Most of the 19 million kids under the age of 5 can now get a #COVID19 vaccine.
• About ½ are children of color
• Nearly 1 in 4 are below the poverty line
• About 4 in 10 are covered by MedicaidOur look at challenges in vaccinating this group: https://t.co/7Ohsvan6oy pic.twitter.com/FbYg44h8Ts
— KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation) (@KFF) June 21, 2022
The United States has begun distributing COVID vaccines for children as young as six months around the country, and availability of the shots will improve in the coming days, according to White House COVID-19 response coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha. https://t.co/gLLsVsyrt6
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) June 21, 2022
Covid vaccines for children under 5 are finally available in the US. But which vaccine should you choose for your child?
https://t.co/XG2uhZ1QPO— Helen Branswell ???? (@HelenBranswell) June 20, 2022
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France is facing a new wave of COVID-19 infections fuelled by new variants of the disease, French vaccination chief Alain Fischer said on Wednesday, as daily new cases reached an almost two-month peak the day before at more than 95,000.
Speaking on France 2 television, he said there was no doubt there was once again an upsurge of the pandemic in the country, adding he was personally in favour of reinstating mandatory face mask wearing on public transport…
Other European countries, especially Portugal, are also seeing an increase, due two new Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5, which, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, are likely to become dominant in the region.
The variants do not appear to carry a higher risk of severe disease than other forms of Omicron but as they are somewhat more infectious than the latter, it could lead to an increase in hospitalisations and deaths, the ECDC said…
New infections have been steadily rising since the end of May in France, with the seven-day moving average of daily new cases almost tripling between the May 27 figure of 17,705 and Tuesday’s 50,402…
France’s COVID death toll rose by 56 over 24 hours on Tuesday, to reach 149,162.
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New from @CDCgov is survey of #Paxlovid use across USA, showing resurging #COVID19 after apparent treatment success, and concludes: "Paxlovid might prevent COVID-19–related hospitalization among persons with mild-to-moderate COVID-19."https://t.co/txFwFWmVcr
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) June 21, 2022
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On The Road – PaulB – A visit to the Olympic Peninsula, 3 of 10
Baud
Is the pilot shortage due to Covid? I thought it was a long term problem.
raven
I wonder when old people will need another booster?
New Deal democrat
Some *relatively* good news on the COVID front today. Cases have continued to trend slightly down to 99,000, and deaths are back down below 300, at 293. Hospitalizations have been steady in the last 3 days at 31,500, and are up only 3% in the last week.
Also, this takes place despite the CDC reporting yesterday that BA.4/5 now make up 36% of all cases, with BA.2.12.1 decreasing to 57%. BA.2 makes up the remaining 9%. It appears BA.4/5 is not creating a new wave, just extending the peak of the existing wave. Regionally, cases have continued to decline where BA.2.12.1 was and remains most dominant, and remain at a high plateau where BA.4/5 have become the most prevalent.
Through last week, Biobot show no major increases anywhere, with just a slight increase in the Midwest and flat to declining levels in the other regions.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reported 1,921 new Covid-19 cases yesterday, for a cumulative reported total of 4,544,626 cases. It also reported two deaths for an adjusted cumulative total of 35,737 deaths – 0.79% of the cumulative reported total, 0.79% of resolved cases.
There were 26,155 active cases yesterday, 203 more than the day before. 1,052 were in hospital. 29 confirmed cases were in ICU; of these patients, 20 confirmed cases were on ventilators. Meanwhile, 1,716 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 4,482,734 patients recovered – 98.6% of the cumulative reported total.
1,807 new cases reported yesterday were local infections. 114 new cases were imported.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 6,690 doses of vaccine on 21st June: 675 first doses, 4,711 second doses, and 1,304 booster doses. The cumulative total is 71,160,120 doses administered: 28,023,013 first doses, 27,220,728 second doses, and 16,131,200 booster doses. 85.9% of the population have received their first dose, 83.4% their second dose, and 49.4% their booster dose.
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY:
NYSDOH says 37 new cases for 6/20/22
36 new cases for 6/21/22
(PCR tests only).
Monroe County, NY website says deaths now at 1901 (up 9 from last week) and vaccinations now at 72.5%. They aren’t tracking daily case counts anymore, just the 7 day rolling average.
