AusCOVID19 group
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Infectious diseases skyrocket worldwide fueled by COVID-19 pandemic.
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
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More than a quarter of people with COVID infection develop Long COVID, new research reveals.
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/
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Tasmania weekly COVID update: 22 December to 28 December
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.
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SA weekly COVID update: 20 Dec to 26 Dec
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
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🇲🇾Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: 57.3% increase in COVID-19 cases from Nov 19-25, says the Health Ministry.
🇲🇾Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: 57.3% increase in COVID-19 cases from Nov 19-25, says the Health Ministry.
The majority of cases (48%) are made up of those aged between 20 and 40.
The majority of reports are clusters involving the education sector.
\#COVID19 #Malaysia #KualaLumpur @auscovid19
Source: https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2023/12/03/covid-19-health-ministry-says-cases-up-by-573
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🇲🇾Malaysia: "As COVID caseloads increase, health experts say Malaysians must exercise vigilance to avoid catching the life-threatening disease and other infectious respiratory diseases such as influen
🇲🇾Malaysia: "As COVID caseloads increase, health experts say Malaysians must exercise vigilance to avoid catching the life-threatening disease and other infectious respiratory diseases such as influenza"
🔹COVID cases had risen by 28% between Nov 12 and 18
\#COVID19 #Malaysia @auscovid19
Source: https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2023/11/29/follow-sop-to-check-covid-19
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COVID-19 outbreaks in Australian residential aged care facilities: 16 November 2023
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
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As at 1 November 2023, Northern Territory COVID-19 data is no longer published on NT Health’s website.
As at 1 November 2023, Northern Territory COVID-19 data is no longer published on NT Health’s website.
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WA COVID weekly update: 30 October to 5 November
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
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🇦🇺 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."
🇦🇺 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
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Family remembers Fort Worth police officer who died of COVID-19 complications.
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.
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🇦🇺 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.
🇦🇺 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
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(1/3) NSW respiratory surveillance reports: Fortnight ending 21 October 2023.
(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
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NSW COVID weekly update: 13 Oct to 19 Oct
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
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COVID-19 costing the Australian economy billions.
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
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🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA: Increase in deaths in state-wide surgical audit may reflect legacy effects of COVID-19.
🇦🇺 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
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Tasmania COVID weekly update: 29 September to 5 October
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)
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ACT COVID weekly update: 29 September to 5 October
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
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WA COVID weekly update: 25 September to 1 October
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
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SA COVID weekly update: 27 September to 3 October
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
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The 11 COVID symptoms you need to know as Pirola (BA.2.86) strain sweeps through UK.
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
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By Scott Squires @scott\_squires
By Scott Squires @scott\_squires
"Disney could improve ventilation and could encourage masks to stay safer but nope, just slap a legal disclaimer and you are done. No need to do anything because there are no requirements for any business from anyone."
\#COVID19 #WaltDisneyWorld @auscovid19
Twitter/X source: https://twitter.com/scott\_squires/status/1708948967344709960
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ATAGI 2023 COVID-19 booster advice – first and additional dose.
ATAGI 2023 COVID-19 booster advice – first and additional dose.
This fact sheet provides frequently asked questions for residential aged care providers and workers on the updated September 2023 ATAGI advice for the COVID-19 booster dose.
\#COVID19AUS #ATAGI @healthgovau @auscovid19
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COVID-Related Sepsis Deadlier Than Initially Estimated: Study.
COVID-Related Sepsis Deadlier Than Initially Estimated: Study.
🔹SARS-CoV-2 accounted for approximately 1 in 6 cases of sepsis during the first 33 months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Source: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2809966
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‘It will happen’: Need to prepare for new pandemic and what we’ll likely be hit with next.
‘It will happen’: Need to prepare for new pandemic and what we’ll likely be hit with next.
A Melbourne-made COVID vaccine that shows great promise in protecting against Omicron’s many deadly mutations could be mass produced and rolled out across the globe.
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NSW COVID weekly update: 22 September to 28 September
NSW COVID weekly update: 22 September to 28 September
🔹New cases: 2,232 (-101) 🔹Deaths: 17 (-4) 🔹Total deaths: 7,717 (+17) 🔹Hospital: 651 (+26) 🔹ICU: 12 (+3)
\#COVID19nsw @ChrisMinnsMP @RyanPark\_Keira @NSWCHO @NSWHealth #PandemicIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne @auscovid19
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(1/3) NSW respiratory surveillance reports: Week ending 23 September 2023
(1/3) NSW respiratory surveillance reports: Week ending 23 September 2023
🔸COVID notifications increased by 10.5% in the past week
🔸Increases in COVID notifications occurred for children aged 0 – 4 years and adults aged 30 – 89 years and across most LHDs
🔹COVID: 2,171 (+256) 🔹Influenza: 1,688 (+87) 🔹RSV: 564 (-77)
Source: https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/covid-19/Pages/weekly-reports.aspx
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🇯🇵 Japan's schools face double whammy of the FLU and COVID.
