When to mask up?
—Feeling sick
—Exposed to someone who was sick
—Immunocompromised and concerned about exposure
—Concerned about exposure, even if you're not immunocompromised
—If you want to avoid a cold nose in the winter or sunburn in summer
—When you feel like it.— Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrTomFrieden) March 19, 2022
FYWP is not allowing me to upload *any* screenshots right now (thank Murphy the Trickster God I already put together the Garden Chat). Hopefully, this is just an updating-the-servers-on-the-weekend glitch, because I don’t want to keep niggling with these ‘workarounds’ any more than you want to be subjected to them!
Covid ICU hospitalizations in the US are the lowest since the pandemic began, and hospitalizations, at 20,000, are now approaching the nadir at 15,000 ? pic.twitter.com/2wYWKnMhky
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) March 19, 2022
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Millions of unvaccinated people around the world
The virus (BA.2) is counting on this pic.twitter.com/tN6aJczukh
— Madhu Pai, MD, PhD (@paimadhu) March 19, 2022
"Beijing digs in to avoid repeating Hong Kong’s Covid mistakes"https://t.co/OspE4rJNP8 @FT @edwardwhitenz @primroseriordan pic.twitter.com/l05vWsxHQ1
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) March 19, 2022
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Sunday she expects to announce a review of COVID-19 restrictions on Monday, just days after she acknowledged that many financial institutions were "losing patience" with coronavirus policies in the financial hub. https://t.co/qkPF2T7C7F
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) March 20, 2022
Explainer: How gov’t Covid-19 policies have shifted since the beginning of the fifth wave https://t.co/lW10k0XaxS pic.twitter.com/l0LRLCSgV6
— Hong Kong Free Press HKFP (@hkfp) March 20, 2022
Coronavirus India LIVE Updates: India Reports 2,075 New COVID-19 Cases https://t.co/hCubbfm5rL pic.twitter.com/3RiG3UGcf0
— NDTV News feed (@ndtvfeed) March 19, 2022
Hospitalizations on the rise in several countries pic.twitter.com/h1OhELpJhL
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) March 19, 2022
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Will ‘open-source’ vaccines narrow the inequality gap exposed by Covid? Our comments included! @BCM_TropMed @PeterHotez https://t.co/5Yy0fd8WOQ
— Maria Elena Bottazzi (@mebottazzi) March 18, 2022
"To date, experts have yet to find any demographic that has been spared from [long COVID], despite persistent myths that certain groups, particularly kids, are somehow immune." https://t.co/PKhizTrsGd
— Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (@JohnsHopkinsSPH) March 18, 2022
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reported 22,341 new Covid-19 cases yesterday in its media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 3,974,019 cases. It also reported 85 deaths for an adjusted cumulative total of 34,329 deaths – 0.86% of the cumulative reported total, 0.93% of resolved cases.
Malaysia’s nationwide Rt stands at 0.92.
160 confirmed cases are in ICU, 94 of them on ventilators. Meanwhile, 33,347 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 3,656,415 patients recovered – 92.0% of the cumulative reported total.
Six new clusters were reported yesterday, for a cumulative total of 6,911 clusters. 316 clusters are currently active; 6,595 clusters are now inactive.
21,817 new cases reported yesterday were local infections. 524 new cases were imported.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 34,970 doses of vaccine on 19th March: 16,078 first doses, 1,193 second doses, and 17,699 booster doses. The cumulative total is 68,455,223 doses administered: 27,14,222 first doses, 25,785,542 second doses, and 15,465,855 booster doses. 84.0% of the population have received their first dose, 79.0% their second dose, and 47.4% their booster dose.
oldster
Thanks for the time and work that you put into these updates, AL.
CindyH
Appreciate these updates so much – great info about what’s happening around the world and much needed to keep up with a global pandemic.
rikyrah
Part 1??????
Ramalama
BA.2 seems like it’s headed to north America. I’m not sure how tweeting the US experiencing a nadir in COVID is helpful w/o a big fat caveat. A COVID caveat.