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— Bill Bramhall (@BillBramhall) January 26, 2022
More than 3,800 Americans died of Covid, as reported today @NewsNodes, bringing the cumulative US confirmed lost lives ~900,000. Half of these deaths occurred after February 1, 2021, when vaccines were widely available for high-risk individuals pic.twitter.com/1TeShNPe2a
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) January 29, 2022
Immunity against severe infection is holding up, especially after boosters. In December, the rate of Covid-associated hospitalization was 16 TIMES higher in unvaccinated adults than among adults who were up-to-date on their vaccination. https://t.co/OA5Efj95o6 6/ pic.twitter.com/QobIeuXPTf
— Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrTomFrieden) January 29, 2022
Latest CDC weekly hospitalization data for Americans over 65 years old by vaccination status:
Unvaccinated: 239.7 per 100k
Vaccinated: 26.8 per 100k
Boosted: 4.8 per 100k— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) January 28, 2022
Covid’s omicron wave blew case rates and hospitalization to new national records as it hit the Northeast in January, but it has already turned elsewhere.
This story brings data and maps to compare how omicron and delta waves spread across the country. https://t.co/rglJw1zQPq
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 29, 2022
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Chinese are traveling to their hometowns for the Lunar New Year, the country’s biggest family holiday, despite a government plea to stay where they are. Beijing is trying to contain virus outbreaks ahead of the Winter Olympics which begin in one week. https://t.co/KUeQ8n2J4w
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 28, 2022
… The holiday, which starts with Chinese New Year’s Eve on Monday, usually is the biggest annual movement of humanity as hundreds of millions of people who migrated for work visit their parents and sometimes spouses and children they left behind or travel abroad.
Some 260 million people traveled in the 10 says since the holiday rush started Jan. 17, less than before the pandemic but up 46% over last year, official data shows. The government forecasts a total of 1.2 billion trips during the holiday season, up 36% from a year ago.
“I know we are encouraged to spend the New Year in Beijing, but I haven’t been back home for three years,” said Wang Yilei, whose hometown is Tangshan, east of the capital. “My parents are getting old and they are looking forward to seeing me.”…
China’s infection numbers are modest compared with India, South Korea and some other countries. But they challenge Beijing’s “zero tolerance” strategy that aims to keep the virus out of China by isolating every infected person.
Athletes, reporters and officials at the Winter Games are required to avoid contact with outsiders in hopes of preventing infection.
Some 106 of the 3,695 people who arrived from abroad for the Games so far tested positive for the coronavirus. Two are athletes or team officials…
Travelers are tracked by “health code” software on smartphones that records where they go and the results of virus tests.
“I called the government hotline of my hometown and they said I can go back, as long as my health code is green,” said Sun Jinle, a bank employee from Qinhuangdao, east of Beijing.
“If I live in Fengtai District of Beijing then I can’t (go home),” Sun said. “Luckily, I live in Tongzhou District,” which has no travel ban.
A lockdown has been quietly imposed in an area near Beijing as the winter Olympics approach. An economic zone about 62 miles southwest of Beijing was shutdown earlier this week. No one is allowed to leave home until further notice https://t.co/d78a8mgS4V
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) January 29, 2022
China reports 36 new COVID-19 cases among Olympics-related personnel https://t.co/UsSYyR6ylf pic.twitter.com/WVXicsSJm0
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 29, 2022
A 30-year-old security guard who lives at Yat Kwai House said he feared being forced into quarantine more than catching the disease. “I constantly worry that I will have to be quarantined just for being at the wrong place at the wrong time."https://t.co/jZdf8DN9gb
— Rachel Cheung (@rachel_cheung1) January 28, 2022
S.Korea reports 17,542 new COVID cases, new daily record -KDCA https://t.co/dn2ebCtTvd pic.twitter.com/3lx4Jmcady
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 29, 2022
New Zealand PM Ardern is self isolating after exposure to COVID positive case https://t.co/QNSNT8N47B pic.twitter.com/O9oORTUGOy
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 29, 2022
A plane carrying mostly Mormon missionaries brought #COVID19 to Kiribati — one of the last places without any outbreaks.