🇯🇵 Japan's schools face double whammy of the FLU and COVID.
Between Sept. 11 and Sept 17:
🔹86,510 cases of COVID were reported 🔹34,665 cases of Influenza were reported 🔹2,400 schools decided to either suspend or to close school facilities altogether 🔹 48 schools reported whole facility closures
Source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/09/25/japan/science-health/flu-covid-waves/
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Here’s how much coronavirus people infected with COVID-19 may exhale
Here’s how much coronavirus people infected with COVID-19 may exhale
"Based on the new data, the team estimates that a high shedder could potentially exhale enough virus to infect someone in a closed space in about 20 seconds, making even elevator rides risky. With an average shedder, infection could take a little under 4 minutes."
\#COVID19 #COVIDisAirborne @auscovid19
Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/coronavirus-infected-covid-19-exhale
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NSW CHO confirms she will front federal COVID inquiry
NSW CHO confirms she will front federal COVID inquiry
"NSW Premier Chris Minns has cut off the state's Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant as she answered questions about lessons from COVID pandemic."
\#COVID19NSW @NSWCHO @auscovid19 @ChrisMinnsMP
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Health experts warn 'Disease X' will dwarf COVID with predicted death toll of 50 million.
Health experts warn 'Disease X' will dwarf COVID with predicted death toll of 50 million.
Dame Kate Bingham says Disease X could be as infectious as measles and as deadly as Ebola.
\#COVID19 #DiseaseX @auscovid19
Source: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/health-experts-warn-disease-x-31016326
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"Law experts from Charles Darwin University say the Covid-19 pandemic inquiry must focus on all levels of government to deal effectively with the lessons learned, not just the commonwealth response."
"Law experts from Charles Darwin University say the Covid-19 pandemic inquiry must focus on all levels of government to deal effectively with the lessons learned, not just the commonwealth response."
\#COVID19AUS #COVIDinquiry @CDUni #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19
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Senator Murray Watt suggests royal commission not appropriate for COVID.
Senator Murray Watt suggests royal commission not appropriate for COVID.
\#COVID19AUS @MurrayWatt #COVIDisNotOver #auspol @AustralianLabor @auscovid19
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In Hospitals, Viruses Are Everywhere. Masks Are Not.
In Hospitals, Viruses Are Everywhere. Masks Are Not.
"A recent study found that more cancer patients died of COVID during the Omicron surge than in the first winter wave, in part because people around them had stopped taking precautions."
Respiratory viruses can unmask or exacerbate chronic conditions of the heart, lung or kidneys and trigger autoimmune conditions. “It’s much bigger than simply the actual infection”
Source: https://nytimes.com/2023/09/23/health/hospitals-masking-mandates.html
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"Family members of victims of Australia’s worst aged-care Covid-19 outbreak have called the limited scope of the federal government’s pandemic response inquiry “disappointing” as they continue to grap
"Family members of victims of Australia’s worst aged-care Covid-19 outbreak have called the limited scope of the federal government’s pandemic response inquiry “disappointing” as they continue to grapple with the life-changing consequences of that fiasco three years on."
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Long COVID: MRI scans reveal new clues to symptoms
Long COVID: MRI scans reveal new clues to symptoms
"People living with long COVID after being admitted to hospital are more likely to show some damage to major organs, according to a new study."
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"More pandemic-era measures could be rolled back in NSW after the state government moved to scrap a system that allowed people to register positive tests."
"More pandemic-era measures could be rolled back in NSW after the state government moved to scrap a system that allowed people to register positive tests."
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People whose long COVID symptoms include neurological issues have a different gut flora, researchers say.
People whose long COVID symptoms include neurological issues have a different gut flora, researchers say.
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WA COVID weekly update: 11 September to 17 September
WA COVID weekly update: 11 September to 17 September
🔹New cases: 604 (-9) 🔹Reinfections: 206 (34.11%) 🔹Deaths: 8 (+1) 🔹Total deaths: 1,237 (+8) 🔹Hospital: 39 (-17) 🔹ICU: 0 (-1)
🔸34.11% were reinfections
Source: https://health.wa.gov.au/Articles/F\_I/Infectious-disease-data/COVID19-Weekly-Surveillance-Report
