If you've already ordered your COVID test kits, you can now order another batch of free tests. Go to https://t.co/owrfQPNoNM pic.twitter.com/zeS3rgoux9
— U.S. Postal Service (@USPS) March 8, 2022
Opinion by Leana Wen: Congress needs to fund Biden’s request for covid-19 resourceshttps://t.co/lz9VIfQOcg
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 8, 2022
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More (potential) casualties of war:
yeah, don't do or applaud this! poor countries have a complex geopolitical calculus to work through and ordinary Bangladeshis shouldn't suffer as a result https://t.co/9tNGsfAeGZ
— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) March 8, 2022
WHO says Covid boosters are needed, reversing its previous position against 3rd shots. The agency's position has changed now that a glut of Covid vaccines exists in the world. An earlier fear of WHO officials was rich nations might hog all the doses https://t.co/tBk0S1hutQ
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) March 8, 2022
The omicron wave appears to finally arrive in China, which reports biggest one-day tally since Wuhan. Local transmissions have exceeded imported cases (and actual # likely larger than reported), and concurrent outbreaks are reported in multiple cities. https://t.co/gL6qOkQZ2s
— Yanzhong Huang (@YanzhongHuang) March 9, 2022
The Chinese financial hub of Shanghai is moving quickly to halt the spread of COVID-19 amid a rising wave of local symptomless cases, either delaying or cancelling dozens of concerts and exhibitions and shutting some public venues. https://t.co/l0zUC904IS
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) March 9, 2022
Hong Kong health authorities reported on Wednesday 25,991 new COVID-19 cases confirmed with nucleic acid tests and an additional 32,776 confirmed via rapid antigen tests (RATs). https://t.co/HrWQ5n8qjw
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) March 9, 2022
Hong Kong reported more than 43,000 new coronavirus infections on Tuesday, a day after the launch of an online self reporting platform which lets residents register their own rapid antigen tests results. https://t.co/z2qYcXGYeL
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) March 8, 2022
Body bags, overflowing morgues & chaotic hospitals: Hong Kong’s #omicron-driven outbreak has reached a critical stage. HK—a wealthy financial center—now has the highest Covid death rate in the developed world https://t.co/oK5QYdlyxW
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) March 9, 2022
Hong Kong resident Yeung waited for 13 hours outside a hospital in the city's eastern district in cold, rainy weather with his 3-year-old daughter, who had a high fever, before they could be admitted for COVID-19 treatment. https://t.co/rY5BJA18sj
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) March 9, 2022
Hong Kong to focus COVID resources on elderly, no date set for mass tests https://t.co/7cr5wleiwv pic.twitter.com/WQItRrOa4G
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 9, 2022
The death rate in Hong Kong has now soared to be the highest of any region in the world for the duration of the pandemic pic.twitter.com/dvnQULGpEg
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) March 8, 2022
Compulsory mass testing for coronavirus would be useful but needs to be done at a suitable time, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Wednesday, following anxiety among the 7.4 million residents of the financial hub bracing for a citywide lockdown. https://t.co/eTNL5MJIpl
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) March 9, 2022
S.Korea reports record high 342,446 new daily COVID-19 cases https://t.co/mEsCPHTU9z pic.twitter.com/TTAblFIe6Y
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 9, 2022
We reported more cases today than the whole of 2020.
