White House COVID-19 coordinator Ashish Jha says children under 5 may be able to get their first COVID-19 vaccination doses as soon as June 21, if federal regulators authorize shots for the age group, as expected. https://t.co/7sFnBnvVmV pic.twitter.com/17FhtTRCvb
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 2, 2022
(Promises, promises… )
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(My personal suspicion is that there’s a lot more to lose from a ban on official public interactions in Italy than there is in Prince Edward Island.)
Shanghai Lockdown Stories:
These past two months have been extraordinary.
So how are you guys doing?A series of street interviews with residents,
updated as I continue to meet people. pic.twitter.com/oJMfzK4EyW— chris pc (@chris__pc) May 30, 2022
… But while many celebrated with boozy street parties and shopping sprees, swathes of the city remained dormant with multiple neighbourhoods returning to lockdown on Thursday over new infections.
Liu, a 29-year-old woman in Shanghai’s Minhang district, told AFP her apartment compound had been hastily resealed on Thursday morning after a man in one of the buildings returned an “abnormal” Covid test result.
She said shocked neighbours bombarded the compound’s group chats with complaints that the lockdown was “never-ending”, while many waited at the gate for couriers to deliver laptops they had left at offices on Wednesday — the first day back at their desks.
“I had just one happy day yesterday,” Liu said.
Another compound in the central Jing’an district had its gates chained shut on Wednesday night, after a confrontation between residents and officials that was seen by an AFP reporter.
Authorities said more than half a million people were still under movement restrictions, which are swiftly reinstated whenever suspected or confirmed infections appear…
… Eva, a 26-year-old Shanghai resident whose compound in Jing’an also re-entered lockdown on Thursday, found little consolation in optimistic official statements.
She said she was told on Thursday morning that her compound would be sealed off again for two days after suspected cases were found inside.
“I didn’t feel this reopening was real in the first place. I had suspicions after all that we’ve been through in the past two months,” she told AFP.
“What if we have more cases? Is it possible we’d be thrown back to March?”
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Risk of blood clots in the lungs doubled for Covid survivors. A large CDC study found that 1 in 5 adults age 18-64 & 1 in 4 of those 65 & up developed post Covid problems. Key among them: an acute pulmonary embolism—a clot in an artery of the lung https://t.co/412RahnZEj pic.twitter.com/u3BNhgbaM4
— delthia ricks (@DelthiaRicks) June 2, 2022
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In the NBA, booster shots resulted in a 60% decrease in Covid. https://t.co/w1I880iCee
— Matthew Herper (@matthewherper) June 2, 2022
… [S]mall-town mayors and village administrators provided a variety of reasons for rejecting the federal money. Some thought they had no eligible uses for it. Others didn’t want the hassle of dealing with the federal bureaucracy, or were politically opposed to the financial aid approved last year by the Democratic-led Congress and President Joe Biden.
The AP’s analysis identified 1,460 small cities, towns, villages or townships that declined a potential allocation of $61 million. That amounts to about 5% of the nation’s roughly 28,000 small local governments, but just 0.3% of the total dollars allotted for those entities. Eight counties also have forgone a total of $12 million. No states or territories declined funds…
A second payment for local governments could come from the Treasury as soon as this month. But smaller governments that rejected the initial payment aren’t eligible for the second round — a source of regret among at least some local officials.
The Village of the Branch, on New York’s Long Island, probably could have used the federal aid to improve the village hall, pave streets or repair water drainage systems, Mayor Mark Delaney said. But that wasn’t clear to Delaney and other village board members when they declined the funds before New York’s decision deadline in August. At that time, the eligible uses seemed limited and the federal reporting burdensome, Delaney said.
Under a final Treasury rule issued in January, the village could have used its entire $183,149 allotment for almost any government services. But by then, the village’s share already had been reallocated among other local New York governments…
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY:
114 new cases reported on 6/2. Not great, but not as bad as it was a month ago.
raven
I’m two weeks out from a positive test and a sore throat that went away after the Paxlovid . So now I have to worry about rebounds and blood clots. Swell.
