Covid News

At long last.

Time for an update.

Moderna's bivalent booster - looking good:

The Novavax vaccine - one step closer to approval:

COVID State of Affairs: May 31

There's been a lot of anecdotal chatter to suggest that vaccination after a bout of Covid helps to reduce the severity of Long Covid. A large study has now confirmed this.

Conclusions The likelihood of long covid symptoms was observed to decrease after covid-19 vaccination and evidence suggested sustained improvement after a second dose, at least over the median follow-up of 67 days. Vaccination may contribute to a reduction in the population health burden of long covid, although longer follow-up is needed.

Good grief! I thought Republicans were all for free speech. How dare they!

Well, now it appears that over 15 million people have died worldwide so far from Covid, far surpassing original figures for it.

My cousin was in hospital for a few weeks on oxygen and a few months later half her hair fell out. Apparently it’s to do with the stress of being in a situation like that. I’ve seen her a few times since she was in hospital and she still seems a bit traumatised when she talks about her experience. I’m not a professional so I couldn’t make a diagnosis, but having suffered with PTSD myself I can see similarities there. Her hair is growing back and should hopefully return to normal. Losing hair may seem trivial to some people when others are losing their lives, but it appears to be yet another after effect of Covid.

Nebraska state Covid-19 dashboard. It doesn't break down by county, due to crap orders from Governor Ricketts.

https://datanexus-dhhs.ne.gov/views/Covid/1_DailyCharts?%3AisGuestRedirectFromVizportal=y&%3Aembed=y

The highest week for infections throughout the pandemic was January 18, 2022.

About 0.2% of the state's people are dead.

This is about the equivalent of the state's sixty-fourth most-populous county.

The latest, Covid's newest variant is spreading rapidly, cases are rising, and if you peak at the very slight increase on the scale of deaths, that's rising as well.

"Does this map make me look sick?"

But notice that Missouri and Nebraska are no longer reporting deaths or cases. Missouri because they don't wanna and Nebraska is in denial, which is not a river in Egypt.

And in Maine:

• An average of 710 cases per day were reported in Maine in the last week. Cases have increased by 144 percent from the average two weeks ago. Deaths have increased by 1125 percent.

• Since the beginning of the pandemic, at least 1 in 5 residents have been infected, a total of 248,099 reported cases. At least 1 in 585 residents have died from the coronavirus, a total of 2,296 deaths.

• February 2022 was the month with the highest average cases and deaths in Maine.

We're one of the most vaccinated states in the country.

An invisible wave would be a good thing. It means the current immunological landscape is holding up well against BA2. If it wasn't, hospitals would be filling up again.

People getting sick, testing at home, and then recovering at home without the need for treatment is a win.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/04/covid-ba2-omicron-invisible-wave/629708/

Over the past month, the number of new COVID cases in my social circle has become impossible to ignore. I brushed off the first few—guests at a wedding I attended in early April—as outliers during the post-Omicron lull. But then came frantic texts from two former colleagues. The next week, a friend at the local café was complaining that she’d lost her sense of smell. My Instagram feed is now surfacing selfies of people in isolation, some for the second or third time......