— Michael Toole ?? (@profmiketoole) March 9, 2022
Covid is adding to Ukraine's wartime pain. The country's health care system is still grappling w/ the pandemic, even as it tries to cope with the severe effects of an invasion that has sown destruction & dislocation throughout the entire nation https://t.co/XIPDyNLMnW
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) March 9, 2022
Austria's government says it's suspending the country's coronavirus vaccination mandate for most adults, arguing that there’s no need to implement it at present only a week before its enforcement was due to begin. https://t.co/MNxUkGPPbO
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) March 9, 2022
After weeks of doubling in the background, BA.2 is now contributing to a noticeable uptick in cases and hospital admissions in the UK. God, I'm tired (and can only imagine how HCWs feel right now). https://t.co/RwEhHe8H4p
— Nsikan Akpan, PhD (@MoNscience) March 8, 2022
WHO Africa's first woman leader sees her African identity as a strength in developing health policies to help the continent through the coronavirus pandemic. https://t.co/fmGUVA7ZQN
— AP Africa (@AP_Africa) March 9, 2022
South African drugmaker Aspen Pharmacare on Tuesday concluded an agreement with Johnson & Johnson to package, sell and distribute the American group's COVID-19 vaccines under its own brand in Africa. https://t.co/isZ7DliTZg
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) March 9, 2022
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Who really owns the Covid vaccine? The multi-billion-dollar patent war over the mRNA coronavirus vaccine has grabbed the attention of the world. Watch the full video here: https://t.co/3fyN1GlGXa pic.twitter.com/YuKfkS1nqE
— CNBC (@CNBC) March 9, 2022
Omicron sub-variant BA.2 makes up 11.6% of COVID variants in U.S. – CDC https://t.co/8tC1LlNA38 pic.twitter.com/gB0aHYx9rk
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 8, 2022
Exploring omicron's ability to escape antibodies—the secret's in the spikes. #Omicron has several siblings, including BA.1.1 and BA.2 By @DelthiaRicks https://t.co/jz35839A6s pic.twitter.com/qFUQEU6fSV
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) March 8, 2022
Sherlock Biosciences said on Tuesday it had raised $80 million in new funding to help bolster sales of its CRISPR-based COVID-19 test and develop new diagnostics based on the breakthrough gene editing technology. https://t.co/hb5l3oOYJv
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) March 8, 2022
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The final statewide mask mandate will be lifted at the end of this month as the coronavirus pandemic eases in the U.S. Hawaii has required masks since April 2020. https://t.co/Nznu7gejjP
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 9, 2022
Masking helped protect children from the #coronavirus last fall, according to a new CDC study. It examined school districts in Arkansas from August-October during #Delta variant & found districts w/ mask requirements had 23% lower rates of infection https://t.co/klXldwX5Jq pic.twitter.com/WxLyLr2n37
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) March 9, 2022
D.C. says schools and day cares can lift mask mandate; DCPS will consider it https://t.co/TpQxSV0fkK
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 9, 2022
Paxlovid, the Covid drug, seems tailor-made for curbing spread of the virus in prisons. But few doses have been allocated to the country’s prisons, @NicholasFlorko reports. https://t.co/HoByoQTXgP
— Helen Branswell ?? (@HelenBranswell) March 8, 2022
Wondering how many -and how soon- politicians (and health pundits) are going to yell, “there’s no way anyone could’ve seen this coming…” ?
An omicron 'subvariant' is doubling in NY, just as mandates lift – Gothamist https://t.co/fziVirVZBE
— Jerome Adams (@JeromeAdamsMD) March 8, 2022
HeartlandLiberal
Here in Bloomington, Indiana, mask mandates have been lifted. Yesterday had to go to Kroger for few groceries. Fully 75% of people not wearing masks. Or maybe more. I expect a resurgence in rates of infection of COVID in USA in a couple of weeks. NOT that ANYONE could have seen it coming. P.S. We still wear our masks everywhere in public. We have a strong survival instinct, plus believe in science and the germ and virus theories of science. FWIW.
New Deal democrat
Nationwide cases fell to just below 40,000, more than 95% below their peak. Cases were only lower for 2.5 months last year, the first 4 months of the pandemic, and about 10 days in September 2020. Deaths declined to 1346, almost 50% below their Omicron peak. They are continuing to decline at roughly 30% a week.
Cases are increasing only in AL, VT and MT. (Interestingly, there has been a new outbreak in Canada’s Maritime provinces nearby to VT and ME as well).
