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Re: Coronavirus Weekly Update
« Reply #700 on: September 04, 2021, 10:01:54 AM »
There are only 24 greek letters and mu is already the 12th. I hope someone is thinking about what we do once we hit 24 named variants.

WHO has already mentioned using the names of constellations. I can only hope they're planning to use the original names and not the English versions since that would sound both unserious and confusing. "I have some bad news. Grandma has The Little Bear and the doctor says it's probably going to kill her."

Okay, that makes sense. Assuming we skip over "cancer" and "lupus" for obvious reasons that means another 86 potential variant names. May more than I would have guessed, which makes sense ow that I think about it since I don't know any of the southern hemisphere constellations. Thanks.

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« Reply #701 on: September 04, 2021, 06:23:11 PM »
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« Reply #702 on: September 04, 2021, 07:45:09 PM »
Interesting (in a bad way) stats from CDC: 23% of all deaths last month in the 40-49 age group were covid-related. (Compared to pandemic average of 10%). That’s a similar rate to the 70+ age group (who are more likely to be vaccinated).

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#SexAndAge

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« Reply #703 on: September 05, 2021, 09:33:44 AM »
Interesting (in a bad way) stats from CDC: 23% of all deaths last month in the 40-49 age group were covid-related. (Compared to pandemic average of 10%). That’s a similar rate to the 70+ age group (who are more likely to be vaccinated).

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#SexAndAge

Old enough to already be vulnerable, young enough to still feel invincible.

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« Reply #704 on: September 05, 2021, 09:50:27 AM »
Actually looking at monthly deaths, a big contributor the large jump in the percent of all 40-49 year old deaths explained by coronavirus in the last month was a drop in total deaths for that age bracket (7,000 some instead of 10,000+). That works out to only ~5,500 non-coronavirus related deaths in August vs ~10,000 in every other month. Not sure if that represents reporting lag with many more August deaths left to be added to the August totals or if these are finalized numbers for the month already and something about this August resulted in many fewer deaths from other causes than from other months this summer or last summer.

The absolute death numbers from coronavirus are already plenty big. August '21 was 4th highest number of coronavirus deaths month for 40-49 year olds since the pandemic started. (I couldn't get April of 2020 in the screenshot with August of 2021 which is the 3rd month along with Dec '20 and Jan '21 where more total 40-49 year olds died from the coronavirus). 


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« Reply #705 on: September 05, 2021, 10:09:58 AM »
Actually looking at monthly deaths, a big contributor the large jump in the percent of all 40-49 year old deaths explained by coronavirus in the last month was a drop in total deaths for that age bracket (7,000 some instead of 10,000+). That works out to only ~5,500 non-coronavirus related deaths in August vs ~10,000 in every other month. Not sure if that represents reporting lag with many more August deaths left to be added to the August totals or if these are finalized numbers for the month already and something about this August resulted in many fewer deaths from other causes than from other months this summer or last summer.

The absolute death numbers from coronavirus are already plenty big. August '21 was 4th highest number of coronavirus deaths month for 40-49 year olds since the pandemic started. (I couldn't get April of 2020 in the screenshot with August of 2021 which is the 3rd month along with Dec '20 and Jan '21 where more total 40-49 year olds died from the coronavirus). 



Given that all other monthly totals were above 10k, even a year ago when we were having a much smaller COVID surge, I suspect that it’s a reporting lag. The actual numbers from the last week of the month may be delayed a bit further due to the holiday weekend. I’d be curious to see what the August 2021 numbers look like in a couple of weeks after the various reporting agencies have caught up.

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« Reply #706 on: September 05, 2021, 10:44:07 AM »
Yup, reporting lag for sure... these were the same type of numbers that were used for the memes showing YTD 2020 were the same as YTD 2019 as of December... when final numbers came in, 2020 was 18% higher that any prior year.  Don't trust the numbers for the last 3 months or so, but for sure the most recent month... these numbers will increase greatly. 

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« Reply #707 on: September 05, 2021, 12:40:40 PM »
Good point in the all causes discrepancy. Even assuming the total deaths stays around 10k, already we’d be at 17% from coronavirus - point being as you mentioned, it is a significant cause of mortality. I think in a normal society if there’s a 17% mortality from one single easy-to-prevent thing, the population as a whole would do that thing that prevents it.

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« Reply #708 on: September 05, 2021, 02:50:53 PM »
Good point in the all causes discrepancy. Even assuming the total deaths stays around 10k, already we’d be at 17% from coronavirus - point being as you mentioned, it is a significant cause of mortality. I think in a normal society if there’s a 17% mortality from one single easy-to-prevent thing, the population as a whole would do that thing that prevents it.

One would have thought so. One thing I've learned over the last 18 months is that the phrase "avoid it like the plague" is meaningless in modern US society.

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« Reply #709 on: September 09, 2021, 09:15:37 PM »
This may be a little early, but it looks like the southeast is cresting the current wave and some states are on the early part of a down-slope finally. It is spreading north-wards through the Midwest, though.



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« Reply #710 on: September 10, 2021, 09:43:04 AM »
Actually looking at monthly deaths, a big contributor the large jump in the percent of all 40-49 year old deaths explained by coronavirus in the last month was a drop in total deaths for that age bracket (7,000 some instead of 10,000+). That works out to only ~5,500 non-coronavirus related deaths in August vs ~10,000 in every other month. Not sure if that represents reporting lag with many more August deaths left to be added to the August totals or if these are finalized numbers for the month already and something about this August resulted in many fewer deaths from other causes than from other months this summer or last summer.

