.@jordanklepper vs. Anti-Vaxxers in SoCal pic.twitter.com/oOIM1JHha9
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) December 9, 2021
Friday in: +3.1M doses reported administered over yesterday's total, including 674K newly vaccinated and 1.85M boosters! One state reported additional historical data not previously reported. As a reminder CDC works with states to routinely update data. 1/3
— Cyrus Shahpar (@cyrusshahpar46) December 10, 2021
Improving data quality and ultimately usefulness is critical to inform and adapt our national response. With nearly half a billion doses administered in less than a year, this is huge joint effort across all program partners. 3/3 ????
— Cyrus Shahpar (@cyrusshahpar46) December 10, 2021
U.S. administers 480.6 mln doses of COVID-19 vaccines – CDC https://t.co/sRiO9aLImy pic.twitter.com/Q4W81yfNs8
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 11, 2021
U.S. weekly average of COVID-19 cases and deaths up -CDC director https://t.co/pqX8Wk12xj pic.twitter.com/tTskOGRqMA
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 11, 2021
#Omicron variant is likely everywhere & #delta cases are still on the rise. Omicron can probably outcompete delta — and that could worsen the U.S. Covid epidemic https://t.co/c0YL8w0TOM
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) December 10, 2021
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India & the US account for a quarter of all Covid misinformation. Of the 2, India is the world's top hot spot for fake Covid news, accounting for roughly 1 in 6 items of global output. Hard on India's heels: the US Brazil & Spain. Univ of Alberta study https://t.co/EILcDsbnRI
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) December 11, 2021
China vaccinates over 80% of its people against COVID-19 https://t.co/YDEE89xeeZ pic.twitter.com/UYH6Kn0rsa
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 11, 2021
China reports 87 new coronavirus cases on Dec 10 vs 63 a day earlier https://t.co/BWmwCFlI3J pic.twitter.com/AdnLR5vtQ6
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 11, 2021
China orders COVID-19 tests for travel with some border cities https://t.co/6Gfsql9FwH pic.twitter.com/QHSbGgefKI
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 11, 2021
India's top syringe maker asks PM Modi to lift factory shutdown order https://t.co/1y8oqupsy0 pic.twitter.com/slBBeTXtUR
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 11, 2021
India’s largest syringe and needle manufacturer has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to revoke an order to suspend production, part of a broader factory shutdown imposed by a state regulator to curb heavy pollution in the region.
Hindustan Syringes and Medical Devices (HMD) has shuttered its factories on the outskirts of New Delhi following the directive from a state pollution control board, triggering concerns of an acute shortage of syringes and needles in India just as its COVID-19 vaccination programme is in full swing…
The directive was issued to more than 228 factories in the region by the Haryana Pollution Control Board as part of a drive to combat pollution and improve air quality.
HMD, which provides more than 60% of the needles and syringes which India needs for curative healthcare and immunisation, said it will take adequate measures to ensure its factories are not polluting the region.
“We assure the government that we will not use our diesel generator sets and have fully equipped our plants with renewable energy sources,” said Nath, adding that syringe supplies were already running short in India and in global markets…
Global uptick: South Korea's #coronavirus surge exceeds 7000 for the 3rd straight day https://t.co/SPjFazMWpT
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) December 10, 2021
Health officials say Taiwan has recorded its first case of the omicron variant in a passenger who recently traveled to the southern African country of Eswatini. The passenger, a Taiwanese woman in her 30s, is now in quarantine in hospital, officials say. https://t.co/N4XgiiHYdu
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 11, 2021
Russia on Saturday confirmed 30,288 Covid-19 infections and 1,171 deathshttps://t.co/UwO5KSkmCQ
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) December 11, 2021
Ukraine receives more World Bank funds to fight COVID-19 https://t.co/LIJArsjLci pic.twitter.com/0wZJiowCrf
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 11, 2021
Denmark is seeing the number of people infected with omicron double every second day, offering a glimpse of what is likely unfolding throughout Europe https://t.co/O3SxMJTbOi
— Bloomberg (@business) December 10, 2021
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— ?The Quirky Pastor??♀️??♀️??????? (@pastorrjc) December 11, 2021
58,194 daily Covid cases reported in the UK, the highest number of cases reported since January https://t.co/FaJa6j7eF0
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) December 10, 2021
UK health officials say #omicron will become its dominant variant within days, possibly by the middle of the month. The UK Health Security Agency made the announcement Friday when it also confirmed omicron is more easily transmissible than other variants https://t.co/h32mTx6KrL pic.twitter.com/3z1YyCzqoQ
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) December 11, 2021