Passengers tested positive after arrival on the island nation, which closed borders for 2 years, despite being vaccinated. Cases there are now at least 181. pic.twitter.com/ivhEu8DUHb
— AJ+ (@ajplus) January 28, 2022
Russia has recorded almost 1 million excess deaths since the start of the pandemic, the world's second highest tally behind Indiahttps://t.co/OuVlCpLTU5
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) January 29, 2022
Russia has recorded more than 100,000 new daily coronavirus cases for the first time since the start of the pandemichttps://t.co/YhN71s0XBD
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) January 29, 2022
Austria to begin easing coronavirus restrictions on Feb. 5 https://t.co/CzgQSGhOV6 pic.twitter.com/p4tYLXpMRT
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 29, 2022
Ukraine reports record 37,351 COVID daily cases – ministry https://t.co/Bq4jQQU3jO pic.twitter.com/qvqMMA898K
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 29, 2022
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Nice to have some good news because we seem to get so little on the #Covid front: BA.2, the Omicron subvariant, does not appear to be able to evade vaccine immunity better than OG Omicron. @DrewQJoseph reports. https://t.co/NUekzkjE1q
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) January 28, 2022
Does #omicron pose as much of a blood clot threat as other variants? While more data are needed, the clot risk seems to have dropped. Dr. Peter Faries of Mt. Sinai in NYC says the level of clotting complications in earlier surges is not evident now https://t.co/mBgE6V1FVQ pic.twitter.com/hdhoJDBZch
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) January 28, 2022
Where did Omicron come from? It's so different from other variants—alpha & delta—that virologists estimate its closest genetic ancestor probably dates to more than a year ago, possibly mid-2020. It might have evolved in an animal host, maybe mice or rats https://t.co/FW72nPC3sa pic.twitter.com/ODo6o4BxEo
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) January 28, 2022
The #BA2variant is still prevalent at less than 2% of new #COVID19 cases in USA, but spreading quickly.https://t.co/pZDrhbLM7j pic.twitter.com/rEFWUHRh1U
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) January 28, 2022
In the study of cancer therapies' "chemo brain" researchers see clues to what's behind the brain fog associated with Long Covid, @cooney_liz reports. https://t.co/1cGWrpAxoy
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) January 28, 2022
From a long, data-heavy thread:
Omicron viruses can be divided into two major groups, referred to as PANGO lineages BA.1 and BA.2 or @nextstrain clades 21K and 21L. The vast majority of globally sequenced Omicron have been 21K (~630k) compared a small minority of 21L (~18k), but 21L is gaining ground. 1/15
— Trevor Bedford (@trvrb) January 28, 2022
Given differences in NTD between Omicron 21K and 21L, it may be possible to see some re-infections of individuals recovered from 21K by 21L. 13/15
— Trevor Bedford (@trvrb) January 28, 2022
This said, I would guess we'll see 21L create a substantially longer tail of circulation of Omicron than would have existed with just 21K, but that it won't drive the scale of epidemics we've experienced with Omicron in January. 15/15
— Trevor Bedford (@trvrb) January 28, 2022
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Deep government losses turn to big gains. States, counties and cities are now seeing surplus revenue after reporting more than $117 billion of losses during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic. An @AP data analysis by @camfassett @DavidALieb. https://t.co/qjxUMbXfnM
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 29, 2022
Both the south and north of Boston COVID wastewater data have now plummeted by 86% since the #Omicron peak in early January. The regions’ average levels are now comparable to before the holiday surge. https://t.co/G0hdM5gYwH
— Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) (@MassMedical) January 28, 2022
It’s really shocking that @nytimes not only ran this, but is showcasing it on multiple platforms, including flagship podcast The Daily. @DLeonhardt commissioned a public opinion poll about Covid and is using it to bothsides response to the pandemic. The results are egregious. 1/ https://t.co/yyYHlyMxmq
