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DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 1 day ago to auscovid19

COVID-19 outbreaks in Australian residential aged care facilities: 9 May 2024

🔹Active cases: 2,595 (+787)
🔹Active outbreaks: 310 (+62)
🔹Residents: 1,798 (+533)
🔹Staff: 797 (+254)
🔹Reported deaths in 2024: 349 (+16)

🔸6,475 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
🔸349 reported deaths in 2024

@AnikaWells @AlboMP #Nobodyleftbehind @auscovid19

Source: https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/covid-19-outbreaks-in-australian-residential-aged-care-facilities-10-may-2024?language=en

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 1 day ago to Tasmania

TAS weekly infection update: 5 May 2024

🔹COVID: Moderate
🔹Influenza: Low
🔹RSV: Low

#COVID19 #Tasmania @auscovid19

Source: https://health.tas.gov.au/health-topics/infectious-diseases/acute-respiratory-infection-activity/weekly-update-acute-respiratory-infection-activity-tasmania

Data source: https://www.health.tas.gov.au/publications/resptas-report

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DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 1 day ago to auscovid19

ACT weekly COVID update: 3 May to 9 May

🔹PCR cases only: 107 (+57.3%)
🔹Deaths: 0 (+0)
🔹Total deaths: 308 (+0)
🔹Hospital: 22 (+120%)
🔹ICU: 0 (-2)
🔹Vent: 0 (-1)

#COVID19ACT @ACTHealth #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

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

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 1 day ago to auscovid19

SA weekly COVID update: 1 May to 7 May 2024

🔹PCR cases only: 1,468 (+47.3%)
🔹Deaths: NR (monthly)
🔹Total deaths: 1,760 (+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, 1 day ago to Victoria

By Andrew Hewat @AndrewHewat

Vic COVID data:

The number of people in hospital with COVID-19 has increased this week.

The 7-day average is 160, compared to 128 last week.

The rise over the last month is rapid.

Wastewater data is 3 weeks old.

No-one could have predicted this, right?

#COVID19 #Victoria @auscovid19

Source: https://twitter.com/AndrewHewat/status/1788722009163300963

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 2 days ago to auscovid19

NSW: "New COVID-19 ‘FLiRT’ variant surges in NSW as winter looms."

#COVID19nsw #JN1 #FLirt #KP2 #KP3 #KW11 @NSWHealth @RyanPark_Keira #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://www.smh.com.au/national/australia-news-live-tax-cuts-worth-nearly-1900-in-federal-budget-home-affairs-botched-sex-trafficking-investigation-20240509-p5idde.html

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DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 2 days ago to auscovid19

South Australia: Hospitalisations of SA kids due to a potentially deadly pneumonia respiratory disease has skyrocketed with worrying symptoms. By Shashi Baltutis

@SAHealth #pneumoniarespiratorydisease #Mycoplasmapneumoniae @auscovid19

Source: https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/hospitalisations-due-to-potentially-deadly-respiratory-disease-have-skyrocketed-in-sa/news-story/06385fed5b937d35823b88c0dac8f9b8

The disease is a common cause of pneumonia with lung inflammation, bronchitis and a sore throat but symptoms in rare severe cases can be life-threatening. Women’s and Children’s Health Network clinical director, division of medicine John Widger said the network would “issue a public health warning if required”. “As always, we continue to monitor all cases of pneumonia,” Mr Widger said. He warned that parents should dial triple-0 if their child requires emergency treatment due to the disease. Among those hospitalised was northern suburbs 13-year-old Josie Manto who was left in severe pain and was seriously sick, 7NEWS reported. “Be careful to stop it spreading because having this reaction was a lot worse than just having a disease,” she said. Mycoplasma is spread when an infected person talks, coughs or sneezes which produces small droplets containing the infection and then someone nearby breathes it in. The infection can also spread through contact with hands, tissues and other direct contact with the infected person and develops over a three-week period. Mr Widger said symptoms usually resolve “without any serious complications while cough and weakness may persist for more than a month”. The bug causes between 15 to 50 per cent of pneumonia cases in adults and a higher percentage of illnesses in school aged children. The infection is most common for people aged between five and 20-years-old but can occur at any age.
Professor of biostatistics and epidemiology at UniSA Adrian Esterman said there was “a reasonably simple explanation” for the huge spike in cases. Prof Esterman said the increase in hospitalisations due to the disease may come as a result of relaxed attitudes towards hygiene following the Covid-19 pandemic. “When the pandemic was at its highest, people took precautions,” Prof Esterman said. “They wore face masks and had good hand hygiene and that prevents respiratory illnesses. “Now all of that’s gone.” Prof Esterman said “all of these different pathogens are coming back and whacking us” after a period of caution. Another factor, he said, is that doctors are testing more often for respiratory diseases. The disease itself is not notifiable, so statistics on cases that do not result in hospitalisation are not recorded. “You simply don’t know how many cases there are,” Prof Esterman said. “The actual disease itself is very common and a simple PCR test will show the virus. “For those who get it more severely it can be treated with antibiotics.”

