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DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 6 days ago to auscovid19

🇺🇸US weekly COVID update: 53,000 new cases and sadly 418 deaths.

"So far this year, more than 3.3 million COVID cases have been reported in the U.S., causing 285,747 hospitalizations and 29,788 deaths."

#COVID19US #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://twitter.com/BNOFeed/status/1797452921657065975

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 6 days ago to auscovid19

"Scientists from Monash University and the National University of Singapore have engineered a COVID-19 vaccine that, in pre-clinical models, has shown very long-lasting, protective immunity with a single-shot."

Source: https://australianseniorsnews.com.au/health/new-covid-vaccine-promises-longer-immunity/

Published study: https://www.cell.com/molecular-therapy-family/molecular-therapy/fulltext/S1525-0016(24)00304-6

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DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 6 days ago to ireland

🇮🇪 Irish health chiefs sound alarm amid spike in Covid cases and hospitalisations.

"The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has confirmed an almost 20% rise in cases in a week up to May 25"

"Fatigue, a high temperature/having chills and a dry cough are the top three Covid symptoms, according to the HSE but there are others to be aware of."

#COVID19 #Ireland #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/national-news/1519404/irish-health-chiefs-sound-alarm-amid-spike-in-covid-cases-and-hospitalisations.html

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 6 days ago to auscovid19

Virus that causes COVID-19 can remain in sperm for 110 days after infection.

"The authors suggest that people who plan to have children should observe a period of "quarantine" after recovering from COVID-19."

Source: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-06-virus-covid-sperm-days-infection.html

Published study: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/andr.13612

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DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 6 days ago to auscovid19

"Canberra hospitals bring back compulsory masks and limit visitors as COVID-19 and other winter illnesses increase."

@ACTHealth #Maskup😷 @auscovid19

Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-05/canberra-hospitals-bring-back-masks-as-covid-increases/103933384

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 7 days ago to auscovid19

FDA Panel to Consider Which COVID Strain to Target in an Updated Vaccine.

— The KP.2 subvariant is now dominant in the U.S., FDA staff says in a briefing document.

"Because the antigenic distance between JN.1 and JN.1-derived subvariants such as KP.2 subvariants is not far, it is possible that vaccines developed against JN.1 may adequately protect against KP.2. However, further SARS-CoV-2 evolution may lead to further divergence from JN.1, and consideration may need to be given to the selection of the subvariant that is currently predominant to assure the best possible match as the virus further evolves."

@auscovid19

Source: https://archive.md/p1ZYL#selection-859.0-863.94

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 8 days ago to auscovid19

WA Public Must Stay Vigilant Amidst COVID Surge and Winter Woes – Dr Andrew Miller

“Unfortunately, we are seeing a massive surge of COVID at the moment to add to our starter winter woes."

“If you’re not going to do anything else, at least wear some sort of mask when you’re on a bus or other public transport.

#COVID19 #WesternAustralia @auscovid19

Source: https://wamnnews.com.au/news/exclusive-comment-wa-public-must-stay-vigilant-amidst-covid-surge-and-winter-woes-dr-andrew-miller/

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 8 days ago to auscovid19

Study Finds COVID-19 May Damage Vision.

"COVID-19 “not only infects the various parts of the eye via systemic exposure but also induces a hyperinflammatory immune and antiviral response in the retina”

Source: https://www.managedhealthcareexecutive.com/view/study-finds-covid-19-may-damage-vision

Published study: https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1012156

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DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 9 days ago to auscovid19

Long COVID may have a far-reaching impact on children and teens | dailyprogress.com

"COVID-19 proved it does not have favorites when it comes to age"

"Currently, long COVID is affecting children and adolescents at the highest rate"

#LongCOVID @auscovid19

Source: https://dailyprogress.com/news/local/charity-battle-long-covid-may-have-far-reaching-impact-on-children-and-teens/article_a3505c98-1ddb-11ef-b923-fba39c5e64d6.html

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 10 days ago to auscovid19

🇮🇪Ireland: Covid-19 may have been a factor in crash which claimed couple’s lives, coroner says.