— Jeff Yang (@originalspin) January 26, 2022
Leonhardt says Democrats want expensive continuing protections against Covid, even though its risk may be diminishing. Meanwhile, Republicans broadly refuse to get vaccinated and want everything to reopen with no restrictions. His framing: both sides are equally misguided. 2/
But he ignores the fact that the reason why Democrats want protections like distancing and masking is quite literally BECAUSE Republicans refuse to get vaxxed and boosted. Dem response and Republican response aren’t independent variables. 3/
A poll conducted by the same company Leonhardt used, Morning Consult, showed 40% of Republicans refuse to get the booster—which is now medically indicated to reduce transmission and protect against serious illness. Another 19% are “unsure” if they will. 4/https://t.co/rxxjJ9YkSW pic.twitter.com/n36VR18ZFN
— Jeff Yang (@originalspin) January 26, 2022
With vax mandates out of reach, what else can Democrats do but push for lesser protections against increasingly violent Republican defiance of basic science and consensus public health?
The bottom line is we aren’t just afraid of Covid anymore. We’re afraid of REPUBLICANS. 5/
Equating Dem reaction to Republican science denialism with Republican vaccine refusal—when the former is cautious but in line with CDC policy and the latter has sent deaths spiking to their highest levels since 2020—is hugely unethical. I’m shocked, but sadly not surprised. /E
Last month, Leonhardt guesstimated that about 85% of adults *around the world* were vaccinated. We have actual data on that, and… they’re not. This is so harmful for global vaccination campaigns. https://t.co/ipDgR5gba6
— Melody Schreiber (@m_scribe) January 28, 2022
What Goddamn stupid pathetic situation have we gotten ourselves where former fucking victims of polio have to come forward and remind us that polio was bad
— El Cid poem liker (@EnBuenora) January 29, 2022
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY:
There were 466 new laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 on 1/28.
There were 130 positive home COVID tests reported on 1/28.
OK, this is looking better.
Hospitalizations:
171 cases in the hospital, 67.8% unvaxed.
25 cases in the ICU (76% unvaxed), 14 of those are intubated (78% unvaxed).
Baud
Thanks, Biden.
YY_Sima Qian
On 1/28 China reported 37 new domestic confirmed (none previously asymptomatic) & 3 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
At Xi’an in Shaanxi Province 27 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There are currently 84 active domestic confirmed cases in the province.
Guangdong Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 59 active domestic confirmed & 6 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
At Guangxi “Autonomous” Region 1 domestic confirmed case recovered. There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed (1 each at Dongxing in Fangchenggang & Ningming County in Chongzuo) & 1 active domestic asymptomatic (at Chongzuo) cases in the province.
Tianjin Municipality reported 5 new domestic confirmed cases (1 mild & 3 moderate), all at Hebei District, another family cluster, all traced close contacts already under centralized quarantine, people who live in the same residential compound as the family cluster reported on 1/26 & 1/27. Hebei District will commence a mass screening of all residents starting from the morning of 1/29. 28 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 111 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases (all presumed Omicron). 10 residential compounds & 1 residential building are currently at High Risk. 12 residential compounds remain at Medium Risk.
Beijing Municipality reported 5 new domestic confirmed cases (3 mild & 2 moderate), all but 1 at Fengtai District, 4 from persons under centralized or home quarantine & 1 from fever clinic, all related to the Delta outbreak at cold storage warehouses in Fengtai District. There currently are 67 active domestic confirmed cases & 14 active domestic asymptomatic cases. 1 residential compound is currently at High Risk. 1 community, 4 residential compounds, 1 village & 1 warehouse are currently at Medium Risk.
