Infectious diseases skyrocket worldwide fueled by COVID-19 pandemic.
"A new study has found that the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic over the past four years coincides with a new surge in many other infectious diseases far beyond their pre-pandemic levels. The study was reported by Airfinity, a UK-based data and analytics company that specializes in monitoring and forecasting trends in global disease and public health."
"The implication of this finding is that the systematic dismantling of public health measures by capitalist governments worldwide, allowing SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, unimpeded access to the world’s population, has created the conditions for even greater damage to human health."
Source: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/06/18/lkjn-j18.html
More than a quarter of people with COVID infection develop Long COVID, new research reveals.
"A new study carried out by researchers at the University of York suggests 28% of people who catch COVID-19 will go on to suffer from Long COVID."
“There is a societal tendency in the UK to think Covid is over, but Long Covid is having a profound and lasting effect on individuals and society as a whole, with many people leaving the workplace due to the condition. This is placing a heavy burden on the economy.”
Source: https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2024/research/long-covid-fog/
Tasmania weekly COVID update: 22 December to 28 December
🔹New cases: 970 (-28) 🔹Deaths: 0 (-3) 🔹Total deaths: 341 (+0) 🔹Hospital: 57 (+3) 🔹ICU: 0 (-1)
🔸Cases numbers ⬇️Down 3% compared to the previous week.
SA weekly COVID update: 20 Dec to 26 Dec
🔹PCR cases only: 1,475 (-182) 🔹Deaths: NR 🔹Total deaths: 1,663 (+0) 🔹Hospital: n/a 🔹ICU: n/a
There were no new COVID-19 deaths notified to the Department for Health and Wellbeing. Please note, Births, Deaths and Marriages data is currently received on a monthly basis.
🔸Cases numbers ⬇️Down 11% compared to the previous week.
NR = Not reported
COVID-19 outbreaks in Australian residential aged care facilities: 16 November 2023
🔹Active cases: 2,425 (+33) 🔹Active outbreaks: 324 (+7) 🔹Residents: 1,707 (+36) 🔹Staff: 718 (-3) 🔹Reported deaths in 2023: 1,233 (+48)
🔸6,000 aged care COVID deaths since beginning of pandemic
🔸686 reported deaths in 2020 🔸226 reported deaths in 2021 🔸3,855 reported deaths in 2022 🔸1,233 reported deaths in 2023
\#COVID19AUS @AnikaWells @Mark\_Butler\_MP @AlboMP @auscovid19
As at 1 November 2023, Northern Territory COVID-19 data is no longer published on NT Health’s website.
WA COVID weekly update: 30 October to 5 November
🔹PCR cases only: 466 (+43) 🔹Aboriginal population: 18 cases (-3) 🔹Deaths: 2 (+2) 🔹Total deaths: 1,265 (+2) 🔹Hospital: 134 (+16) 🔹ICU: 3 (+3)
🔸 Cases up 10% from previous week
🔸 Hospitalisation up 14% from previous week
Note: From 6th November 2023, COVID-19 case rates by Australian jurisdiction will cease to be reported due to the unavailability of this data
Source: https://health.wa.gov.au/Articles/F\_I/Infectious-disease-data/COVID19-Weekly-Surveillance-Report
🇦🇺 Australia: "Life expectancy in Australia has gone backwards for the first time in over 40 years, caused by over 10,000 COVID-19 deaths last year."
\#COVID19 #Australia #LifeExpectancy #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19
Family remembers Fort Worth police officer who died of COVID-19 complications.
All moments she and her kids are now holding onto after COVID-19 shattered their lives.
“I started to get better after a week, he did not. He started getting worse," said Vickie.
They contracted the virus in mid-August, and she said her husband was in and out of the hospital from then on.
Vickie said her husband got the virus while on the job.
“I was always scared of him getting COVID because he already had lung problems, he has—he’s an asthmatic," she said.
She said after being on an ECMO, Jenson's liver and kidney started failing. An ECMO machine pumps blood outside the body, allowing the patient's heart and lungs to rest.
"He went from...breathing oxygen, to a mask, to the highest form of ventilator, like within 24 hours or so," Vickie said.
They said their goodbyes to the 57-year-old on Saturday.
🇦🇺 Australia: Federal COVID-19 reporting is moving to a monthly reporting schedule, with today being the final weekly report. The next report is expected 10th November 2023.
\#COVID19 #Australia #monthlyreporting @auscovid19
Source: https://health.gov.au/topics/covid-19/weekly-reporting?language=und
(3/3) NSW COVID-19 Sewage surveillance program: Fortnight ending 21 October 2023
🔹Bondi: ⬆️Up
🔹Hunter: ⬆️Up
🔹Liverpool: ➡️Stable
🔹Quakers Hills: ⬆️Up
#COVID19NSW #Sewage @auscovid19
Source: https://health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/covid-19/Pages/weekly-reports.aspx
(2/3) NSW COVID-19 Whole Genome Sequencing: Fortnight ending 21 October 2023
🔹EG.5 now accounts for almost half of all isolates
🔹The number of BA.2.86 detections in NSW is now 6
Source: https://health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/covid-19/Pages/weekly-reports.aspx
(1/3) NSW respiratory surveillance reports: Fortnight ending 21 October 2023.
