Just had Covid for the first time. I'm incredibly grateful I had the vaccine & was up to date with my boosters. Over 300 a day still dying in US. Vaccine & boosters offer protection against hospitalization & death. 100% TRUE. #covid19 #grateful #thankyoudoctors #thankyouscience pic.twitter.com/SzwANcbE8M
— Mandy Patinkin (@PatinkinMandy) November 3, 2022
Half-joking: If the dedicated crime-teevee watchers don’t trust doctors, maybe they’ll trust the Criminal Minds star?
Getting boosted today is a good idea to top off immunity. With a swarm of immune-evading subvariants looming on the horizon, the available boosters remain the best tool to help fortify protection, particularly against severe illness and death. #GetBoostedhttps://t.co/Izobkd9p8S
— Ian Weissman, DO (@DrIanWeissman) November 3, 2022
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We spotted Long-COVID early on in the Wuhan survivors- SARS was similar so it obviously shaped our Zero-COVID response. We're still tracking and treating it, mostly in HK and Wuhan survivors.https://t.co/WSfNWzwQRJhttps://t.co/sy8sZ1V7Qehttps://t.co/trGI0hTRLp
— Naomi Wu 机械妖姬 (@RealSexyCyborg) November 4, 2022
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India reports 1,216 fresh #Covid19 cases, 1,591 recoveries and 18 deaths in the last 24 hours.
Read all #coronavirus news and updates: https://t.co/wRVUWKHLZ4 pic.twitter.com/8dLsV45Jt3
— BQ Prime (@bqprime) November 4, 2022
Can we extrapolate the outcomes in France to the United States if BQ.1.1* proceeds here to dominance?
Perhaps, but there is a major gap in vaccination and boosters favoring France pic.twitter.com/BbZ3bkcg1h— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) November 4, 2022
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What's the difference between "infection" and "having a disease"? This thread is great. https://t.co/7kYtukp0Uy
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) October 30, 2022
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Covid & the brain: Extensive low glucose usage is visible in brain imaging of #LongCovid patients. Brain hypometabolism (low glucose usage) mostly affected the brain's right hemisphere. Patients had loss of taste/smell, anxiety-depressive disorders & more https://t.co/ZWx7zgVjxI pic.twitter.com/7W2rAJdT11
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) November 3, 2022
The marked propensity for blood clots with severe Covid: antibodies to platelet factor 4 likely a contributorhttps://t.co/7grOoRnJxg @PNASNews @NIAIDNews pic.twitter.com/Tf01jttH3n
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) November 3, 2022
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A silent killer: #Covid triggers inflammation in the brain. Australian researchers have found Covid activates the same inflammatory response in the brain as Parkinson's. The animal model studies open new windows of understanding into the human infection https://t.co/8jSsZ34asr pic.twitter.com/jStcDhX1RF
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) November 1, 2022
#LongCovid: Lost connections between nerve cells in the brain may explain cognitive symptoms plaguing the growing number of people who've been impacted by long Covid. Some people complain of “brain fog," which affects memory, concentration, sleep & speech https://t.co/42nBbkxwhW
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"#Vaccination & reactive, zone-based intervention measures implemented in #NYC likely reduced the spread of #COVID19 during the 2nd wave…COVID-19 #vaccines can reduce transmission of #SARSCoV2 although such effect has diminished with the emergence of more recent variants." https://t.co/C3QuoobtAF
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New Deal democrat
Biobot updated yesterday, showing the same 6 month low levels of COVID as we saw at the beginning of the week. Only the Midwest has risen a little in the past two weeks. All other regions are at new 6 month lows, including the Northeast.
Confirmed cases have risen slightly to 39,000 from their low of 35,000 two weeks ago. At 24,200, hospitalizations have held steady for 5 days, and are also slightly above their lows of 22,900 two weeks ago. Deaths, at 293, are close to 16 month lows and equivalent to their lowest levels last spring.
Cases are increasing in NM, CO, UT, KY, DC, LA, MO, WV, NJ, IL, IN, IA, NE, NV, OH, SD, and PR. Cases are declining in DE, MI, MN, OR, RI, and WA. Elsewhere they are steady, generally at low levels.
The CDC will update its variant nowcast later this morning. It will likely show that the alphabet soup of new variants account for more than 60% of all new cases. That would amount to about a 6,000 increase from 18,000 to 24,000 in the past week, offset by a further decline of BA.5 to about 15,000 cases.
