Der Frühling kommt, die Viren gehen: Das RKI hat die Grippe- und RSV-Wellen für beendet erklärt. Auch die Zahl schwerer Verläufe sei rückläufig. Wegen den Osterferien könnte es aber noch Nachmeldungen von Infektionen geben.
Queensland: "Doctors are acquiring RSV, COVID and influenza in the state’s hospitals in rising numbers, sparking the state’s peak medical body to call for urgent action to better protect medics in an already struggling healthcare workforce."
Any suggestions for how to minimise aerosols getting to 8 month old baby on long haul flights and in airports? #CovidIsNotOver#RSV#Flu#Measles Too young to #mask. Can you get a N95 grade muslin or bassinet cover? Would just a physical barrier of a light muslin still be better than nothing? @SiouxsieW@pezmico Thank you for any tips! Plz boost for more input.
The very first canon of nursing … is this: to keep the air [the patient] breathes as pure as the external air, without chilling him.” —Florence Nightingale—1858
Media should ask public health how measles virus transmits
With all the attention on #measles#outbreaks recently, the media should ask public health how the measles# virus can catch a ride in #aerosols to help it stay #airborne for hours and infect people but somehow no other virus like #COVID or #respiratory viruses (#Flu, #RSV) can use the exact same transportation method and fall to the ground. 🤔🧵 1/
In PA,, a little slower pace but it's still at over 28% of leaderboard share.: https://ibb.co/sCmQtbH
In NY/NJ, JN.1 at over 45% of share and this is only going to go up when kids go back to school.: https://ibb.co/DkJbCXs
Please take this highly evasive, transmissible variant seriously. The latest XBB vaccine will help sorta-ok-marginally against severe disease and health care system strain but this variant is many, many mutations away from anything we currently have, so source control is best.
Wear a quality RESPIRATOR. This is increasingly VITAL as it gets colder, making leaving windows open less ideal.
Nationally, most of the contiguous States are at VERY HIGH levels. We in PA are in more moderate levels of SARS2 spread and it will be more important than ever to practice source control against JN.1 to maintan this. It will prevent straining health care systems from not only increasing FluA, FluB, etc. but also people that just didn't care to get vaccinated.: https://ibb.co/RCYyNY3
Please get the XBB version ASAP if you didn't get one.
In PA, numbers match national levels so there's no real difference here. The last 2 weeks are shaded grey as they are incomplete, so the massive dropoff in wastewater on the end there is not due to declining levels but rather data gap.: https://ibb.co/FJK3BxN
PLEASE NOTE that we are in the midst of the SECOND largest increase in wastewater SARS2 material, and even if cases aren't reflecting this in data, those cases are still out there.
Try to go virtual if you can. Crack open a window. Practice SOME form of source control until the Spring!
If we all work together we can prevent life, learning, and finanical fallout in the next few months! :canparrot: :canparrot: :canparrot:
Stay safe from COVID and also that wacky storm coming our way tomorrow! ❄️❄️❄️
With an increase of caution now we can prevent fallout in the health system in the next month or two! 😷😷😷😷😷
In NY/NJ, JN.1 has ALREADY reached 40% of random sequencing 👀 and that was before 100,000 people hung out together unmasked in Times Square. 😓: https://ibb.co/ZhghSmQ
The closest new competitor to JN.1 is GE.1.2.1, a descendant of XBB.2.3, but it still falls a bit short of JN.1'a relative growth rate. JN.1.1.1 also falls a bit short but is still so fast it warrants monitoring.: https://ibb.co/9Yhn37n
This NOWCAST was from two weeks ago, so should be updated this Friday. You can see the absolutely explosive rate of JN.1's growth.: https://ibb.co/0qYtpB1
We will know how much of a surge it will cause once it hits 50% share of national sequencing, after which hosiptals and other care centers could experience strain.
DON'T CONTRIBUTE TO THIS.
Wear a respirator.
Keep the air clean.
CDC
You can see on the CDC At-A-Glance graphic, we're heading (not unexpectedly) in the wrong way after the holday season.: https://ibb.co/61yR8Jk
Emergency Department visits rising along most populous/coastal/border States.: https://ibb.co/QYzSJM6
Most Eastern states and metro areas in most other States have substantially increased in new hospital admits.: https://ibb.co/3CHBpQb
Don't let this get worse, folks. Wear a quality respirator. Stay home. test and retest. Keep the air clean!
The old coal region including and west of Schuylkill south toward the MD border is holding steady.
Tioga and the southwest corner is still hoiding out there, doing OK with numbers reducing.
Inpatient Beds holding steady and actually decreasing through msot of the state with some rising around Easton, around CentreCo. and up by Potter Co.: https://ibb.co/dW26YRs
ICU bed use reducing in a lot of areas but increasing significantly in Huntigdon, Mifflin and Juniata Cos.: https://ibb.co/wsc4jmp
More states are experiencing increases in deaths over a 3-month period. This is very much caused in part by refusal to take latest vaccinations causing waning immunity.: https://ibb.co/Sf3rk0K
4% of deaths in PA in the past week were from COVID. GO GET XBB VACCINATED.
With an increase of caution now we can prevent fallout in the health system in the next month or two! 😷😷😷😷😷
I've watched the last two Indiana Jones movies today. Crystal Skull and Dial of Destiny. I enjoyed them both, even under the weather. Yes I am feeling poorly.
One of two possibilities. Either I have a cold, which coincidentally began about 12 hours after the RSV vaccine, or I am having side effects from said vaccine.
Honestly, even if it is from the vaccine, I'm still glad I got it. Vaccines are important, especially at my age. And, no, they don't cause #autism.
I've had intermittent low grade fever, fatigue, stuffy head, and occasional cough. The fatigue could be #fibromyalgia , but the rest is definitely not.
I'm treating with generic Alka Seltzer Cold and Flu. That and bed rest. No big plans for #NYE are being ruined. Not to worry.
Infektionswelle im Winter - da ist ein neues Virus, das bleiben wird
Die Infektionswelle in diesem Winter ist angelaufen. Es sind auch wieder viele Corona-Erkrankungen dabei. Intensivmediziner Karagiannidis sagt, das Virus werde bleiben - und die Saison prägen.
In NYC we do have reports of #COVID19 hospitalizations per lakh, and raw #COVID hospitalization totals. As I understand it, this refers to the total number of people in the hospital with a positive COVID test on a given day.
But for #influenza and #RSV what we get are the number of positive specimens from any lab. And we get emergency room visits and admissions with flu-like symptoms (just a graph, no numbers). Which are not comparable to hospitalizations, right?
Meanwhile, this is what we get for #influenza and #RSV for NYC: counts with no denomenator.
How many patients are they testing for these diseases? Are these inpatient or outpatient, hospital or clinic? How bad are their symptoms?
We have no way of converting these positive test counts to hospitalization counts to compare with the #COVID counts and get a sense of the overall risk from infectious respiratory diseases.
The most recent #flu and #rsv report that NYC has released goes up to February 3. It shows a large, steady drop in RSV cases since the peak in December, and a slower decline in flu cases since the peak in early January.
These numbers are a bit less reliable, since they go down if less doctors order tests, but they are following the seasonal pattern, and suggest that, as with #covid these diseases pose a much lower risk now than in early January.
The winter (Northern Hemisphere) #COVID wave seems to be wrapping up across New York State, the United States and worldwide.
#COVID19 hospitalizations and deaths are down, and so are #RSV and #flu hospitalizations, but COVID and flu hospitalizations are still higher than they were last year, so total hospitalizations are also still higher.
Looks like 90% of the deaths reported to the WHO from this COVID wave were from the US and Europe.