NOTE: Barring the unforeseen, I’m planning on taking tomorrow off. See y’all on Monday morning…
Finally!
U.S. regulators on Friday authorized the first COVID-19 shots for infants and preschoolers, paving the way for vaccinations to begin next week. pic.twitter.com/wFzS3uimse
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 17, 2022
This is a service: @uspirg is holding a virtual Q&A for parents who want info about pediatric #Covid vaccines.
Thursday, June 23, 6-7 pm EDT.
Register: https://t.co/DkHsV9G8Sc pic.twitter.com/54bmogxZBj— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) June 17, 2022
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Not great:
… Vaccinated patients with Omicron BA.1 breakthrough infections developed antibodies that could neutralize that virus plus the original SARS-CoV-2 virus, but the Omicron sublineages circulating now have mutations that allow them to evade those antibodies, researchers from China reported on Friday in Nature.
Omicron BA.2.12.1, which is presently causing most infections in the United States, and Omicron BA.5 and BA.4, which now account for more than 21% of new U.S. cases, contain mutations not present in the BA.1 and BA.2 versions of Omicron.
Those newer sublineages “notably evade the neutralizing antibodies elicited by SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination,” the researchers found in test-tube experiments.
The monoclonal antibody drugs bebtelovimab from Eli Lilly and cilgavimab, a component of AstraZeneca’s Evusheld, can still effectively neutralize BA.2.12.1 and BA.4/BA.5, the experiments also showed.
But vaccine boosters based on the BA.1 virus, such as those in development by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, “may not achieve broad-spectrum protection against new Omicron variants,” the researchers warned…
This is so important on many levels. Long COVID is a legacy that is not well understood, often ignored and has left many less able to work and participate in the economy, notably women. Relieved to see a possible reduction with an even more contagious variant and sub-variants. https://t.co/2p9pRJZyHb
— Diane Swonk (@DianeSwonk) June 17, 2022
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Thread:
NEW: NYC has announced plans for vaccinating young children
==> 10 dedicated hubs will open on Weds 6/22 (assuming fed approval), exclusively for ages 6 months up to and including 5 y.o. Locations/hours below. Offering Moderna only. By appt or walk-in. For appt call 877-VAX-4NYC pic.twitter.com/s2AJTHqIHL
— Mark D. Levine (@MarkLevineNYC) June 17, 2022
Late Night Open Thread: Crypto’d
JPL
Enjoy your day off. If you enjoy snow, you might think of heading north of you. Mt. Washington is predicting snow. link
lowtechcyclist
Good! You deserve a whole bunch of days off. These threads have been an invaluable service to us jackals. They’ve been my first morning read almost since the beginning.
But tbh, a lot less is changing from one day to the next than was true for the first two years of this plague. You shouldn’t feel you have to do this every day.
NotoriousJRT
Thanks@lowtechcyclist:
I definitely second this. Have a wonderful time!
raven
@lowtechcyclist: I agree.
kalakal
@lowtechcyclist: Completely agree.
Enjoy your time off
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY:
NYSDOH says 81 new cases yesterday (PCR tests only).
The Monroe County web site seems to have taken the last week off; AL is entitled to at least a day off. Enjoy it!
Rob
Anne Laurie, enjoy your day off! You need a break. Thank you for doing these Covid posts almost every day for more than two years!
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reported 2,130 new Covid-19 cases yesterday, for a cumulative reported total of 4,536,795 cases. It also reported one death for an adjusted cumulative total of 35,731 deaths – 0.79% of the cumulative reported total, 0.79% of resolved cases.
There were 25,626 active cases yesterday, 1,049 more than the day before. 993 were in hospital. 35 confirmed cases were in ICU; of these patients, 19 confirmed cases were on ventilators. Meanwhile, 1,080 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 4,475,438 patients recovered – 98.6% of the cumulative reported total.
