On June 28 the @US_FDA will convene a special mtg to debate whether variant-specific new #COVID19 #vaccines should be made, perhaps updated routinely for many years, in a manner similar to new annual #flu #vaccines .https://t.co/zkd4G82InH
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) June 3, 2022
The @US_FDA briefing documents released in advance of next week's #VRBPAC meeting on Novavax's #Covid vaccine suggest the company may face some tough questions from FDA's vaccine advisory panel. @matthewherper explains. https://t.co/ejRhZZwplo
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) June 3, 2022
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Great piece by China expert @BillKirbyHBS on the problems with the zero COVID policy and how to understand where things are based on the history and politics of modern China. @ScienceMagazine @EricTopol @angie_rasmussen https://t.co/ndumvPWvZl
— Holden Thorp, Science EIC (@hholdenthorp) June 3, 2022
Excellent news, if true:
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Good three-minute video:
Covid: Why do some vaccines protect you for longer than others? https://t.co/1HzbWyQXue
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) June 4, 2022
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Well, it’s not as though some of those Special Olympics athletes might have health challenges, or as if the Covid situation in Florida… oops…
War For Ukraine Update 100: The War Grinds On In the East and the South
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY:
361 new cases reported on 6/3. Oh crap, those previous low numbers were just under-reporting because of the holiday.
debbie
New variant-specific vaccines/boosters are what I’ve been waiting for!
Suzanne
Spawn the Younger, who is 11, got her booster on Wednesday. Everyone in the immediate family has now had at least three jabs. EXCEPT for Spawn the Youngest, who turns three next month. We have a family reunion planned, in the Bay Area, and we’re supposed to leave on June 17. I am really not happy about the idea of taking her anywhere unvaxxed. This wait is just making me crazy.
Especially because we could have been two Pfizer doses in by now! FOR FUCK’S SAKE.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reported 1,844 new Covid-19 cases yesterday, for a cumulative reported total of 4,512,040 cases. It also reported one death for an adjusted cumulative total of 35,681 deaths – 0.79% of the cumulative reported total, 0.79% of resolved cases.
There were 23,046 active cases yesterday, 162 fewer than the day before. 961 were in hospital. 27 confirmed cases were in ICU; of these patients, 17 confirmed cases cases were on ventilators. Meanwhile, 2,005 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 4,453,313 patients recovered – 98.7% of the cumulative reported total.
1,841 new cases reported yesterday were local infections. Three new cases were imported.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 9,849 doses of vaccine on 3rd June: 2,020 first doses, 6,655 second doses, and 1,174 booster doses. The cumulative total is 70,970,006 doses administered: 27,996,742 first doses, 27,084,145 second doses, and 16,103,423 booster doses. 85.7% of the population have received their first dose, 82.9% their second dose, and 49.3% their booster dose.
Eunicecycle
@Suzanne: I saw the youngest kids will have to get 3 shots. I’m not sure of the intervals between them. My youngest granddaughter is only 3 months old so will still have to wait. Her mother is fully vaccinated so that’s supposed to help. But she had to start daycare so that’s always a worry.
Central Planning
I got my 2nd booster yesterday morning. I was dreading it because shot 2 and booster 1 kicked my ass for 24 hours. Thankfully, this one isn’t so bad. Slight headache and a few achy joints and the shoulder that got the injection. Coffee and ibuprofen has me feeling pretty good. Now for a busy day of errands!
ETA – flying to Vegas next week for figured extra protection would be a good idea.
New Deal democrat
Cases rose slightly to 101,400, about 9% below their peak of 110,800 seven days ago. Deaths declined to yet again to 260. During the entire time of the pandemic, deaths were only lower than this during the first three weeks of last July. If this continues, it will be the best news since vaccinations began.
Our World in Data did not update hospitalizations today.
In general cases are declining in the Blue States, and rising in the red States.
Bio bot shows cases rising during the last week of May in all Census regions of the US except the Northeast. In the third week of May BA.4 was only 0.9% of cases nationwide, but 2.2% of cases in the South. As I indicated on Tuesday, this variant has risen to 6.1% of all cases as listed by the CDC last week (but is still classified as BA.1.1.529 in their graph).
germy shoemangler
leeleeFL
Apropos of my sad residence in Flori-duh, I must reiterate” I Despise Ron DeDSantis!”. I hope the Special Olympics doesn’t become a super spreader event among ppl who are already compromised health-wise. He is such a SHITHEAD! And Lapodo needs to eat a bag of salted dicks
YY_Sima Qian
On 6/3 Mainland China reported 21 new domestic confirmed (3 previously asymptomatic), 55 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 0 new domestic suspect cases, & 0 new deaths.
At Guangdong Province 1 domestic confirmed & 2 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 7 active domestic confirmed & 7 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 Dongxing in Fangchenggang. 1 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 27 active domestic asymptomatic (24 at Fangchenggang, 2 at Baise, & 1 at Chongzuo) cases remaining.
Tianjin Municipality did not report any new domestic positive cases. The city is no longer reporting recoveries, so I cannot track the count of active cases.
Shandong Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 1 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed cases & 19 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 2 active confirmed cases remaining.
Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region reported 11 new domestic confirmed & 5 domestic asymptomatic cases. There currently are 14 active domestic confirmed & 9 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.
Hebei Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 1 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed & 66 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 26 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Dandong. 4 asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 100 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. 16 domestic confirmed & 21 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 the last domestic asymptomatic case recovered.