The worst 10 States are ID at 57 cases per 100,000, followed by MT, ME, AK, KY (all above 30 cases), VT, WV, CT (due to a data dump), AL, and CO at 17. The 10 best jurisdictions are DC at 1 case per 100,000(!), followed by MD, SD, PR, NE, SC, OH, IN, AZ, and UT, increasing from 6 to 8 cases. NY, PA, WI, IL, IA, KS, MO, WY, GA, MS, LA, and FL are also below 10. CA is at 14.
Since there has not been any sign of an increase in States with rising cases, the nationwide case average should continue to decline. Deaths could possibly equal last June’s lows in a month.
Baud
Thanks, antivaxxers!
Matt McIrvin
The BA.2 story baffles me a bit because many commentators are taking it as the next wave that will overwhelm us, but the part of the country with the most BA.2 is supposedly right here and it doesn’t seem to be causing a general increase. Could this be like the period when the CDC projections overestimated Omicron prevalence a few weeks early, meaning a situation like the UK is just a matter of time? Or is there more to it than that?
Erin
@New Deal democrat: DC’s numbers are due to a data glitch. They’ve reported zero cases the last couple of days.
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY:
110 new cases on 3/8. Headed the wrong way again.
Matt McIrvin
…I do see these sort of “bounce” outbreaks happening in some places, where cases went way down after Omicron and then there was a resurgence. Some of these might be college towns. Keeping an eye on New Haven, particularly.
New Deal democrat
I’m still not buying the UK scariant story. According to the graphs, hospitalizations started to increase even *before* the uptick in cases in the last 10 days! While I don’t doubt the hospital admissions data is accurate, it should only have occurred a couple of weeks *after* an increase in cases.
Also, as I said yesterday, it is not corroborated by data in any other country where BA.2 has become dominant. In general, in most countries in Europe there has been a leveling off in cases in the past two weeks, and in several countries, notably Germany and Portugal, an increase just in the past week. In South Africa, where BA.2 has been dominant for several months, cases continue to decline slowly.
Matt McIrvin
My impression about BA.2 was that it is more transmissible than regular Omicron but doesn’t have a lot of immune escape for people with past Omicron infections. So the extent to which it causes a new wave would be dependent on how many people already got Omicron
One thing that makes me a little personally wary is that I’ve avoided Omicron so far (apparently), so I might have a bit more susceptibility to breakthrough infection than the average person.
Xentik
@Matt McIrvin: The cases are doubling, but it’s still too early in NYC to really expect to see a huge increase in hospitalizations because of the high vaccination rate. Keep in mind that the UK was one of the epicenters for BA.2, they’ve been dealing with it spreading in the background there for a month now I think?
The real issue here is that BA.2’s success suggests that its R0 is effectively so high that it is able to grow exponentially in a relatively well vaccinated population. The more vaccinated people get infected (or people with prior exposure to COVID), the higher the probability a new mutation will arise that improves its abilities to escape the immune system.
As gloom and doom as it might sound, I suspect if we see even a delta-level resurgence due to BA.2 it means we can probably expect to see new successful variants popping up at a rate of 2-3 a year, meaning there will likely never be a post-COVID world.
New Deal democrat
@Erin: Thanks for the info on DC.
Matt McIrvin
But that is also true of all forms of Omicron, as we already saw. The question is, can it do this in a place that is well vaccinated AND already got hit hard by Omicron?
opiejeanne
Washington is dropping the mask requirements in most places on the 12th of March, but we’ll still be wearing ours inside stores and other places. Washington is ranked 19th In cases by Worldometer, slightly better than South Carolina, and I can see that there was a huge spike of cases that has now dropped back to a much lower level. Not going to call the current level “background noise” because it’s still bad. The farther east you go, the more people you see maskless, but in my neighborhood I was jarred by a maskless couple at an open house on Sunday, and most of us were shying away from him.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reported 31,490 new Covid-19 cases yesterday in its media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 3,680,953 cases. It also reported 79 deaths for an adjusted cumulative total of 33,384 deaths – 0.99% of the cumulative reported total, 1.00% of resolved cases.