All adult arrivals to Ghana must be vaccinated against Covid from midnight on 12 December
Ghanaians who are unvaccinated have been given an extra two weeks to return home – and will be given a jab at the airport https://t.co/Vs1lhBpsM4
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) December 10, 2021
Health experts still don't know if the omicron variant is causing milder COVID-19, but more indicators are emerging from South Africa. Doctors there say the patients they are seeing now aren't as ill as the ones who were infected with the delta variant. https://t.co/MHgQbPao2b
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 11, 2021
Best news out of South Africa in a while. Week over week growth down to 18% and positive rate SUBSTANTIALLY down. https://t.co/SpaLDUNYvQ
— (((Howard Forman))) (@thehowie) December 10, 2021
Brazil reports 7,765 new coronavirus cases and 234 COVID-19 deaths in 24 hours -ministry https://t.co/l8uz6whDsA pic.twitter.com/mb3UDgzDHi
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 11, 2021
Mexico reports 199 more deaths from COVID-19 https://t.co/IllPPBUjkc pic.twitter.com/ygBdftrBdz
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 11, 2021
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I've just updated this piece comparing the #Covid vaccines in use in the US. If you've got questions, you may find the answers here. https://t.co/Ss3uFkhymq
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) December 10, 2021
Vaccine makers racing to update #Covid shots, just in case. Experts doubt today's shots will become useless but say it's critical to see how fast companies can produce a reformulated dose and prove it works—because the newest mutant won't be the last https://t.co/PJlUKrAEe7
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) December 11, 2021
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"We're seeing more people die at a rate we've never seen die before.
75% are unvaccinated. And the few (vaccinated people) who passed were all more than 6 months out from their shot.
We've not had a single person who's had a booster shot die from Covid."https://t.co/f0dv31vd4O— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) December 10, 2021
This is my fear as a person with cancer and adjacent problems. When vaccinated folks with life threatening illnesses can’t schedule screenings, surgeries, infusions, procedures….because the hospitals are full of unvaxxed Covid cases. Your refusal to vax threatens us. https://t.co/5FasuglN4w
— Cynthia Lynn Lyerly (@LynnLyerly) December 10, 2021
BREAKING: Facing a winter surge in COVID-19 infections, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that masks will be required in all indoor public places unless the businesses or venues implement a vaccine requirement. https://t.co/xwXjaTE5Rj
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 10, 2021
That would be a great point if none of those people took up an ICU bed.
But many of them do. https://t.co/JqTfHL1cY5
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) December 10, 2021
Wishing a very merry Christmas to Rand Paul’s neighbor. https://t.co/cMKFTMbGjS
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) December 10, 2021
Anti-vax doctor was fired for trying to treat Covid patients w/ ivermectin. Dr. John Witcher, an ER doc at a Mississippi hospital, took 3 patients off remdesivir, an antiviral & put them on ivermectin, an anti-parasitic. He's known for promoting quackery https://t.co/ON5vNwOF1D
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) December 11, 2021
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reports 4,626 new Covid-19 cases today in its media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 2,688,149 cases. It also reports 44 deaths as of midnight, for an adjusted cumulative total of 30,831 deaths – 1.15% of the cumulative reported total, 1.17% of resolved cases.
Based on cases reported yesterday, Malaysia’s nationwide Rt is at 0.97.
341 confirmed cases are in ICU, 146 of them on ventilators. Meanwhile, 4,690 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 2,596,509 patients recovered – 96.6% of the cumulative reported total.
Six new clusters were reported today, for a cumulative total of 6,035 clusters. 250 clusters are currently active; 5,785 clusters are now inactive.
4,606 new cases today are local infections. 20 new cases today are imported.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 123,868 doses of vaccine on 10th December: 3,930 first doses, ,613 second doses, and 113,325 booster doses. As of midnight, the cumulative total is 54,748,772 doses administered: 25,918,025 first doses, 25,493,520 second doses, and 3,529,881 booster doses. 79.4% of the population have received their first dose, while 78.1% are now fully vaccinated.
Cermet5
Thanks again for these posts; useful to get all this in one place!
Guess someone will create a thread on the tornado’s that hit Kentucky and killed so many – instead of wasting resources and rescue personnel we should just give them “Thoughts and Prayers”, instead/s
rikyrah
Cousin Omicron is more contagious than Ms. Delta???
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY:
There were 563 new cases reported on 12/10. There was no breakdown of lab versus home test cases this time.
mrmoshpotato
As Jesus intended!