It is encouraging that the new alphabet soup of variants is having so little effect on overall numbers. This is confirmed as to France by Dr. Eric Topol. At the same time, the increase in cases in so many States strongly suggests the beginnings of this year’s winter wave. My best guess remains that it will be similar to the BA.2.12.1 and BA.5 waves of the past 6 months. All of which probably has to do with a population that has almost 100% penetration of either vaccination or prior infection or both.
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY:
43 new cases on 11/01/22.
83 new cases on 11/02/22.
132 new cases on 11/03/22.
Masking is almost non-existant here except for doctors and dentists.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
Mandy is more well known for “The Princess Bride” and for his recent stellar work in “Homeland”.
Princess
I’d love to see some recent statistics on who I’d dying from Covid now — vaxxed? Boosted? Prior infection? “Naive”? Demography? Geography?
suzanne
I have what I think is RSV right now, and I feel worse than when I had Covid. So I’ve got that going for me, which is nice.
OzarkHillbilly
@suzanne: RSV?
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
Looking at the map of NYC and you see high density Manhattan is almost completely clear, yet cop-land in Staten Island, the Archie Bunker precinct in Queens and the Andrew Dice Clay district of South Brooklyn are all red.
Who could have known.
Dorothy A. Winsor
I was at the hospital just after Labor Day for eye surgery, and masks were required. At the end of Sept for the second surgery, no masks. Yesterday, for a bone scan, masks. I assume that means the number of new cases in the area has increased.
New Deal democrat
@Princess: As of a few weeks ago, almost 50% of deaths were the elderly unvaccinated. About 20% each were 50-64 unvaccinated and senior citizen vaccinated. Middle age unvaccinated and 50-64 vaccinated made up the remaining 10%. Below those ages the chances of death were virtually nil.
Hope that is helpful.
(Off to dissect the October jobs report. Will return later)
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reported 4,711 new Covid-19 cases yesterday, for a cumulative reported total of 4,909,846 cases. It also reported no deaths, and the adjusted cumulative total remains at 36,480 deaths – 0.74% of the cumulative reported total, 0.75% of resolved cases.
42,263 Covid-19 tests were conducted on 2nd November, with a positivity rate of 9.4%.
There were 34,609 active cases yesterday, 1,591 more than the day before. 1,586 were in hospital. 67 confirmed cases were in ICU; of these patients, 47 confirmed cases were on ventilators. Meanwhile, 3,120 more patients recovered, for a cumulative total of 4,843,468 patients recovered – 98.6% of the cumulative reported total.
4,704 new cases reported yesterday were local infections. Seven new cases were imported.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 2,438 doses of vaccine on 3rd November: 122 first doses, 139 second doses, 482 first booster doses, and 1,695 second booster doses. The cumulative total is 72,406,014 doses administered: 28,109,438 first doses, 27,519,589 second doses, 16,252,728 first booster doses, and 524,259 second booster doses. 86.1% of the population have received their first dose, 84.3% their second dose, 49.8% their first booster dose, and 1.6% their second booster dose.
Ken
@OzarkHillbilly: Respiratory Something Virus. It’s going around. Cold-like symptoms, not too bad in adults, but can be dangerous in kids under 2 because they can’t cough up the mucus
EDIT: The S is for syncytial. CDC page.
rikyrah
Since the beginning , I have learned and kept up with all the bad news about COVID from these posts. Still masked up and boosted. I just want to thank you again , AL. I am certain that the information you have given on this beat helped save my life during this time.🙏🏽
dmsilev
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Here in Boston, masks are required in the hospitals, or at least the one hospital that I’ve been spending too much time visiting this past week.
sdhays
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: As usual, XKCD covers this: https://xkcd.com/2621/.
sab
@Ken: This days I consider the function of a mask is not to protect me from the air, but to protect me from my own hands until I can get home to wash them. I am beginning to feel like an unwealthy Howard Hughes.
OzarkHillbilly
@Ken: Thanx. I just got over something cold or flu like but a little bit different. I wonder if that’s what it was? Will definitely take care around the granddaughters.
Baud
@sab: You can save some money by buying your piss jars in bulk.
sab
@suzanne: My eight year old grand-daughter has RSV and is feeling somewhat crappy. Bad cold, but with highish fever.
OzarkHillbilly
@rikyrah: Several lives, I am sure.
sab
@Baud: :)
I’m not that far gone. Just lots of handwashing.
Matt McIrvin
@Princess: Massachusetts has a lot of information on demographics of cases and deaths in their dashboard:
https://www.mass.gov/info-details/covid-19-response-reporting#covid-19-interactive-data-dashboard-
The main takeaway is that the people who are dying are old people, and that fact colors everything else. White people have the highest death rate but I think that is not age-adjusted, so it could just be a consequence of the fact that non-white populations in the state have a younger average age.