Malaysia’s nationwide Rt stands at 1.07.
153 confirmed cases are in ICU, 94 of them on ventilators. Meanwhile, 29,035 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 3,340,889 patients recovered – 90.8% of the cumulative reported total.
11 new clusters were reported yesterday, for a cumulative total of 6,860 clusters. 445 clusters are currently active; 6,415 clusters are now inactive.
31,017 new cases reported yesterday were local infections. 473 new cases were imported.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 68,624 doses of vaccine on 8th March: 19,511 first doses, 1,835 second doses, and 47,278 booster doses. The cumulative total is 67,869,343 doses administered: 27,200,607 first doses, 25,763,360 second doses, and 15,113,923 booster doses. 83.3% of the population have received their first dose, 78.9% their second dose, and 46.3% their booster dose.
YY_Sima Qian
On 3/8 Mainland China reported 233 new domestic confirmed (13 previously asymptomatic), 322 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
Guangdong Province reported 7 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic) & 20 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
Guangxi “Autonomous” Region reported 4 new domestic asymptomatic cases (2 at Fangchenggang & 1 each at Baise & Chongzuo), all traced close contacts already under centralized quarantine. 40 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 93 active domestic confirmed (50 at Fangchenggang, 41 at Baise, & 1 each at Chongzuo & Nanning) & 39 active domestic asymptomatic cases (27 at Fangchenggang, 11 at Baise & 1 at Chongzuo) in the province. 2 zones at Fangchenggang are currently at Medium Risk.
At Huaihua in Hunan Province there currently is 1 active domestic confirmed case in the city.
Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region reported 3 new domestic confirmed (all mild) & 1 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 35 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 165 active domestic confirmed & 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Tianjin Municipality reported 12 new domestic confirmed cases (10 mild & 2 moderate), all traced close contacts already under centralized quarantine. 5 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 33 active domestic confirmed cases (19 mild & 7 moderate) in the city. 1 massage parlor is currently at High Risk. 1 construction site is currently at Medium Risk.
Shandong Province reported 59 new domestic confirmed (9 previously asymptomatic, 30 mild & 1 moderate) & 106 new domestic asymptomatic cases. There currently are 235 active domestic confirmed cases & 368 active asymptomatic cases in the province.
Shanxi Province reported 3 new domestic confirmed (2 previously asymptomatic) & 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases. There currently are 25 active domestic confirmed & 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Hebei Province reported 11 new domestic confirmed cases. There currently are 50 active domestic confirmed & 3 active asymptomatic case in the province.
Liaoning Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed (at Shenyang, previously asymptomatic, mild) & 2 new domestic asymptomatic (1 each at Shenyang & Dandong) cases, both new domestic positive cases are traced close contacts already under centralized quarantine. 6 domestic confirmed case recovered. There currently are 140 active domestic confirmed (136 at Huludao & 4 at Shenyang) & 9 active domestic (7 at Shenyang & 2 at Dandong) cases in the province. 1 village at Suizhong County is currently at High Risk.
Heilongjiang Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed & 14 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 3 domestic confirmed cases recovered & 1 domestic asymptomatic case was released from isolation. There currently are 20 active domestic confirmed& 56 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Jilin Province reported 94 new domestic confirmed (93 mild & 1 moderate) & 80 new domestic asymptomatic cases. There currently are 249 active domestic confirmed & 196 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
At Hainan Province there currently are 3 active confirmed (all at Sanya) & 3 active domestic asymptomatic (2 at Sanya & 1 at Chengmai County) cases in the province.
Beijing Municipality reported 6 new domestic confirmed case (5 mild & 1 moderate). 2 of the new domestic cases are traced close contacts of the domestic positive case reported on 3/7; 4 are members of a new family cluster, 2 found at fever clinic & the other 2 are traced close contacts.