Percysowner
My 4 year old granddaughter got her first vaccination (Moderna) yesterday. While we were there, one of the kids from her preschool showed up to get shots for both their under 5 kids. On the negative side, there weren’t a lot of kids there getting vaccinated. It was the first day and a Tuesday morning, so I hopeful the pace will pick up.
Soprano2
I think part of the problem with airlines and flights is personnel shortages that don’t have anything to do with Covid. I’m sure people being sick is part of the problem, but not all of it. The cancellations were happening when people were still masking on planes, perhaps Dr. Winter just didn’t notice that. Again, we don’t do ourselves any favors when we blame things exclusively on Covid when there are also other factors involved. That said, I agree that it was dumb that none of the stories mentioned Covid as part of the problem.
YY_Sima Qian
On 6/21 Mainland China reported 10 new domestic confirmed (0 previously asymptomatic), 12 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 0 new domestic suspect cases, & 0 new deaths.
Guangdong Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed case, at Guangzhou, a border control worker at the airport living under “closed loop” management, found via daily screening. There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed (at Guangzhou) & 4 active domestic asymptomatic (at Shenzhen) cases in the province.
Fangchenggang in Guangxi “Autonomous” Region reported 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases, both at Dongxing. There currently are 36 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
At Weihai in Shandong Province 2 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently is 1 active asymptomatic case remaining.
Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region reported 1 new domestic confirmed case. 39 domestic confirmed & 38 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 186 active domestic confirmed & 206 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.
At Jiuquan in Gansu Province there currently is 1 active domestic asymptomatic case remaining.
At Ürumqi in Xinjiang “Autonomous”Region there currently are 3 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
At Hebei Province 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 4 new domestic asymptomatic (all at Dandong) cases, all via regular screening of persons in high risk occupations. 1 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 19 active domestic confirmed & 54 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. All areas in the province are now at Low Risk.
Jilin Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 3 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 4 new domestic confirmed (2 mild & 1 moderate) & 2 new domestic new domestic asymptomatic cases, all traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. 19 domestic confirmed & 7 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The municipality is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases there. 1 residential compound is currently at High Risk, & 3 sites are currently at Medium Risk.
Shanghai Municipality reported 4 new domestic confirmed & 4 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all persons under centralized quarantine. There were 0 new deaths. 3 domestic confirmed & 35 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 92 active domestic confirmed (2 serious & 3 critical) in the city. The city is no longer publishing the number of active asymptomatic cases. 31 sites are currently at Medium Risk.
At Jiangsu Province there currently is 1 active domestic asymptomatic case remaining.
At Zhejiang Province 3 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 1 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 3 active domestic asymptomatic cases (2 at Yichun & 1 at Shangrao) remaining.
At Sichuan Province 6 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The province is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases there.
At Chongqing Municipality there currently are 3 active domestic confirmed & 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases remaining.
At Yunnan Province 4 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 13 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 6/21, Mainland China reported 21 new imported confirmed cases (5 previously asymptomatic), 83 imported asymptomatic cases, 0 imported suspect cases:
Azerbaijan, off flights that landed at Guangzhou
Overall in Mainland China, 78 confirmed cases recovered (17 imported), 169 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (71 imported) & 5 were reclassified as confirmed cases (all imported), & 4,971 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 762 active confirmed cases in the country (258 imported), 6 in serious/critical condition (all domestic), 1,370 active asymptomatic cases (539 imported), 0 suspect cases. 106,326 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 6/21, 3,396.446M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 742K doses in the past 24 hrs.
As of 9 AM on 6/22 Macau has reported 65 positive cases from the current outbreak (41 asymptomatic).
On 6/22 Hong Kong reported 1,447 new positive cases, 124 imported & 1,323 domestic (583 via RT-PCR & 740 from rapid antigen tests), 1 death (64 y.o., fully vaccinated).
On 6/22, Taiwan reported 52,246 new positive cases, 33 imported & 52,213 domestic (including 209 moderate or serious). There were 171 new deaths (ages ranging from < 5 y.o. to 90+ y.o., actual dates of death range from 5/26 – 6/19, 107 having a range of underlying conditions, 53 fully vaccinated & boosted).
sdhays
@Percysowner: That’s awesome that your granddaughter has already gotten a shot. Moderna isn’t available in my county yet. Our pediatrician has sent out emails saying that they expect to get a supply of vaccines next week, and other county-run locations just have Pfizer so far.