YY_Sima Qian
On 12/10 China reported 51 new domestic confirmed (20 previously asymptomatic) & 14 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region reported 15 new domestic confirmed cases. 5 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 525 active domestic confirmed cases in the region.
Heilongjiang Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 41 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Shaanxi Province did not report any new positive cases. There are currently 2 active domestic confirmed cases in the province.
Shanghai Municipality did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 6 active domestic confirmed & 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases remaining. 2 residential compounds are currently at Medium Risk.
Jiangsu Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case. There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed & 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Zhejiang Province reported 35 new domestic confirmed (20 previously asymptomatic) & 13 new domestic asymptomatic cases. There currently are 61 active domestic confirmed & 37 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Chongzuo in Guangxi “Autonomous” Region did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently is 1 active domestic asymptomatic case in the city.
At Guangzhou in Guangdong Province there currently is 1 active domestic confirmed case in the city. 1 quarantine hotel is currently at Medium Risk.
At Dalian in Liaoning Province 4 domestic confirmed cases recovered & 1 domestic asymptomatic case was released from isolation. There currently are 29 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases remaining.
At Hebei Province 1 domestic confirmed case recovered. There currently are 7 active confirmed cases in the province (6 at Shijiazhuang & 1 at Xinji).
At Rizhao in Shandong Province there currently are 4 active domestic asymptomatic cases remaining.
At Chongqing Municipality there currently are 2 active domestic confirmed & 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases remaining.
At Henan Province 11 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 43 active domestic confirmed cases remaining (36 at Zhengzhou & 7 at Zhoukou).
Dehong Prefecture in Yunnan Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed case, at Ruili (via screening of persons under centralized quarantine). 2 domestic asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. There currently are 55 active domestic confirmed & 33 active domestic asymptomatic cases at the prefecture. 1 zone at Longchuan County is currently at High Risk.
Imported Cases
On 12/10, China reported 36 new imported confirmed cases (8 previously asymptomatic), 16 imported asymptomatic cases, 0 imported suspect cases:
Overall in China, 37 confirmed cases recovered (16 imported), 21 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (18 imported) & 28 were reclassified as confirmed cases (8 imported), & 773 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 1,272 active confirmed cases in the country (493 imported), 28 in serious condition (3 imported), 489 active asymptomatic cases (403 imported), 1 suspect case (imported). 47,250 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 12/10, 2,591.879M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 9.136M doses in the past 24 hrs. 1,162.488M people have been fully vaccinated, or 82.3% of the total population.
On 12/11, Hong Kong reported 1 new positive case, imported.
NorthLeft12
Thanks again Anne. Like everywhere else, Covid cases are taking off in Ontario (every region of the province) and Canada. Vaccinations are not being taken/given as quickly as earlier this year, and compliance with Public Health requirements is slipping.
On a personal note, my daughter from England is coming home for Christmas and her and my wife are working out how best she can protect herself and then quarantine until she gets her negative test result. A few highlights;
1. N95 masks in airports and during flight.
2. My wife and I will each drive a car three hours to Toronto and she will drive the one back to our house and quarantine there by herself.
3. My wife and I (and our dog) will stay at our younger daughter’s house until the older daughter gets the all clear.
We are hoping that the test results will be received in less than three days….but who knows?
I realize that we are very fortunate and privileged to be able to execute a plan like this to avoid the expense and inconvenience of the isolation hotels that some travellers will be forced to use.
My biggest beef about this is that the supposed goal of these measures is stopping the Omicron variant. It is already too late for that. The variant is here and spreading very quickly in Ontario and Canada. I think we have more to fear from our neighbours than from tested and fully vaccinated travellers to Canada.
BTW, driving on the 401 and 402 highways in mid December can be a harrowing experience. We are desperately hoping for good weather.
New Deal democrat
Thanksgiving distortions have ended. All comparisons below are with the averages 16 days ago. Nationally the US has increased from 95,000 to 120,000. Deaths have increased from 1114 to 1272.
The West as a whole is flat compared with before Thanksgiving. Only CA has increased, from about 12 to 17 per 100,000.
The South as a region has increased from 14 to 19, with all States increasing except for FL, TX, LA, and AL, but especially pronounced increases in the MidAtlantic and Ohio Valley.
The Midwest has increased from 54 to 64, including all States except MI, MN, and WI, which are flat, and ND, which has continued to decline.
The Northeast has increased from 38 to 58, with all States now participating.
