Could someone let @CDCgov know that it's December and the last data they have provided for Covid hospitalizations vs vaccination and boosters is from July?https://t.co/M2Bu9r1YTe pic.twitter.com/x3ReungQk5
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) December 1, 2022
There are a lot of mysteries about co-circulating respiratory viruses & how they compete with each other but one thing is certain: we know how to decrease their impact on us. We should do that. Fantastic article from @florian_krammer @ @AubreeGordonPhD👇🏻https://t.co/MeCMxsVQk0
— Dr. Angela Rasmussen (@angie_rasmussen) November 28, 2022
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Some communities in Chinese cities where COVID is still spreading are easing off on testing requirements and quarantine rules ahead of an expected shift in virus policies nationwide after widespread social unrest https://t.co/aJQ2Yh2yCA pic.twitter.com/nOUYEiKakz
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 2, 2022
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From a long thread:
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And as cases are rising, I had to go to four different PCR testing sites this morning to find one that was open. Most people don't have time for that before work- but are still being asked to show 24hr codes.
This is going to be a needlessly rough off-ramp from Zero-COVID…. https://t.co/1BaOX7xAMY pic.twitter.com/BIVoVCsvLl
— Naomi Wu 机械妖姬 (@RealSexyCyborg) December 2, 2022
With Sinovac, the time gap between a base dose and the 1st booster dose has usually been recommended to be 6 months. Now that it’s being reduced to 3 months in a rushed and poorly planned manner, I wonder how much that’s gonna appease the anxiety of the hesitant elderly…
— C Nguyen (@CNguyenEc) December 1, 2022
#India recorded a single-day rise of 275 new coronavirus infections, while the count of active cases has dipped to 4,672, according to Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday.https://t.co/qRTS8FOL70
— The Hindu (@the_hindu) December 2, 2022
No let up in Japan@OurWorldInData pic.twitter.com/DTo8HmS5or
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) November 30, 2022
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If deer & people are swapping the ‘rona back & forth, we are indeed never going to successfully eradict it. (H/t commentor MikeS)
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Moderna Inc's top scientist said on Tuesday that the vaccine maker has learned how to better recruit from diverse populations for its clinical trials from running its COVID-19 vaccine studies. https://t.co/6ZowtZm0Kd
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) December 1, 2022
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One new estimate has #LongCovid costing the U.S. economy $3.7 trillion, a figure rivaling costs of the Great Recession. Already, as many as 23 million people in the U.S. may be affected https://t.co/2EOWUkYW6J pic.twitter.com/7SkmfhqBTQ
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) December 1, 2022
Twitter is no longer enforcing its Covid-19 misleading information policy.
This addendum to the policy (highlighted in orange below) spotted overnight by some eagle-eyed Twitter users.
Twitter says 11,000 accounts were suspended under the policy.https://t.co/VkiJYBBPq5 pic.twitter.com/pPx3pXR1wr
— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) November 29, 2022
Who lives through a pandemic and makes war on the cures? https://t.co/neD10QnhHn
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) November 30, 2022
Lies like this are why Republicans died at like a 3 to 1 rate from COVID since the vaccines came out https://t.co/O63OG71jy8
— Grudgie the Whale (@grudging1) December 1, 2022
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hells littlest angel
Thanks Laurence Fox, you shit-head. I’ll never be able to watch old episodes of Inspector Lewis again.
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY:
75 new cases on 11/29/22.
77 new cases on 11/30/22.
136 new cases on 12/01/22.
And so it begins again. After a week of new cases under 100 a day we’re back up over 100.
Matt McIrvin
Our post-Thanksgiving spike is now obvious in Boston-area wastewater data. How far it goes should be an indication of what to expect for Christmas. The published data from my local sewer plant only goes up to Sunday, though, which I think is not enough to see it there.
YY_Sima Qian
On 12/1 Mainland China reported 4,233 new domestic confirmed (1,089 previously asymptomatic), 30,539 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 0 new domestic suspect cases, & 0 new deaths.
Guangdong Province reported 1,872 new domestic confirmed (824 previously asymptomatic, 1,468 at Guangzhou, 81 at Shenzhen, 42 at Foshan, 31 at Zhanjiang, 25 at Maoming, 23 at Zhaoqing, 21 at Huizhou, 20 at Shantou, 15 at Heyuan, 13 at Zhongshan, 10 at Yunfu, 8 at Shaoguan, 7 at Qingyuan, 5 each at Jiangmen & Yangjiang, 4 at Chaozhou, 3 at Zhuhai, & 1 at Meizhou) & 6,010 new domestic asymptomatic (5,185 at Guangzhou, 275 at Foshan, 94 at Shenzhen, 90 at Dongguan, 84 at Zhongshan, 66 at Jieyang, 38 at Qingyuan, 28 at Huizhou, 26 at Zhanjiang, 20 at Zhuhai, 18 at Heyuan, 15 at Meizhou, 14 at Jiangmen, 13 at Chaozhou, 12 at Zhaoqing, 11 at Shantou, 9 at Shanwei, 6 at Maoming, 3 at Shaoguan, 2 at Yangjiang, & 1 at Yunfu) cases. 1,326 domestic confirmed & 5,625 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 12,671 active domestic confirmed & 97,561 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Guangxi “Autonomous” Region reported 9 new domestic confirmed (8 previously asymptomatic, 7 at Guilin & 1 each at Guigang & Laibin) & 685 new domestic asymptomatic (270 at Laibin, 143 at Guilin, 130 at Hechi, 32 at Liuzhou, 25 at Baise, 16 at Yulin, 12 at Beihai, 11 each at Chongzuo & Hezhou, 10 at Fangchenggang, 8 at Wuzhou, 7 at Qinzhou, & 5 each at Guigang & Nanning) cases. 2 domestic confirmed & 171 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 51 domestic confirmed & 5,761 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.