The absolute death numbers from coronavirus are already plenty big. August '21 was 4th highest number of coronavirus deaths month for 40-49 year olds since the pandemic started. (I couldn't get April of 2020 in the screenshot with August of 2021 which is the 3rd month along with Dec '20 and Jan '21 where more total 40-49 year olds died from the coronavirus). 



"Deaths from all causes" is now up to 9,825 for August 2021 for that age group.

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« Reply #711 on: September 10, 2021, 09:59:52 AM »
Good point in the all causes discrepancy. Even assuming the total deaths stays around 10k, already we’d be at 17% from coronavirus - point being as you mentioned, it is a significant cause of mortality. I think in a normal society if there’s a 17% mortality from one single easy-to-prevent thing, the population as a whole would do that thing that prevents it.

One would have thought so. One thing I've learned over the last 18 months is that the phrase "avoid it like the plague" is meaningless in modern US society.
Does that mean avoid it using medieval strategies and superstitions? If so, we've got it licked. 

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« Reply #712 on: September 10, 2021, 10:11:24 AM »
Good point in the all causes discrepancy. Even assuming the total deaths stays around 10k, already we’d be at 17% from coronavirus - point being as you mentioned, it is a significant cause of mortality. I think in a normal society if there’s a 17% mortality from one single easy-to-prevent thing, the population as a whole would do that thing that prevents it.

One would have thought so. One thing I've learned over the last 18 months is that the phrase "avoid it like the plague" is meaningless in modern US society.
Does that mean avoid it using medieval strategies and superstitions? If so, we've got it licked.

Ha, fair point. Some parts of society don't seem to have advanced much beyond 1348 in terms of belief in superstition and lack of understanding of the germ theory of disease.

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« Reply #713 on: September 10, 2021, 10:40:44 AM »
This may be a little early, but it looks like the southeast is cresting the current wave and some states are on the early part of a down-slope finally. It is spreading north-wards through the Midwest, though.

If the report from Israel regarding immunity after contraction and recovery from Covid is accurate, it's possible that between the number of vaccinations and high number of those who have contracted and recovered (or died for that matter) from Covid in the southeast, we may be seeing the very beginnings of some sort of herd immunity.

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« Reply #714 on: September 10, 2021, 10:46:03 AM »
This may be a little early, but it looks like the southeast is cresting the current wave and some states are on the early part of a down-slope finally. It is spreading north-wards through the Midwest, though.

If the report from Israel regarding immunity after contraction and recovery from Covid is accurate, it's possible that between the number of vaccinations and high number of those who have contracted and recovered (or died for that matter) from Covid in the southeast, we may be seeing the very beginnings of some sort of herd immunity.

I sincerely hope so. Between vaccination and the rapid spread of Delta, it seems plausible for the first time.

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« Reply #715 on: September 10, 2021, 12:45:27 PM »
Btw, the U.S. share of worldwide reported covid deaths has dipped below 15% (~14.6%).

~1 in every 500 Americans has died of covid.

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« Reply #716 on: September 10, 2021, 01:13:01 PM »
Btw, the U.S. share of worldwide reported covid deaths has dipped below 15% (~14.6%).

~1 in every 500 Americans has died of covid.

Yikes.

(Because I know that the numbers are important: Worldometer states 674,795 total US COVID deaths as of 5 minutes ago. The Census.gov Population Clock estimates a US population of 332,730,964. [Total US covid deaths/US population]*100 = 0.2%.)

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« Reply #717 on: September 10, 2021, 02:03:47 PM »
Btw, the U.S. share of worldwide reported covid deaths has dipped below 15% (~14.6%).

~1 in every 500 Americans has died of covid.

Yikes.

(Because I know that the numbers are important: Worldometer states 674,795 total US COVID deaths as of 5 minutes ago. The Census.gov Population Clock estimates a US population of 332,730,964. [Total US covid deaths/US population]*100 = 0.2%.)

Which makes sense considering 1/500 = 0.2% :)

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« Reply #718 on: September 10, 2021, 03:17:00 PM »
Btw, the U.S. share of worldwide reported covid deaths has dipped below 15% (~14.6%).

~1 in every 500 Americans has died of covid.

Yikes.

(Because I know that the numbers are important: Worldometer states 674,795 total US COVID deaths as of 5 minutes ago. The Census.gov Population Clock estimates a US population of 332,730,964. [Total US covid deaths/US population]*100 = 0.2%.)

Which makes sense considering 1/500 = 0.2% :)

Yes. But there's always someone who complains about not seeing the numbers.

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« Reply #719 on: September 10, 2021, 08:42:04 PM »
You’re right. I had to go do the math myself.

Locally, we’re closer to 1 out of 1,000, but a few more weeks of high numbers will sadly bring us closer to the national average.

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« Reply #720 on: September 10, 2021, 09:44:12 PM »
Distribution of cases (6 to 36%) and deaths (0.09-0.87%) is quite variable across counties here in Texas:

Hardest hit with deaths are the very rural counties with <10k populations (almost 1% of the population has died so far in some areas). Many of these are ongoing with very low vaccination rates (<30% in most cases). I don't think this is statistical sampling error since these death and vaccination rates are consistent across the very rural counties in the state.

Out of counties with >50k people, Maverick and Starr counties on the Rio Grande were hit hardest (0.7 and 0.5% of the entire population has died so far). Many of these were before vaccines were readily available, and now their vaccination rates are among the highest in Texas (>50% vaccinated).


