A new study from the CDC suggests that 96% of Americans have some degree of immunity against #Covid https://t.co/xg7hxxiuON pic.twitter.com/iqkoGgwjUu
— delthia ricks š¬ (@DelthiaRicks) June 2, 2023
Novavax Inc's head of research and development on Monday said an updated COVID-19 vaccine the company is already producing is likely to be protective against other fast-growing coronavirus variants circulating in the U.S. https://t.co/itJXYmJeEj
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) June 6, 2023
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved Cue Health's at-home COVID-19 test, the first coronavirus test to get marketing authorization using a traditional premarket review, the agency said. https://t.co/XuFOZbxANF
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) June 7, 2023
The bad news: There’s a drive to ‘forget’, or at least minimize, just how bad this global pandemic got here in the United States. No worse than a bad flu season! Govt overreach! Panicky lie-brals getting over their skis!…
i get that things were different in different places but when i "walked outside" there were a bunch of fucking morgue trucks on my walk to the subway https://t.co/hgtID6DdJU
— flglmn (@flglmn) June 3, 2023
honestly fucked up that so many people died of covid but barely anybody powerful did. the world would be better off if we lost 10,000 chris lichts in the pandemic. https://t.co/fpSnPFCCtV
— Michael (@_FleerUltra) June 3, 2023
If you squint… for the people in Chris Licht’s circles, maybe the pandemic wasn’t so terrible. Sure, there were a bad few weeks where everyone was panicking, but once you established your base refuge at the summer place, got all the delivery services lined up and fortified the wifi networks, it could mostly be regarded as an inconvenience. No parties, no business schmoozing, your kids (if you had them) were hanging around 24/7, the help kept disappearing with lame excuses like ‘just been intubated’ or ‘relatives all dying / dead’, there were unpredictable shortages of your preferred brands — nothing that couldn’t have been handled, if not for a lack of will. And if you know, deep down, that this was a terrible three years made worse by intersecting social failures… Forgetting is a balm to the conscience!
So much of Covid discussion today takes place as if March/April 2020- when hospitals were full of people dying and on ventilators because of Covid – never happened.
Well it did. I was there.
And I won't forget it even if you will.
— Neil Stone (@DrNeilStone) January 21, 2023
I think we locked down because Covid was killing 600 ppl a week in New York in early April 2020. https://t.co/1K8214xsMG
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) June 5, 2023
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Critics call them paranoid; they call themselves prudent.
These Chinese people are continuing to observe strict zero-covid rules amid a new surge of infections. https://t.co/Qsb5gMMi02
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 6, 2023
Switzerland:
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United Kingdom:
Troubling that there continues to be an excess but there is no non-Covid excess mortality this week.
The CMI has calculated that there was a large non-Covid excess in Jan 2023 (likely due to the flu spike). But since Feb, the cumulative excess mortality is explained by Covid. https://t.co/FKsob48tiQ pic.twitter.com/wL7NeaTR3t
— Adele Groyer (@AdeleGroyer) June 6, 2023
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#LongCovid's cognitive/depressive symptoms likely tied to brain inflammation. PET scans suggest the presence of gliosisāglial cell enlargement due to viral brain injury. Unlike healthy controls, a gliosis marker was high in those w/neurocognitive symptoms https://t.co/dZfBFxagfi
— delthia ricks š¬ (@DelthiaRicks) June 1, 2023
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Stopping routine hospital admission Covid testing
was associated with significant increases in hospital-onset #SARSCoV2 infections@JAMAInternalMed https://t.co/mW1fBF530H pic.twitter.com/aqShFSJZ8y— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) June 5, 2023
Just an amazing look at what #Covid did to the lungs of some of the people who caught it early on. https://t.co/LxEQD2FvEl
— Helen Branswell šŗš¦ (@HelenBranswell) June 1, 2023
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Remember that recent ‘cold’ that just wouldn’t go away?
