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NCHS estimates of #LongCovid—based on Household Pulse Survey—next update due on Thurs.
Activity limitations and significant limitations at highest levels since Oct 2022.
As more and more folk experience Long Covid, fewer and fewer have been staffing our hospitals.
#ThisIsOurPolio #CountLongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #MassDisablingEvent
[This is first toot of weekly thread, updated daily, providing various dataviz of ongoing #pandemic.]
Last week: https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112238672713742015
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Per WHO, every 12 minutes four people die of acute covid. Three of those deaths are in U.S.
As of Apr 2023, for every three covid deaths, U.S. saw another excess death not attributed to covid.
Feb 2024 WHO & Economist estimates reflect same trend globally.
[Global stalls as data trickles in.]
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Here's hoping—as Sudan war in year two, SCOTUS lets states stifle protest, NIH director admits persistence, cyberattack stalls NYS budget, rat pee infections rise, Google fires protesters, Columbia students arrested, WHO admits air is like water, US vetoes statehood, 911 goes down, Gvir calls for executions, and "mystery covid-like flu" emerges—that all those reading this are having a week wherein they & theirs are putting health & welfare of those they love—and share air with—first & foremost.
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Into April, JN.1 family has diversified sufficiently for designation of twelve pango aliases: KP through LC (excl. KT); & six recombinants: XDD, XDK, XDN, XDP, XDR & XDV.
After starting to reemerge from GISAID dataset early March, non-JN.1 lineages are now all but absent. No doubt this is related, at least in part, to low reporting across states (next toot).
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NY/NJ and Southeast regions fall off map due to insufficient reporting, leaving Great Lakes as sole reporting region.
JN.1.13 estimated 3.8% in Great Lakes region, JN.1.18 at 3.4%, JN.1.16 at 2.7%.
Nothing to compare it to, because state-level public health agencies have just stopped collecting sufficient data.
[For color key, see: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions]
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Folk are dying at record numbers, of comorbidities of severe acute covid that are also implicated as post-acute sequelae of covid infection. ↺
Of course, ongoing hospital staffing attrition also contributes to elevated death tolls. Said attrition continues. ↺
[CDC ended excess death reporting Sep 27.]
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Given evidence linking covid infection to sudden onset liver damage, recent increased liver disease mortality's hardly surprising.
Final mortality data for 2020—released in Sept—reveals spike in accidental deaths driven by poisonings & exposure to noxious substances.
2021 data remains long overdue: https://disabled.social/@beadsland/111978043518156275
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"Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)…continues to struggle daily with unprecedented overcrowding – particularly in its Emergency Department (ED)."
Statistics, as always, are structural.
Data reported to HHS don't include ED patients awaiting inpatient beds. Moreover, weekly data can easily obscure daily overcrowding.
If MGH can be in 16-month unprecedented crisis w/out ever topping 100% reported capacity, just imagine degree of crisis in hospitals ≥100%.
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Some 41 (-5) counties are reporting ≥ 100% capacity per HHS data.
Reporting ≥ 90%: 200 (-17)—over 8% of those w/ any capacity.
This includes surge & overflow beds—near full can mean E/Rs with hours-long even day-long wait times.
Also: https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112096016017762251
For counties w/ ICUs—over one in six are full or near full.
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Occupied beds in excess of staffed beds indicates that patients are not receiving adequate care.
For comparison, Suffolk County, MA is at 93% adult hospital capacity, 92% adult ICU.
Mass. General—at 95% capacity/95% ICU—largest of some dozen Suffolk hospitals already 18 months into "unprecedented capacity crisis".
https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112294539735226603
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Seventeenth week of Pirola BA.2.86 grankid JN.1 wave. Per GISAID, early April, some three tenths of this likely attributable to subvariants.
CDC breaks out JN.1.16 (~7% in GISAID), JN.1.13 (~6%) & JN.1.18 (~3%); continues to muddy data with variants moot for months.
JN.1.4, not broken out by CDC—still near ⅒ of JN sequences in GISAID—outpaced by JN.1.7.
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Pediatric staffing never recovered to pre-omicron levels. Rather, now all but one in five pediatric beds reported May of 2022: now missing.
PICU Capacity Level (not shown): 70%.
Weekly average ~80 PICU beds were covid patients.
We're failing our kids. The emergency is over.
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Some 302 (+4) counties reporting pediatric care near or over capacity (≥ 90%).
Of 275 (+3) counties reporting any PICU capacity, near one in four are near or over full.
So many places where there ain't enough staff for sick or injured kids to receive required care.
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Counties by reported pediatric capacity (darkest counties on map above):
⒈ Ada, ID ≥150%
⒉ Androscoggin, ME ≥150%
⒊ Twin Falls, ID ≥150%
⒋ Raleigh, WV ≥150%
⒌ Sioux, IA ≥150%
[Omitted: 47 counties w/ ZERO staffed pediatric beds; fewer than 4 pediatric patients.]
⒍ Seminole, GA ≥150%
⒎ Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK ≥150%
⒏ Roosevelt, MT ≥150%
⒐ Florence, SC—141%
⒑ Jackson, IN—114%
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #RSV #Strep #Flu #LongCovidKids #CovidIsNotOver #BringBackMasks
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Counties by reported pediatric ICU capacity (circle-hatched on map above):
⒈ Ada, ID ≥150%
⒉ Androscoggin, ME ≥150%
⒊ Hancock, OH ≥150%
⒋ Union, OR ≥150%
⒌ Spartanburg, SC ≥150%
⒍ DeKalb, GA—108%
⒎ Monroe, NY—107%
⒏ Denton, TX—100%
⒐ Jefferson, TX—100%
⒑ Brazos, TX—100%
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Capacity Level has been elevated since independence from the virus was declared three summers ago—as fewer & fewer professionals have been available to staff hospital beds.
Critical Staffing Level, though down from 2023 high, has been well above 2022 lvl for over a year—w/ one in nine reporting hospitals at critical shortage.
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