Ohio Mom
There is great rejoicing in Michigan, where my sister and her daughter’s families live, because the soon-to-be two year old grandson was vaccinated Monday. Moderna, local pharmacy and they were first in line. Maybe they will now let us visit and play with him (do I sound bitter, I am a little, sigh, family stuff never ends).
@raven: I had my annual physical yesterday and the doctor had no information on whether or when for booster number 3, she just assumes there will be. I use a health system that is affiliated with the medical school, so they are up with the latest.
Suzanne
So we are in northern CA right now finishing up a family reunion/short vacation trip. We get back home on Friday. Before we left, we scheduled doctor appointments for both Spawns in the hope that the vaccine would be approved while we were traveling, which YAYAYAYAYAYAY turned out to be the case. So Youngest should be getting her vaccine early next week, if all goes well. We are doing the best we can with her and masking, staying outdoors, etc…. but she is not even three and there is only so much one can expect from the shorties.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
Greece: the news in general is not great. On Tuesday, the authorities reported 12,537 new cases and 14 deaths; on Wednesday (today), there were 10,528 new cases and 9 deaths. Wednesday’s report also counted 94 COVID patients on ventilators. A couple of weeks ago, the new-case numbers were half that.
And it may be getting worse before it gets better; wastewater analysis is showing increases in a lot of places week-to-week, with Attica’s wastewater viral load up 17%, while in Herakleion in Crete, there was a viral load jump of 342%.
Sources:
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1187337/new-covid-cases-and-fatalities-ease-after-tuesdays-spike/
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1187258/spike-in-wastewater-viral-load-in-nine-cities/
P Thomas
I wish there were links to the twitter threads. Again.
arrieve
It won’t surprise anyone on this thread, but we really do live in different realities with regard to Covid in this country. I live in New York, and perhaps because we were hit so hard so early, masking is still the norm here. I don’t wear a mask if I’m outside and the street is reasonably empty but always mask indoors, even in the hallways of my apartment building. My first trip away from the area was to the Bay Area in March, and while there didn’t seem to be as many people wearing masks there as there are in New York, people mostly wore masks and I felt pretty comfortable.
Then this past weekend, I went to Minneapolis. It’s a big city, a liberal city, and almost no one was masking indoors. I also visited some small towns to the south, and that was even worse. I was the only one wearing a mask anywhere. (At least no one gave me a hard time about it.)
I had to change planes at O’Hare on the way out there, and it was a zoo, just packed with people, and maybe 10% of them were masked. (And not many more on any of my flights.)
It wasn’t like Covid was over; it was almost like Covid had never happened. Fortunately I did a test this morning and my own mask seems to have worked.
YY_Sima Qian
@arrieve: In contrast, in Wuhan, which has not suffered a major outbreak or large area lock downs since the 1st wave, & no local cases for months, most people walking outdoors are still wearing masks & most of them wearing masks correctly. Masking is not required outdoors in Wuhan by policy.
J R in WV
Wife and I wear masks when around others. Home health care workers wear masks in our home, so we haven’t felt the need to mask up for those visits, which are about over now. Wife is able to navigate well now, and has the energy to begin some household chores. She appear to have fully recovered from her surgery last month and is still improving after the correction of her spinal stennosis. So yay!!
jonas
I’m aware that the airline transportation system right now is in disarray — believe me, I was stuck for several hours at an airport last week because the crew that was supposed to staff my flight was delayed elsewhere due to whatever. But — serious question — is there any evidence that flight crews are all coming down with Covid since the mask requirement has been lifted? The larger problem seems to be a basic one of supply and demand: airports and airlines unloaded personnel, from flight crews to baggage handlers, like crazy in 2020-21 in order to cut costs, and now are having trouble scaling back up to meet demand. People are saying it’s Covid, but I haven’t seen any indication of that. If every flight is now a superspreader event, wouldn’t we be seeing a relatively even distribution of Covid illness across the country right now? Instead, we’re seeing a fairly steady progression of the latest omicron wave from the Northeast and upper Midwest in April-May, to the Southeast and West now in June.
bjacques
NL numbers still jumping ~60% week on week since bottoming out at about 7000 a month ago. 26000 for the past week, and the summer’s just getting started. Chaos at Schiphol (strike at Brussels) because if all the workers dumped in the pandemic; maybe Covid plays a role too.
rikyrah
@Percysowner:
That’s wonderful :)
rikyrah
@Suzanne:
YESS
so happy for you
sab
@J R in WV: Yay for you. Husband had miraculous surgery for spinal stenosis about seven years ago. Went from agony and leg collapsing to pain free. It was amazing.