Hainan Province reported 26 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic, 6 at Haikou, 4 atLingshui County, 3 each at Dongfang & Wenchang, 2 each at Danzhou & Sanya, & 1 each at Qionghai & Changjiang, Chengmai, Ding’an, Ledong & Lingao Counties) & 76 new domestic asymptomatic (32 at Haikou, 10 at Sanya, 9 at Wanning, 4 each at Lingshui County & Wenchang, 3 each at Ledong County & Qionghai, & 1 each at Chengmai & Tunchang Counties) cases. 7 domestic confirmed & 15 domestic confirmed cases recovered. The province is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases.
Hunan Province reported 30 new domestic confirmed (8 previously asymptomatic, 7 each at Changsha & Xiangtan, 4 at Zhangjiajie, 3 at Chenzhou, 2 each at Huaihua, Loudi & Yueyang, & 1 each at Shaoyang, Yiyang & Zhuzhou) & 317 new domestic asymptomatic (105 at Changsha, 32 at Chenzhou, 30 at Shaoyang, 23 at Zhuzhou, 21 at Huaihua, 18 each at Loudi & Yongzhou, 15 at Yueyang, 14 at Xiangxi Prefecture, 13 at Changde, 11 at Yiyang, 10 at Xiangtan, 4 at Hengyang, &. 3 at Zhangjiajie) cases. 15 domestic confirmed & 379 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 288 active domestic confirmed & 2,817 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Hubei Province reported 20 new domestic confirmed (all at Wuhan) & 706 new domestic asymptomatic (465 at Wuhan, 66 at Huangshi, 27 at Yichang, 24 at Xiangyang, 17 each at Jingmen & Xianning, 15 each at Ezhou & Jingzhou, 14 at Xiaogan, 12 at Huanggang, 9 each at Enshi Prefecture & Suizhou, 6 at Tianmen, 4 at Qianjiang, & 3 each at Shennongjia & Shiyan) cases. 4 domestic confirmed & 274 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 175 active domestic confirmed & 6,949 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region reported 55 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic, 51 at Hohhot, 3 at Chifeng, & 1 at Ordos) & 337 new domestic asymptomatic (133 at Hohhot, 36 at Hulun Buir, 26 each at Hinggan & Xilingol Leagues, 23 each at Baotou & Ordos, 18 at Tongliao, 16 at Bayan Nur, 14 at Ulanqab, 11 at Chifeng, 10 at Wuhai, & 1 at Alxa League) cases. 77 domestic confirmed & 281 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 750 active domestic confirmed cases in the region. The region is no longer publishing the count of active domestic asymptomatic cases.
Gansu Province reported 6 new domestic confirmed (all previously asymptomatic) & 396 new domestic asymptomatic (377 at Lanzhou, 13 at Linxia Prefecture, 4 at Longnan, & 2 at Qingyang) cases. 8 domestic confirmed & 327 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 80 active domestic confirmed & 17,910 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Shanxi Province reported 193 new domestic confirmed (4 previously asymptomatic, 87 at Yangquan, 39 at Jincheng, 20 at Changzhi, 17 at Datong, 9 at Taiyuan, 7 at Shuozhou, 6 at Linfen, 5 at Lüliang, 3 at Yuncheng, & 1 at Xinzhou) & 2,320 new domestic asymptomatic (593 at Lüliang, 366 at Datong, 278 at Taiyuan, 262 at Jincheng, 220 at Shuozhou, 182 at Xinzhou, 136 at Yangquan, 117 at Jinzhong, 78 at Linfen, 47 at Yuncheng, 41 at Changzhi) cases. 175 domestic confirmed & 695 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 2,491 active domestic confirmed & 14,232 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Shaanxi Province reported 68 domestic confirmed (7 previously asymptomatic, 44 at Weinan, 6 each at Hanzhong & Xi’an, 5 at Yan’an, 4 at Yulin, 2 at Ankang, & 1 at Tongchuan) & 799 new domestic asymptomatic (323 at Xi’an, 163 at Yulin, 60 at Yan’an, 51 at Xianyang, 48 at Baoji, 47 at Ankang, 36 at Weinan, 28 at Shangluo, 24 at Hanzhong, 14 at Tongchuan, 3 at Yangling, & 2 at Hancheng) cases. 19 domestic confirmed & 435 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 614 active domestic confirmed & 9,870 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Ningxia “Autonomous” Region reported 1 new domestic confirmed (previously asymptomatic) & 437 new domestic asymptomatic (267 at Yinchuan, 119 at Guyuan, 21 at Wuzhong, 18 at Zhongwei, & 12 at Shizuishan) cases. 2 domestic confirmed & 280 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed & 2,614 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.
Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region reported 11 new domestic confirmed (5 at Kashgar Prefecture, 4 at Hotan, & 2 Ürümqi) & 812 new domestic asymptomatic (361 each at Hotan & Kashgar Prefecture, 61 at Ürümqi, 21 at Hami, & 4 at Bayingol Prefecture) cases. 15 domestic confirmed & 1,172 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The region is not publishing the counts of active domestic positive cases.
Xinjiang Production & Construction Corps reported 7 new domestic asymptomatic (7 at Alaer & 2 at 224th Regt. of 14th Div.) cases. 4 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 35 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the organization.
Shandong Province reported 42 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic, 16 at Jinan, 10 at Qingdao, 4 each at Linyi & Zibo, 3 each at Liaocheng & Tai’an, & 1 each at Binzhou & Weihai) & 623 new domestic asymptomatic (155 at Jinan, 49 at Rizhao, 48 at Zibo, 46 each at Jining & Weihai, 40 each at Weifang & Tai’an, 36 at Yantai, 31 at Linyi, 27 each at Binzhou & Heze, 20 each at Liaocheng & Qingdao, 15 each at Dezhou & Dongying, & 8 at Zaozhuang) cases. 21 domestic confirmed & 413 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 729 active domestic confirmed & 9,028 domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Hebei Province reported 18 new domestic confirmed (all at Shijiazhuang) & 356 new domestic asymptomatic (305 at Shijiazhuang, 16 at Langfang, 7 at Handan, 6 each at, Xingtai & Zhangjiakou, 5 at Qinhuangdao, 4 at Cangzhou, 3 at Chengde, & 2 each at Baoding & Hengshui) cases. 166 domestic confirmed & 2,365 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 353 domestic confirmed & 6,899 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Henan Province reported 81 new domestic confirmed (5 previously asymptomatic, 77 at Zhengzhou, 2 at Shangqiu, & 1 each at Anyang & Luohe) & 291 new domestic asymptomatic (255 at Zhengzhou, 9 at Jiaozuo, 8 at Jiyuan, 7 at Hebi, 5 at Anyang, 3 at Xinyang, 2 at Kaifeng, & 1 each at Shangqiu & Xuchang) cases. 84 domestic confirmed & 803 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 3,116 active domestic confirmed & 22,354 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Liaoning Province reported 49 new domestic confirmed (6 previously asymptomatic, 31 at Shenyang, 4 each at Dalian & Panjin, 3 at Fushun, 2 each at Dandong, Fuxin & Tieling, & 1 at Benxi) & 513 new domestic asymptomatic (193 at Shenyang, 137 at Dalian, 25 at Jinzhou, 24 at Fuxin, 21 at Fushun, 18 at Yingkou, 15 each at Chaoyang & Panjin, 14 at Huludao, 13 at Benxi, 12 at Tieling, 11 at Dandong, 8 at Anshan, & 7 at Liaoyang) cases. 10 domestic confirmed & 98 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 384 active domestic confirmed & 4,360 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Jilin Province reported 10 new domestic confirmed (9 at Changbaishan & 1 at Songyuan) & 477 new domestic asymptomatic (136 at Changchun, 125 at Songyuan, 48 at Siping, 43 at Tonghua, 40 at Baishan, 34 at Yanbian Prefecture, 30 at Jilin City, 15 at Baicheng, & 6 at Meihekou) cases. 5 domestic confirmed & 195 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The province is not publishing the counts of active domestic positive cases.
Heilongjiang Province reported 87 new domestic confirmed (6 previously asymptomatic, 66 at Harbin, 9 at Qiqihar, 5 at Shuangyashan, 4 at Jiamusi, 2 at Mudanjiang, & 1 at Daqing) & 660 new domestic asymptomatic (312 at Harbin, 107 at Heihe, 83 at Qiqihar, 63 at Suihua, 21 at Daqing, 19 at Jiamusi, 15 each at Hegang & Mudanjiang, 9 at Yichun, 7 at Shuangyashan, 5 at Qitaihe, & 4 at Jixi) cases. 36 domestic confirmed & 276 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 939 active domestic confirmed & 5,810 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Beijing Municipality reported 942 new domestic confirmed (26 previously asymptomatic) & 3,026 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 310 domestic confirmed & 1,371 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The municipality is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases there.
Tianjin Municipality reported 1 new domestic confirmed & 689 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 95 were found in the community or are persons deemed at risk of exposure, the rest are persons under quarantine or movement control. 3 domestic confirmed & 164 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The municipality is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases there.
Shanghai Municipality reported 26 new domestic confirmed & 209 new domestic asymptomatic cases, none from the community. 9 domestic confirmed & 54 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 148 active domestic confirmed case in the city. The city is no longer publishing the number of active asymptomatic cases.
Anhui Province reported 4 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic, 2 at Xuancheng & 1 each Tongling & Wuhu) & 380 new domestic asymptomatic (77 at Chizhou, 48 at Fuyang, 43 at Xuancheng, 37 at Anqing & Hefei, 32 at Bengbu, 25 at Wuhu, 24 at Tongling, 18 at Bozhou, 14 at Suzhou, 10 at Ma’anshan, 4 each at Huaibei, Huai’nan & Liu’an, 7 at, 2 at Chuzhou, & 1 at Huangshan) cases. 72 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 52 active domestic confirmed & 2,385 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 14 sites at Huaibei & 5 at Wuhu are currently at High Risk.
