Moderna Inc has made all necessary submissions required by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration for emergency use authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine in adolescents and children, it said on Wednesday. https://t.co/gUS9EutGpd
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) May 12, 2022
Nothing to see here
11 May: 159,000 new confirmed cases and 800 new hospitalizations, both the highest we've seen for a day in many weeks; deaths almost double 7-day average @medriva https://t.co/FClxEohIIw pic.twitter.com/CrWS2OAMQv— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) May 12, 2022
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Shanghai hunts down COVID cases, Beijing curbs taxi services https://t.co/L7MfAOwc6w
— Reuters China (@ReutersChina) May 12, 2022
At mercy of zealous residential committees, Shanghai's locked-down vent frustration https://t.co/FCOAoTXF3B pic.twitter.com/GCRncQCTmZ
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 12, 2022
Opinion by Barkha Dutt: “Based on my reporting, at least hundreds of thousands of Indians — most of them abjectly poor — would have died overlooked, forgotten and eventually uncounted.” https://t.co/JRKTMUaTvs
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 11, 2022
North Korea officially confirmed its first COVID outbreak and ordered a national lockdown, with state media reporting a sub-variant of the highly transmissible Omicron virus detected in the city of Pyongyang https://t.co/VSL5w31OKW pic.twitter.com/5gFAWPZfzd
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 12, 2022
If you needed more proof that vaccines work, Switzerland is reporting COVID-19 deaths by vaccination/booster status.
BA.2 makes up nearly all the new cases in Switzerland currently. pic.twitter.com/DPPYFAMmAU
— Chise ????? (@sailorrooscout) May 10, 2022
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Though it’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference between COVID-19 and allergies, there are some symptoms that can rule one out, says IDSA spokesperson Aaron Glatt, MD, FIDSA, in this interview with @sciam. https://t.co/s9lv6g3Otx
— IDSA (@IDSAInfo) May 12, 2022
2 year follow-up for #LongCovid among hospitalized patients: Half ≥ 1 symptom, diminished exercise capacity & quality-of-life indices; those w/ initial respiratory support had reduced lung function vs controls; 89% returned to work@LancetRespirMed https://t.co/9a1h7C8wDp pic.twitter.com/kd2F4aCTbJ
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) May 11, 2022
#LongCovid sufferers are at far greater risk of blood clots, according to a new study. Patients were 4x more likely to have abnormal clotting, which was most apparent in those experiencing difficulties w/ basic exercise >12 wks after SARSCoV2 cleared https://t.co/TYXarRwYRM pic.twitter.com/QgDXuztvrr
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) May 12, 2022
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COVID has claimed the lives of more than 1 million Americans. Over the last two years, @Reuters photographers captured the joy, hope, grief and despair of key moments during the pandemic ?https://t.co/7Z33tdfPoP 1/6 pic.twitter.com/qyZ5k8GQl4
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 12, 2022
Coming to Tucker Carlson tomorrow, probably:
On The Road – JanieM – Mysteries of Maine (Maine #6)
YY_Sima Qian
On 5/11 Mainland China reported 222 new domestic confirmed (111 previously asymptomatic), 1,630 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 0 domestic suspect cases, & 5 new deaths.
Guangdong Province reported 3 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic) & 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 15 domestic confirmed & 4 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 190 active domestic confirmed & 53 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. As the province does not break down recoveries by administrative divisions, I cannot track the count of active cases in administrative divisions, given the multiple simultaneous outbreaks.
Guangxi “Autonomous” Region reported 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases, both at Fangchenggang. 2 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 61 active domestic asymptomatic cases (53 at Fangchenggang & 8 at Baise) in the province.
At Hunan Province 5 domestic confirmed case recovered. There currently are 10 active domestic confirmed & 1 domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. As the province does not break down recoveries by administrative divisions, I cannot track the count of active cases in administrative divisions, given the multiple simultaneous outbreaks.
At Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region 6 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 11 active domestic confirmed (10 at Manzhouli in Hulun Buir & 1 at Chifeng) cases in the province.
At Tianjin Municipality the last domestic asymptomatic case recovered.
Shandong Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case. 2 domestic confirmed & 31 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 46 active domestic confirmed cases & 334 active asymptomatic cases in the province. As not all of the administrative divisions in the province provide data on recoveries, I cannot track the count of active cases in all of the administrative divisions, given the multiple simultaneous outbreaks.
Shanxi Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 3 domestic confirmed & 13 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 6 active domestic confirmed (all at Taiyuan) & 15 active domestic asymptomatic (14 at Taiyuan & 1 at Linfen) cases remaining.