It is increasingly obvious that Omicron has been circulating in Europe and the US for a number of weeks before picked up by surveillance. Similar exponential growth to South Africa has been documented for Scotland, England, Denmark, and Belgium, see:
https://mobile.twitter.com/TWenseleers/status/1469330244914061315
Dr. Jorge Caballero continues to think that Omicron originated in Europe in late August. It may be that some of the big “winter wave” so far has been Omicron overtaking Delta.
Deaths have not yet started to rise in South Africa. In fact, they have not been able to document a single cases tied to Omicron, although cases have risen for over 15 days. Since deaths may lag by a month, by no means is this definitive, but it is being noticed.
Again, a number of experts I follow are converging on the idea that Omicron will re-infect those previously infected, and break through vaccinations, but those cases will likely be very mild, as the human population increasingly evolves some resistance.
Matt McIrvin
Ah, yes, the “private individuals may not require proof of vaccination at holiday gatherings” article of the Constitution.
mrmoshpotato
@Matt McIrvin:
Proof of vaccinations makes baby Jesus sad.
OzarkHillbilly
@mrmoshpotato: I know Rand Paul has never read the constitution and I doubt very much any of the others have either.
Anthony
Six years ago, if you told me a “Dr.” Witcher was pushing quack remedies, I would have called nonsense, but today it’s completely believable.
Cameron
Wonder if there will still be 57 in the Paul household for Christmas 2022.
delk
I wonder if Rand Paul’s wife held up a bottle of ketchup while he was writing his tweet.
sdhays
It sounds like Dr. Witcher should have been let go a long time ago if he was already known to be a quack.
I wonder how many people have come to that ER and been screwed over by the quality of care they received from this bag of shit before they finally fired him.
Sloane Ranger
Friday in the UK we had, as noted above, 58,194 new cases. The rolling 7-day average is up by 10.2%. New cases by nation,
England – 48,908 (up 5358)
Northern Ireland – 1806 (down 13)
Scotland – 5018 (up 1822)
Wales – 2462 (up 160).
Deaths – There were 120 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. The rolling 7-day average is unchanged. 90 deaths were in England, 2 in Northern Ireland, 19 in Scotland and 9 in Wales.
Testing – 1,326,438 tests took place on Thursday, 9 December. The rolling 7-day average was up by 12.6%. The PCR testing capacity reported by labs on that date was 794,336.
Hospitalisations – There were 7413 people in hospital and 900 on ventilators as of Thursday, 9 December. The rolling 7-day average for hospital admissions was up by 3.7% as of 6th December.
Vaccinations – As of Thursday, 9 December, 51,207,496 people had had 1 shot of a vaccine, 46,674,061 had had 2 and 22,184,983 had had a 3rd shot/booster. In terms of percentages this means that 89% of all UK residents aged 12+ have had 1 shot, 81.2% have had 2 and 38.6% have had a 3rd shot/booster by that date.
Matt McIrvin
Dr. Peter Hotez seems to be… emotionally labile right now.
I think the main thing that’s upsetting him is that existing vaccines, maybe even with booster shots, seem to be not all that good at preventing transmission of Omicron, though they’re still very good at preventing severe disease. So one tool in the toolbox is down at least until a reformulated vax can appear, which is months away. And he’s also trying desperately to convey this in ways that antivaxxers will not immediately weaponize.
But he also has this idea that overreliance on mRNA vaccine technology is part of the problem, and I’m certainly no expert but based on the data I’ve seen, I don’t quite see it. I guess time will tell.
Fair Economist
Flu Report: Positivity and positive cases continue to increase exponentially. Positivity increased from 1.5% last week to 2.6% this week. Cases reported in the past week increased from 632 to 1,532 (!), with an additional 350 added to previous weeks. Identified strains continue to be almost exclusively (99%) H3N2, with no H1N1 or Yamagata reported at all, and only a tiny sprinkling of Victoria. This extreme dominance doesn’t show up at the start of any of the major flu outbreaks in the past decade – 90% being the dominant strain is more typical. The positivity rate, on the other hand, is not unusual, with faster growth in some earlier seasons. So the data continues to suggest a particularly contagious H3N2 variant, slightly held back by public health and hygeine measures.