Jiangsu Province reported 27 new domestic confirmed (2 previously asymptomatic, 6 each at Nanjing & Wuxi, 5 at Suzhou, 4 at Lianyungang, & 3 each at Nantong & Taizhou) & 523 new domestic asymptomatic (91 at Suzhou, 63 at Nanjing, 62 at Suqian, 42 at Taizhou, 37 each at Xuzhou & Zhenjiang, 35 each at Lianyungang & Yangzhou, 32 each at Changzhou & Nantong, 31 at Wuxi, 20 at Yancheng, & 6 at Huai’an) cases. 60 domestic confirmed & 276 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 315 active domestic confirmed & 3919 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Zhejiang Province reported 116 new domestic confirmed (61 previously asymptomatic, 36 at Hangzhou, 17 each at Ningbo & Shaoxing, 15 at Huzhou, 12 at Wenzhou, 10 at Taizhou, 4 at Quzhou, 2 at Lishui, & 1 at Jinhua) & 298 new domestic asymptomatic (118 at Hangzhou, 48 at Jinhua, 32 at Ningbo, 27 at Jiaxing, 23 at Taizhou, 17 at Shaoxing, 14 at Wenzhou, 7 each at Huzhou & Quzhou, 3 at Lishui, & 2 at Zhoushan) cases. 26 domestic confirmed & 49 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The province is not publishing the counts of active domestic positive cases.
Fujian Province reported 83 new domestic confirmed (17 previously asymptomatic, 26 at Xiamen, 16 at Zhangzhou, 10 at Sanming, 8 at Nanping, 7 each at Fuzhou & Quanzhou, 4 at Longyan, & 3 at) & 156 new domestic asymptomatic (42 at Fuzhou, 37 at Ningde, 21 each at Nanping & Quanzhou, 16 at Zhangzhou, 9 at Putian, 7 at Xiamen, & 1 each at Longyan, Pingtan & Sanming) cases. 21 domestic confirmed & 23 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 533 active domestic confirmed & 908 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Jiangxi Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed (at Jiujiang) & 66 new domestic asymptomatic (27 at Nanchang, 15 at Fuzhou, 7 at Jiujiang, 6 each at Xinyu & Yichun, 3 at Jingdezhen, & 2 at Ji’an) cases. 6 domestic confirmed & 70 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 21 active domestic confirmed & 632 active domestic asymptomatic cases there.
Sichuan Province reported 169 new domestic confirmed (13 previously asymptomatic, 128 at Chengdu, 7 at Deyang, 2 each at Leshan, Liangshan & Ngawa Prefecture, 1 each at Guang’an, Guangyuan, Luzhou & Yibin, & 24 persons transferred from out of province to unspecified location) & 1,047 new domestic asymptomatic (381 at Chengdu, 93 at Ngawa Prefecture, 48 at Yibin, 46 at Meishan, 28 at Bazhong, 27 at Mianyang, 25 at Deyang, 24 at Liangshan, 22 each at Guangyuan & Neijiang, 16 at Luzhou, 11 at Ya’an, 10 each at Guang’an & Suining, 8 each at Nanchong & Zigong, 6 at Leshan, 5 each at Dazhou & Ziyang, 4 at Panzhihua, 2 at Garzê Prefecture, & 246 persons transferred from out of province to unspecified location) cases. 127 domestic confirmed & 379 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The province is not publishing the counts of active domestic positive cases.
Chongqing Municipality reported 189 new domestic confirmed (64 previously asymptomatic) & 6,347 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 186 domestic confirmed & 5,059 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 2,411 active domestic confirmed & 91,675 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
Guizhou Province reported 12 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic, 4 at Guiyang, 2 each at Tongren & Zunyi, & 1 each at Anshun, Liupanshui, & Qiandongnan & Qiannan Prefectures) & 240 new domestic asymptomatic (61 at Guiyang, 56 at Bijie, 38 at Zunyi, 26 at Liupanshui, 19 at Qiannan Prefecture, 16 at Qiandongnan Prefecture, 15 at Tongren, & 9 at Qianxinan Prefecture) cases. 20 domestic confirmed & 55 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 222 active domestic confirmed & 1,310 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Qinghai Province reported 9 new domestic confirmed (6 previously asymptomatic, all at Xining) & 688 new domestic asymptomatic (464 at Xining, 127 at Haidong, 36 at Hainan Prefecture, 28 at Huangnan Prefecture, 16 at Haibei Prefecture, 11 at Yulshul Prefecture, & 6 at Haixi Prefecture) cases. 12 domestic confirmed & 324 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 52 active domestic confirmed & 12,286 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Tibet “Autonomous” Region reported 1 new domestic confirmed (at Chamdo) & 16 new domestic asymptomatic (6 at Lhasa, 3 each at Chamdo & Ngari Prefecture, & 2 at Nagqu) cases. 16 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The region is no longer publishing the count of active domestic positive cases.
Yunnan Province reported 173 new domestic confirmed (41 previously asymptomatic, 51 at Kunming, 39 at Dali, 28 at Zhaotong, 17 at Dêqên Prefecture, 14 at Honghe Prefecture, 5 at Baoshan, 4 at Qujing, 2 at Wenshan Prefecture, 1 each at Lijiang, Pu’er, & Dehong & Sipsongpanna Prefectures, & 9 from out of province) & 1,032 new domestic asymptomatic (421 at Kunming, 154 at Dali, 141 at Zhaotong, 108 at Yuxi, 76 at Qujing, 29 at Honghe Prefecture, 13 at Chuxiong Prefecture, 12 at Baoshan, 11 at Wenshan Prefecture, 6 at Dehong Prefecture, 4 at Lincang, 3 at Sipsongpanna Prefecture, 2 at Pu’er, 1 at Dêqên Prefecture, & 51 from out of province) cases. 40 domestic confirmed & 103 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The province is not publishing the counts of active domestic positive cases.