Relatively spared are the largest cities  (Austin, Houston, Dallas):
Around Austin: 8.5-11% and 0.09-0.16%
Houston: 10-13% and 0.10-0.16%
Dallas-Forth Worth: 11-15% and 0.09-0.19%
San Antonio: 14% and 0.21%

These areas also have >50% vaccination rates. So there's an order of magnitude difference in death rates between counties.


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« Reply #722 on: September 20, 2021, 09:53:16 AM »
Actually looking at monthly deaths, a big contributor the large jump in the percent of all 40-49 year old deaths explained by coronavirus in the last month was a drop in total deaths for that age bracket (7,000 some instead of 10,000+). That works out to only ~5,500 non-coronavirus related deaths in August vs ~10,000 in every other month. Not sure if that represents reporting lag with many more August deaths left to be added to the August totals or if these are finalized numbers for the month already and something about this August resulted in many fewer deaths from other causes than from other months this summer or last summer.

The absolute death numbers from coronavirus are already plenty big. August '21 was 4th highest number of coronavirus deaths month for 40-49 year olds since the pandemic started. (I couldn't get April of 2020 in the screenshot with August of 2021 which is the 3rd month along with Dec '20 and Jan '21 where more total 40-49 year olds died from the coronavirus). 



"Deaths from all causes" is now up to 9,825 for August 2021 for that age group.



Still some backdating happening.  August 2021 was by far the worst month for covid deaths among 40-49 year olds in the U.S.  Ditto for the 30-39 year old cohort.

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« Reply #723 on: September 20, 2021, 10:53:22 AM »
Looks like additional deaths continue to be added as far back as January (although only one in that month). So that suggests that, while we have a floor for how bad deaths were in August right now, it'll likely continue to get worse as more reports trickle in at least through the end of this year.

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« Reply #724 on: September 24, 2021, 02:36:15 PM »
Haven't done the full update in a while. Definitely no longer a "weekly" update as I was getting burnout from all the data.
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USA % of the worldwide population.  331 Million of 7.8 Billion =  4.24%

3/26/20 -1070 deaths of 22993 deaths worldwide = 4.65%
4/2/20   -5148 US deaths of 49236 deaths worldwide = 10.46%
4/9/20   -16129 US deaths of 94807 deaths worldwide = 17.01%
4/16/20 -32826 deaths of 143725 deaths worldwide = 22.84%
4/23/20 -46851 deaths of 185434 deaths worldwide = 25.27%
4/30/20 -61547 deaths of 230615 deaths worldwide = 26.69%  ---> Why isn't this going down yet? Because we are STILL SURGING as a country despite measures to open up the economy right now.
5/07/20  -73573 deaths of 264602 deaths worldwide = 27.81%
5/14/20 -84144 deaths of 297682 deaths worldwide = 28.26% --> still surging, folks
5/21/20 -93606 deaths of 329300 deaths worldwide =28.42% --> have we hit a peak relative to the rest of the world?
5/28/20 -100442 deaths of 356131 deaths worldwide = 28.20%
6/4/20   -107685 deaths of 387634 deaths worldwide = 27.78%
6/11/20 -113038 deaths
6/18/20 -117783 deaths of 449965 deaths worldwide = 26.17%
6/25/20 -126823 deaths
7/2/20 -128184 deaths of 517162 deaths worldwide = 24.79 %
7/9/20 -132498 deaths of 550689 deaths worldwide = 24.06 %
7/16/20 -137420 deaths of 584990 deaths worldwide = 23.49 %
7/23/20 -143224 deaths of 624370 deaths worldwide = 22.94 %
7/30/20 -151077 deaths of 667935 deaths worldwide = 22.62 %
8/7/20 -160111 deaths of 715555 deaths worldwide = 22.38 %
8/13/20 -166361 deaths of 750744 deaths worldwide = 22.16%
8/20/20 -173241 deaths of 788803 deaths worldwide = 21.96%
8/27/20 -179977 deaths of 827110 deaths worldwide = 21.76%
9/3/20 -186018 deaths of 864153 deaths worldwide = 21.53%
9/10/20 -191168 deaths of 905089 deaths worldwide = 21.12%
9/17/20 -196912 deaths of 941862 deaths worldwide = 20.91%
9/24/20 -202170 deaths of 977881 deaths worldwide = 20.67%
10/1/20 -207331 deaths of 1016050 deaths worldwide = 20.41%
10/08/20 -212420 deaths of 1058698 deaths worldwide = 20.06%
10/15/20 -217155 deaths of 1093921 = 19.85%  ***Between India first wave and European second wave, I doubt our ratio will rise again any time soon.
10/22/20 -222234 deaths of 1133699 = 19.60%
10/29/20 -227897 deaths of 1176328 = 19.37%
11/5/20 -234225 deaths of 1229671 = 19.04%
11/12/20 -241495 deaths of 1283612 =18.81%
11/19/20 -250898 deaths of 1354205 = 18.53%
11/26/20 -263218 deaths of 1428951 = 18.42% *There may be another inflection point coming up as Covid19 rages on in the USA as the Indian 1st wave and the European 2nd wave become gradually controlled.
12/3/20 -273746 deaths of 1496247 = 18.30%
12/10/20 -289970 deaths of 1574294 = 18.42% ***See inflection point above. Curving upwards again. This is REALLY BAD NEWS for the United States.
12/17/20 -308098 deaths of 1654461 = 18.62%
12/24/20 -326271 deaths of 1732755 = 18.83%
12/31/20 -343233 deaths of 1811128 = 18.95%
1/7/2021 -361900 deaths of 1887970 = 19.17%
1/14/2021 -385503 deaths of 1983691 = 19.43%
1/21/2021 -406536 deaths of 2080009 = 19.55%
1/28/2021 -429870 deaths of 2180867 = 19.71%
2/4/2021 -451454 deaths of 2273515 = 19.86%
2/11/21 -472450 deaths of 2359200 = 20.02%
2/18/21 -490875 deaths of 2434048 = 20.17%
2/25/21 -506121 deaths of 2499964 = 20.25%
3/4/21 -518380 deaths of 2562739 = 20.23% *another inflection point?
3/11/21 -529469 deaths of 2623286 = 20.18%
3/18/21 -538269 deaths of 2683639 = 20.06%
3/25/21 -545357 deaths of 2746581 = 19.86%
4/2/21 -553310 deaths of 2830839 = 19.54%
4/8/21 -559219 deaths of 2891206 = 19.34%
4/15/21 -564489 deaths of 2976229 = 18.97% *a nice trend since early March. Likely vaccine related.
4/22/21 -569828 deaths of 3064038 = 18.60%
4/29/21 -574355 deaths of 3153746 = 18.21% *India, Brazil, Eastern Europe together with US vaccines will only see this number drop from now on.
5/6/21 -579653 deaths of 3247198 = 17.85%
5/13/21 -583832 deaths of 3334587 = 17.57%
5/21/21 -588613 deaths of 3433137 = 17.15%
5/28/21 -593466 deaths of 3514082 = 16.89%
6/4/21 -596783 deaths of 3704833 = 16.11% ***This percentage is dropping really fast all of a sudden. Vaccines are working in the USA, apparently.
7/10/21 -606996 deaths of 4021345 = 15.09%
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9/24/21 -685759 deaths of 4733562 = 14.48% despite our recent upswing