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 2 days ago to auscovid19

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

⚠️COVID-19 activity low. Influenza activity is low. RSV activity is high⚠️

🔸COVID PCR test positivity rate: 5.4% (-0.9%)

🔹COVID: 2,019 (+34%)
🔹Influenza: 1,526 (+30%)
🔹RSV: 2,429 (-7%)

#COVID19nsw @auscovid19

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

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DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 2 days ago to auscovid19

‘Fear more deadly than AstraZeneca’s Vaxzevria COVID vaccine’ | The Australian

"A leading infectious diseases physician says overblown fears about the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine probably caused more deaths than the vaccine’s rare ­adverse side effects"

#AstraZeneca #COVIDvaccine @auscovid19

Source: https://archive.md/l0Ifk#selection-439.141-439.167

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 3 days ago to Japan

🇯🇵Japan: "Many still face COVID aftereffects a year after the government lowered the classification of COVID-19 from Category II to Category V, which includes seasonal influenza."

"While the usual hustle and bustle has returned to the streets of Japan, many people are still left with COVID-19 aftereffects — in some cases with symptoms that greatly hamper people's daily activities."

#COVID19 #Japan #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/08/japan/science-health/many-still-suffering-from-covid-aftereffects/

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 3 days ago to auscovid19

"Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is reportedly withdrawing its COVID-19 vaccine worldwide. The vaccine was discontinued by Australia's Therapeutic Goods Authority in April 2023 after findings of adverse side effects."

#AstraZeneca #COVIDvaccine @auscovid19

Source: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/podcast-episode/astrazeneca-covid-vaccine-withdrawn-worldwide/9rorgpds8

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 3 days ago to auscovid19

By Dr Amanda Cohn @DrAmandaCohn

"The latest data shows that almost 6 people are dying per week from COVID that they caught in Victorian hospitals."

"There's nothing to suggest that things are better here in NSW but there's no way of knowing because NSW doesn’t collect hospital acquired COVID infections data."

#COVID19 @auscovid19

Source: https://twitter.com/DrAmandaCohn/status/1787974548912226394

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DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 3 days ago to auscovid19

FLiRT COVID-19 Variants Are Spreading: What to Know About KP.2 and KP.1.1 Strains | prevention.com

"The current COVID vaccine may not protect against them as well as previous variants."

#COVID19 #KP2 #KP11 @auscovid19

Source: https://www.prevention.com/health/health-conditions/a60701402/flirt-new-covid-variants/

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 3 days ago to auscovid19

COVID-19 and flu update Ballarat: Masks Still Matter in 2024 | thecourier.com.au

"MASKS still matter is the advice from the region's public health leader as the community faces rising cases of COVID-19 and influenza."

"If everybody who is symptomatic tests themselves, many will show they have COVID-19." - Dr Rob Grenfell, Grampians Public Health Unit chief strategy and regions officer

#COVID19 #Ballarat #Masks #COVIDisAirborne #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://www.thecourier.com.au/story/8607418/covid-19-and-flu-update-ballarat-masks-still-matter-in-2024/

COVID-19 cases continue to impact bed availability and staffing at Grampians Health Ballarat Base Hospital with 14 COVID-positive patients in hospital as of Monday morning. This did not include patients with influenza. Dr Grenfell said both viruses were a serious concern, particularly for those at a higher risk of severe outcomes - and many people had loved ones under threat. "The issue for people out there are those with impaired immunity," Dr Grenfell said. "We're continuing to bring outbreaks in aged care centres under control...we're testing inpatients and those across our cancer wards. "If everybody who is symptomatic tests themselves, many will show they have COVID-19." The nation's drug regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administrator, has also been urging people to check their rapid antigen tests (commonly known as a RAT) and to not use a kit after its expiry or use-by date. City of Ballarat's free RAT program finished at the end of 2023. Dr Grenfell said all the health and hygiene lessons from COVID-19 still mattered to prevent viral outbreaks: social distancing; hand hygiene; good ventilation; wearing masks when in closed spaces and unable to social distance; and, keeping vaccinations up to date. He said masks do work as a line of protection and people should consider masking up once more. If sick - even with a sniffle - Dr Grenfell urged people to stay at home.