They don’t break the deaths down by vaccination status, perhaps mindful that in a population where almost everyone (especially the seniors) is vaccinated, a substantial fraction of the deaths will inevitably be of vaccinated people and someone is going to misuse that number. I would actually not be surprised if a majority of recent COVID deaths in Massachusetts are of fully vaccinated people, since we managed to get near 100% coverage of seniors.
But they do break down the hospitalizations, and there you can see that about 2/3 of them are fully vaccinated–again, because in Massachusetts almost everyone is fully vaccinated, you’d expect that to be pretty high, and that it’s as low as 2/3 actually speaks well for the ability of the vaccine to prevent bad things.
EmbraceYourInnerCrone
My daughter and my 7 month old granddaughter, in Broome county (NY) were diagnosed with COVID on Monday after 2 days of , for the baby, fever occasionally spiking to 102 – 104, no appetite, vomiting almost all the bottles of formula or Pedialyte she would take and extreme fussiness and sleeplessness. My daughter is having low fevers , exhaustion and extreme body aches. The baby seems slightly better today, fever is lower and appetite seems to be returning a little, finally she is able to keep things down. The ER at the children’s hospital (Upstate, in Syracuse) advised that as long as she was wetting diapers, her soft spot and eyes did not look sunken, and she was making tears and keeping some fluids down, that they should avoid bringing her to the ER. They are slammed with RSV and COVID cases apparently.
My granddaughter had RSV (verified by test at the peds office) back around October 12th and it lasted almost 2 weeks. She seemed completely well for a couple of days. Then this past weekend started having a croupy cough, coughing until she vomited, spiking fevers and extreme fussiness. Off to Urgent care on Monday and test confirmed COVID. My daughter then took a home test and said the thing popped positive almost immediately… my daughter is fully vaxxed and boosted, she has asthma and has already had COVID once, a year ago…while she was pregnant.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: There’s been a real surge of RSV in a lot of the country this year. I read last week (don’t remember where) that a lot of children’s hospitals were close to capacity with patients.
it’s also dangerous to the elderly with chronic pulmonary conditions.
OzarkHillbilly
Slowly raises hand from the Group W bench… (tho I’m “only” 64)
Matt McIrvin
With COVID statistics, I’d really like to see some attempt to shift from the decreasingly relevant statistic of how many shots you’ve had to measuring the effect of being up-to-date on your shots, since this is what really matters from a guidance perspective. It seems like the health authorities have had a hard time convincing people to get the latest booster–there’s an attitude of “how many do I really need?”
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: yup, me too (though I’m older). But in RSV, it’s normally very elderly, very severe pulmonary disease (like on continuous supplemental oxygen).
Suzanne
@OzarkHillbilly: RSV is a very common seasonal virus, and it is blazing across the country right now. Pediatric hospitals are currently under enormous strain. Adults can get it over and over. In most healthy adults, it up feels like a cold/sore throat. That’s what I’ve got…..but I’m sick of it.
Ken
“You know how you get a flu shot every year? That many.”
Lady WereBear
I still wear masks in stores and no one bats an eye but I’m getting less company.
Matt McIrvin
@Ken: To which the response is “Oh, I never get the flu shot, I got it once and it gave me the flu, never again.”
geg6
@suzanne:
It’s going through kids like wildfire. My grandniece, who is in preschool, got it and brought it home to her little brother. Amora, the grandniece, got over it fairly quickly. Ronan, the little brother, has taken over a week to start feeling himself. He was pretty sick with it, enough that they considered taking him to UPMC Children’s. But when they called, the ER said it would be a 7 hour wait because they were so overwhelmed with it.
ETA: I saw on local news this morning that either Europe or the UK are testing a vaccine for the pregnant mothers to provide immunity for the little ones, who are the one who really suffer and can easily die from RSV.
Amir Khalid
@Lady WereBear:
It’s been a couple of months since the mask requirement was loosened here in Malaysia; it is now required only on public transport or where a premises owner has a “no mask, no entry” rule. Most people still mask up (in the Klang Valley, at any rate), but the minority that doesn’t is noticeably growing. Me, I plan to keep wearing a mask until they are no longer sold in stores.
lowtechcyclist
First, we’d need much closer to universal wastewater testing.