US and Worldwide death data is taken from the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center site.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

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Top 15 (only including countries >4 million people) with [deaths/million] as of 6/4/2021

1. Peru [5551] +3490 ***absolutely huge official statistic change in Peru. They are now easily the most afflicted by Covid19.
2. Hungary [3094] +14 *still decelerating
3. Czechia [2810] +5
4. Bulgaria [2579] +23
5. Slovakia [2267] +9
6. Brazil [2196] +61 *still rather elevated while the rest of the world drops
7. Belgium [2148] +38
8. Italy [2094] +9
9. Croatia [1976] +18
10. Poland [1960] +15
11. UK [1874] +1
12. USA [1839] +12
13. Colombia [1758] +70
14. Mexico [1754] +33
15. Argentina [1752] *back on list after long hiatus. Appears to be another South America boom.

50+ India [247] + 15 *decelerating now (if you believe the numbers).   Another 22000 deaths in India in the last week.

*Country to country data is taken from Worldometer Coronavirus Tracking site. I do not include countries with less than 4 million people. This is arbitrary on my part, but initially was a way of avoiding confounding trends just because, say, San Marino or Gibraltar didn't skew the results.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
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Top 15 (only including countries >4 million people) with [deaths/million] as of 7/10/2021

1. Peru [5804]
2. Hungary [3114]
3. Czechia [2827]
4. Bulgaria [2631]
5. Brazil [2484]
6. Slovakia [2292]
7. Colombia [2172]
8. Belgium [2165]
9. Argentina [2152]
10. Italy [2116]
11. Croatia [2017]
12. Poland [1988]
13. Paraguay [1912]
14. UK [1881]
15. USA [1870]


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Top 15 (only including countries >4 million people) with [deaths/million] as of 9/24/2021

1. Peru [5939]
2. Hungary [3131]
3. Bulgaria [2959]
4. Czechia [2837] -no movement at all last couple months. strange
5. Brazil [2766]
6. Argentina [2511]
7. Colombia [2445]
8. Slovakia [2305]
9. Paraguay [2229]
10. Georgia [2198]
11. Belgium [2192]
12. Italy [2164]
13. USA [2111]
14. Croatia [2103]
15. Mexico [2099]

*Country to country data is taken from Worldometer Coronavirus Tracking site. I do not include countries with less than 4 million people. This is arbitrary on my part, but initially was a way of avoiding confounding trends just because, say, San Marino or Gibraltar didn't skew the results.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