At Liaoning Province there currently are 1 active domestic confirmed (at Shenyang) & 4 active domestic asymptomatic (3 at Dalian & 1 at Shenyang) cases in the province.
Shandong Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently at 2 active domestic confirmed (at Jinan) & 1 active domestic asymptomatic (at Liaocheng) cases in the province, all part of the transmission chain from the cold storage warehouses outbreak at Fengtai District in Beijing.
Shanxi Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed case, at Datong, found from mass screening in areas under movement restriction. There currently are 3 active domestic confirmed cases in the province (2 at Datong & 1 at Yuncheng).
Hebei Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed cases, at Baoding, a traced close contact of domestic positive cases in Beijing. There currently are 11 active domestic confirmed cases (5 at Xiong’an, 4 at Langfang & 2 at Baoding) in the Province, all part of the transmission from the cold storage warehouses outbreak in Beijing. 1 village at Xiong’an is currently at Medium Risk.
Yili Prefecture in Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region reported 4 new domestic confirmed (3 at Horgos & 1 at 4th Division of Xinjiang Production & Construction Corps) & 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases (1 each act Horgos & 4th Div. of XPCC), all from persons under quarantine or via mass screening in areas under movement restriction. 1 domestic asymptomatic cases was released from isolation. There currently are 15 active domestic confirmed (12 at Horgos & 3 at 4th Div. of XPCC) & 30 active domestic asymptomatic (26 at Horgos & 4 at 4th Div. of XPCC) cases at the border crossing. 4 residential compounds & 1 residential building are currently at Medium Risk.
Heilongjiang Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed cases. There currently are 20 active domestic confirmed & 28 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
At Shanghai Municipality 1 domestic asymptomatic case was released from isolation. There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed & 15 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 1 village remains at Medium Risk.
At Wuxi in Jiangsu Province the last 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases were released from isolation.
Zhejiang Province reported 18 new domestic confirmed cases (all mild, all presumed Omicron), all at Hangzhou, all employees of the cooking equipment factory w/ the outbreak to traced close contacts of previously reported domestic positive cases. There are 9 cases from a secondary cluster at a wedding. 14 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 66 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 1 business at Hangzhou has been elevated to Medium Risk.
Huanggang in Hubei Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently is 1 active domestic asymptomatic case in the city, party of the transmission chain from Hangzhou in Zhejiang.
Anshun in Guizhou Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently is 1 active domestic confirmed case in the city, party of the transmission chain from Hangzhou in Zhejiang.
At Shangrao in Jiangxi Province there currently is 1 active domestic asymptomatic case, part of the transmission chain from the factory outbreak at Hangzhou in Zhejiang.
Henan Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed & 1 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 78 domestic confirmed case recovered. There currently are 711 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
At Yunnan Province there currently are 10 active domestic confirmed (1 at Dehong Prefecture, 5 at Kunming & 4 at Sipsongpanna Prefecture) & 6 active domestic asymptomatic (all at Sipsongpanna Prefecture) cases remaining. 1 zone at Mengla County in Sipsongpanna Prefecture remains at Medium Risk.
Imported Cases
On 1/28, China reported 22 new imported confirmed cases (2 previously asymptomatic), 29 imported asymptomatic cases, 0 imported suspect cases:
Overall in China, 200 confirmed cases recovered (58 imported), 27 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (25 imported) & 3 were reclassified as confirmed cases (1 imported), & 5,252 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 2,127 active confirmed cases in the country (958 imported), 8 in serious condition (1 imported), 808 active asymptomatic cases (696 imported), 3 suspect cases (all imported). 38,625 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 1/28, 2,994.162M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 4.682M doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 1/29, Hong Kong reported 120 new positive cases, 34 imported (> 20 arrived on the same flight) & 86 domestic (11 do not have sources of infection identified, yet).
On 1/29, Taiwan reported 48 new positive cases, 33 imported & 15 domestic (9 from persons under quarantine & 6 from community).