Also, there are places that still largely use septic systems. I live in such a county. It still boggles my mind that even the big shopping centers in the county are on septic. But clearly there’s no way to use wastewater testing to flag Covid outbreaks if there’s no centralized wastewater treatment.
We do have one wastewater treatment plant that handles sewage from one small corner of the county, but no testing is done there AFAIK.
Suzanne
@geg6: It’s really bad this year, all over the country. The client I’m actively working with right now is a large health system and they said that their pediatric inpatient beds are 98% full system-wide, which is doesn’t sound as bad as it genuinely is.
Tony G
Maybe anecdotes are data sometimes? Everyone in my family has gotten the covid vaccine and booster shots. A few people in my family (my adult sons and their partners) did catch covid after being vaccinated, but after a few days of flu-like symptoms they were fine and healthy. Meanwhile, unfortunately, a member of my extended family (the husband of a cousin) caught covid in December of 2020 (before the vaccines were widely available) and he died in an ICU. I’m “doing my own research” and it tells me that the vaccines save lives.
YY_Sima Qian
On 11/3 Mainland China reported 704 new domestic confirmed (71 previously asymptomatic), 3,167 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 0 new domestic suspect cases, & 0 new deaths.
Guangdong Province reported 195 new domestic confirmed (8 previously asymptomatic, 149 at Guangzhou, 19 at Shantou, 9 at Shenzhen, 8 at Maoming, 6 at Meizhou, & 1 each at Foshan, Heyuan, Jiangmen & Yunfu) & 470 new domestic asymptomatic (430 at Guangzhou, 13 each at Foshan & Shantou, 9 at Meizhou, 3 at Shenzhen, & 2 at Jieyang) cases. 4 of the new domestic positive cases were found in the community (3 at Guangzhou & 1 at Foshan), 1 at a fever clinic (at Guangzhou), the rest are persons under quarantine or lockdown, or came from out of province & tested positive upon arrival. 47 domestic confirmed & 109 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 1,252 active domestic confirmed & 2,676 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 41 sites at Guangzhou, 16 at Shenzhen, 10 at Shantou, 4 at Dongguan, 3 each at Jiangmen & Maoming & Meizhou, 2 at Yangjiang, & 1 at Zhanjiang are currently at High Risk. 65 sites at Guangzhou, 21 at Shenzhen, 4 each at Maoming, Meizhou & Shantou, 3 at Jiangmen, 2 each at Huizhou & Yangjiang, & 1 each at Dongguan, Jieyang & Zhanjiang are currently at Medium Risk.
Guangxi “Autonomous” Region reported 3 new domestic asymptomatic (1 each at Chongzuo, Guigang & Nanning) cases, none from the community. 1 domestic confirmed & 8 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed & 76 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.
Hunan Province reported 10 new domestic confirmed (6 at Shaoyang, 2 at Huaihua, & 1 each at Yiyang & Zhuzhou) & 392 new domestic asymptomatic (355 at Shaoyang, 15 at Zhuzhou, 8 at Yongzhou, & 1 each at Hengyang, Huaihua & Yiyang) cases. 11 were found in the community screening (all at Zhuhzou), the rest are persons under quarantine or lockdown, or came from out of province & tested positive upon arrival. 6 domestic confirmed & 8 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 184 active domestic confirmed & 1,410 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 212 sites at Shaoyang, 48 at Huaihua, 20 at Zhuzhou, & 3 at Yongzhou are currently at High Risk. 166 sites at Shaoyang, 26 at Huaihua, 24 at Yongzhou, 23 at Zhuzhou, & 2 at Changsha are currently at Medium Risk.
Hubei Province reported 75 new domestic asymptomatic (58 at Wuhan, 5 each at Huanggang & Yichang, 3 at Shiyan, & 2 each at Enshi Prefecture & Huangshi) cases. 2 were found in the community (both at Wuhan), the rest are persons under quarantine or lockdown. 1 domestic confirmed & 46 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed & 791 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 1 site at Wuhan is currently at High Risk, & 3 at Medium Risk.
Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region reported 239 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic, 238 at Hohhot & 1 at Ordos) & 525 new domestic asymptomatic (514 at Hohhot, 6 at Ulanqab, 4 at Bayan Nur, & 1 at Ordos) cases. 52 domestic confirmed & 112 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 787 active domestic confirmed & 3,677 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region. 256 sites at Hohhot, 9 at Ordos, & 5 at Ulanqab are currently at High Risk. 209 sites at Hohhot, 35 at Ordos, 13 at Bayan Nur, 6 at Ulanqab, & 4 at Baotou are currently at Medium Risk.