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Total USA Deaths [New Weekly Deaths]
3/26/20 -1070
4/2/20   -5148 [4078 new deaths in the previous week]
4/9/20   -16129 [10981]
4/16/20 -32826 [16697]
4/23/20 -46851 [14025]
4/30/20 -61547 [14696]
5/07/20  -73573 [12026]
5/14/20 -84144 [10571]
5/21/20 -93606 [9462 new deaths in the previous week]
5/28/20 -100442 [6836 new deaths]
6/4/20 -107685 [7243 new deaths] -are we beginning to have a second wave?
6/11/20 -113038 [5353]
6/18/20 -117783 [4745] -continues to improve
6/25/20 -120,800 [3017] -*** corrected using Johns Hopkins data
7/2/20  -128,184 [7384] -
7/9/20 -132,498 [4314] -hospitals and ICU units hitting capacity in Florida, Texas, Arizona is not reassuring. I suspect deaths to pick up now. How high? Who knows?
7/16/20 -137,420 [4922] -trend is not encouraging at all. Here comes the slowly rising wave...
7/23/20 -143,224 [5804] -yup, getting into the 1K deaths per week territory again
7/30/20 -151,077 [7853] -pretty big bump. No sign of this slowing down as Texas and Florida just beat their previous deaths per day records.
8/6/20 -160,111 [9034]
8/13/20 -166,361 [6250]
8/20/20 -173,241 [6880]-about 1K per day on average over the last 4 weeks noted. At this rate we will have 250K deaths by election day on Nov 3rd.
8/27/20 -179,977 [6736] -remains about 1 K per day. No real change of late, unfortunately. Oh, and school has restarted in most areas of the USA.
9/3/20 -186,018  [6041] -trend *may be decreasing. We will see how things go.
9/10/20 -191,168 [5150] -trend is encouraging compared to South America. I would have taken this 2 weeks ago knowing school was about to start. Take the win.
9/17/20 -196,912 [5744] -last 3 weeks have been fairly steady
9/24/20 -202170 [5258]
10/1/20 -207331 [5161]
10/8/20 -212420 [5089] -US is nothing if not consistent
10/15/20 -217155 [4735] -BUT, infection rates are rising again throughout the country. Get ready for the second wave.
10/22/20 -222234 [5079]
10/29/20 -227897 [5663] ->11% rise in US deaths in the last 7 days. I don't think this is artifact, I think things are accelerating.  We are averaging 75K new infections per day over the last week.  On a more positive note, case fatalities per infection appear to be coming down in the US.
11/5/20 -234225 [6328] -number of deaths continue to rise as expected. God help us if local health systems get overwhelmed again like in NYC, New Orleans, Detroit early in the Pandemic.
11/12/20 -241495 [7270] -back to 1K per day deaths and rising. 75K new infections per day now seems quaint. We have averaged over 130K in the last 7 days.
11/19/20 -250898 [9403] -10 K per week is next milestone. 6 weeks till New Years, will we hit 300K? Seems likely at this point.
11/26/20 -263218 [12320] -WHOA. Avg >170K cases per week. And it seems like no one except my family are following Thanksgiving distancing recommendations by the CDC. Keep your elders safe everyone!
12/3/20 -273746 [10528] -suspect reporting lag due to the holidays. If I'm right, then this will bump up a bit in the following week, and then come down, and then steadily rise for a while thereafter. We reached 100 K current Covid admissions nationwide with no sign of this slowing down. The previous peak was 60 K.
12/10/20 -289970 [16224] -!!!
12/17/20 -308098 [18128] -!!!!! That's the all-time peak, folks. Hospitalizations due to Covid continue to peak as well at 113 K.
12/24/20 -326271 [18173] -Well, at least it's not accelerating.
12/31/20 -343233 [16962]
1/07/2021 -361900 [18667] -New Peak again. Sadly these are just abstract numbers in my head right now. Not sinking in that 4K Americans died just yesterday.
1/14/2021 -385503 [23603] -huge bump in the last week!!! Way worse than NYC in the Spring of 2020. Avg 3300+ deaths per day.
1/21/2021 -406536 [21033] -still ridiculously high. Should eventually come down with national infection trends and vaccine rollouts.
1/28/2021 -429870 [23334] -yup, still high. Since infections till death takes about 2-6 weeks, and infections appear to be coming down nationwide now (with hot pockets, of course). I suspect deaths should begin to come down in the next 2-6 weeks. Hopefully 2 weeks.
2/4/2021 -451454 [21584] -continues to average >20K deaths per week in the USA. Hopefully begins to truly trend down this upcoming week, following the case data.
2/11/21 -472450 [20996] -no trending down as of yet. I'm beginning to get worried that people are just testing a lot less, thus case counts are going down but deaths are not. Are we taking our feet off the gas?
2/18/21 -490875 [18425] -okay, seeing some movement here in the right direction. Hospitalizations are down to 63K from 134K just 30 days ago.
2/25/21 -506121 [15246] -nice progression. Also, down to 54K hospitalizations. Daily cases in US seem to be leveling off at 50K-75K per day over the last 10 days after a steep drop over the holidays.
3/4/21 -518380 [12259] -deaths still coming down. 45K hospitalizations is down too. Daily cases have stabilized at somewhere between 48K and 75K over the last 18 days. Beware the next wave.
3/11/21 -529469 [11089] -slowly dropping still. Daily cases 44-65K.
3/18/21 -538269 [8800] -huge step in the last week. Daily cases 45-55K or so.
3/25/21 -545357 [7088] -still coming down. * https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/hospitalization-7-day-trend * JHU Website shows that Covid ICU Admissions are down about 1000 in the last week. So number of really sick are still coming down despite an uptick in recent cases per day. Peak was 29K Covid ICU admissions in January, now down to 9.4K this week. Tell me if you disagree, but I think this is a better measure of current pandemic than cases right now since it seems less at risk folks are doing as they please, and meanwhile we now have higher saturation of the vaccine with more at-risk folks.
4/1/21 -553310 [7001] -I substracted yesterday's 952 deaths -stable over the last week. Total cases are coming up again 66K per day over the last week. Lets hope the vaccinations of the oldest/sickest prevent increased Covid deaths. 1 year tracking anniversary this week.
4/8/21 -559219 [5909] -deaths coming down still. Yay! Cases coming up, but with a younger median age as vaccinations continue.
4/15/21 -564489 [5270]
4/22/21 -569828 [5339] -static in the last week. Hopefully this is just a blip on the way down.
4/29/21 -574355 [4527] -nice drop
5/6/21 -579653 [5298] -blip?
5/13/21 -583832 [4179] -dropping in the US
5/21/21 -588613 [4183] -change x 7/8 (for extra day)
5/28/21 -593466
6/4/21 -596783 [3317] -goo movement in the right direction
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« Reply #725 on: September 29, 2021, 08:51:43 PM »
I guess at this point some areas have true herd immunity? I know Texas put no effort into slowing covid this time around but cases are dropping! Yee *wheeze* haw!