On 11/30, Mainland China reported 45 new imported confirmed cases (5 previously asymptomatic), 163 imported asymptomatic cases, & 0 imported suspect cases.
Overall in Mainland China, 2,877 confirmed cases recovered (85 imported), 21,981 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (89 imported) & 1,094 were reclassified as confirmed cases (5 imported), & 253,944 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 38,748 active confirmed cases in the country (736 imported), 98 in serious/critical condition (all domestic), 396,094 active asymptomatic cases (1,761 imported), 0 suspect cases. 2,076,029 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine. There have been 5,233 total COVID-19 deaths to date.
As of 12/1, 3,443.887M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 138K doses in the past 24 hrs.
As of 12/1, Hong Kong reported 9,996 new positive cases, 637 imported & 9,359 domestic, & 11 new deaths. There have been 10,773 total COVID-19 deaths to date.
On 12/1, Taiwan added 14,081 new positive cases, 62 imported & 14,019 domestic (including 10 moderate & 27 serious). There were 29 new deaths (from 50+ to 90+ y.o., actual dates of death range from 11/22 – 11/29, all have chronic underlying conditions, 8 fully vaccinated & boosted). There have been 14,416 total COVID-19 deaths to date.
RandomMonster
Still appreciate these, AL. Thank you.
NorthLeft
I don’t bother looking for or at COVID cases of in my area (SW Ontario) because self reporting is non-existent. But my wife checks on outbreaks in the area, and they are as numerous as during the Omicron outbreaks. Nursing homes, senior assisted living facilities, other group homes are really struggling. That news is especially deflating because that was supposed to be a point of emphasis since the summer of 2020.
Also, more COVID deaths in 2022 in my area in 2022, than all of 2021, or 2020. And of course the vast majority of people are acting like it’s all over. Frustrating.
Last complaint; It does not appear that there will be any reviews of our COVID response at the federal or provincial government level. I only hope that there will be some smaller reviews being carried out in public health institutions but given their current staffing issues and workload I don’t have much faith that will happen either. Very, very disappointing.
Matt McIrvin
@NorthLeft: I’ve been assuming that trends in case numbers are not really worth looking at any more since the figures are obviously heavily affected by under-testing. The clearest indication of that is in the age breakdown: in 2020 and 2021, the people most likely to get COVID were young adults, but now the cases are heavily biased toward old people, which I don’t believe for a minute. It’s just that without mass testing, COVID is primarily being detected in people who have more severe cases or are at greater risk. This also reduces the apparent effectiveness of vaccines, since older people are also the most likely to be vaccinated.
So wastewater testing and hospital figures are much more likely to be accurate indicators of where we are–wastewater as a leading indicator, hospital admissions/ICU admissions/deaths as trailing ones.
New Deal democrat
Biobot updated yesterday, and the news is not good. COVID particles increased to a 3 month high, consistent with a 100,000 increase in “real” daily new cases in the past several weeks. Cases are rising sharply in all 4 Census regions.
Confirmed cases, at 54,200, are also at a 2+ month high. Hospitalizations have risen from 24,000 to just over 30,000 in the past 2 weeks, also a 2.5 month high. Deaths remain very low for the moment at 285. Eric Topol posted a CDC graph yesterday showing a very sharp increase in hospitalizations of seniors, probably un- or under-vaccinated.
Notably, confirmed cases are rising in NY, NJ, OH, IL, IA, WI, SD, all States in the South except for possibly FL and TN, and AZ, NM, CO, NV, and CA in the West.
Later this morning the CDC will probably report that the Alphabet soup of new variants now make up about 85% of new cases.
It is clear that the winter wave has begun. Sadly, virtually all mitigation measures have disappeared. Mask-wearing is sparse, and indoor dining at restaurants (a prime vector for infections) is back to pre-pandemic levels (via opentable.com). I highly recommend that especially seniors go back to wearing masks (also to prevent flu) and skip the restaurants until this wave is over.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reported 2,375 new Covid-19 cases yesterday, for a cumulative reported total of 4,994,543 cases. It also reported 11 deaths, for an adjusted cumulative total of 36,695 deaths – 0.73% of the cumulative reported total, 0.74% of resolved cases.
28,285 Covid-19 tests were conducted on 30th November, with a positivity rate of 8.4%.
There were 24,467 active cases yesterday, 493 fewer than the day before. 1,739 were in hospital. 91 confirmed cases were in ICU; of these patients, 57 confirmed cases were on ventilators. Meanwhile, 2,857 more patients recovered, for a cumulative total of 4,933,381 patients recovered – 98.8% of the cumulative reported total.
2,371 new cases reported yesterday were local infections. Four new cases were imported.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 3,335 doses of vaccine on 1st December: 179 first doses, 139 second doses, 552 first booster doses, and 2,465 second booster doses. The cumulative total is 72,497,183 doses administered: 28,115,438 first doses, 27,526,217 second doses, 16,265,994 first booster doses, and 589,534 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 1.8% their second booster dose.