Beijing Municipality reported 5 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic, 3 mild & 2 moderate) & 1 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 3 of the new positive cases are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine & 2 via community screening. The community case was found at Chaoyang District. As the city does not break down recoveries by imported vs. domestic cases, I cannot track the count of active domestic cases there. 1 sites are currently at High Risk. 8 sites are currently at Medium Risk.
Shanghai Municipality reported 5 new domestic confirmed (2 previously asymptomatic) & 9 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 9 of the new positive cases were already under quarantine & 3 via community screening (at Baoshan, Huangpu & Xuhui Districts). There were 0 new deaths. 180 domestic confirmed & 1,204 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 843 active domestic confirmed (45 serious & 19 critical) in the city. The city is no longer publishing the number of active asymptomatic cases. 11 sites are currently at Medium Risk.
At Hubei Province there currently are 1 active domestic confirmed (mild, at Wuhan) & 1 active domestic asymptomatic (at Ezhou) cases remaining.
Jiangsu Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 1 domestic confirmed case recovered. The currently are 4 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 1 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 1 active domestic asymptomatic case (at Haozhou) remaining.
Zhejiang Province did not report any new domestic positive case. 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 confirmed case recovered. There currently is 1 active domestic asymptomatic case remaining.
At Jiangxi Province 1 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 16 active domestic asymptomatic cases (14 at Yichun & 1 each at Shangrao & Jiujiang) remaining.
Henan Province reported 3 new domestic asymptomatic (2 at Zhengzhou & 1 at Xuchang) cases. Both cases at Zhengzhou returned from Shanghai (on 5/27 & 6/2, respectively) & under centralized quarantine since arrival. 2 domestic confirmed & 24 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 48 active domestic confirmed & 177 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 3 new domestic asymptomatic (1 each at Guang’an, Yibin & Neijiang) cases, all persons 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 Ürumqi in Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region 9 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 13 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
Yunnan Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case, at Hongta District in Yuxi, a person coming from elsewhere & under centralized quarantine since arrival. There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed & 5 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 6/3, Mainland China reported 25 new imported confirmed cases (1 previously asymptomatic), 70 imported asymptomatic cases, 0 imported suspect cases:
Overall in Mainland China, 304 confirmed cases recovered (24 imported), 1,425 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (44 imported) & 4 were reclassified as confirmed cases (1 imported), & 12,033 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 1,614 active confirmed cases in the country (218 imported), 73 in serious/critical condition (all domestic), 7,318 active asymptomatic cases (482 imported), 0 suspect cases. 142,873 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 6/3, 3,383.416M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 418K doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 6/4 Hong Kong reported 446 new positive cases, 64 imported & 382 domestic (112 via RT-PCR & 270 from rapid antigen tests), 0 deaths.
On 6/4, Taiwan reported 68,151 new positive cases, 33 imported & 68,118 domestic (including 341 moderate & 155 serious). There were 152 new deaths (ages ranging from < 5 y.o. to 90+ y.o., actual dates of death between 5/18 – 6/1, 144 having a range of underlying conditions, 81 partially/fully vaccinated).
Ohio Mom
@leeleeFL: People with Down Syndrome are particularly vulnerable.
I’m not a sportsperson but it seems to me that Republicans are becoming obsessed with sports competitions — telling Special Olympics how to run their business, going ape over trans people competing, what’s next?
leeleeFL
@Ohio Mom: not sure why they are a death and destruction cult, but it becomes more obvious every day that pro-life is NOT really what they are. I really can’t even anymore
J R in WV
I think Special Olympics should have gone with the vaccination requirements, masking requirements, the whole safety constellation, while testing the ability of a state government to deny safety standards in court.
Then let DeathSantis attempt to bankrupt the organization while fighting THAT issue in the courts, and see how that plays out politically for the monster.
At least the kids wouldn’t catch a deadly viral plague, right? I’m one to test the limits on occasion…
RaflW
If DeSantis or one of his ilk gain the WH in ’24, the cost in lives and suffering will be significant. That Special Olympics thing is a disaster in the making.
Imagine living with a disability, and having a powerful governor say “Increasing your risk of developing post-infection diabetes by 59%, or having 6 or 12 months of long Covid symptoms is just fine. Freedumb!”
RaflW
@J R in WV: It sucks. I’d think the board looked at even the minute risk that DeSantis flips out and tries to fine Special Olympics the whole $27M and they couldn’t take that – it would devastate their finances, even if the chance was remote (I can’t imagine the blowback if Ron tried to hit a frunkin’ beloved nonprofit with an extinction-level fine. But these guys have at least a partial teflon coating.)
Another Scott
@J R in WV: I hope that they sue FL and DeSantis and all the rest for changing the rules so close to the event.
https://www.specialolympics.org/stories/news/update-regarding-the-2022-special-olympics-usa-games
Cheers,
Scott.
leeleeFL
@RaflW: I had to go to to work for a bit, so just got back to this thread! I think Eunice and Sargent Shriver would have told Death Santis to BRING IT, and possibly, also, suck it. But the newer execs aren’t Kennedys, so not so much. If the participants suffer for this, I hope my state gets sued out of their socks. Pricks!
leeleeFL
@Another Scott: you beat me by seconds!
Gretchen
I’m so angry that they’ve dragged their feet on this for so long. We kept our 3 year old safe for 2 years, and then he got covid in March.
Chris T.
That last tweet reminds me of the insanity (and inanity) that is Qanon: “Where we go one, we go all!” / “What are you some kind of SOCIALIST?!”