And is virus blowing in the Asian wind?
US
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions
BA 4, 5.4%
BA 5, 7.6%
BA.4 and BA.5, first detected in South Africa, early 2022
Now, at 13% of cases
Last week, 7.5% of cases
Probably mostly immune escape
UK
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-6-may-2022
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-may-2022
Last 90 days (updated 7th June)
BA.1, 2,175508
BA.2, 469,309
XE, 2,009
BA.4, 289
BA.5, 219
ONS
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/articles/coronaviruscovid19/latestinsights
Percentage of the community population that had COVID-19
1.44% in England (1 in 70 people)
1.30% in Wales (1 in 75 people)
1.33% in Northern Ireland (1 in 75 people)
2.01% in Scotland (1 in 50 people)
Long covid, UK, as of 1st May 2022
2.0 million
3.1% of the population
72% for at least 12 weeks
42% at least one year
19% at least two years
Symptoms
Fatigue 55%
Shortness of breath 32%
cough 23%
muscle ache 23%
Symptoms adversely affected the day-to-day activities
1.4 million people (71% of those with self-reported long COVID).
More LC after delta than omicron
(in double-vaccinated people)
Self-reported long COVID was almost twice as common after Delta than after Omicron BA.1 infections
North Korea
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/07/opinion/north-korea-covid.html
Dr. Mike Ryan
we have real issues in getting access to the raw data and to the actual situation on the ground
It is very, very difficult to provide a proper analysis to the world when we don’t have access to the necessary data
Extensive use of Sinovac
Jean H. Lee
Chronic food shortages
Since a massive famine in the 1990s
Fruit, vegetables and meat are luxuries
Malnutrition shows, splotchy skin, sunken cheekbones, gaunt frames
Most hospitals and clinics do not have heat, medicine or supplies
North Korean nurses washing syringes
Doctors and patients bundle up in quilted jackets
One North Korean doctor, relied on preventive care because she had no medicine,
not even for diarrhea, which she said kills scores of North Korean children every year
North Koreans living in mountainous areas
China
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/china
Cases, 2,101,049
Deaths, 14,615
Fully vaccinated, 89.05%
Doses administered 3.5 billion
Government notice, Dandong
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/90KdrMD4Gc7WVFfnnN4WCw
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-07/china-fears-wind-is-blowing-covid-virus-in-from-north-korea
try not to open windows in southerly weather for residents along the river, and do not disperse pigeons during the epidemic
Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abd9149
Long-range airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 has been observed,
hotel quarantines,
in a large church
Half live of virus in aerosols
One to to 3 hours
SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 (laboratory-generated aerosols)
US
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions
BA 4, 5.4%
BA 5, 7.6%
BA.4 and BA.5, first detected in South Africa, early 2022
Now, at 13% of cases
Last week, 7.5% of cases
Probably mostly immune escape
UK
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-6-may-2022
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-27-may-2022
Last 90 days (updated 7th June)
BA.1, 2,175508
BA.2, 469,309
XE, 2,009
BA.4, 289
BA.5, 219
ONS
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/articles/coronaviruscovid19/latestinsights
Percentage of the community population that had COVID-19
1.44% in England (1 in 70 people)
1.30% in Wales (1 in 75 people)
1.33% in Northern Ireland (1 in 75 people)
2.01% in Scotland (1 in 50 people)
Long covid, UK, as of 1st May 2022
2.0 million
3.1% of the population
72% for at least 12 weeks
42% at least one year
19% at least two years
Symptoms
Fatigue 55%
Shortness of breath 32%
cough 23%
muscle ache 23%
Symptoms adversely affected the day-to-day activities
1.4 million people (71% of those with self-reported long COVID).
More LC after delta than omicron
(in double-vaccinated people)
Self-reported long COVID was almost twice as common after Delta than after Omicron BA.1 infections
North Korea
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/07/opinion/north-korea-covid.html
Dr. Mike Ryan
we have real issues in getting access to the raw data and to the actual situation on the ground
It is very, very difficult to provide a proper analysis to the world when we don’t have access to the necessary data
Extensive use of Sinovac
Jean H. Lee
Chronic food shortages
Since a massive famine in the 1990s
Fruit, vegetables and meat are luxuries
Malnutrition shows, splotchy skin, sunken cheekbones, gaunt frames
Most hospitals and clinics do not have heat, medicine or supplies
North Korean nurses washing syringes
Doctors and patients bundle up in quilted jackets
One North Korean doctor, relied on preventive care because she had no medicine,
not even for diarrhea, which she said kills scores of North Korean children every year
North Koreans living in mountainous areas
China
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/china
Cases, 2,101,049
Deaths, 14,615
Fully vaccinated, 89.05%
Doses administered 3.5 billion
Government notice, Dandong
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/90KdrMD4Gc7WVFfnnN4WCw
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-07/china-fears-wind-is-blowing-covid-virus-in-from-north-korea
try not to open windows in southerly weather for residents along the river, and do not disperse pigeons during the epidemic
Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abd9149
Long-range airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 has been observed,
hotel quarantines,
in a large church
Half live of virus in aerosols
One to to 3 hours
SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 (laboratory-generated aerosols)