.@JHSPH_CHS āItās not possible to distinguish #HMPV clinically from #influenza,ā says Senior Scholar @AmeshAA
āHMPV is a cause of āthe coldāāwhich is a syndrome that caused by many different viruses.ā https://t.co/dsCr5hchg2
— Global Health Observ (@GlobalPHObserv) June 1, 2023
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The % Americans age 65 and older who were Novids at that time was much higher than younger age groups. This adds to the risk profile for people of advanced age (lack of hybrid immunity added to immunosenescence) pic.twitter.com/tJoBlTjhfc
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) June 1, 2023
Thread: there’s one person in Ohio…
First, the signal is almost always present in the Columbus Southerly sewershed, but not always at Washington Court House. I assume this means the person lives in Columbus and travels to WCH, presumably for work.
2/ pic.twitter.com/y2oojzs6lO— Marc Johnson (@SolidEvidence) June 4, 2023
There was a scare story about wastewater viral levels in NYC:
I looked to verify the claims that NYC is having high community spread and found that it's an accidental misinterpretation of the WW data. The data comes from ONE WW service, who recently significantly increased sensitivity to their methodology. pic.twitter.com/9Mwfj4odtW
— JWeiland (@JPWeiland) June 3, 2023
Has there been an uptick from a very low baseline? Maybe? Sort of hard to tell either way with any confidence. Another week or so of data will help deterimne if it's starting to increase again. Even if numbers have returned to April levels, April was still very low in NYC
— JWeiland (@JPWeiland) June 3, 2023
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rikyrah
Thanks AL.
Baud
Same old, same old.
Of a piece with “no one had a problem with Pride until they went too far!”
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY:
17 new cases on 05/31/23.
16 new cases on 06/01/23.
19 new cases on 06/02/23.
18 new cases on 06/03/23.
16 new cases on 06/04/23.
8 new cases on 06/05/23.
11 new cases on 06/06/23.
Deaths now at 2276, up 7 since last week.
Matt McIrvin
I think the dramatically different early experience in the Northeast and especially NYC, in contrast to the rest of the country, was part of the problem. For most of the country, COVID in spring 2020 was not their problem and it was killing people red-staters had active contempt for. The Trump administration saw it as an opportunity to kill a bunch of Democrats by just doing nothing.
Matt McIrvin
I do think the exponential decay has stopped in the northeast US and we’re at some kind of constant very low simmer with occasional outbreaks. XBB keeps diversifying but none of the variants really blows up–feels like it’s banging on the door, testing the locks. We could be heading into a new summer wave but it’s hard to tell.
MazeDancer
Thank you as always, Anne Laurie.
Amir Khalid
Malaysiaās Ministry of Health reported 569 new Covid-19 cases on 3rd June, for a cumulative reported total of 5,104,772 cases. 567 of these new cases were local infections; two new cases were imported. It also reported no deaths, for an adjusted cumulative total of 37,100 deaths ā 0.73% of the cumulative reported total, 0.73% of resolved cases.
8,190 Covid-19 tests were conducted on 3rd June, with a positivity rate of 7.7%.
There were 17,316 active cases on 3rd June, 276 fewer than the day before. 926 were in hospital. 222 confirmed cases were in ICU; of these patients, 15 confirmed cases were on ventilators. Meanwhile, 845 patients recovered, for a cumulative total of 5,050,356 patients recovered ā 99.0% of the cumulative reported total.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 135 doses of vaccine on 6th June: nine first doses, 12 second doses, 85 first booster doses, and 29 second booster doses. The cumulative total is 72,849,276 doses administered: 28,137,601 first doses, 27,550,479 second doses, 16,336,716 first booster doses, and 824,480 second booster doses. 86.2% of the population have received their first dose, 84.4% their second dose, 50.0% their first booster dose, and 2.5% their second booster dose.
New Deal democrat
Biobot updated yesterday, showing 192 particles per mL, the lowest in the past 22 months except for March 2022. All 4 census regions participated in the decline. Unfortunately Biobot data may also be becoming more unreliable, as a fair percentage of sources have stopped updating in the past few months.
Hospitalizations are down to 7500, an all-time pandemic low. Deaths as of the last reliable week, May 6, were also down to an all-time pandemic low of 849.