Gansu Province reported 8 new domestic confirmed (all previously asymptomatic) & 73 new domestic asymptomatic (55 at Lanzhou, 9 at Qingyang, 5 at Tianshui, 2 at Wuwei, & 1 each at Baiyin & Jiayuguan) cases. 5 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 15 active domestic confirmed & 411 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 8 sites at Lanzhou, 2 at Wuwei, & 1 at Tianshui are currently at High Risk. 31 at Lanzhou & 2 at Wuwei are currently at Medium Risk.
Shanxi Province reported 30 new domestic confirmed (6 previously asymptomatic, 22 at Datong, 4 at Lüliang, & 2 each at Jinzhong & Yangquan) & 178 new domestic asymptomatic (90 at Xinzhou, 74 at Datong, 8 at Jinzhong, 2 each at Lüliang & Yuncheng, & 1 each at Changzhi & Linfen) cases. 23 domestic confirmed & 29 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 575 active domestic confirmed & 1,059 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 129 sites at Datong, 12 each at Shuozhou & Xinzhou, 4 at Lüliang, 3 at Jinzhong, & 2 each at Changzhi & Yangquan are currently at High Risk. 47 sites at Datong, 19 at Shuozhou, 8 at Changzhi, 7 at Xinzhou, 4 at Taiyuan, & 1 each at Jinzhong, Linfen, Yangquan & Yuncheng at are currently at Medium Risk.
Shaanxi Province reported 11 domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic, 8 at Xi’an & 3 at Ankang) & 19 new domestic asymptomatic (17 at Xi’an & 1 each at Hanzhong & Yan’an) cases. 3 of the new domestic positive cases were found in the community (all at Xi’an & 2 at Weinan), the rest are persons under quarantine or lockdown, or came from out of province & tested positive upon arrival. 17 domestic confirmed & 61 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 204 active domestic confirmed & 527 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 39 sites at Xi’an, 13 at Weinan, 10 each at Baoji & Yulin, 3 at Hanzhong, & 1 at Xianyang are currently at High Risk. 70 sites at Xi’an, 24 at Hanzhong, 10 at Xianyang, 8 at Weinan, 7 each at Baoji & Yulin, & 1 at Shangluo are currently at Medium Risk.
Ningxia “Autonomous” Region reported 2 new domestic confirmed (1 each at Wuzhong & Zhongwei) & 3 new domestic asymptomatic (1 each at Guyuan, Shizuishan & Zhongwei) cases, all coming from out of region. 1 domestic confirmed & 1 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 5 active domestic confirmed & 24 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 6 sites each at Wuzhong & Yinchuan, 3 at Shizuishan, & 1 at Guyuan are currently at High Risk. 15 sites at Wuzhong, 5 at Yinchuan, & 2 each at Guyuan & Ningdong are currently at Medium Risk.
Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region reported 22 new domestic confirmed & 411 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 94 domestic confirmed & 209 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The region is not publishing the counts of active domestic positive cases. 956 sites at Ürümqi, 64 at Bayingol Prefecture, 61 at Tacheng, 42 at Turfan, & 30 at Yili Prefecture are currently at High Risk. 163 sites at Ürümqi, 50 at Tacheng, 37 at Turfan, 18 at Yili Prefecture, & 14 at Bayingol Prefecture are currently at Medium Risk.
Shandong Province reported 10 new domestic confirmed (8 at Qingdao & 1 each at Weihai & Zaozhuang) & 99 new domestic asymptomatic (21 at Qingdao, 17 at Zaozhuang, 16 at Zibo, 10 at Linyi, 9 at Jining, 5 each at Binzhou, Dezhou & Rizhao, 4 at Dongying, 3 at Heze, 2 at Tai’an, & 1 each at Liaocheng & Weifang) cases. 3 via screening of persons deemed at risk of exposure (1 each at Binzhou, Jining & Weihai), the rest are persons under quarantine or lockdown. 1 domestic confirmed & 25 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 42 active domestic confirmed & 951 domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 67 sites at Zaozhuang, 21 at Qingdao, 12 at Linyi, 8 at Rizhao, 6 at Jining, 5 at Zibo, 3 each at Dezhou & Tai’an, & 2 at Liaocheng are currently at High Risk. 21 sites at Rizhao, 17 each at Jining & Linyi, 13 at Zibo, 11 at Zaozhuang, 9 at Qingdao, 3 each at Dongying & Jinan, 2 each at Dezhou, Tai’an & Liaocheng, & 1 at Weihai are currently at High Risk.