"Dr Bolster said that while the full impact of Covid-19 infection was yet to be fully understood, it was established that the disease can cause long term tiredness and fatigue. She said she believed Covid-19 could have been a factor in Pat Allen losing control of his car."

@auscovid19

Source: https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/05/31/covid-19-may-have-been-a-factor-in-crash-which-claimed-couples-lives-coroner-says/

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 10 days ago to auscovid19

World unprepared for another pandemic as WHO treaty talks push on | reuters.com

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Source: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/world-unprepared-another-pandemic-who-treaty-talks-push-2024-05-31/

“We only hope that... (in the) next few months, we don't have another pandemic that finds us in a world which is still unprepared for a major crisis,” Muhammad Ali Pate, Nigeria’s health minister and a board member of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, told Reuters. A major sticking point in the treaty has been provisions for low and middle-income countries to have access to 20% of tests, treatments and vaccines developed to fight the pandemic, either at no-profit costs or donated. Ali Pate said the figure was reasonable to avoid the scramble for life-saving products that saw African countries last-in-line during COVID. While talks on the treaty are likely to continue for several months or even years, a parallel process to update an existing set of rules that govern international disease outbreaks are closer to agreement, sources said, and could be signed off before the end of the WHO’s annual meeting on Saturday. Other negotiators and observers said there was a sense of urgency in the treaty talks, not least because of concerns that elections in a number of key countries this year could bring in right-leaning governments who fear the treaty could threaten their sovereignty, which the WHO denies and a clause in the document guards against. “This needs to be done now or else things are only going to get worse with things moving to the right,” said one Western diplomat.

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 10 days ago to Canada

🇨🇦 Canada: New COVID-19 subvariants become the dominant strains in Canada.

"These new subvariants, known as KP.2 and KP.3, are under the Omicron umbrella, a type of mutation from the COVID-19 virus itself. They've spread so quickly that, as of May 19, 49.2 per cent of COVID-19 cases in Canada involve one of the strains."

#COVID19 #Canada #KP2 #KP3 #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/new-covid-19-subvariants-become-the-dominant-strains-in-canada-1.6904214

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 11 days ago to France

🇫🇷 France: Cases of Covid-19 have been rising in France over the month of May.

Hospitalisations are increasing amid rising cases of the new ‘FLiRT’ variant.

From May 20-26, emergency admissions and hospitalisations for suspected Covid-19 continued to rise “for the sixth week running” SPF said, with 575 compared with 427 the previous week. This represents an increase of 35% across all age groups.

#COVID19 #France #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://www.connexionfrance.com/news/covid-19-in-france-latest-official-figures-and-symptoms-of-new-variant/661439

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 11 days ago to spain

🇪🇸 Spain: Covid infections quadruple across Spain despite the fine weather.

Experts blame a highly contagious new strain of coronavirus for the rapid spread in Spain.

Although most of us have half forgotten about the coronavirus, the reality is that SARS-CoV-2 continues to evolve and mutate even now and, as specialists have warned, it’s very much here to stay.

Covid is estimated at 27.8 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in primary care. In hospitals there are 1.86 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

Coronavirus positivity in Spain stands at 6.5%

#COVID19 #Spain #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://spanishnewstoday.com/covid_infections_quadruple_across_spain_despite_the_fine_weather_1000061506-a.html

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 11 days ago to auscovid19

COVID-19 outbreaks in Australian residential aged care facilities: 30 May 2024

🔹Active cases: 4,238 (+606)
🔹Active outbreaks: 469 (+76)
🔹Residents: 2,927 (+430)
🔹Staff: 1,311 (+176)
🔹Reported deaths in 2024: 454 (+29)