All 2,130 new cases reported yesterday were local infections. No new cases were imported.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 15,638 doses of vaccine on 17th June: 785 first doses, 13,606 second doses, and 1,247 booster doses. The cumulative total is 71,113,497 doses administered: 28,016,546 first doses, 27,185,4333 second doses, and 16,126,295 booster doses. 85.7% of the population have received their first dose, 83.2% their second dose, and 49.4% their booster dose.
New Deal democrat
US cases are down 9% in the past week to 101,000. Hospitalizations have continued to increase by 6% in the past week to 31,300. Deaths are back down to 305.
The regional trends remain the same: in the Northeast, Midatlantic, and upper Midwest where the BA.2.12.1 wave was most prevalent, cases continue to decline. Across the southern tier, high Plains and Rockies where it wasn’t, cases are at a plateau.
For now I disagree that BA.4/5 will cause a new wave in the US later this summer, based on a comparison with Europe. Europe did not have the BA.2.12.1 wave this spring; it’s last wave was last winter. BA.4/5 are already about 25% of all cases in the US, and haven’t caused a big outbreak yet. We should know within a couple of weeks whether that holds.
Spanky
Until there is a drastic uptick, there’s no reason why these updates couldn’t be bi-weekly or weekly. How you’re not already burned out is beyond me.
Ohio Mom
Adding my vote that you more than deserve a day off, Anne Laurie. And if you want to make taking certain days off permanent, you have my blessing.
I suppose a lot of the work is in scanning the internet for new developments and I can see why you might think you can’t get too far behind at that. But cutting and pasting and sequencing all those links to create a post is also time consuming.
What I am trying to say is, this post and thread is one of my first stops every morning, I feel very indebted to you for arming me with information I need to keep me and my family as safe as possible.
YY_Sima Qian
On 6/17 Mainland China reported 11 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic), 41 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 0 new domestic suspect cases, & 0 new deaths.
At Guangdong Province the remaining domestic asymptomatic cases recovered.
Fangchenggang in Guangxi “Autonomous” Region reported 3 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Dongxing. 3 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 33 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
At Weihai in Shandong Province 6 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 3 active asymptomatic cases remaining.
Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region reported 5 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic) & 16 domestic asymptomatic cases. 23 domestic confirmed & 36 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 296 active domestic confirmed & 263 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.
At Jiuquan in Gansu Province there currently is 1 active domestic asymptomatic case remaining.
Hebei Province reported 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases, both at Langfang, both traced close contacts of domestic positive cases in Beijing & under centralized quarantine. There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed & 8 active 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.
Liaoning Province reported 4 new domestic confirmed & 2 new domestic asymptomatic (all at Dandong) case. 3 domestic confirmed & 2 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 27 active domestic confirmed & 48 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. 2 residential compounds at Dandong are currently at Medium Risk.
Jilin Province reported 4 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 5 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 1 new domestic confirmed (13 mild) & 8 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all traced close contacts under centralized quarantine, all connected to the night club outbreak. 11 domestic confirmed & 3 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The municipality is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases there. 4 sites are currently at Medium Risk.
Shanghai Municipality reported 1 new domestic confirmed & 6 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 6 persons under centralized quarantine & 1 via community screening (at Putuo District). There were 0 new deaths. 9 domestic confirmed & 107 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 110 active domestic confirmed (3 serious & 5 critical) in the city. The city is no longer publishing the number of active asymptomatic cases. 35 sites are currently at Medium Risk.
At Jiangsu Province 1 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 2 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.
Zhejiang Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 1 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. The province is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases there.
At Fujian Province there currently are 8 active domestic asymptomatic (5 at Zhangzhou & 3 at Fuzhou) cases remaining.
At Jiangxi Province 1 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 4 active domestic asymptomatic cases (3 at Yichun & 1 at Shangrao) remaining.
At Henan Province there currently are 1 active domestic confirmed & 2 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 did not report any new domestic positive cases. 1 domestic confirmed & 2 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The province is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases there.