Betty
Thanks for continuing to do these updates, Annie Laurie. Still quite relevant.
YY_Sima Qian
Different parts of China are opening up a different speeds, loosening different restrictions. Some have stopped regular mass screenings altogether, others have reduced frequency, still others have closed most of the swabbing booths. Some are still requiring negative PCR test w/in 24 – 48 hrs to access public transportation, others have dropped such requirements. Some cities are now allowing asymptomatic cases to isolate at home if the situation allows (separate bedrooms & bathrooms).
OTOH, restrictions on cross-regional travel have gotten tougher. Areas with lower prevalence (such as Shenzhen in Guangdong Province) are only allowing quarantine free arrival from other parts of China w/ equally low prevalence (such as Shanghai). Arrivals from cities deemed to have high prevalence (Beijing, Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Chongqing, etc.) are transported directly to centralized quarantine hotel for 3 days, then need 5 more days of “at home” health monitoring w/ 3 – 4 PCR tests before one is allowed into the community. Hotels in Shenzhen are refusing to accept guests from high prevalence areas unless they have completed the 3+5. Needless to say, these restrictions will continue to greatly depress internal travel. However, the trend has been for low prevalence areas with drop thes onerous restrictions when they become high prevalence areas, so they may not last that long.
With the huge variation in mitigation policies, it is no longer valid to compare case data across different regions in China. Already, reported case counts are likely to be lower than actual infections in cities w/ large outbreaks, and now they will be significant undercounts w/ lifting of regular mass screenings. Case incident at Beijing and Guangzhou dropped in the last couple of days due to reduced testing, not reduced transmission. Community cases will fall as community screening becomes less frequent. I will continue to post the provincial data for a little longer, but soon such granular data is no longer of any value, I will post headline national numbers only. The numbers of watch are now active severe/critical cases, and deaths. W/ such messy situations, regional disparities in practices, much higher numbers, local authorities now have more room to deliberately depress the number of hospitalized cases & deaths, to forestall mass panic. However, the authorities will not be able to hide a health care system buckling under pressure, and a large wave of deaths. I shudder to think what will happen as COVID-19 sweeps across the rural communities, w/ their high concentration of elders w/o adult children standing by, & meager medical resources.
Home isolation for asymptomatic & mild cases has been something many people have pushed for, mostly because the conditions in the hastily constructed makeshift “hospitals” are often terrible. There have been a lot of horror stories. Now that a number of cities are starting to shift in that direction, opposing voices are bubbling up. Chinese social media are full of posts from people celebrating home isolation, and other people complaining that some under home isolation do not restrict themselves to their residents, but instead venture out into the hallways and ride elevators, leading to the rest of the residents on the floor or in the building getting infected. I think people and local authorities in China will be reminded again as to why China had not allowed home quarantine of close contacts and home isolation of positive cases for most of the pandemic. There will be increasing friction between those who want to exit from “Dynamic Zero COVID” (& mitigation in general) more quickly versus those who would have preferred to stay the course.
My wife told me that one of her friends’ parents recently had to go to the hospital in Wuhan for medical treatment, and ended up in in-patient care for a week. They looked at the situations at the hospitals and chose one they thought had lower risk of nosocomial outbreak. Well, an outbreak occurred, with over a dozen patients and caretakers testing positive on the floor the parents were staying. Quality of service/care fell precipitously because many of the hospital staff were infected & had to isolate (more were close contacts & had to quarantine). The friend tried desperately for days to move the parents to another hospital, & just managed to do so yesterday, after the lockdown of the 1st hospital was lifted. We are not that far away from medical staff having to work while positive, in order to prevent a total collapse of health care system, as had happened in many parts of the world during their 1st Omicron waves.
Naomi Wu’s criticism of the loosening process is largely right on. I would have preferred maintaining frequent mass screenings (in spite of the massive corruption associated w/ the hastily stood up industry), testing mandates to enter public spaces, health codes & travel history codes, masking mandates w/ high quality masks, have entertainment venues & eateries operate at reduced capacity. Masking guidance still has not been updated to N95/KN95s! Do away w/ all the spraying of disinfectants, all the temperature checks, all the wide area soft lockdowns, & only voluntary centralized quarantines or makeshift hospitals stays.
It’s going to be a chaotic and brutal few months. Wish us luck, & see you on the other side!
OzarkHillbilly
That last twit, how to say, “I don’t have the first clue of how the immune system works.” without saying, “I don’t have the first clue of how the immune system works.”
Percysowner
Grandkid is home today, not because of COVID, but because the Proud Boys are targeting the school due to a scheduled Drag Story Time tomorrow, but all the kids have to test for COVID on Monday. One of her schoolmates came down with it last week. Kiddo is vaccinated and doesn’t have symptoms, so knock wood everything will be clear on Monday.
Suzanne
@YY_Sima Qian:
If Chinese hospitals are anything like American hospitals — and I have no reason to think otherwise in this regard — nosocomial infections are unavoidable.
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
Those ‘centrist’ hot takes are from pundits who lean right or younger people who’ve had mild cases and are still lowkey mad their social lives were disrupted by COVID restrictions.
YY_Sima Qian
@Suzanne: Chinese hospitals typically are much more crowded than US hospitals (even those in inner cities). Nosocomial outbreak will be very common, now that many parts of China has shifted from containment to mitigation. I told everyone I know in China to avoid hospitals in the coming months, delays procedures if at all possible, and pray not to have any medical emergencies.