Currently it looks likely we will have co-occuring Delta, Omicron, and H3N2 epidemics this January. This is going to wreak havoc on symptom tracking and virulence estimates, because raw incidence, hospitalization, and death numbers won’t distinguish between them. We could, possibly, end up in a situation where Omicron is causing most of the doctor visits, H3N2 most of the hospitalizations, and Delta most of the deaths (from long-standing “living dead” patients finally dying). Or various other combinations. Coinfection could make it worse – perhaps Omicron and H3N2 will each have something like traditional flu death rates, but Omicron + H3N2 is much deadlier. Sensible behaviour – vax, masks, ventilation, and avoiding large unmasked groups indoors – is likely to be particularly wise and rewarding this winter.
kindness
re: that Jordan Kleper clip…saw that on TDS this week and shook my head. I love CA, but we do have our nuts out here. I don’t know if we have more of them so much as since media is so saturated out here they go out and pick up those voices and amplify it making it come across like we do. I mean, sure we have more ‘wellness’ nuts out here than Kansas but we also have more MAGA nuts because we have 37 million people.
Feathers
Interesting article from The Harvard Gazette (their newspaper with campus schedules and research updates) on the “big data paradox” and why the early surveys on how many people were getting vaccinated got the answer so wrong. 2 early vaccination surveys worse than worthless thanks to ‘big data paradox,’ analysts say.
Basically surveys were showing a 70% vaccination rate and the actual rate was closer to 55%. All sorts of decisions were based on the overly optimistic results, with tragic outcomes. Highly recommended for understanding how big polls can be very wrong.
Ruckus
@Matt McIrvin:
People with their own version of reality, what’s more commonly known as having their heads up their asses, which causes them to be unable to see the nose on the front of their own faces and therefore doubt any reality whatsoever.
IOW the world is more complicated now because we as group have more knowledge and less competence to deal with it. People get inundated with information, some good, much pure speculation and bullshit and without the ability to deal reasonably with it because of all the idiocy, bullshit and misinformation. An unreasonable percentage of people have never been able to process scientific information and likely never will be able. And that percentage is among a much larger population, with the ability to communicate to the rest of that segment, spreading the mis/dis information far and wide, rapidly. There have always been people who would purchase a miracle cure off the back of a horse drawn wagon if the sales pitch sounded more like they think than unimaginable science. And science has gotten a lot more unknowable to this segment of humanity because it is far more difficult to see/understand with their level/lack of scientific nothingness. They aren’t smart/educated/desiring enough to manage the concepts, AND have zero idea of that because of of much more communication.
At best they need much more time to process and at worst there is much more to process in less time.
Ruckus
@OzarkHillbilly:
I understood that he’s read the condensed version for dummies. The lights were out, he’d been up for 48 hrs and was stoned so it’s possible that not much reality was absorbed but still he had a piece of paper in his hands……
At least that was the understanding of his cousin who had heard this through family, it having been told through about 23 levels of Paul family before it got to him. The story may be slightly unreliable…..
Bill Arnold
@Fair Economist:
Here are the raw CDC links. Adjust urls each week (friday?) by adjusting the week number in the url. (Using 2018/2019 as a baseline but other years would work, except for the last couple of years.) I keep these open in a browser, and switch tabs quickly for a visual comparison.
Looking like a typical flu season so far in the US, with a few outbreaks. Any new public-indoors mask requirements (e.g. NY State starting Monday) wills knock down R in those jurisdictions, perhaps below 1. Same with increases in work-from-home.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2018-2019/data/whoAllregt_cl48.html
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2021-2022/data/whoAllregt_cl48.html
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm
Ken
@Feathers: On-line surveys aren’t accurate? Whocouldaknown?
(Though the reduction from 250,000 responses to an effective size of 10 is surprising, I wouldn’t have though they were that bad.)
Brachiator
I loved the Daily Show clip of all the California Wellness morons who are anti vaxx. Lifestyle and “natural” immunity through expensive, but useless vitamins, supplements and other woo.
It ain’t just right wing nutjobs.
Matt McIrvin
@Fair Economist: I heard something about this season’s flu vaccine not being a very good match to what’s out there? Well, I got it anyway.
Matt McIrvin
@Fair Economist: Hotez is a bona fide expert, but one with a high enough media profile that he has to deal with gross attacks from malicious fools 24/7. It’d put anyone on edge.
Matt McIrvin
@Brachiator: These are the people who drive me the most up the wall because they feel like they should be reachable but they’re not.
They’ve got a strategy that probably does enhance their health in some ways (exercise is good and their diets are probably better than mine). But it’s a totalizing ideology–they have to see it as the one key to everything.
sab
@Ruckus: One thing I have learned this year is to disregard doctors opining outside of their specialty. Neurologists are NOT epidemiologists or virologists.
ETA : Although Sanjay Gupta does seem to realize that and consult actual experts rather than just make stuff up like the others do.