CoronaVirus
NI #COVID19 data has been updated:
š3,833 positive cases and, sadly, 1 death has been reported in the past 24 hours.
š3,677,195 vaccines administered in total.
Vaccines ā”ļøhttps://t.co/Yfa0hHVmRL
Dashboard ā”ļø https://t.co/WeZCwyPQnJ pic.twitter.com/7tDeJWuDMC— Department of Health (@healthdpt) February 4, 2022
Covid-19: 6,697 PCR cases and 5,639 antigen tests registeredhttps://t.co/RpVVjT5vw6
— RTĆ News (@rtenews) February 4, 2022
Ireland:
Large increase in COVID-19 cases & hospitalisations in childrenā ļø*218 children* were hospitalised with COVID-19 in Week 4
ā ļø*257%* increase in child COVID19 hospitalisations vs Wk3 (417% increase for 5-12yr olds)
ā ļøChildren made up 13.6% of all COVID hospitalisations https://t.co/G2pkbmeEIm pic.twitter.com/JIDIXpq4Le
— Parents & School Staff Ireland (@ParentsUtdIE) February 3, 2022
2) Here was how #BA2 surged from last weekās report to this weekās cumulative 3832 cases. Itās clearly spreading fast and across all regions of š¬š§ pic.twitter.com/Jdzuvbisz1
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) February 4, 2022
4) We have definitive proof that #BA2 is transmission faster - it has a high growth rate and it has a much higher secondary attack rate in households. These numbers are from UK govt scientists and they donāt lie. https://t.co/8srSJkpsjs
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) February 4, 2022
Record total hospitalizations in Denmark ššš pic.twitter.com/EcQ8Udi4s9
— Gabriel HĆ©bert-Mildā¢ ā„ (@Gab_H_R) February 4, 2022
Children hospitalization in Italy šhttps://t.co/zG5jGw4Org
— Ing. Antonio Caramia (@Antonio_Caramia) February 4, 2022
The data for hospitalization by age and vaccination status were also recently posted by @CDCgov
Vaccination plus booster vs unvaccinated
Age 65+ 98% reduction
Age 50-64 97% reduction
latest available absolute data posted with graphs below pic.twitter.com/cSizkmFzk2— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) February 4, 2022
New: Assessment of an Omicron-specific booster vs Moderna original (vs ancestral) booster in macaques: no difference
"An Omicron boost may not provide greater immunity or protection compared to a boost with the current mRNA-1273 vaccine"https://t.co/9lonQjawcj pic.twitter.com/wGq6WCLdIx— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) February 4, 2022
Yesterday another 3,300 American deaths reported.
Now 80% of pandemic peak and still on the rise, 7-day averaging over 2,600 deaths per day pic.twitter.com/RcRcYf0ZI3— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) February 4, 2022
As a result, the US death rate is now ~80% of its peak before vaccines and rising, whereas countries with high vaccination rates are 20-30% of their pandemic peak pic.twitter.com/YL8A1sQPyd
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) February 3, 2022
An important graph goes viralš
The 99% reduction of death (97-fold decrease) by vaccination + booster
I noted it, then @redouad made a nicer version, then @DLeonhardt published it @nytimes (slightly modified), then @CDCgov put it out (original version)https://t.co/SoxFWBe2bs pic.twitter.com/t0sFWOdaW5— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) February 4, 2022
Omicron. pic.twitter.com/zor9suKmvt
— Gabriel HĆ©bert-Mildā¢ ā„ (@Gab_H_R) January 8, 2022
NI #COVID19 data has been updated:
š3,201 positive cases and, sadly, 3 deaths have been reported in the past 24 hours.
š3,679,414 vaccines administered in total.
Vaccines ā”ļøhttps://t.co/Yfa0hHVmRL
The DoH dashboard will be updated on Monday 7 February 2022. pic.twitter.com/N9Qs7Bg8N5
— Department of Health (@healthdpt) February 5, 2022
NI #COVID19 data has been updated:
š2,694 positive cases and, sadly, 1 death have been reported in the past 24 hours.
š3,681,497 vaccines administered in total.
Vaccines ā”ļøhttps://t.co/Yfa0hHVmRL
The DoH dashboard will be updated on Monday 7 February 2022. pic.twitter.com/D4KIxRE8Cu
— Department of Health (@healthdpt) February 6, 2022
This theory hasnāt gone away or been proven more than plausible yet. Humans infected rats in mid-2020. This could have been happening everywhere and anywhere through sewage systems. Rats ran with it and then passed it back in a mutated form that confused our winning vaccines with mass infections in late 2021.
Dirty rats! Some experts think that it's possible that the Omicron variant of COVID-19 evolved in rodents and then jumped to humans. https://t.co/NXgMvU666B pic.twitter.com/yrttATSH3D
— Infection Control Today (@ICT_magazine) December 5, 2021
Where did Omicron come from? It's so different from other variantsāalpha & deltaāthat virologists estimate its closest genetic ancestor probably dates to more than a year ago, possibly mid-2020. It might have evolved in an animal host, maybe mice or rats https://t.co/FW72nPC3sa pic.twitter.com/ODo6o4BxEo
— delthia ricks š¬ (@DelthiaRicks) January 28, 2022
Omicron variant may have evolved in rats, one theory says https://t.co/kh0Tj1dF2X @SixandLaura
— Ruth Steinman (@SteinmanRuth) January 30, 2022
Mysterious mutations of COVID appearing in the New York "sewershed". Perhaps rats, cats, or bats. SARS-CoV2 is "a very promiscuous virus". https://t.co/211XAxMMZU
— Nathan Light (@Natlyt) February 4, 2022
āItās very difficult to try to mitigate a risk that you canāt even remotely wrap your head around,ā she says.
— Top Science (@isciverse) February 2, 2022