Hebei Province reported 10 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 8 at Chengde & 2 at Handan, all via community screening. The cases at Chengde are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. The cases at Handan came from elsewhere & under centralized quarantine since arrival. 1 domestic confirmed & 40 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 8 active domestic confirmed & 224 active asymptomatic case in the province. As the province does not break down recoveries by administrative divisions, I cannot track the count of active cases in administrative divisions, given the multiple simultaneous outbreaks.
Liaoning Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed (both previously asymptomatic) & 85 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 2 domestic confirmed & 77 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 21 active domestic confirmed & 808 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. As the province does not break down recoveries by administrative divisions, I cannot track the count of active cases in administrative divisions, given the multiple simultaneous outbreaks.
At Heilongjiang Province 3 domestic confirmed & 4 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 41 active domestic confirmed & 41 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Jilin Province reported 3 new domestic confirmed (2 mild & 1 moderate) & 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 26 domestic confirmed & 47 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. As the province does not consistently break down recoveries by confirmed & asymptomatic cases or by jurisdictions, I can no longer track the count of active case counts in the different jurisdictions.
Beijing Municipality reported 35 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic, 33 mild, 2 moderate & 1 serious) & 11 new domestic asymptomatic cases. Of the 56 domestic positive cases reported between 3 PM on 5/10 & 3 PM on 5/11, all are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine or residents under movement control. As the city does not break down recoveries by imported vs. domestic cases, I cannot track the count of active domestic cases there. 20 sites are currently at High Risk. 34 sites are currently at Medium Risk.
Shanghai Municipality reported 144 new domestic confirmed (106 previously asymptomatic) & 1,305 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 1,341 of the new domestic positive cases were already under quarantine & 2 via screening of persons deemed at risk of exposure (from the community). There were 5 deaths (avg. 89.2 y.o., youngest at 87 y.o. & oldest at 93 y.o., all w/ a range of underlying conditions, 1 vaccinated). 432 domestic confirmed & 5,509 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 5,333 active domestic confirmed (349 serious & 61 critical) & 43,919 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 13 sites are currently at Medium Risk.
Hubei Province did not report any new domestic positive case. 10 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed (mild, at Wuhan) & 14 active domestic asymptomatic (6 at Wuhan, 2 each Enshi Prefecture & Xiangyang, & 1 each at Ezhou, Qianjiang, Huanggang & Xianning) cases in the province.
Jiangsu Province reported 47 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 14 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The currently are 10 active domestic confirmed & 519 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. As the province does not break down recoveries by administrative divisions, I cannot track the count of active cases in each administrative division, given the multiple simultaneous outbreaks.
Anhui Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 15 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 4 active confirmed & 19 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Zhejiang Province reported 20 new domestic asymptomatic (16 at Hangzhou, 2 at Jiaxing, & 1 each at Wenzhou & Taizhou) cases. The cases at Hangzhou, Jiaxing & Wenzhou are persons under centralized quarantine. The case at Taizhou came from elsewhere & tested positive upon arrival. As the province does not break down recoveries by imported versus domestic cases, I cannot track the count of active domestic cases there.
Fujian Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 2 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 7 active domestic confirmed & 5 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. As the province does not break down recoveries by administrative divisions, I cannot track the count of active cases in administrative divisions, given the multiple simultaneous outbreaks.
At Ürumqi in Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region 3 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 4 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
Guizhou Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed (previously asymptomatic, at Zunyi) & 4 new domestic asymptomatic (2 at Qiandongnan Prefecture & 1 each at Guiyang & Zunyi) cases. The new positive cases at Qiandongnan Prefecture & Zunyi are persons returning from Shanghai & tested positive upon arrival. The case at Guiyang is a traced close contact of domestic positive cases in Chongqing & under centralized quarantine. There currently are 3 active domestic confirmed (2 at Qiandongnan Prefecture & 1 at Zunyi) & 7 active domestic asymptomatic (2 each at Tongren, Qiandongnan Prefecture & Zunyi, & 1 at Guiyang) cases remaining.
Jiangxi Province reported 14 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 6 domestic confirmed & 78 asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 28 active domestic confirmed & 313 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. As the province does not break down recoveries by administrative divisions, I cannot track the count of active cases in administrative divisions, given the multiple simultaneous outbreaks.
Henan Province reported 21 new domestic confirmed & 77 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 10 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 195 active domestic confirmed & 559 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. As the province does not break down recoveries by administrative divisions, I cannot track the count of active cases in administrative divisions, given the multiple simultaneous outbreaks.