Shanghai Municipality reported 3 new domestic confirmed & 62 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 64 are traced close contacts already under centralized quarantine & 1 from fever clinic. 1 domestic asymptomatic case was released from isolation. There currently are 19 active domestic confirmed & 231 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 1 residential building has been elevated to Medium Risk. 1 activity center, 3 residential buildings & a supermarket are currently at Medium Risk.
Shaanxi Province reported 17 new domestic confirmed cases (all mild), 10 at Xi’an, 6 at Baoji & 1 at Hanzhong, at all traced close contacts already under centralized quarantine. There currently are 24 active domestic confirmed cases in the province (17 at Xi’an, 6 at Baoji & 1 at Hanzhong), all part of the transmission chain spreading from Shanghai. 1 residential compound & 1 residential building at Xi’an have been elevated to Medium Risk. 1 residential compound, 2 hotels, 2 restaurants & 5 residential building at Xi’an are currently at Medium Risk.
At Hubei Province there currently are 39 active domestic confirmed (30 mild & 9 moderate, all at Wuhan) & 9 active domestic asymptomatic (8 at Wuhan & 1 at Huanggang) cases in the province. 1 Medium Risk hotel & 1 residential building at Wuhan have been re-designated to Low Risk. 3 residential buildings at Wuhan are currently at Medium Risk.
Jiangsu Province reported 11 new domestic & 4 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 4 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 70 active domestic confirmed & 27 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Anqing in Anhui Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case, a traced close contact of domestic positive cases in Lianyungang in Jiangsu.
Zhejiang Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed case, at Huzhou, found via regular screening, F1 & F2 close contacts have all tested negative so far. There currently are 10 active domestic confirmed cases (4 at Quzhou, 2 each at Hangzhou & Wenzhou, & 1 each at Huzhou & Jiaxing) in the province.
Sichuan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. As the province does not break down recoveries between imported & domestic cases, I can no longer track the quantity of active domestic cases there. 3 residential compounds at Chengdu remain at Medium Risk.
Gansu Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case (at Baiyin), a traced close contact already under centralized quarantine. There currently are 22 active domestic confirmed (20 at Lanzhou & 1 each at Baiyin & Jiuquan) & 2 active domestic asymptomatic (1 each at Baiyin & Linxia Prefecture) cases. 1 hotel at Lanzhou is currently at Medium Risk.
At Xiamen in Fujian Province the domestic confirmed case recovered.
At Zhengzhou in Henan Province there currently is 1 active domestic confirmed case remaining.
Chongqing Municipality reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case, a quarantine hotel worker, found via daily testing.
Yunnan Province reported 4 new domestic confirmed & 24 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 3 domestic asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. There currently are 65 active domestic confirmed & 198 active domestic asymptomatic cases remaining in the province.
Imported Cases
On 3/8, Mainland China reported 104 new imported confirmed cases (13 previously asymptomatic, 8 in Guangdong), 77 imported asymptomatic cases, 15 imported suspect cases:
Overall in Mainland China, 181 confirmed cases recovered (84 imported), 31 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (27 imported) & 26 were reclassified as confirmed cases (13 imported), & 7,027 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 4,208 active confirmed cases in the country (2,403 imported), 8 in serious condition (2 imported), 2,749 active asymptomatic cases (1,252 imported), 22 suspect cases (all imported). 106,921 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 3/8, 3,169.916M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 4.43M doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 3/9, Hong Kong reported 25,991 new positive cases (7 imported & 25,984 domestic), another 32,766 positives from rapid antigen test results (to be included in tomorrow’s data dump), 195 deaths (291 including backlog).
On 3/9, Taiwan reported 77 new positive cases, 74 imported & 3 domestic.
Xentik
@Matt McIrvin: Agreed, but it does seem to be the case that it’s doing so successfully, since the UK meets those criteria. Which gets to my main point, which is that a respiratory virus with sufficiently high R0 doesn’t seem to care about immune responses with regards to its ability to spread.