Honus
DeSantis (or one of his spokespersons) said this week that their purge of school district superintendents that imposed mask mandates was punishment for them “spitting in the faces of parents”
The fact is that these school officials defied a big government bully and risked their jobs in order to protect the children in their care.
DeSantis is a pig.
Starfish
@Matt McIrvin: My sister who survived cancer in 2021 went to the Boston area to visit my aunt, a medical professional in the Boston area, who has not gotten the new booster.
There are a lot of “What does fully vaccinated mean?” spaces where people who got earlier shots are not getting the more recent one.
Starfish
@Matt McIrvin: Now, the people who are getting tested are the ones who are hospitalized.
Cameron
No question that Ron Johnson is a liar (and an asshole), but his statement that the vaccines don’t prevent infection or transmission is true.
Starfish
@OzarkHillbilly: I know people who are fully vaccinated who have had COVID-19 twice. It is a miracle that he has only gotten COVID-19 twice so far. I wouldn’t be so hard on that dude.
Starfish
@Percysowner: Wow. That school is still being transparent about COVID in the schools. Our district dropped that this year and doesn’t test any of the kids anymore.
Starfish
@Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony: Please quit being so hard on the kids.
The pandemic did have an impact on their health.
During a time when they mostly socialize with their peers, they could not.
RevRick
What idiots like Lawrence Fox don’t seem to understand is that our immune system comes in two layers. The first layer is the innate response of trying to expel the infection ( including parasites) by such things as coughing, sneezing, vomiting, diarrhea, and fever. The second layer is the learned response of the blood born arsenal of t-cells and white blood cells and the like. This system identifies key chemical signatures of the invading virus, and “remembers” it so that the body can produce the antibodies that say “when you see this, kill it.”
The key point is this part of the immune system has to learn the enemy by exposure, and the value of vaccinations is that the body gets to learn before it becomes dangerously infected by the natural virus.
But stupid is as stupid does.
Lapassionara
@New Deal democrat: ditto. I wear a mask when I go shopping for essentials, do not dine in restaurants, and have not been in a theater or concert hall since the pandemic began. Most people I see out and about do not wear masks.
Thank you, AL, for these updates.
Starfish
@RevRick: I don’t have to deal with stupid people so closely so one-off cases of stupidity don’t bother me as much as “we are denying our infant necessary heart surgery because we want only unvaccinated blood for the surgery.”
jonas
I’ve heard some perfectly intelligent people who were not at all adverse to getting the first round of vaccines express skepticism at the new bivalent boosters because they see stuff on Twitter or on Facebook from “reputable” reporters retweeting stories with clickbaity headlines like “New Covid variant may be 10x more infectious than earlier ones; can evade new booster!” and think, oh, I guess they don’t work, then.
I live and work in a community where virtually everybody is vaxxed and 2x-boosted, so we’ve only had occasional and very mild cases of Covid pop up. What everyone seems to have is a goddamn cold that never goes away. Maybe having had Covid in the past year or two (which most of us have) makes regular old colds “stickier” for some reason?
Leslie
@hells littlest angel: Seriously. I really liked that show.
@Starfish: WTAF.
kalakal
@Starfish: Oh I’m quite happy to be hard on Laurence Fox. He’s a UK equivalent of a MAGA grifter. Despite being a successful actor he started whining he was being cancelled by an unfair ‘woke system’ and he never stood a chance. As his dad is James Fox and his uncle is Edward it’s fair to say the ‘ system’ is stacked in his favour. He then went into pro Brexit, antivax, right wing twaddle. He founded his own political party – Reclaim which he describes as “UKIP for culture” and stood for Lord Mayor of London finishing 6th out of 5 candidates, getting less votes than a parking meter*. It’s a shame because he does have talent but he’s become a complete tosser
* This bit may not be true
Suzanne
@YY_Sima Qian: Nosocomial infections are a huge issue in US hospitals, even with the larger spatial requirements we have. So since we can’t control it, I can’t imagine that China would do any better.
HVAC systems are not designed for what we would need to do to genuinely control respiratory illness.
Starfish
@kalakal: That context is edifying. Thank you.
arrieve
It’s anecdata, but in my limited circles, the onset of cold weather has brought an increase in cases. For months no one I knew got Covid, and now there are cases every week. I am finishing up a master’s program in TESOL so I’m teaching all day on Saturdays, and students, fellow teachers, and my advisor have all gotten sick in the past few weeks. CUNY requires that everyone be vaccinated (though I don’t know if that includes boosters) so fortunately all of the cases have been very mild, and no one has been sick for more than a week. I wish they still required masks, though….
eachother
Thank you everyone. This recurring article is very important to me.
Two calls this morning from Friends that just got Covid. One for the third time.
Invitations to gatherings are being given. Before Covid, every year for many years running holiday celebrations. Traditional stuff. A vision of laying my head on the block for chopping comes to mind.
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@Cameron: “Um, actually”, this is technically true (just highly misleading).
This pedantry helps cloud what should be a simple message. Get your fucking booster. Help your Nana get one. We can’t beat Covid with “um, actually”.
CaseyL
I’m supposed to go to a work holiday party tomorrow evening, and it looks like a TERRIFIC event so I really want to go.