Chongqing Municipality reported 1 new domestic confirmed case (previously asymptomatic). There currently are 3 active domestic confirmed & 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
Yunnan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 17 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 6/17, Mainland China reported 24 new imported confirmed cases (2 previously asymptomatic), 128 imported asymptomatic cases, 0 imported suspect cases:
Overall in Mainland China, 72 confirmed cases recovered (21 imported), 233 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (67 imported) & 3 were reclassified as confirmed cases (2 imported), & 4,762 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 914 active confirmed cases in the country (239 imported), 9 in serious/critical condition (all domestic), 1,585 active asymptomatic cases (523 imported), 0 suspect cases. 107,576 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 6/17, 3,393.907M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 788K doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 6/18 Hong Kong reported 1,276 new positive cases, 116 imported & 1,160 domestic (436 via RT-PCR & 724 from rapid antigen tests), 0 deaths.
On 6/18, Taiwan reported 53,707 new positive cases, 64 imported & 53,643 domestic (including 242 moderate & 160 serious). There were 181 new deaths (ages ranging from 20+ y.o. to 90+ y.o., actual dates of death range from 5/26 – 6/15, 164 having a range of underlying conditions, 54 fully vaccinated & boosted).
YY_Sima Qian
Do enjoy your break A.L.!
PaulB
Thank you, Ms. Laurie, for your stellar work on this topic over the past couple of years. Your posts are a daily must-read for me. Please enjoy your day off.
frosty
The problem with not embedding tweets is that I can’t get further info (I’m not on Twitter). I’m especially interested on Long COVID Stories like the Harvard research today. Any suggestions?
CaseyL
“You deserve a break today, so get up and get away, to [Insert destination of your choice].”
(Remember that jingle?)
AL, thank you for your reports over the last two years, and you more than deserve to take a break. Enjoy!
frosty
ETA Thank you AL for 2 1/2 years of keeping me and others informed!
Enjoy your time off and make it a regular day off if you need it.
smith
@frosty: I’m not on Twitter either, but by googling @breakfastnick, I went right to that account and got the link: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.06.14.22276401v1.full.pdf
Incidentally, this account looks like a good place to follow long covid research.
frosty
@smith: Thanks, that worked. I’ll bookmark it. I have a friend dealing with Long COVID and the more I read about it the more I keep the mask on.
cbear
Dear AL, you deserve a hell of a lot more than just a day off!!
Your incredible dedication and unending work in keeping us informed for all this time has been nothing short of amazing and I/we can’t thank you enough!
You’re a treasure.
Thank you!!!
smith
@frosty: I should have added thanks to AL for ferreting out these nuggets from the vast sea of nonsense that is the internet.
glc
https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2022-DON393
Another Scott
@Spanky: +1
There’s so little official daily data in the USA now that a weekly roundup makes sense to me. Bill McBride at CalculatedRiskBlog has been doing daily data dumps of weekly averages for a very long time, but it’s just a table and a graph that he updates every day.
The pandemic is not over, but the healthcare system is coping. While too many state and national politicians have decided that burying up-to-date numbers will make everything better, it seems like weekly changes and averages are still meaningful.
Thanks for all your efforts, AL.
Stay safe, everyone.
My $0.02.
Cheers,
Scott.
Bill Arnold
The flood of new COVID science, particularly large sized long covid studies, continues. Need working links though; the images are a pain. Text mode twitter embeds don’t cause perf problems.
Redshift
Having a separate link to the tweet or having the Twitter images be links to the original tweet, which some FPers have done, would solve the problem, but I don’t know how much extra work that would be.
Redshift
I’m still holding out hope that all this long covid research will also lead to serious breakthroughs on fibromyalgia (which Ms. Redshift suffers from) and chronic fatigue syndrome. Even if it can overcome the tendency of medical professionals to dismiss them as not “real” diseases, that would be a start. But I know one of the thrusted causes was fragments of Epstein-Barr or another virus stimulating the immune system, so maybe we’re on the verge of learning a lot more about that whole mechanism.