Baud
@raven:
There’s always something.
raven
Blood clot study
“Limitations of the study included the fact that data on sex, race, and geographic region were not considered, nor was vaccination status. Because of the time period, the study also didn’t factor in newer variants.”
raven
@Baud: Roseann Roseanna Danna!
germy shoemangler
Three students sued their college over its vaccine mandate. They lost.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reported 1,877 new Covid-19 cases yesterday, for a cumulative reported total of 4,510,196 cases. It also reported two deaths for an adjusted cumulative total of 35,680 deaths – 0.79% of the cumulative reported total, 0.80% of resolved cases.
There were 23,208 active cases yesterday, 160 more than the day before. 945 were in hospital. 29 confirmed cases were in ICU; of these patients, 17 confirmed cases cases were on ventilators. Meanwhile, 1,715 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 4,451,308 patients recovered – 98.7% of the cumulative reported total.
1,871 new cases reported yesterday were local infections. Six new cases were imported.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 5,664 doses of vaccine on 2nd June: 737 first doses, 3,472 second doses, and 1,455 booster doses. The cumulative total is 70,957,387 doses administered: 27,993,824 first doses, 27,075,672 second doses, and 16,102,135 booster doses. 85.7% of the population have received their first dose, 82.9% their second dose, and 49.3% their booster dose.
New Deal democrat
Yesterday US COVID cases totaled 101,000. It appears the BA.2.12.1 wave peak is indeed in. Hospital admissions *declined* slightly – by 54 – to 27,883. Deaths were flat at 287.
This data is puzzling, but in a very good way. Cases quadrupled from their March lows to their peak one week ago. Since hospitalizations have in the past lagged by 7-14 days, we would expect a peak during the next week of about 40,000 hospitalizations. This spring the low in hospitalizations lagged by 15 days. Even if hospitalizations rise for another week at the rate they did in the last week, that would give us a peak of about 32,000. In short, hospitalizations “only” rose by about 3*.
Then there’s deaths. Early in the pandemic they lagged cases by 3-4 weeks. That was true right up through the Omicron peak. But on the way down, deaths are still very close to their lows *over two months* after the low in cases. They may even have just made a new low. If this were like past waves, by now deaths would be over 600/day (on their way to about 1200).
In other words, something has been very different about this wave. It may at least partly be better treatments, e.g., paxlovid. But it is probably also the growing familiarity of the human immune system to the virus, partly through repeat vaccinations, and partly through infections and reinfections.
Cause for guarded optimism as we await BA.4/5 or the other next variant.
raven
@New Deal democrat: So what about the 1in 4 “survivor” olds and blood clots? Am I a “survivor” because I tested positive?
germy shoemangler
Baud
@germy shoemangler:
You expanded your nym (original nym?).
germy shoemangler
@Baud:
original name.
I had covid a few weeks ago and actually lost my sense of smell for a few days. I’m vaccinated and had two boosters before I caught covid.
Now I’ve been seeing two different theories: The first is that I now possess “super immunity” because of my vaccinations and the actual covid I caught. The other theory is that I’m still in danger of catching covid again and again and again until it finally kills me.
I’m curious to see what researchers discover over the next few months.
Baud
@germy shoemangler:
I’m rooting for option 1.
NotMax
FYI: US Interior Secretary Haaland tests positive for COVID-19.
Also FYI:
germy shoemangler
raven
and it’s 5, 6, 7, open up the pearly gates
well there ain’t no time to wonder why
whoopee! we’re all gonna die
NotMax
‘@raven
Sumthin’ “Fishy” ’bout that.
:)
@raven
The Roseanne Roseannadanna character was a broad parody of real-life local NYC TV news reporter Roseanne Scamardella.