But today I have sniffles, sore throat, and mildly swollen glands. I’ve had every shot you can get – Covid boosters, flu shot, even the pneumonia shot – so here’s hoping what I’ve got is just a reaction to the weather (very very cold, and snowy-rainy) or the heater (turned on after many months disuse).
Eolirin
@Formerly disgruntled in Oregon: It’s technically false. The booster and the vaccine do prevent infection and transmission, just not 100% of the time. He didn’t say it doesn’t always prevent infection or transmission, which would be true (and is important to note so that people still do things like wear masks and avoid crowds during spikes). He implied it doesn’t at all, which is very wrong.
Never mind the difference in severity when you do get sick.
opiejeanne
@CaseyL: Change your filter? I think we need to change ours again.
agorabum
As long as you don’t spend time in a poorly ventilated area with a deer, you should be ok
Matt McIrvin
@Starfish: Yes, though comparing hospitalizations between this year and last year is at least apples to apples, whereas comparing case counts is not.
Matt McIrvin
@Eolirin: The trouble is that non-experts use all-or-nothing thinking and want guarantees, and there are no guarantees.
Does vaccination prevent infection well enough that you don’t have to do anything else to be safe? It does not. Does it prevent infection well enough that it would have a major effect on collective transmission rates if everyone got vaccinated and boosted? It actually does! But good luck getting people to get boosted.
Matt McIrvin
@jonas: RSV, influenza and colds are all out in force, maybe in part because the past couple of seasons of relative isolation and masking mean there’s less resistance from prior infection (and most people aren’t doing any of that stuff now).
EthylEster
I haven’t read all the comments so I apologize if this has already been covered.
Two interesting NYT articles on Covid and China. Both resonate with what YY_Sima Quia has posted recently. (These gift articles have impressive links.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/01/opinion/china-has-an-extraordinary-covid-19-dilemma.html?unlocked_article_code=d9CO4JpXIdBox6xTpIGuQ3XJvnJ0FE62RePMwFyAcCzVMM8f9Kss9JirEHTCQNNZQLFfW8FGp4Dmq7ChtVO2BpPeOWOgUWpbzH1YpbD0OpEcXC9MrhvbgH3cVCFM3ERmkVZ1v_oJEp_60vypFbDzzR5DpYypIaLjIee1vBGTWayLHG-zRGY6QsRh2q9JLqvqDC61HW_PnUxGbnALKyNUshBEuk50ifbiVMwX4RSk4cvDbTmnJatoUXZ0sA_YHY1pcnfKZuWBViWZzPrjK0cDJ06E-5-Aqbrwzsq80TQM4HWTXomH1oiuw_vy4BPWYMuFNEJ4D9YBwvtmNYWPXlpvPCrpQCF2mU9pvYwWXOF2xl3zFLoaSQ&smid=share-url
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/health/china-covid-lockdowns.html?unlocked_article_code=Kl4epg_f9psU-6BT9YoCIyY1Hi5IexTdTZhVm5rp-xVPL7fRuBx7QUFX2Zt9JmYXrPbQIZSpHXhVP0LwAn8pXFo25fJ8Up1XcE6MlkhYRBwERopAZ-wTMalvE84jCyH3stpcHC_MmzqWk775I6jONMzpyUkPLRo2ko88Er-6EYe78rTVAoxnSFv_OJ9V1UqAAXS5zbnQVIQ-WjrWFgH7G6wNVN6b4-mpfVXPP6Zs68tbBL-hXg_69WT_B_O8HiJ4pfK2cWFQRkoq5ZGKchiJO3aKQoMhMB2KCP39SlNrFC2_te9ZpjgfjDXif35YBe2HLjVYqnNIiQnZwEqf7Ys&smid=share-url
YY_Sima Qian
@EthylEster: These are indeed excellent articles that try to capture the myriad aspects of the dilemma for China. Now that China has actually started down the road of pivoting to mitigation, and the world will share in the consequences & ramifications, MSMs are now finally interviewing scientists and healthcare experts. Imagine that!
The problem w/ fortifying hospitals as a solution is that it takes years to increase ICU capacity, & much longer to train the doctors & nurses to staff the ICUs, They will come in handy for the next pandemic, not this one, unless China managed to stay the course of DZC for a decade. Furthermore, modeling suggests that the exit wave in China would create demand for ICUs that is 10 – 16X of current capacity. China magically doubling ICU capacity in the past 3 years only delays collapse of healthcare system by a couple of weeks in an exit wave. And how many countries (ZC or non-ZC) has actually managed to increase hospital capacity through the pandemic? My (possibly erroneous) impression is that the US & the UK have actually seen health care capacity drop, as exhausted nurses flee the profession.
James Palmer is on the money in terms of the obstacles toward vaccinating the remaining reluctant elders. It means one should be skeptical whether the Chinese government can reach the announced goal of vaccinating 90% of the > 80 y.o. cohort by end of Jan., it also means the the blithe comments that the Chinese government could have accomplished this goal by now if only it tried harder are misleading.
Hong Kong’s elderly vaccination uptake was quite a bit lower than China’s current levels when the Omicron wave hit in Mar. (China was only slightly better than Hong Kong back in Mar., the vaccination drive from spring to summer did make some progress.) Taiwan’s elderly uptake was not much better than China’s current levels when the exit wave hit in May. The reluctant elders in these places finally vaccinated when the risk of infection soared. One hopes the same dynamic will play out in China.