United States, report record cases and people in hospital, for all of the pandemic so far
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-reports-least-11-mln-covid-cases-day-shattering-global-record-2022-01-11/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=The%20Reuters%20Daily%20Briefing&utm_content=11-1-22&utm_campaign=11-1-22
Monday, Reuters, 1.35 million new coronavirus infections
(Previous record was 1.03 million cases on Jan. 3.)
Past week, 700,000 per day
Hospitalized
Also hit an all-time high
Doubled in past three weeks
Monday,
136,604 people hospitalized with COVID-19
Previous record, 132,051, January 2021
Ongoing staff out sick
Many elective procedures suspended
Schools
Staff, teachers, bus drivers
Chicago classes cancelled
New York City, three subway lines out
Deaths 1,700 per day
Pfizer, omicron vaccine in March
Zoe study
https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/omicron-spread-slows-but-cases-hit-vulnerable-over-75s
US cases and deaths data
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailycases
Colorado
https://covid19.colorado.gov/data
California
https://covid19.ca.gov/state-dashboard/#todays-update
Florida
http://ww11.doh.state.fl.us/comm/_partners/covid19_report_archive/covid19-data/covid19_data_latest.pdf
New York
https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/covid-19-data-new-york
Illinois
https://dph.illinois.gov/covid19/data.html
https://health.ny.gov/press/releases/2021/docs/2021-12-24_health_advisory.pdf
UK data
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-omicron-daily-overview
https://covid.joinzoe.com/data#levels-over-time
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk
Zoe
https://covid.joinzoe.com
SA hospital data
https://www.nicd.ac.za/diseases-a-z-index/disease-index-covid-19/surveillance-reports/daily-hospital-surveillance-datcov-report/
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-africa/
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/omicron-infect-more-than-half-europes-population-6-8-weeks-who-2022-01-11/
https://www.euro.who.int/en/about-us/organization
https://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/health-emergencies/coronavirus-covid-19
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220111-omicron-on-track-to-infect-more-than-half-of-europeans-in-next-two-months-who-says
Next 6 to 8 weeks
More than half of people in Europe could be infected
Hans Kluge, director for Europe
a new west-to-east tidal wave sweeping across the region
The region saw over seven million cases of Covid-19 in the first week of 2022,
more than doubling over a two-week period
26 countries, more than 1 % being infected per week
Boosters, play an essential role in protecting the most vulnerable people from severe disease
Also for health workers, teachers
Lower vaccination rates
Balkans and Eastern Europe
For countries not yet hit with the omicron surge, there is a closing window to act now and plan for contingencies
France, Prime Minister Jean Castex
If we were to shut down classes as soon as there is one first case,
bearing in mind the explosion of Omicron,
all French schools would be closed in a matter of days
Catherine Smallwood, W.H.O. senior emergencies officer
Some sense of predictability needed to move from pandemic to endemic
We are still ways off
We still have a huge amount of uncertainty
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