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« Reply #726 on: October 01, 2021, 08:19:10 AM »
I guess at this point some areas have true herd immunity? I know Texas put no effort into slowing covid this time around but cases are dropping! Yee *wheeze* haw!

It's still not known if herd immunity will be enough to stamp out covid.  There are new variants, reports of re-infections, etc.  We still don't know.

It could simply become endemic like the flu, with multiple strains or variants.

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« Reply #727 on: October 01, 2021, 11:27:42 AM »




August & September 2021 will be the two deadliest months of the pandemic for those aged 30-49 once the backdating is completed.

Pre-covid, ~6k 30-39 year olds were dying each month of all causes and <10k/month for 40-49 year olds.

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« Reply #728 on: October 01, 2021, 01:44:10 PM »
I guess at this point some areas have true herd immunity? I know Texas put no effort into slowing covid this time around but cases are dropping! Yee *wheeze* haw!

It's still not known if herd immunity will be enough to stamp out covid.  There are new variants, reports of re-infections, etc.  We still don't know.

It could simply become endemic like the flu, with multiple strains or variants.

I don't think there's any question that it's here to stay in some form or another. Lots of states in "flyover country" had unexplained, drastic declines in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in Nov and Dec 2020. These drops occurred before vaccines were available, and during the height of the holiday season, when many family gatherings were taking place. Many people, including me hypothesized that these locations had likely reached a point of "herd immunity", but then Delta came around and the numbers went up quite a bit, even with highly effective vaccines in 1/3-1/2 of the populations.
I still haven't read a reasonable explanation for the declines that many states saw last year. It just underscores how much we still don't understand about viruses like these.

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« Reply #729 on: October 01, 2021, 02:38:56 PM »
I've read that outbreaks seem to have a 2 month cycle and they're not really sure why.

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« Reply #730 on: November 11, 2021, 09:49:18 AM »
Top 15 (only including countries >4 million people) with [deaths/million] as of 6/4/2021

1. Peru [5551] +3490 ***absolutely huge official statistic change in Peru. They are now easily the most afflicted by Covid19.
2. Hungary [3094] +14 *still decelerating
3. Czechia [2810] +5
4. Bulgaria [2579] +23
5. Slovakia [2267] +9
6. Brazil [2196] +61 *still rather elevated while the rest of the world drops
7. Belgium [2148] +38
8. Italy [2094] +9
9. Croatia [1976] +18
10. Poland [1960] +15
11. UK [1874] +1
12. USA [1839] +12
13. Colombia [1758] +70
14. Mexico [1754] +33
15. Argentina [1752] *back on list after long hiatus. Appears to be another South America boom.

50+ India [247] + 15 *decelerating now (if you believe the numbers).   Another 22000 deaths in India in the last week.

*Country to country data is taken from Worldometer Coronavirus Tracking site. I do not include countries with less than 4 million people. This is arbitrary on my part, but initially was a way of avoiding confounding trends just because, say, San Marino or Gibraltar didn't skew the results.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
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Top 15 (only including countries >4 million people) with [deaths/million] as of 7/10/2021

1. Peru [5804]
2. Hungary [3114]
3. Czechia [2827]
4. Bulgaria [2631]
5. Brazil [2484]
6. Slovakia [2292]
7. Colombia [2172]
8. Belgium [2165]
9. Argentina [2152]
10. Italy [2116]
11. Croatia [2017]
12. Poland [1988]
13. Paraguay [1912]
14. UK [1881]
15. USA [1870]


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Top 15 (only including countries >4 million people) with [deaths/million] as of 9/24/2021

1. Peru [5939]
2. Hungary [3131]
3. Bulgaria [2959]
4. Czechia [2837] -no movement at all last couple months. strange
5. Brazil [2766]
6. Argentina [2511]
7. Colombia [2445]
8. Slovakia [2305]
9. Paraguay [2229]
10. Georgia [2198]
11. Belgium [2192]
12. Italy [2164]
13. USA [2111]
14. Croatia [2103]
15. Mexico [2099]

*Country to country data is taken from Worldometer Coronavirus Tracking site. I do not include countries with less than 4 million people. This is arbitrary on my part, but initially was a way of avoiding confounding trends just because, say, San Marino or Gibraltar didn't skew the results.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

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Top 15 (only including countries >4 million people) with [deaths/million] as of 11/11/2021

1. Peru [5969]
2. Bulgaria [3745]
3. Hungary [3298]
4. Czechia [2914]
5. Brazil [2843]
6. Romania [2739]
7. Georgia [2699]
8. Argentina [2539]
9. Colombia [2473]
10. Slovakia [2454]
11. Croatia [2388]
12. USA [2339]
13. Belgium [2253]
14. Paraguay [2244]
15. Mexico [2220]

Bulgaria and Romania are in their worst surges of the entire pandemic right now.

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« Reply #731 on: December 10, 2021, 10:43:25 PM »
Approaching 800k dead in US with over 1300/day at present. The vast majority of mortalities are unvaccinated.

I got my booster this week and will be caring for post organ transplant family member late next week.

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« Reply #732 on: December 12, 2021, 02:52:13 AM »
I posted this on another thread but we are seeing a huge spike in our State and its still the Delta Variant. Of the 1650 +/- beds available only 39 were not filled as of a 2 days ago I believe. I live in WI. I want to get my booster as I am 7 months since my first jab but I need to wait another week to be 4 weeks past a Surgery I just had. Not sure the reasoning on that but that is what they told me. Its hard to believe we are entering our 3rd year of this already. Definitely in my view going to be here for many years to come at the very least.

