🇺🇸 US: Hospitals no longer required to report COVID-19 data to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Reporting removed or made optional “in an effort to reduce burden.” 🤦♂️
CDC said it is encouraging “ongoing, voluntary reporting of hospitalization data.” It will begin making those voluntary data available for online viewing beginning May 10, per its COVID Data Tracker webpage.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the U.S. has recorded more than 6.9 million hospitalizations and nearly 1.2 million deaths attributed to COVID-19.
"JN.1.13 has been increasing in recent weeks, rising from nearly 2% of new cases last month to nearly 11% over the past 2 weeks, according to CDC estimates"
🇺🇸US: Over 1,000 Americans have died of COVID-19 each week since August 26 | wsws.org
"The complete silence on the present state of the pandemic and the ongoing dangers facing the global population is not surprising. It has been the coordinated response between governments and public health agencies from the beginning of the pandemic to, in stepwise fashion, normalize illnesses and deaths from COVID-19 and to drive out all public discussions on the catastrophic impacts that the prioritization of profits over lives has had worldwide."
🇺🇸US: 'Up to 5.8 million kids have long COVID, study estimates.
"The research also shows long COVID can raise the chances of a child developing type 1 diabetes. And it can even be deadly, leading to multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children."
🇺🇸US: "The White House on Monday lifted its COVID-19 testing requirement for those who plan to be in close contact with President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and their spouses, bringing to an end the last coronavirus prevention protocol at the White House."🤦♂️
🇺🇸US: CDC urges actively infectious COVID-19 patients to return to work and school.
"The CDC’s policy change is being implemented under conditions in which COVID-19 is circulating at a higher level than at the same time during any previous year of the pandemic and under conditions in which all restrictions of the spread of the virus have been dropped"
🇺🇸US weekly COVID update: 187,000 new cases and sadly 1,569 new deaths.
So far this year, more than 2.2 million cases of COVID-19 have been reported in the U.S., causing 175,000 hospitalizations and more than 17,000 deaths.
🇺🇸 US: Those hospitalized with COVID-19 later at risk for several key symptoms.
A study of about 3 million US adults and 675,000 US children reveals that hospitalized adults and children with a positive COVID-19 test had 17% and 18% increased odds, respectively, of being diagnosed as having one or more long-COVID symptoms 31 to 150 days after their positive test.