YY_Sima Qian
On 6/18 Mainland China reported 5 new domestic confirmed (0 previously asymptomatic), 22 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 0 new domestic suspect cases, & 0 new deaths.
Shenzhen at Guangdong Province reported 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases, both via community screening, 1 each at Futian & Luohu Districts.
Fangchenggang in Guangxi “Autonomous” Region reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case, at Dongxing. 1 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 33 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
At Weihai in Shandong Province there currently are 3 active asymptomatic cases remaining.
Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region reported 1 new domestic confirmed & 4 domestic asymptomatic cases. 17 domestic confirmed & 5 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 280 active domestic confirmed & 262 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.
At Jiuquan in Gansu Province there currently is 1 active domestic asymptomatic case remaining.
Ürumqi in Xinjiang “Autonomous”Region reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case, at 11th Div. Of Xinjiang Production & Construction Corps (XPCC)found via community screening.
Hebei Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 1 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed & 7 active 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.
Liaoning Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed & 3 new domestic asymptomatic (all at Dandong) case. 1 domestic confirmed & 6 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 27 active domestic confirmed & 45 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. 2 residential compounds at Dandong are currently at Medium Risk.
Jilin Province reported 3 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 4 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 1 new domestic new domestic asymptomatic case, a traced close contact under centralized quarantine, connected to the night club outbreak. 4 domestic confirmed & 4 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The municipality is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases there. 4 sites are currently at Medium Risk.
Shanghai Municipality reported 3 new domestic confirmed & 6 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 7 persons under centralized quarantine & 2 via community screening (at Jing’an District). There were 0 new deaths. 18 domestic confirmed & 45 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 95 active domestic confirmed (3 serious & 4 critical) in the city. The city is no longer publishing the number of active asymptomatic cases. 36 sites are currently at Medium Risk.
At Jiangsu Province there currently are 2 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.
Zhejiang Province reported 1 new domestic positive case, at Jiaxing, a person under centralized quarantine. 2 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The province is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases there.
At Fujian Province there currently are 8 active domestic asymptomatic (5 at Zhangzhou & 3 at Fuzhou) cases remaining.
At Jiangxi Province there currently are 4 active domestic asymptomatic cases (3 at Yichun & 1 at Shangrao) remaining.
At Henan Province there currently are 1 active domestic confirmed & 2 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 did not report any new domestic positive cases. 4 domestic confirmed & 5 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The province is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases there.
Chongqing Municipality did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 3 active domestic confirmed & 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
Yunnan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 17 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 6/18, Mainland China reported 31 new imported confirmed cases (10 previously asymptomatic), 102 imported asymptomatic cases, 0 imported suspect cases:
Overall in Mainland China, 53 confirmed cases recovered (24 imported), 108 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (68 imported) & 10 were reclassified as confirmed cases (all imported), & 4,127 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 914 active confirmed cases in the country (246 imported), 8 in serious/critical condition (all domestic), 1,560 active asymptomatic cases (546 imported), 0 suspect cases. 108,801 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 6/18, 3,394.504M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 597K doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 6/19 Hong Kong reported 1,276 new positive cases, 115 imported & 1,161 domestic (416 via RT-PCR & 745 from rapid antigen tests), 2 deaths (52 & 86 y.o., respectively, both fully vaccinated & 1 boosted).
On 6/19 Macau reported 12 new positive cases. The cluster was found when a case visited fever clinic, & the rest from contact tracing, all residents in the same residential compound. The territory commenced mass screening on 6/19, & as of 4:15 PM another 9 positive cases have been identified. To date, 17 of the 21 positive cases in the territory belong to a cluster concentrated among foreign guest workers (domestic help) & 4 in a penitentiary facility.
On 6/19, Taiwan reported 50,636 new positive cases, 75 imported & 50,561 domestic. There were 172 new deaths (ages ranging from < 5 y.o. to 90+ y.o., actual dates of death range from 5/13 – 6/16, 166 having a range of underlying conditions, 72 fully vaccinated & boosted).