🔸6,580 aged care COVID deaths since beginning of pandemic

🔸686 reported deaths in 2020
🔸226 reported deaths in 2021
🔸3,855 reported deaths in 2022
🔸1,359 reported deaths in 2023
🔸454 reported deaths in 2024

@AnikaWells @AlboMP @auscovid19

Source: https://www.health.gov.au/resources/collections/covid-19-outbreaks-in-australian-residential-aged-care-facilities#may-2024

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 11 days ago to auscovid19

ACT weekly COVID update: 24 May to 30 May

🔹PCR cases only: 242 (+52.2%)
🔹Deaths: 4 (+4)
🔹Total deaths: 316 (+4)
🔹Hospital: 67 (+139.2%)
🔹ICU: 0 (+0)
🔹Vent: 0 (+0)

#COVID19ACT @ACTHealth @auscovid19

Source: https://www.covid19.act.gov.au/updates/act-covid-19-statistics

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 11 days ago to Victoria

By Andrew Hewat @AndrewHewat

Vic Covid update:

"The number of people in hospital with COVID-19 has decreased this week. The 7day average is 319 compared to 347 last week."

But "Current trends indicate high levels of COVID-19 activity in Victoria."

Hopefully this wave already peaked but def high risk still.

#COVID19 #Victoria @auscovid19

Source: https://www.health.vic.gov.au/infectious-diseases/victorian-covid-19-surveillance-report

Twitter/X source: https://twitter.com/AndrewHewat/status/1796323112482705474

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 11 days ago to auscovid19

"Vic hospitals moved to Stage Two response, allowing them to demand visitors, staff wear masks." By Mandy Squires

@VicGovDH @MaryAnneThomas #COVIDisNotOver #MaskUp😷 @auscovid19

Source: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/covid-kp-3-strain-increasing-in-abundance-vic-gov-warns-as-health-services-moved-to-stage-two-response/news-story/bcea75fa85cd479998ba5d8a0de82ab0

A new Covid mutation is surging through the state, as the Victorian government ramps up measures in hospitals to help ease the load on overwhelmed health services. The new variant KP. 3 has been found in Victorian wastewater, with levels rising by 30 per cent in the most recent testing. FLiRT sub variants KP. 1 and KP. 2 have quickly taken over in the U.S. Now Victoria has KP. 3. While the Covid variant JN. 1 remains dominant in the state — for now — at 66 per cent, the new KP. 3 strain is rising rapidly. The nickname FLiRT stems from the technical name of the mutations in the genetic code. Professor Catherine Bennett, Chair in Epidemiology at Deakin University recently warned FLiRT was “very transmissible”. Because of its mutations, it had “a bit of an advantage over JN. 1” because our immune system were unlikely to recognise it as readily, she said. Professor Bennett said FLiRT subvariants would drive the next Covid wave, that she predicted would peak in late June. The Royal Australian College of Practitioners said there were suggestions the FLiRT subvariants could evade immunity from prior infections and vaccination better than its parental JN. 1 variant, but did not appear to cause more severe disease than earlier variants. “With the FLiRT subvariants showing evidence of increased ‘fitness’, meaning they present a stronger challenge against our body’s immune defences, it’s possible they will soon take over as the dominant subvariants circulating in Australia,”
It said health services needed to “transition” from Stage One to Stage Two over the course of Monday and Tuesday, with the key changes being more telehealth rather than in-person consultations, more “virtual EDs” — which connect patients with emergency department clinicians remotely, through devices — and increased use of cross-care workforce models. Virtual EDs are set up to mirror the way a patient would enter the physical emergency department by the front door. First patients provide basic information to administration staff before being triaged by a nurse and then consulting with an emergency department doctor. Generally, this all takes place in a single video call. It is not the first time Victorian hospitals have been moved to a Stage Two response through the pandemic. The Department of Health’s latest surveillance report reveals 319 Victorians a day were hospitalised with Covid over the past week and 347 a day the week before. Covid deaths in the most recent 28-day reporting period (April 17 to May 14) have increased from the previous mid-March to mid-April period, to 76. MONKEYPOX OUTBREAK Victoria’s chief health officer Dr Clare Looker also warned this week of a worsening outbreak of monkeypox (mpox) in the state, with 16 confirmed cases since April 18 this year. She said 13 of those cases had been locally acquired.
Who is at risk of mpox? While the current outbreak has predominantly impacted men who have sex with men, anyone who has been in close and usually prolonged intimate contact with someone with mpox is at risk. Symptoms Symptoms can occur up to 21 days after being exposed to mpox and can include fever, chills, tiredness, headache, sore throat, muscle aches, swollen lymph nodes and rash. The rash can appear as vesicles, pustules or ulcers and affect any part of the body, including the anogenital area. Other symptoms may include pain on urination or rectal pain, bloody stools and/or diarrhoea (proctitis). Transmission Mpox can spread from person-to-person through close or prolonged skin-to-skin contact, for example during sexual contact, as well as contact with contaminated items or surfaces and respiratory droplets. People with mpox are considered infectious from the time they develop their first symptoms and until rash lesions have crusted, scabs have fallen off and a fresh layer of skin has formed underneath. What to do If you have symptoms of mpox, restrict contact with others and seek urgent medical care and testing from your GP or local sexual health clinic. Make sure to wear a mask, cover any exposed rash lesions and call ahead. Get vaccinated if you are eligible to receive the mpox vaccine. MEASLES OUTBREAK