NotMax
Repeating from earlier on Friday, a handy fact-infused summary.
Coronavirus weekly need-to-know: free N95 masks, CBD, omicron sub-variant, scams & more
A different FYI, for the wintry weathered
NotMax
Locally,
OzarkHillbilly
Long Covid study finds abnormality in lungs that could explain breathlessness
OzarkHillbilly
Looks like the Gospel isn’t the only thing Mormons spread.
lowtechcyclist
The hell they were. I was already over 65 then, and it took me until February 28th to get my first shot, and it damn sure wasn’t for lack of trying.
Which meant I didn’t get my second shot until March 28th, so I wasn’t fully protected until April 11th.
My under-65 wife wasn’t able to get her first shot until April 6th, second shot May 4th, fully protected May 18th. And again, not for lack of trying.
Really, you don’t get to the “most people who want to get vaccinated have had a decent opportunity to get both shots by now” date until sometime well into June.
Also, most of the people dying of Covid in February – and there were a shit-ton of them – got infected in January. So that tweet makes no sense any which way.
Baud
@lowtechcyclist:
Yeah, I thought that date seemed early.
OzarkHillbilly
@lowtechcyclist: @Baud: A best case scenario date. I couldn’t get my J&J shot until mid March, and that was only possible because my wife was an essential worker. The MRNA vaxes were all but impossible to get at that time.
No name
@NotMax: Thanks for this; timely reminder as I wait for Snowmageddon to start.
New Deal democrat
Nationwide in the US, cases have now declined almost 1/3rd from peak. All four Census regions are now showing sharp declines, with the Northeast down almost 70%. NY and NJ are down 75% – but still about 2x their pre-Omicron levels. Other jurisdictions hit hard early are also showing similar declines. Only AL, ID, MN, MT, and WA are still increasing 10% or more from the week before.
Omicron’s trajectory has followed almost exactly the early forecasts by many experts, based on South Africa, that it would peak in roughly the third week of January.
Deaths unfortunately are still increasing, now 2400 a day. They should peak in about two weeks. If they increase in the next two weeks at the rate they have for the last four, that will be about 3000 per day, below only last winter’s 3500 peak. This again will be in accord with the experts who said that while Omicron was “milder” than Delta on an individual level, it was so infectious that in the aggregate it would be just as lethal.
South Africa’s decline has stalled out at 85% for the past week. The UK’s has stalled at 50%, Ireland is leveling off at 75% off peak, and Canada’s decline is showing signs of decelerating at 55% off peak. Only Ireland is close to pre-Omicron levels.
In the past few days, there has been concern expressed about subvariant BA2, which appears to be even more infectious than the original Omicron. Unless we see evidence that it can cause re-infections of those already recovered from Omicron, I am not too concerned. But it may explain the long tail of leveling off we are seeing in the above countries, as BA2 manages to infect those original Omicron did not reach.
PS. I would take the report of 94% seroprevalence in the US population with an entire shaker of salt. It was up over 90% as reported last summer *even before* Delta hit, let alone Omicron.
cmorenc
At our local upscale YMCA gym, which still has a mask requirement for people to enter and use the workout rooms, I’ve noticed an increasing number of people either wearing them in an evasively ineffective manner (i.e. like chin straps with nothing covering their nose or mouth) or without a mask entirely. And when I pointed a couple of mask-less goers to staff in the workout room who then directed them to put one on, the moment staff took their attention elsewhere, the scofflaws lowered their masks to useless chin strap deployment and gave me the stink-eye as if I was an ass-hole for prompting staff about their mask-less-ness.