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 3 days ago to Rats

What are the most reliable rapid antigen tests? | racgp.org.au

"A new study has analysed 26 RATs from Australia and Canada, finding only six could effectively detect the lowest concentrations of COVID-19."

#COVID19 #RATs #rapidantigentests @auscovid19

Source: https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/what-are-the-most-reliable-rapid-antigen-tests

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 3 days ago to Japan

🇯🇵Japan saw over 16,000 deaths from COVID-19 in May-Nov 2023.

"Health experts have stressed the need for a renewed understanding that lives are still being lost to the virus, even after the government reclassified COVID-19 as an infectious disease on par with the seasonal flu on May 8 last year"

#COVID19 #Japan #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://japantoday.com/category/national/japan-saw-over-16-000-deaths-from-covid-19-in-may-nov.-2023

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 4 days ago to auscovid19

Queensland: Weekly infection surveillance report: 29 April to 5 May 2024

Reported cases:

🔹COVID: 1,116 (+27.5%)
🔹Influenza: 530 (-7.5%)
🔹RSV: 1,140 (+0.5%)

Hospitalisations:

🔸COVID: 180 (+12.5%)
🔸Influenza: 55 (+12.2%)
🔸RSV: 91 (-14.1%)

@qldhealth @ShannonFentiman #PandemicIsNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://health.qld.gov.au/clinical-practice/guidelines-procedures/diseases-infection/surveillance/reports/flu

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DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 4 days ago to mecfs

Griffith University researchers to trial naltrexone on Long COVID and MECFS patients.

#LongCOVID #MECFS @auscovid19

Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-07/qld-griffith-university-trial-naltrexone-long-covid/103800050

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 5 days ago to auscovid19

As bird flu spreads among dairy cattle, CDC scraps COVID reporting for hospitals.

As of May 1, hospitals in the United States are no longer required to report on hospitalizations from COVID-19 or influenza within their facilities to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). An act that amounts to a final step in the dismantling of all tracking of the COVID pandemic.

The complete scrapping of all mitigation measures has allowed SARS-CoV-2 to continue evolving unimpeded. Although sequencing data remains limited, the KP.2 (JN.1.11.1.2) lineage of Omicron (24.9 percent of sequences) has now outpaced JN.1 (22 percent) as the dominant variant in the US.

Dr. Sato and colleagues noted in their preprint study, “KP.2 shows the most significant resistance to the sera of monovalent XBB.1.5 vaccine without infections (3.1-fold) as well as those with infection (1.8-fold). Altogether, these results suggest that the increased immune resistance ability of KP.2 partially contributes to the higher reproductive number more than previous variants including JN.1.”

#COVID19 @auscovid19

Source: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/05/06/covi-m06.html

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 5 days ago to auscovid19

🇺🇸US weekly COVID update: 47,000 new cases and sadly 557 deaths.

🔸So far this year, more than 3.1 million cases of COVID have been reported in the U.S., causing 277,070 hospitalizations and 28,017 deaths.

#COVID19US #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://twitter.com/BNOFeed/status/1787262269866295775

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 5 days ago to auscovid19

🇳🇿New Zealand COVID weekly update: 29 Apr to 5 May

🔹New cases: 2,287 (-2.4%)
🔹Reinfections: 1,379 (60.3%)
🔹Deaths: 19 (+72.7%)
🔹Hospital: 116 (-27%)
🔹ICU: 0 (+0%)

🔸60.3% were reinfections

Sadly, 29 deaths being reported today.

🔸COVID-attributed deaths: 19
🔸Not COVID: 11
🔸Not available: 3

2 were in their 60s
5 were in their 70s
14 were in their 80s
8 were aged over 90

Of these people, ten were women and 19 were men

#COVID19NZ @auscovid19

Source: https://tewhatuora.govt.nz/for-health-professionals/data-and-statistics/covid-19-data/covid-19-current-cases/

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