 in clusters, 194 close-contact screenings, and 89 other screenings. Negeri Sembilan reports 370 cases: 59 in clusters, 227 close-contact screenings, and 84 other screenings.

    Perak reports 264 cases: 42 in clusters, 140 close-contact screenings, and 82 other screenings. Melaka reports 230 cases: 80 in clusters, 115 close-contact screenings, and 35 other screenings. Sabah reports 229 cases: 60 in clusters, 105 close-contact screenings, and 64 other screenings.
    Terengganu reports 177 cases: 23 in clusters, 117 close-contact screenings, and 37 other screenings. Pahang reports 171 cases: 96 in clusters, 58 close-contact screenings, and 17 other screenings.

    Labuan reports 49 cases: 24 in clusters, 15 close-contact screenings, and 10 other screenings. Putrajaya reports 29 cases: 24 close-contact screenings, and five other screenings. Perlis reports eight cases: seven close-contact screenings, and one other screening.

    Five new cases today are imported: three in Sarawak, two in Selangor.

  27. 27.

    Matt McIrvin

    @JMG: Massachusetts has had a relatively high CFR through most of the pandemic because we had a terrible problem with COVID in the nursing homes. Recently it’s been lower–if you correct for time lag by dividing deaths by the case rate from 3 or 4 weeks ago, it’s less than 1%. That’s probably because the cases now are mostly younger people who are still unvaccinated.

  28. 28.

    Matt McIrvin

    (and in that connection: I think if I were in my 20s or 30s and fully vaccinated, I’d regard my level of overall risk as low enough that I really could act as if the pandemic is over. At 53, not quite.)

  31. 31.

    Matt McIrvin

    I think everyone was misunderstanding what I was trying to calculate–not the reduction of overall risk by the vaccine. It was: suppose I get vaccinated and, later, learn I have a breakthrough infection–should I be less concerned than if I got infected without being vaccinated? The answer seems to be no, it’s about the same.

    But never mind.

  32. 32.

    satby

    @Matt McIrvin: uh, no. From the linked article, bolding mine:

     995 (10%) patients were known to be hospitalized, and 160 (2%) patients died. Among the 995 hospitalized patients, 289 (29%) were asymptomatic or hospitalized for a reason unrelated to COVID-19. The median age of patients who died was 82 years (interquartile range = 71–89 years); 28 (18%) decedents were asymptomatic or died from a cause unrelated to COVID-19. Sequence data were available from 555 (5%) reported cases, 356 (64%) of which were identified as SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern,§ including B.1.1.7 (199; 56%), B.1.429 (88; 25%), B.1.427 (28; 8%), P.1 (28; 8%), and B.1.351 (13; 4%).

  34. 34.

    Soprano2

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:  If someone has put off a mammogram or colonoscopy and turns up with advanced cancer, did COVID cause that?

    I’d say it was contributory. You can’t guarantee that the person would have lived if they’d gotten the care earlier, but there would have been a better chance of survival if they had.

  36. 36.

    Fair Economist

    @Matt McIrvin: Tracking studies have shown the vaccines do a better job preventing deaths than preventing symptoms, and better preventing symptoms than infection. So I think the numbers in the Garrett tweet reflect reporting bias – obvious asymptomatic breakthrough case are almost always missed, and probably a fair number of mild to moderate symptomatic ones as well.

  37. 37.

    Fair Economist

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: My reaction is that a death partly caused by delayed treatment should be attributed to “pandemic response” not COVID. They are, genuinely, part of the cost of controlling COVID. We’re there actually more of those than COVID deaths ( very much NOT) that would indicate the COVID response was too big. The actual result, with such deaths a tiny fraction of COVID deaths, will support that we under-reacted.

  38. 38.

    satby

    @Soprano2: Read the part of the study where it talks about who died (elderly) and why. When covid was a factor and type sequencing was done it was often one of the newer varients. And it’s been known for a while older people don’t produce as robust an immune response as younger people when immunized.

  39. 39.

    Robert Sneddon

    Scotland — 546 new cases of COVID-19 reported overnight, zero new deaths. The test positivity rate is 2.1%.

     

    Those case numbers are a significant increase over the recent past and will probably put paid to the idea that Glasgow might be moved from level 3 restrictions on Friday to level 2. The hospitalisation and ICU bed numbers are still low but it could take time for many of the new cases to develop into the severe category requiring intervention. My hope is that the increased testing numbers are bringing mild asymptomatic cases to notice where they might have previously been missed but that’s probably wishful thinking on my part.

     

    Vaccinations are proceeding apace, about 50,000 injections in Scotland since yesterday with about a third of them being first dose and the rest second dose. This is a boost over the usual weekday 40,000 vaccinations number and may be due to the surge efforts to vaccinate younger people in Glasgow and Renfrewshire.

  41. 41.

    J R in WV

    We aren’t ever going to know how many people in the US died of Sars2-Coronavirus-19, or even in WV.

    TFG made sure of that first thing.

    At least the Visual comment box seems to be working…

  42. 42.

    Ruckus

    @Matt McIrvin:

    I been fully vaccinated for 3 months now and I still mask up if I am near people. The risk of any infection with COVID is still way too high. Especially as there’s no way to know if they are.

  43. 43.

    Ruckus

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    It very likely didn’t help. But then people often don’t get help soon enough for cancer or other serious health issues. No health insurance, no money….

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