His is acting up again a lot. Stenosis plus weirdly shifted spinal disc plus a bone spur on his spine. So more surgery next month. Trust our doctor since before, but whole process is scary.
Husband had back pain for years and surgeons just blew him off until one explained. They don’t operate for arthritis in the spine because operation doesn’t help and can make things worse. They do operate when stenosis starts damaging nerves. Also when discs start moving where they shouldn’t be.
YY_Sima Qian
On 6/22 Mainland China reported 13 new domestic confirmed (0 previously asymptomatic), 18 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 0 new domestic suspect cases, & 0 new deaths.
Guangdong Province reported 3 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Shenzhen, all found via community screening. There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed (at Guangzhou) & 7 active domestic asymptomatic (all at Shenzhen) cases in the province.
Fangchenggang in Guangxi “Autonomous” Region reported 3 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Dongxing. 3 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 36 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
At Weihai in Shandong Province there currently is 1 active asymptomatic case remaining.
Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region reported 1 new domestic confirmed case. 20 domestic confirmed & 23 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 167 active domestic confirmed & 183 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.
At Jiuquan in Gansu Province the domestic asymptomatic case recovered.
At Ürumqi in Xinjiang “Autonomous”Region there currently are 3 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
At Hebei Province 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 5 new domestic asymptomatic (all at Dandong) cases, 3 traced close contacts under centralized quarantine & 2 via screening of residents under movement control. 2 domestic confirmed & 7 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 17 active domestic confirmed & 52 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 7 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 7 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 3 new domestic confirmed (all mild) cases, all via community screening. 39 domestic confirmed & 7 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The municipality is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases there. 1 residential compound is currently at High Risk, & 3 sites are currently at Medium Risk.
Shanghai Municipality reported 9 new domestic confirmed cases, all persons under centralized quarantine. There were 0 new deaths. 9 domestic confirmed & 32 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 92 active domestic confirmed (1 serious & 2 critical) in the city. The city is no longer publishing the number of active asymptomatic cases. 28 sites are currently at Medium Risk.
At Jiangsu Province there currently is 1 active domestic asymptomatic case remaining.
At Zhejiang Province 6 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 3 active domestic asymptomatic cases (2 at Yichun & 1 at Shangrao) remaining.
At Sichuan Province 1 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. The province is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases there.
At Chongqing Municipality there currently are 3 active domestic confirmed & 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases remaining.
At Yunnan Province 3 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 10 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 6/21, Mainland China reported 35 new imported confirmed cases (4 previously asymptomatic), 69 imported asymptomatic cases, 0 imported suspect cases:
Overall in Mainland China, 93 confirmed cases recovered (25 imported), 191 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (73 imported) & 4 were reclassified as confirmed cases (all imported), & 5,936 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 717 active confirmed cases in the country (268 imported), 4 in serious/critical condition (all domestic), 1,262 active asymptomatic cases (531 imported), 0 suspect cases. 105,503 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 6/22, 3,397.224M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 778K doses in the past 24 hrs.
As of 9 AM on 6/23 Macau has reported 110 positive cases from the current outbreak (41 asymptomatic).
On 6/23 Hong Kong reported 1,650 new positive cases, 128 imported & 1,522 domestic (559 via RT-PCR & 963 from rapid antigen tests), 1 death (80 y.o., fully vaccinated).
On 6/23, Taiwan reported 48,356 new positive cases, 73 imported & 48,283 domestic (including 209 moderate or serious). There were 166 new deaths (ages ranging from 30+ y.o. to 90+ y.o., actual dates of death range from 6/6 – 6/20, 150 having a range of underlying conditions, 48 fully vaccinated & boosted).