🔸COVID-19 transmission continues to increase in NSW.
🔸COVID-19 PCR test positivity at sentinel laboratories was 9.5% in the past week.
🔹COVID: 3,250 🔹Influenza: 2,335 🔹RSV: 745
NSW COVID weekly update: 13 Oct to 19 Oct
🔹PCR cases only: 1,541 (+209) 🔹Deaths: 19 (+10) 🔹Total deaths: 7,748 (+19) 🔹Hospital: 702 (+43) 🔹ICU: 12 (+2)
From 20 October 2023 this NSW COVID-19 weekly update will no longer be published on NSW Health’s website and social media channels. The best indicators of COVID-19 activity in the community at this time are emergency department presentations for COVID-19 and sewage surveillance.
\#COVID19nsw @ChrisMinnsMP @RyanPark\_Keira @NSWCHO @NSWHealth#PandemicIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne @auscovid19
COVID-19 costing the Australian economy billions.
\#COVID19 #Australia #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19
Source: https://www.perthnow.com.au/business/covid-19-costing-the-australian-economy-billions-c-12171403
🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA: Increase in deaths in state-wide surgical audit may reflect legacy effects of COVID-19.
Source: https://www.surgeons.org/News/media-releases/WAASM-2023-Media-Release
The COVID-19 iceberg.
\#COVID19iceberg #COVIDisNotOver #COVIDisAirborne @auscovid19
Tasmania COVID weekly update: 29 September to 5 October
🔹New cases: 275 (-2) 🔹Deaths: 0 (+0) 🔹Total deaths: 312 (+0) 🔹Hospital: 16 (-2) 🔹ICU: 0 (-1)
ACT COVID weekly update: 29 September to 5 October
🔹New cases: 168 (-10) 🔹Deaths: 0 (+0) 🔹Total deaths: 279 (+0) 🔹Hospital: 8 (+0) 🔹ICU: 1 (+0) 🔹Vent: 0 (+0)
Source: https://covid19.act.gov.au/updates/act-covid-19-statistics
WA COVID weekly update: 25 September to 1 October
🔹New cases: 660 (+94) 🔹Reinfections: 251 (38.03%) 🔹Deaths: 5 (+1) 🔹Total deaths: 1,246 (+5) 🔹Hospital: 56 (+13) 🔹ICU: 0 (+0)
🔸38.03% were reinfections
Source: https://health.wa.gov.au/Articles/F\_I/Infectious-disease-data/COVID19-Weekly-Surveillance-Report
SA COVID weekly update: 27 September to 3 October
🔸Federal data
🔹New cases: 645 (-91) 🔹Deaths: NR 🔹Total deaths: 1,620 (+0) 🔹Hospital: 27 (-9) 🔹ICU: 0 (-2)
There were no COVID-19 deaths notified to the Department for Health and Wellbeing in the past week. Please note, Births, Deaths and Marriages data is currently received on a monthly basis.
NR = Not reported
The 11 COVID symptoms you need to know as Pirola (BA.2.86) strain sweeps through UK.
🔹Continuous cough 🔹High temperature, fever or chills 🔹Loss of, or change in, your normal sense of taste or smell 🔹Shortness of breath 🔹Unexplained tiredness, lack of energy 🔹Muscle aches or pains that are not due to exercise 🔹Not wanting to eat or not feeling hungry 🔹Headache that's unusual or longer lasting than usual 🔹Sore throat, stuffy or runny nose 🔹Diarrhoea 🔹Feeling sick or being sick
\#COVID19 #Pirola #BA286 @auscovid19
Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/11-covid-symptoms-you-need-31111136
(3/3) NSW COVID-19 Sewage surveillance program: Week ending 20 September 2023
🔹Bondi: ⬆️Up
🔹Hunter: ⬇️Down
🔹Liverpool: ⬆️Up
🔹Quakers Hills: ⬇️Down
(2/3) The proportion of samples identified with the EG.5 lineage is increasing.
BA.2.86 has been detected in multiple countries with the first Australian case identified in WA in mid-September 2023.
It has not been detected in NSW samples received to date.
(3/3) NSW COVID-19 Sewage surveillance program: Week ending 16 September 2023
🔹Bondi: ⬆️Up
🔹Hunter: ⬆️Up
🔹Liverpool: ➡️Steady
🔹Quakers Hills: ⬆️Up
(2/3) NSW COVID-19 Whole Genome Sequencing: Week ending 16 September 2023
🔹The proportion of samples identified with the EG.5 lineage is increasing. BA.2.86 has not been detected in local samples received to date.
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