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« Reply #733 on: December 15, 2021, 10:05:13 AM »
Top 15 (only including countries >4 million people) with [deaths/million] as of 6/4/2021

1. Peru [5551] +3490 ***absolutely huge official statistic change in Peru. They are now easily the most afflicted by Covid19.
2. Hungary [3094] +14 *still decelerating
3. Czechia [2810] +5
4. Bulgaria [2579] +23
5. Slovakia [2267] +9
6. Brazil [2196] +61 *still rather elevated while the rest of the world drops
7. Belgium [2148] +38
8. Italy [2094] +9
9. Croatia [1976] +18
10. Poland [1960] +15
11. UK [1874] +1
12. USA [1839] +12
13. Colombia [1758] +70
14. Mexico [1754] +33
15. Argentina [1752] *back on list after long hiatus. Appears to be another South America boom.

50+ India [247] + 15 *decelerating now (if you believe the numbers).   Another 22000 deaths in India in the last week.

*Country to country data is taken from Worldometer Coronavirus Tracking site. I do not include countries with less than 4 million people. This is arbitrary on my part, but initially was a way of avoiding confounding trends just because, say, San Marino or Gibraltar didn't skew the results.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
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Top 15 (only including countries >4 million people) with [deaths/million] as of 7/10/2021

1. Peru [5804]
2. Hungary [3114]
3. Czechia [2827]
4. Bulgaria [2631]
5. Brazil [2484]
6. Slovakia [2292]
7. Colombia [2172]
8. Belgium [2165]
9. Argentina [2152]
10. Italy [2116]
11. Croatia [2017]
12. Poland [1988]
13. Paraguay [1912]
14. UK [1881]
15. USA [1870]


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Top 15 (only including countries >4 million people) with [deaths/million] as of 9/24/2021

1. Peru [5939]
2. Hungary [3131]
3. Bulgaria [2959]
4. Czechia [2837] -no movement at all last couple months. strange
5. Brazil [2766]
6. Argentina [2511]
7. Colombia [2445]
8. Slovakia [2305]
9. Paraguay [2229]
10. Georgia [2198]
11. Belgium [2192]
12. Italy [2164]
13. USA [2111]
14. Croatia [2103]
15. Mexico [2099]

*Country to country data is taken from Worldometer Coronavirus Tracking site. I do not include countries with less than 4 million people. This is arbitrary on my part, but initially was a way of avoiding confounding trends just because, say, San Marino or Gibraltar didn't skew the results.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

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Top 15 (only including countries >4 million people) with [deaths/million] as of 11/11/2021

1. Peru [5969]
2. Bulgaria [3745]
3. Hungary [3298]
4. Czechia [2914]
5. Brazil [2843]
6. Romania [2739]
7. Georgia [2699]
8. Argentina [2539]
9. Colombia [2473]
10. Slovakia [2454]
11. Croatia [2388]
12. USA [2339]
13. Belgium [2253]
14. Paraguay [2244]
15. Mexico [2220]

Bulgaria and Romania are in their worst surges of the entire pandemic right now.

Random update, still using Worldometers for reference, though I think the updates there have fallen a bit behind (compared to NYT, Johns Hopkins, etc.).  Either way, still in the same ballpark.

Top 15 (only including countries >4 million people) with [deaths/million] as of 12/15/2021

1. Peru [6002], +33
2. Bulgaria [4331], +586 (!!!)
3. Hungary [3868], +570 (!!!)
4. Czechia [3242], +328
5. Georgia [3238], +539 (!!!)
6. Romania [3041], +302
7. Croatia [2895], +507 (!!!)
8. Brazil [2874], +31
9. Slovakia [2859], +405
10. Argentina [2551], +12
11. Colombia [2501], +28
12. USA [2460], +121
13. Poland [2374] (new entrant)
14. Belgium [2374], +121
15. Maldova [2342] (new entrant)

Takeaways - the current wave has really subsided in central and south America, but seems to be raging across eastern Europe.

The U.S. makes up some 15.4% of all recorded covid deaths around the globe.  By the end of the calendar year, 1 in every 400 Americans will have died from covid since the start of the pandemic.

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« Reply #734 on: December 15, 2021, 12:22:36 PM »
UK just had the highest number of cases in a single day.  Their 7-day average of cases likely to exceed their all time high from last January.  However, their # of deaths is staying low.

Carefully watching the deaths in South Africa, they also have the highest number of cases since the start of the pandemic, but not noticing any increase in deaths.  That being said, we're only about 3 weeks from the start of the exponential rise from Omicron.  Next 2 weeks should tell. 

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« Reply #735 on: December 15, 2021, 12:53:23 PM »
UK just had the highest number of cases in a single day.  Their 7-day average of cases likely to exceed their all time high from last January.  However, their # of deaths is staying low.

Carefully watching the deaths in South Africa, they also have the highest number of cases since the start of the pandemic, but not noticing any increase in deaths.  That being said, we're only about 3 weeks from the start of the exponential rise from Omicron.  Next 2 weeks should tell.

The preliminary data seems to indicate that the vaccines aren't very effective at preventing infection (30% or below) with this, so that's very good news.

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« Reply #736 on: December 15, 2021, 01:09:49 PM »
UK just had the highest number of cases in a single day.  Their 7-day average of cases likely to exceed their all time high from last January.  However, their # of deaths is staying low.

Carefully watching the deaths in South Africa, they also have the highest number of cases since the start of the pandemic, but not noticing any increase in deaths.  That being said, we're only about 3 weeks from the start of the exponential rise from Omicron.  Next 2 weeks should tell.