Hebei Province reported 55 new domestic asymptomatic (17 at Qinhuangdao, 16 at Langfang, 6 at Cangzhou, 5 each at Handan & Shijiazhuang, 3 at Baoding, 2 at Xingtai, & 1 at Zhangjiakou) cases. 5 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 2 domestic confirmed & 432 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 29 sites at Shijiazhuang, 20 at Zhangjiakou, 9 at Xingtai, 7 at Chengde, 5 each at Baoding & Qinhuangdao, 4 at Handan, 3 at Cangzhou, 2 each at Langfang & Xiong’an, & 1 at Xinji are currently at High Risk. 41 sites at Zhangjiakou, 18 at Langfang, 16 at Chengde, 15 at Baoding, 8 at Handan, 7 each at Qinhuangdao & Xingtai, 6 each at Cangzhou & Shijiazhuang, 3 each at Hengshui & Xiong’an, & 1 at Tangshan at are currently at Medium Risk.
Henan Province reported 22 new domestic confirmed (21 at Zhengzhou & 1 at Xuchang) & 165 new domestic asymptomatic (136 at Zhengzhou, 15 at Xuchang, 6 at Xinyang, 3 at Jiaozuo, 2 at Hebi, 1 at Jiyuan, & 2 transferred from out of province) cases. 14 via screening of persons deemed at risk of exposure (7 at Xuchang, 5 at Zhengzhou, & 2 at Jiaozuo), 17 from the community (9 at Xuchang, 6 at Zhengzhou, & 2 at Xinyang), the rest are person under quarantine. 2 domestic confirmed & 6 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 133 active domestic confirmed & 461 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 20 sites at Zhengzhou & 6 at Pingdingshan are currently at High Risk. 83 sites at Zhengzhou are currently at Medium Risk.
Liaoning Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic, both at Shenyang) & 24 new domestic asymptomatic (13 at Jinzhou, 5 at Dandong, 3 at Yingkou, 2 at Chaoyang, & 1 at Shenyang) cases. 2 domestic confirmed & 3 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 21 active domestic confirmed & 129 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 23 sites at Dandong, 15 at Jinzhou, 2 at Chaoyang, & 1 at Yingkou are currently at High Risk. 25 sites at Dandong, 16 at Jinzhou, 37 at Yingkou, 2 at Shenyang, & 1 at Chaoyang are currently at Medium Risk.
Jilin Province reported 8 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Changchun, none from the community. 1 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. The province is not publishing the counts of active domestic positive cases. 6 sites at Changchun are currently at High Risk, & 3 at Medium Risk.
Heilongjiang Province reported 11 new domestic confirmed (10 at Harbin & 1 at Suihua) & 330 new domestic asymptomatic (317 at Suihua, 6 at Heihe, 5 at Harbin, & 2 at Mudanjiang) cases. 165 were found via screening of persons deemed at risk of exposure (164 at Suihua & 1 at Harbin), 5 in the community (3 at Harbin & 2 at Heihe), the rest are persons under quarantine or lockdown. 11 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 63 active domestic confirmed & 1,312 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 382 sites at Suihua, 38 at Harbin, 18 Heihe, & 5 at Mudanjiang are currently at High Risk. 213 sites at Suihua, 39 at Harbin, 21 at Heihe, & 3 at Mudanjiang at are currently at Medium Risk.
Beijing Municipality reported 32 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic) & 6 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 6 were found in the community screening, the rest are persons under quarantine. 17 domestic confirmed cases recovered. The municipality is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases there. 19 sites are currently at High Risk, & 24 at Medium Risk.
Tianjin Municipality reported 1 new domestic confirmed & 5 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 1 was found in the community, the rest are persons under quarantine or movement control. 2 domestic confirmed & 30 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The municipality is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases there. 49 sites are currently at High Risk, & 42 at Medium Risk.
Shanghai Municipality reported 1 new domestic confirmed & 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases, none from the community. 1 domestic confirmed & 14 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 8 active domestic confirmed case in the city. The city is no longer publishing the number of active asymptomatic cases. 8 sites are currently at Medium Risk.
Anhui Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed (at Hefei) & 5 new domestic asymptomatic (4 at Hefei & 1 at Fuyang) cases, none from the community. 2 domestic confirmed & 15 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 13 active domestic confirmed & 65 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 9 sites at Hefei & 1 at Fuyang are currently at Medium Risk.