H.E.Wolf
I guess they figured smallpox and blankets had been done before.
debbie
@OzarkHillbilly:
Doesn’t sound like good news for people with asthma or COPD.
lowtechcyclist
@OzarkHillbilly: Not that it makes it that much better, but still: these were Mormon missionaries returning home to Kiribati. They weren’t heading there to evangelize the heathen natives, they were the natives. And apparently many of them had already delayed their return from mission trips due to the pandemic.
lowtechcyclist
To be fair, most Americans are too young to remember polio. I’m 68 and my only polio-related memory is of getting the vaccine via sugar cube. And I don’t know if it’s gotten any better lately, but for a long time, your typical high-school American history class didn’t get past the end of WWII, so most Americans wouldn’t have learned about it in history class, either.
Polio survivors Neil Young and Joni Mitchell are 76 and 78, respectively.
(FWIW, if my American history courses mentioned the influenza epidemic at the end of WWI, it was only the briefest passing mention, nothing to give a sense of its impact and severity.)
CliosFanBoy
@lowtechcyclist: That does make a difference. thanks for pointing it out.
Cermet
@lowtechcyclist: So they decided as the “more important people” to return without first quarantining themselves even before getting on the flight. Yet the island had been free for two years before these dip-shits decided they should bring covid as well. What they did was still beyond the pale and typical of entitled pricks – a lot like Romney.
WaterGirl
@H.E.Wolf: You are not alone in thinking that. I was just about to type “is it wrong that I am thinking of smallpox blankets?”
WaterGirl
@lowtechcyclist: That does make it better for me in thinking about it. It does not make it better for anyone in Kiribati.
WaterGirl
Not for the first time, I woke up this morning thinking about Amir.
Another Scott
@lowtechcyclist: +1
I got my shots in mid-April, early-May, and early-December. Just because announcements were made doesn’t mean that people were able to get the shot that day.
Cheers,
Scott.
Robert Sneddon
Scotland — 6,679 new cases of COVID-19 and 18 new deaths of people who have tested positive reported.
1,291 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19 with 35 people in intensive care. More of the same, reduced numbers of hospital cases day on day with the number of ICU cases remaining roughly level.
Jean
My granddaughter was boosted on Mon., Jan 17 (Pfizer), spent some time with us on Saturday, then returned to campus on Sunday where, as required, she took a rapid test. Did not learn of the positive result until Monday evening after having had close contact with roommate and two other close friends. She was isolated in a hotel room (provided by university), and remained asymptomatic. She was released yesterday to attend classes and have meals on campus but must still sleep in hotel room for 5 more days. Her roommate and one other close friend tested negative. Neither Papa or I have had symptoms, nor has anyone else, including her mother. We’re more than a week away from day of exposure. I’m now wondering whether her test was a false positive. At least 6 people were exposed within that week (all of whom have been vaccinated and boosted, btw.). No one exhibited any symptoms.
laura
@WaterGirl: me too.
trollhattan
@OzarkHillbilly: Heard her interviewed and the study itself is pretty fascinating, as they have the patients inhale xenon (which she pronounced very oddly to my Yankee ears) gas while in a scanner, then watch it cross from the lungs into the bloodstream–I suppose more accurately watch where it does not cross, to see which parts of the lungs are impacted.
Nowhere near having a treatment. but now can strategize how to engage the affected tissues and monitor their success rates.
trollhattan
Sacramento County, CA appears to have peaked in case count on January 4, and rolling 7-day average on Jan 10–fingers crossed the trend continues but with the case count graph being so jagged it’s not completely clear we’re over the hump.
Case rate is 160/100k and last week’s positivity percentage an eye-popping 58%. Hospitalizations and ICU cases are beginning to ease back from historic highs earlier in the month.
Back to only dining outdoors, if at all. No live theater, no live music.
Fair Economist
Flu Report for 1/16/22 – 1/22/22
Positivity up from 1.8% to 1.9% Lab cases down from 1,646 to 1,543, with 1,547 added to previous weeks. H3N2 continues its unprecedented domina, 97.4% of all type flus and 100% of all subtyped Type A flus, but the percentage of Type B (2.6%) is the highest so far this season, although well below normal even in Type A pandemic flu seasons. Hospital admissions plummetted from 1,804 to 971.