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 11 days ago to auscovid19

"South Australia's entire public hospital system is operating under an internal emergency with long patient wait times and delayed elective surgeries."

🔹270 staff currently off sick with COVID

@SAHealth @PictonChris @auscovid19

Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-30/sa-public-hospitals-in-internal-emergency/103915690

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 11 days ago to auscovid19

By Prof Deborah Lupton Master of Public Health, PhD @DALupton

"COVID can cause new health problems even 3 years after infection, study finds - and even for those who had a ‘mild case’"

Source: https://fortune.com/well/article/covid-cause-new-health-problems-years-after-infection/

Study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-02987-8

Twitter/X source: https://twitter.com/DALupton/status/1796293523106590758

@auscovid19

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 11 days ago to auscovid19

SA weekly COVID update: 22 May to 28 May

🔹PCR cases only: 2,394 (+25.6%)
🔹Deaths: NR (monthly)
🔹Total deaths: 1,787 (+0)
🔹Hospital: NR
🔹ICU: NR

NR = Not Reported

@SAHealth @PictonChris #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://www.sahealth.sa.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/public+content/sa+health+internet/conditions/infectious+diseases/covid-19/covid-19+dashboard

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 12 days ago to auscovid19

University of Maryland Study: N95 masks block almost all airborne COVID-19.

"In a head-to-head comparison of masks worn by people with active COVID-19, the inexpensive "duckbill" N95 came out on top, stopping 98% of COVID-19 particles in the breath of infected people from escaping into the air."

"Led by researchers from the University of Maryland School of Public Health (SPH), results showed other masks also performed well, blocking at least 70% of viral particles from escaping from the source – an infected person's exhaled breath."

Source: https://www.miragenews.com/umd-study-n95-masks-block-almost-all-airborne-1245832/

Study: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/article/PIIS2352-3964(24)00192-0/fulltext

@auscovid19

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 12 days ago to auscovid19

(1/4) NSW respiratory surveillance reports: Week ending 25 May 2024

⚠️COVID-19 is at high levels⚠️

🔸COVID PCR test positivity rate: 8.0%

🔹COVID: 4,267 (+23%)
🔹Influenza: 4,102 (+27%)
🔹RSV: 3,027 (+4%)

#COVID19nsw @auscovid19

Source: https://health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/covid-19/Pages/reports.aspx

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