Jiangsu Province reported 3 new domestic confirmed (1 each at Suqian, Wuxi & Yancheng) & 11 new domestic asymptomatic (5 at Nanjing, 2 each at Huai’an & Yancheng, & 1 each at Suzhou & Wuxi) cases, 3 came from out of province & found via screening of persons deemed at risk of exposure (2 at Wuxi & 1 at Yancheng), the rest are persons under quarantine or movement control. 2 domestic confirmed & 7 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 131 active domestic confirmed & 163 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 3 sites at Nanjing & 2 at Huai’an are currently at High Risk. 24 sites at Nanjing, 4 at Huai’an, & 1 each at Nantong & Lianyungang are currently at Medium Risk.
Zhejiang Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed (at Ningbo) & 4 new domestic asymptomatic (1 each at Hangzhou, Jiaxing, Jinhua & Ningbo) cases, none from the community. 3 domestic confirmed & 4 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The province is not publishing the counts of active domestic positive cases.
Fujian Province reported 39 new domestic confirmed (35 previously asymptomatic, 37 at Fuzhou & 2 at Nanping) & 67 new domestic asymptomatic (all at Fuzhou) cases. 2 domestic confirmed & 7 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 335 active domestic confirmed & 957 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 164 sites at Fuzhou are currently at High Risk, & 174 at Medium Risk.
At Jiangxi Province there currently are 11 active domestic asymptomatic cases there.
Sichuan Province reported 15 new domestic confirmed (6 previously asymptomatic, 5 at Ngawa Prefecture, 4 at Chengdu, 1 each at Deyang, Mianyang, Zigong & Ziyang, & 2 persons transferred from out of province to unspecified location) & 39 new domestic asymptomatic (9 at Nanchong, 6 at Mianyang, 5 at Bazhong, 4 at Luzhou, 3 at Chengdu, 2 at Liangshan, 1 each at Deyang & Leshan, & 8 persons transferred from out of province to unspecified location) cases. 9 domestic confirmed & 64 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The province is not publishing the counts of active domestic positive cases. 22 sites at Guangyuan, & 1 each at Chengdu & Ngawa Prefecture are currently at High Risk. 9 sites at Mianyang, 8 at Guangyuan, 7 at Nanchong, 2 at Chengdu, & 1 at Yibin are currently at Medium Risk.
Chongqing Municipality reported 41 new domestic confirmed (3 previously asymptomatic) & 39 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 14 of the new domestic positive cases were found via screening of persons deemed ar risk of exposure (4 at Tongliang District, 3 at Wanzhou District, & 1 each at Bishan, Jiangjin, Jiulongpo, Nanchuan, Tongliang, Wanzhou & Yuzhong Districts), 20 were found in the community (7 at Jiulongpo District, 5 at Shapingba District, & 4 each at Jiangbei & Yubei Districts), the rest are persons under quarantine or lock down. 9 domestic confirmed & 9 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 158 active domestic confirmed & 170 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 3 sites are currently at High Risk, & 34 at Medium Risk.
Guizhou Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed (1 each at Guiyang & Tongren) & 1 new domestic asymptomatic (at Guiyang) cases, none from the community. 1 domestic confirmed & 1 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 5 active domestic confirmed & 4 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Qinghai Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed (at Xining) & 115 new domestic asymptomatic (44 at Yulshul Prefecture, 42 at Xining, 23 at Haibei Prefecture, 4 at Hainan Prefecture, & 2 at Haidong) cases. 3 domestic confirmed & 37 domestic asymptomatic cases. recovered. There currently are 30 active domestic confirmed & 1,027 active asymptomatic cases in the province. 125 sites at Xining, 8 at Haibei Prefecture, 6 at Haidong, & 2 each at Hainan & Yulshul Prefectures are currently at High Risk. 121 sites at Xining, 17 at Haidong, 8 at Haibei Prefecture, 6 at Yulshul Prefecture, & 1 at Hainan Prefecture are currently at Medium Risk.
Tibet “Autonomous” Region reported 5 new domestic asymptomatic (4 at Lhasa & 1 at Nagqu Prefecture) cases, none from the community. 2 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The region is no longer publishing the count of active domestic positive cases.
Yunnan Province reported 5 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic, 3 at Dehong Prefecture & 2 at Kunming) & 34 new domestic asymptomatic (31 at Dehong Prefecture, 2 at Kunming, & 1 at Zhaotong) cases. 1 was found via screening of persons deemed at risk of exposure (at Dehong Prefecture), 1 from the community (at Kunming), 1 at a fever clinic (at Kunming), the rest are persons under quarantine or lockdown. 1 domestic confirmed & 12 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The province is not publishing the counts of active domestic positive cases. 33 sites at Dehong Prefecture, 3 at Lincang, & 2 at Honghe Prefecture are currently at High Risk. 29 sites at Dehong Prefecture, 7 at Lincang, & 2 at Honghe Prefecture are currently at Medium Risk.