OzarkHillbilly
@germy shoemangler: In other words, Republicans.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@raven: Can’t leave the health care/public health decisions to people who trained for years to know what they’re doing. No siree. Gotta stick their ignorant noses in.
@raven: I remember that song. I associate it with Vietnam
rikyrah
@raven:
germy shoemangler
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
I remember that song.
It was “borrowed” from an old jazz song “Muskrat Ramble” from 1926 by Kid Ory. His daughter sued Country Joe but she lost:
raven
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Country Joe and the Fish, Feel Like I’m Fixing to Die Rag
rikyrah
@germy shoemangler:
New Deal democrat
@raven:
“ So what about the 1in 4 “survivor” olds and blood clots? Am I a “survivor” because I tested positive?”
I haven’t read that study. You probably qualify as a “survivor.” The 1 in 4 odds were for “post Covid problems,” though, while the blurb says that “risk” of blood clots doubled (compared to what – average senior risk of blood clots? 1 in 500 vs. 1 in 1000?
If it were me, I would wait for much more detail before amping up worry.
Hope that helps.
Nicole
I don’t think lack of a more “traditional kind of shot” is what’s stopping otherwise healthy unvaxxed individuals from getting vaxxed. I mean, great, more options is always good, but I don’t think the “niche” is as big as they hope.
rikyrah
@germy shoemangler:
I believe that 90% of the last 500,000 COVID DEAD
DID NOT HAVE TO DIE
I will not get past that.
Nicole
@germy shoemangler: Anecdotally, I’m one of those who allegedly had “super immunity” due to a pre-vaccines case and 2 vaccines and boosters. I just recovered from a case of Omicron. And a friend of mine, also vaxxed/boosted, has her 2nd case in less than six months. I think it’s more likely we’ll all be getting it again and again.
That said, my alpha case was like the flu and my Omicron case was like a cold, so maybe the immune system will get smarter about it. I’m also hopeful a nasal vaccine, should they figure one out, will change the game a bit.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@germy shoemangler: @raven: Wow, a blast from the past
germy shoemangler
@rikyrah:
It’s horrible. And such a horrible way to go.
sab
My yard has a deer visiting a lot. The pitbull is outraged when the doe is there, but happy to roll in deer poop after the doe leaves.
I made a joke that that explains how people might be at risk from covid-carrying deer. My husband took it seriously and is now freaked out about it. He refuses to pat the dog now.
germy shoemangler
@Nicole:
I assume my case was Omicron because of the timing, but who knows. It was like a bad case of the flu for me.
I was alarmed when my sense of smell disappeared completely. I thought it’d be permanent. But that only lasted about three days or so.
germy shoemangler
@sab:
when my wife and I had covid, we noticed our cat was extra listless. I suspect our cat had her own covid case. (She seems fine now)
At one point the cat sneezed real hard and I had to wipe a line of snot from her face. She’d never done anything like that before.
raven
@New Deal democrat: yea
raven
@Dorothy A. Winsor: They did it at Woodstock. It’s not even close to my favorite song by them check out Death Sound, Barry Melton was and excellent blues guitar player!
lowtechcyclist
@raven: Even if you’d never heard of Country Joe and the Fish, or only knew of them on account of that song, its refrain was inescapable in the late 1960s.
Soprano2
Having lockdowns without mandating vaccinations too seems like a losing strategy to me. No one not living in a repressive dictatorship would put up with that for any period of time. It’s way too disruptive to people’s lives. It was one thing for people to isolate like that in 2020, when there were no vaccines or treatments and we knew so little about Covid, but now it’s just dumb – and not sustainable.