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« Reply #737 on: December 15, 2021, 08:33:55 PM »
The big variable will be the interaction of Delta + Omicron + Flu
The last H3N2 flu season resulted in ~50k excess deaths without two strains of a pandemic circulating around, and without several million additional people with chronic lung damage. I guess we will find out how things go...

Get your flu shots if you haven't yet!!! As expected, vaccination rates for the flu are lower this year compared to last. Sigh.

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« Reply #738 on: December 16, 2021, 01:10:53 PM »
The big variable will be the interaction of Delta + Omicron + Flu
The last H3N2 flu season resulted in ~50k excess deaths without two strains of a pandemic circulating around, and without several million additional people with chronic lung damage. I guess we will find out how things go...

Get your flu shots if you haven't yet!!! As expected, vaccination rates for the flu are lower this year compared to last. Sigh.
@Abe my flu shot concern is always...I get mine in August.  I sometimes wonder if I get it too early, and maybe it's better to wait until Oct/Nov.

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« Reply #739 on: December 16, 2021, 06:01:04 PM »
The big variable will be the interaction of Delta + Omicron + Flu
The last H3N2 flu season resulted in ~50k excess deaths without two strains of a pandemic circulating around, and without several million additional people with chronic lung damage. I guess we will find out how things go...

Get your flu shots if you haven't yet!!! As expected, vaccination rates for the flu are lower this year compared to last. Sigh.
@Abe my flu shot concern is always...I get mine in August.  I sometimes wonder if I get it too early, and maybe it's better to wait until Oct/Nov.

Good question - we don't have great data on when the optimal time to get it is. There is concern that the efficacy wanes over several months (about 5-10% per month based on some observational studies). CDC recommends getting it by the end of October. However, every few years there will be an uptick in influenza starting in mid-October, rather than the more common early December uptick. Thus optimal timing is a moving target.

For most seasons (and most scenarios even during early seasons), your risk will be best mitigated by an October vaccination if you are not high-risk (elderly or immunocompromised). Flu seasons usually last about 4-5 months, thus efficacy would theoretically become an issue in February/March for high-risk people. However, several studies have failed to show any clinical with a booster, and we don't see an uptick in hospitalization for those groups in early spring. Bottom line: probably doesn't matter too much, but vaccination by October is best.

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« Reply #740 on: December 22, 2021, 05:52:52 PM »
This Omicron is crazy stuff... US soaring to over 220K cases today.   Most western europe countries w/exponential growth.  Interestingly, South Africa seeing decrease in cases for a few days.    The good news is hospitalization rates lower than Delta. 

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« Reply #741 on: December 23, 2021, 02:15:33 PM »
Yeah, we don't seem to be experiencing an uptick in either hospitalizations or deaths here.    At least not yet...

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« Reply #742 on: December 23, 2021, 05:57:34 PM »
And today... all time record in cases for USA, UK, other western EU countries and the world! Over a million new cases today.    I suspect because lots of asymtomatic people are testing for holiday gatherings, a number of those cases are being picked up that might not otherwise. 

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« Reply #743 on: December 23, 2021, 06:13:09 PM »
I learned last week 2 people I went to High School with passed away about a month ago from Covid. Both anti-vaxxers, both mid-40s.

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« Reply #744 on: December 23, 2021, 09:03:35 PM »
Yeah, we don't seem to be experiencing an uptick in either hospitalizations or deaths here.    At least not yet...

Here's hoping that it stays low - high infection rates/transmissibility with low hospitalizations is pretty much the ideal scenario.

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« Reply #745 on: December 28, 2021, 11:42:21 AM »
Will be interesting to watch UAE.

According to this, they are 99% with 1+ vax, and 93% "fully vaccinated":  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccinations-tracker.html


They've gone from about 70 cases a day in November, to now averaging over 1200 and on the rise, presumedly omicron. 

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« Reply #746 on: December 28, 2021, 11:58:57 AM »
Will be interesting to watch UAE.

According to this, they are 99% with 1+ vax, and 93% "fully vaccinated":  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccinations-tracker.html


They've gone from about 70 cases a day in November, to now averaging over 1200 and on the rise, presumedly omicron.
Does anyone believe those vaccination percentages?  They would have to have no kids there, for a start, they've been giving out that percentage long before any vaccine was approved for kids.  Also highly likely it's only UAE citizens that have been vaccinated and that there are large numbers of unvaccinated "guest workers".

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« Reply #747 on: December 28, 2021, 02:54:42 PM »
The same link at the moment shows the UAE at 101% at least one dose, so I suspect the issue is that the denominator they're using is off (e.g. they are counting vaccinations given people who don't show up as part of their overall population).

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« Reply #748 on: December 28, 2021, 05:12:29 PM »
The same link at the moment shows the UAE at 101% at least one dose, so I suspect the issue is that the denominator they're using is off (e.g. they are counting vaccinations given people who don't show up as part of their overall population).

Have relatives in the UAE and they haven’t been vaccinating non-citizens at nearly that rate, and non-citizens make up a large fraction of the population, so those numbers are essentially meaningless

Here in Houston we are making contingency/ triage plans for the rapidly rising hospitalizations. There is no indication currently that this is less severe than delta in our population.
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« Reply #749 on: December 28, 2021, 05:53:49 PM »
There is no indication currently that this is less severe than delta in our population.

They are sounding the alarm here in NYC that pediatric hospitalizations are rising rapidly with Omicron :-( Up 400% in three weeks and already higher than last winter's peak. (And looking like it might eclipse March/April 2020 peak... yikes)

https://gothamist.com/news/pediatric-covid-hospitalizations-quadruple-nyc

 

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