Imported Cases
On 11/3, Mainland China reported 53 new imported confirmed cases (5 previously asymptomatic), 121 imported asymptomatic cases, & 0 imported suspect cases:
Overall in Mainland China, 324 confirmed cases recovered (49 imported), 868 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (83 imported) & 76 were reclassified as confirmed cases (5 imported), & 63,112 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 5,597 active confirmed cases in the country (527 imported), 30 in serious/critical condition (all domestic), 25,860 active asymptomatic cases (1,126 imported), 0 suspect cases. 675,973 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine. There have been 5,226 total COVID-19 deaths to date.
As of 11/3, 3,440.119M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 103K doses in the past 24 hrs.
As of 11/3, Hong Kong reported 4,516 new positive cases, 356 imported & 4,160 domestic, & 11 new deaths. There have been 10,439 total COVID-19 deaths to date.
On 11/3, Taiwan added 27,594 new positive cases, 47 imported & 27,547 domestic (including 101 moderate & 57 serious). There were 74 new deaths (from 40+ to 90+ y.o., 70 w/ underlying conditions, actual dates of death range from 6/4 – 11/1, 30 fully vaccinated & boosted). There have been 13,084 total COVID-19 deaths to date.
Matt McIrvin
@Tony G: Same. A couple of my extended family members died of COVID in the early waves, and I’m pretty sure they were unvaccinated. Another cousin got it just a frustrating couple of weeks before she would have qualified for vaccination, and had to go on oxygen at the hospital and had lingering long COVID issues for months.
Of the people I know who got it while vaccinated, some of them had a rough time of it but it was more like a really bad cold or flu.
Geo Wilcox
@suzanne: I had that RSV in UT. Not sure where I got it. It was by far the worst illness I have ever had. I was “crawl to the bathroom and collapse” sick for days.
I remember when it first hit. The room started spinning and I had to go lie down, I didn’t get up for 24 hours and told my husband to not let the kid or the dog anywhere near me. Leave food outside on the table and I will get it if I can.
My deepest empathy to you and I hope your bout is not any where near as bad as mine was. The weird thing is, since I had that bac in 1994 I have never had a cold or the flu.
YY_Sima Qian
W/ the geographical spread of outbreaks in China, especially the number of locations continuing to report community cases, China is clearly starting to shift way from “Dynamic Zero COVID”, whatever the official rhetoric. If the Chinese government is still serious about “Dynamic Zero COVID”, a national lockdown would already have been declared. Instead, the Beijing keeps telling the local authorities to avoid declaring district/city wide quasi-lockdowns except as the last resort. I suspect the objective heading into & through the winter is keeping the outbreaks suppressed at a relatively low level, w/o measures that are too socio-economically damaging. The continued official exhortations to stay the course is meant to prevent the local authorities & the population from giving up all restrictions altogether, which will result in a massive exit wave.
For the nearly 3 years of “Dynamic Zero COVID”, the Chinese government wasted the opportunity to get more of the most vulnerable population vaccinated & boosted w/ better vaccines, to educate the population on the necessity of wearing KN95/N95 masks in face of Omicron, & install upper room UVGI on a massive scale in indoor spaces.
There are rumors that China gearing up for a mass boosting campaign w/ the CanSino inhalable Adeno-viral vector vaccine & a domestic protein sub-unit vaccine in the coming months. We shall see. A lot of rumors of high level meetings in Beijing on planning an orderly exit from “Dynamic Zero COVID” by next March, but most likely to be players trying to manipulate the Chinese/Hong Kong stock markets. Timing actually makes sense: into the spring, after Chinese New Year, after a mass boosting campaign, assuming China can keep a lid on transmission for that long…
Tony G
@Matt McIrvin: That’s right. The fact that, after almost three years of the pandemic and after almost two years of vaccine availability there are tens of millions of American anti-vaxxers/covid-deniers just illustrates how widespread stupidity is in our population. They don’t have to be epidemiologists. All they have to do is open their eyes.
YY_Sima Qian
The CEO of BioNTech (among other big shots of major German corporations) joined German Chancellor Olav Shultz in his visit to China. Might the regulatory approval of BioNTech’s vaccine be finally at hand?
sab
@YY_Sima Qian: Here’s hoping.