Soprano2
@New Deal democrat: It seems to me that many studies about covid aren’t of much use right now. Some of them are promoted dishonestly, for example acting like a percentage of people who get long Covid is based on all people who got it, and revealing way down in the body of the article that most of the people studied had been hospitalized, which means they had incredibly serious cases of Covid and shouldn’t be seen as the “average” patient. I see people both trying to discount Covid and scaremonger about Covid, and neither one is particularly helpful. I think it’s too early to know much if anything about the long-term effects of having had Covid.
lowtechcyclist
@Nicole:
Agree. I guess there must not be any more money for vaccinating poor countries in Africa and Asia, because that was Novavax’ big niche, since storing Novavax doesn’t require serious ultra-cold refrigeration the way the mRNA vaccines do.
I keep wondering why that’s dropped out of the conversation re Novavax, because there was lots of talk about that when it was in the testing phase.
germy shoemangler
And the 1920s!
raven
@Soprano2: Very good info!
raven
@lowtechcyclist: Especially if your narrow ass was somewhere in SE Asia.
There go two miscreants
@sab: Actually, tick-borne diseases would be a much greater concern. The deer are definitely responsible for the increased prevalence of ticks.
YY_Sima Qian
On 6/2 Mainland China reported 20 new domestic confirmed (2 previously asymptomatic), 54 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 0 new domestic suspect cases, & 0 new deaths.
At Guangdong Province 1 domestic confirmed case recovered. There currently are 8 active domestic confirmed & 9 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 9 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Dongxing in Fangchenggang. There currently are 26 active domestic asymptomatic (22 at Fangchenggang, 3 at Baise, & 1 at Chongzuo) cases remaining.
Tianjin Municipality reported 3 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. The city is no longer reporting recoveries, so I cannot track the count of active cases.
Shandong Province reported 3 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 3 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed cases & 20 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.
At Xi’an in Shaanxi Province 1 domestic confirmed case recovered. There currently are 3 active confirmed cases remaining.
Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region reported 3 new domestic confirmed (all at Erenhot in Xilingol League) & 4 domestic asymptomatic (2 at Erenhot in Xilingol League & 1 each at Hohhot & Ulanqab) cases. All of the cases at Erenhot were found via voluntary screening or fever clinic. The case Ulanqab is a traced close contact of domestic positive case at Tangshan in Hebei. The case at Hohhot is a person coming from elsewhere & tested positive upon entry.
Hebei Province reported 4 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Yongqing County in Langfang, all traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. 1 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed & 67 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. 1 industrial park at Langfang is currently at Medium Risk.
Liaoning Province reported 7 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Dandong. 15 asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 78 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.
Jilin Province reported 5 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 10 domestic confirmed & 15 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.
At Heihe in Heilongjiang Province there currently is 1 active domestic asymptomatic case remaining.
Beijing Municipality reported 8 new domestic confirmed (7 mild & 1 moderate) & 7 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 14 are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine & 1 via community screening. The community case was found at Changping District. As the city does not break down recoveries by imported vs. domestic cases, I cannot track the count of active domestic cases there. 2 sites are currently at High Risk. 11 sites are currently at Medium Risk.
Shanghai Municipality reported 8 new domestic confirmed (2 previously asymptomatic) & 8 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 7 of the new positive cases were already under quarantine & 7 via community screening (at Pudong & Jing’an Districts). There were 0 new deaths. 80 domestic confirmed & 867 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 1,018 active domestic confirmed (52 serious & 21 critical) in the city. The city is no longer publishing the number of active asymptomatic cases. 8 sites are currently at Medium Risk.
At Hubei Province 2 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed (mild, at Wuhan) & 1 active domestic asymptomatic (at Ezhou) cases remaining.
Jiangsu Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case, at Huai’an, a person coming from elsewhere & under centralized quarantine since arrival. 3 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The currently are 5 active domestic confirmed & 9 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.
At Anhui Province there currently are 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases (1 each at Haozhou & Xuancheng) remaining.
Zhejiang Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case, at Hangzhou, a person coming from elsewhere & under centralized quarantine since arrival. As the province does not break down recoveries by imported versus domestic cases, I cannot track the count of active domestic cases there.