Remember that the immune system doesn’t operate on a per-cell basis, it takes time for the body to ramp up its response. From what I understand, the new variants efficacy is because they replicate in the nasal passages and airways, allowing their transmission before the body really has a chance to respond. So while the virus may not affect you physically, it will continue to be successful in finding new hosts. A good example of this effect was the superspreader event in Boston in July with Delta, where 74% of those involved were vaccinated. Omicron and BA.2 have only gotten more effective at spreading before immune system response can come into play, and any new variants will be strongly selected for based on their ability to spread this way.
CaseyL
UW Medicine is keeping its mask mandate in force even after the state mandate lifts, since it’s a healthcare facility. Which I’m fine with!
Sloane Ranger
Yesterday in the UK there were 61,900 new reported cases. The rolling 7-day average is up by 39.2%. Some of these cases may still be “catch up” from the weekend. New cases by nation,
England – 44,918
Northern Ireland – 2669
Scotland – 11,685
Wales – 2628.
Deaths – There were 212 deaths within 28 days of a positive test reported yesterday. The rolling 7-day average is down 1.6%. 172 deaths were in England, 5 in Northern Ireland, 19 in Scotland and 16 in Wales.
Testing – 713,449 tests took place on 7 March. The rolling 7-day average is down 2.8%.
Hospitalisations – There were 11,318 people in hospital and 268 on ventilators on 7 March. The 7-day average for hospital admissions was up by 11.1% as of 4 March.
Vaccinations – As of 7 March, 91.6% of all UK residents aged 12+ had had 1 shot, 85.4% had had 2, and 66.8% had had a 3rd shot/booster.
bjacques
NL: After dropping the last few weeks from a weekly average of ~850,000 cases to 260,000 cases a week ago, the numbers this past werk are back up to 440,000 because everything being wide open and Carnavale ending last Wednesday.
Fair Economist
@New Deal democrat: Hospitalizations in the UK *appeared* to increase before cases because the case reporting rate has been falling while hospitalization reporting hasn’t changed. Positivity is way up. Cases in the UK probably bottomed about 2 weeks ago, but increasingly bad reporting hid that for a while.
delk
Friday I have an appointment to get my monoclonal antibody infusion. 90 minute procedure.
New Deal democrat
@Fair Economist:
What source are you relying on in re positivity?
Because that’s not what the official UK government data I checked shows, which is test positivity leveling off at about 10% in the last two weeks. Source: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/testing?areaType=nation&areaName=England
CliosFanBoy
@opiejeanne:
I do wish you’d say “Washington STATE” so as to differentiate from the original Washington, DC. :)
Yes, I’m teasing. Living inside the beltway in NVA I do always read it first as DC then correct myself. But hey, at least YOUR Washington has voting rights in Congress!
VOR
I keep wondering about the impact of the Ukraine war on COVID in both countries. People packed together in vehicles and healthcare infrastructure destroyed. Wars are often linked to disease outbreaks. For example, the 1918 Spanish Flu spread with the troops deployments. Putin has reportedly pushed a lot of anti-vax propaganda and I have little faith in Russia’s Sputnik vaccine.
Chetan Murthy
To anybody reading this who’s had their booster, but >4months out is worried about getting infected: you can get a 4th shot. All you have to do is lie a little, and it’s not very hard. I did it.
I’m not going to present arguments for why you should do this; if you’re at the point of frantically searching for a fourth shot, then you’ve already decided.
It easy to do, and I feel much safer after having done so.
ETA: to assuage my conscience about “no insurance” I took $200 in twenties with me, and offered to pay out-of-pocket. Of course, they refused payment, but it made me feel better.
Ohio Mom
Good to know we can order more tests! On my to-do list for today.
Matt McIrvin
@New Deal democrat: There are noticeable ticks up in today’s case counts in several European countries: France, Italy, Germany. Could be BA.2, could be the effect of lifting some COVID controls.