Sichuan Province reported 25 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Guang’an, all traced close contacts under centralized quarantine or via screening of residents under movement control. As the province does not break down recoveries by imported vs. domestic cases, I cannot track the count of active domestic cases there.
Chongqing Municipality did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 6 active domestic confirmed & 3 active domestic asymptomatic cases remaining in the city.
Qinghai Province reported 13 new domestic confirmed & 25 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 35 at Xining & 3 at Huangnan, all are persons under centralized quarantine or residents under movement control. 2 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 43 active domestic confirmed & 68 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
At Yunnan Province 6 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed & 27 active domestic asymptomatic cases remaining in the province. As the province does not break down recoveries by administrative divisions, I cannot track the count of active cases in administrative divisions, given the multiple simultaneous outbreaks.
Imported Cases
On 5/11, Mainland China reported 15 new imported confirmed cases (0 previously asymptomatic), 50 imported asymptomatic cases, 1 imported suspect case:
Overall in Mainland China, 571 confirmed cases recovered (9 imported), 5,963 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (81 imported) & 111 were reclassified as confirmed cases (all domestic), & 62,719 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 7,229 active confirmed cases in the country (171 imported), 444 in serious/critical condition (all domestic), 75,532 active asymptomatic cases (434 imported), 1 suspect case (imported). 363,739 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 5/11, 3,355.535M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 1.339M doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 5/12 Hong Kong reported 294 new positive cases, 40 imported & 254 domestic (59 via RT-PCR & 179 from rapid antigen tests), 1 death (fully vaccinated).
On 5/12, Taiwan reported 65,446 new positive cases, 61 imported & 65,385 domestic (including 61 moderate & 19 serious). There were 17 new deaths (ages ranging from 60+ to 90+, actual dates of death between 5/5 – 5/10, 15 having a range of underlying conditions, 11 partially/fully vaccinated).
PeakVT
Thanks again for the updates, AL.
Lapassionara
Yes, thank you, AL.
Lacuna Synecdoche
Julia Davis via Anne Laurie @ Top:
It’s really getting next to impossible to tell Russia and Fox “News” apart.
JR
The story with Japan is vaccines, right?
EarthWind&Fire (formerly bluegirlfromwyo)
Poor Dr. Varon. He just didn’t understand how tightly people will hold on to their FREEDUMB!
Jesse
That graphic about effectiveness of boosters in Switzerland: it shows that vaxx’d & boosted is way better than unvaccinated. But the same graphic also shows that vaxx’d & unboosted, amazingly, is even better vaxx’d & boosted. So the same data could be used in an argument against boosting.
Baud
@Jesse:
I don’t know how that’s even possible.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reported 3,321 new Covid-19 cases yesterday, for a cumulative reported total of 4,467,061 cases. It also reported eight deaths for an adjusted cumulative total of 35,598 deaths – 0.80% of the cumulative reported total, 0.76% of resolved cases.
There were 24,850 active cases yesterday, 1,897 more than the day before. 1,373 are in hospital. 59 confirmed cases are in ICU; of these patients, 34 confirmed cases cases are on ventilators. Meanwhile, 1,416 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 4,406,613 patients recovered – 98.6% of the cumulative reported total.
3,311 new cases reported yesterday were local infections. 10 new cases were imported.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 29,791 doses of vaccine on 11th May: 12,393 first doses, 14,168 second doses, and 3,230 booster doses. The cumulative total is 70,510,766 doses administered: 27,824,090 first doses, 26,846,782 second doses, and 16,053,311 booster doses. 85.2% of the population have received their first dose, 82.2% their second dose, and 49.2% their booster dose.
Jesse
Regarding the unanalyzed, unappreciated success of the Japanese approach: I’m reminded of an article in the Washington Monthly on the overall relative success in Sweden, another place that, by and large, received overwhelmingly negative coverage, even in Europe (and even by Sweden’s neighbors).
Jesse
@Baud: If there are very few vaxx’d and unboosted people, it might actually be possible. But yeah, it seems weird. Maybe the graph is mislabeled.
Matt McIrvin
@Baud: If I had to guess I’d say it’s a random small-number thing. Chise suggests that it has to do with seniors being more likely to get boosters. The data are apparently age-standardized but if a younger unboosted group had zero deaths, no rescaling is going to turn that into nonzero deaths. I certainly haven’t seen any other indications from any other study that boosters would have negative effectiveness.
Baud
@Jesse:
@Matt McIrvin:
Thanks. That makes sense.
eclare
Still dreading reporting for jury duty on Monday. What timing.