At Fujian Province 1 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed & 1 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 Jiangxi Province 5 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 17 active domestic asymptomatic cases (15 at Yichun & 1 each at Shangrao & Jiujiang) remaining.
Henan Province reported 2 new domestic asymptomatic (both at Puyang) cases, both persons returning from Shanghai on 5/31 & under centralized quarantine since. 10 domestic confirmed & 40 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 50 active domestic confirmed & 198 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 1 new domestic confirmed (at Chengdu) case, a person coming from elsewhere & under centralized quarantine since arrival. As the province does not break down recoveries by imported vs. domestic cases, I cannot track the count of active domestic cases there.
At Qinghai Province the last 2 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered.
At Ürumqi in Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region 7 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 22 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
Yunnan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed & 4 active domestic asymptomatic cases remaining. 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 6/2, Mainland China reported 17 new imported confirmed cases (1 previously asymptomatic), 66 imported asymptomatic cases, 0 imported suspect cases:
Overall in Mainland China, 212 confirmed cases recovered (27 imported), 1,131 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (58 imported) & 2 were reclassified as confirmed cases (both domestic), & 18,415 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 1,872 active confirmed cases in the country (217 imported), 82 in serious/critical condition (all domestic), 8,622 active asymptomatic cases (457 imported), 0 suspect cases. 148,056 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 6/2, 3,382.998M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 820K doses in the past 24 hrs. As of 6/1, 1,290.56M individuals have received at least 1 dose (or 91.54% of the total population), 1,256.857M individuals are fully vaccinated (or 89.15% of the total population), 778.843M individuals boosted (or 55.24% of the total population). Among the > 60 y.o. cohort, 230.210M individuals have received at least 1 shot (or 87.19% of the cohort), 218.252M individuals are fully vaccinated (or 82.66% of the cohort), 169.135M individuals boosted (or 64.06% of the cohort). Vaccination of the elders, especially the > 80 y.o. cohort, is still proceeding too slowly, but at least boosting rate has been increasing quickly in recent weeks.
On 6/3 Hong Kong reported 499 new positive cases, 49 imported & 450 domestic (150 via RT-PCR & 300 from rapid antigen tests), 2 deaths (1 fully vaccinated).
On 6/3, Taiwan reported 76,564 new positive cases, 47 imported & 76,517 domestic (including 409 moderate or serious). There were 142 new deaths (ages ranging from 20+ y.o. to 90+ y.o., actual dates of death between 5/14 – 6/1, 134 having a range of underlying conditions, 75 partially/fully vaccinated).
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@germy shoemangler:
Hope it’s the former
@raven:
Sorry you have to worry about this
Ohio Mom
@germy shoemangler: I’d kick those students out of RPI for demonstrating they don’t understand or accept the scientific method and statistics, which are fundamental to technical research (the mission of the school).
Maybe if it was a fine arts school, I’d shrug my shoulders (disclosure, I was an art major).
raven
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I don’t know, I’m halfway being sarcastic!
Ohio Mom
Just sent the tweet about the upcoming approval for the vaccine for under 5 year olds to the three families I know with toddlers. All of them live far from me but I do visit them periodically and it’s been awfully hard for me to keep my distance.
Did breakdown and give the one I saw in Brooklyn two weeks ago a peck on the cheek. He smiled at me and I melted.
Feathers
So the Special Olympics has caved to the eugenicists and will have no vaccine requirement for the upcoming games in Florida. Disgusted by this.
Link didn’t paste, so https://twitter.com/jayobtv/status/1532717916331950080
StringOnAStick
@Nicole: A friend works in an office with lots of people who refused the mRNA vaccines, all claim they’ll take a “more traditional” vaccine. We’re both betting that a new excuse to not get vaccinated will be generated once Novavax is approved. My friend switched to working entirely from home.
the pollyanna from hell
@There go two miscreants: Blaming the innocent victim deer! Just because I am the food supply makes me “responsible?”