Hard to interpret results – cases are roughly stable but hospitalizations are way down.
Mortality due to pneumonia, influenza and COVID continues to soar, to 28.4% of all reported deaths, far exceeding the pre-COVID peak of 10.9% and even the initial and Delta COVID peaks. Only last winter’s wave has been worse. Note this is with a dominant variant that is supposedly less dangerous to the lungs.
Fair Economist
FTFT Boston Wastewater Data.
It really is shocking how normal it is to normalize the current situation.
germy
trollhattan
@germy:
What the what?!? Ghouls, rich ones at that.
I assume there will be consequences this being in New York. If it were Florida–instant state surgeon general job.
mrmoshpotato
It deserves to be written out this time.
Fuck the fucking New York Times!
The irresponsibility is breathtaking.
Cermet
@Fair Economist: There is no “suppose” about it. Omicron is less dangerous to the lungs. That does not mean that one can’t get pneumonia when sick with Omicron – getting pneumonia just requires the immune system to be compromise. Omicron is infecting more people (compared to Delta) so it certainly follows pneumonia cases would go up as well.
Kent
@OzarkHillbilly: To be fair, if you read the article, it is actually Kiribati citizens who were Mormon missionaries abroad who were finally getting permission to returning to their homes. They went through an extensive 3-test quarantine process in Fiji and were also all vaccinated yet Omicron still got through which tells you how damn infectious this disease is.
Lord knows, I’m no fan of missionaries. But the headline is a bit misleading as one assumes they are talking about American missionaries going abroad and spreading Covid or something
From the AP article:
mrmoshpotato
@germy: 1. Fuck them.
2. I would never take my kid to a place named Wild Child Pediatrics.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
This Pandemic reminds me a bit of work, the bosses and the new techs always think they can fix broken equipment by yelling and screaming. Since the machines don’t give a shit what they think eventually the bosses capitulate and start dealing with the problem.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Tell me about this, work is mostly East Asians who take this seriously, everyone vaxed at lest once, face mask all the time, avoiding in door crowds and so on. Yet one guy accidentally brought it in, infected me and my boss before we knew it.
I really don’t know what to think of the CCP’s reported numbers because what I saw with Omircon it should be able get threw even to get threw that level of measures. Maybe the CCPs high level of vaccinations means many are exposed but few get serious enough systems to trigger the pandemic measures.
J R in WV
@germy:
Negligent Attempted Homicide for every instance of a fake vaccination entry? My first thought — this non-professional doc need to have her license to practice revoked and to spend lots of time in jail. Plus have all her money and property confiscated as ill-gotten gains.
Kent
She isn’t actually a doctor. From the article she is a “pediatric nurse practitioner.” What I have discovered from this pandemic is that there is a deep MAGA element infested in some of these quasi-medical professionals fields, especially chiropractors and of course all the bullshit artists like homeopathy. Most nurse practitioners are ordinary dedicated medical professionals but somehow it seems that some of these MAGA idiocy has steeped in. Especially those who go out on their own and open their own practices rather than just working for a large provider. We had exactly the same thing happen here in my neck of the woods. An anti-mask and anit-vax pediatric nurse practitioner who went completely off the MAGA deep end and ended up getting his license suspended: https://www.columbian.com/news/2021/oct/15/washougal-physician-assistants-license-suspended-over-covid-actions/
Chris T.
@OzarkHillbilly: There was an observation early on that Covid leads to lung cell syncytia (“syncytia” = fusion, where two or more individual cells join up to make one really big honking cell, losing surface area in the process). This is normal in some cells (muscles need big long zones-of-contraction for instance, so they can do their thing) but not in others (lung cells aren’t supposed to fuse). That seems like an obvious avenue to pursue here, but the article did not say anything about it…