New Deal democrat
Cases nationwide increased to 85,600, a 30% increase week over week. Hospital admissions increased to 19,731, an increase of over 20% from one week before, but still below all points during the pandemic except for June and July of last year. Deaths decreased to 351, the lowest level since May 2, before NC’s data dump. Deaths can be expected to be over 1,000 one month from now.
Cases are up in virtually every State. The exceptions are ND, PA, and VT. NH is up by about 8%.
In the bellwethers, cases in PR are up 12% compared with one week earlier, compared with an increase of almost 25% one week earlier. Cases in NJ are up 30% for the week, compared with a 25% increase the prior week. Cases in NY are up over 25% for the week, vs. up 20% the week before. Within NY, all Upstate areas except for Albany and Buffalo are flat or down vs. one week earlier. NY’s increase is almost entirely due to the NYC area. In the Central NY region, where BA.2.12.1 was first identified, cases are now down almost 30% from their peak 25 days ago, but still up 22% from their Omicron low on March 9. One of the above 3 jurisdictions should be the first to peak.
The current wave is likely a combination of BA.2.12.1, which apparently is nearly as infectious as measles, plus waning resistance from past infections due to the passage of time.
Peale
My work computer broke yesterday, so I had a free afternoon. Decided to use it to get my 2nd booster a month earlier than I planned to. I’m still pure moderna.
lowtechcyclist
@Jesse:
Speaking of which, the article makes no mention at all of Sweden’s neighbors. I’ve read elsewhere (probably here!) that Sweden fared substantially worse than Norway and Finland.
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY:
589 new cases reported yesterday. We seem to have plateaued at an awfully high level.
My contractor just called and said his kid is sick so he won’t be coming over today. Since said kid’s symptoms include a headache I suspect she has COVID, so he probably does too. And since he was here for two days I expect I’ll start showing symptoms soon as well.
Jesse
@lowtechcyclist Good point. The article is mainly a compare-and-contrast between Sweden and the US (insofar as you can say that the US had a single response to the pandemic, which is only half true given that different states started pursuing different paths fairly early on).
kalakal
Had a booster yesterday.
That now makes 2 Novavax, 2 Pfiser and, being a completist, 1 Moderna.
Sore arm & mildly under the weather, nothing terrible.
Jesse
@kalakal: 5 shots?!
Tazj
@NeenerNeener: Oh dear, I really hope you don’t get it or if you do it’s very mild.
I live in Erie County in NY and I see that we have been steady at over 600 cases a day for a few weeks now. It went down to about 450-500 for a couple days and I thought we had peaked but no back up again. One good thing is that I don’t think hospitalizations have increased a lot for now.
It’s strange I don’t know what’s driving things here. Is it that the weather hasn’t been really nice until this week? Are elementary school kids bringing it home to their families? That’s what happened in my nephew’s house, and I’m glad they recovered quickly.My kids are older and we went through so many viruses in the fall and winter. I think my oldest son had 5 PCR tests in addition to numerous rapid tests, that were fortunately negative. So many kids at their schools and some teachers were out sick but now there doesn’t seem to be much illness and I hope it stays that way.
smith
@lowtechcyclist: According to 91-divoc, cumulative covid deaths in Sweden are 182.2 per 100K, compared to Norway at 56, and Finland at 75.1. So much winning in Sweden!
Origuy
Stephen Colbert is one of the people who had a Covid rebound after taking Paxlovid. He went back to doing his show and then started showing symptoms again. His bandleader, Jon Baptiste, is also out with Covid.
kalakal
@Jesse: yes. I went on the Novavax trial which was fine but then they just did nothing for months & months. Last October I wanted to get a booster but Walgreens, CVS had never heard of Novavax and couldn’t give me a booster as I hadn’t been vaccinated but they could give me a full course. Rather than die of old age arguing I went along with it. A couple of weeks ago I got contacted that I should get a booster. I’m just treating it like a repeating treatment like the 6 monthly Cholera jabs of my youth
Fair Economist
@Jesse: Unboosted people *appearing* to do better is going to be selection bias. Older and sicker people are more likely to get boosted. This showed up in Israeli data early on with respect to vaccination – raw numbers showed no benefit, but that was because (roughly) only old people had gotten vaccinated at that point (it was still being stratified by age). When results were stratified by age, the benefit to vaccination became clear again – even though that still didn’t account for health status or age within group, both of which continued to bias results against vaccination.
Fair Economist
@New Deal democrat: It’s possible BA.4 and BA.5 are starting to contribute to cases as well.
soapdish
@Tazj: Where in Erie County do you live? I’m originally from Eden.
Tazj
@soapdish: I’m in Hamburg.