The CDC did not update variants last week. The next update will be this Friday.
The destruction of data reporting is disturbing. But the reliable data we do have is very good news: it is getting towards mid-June and there is not even a summer wavelet in sight. Crossing fingers with lots of intensity, but it appears that with XBB, COVID finally evolved itself into a cul-de-sac.
Manyakitty
Meanwhile, I’m waiting for the next booster. To my knowledge, I’ve managed to avoid it thus far and hope to continue that.
Burrowing Owl
Thank you for keeping up the Covid information posts. I dreamed last night that I was unmasked inside in a crowd and woke up stressed until I realized it was a dream.
lowtechcyclist
@Matt McIrvin:
Thing is, by the summer of 2020, it was everyone else’s problem too.Ā It spread rapidly in the Sun Belt during the ‘stay inside in the A/C’ time of year, and the Sturgis motorcycle rally did a good job of spreading Covid through the northern Plains and Rocky Mountain states.
Speaking of the Sun Belt, according to Worldometer, Arizona is the #1 state in total Covid deaths per capita, and New Mexico, Oklahoma, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee are all in the top dozen.Ā (Not sure how Texas is #33 by this measure with all its neighbors near the top of the list.Ā I’d like to see their excess death numbers for 2020-2022.)
Anyhow, anyone arguing that the Covid pandemic was really no big deal and the response was government overreach can go fuck themselves, AFAIAC.Ā When it first showed up, it was spreading very very fast wherever it spread, because of course nobody had any resistance to this virus.Ā It made far more sense to risk overreacting than risk underreacting, at a potential cost of God only knows how many more lives ended.
Especially all those ‘pro-life’ evangelicals can go fuck themselves. To quote a certain fictional robot, “Life! Don’t talk to me about life.” That’s all I have to say to them.
Jay
Last weekend, we got our spring booster shots. Kinda freaked us out, because they came out of the blue on the health app. Despite staying up to date and hitting the MOH website weekly, we had no idea if one would be available. The MOH seemed to be “stuck” in deciding between spring or fall.
Got the bing on the phone, booked shots asap, got shots the next day.
Yeah, arms hurt, (for us they always do, shingles vax was worse)
So just the pneumonia shot to go, until the fall.
BTW, according to the MOH. I am officially Metis, just because the love of my life is.
arrieve
@Matt McIrvin: Even among my liberal, well-educated friends away from the Northeast, there is a real disconnect when I refer back to the spring of 2020 here in NYC. It was bad. Very, very, very bad. People I knew were hospitalized and some of them died. I spent weeks in my tiny apartment rarely seeing another human being. And there were ambulance sirens 24 hours a day.
I had a minor procedure a few months ago and a very loud ambulance came by outside. I said I still break out in a cold sweat when I hear an ambulance at night, and the surgeon said, “We all have PTSD from those days. I can’t stand to hear sirens either.”
I don’t think about Covid all the time, thankfully. But I’m never going to be able to forget it.
glc
Meanwhile, my wife got her first case and tested negative after 9 days of positivity (to be retested tomorrow for confirmation). Boosted and reboosted, plus immediate paxlovid from a 24-hour pharmacy after a Sunday teleconsult, and definitely a mild case.Ā (We were aware of exposure and tested at the first symptoms. In retrospect we should probably have tested a bit sooner as apparently incubation periods are quite short these days. Very strong signal showing up in a few minutes, no “faint red lines” at any point, then a clean negative.)Ā I’m still in the Novid category – we have enough room to isolate pretty effectively.
Once again, this seems like a good time to express my appreciation for this regular series of posts. When I started following Cole’s blog I never expected it to become a source of information that I would depend on. But that development goes back a long time now.
moonbat
Anne,
I should tell you that I am ever grateful for these periodic updates. You are my most reliable and comprehensive Covid news aggregator and are largely responsible for keeping me prepared and sane over the last three years.
I’m still a Novid. (fingers crossed, wood knocked and all that!) Thank you.