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Mar 19 • 50 tweets • 13 min read
1) Global COVID-19 🧵- March 19 and 20, 2022.
2) Saturday March 19, 2022 :
A) Over 30 companies across the world will soon begin making generic versions of Pfizer’s COVID-19 pill thanks to an agreement negotiated on Thursday. The deal is expected to make the antiviral pill more accessible to the world’s population;
2)(B) Dr. Anthony Fauci is warning of a possible rise in COVID-19 cases in the U.S. due to an increase in BA. 2
sub-variant cases in the UK. Fauci’s warning comes as
U.S. resources to respond to the pandemic dwindle.
2)(C) 1st year of the COVID-19 pandemic saw more Americans drinking heavily or using illegal drugs.

However, cigarette smoking dropped to a new all-time low in 2020, w/1 in 8 adults saying they’re current smokers, as per survey data released Thursday by the CDC;
2)(D) The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) reported 1,054 new COVID cases on Wednesday and 1,193
on Thursday. It also reported 60 deaths over both days;
2)(E) 🇩🇪 parliamentarians voted Fri, to abolish most🇩🇪
covid curbs, despite cases surge w/ 300K new cases.

Bundestag passed amd to pandemic rules in a 388-277 vote w/2 abstentions. Upper House (🇩🇪 16 states), is expected to consider the measure later Friday;
2)(F) ~35,000 cases of BA.2 have been reported in US,
White House Press Sec Jen Psaki said this week.

CDC data shows that, as of last week, BA.2 accounted for 23.1% of all new COVID cases in the US, up from 13.7% the week before. The original omicron strain remains dominant;
2)(G) Even as authorities lock down cities in China’s worst outbreak in two years, they are looking for an exit from what has been a successful but onerous COVID-19 prevention strategy;
2)(H) Hong Kong cumulative COVID cases exceed 1M-as city grapples w/a widespread outbreak that has killed more than the reported COVID-19 deaths in all of mainland China.

Health officials reports 20,079 confirmed cases on
Fri, taking total since pandemic onset to 1,016,944;
3) COVID-19 hasn’t gone away, no matter how much folks try to ignore.
4) You’ll probably see more states cutback on data released and its frequency.
5) Friday’s report on US data, only 43/50 states reported yesterday ( and states missing not identified ), so take the report for what it’s worth.
6) CDC changed the way it measures county-level "risk", which is supposed to, in part, guide decision making. They
call these "COVID-19 Community Levels" & it replaces the prior "Community Transmission Risk".

(As shown above, a number of states are no longer reporting data).
7) Along a similar line 🧵….
8) COVID deaths in Hong Kong…
9) COVID-19 cases in Hong Kong…
10) Sweden's regional health authorities now offer
a completely new protein-based💉against Covid-19.

Public Health Agency is hoping that Nuvaxovid, a protein based 💉, will reach people who so far have been put off
from getting the jab.
11) CDC reported 966,575 COVID deaths Fri, after revising data earlier this week, ⬇️deaths by 72,277 across age groups.

CDC made adjustments to its COVID Data Tracker's mortality data on 3/14, b/c its algorithm accidentally counted non-covid deaths.

Pediatric deaths⬇️ by 416.
12) South Korea reported 381,454 new COVID-19 cases, including 63 from overseas, as per KDCA.

The death toll from COVID-19 came to 12,101, up 319 from Friday.

The number of critically ill patients stood at 1,049, the same as the previous day.
13) Vietnam update on Saturday.
14) There are 1,130 patients in hospital, according to the latest infection statistics on the MOH website. 

A total of 127 patients require oxygen supplementation.

Twenty-seven patients are in the intensive care unit, compared to 30 on Friday.
15) Thailand COVID-19 dashboard on March 19.
16) New Malaysia cases on March 18 at 24,241.
17) Indonesia COVID-19 update posted March 19.
18) Pennsylvania COVID-19 cases and deaths posted March 19, with further information to parse.
19) This is definitely a good development. It’s always good to see the Hospitalization data move in the right direction.
20) Regarding ML China…
21) Curves for Europe set forth below.
22) Note hospitalizations curves set forth below.
23) ML China update.
24) “Norway abolished all #Corona measures.

The daily death toll is now more than 5x what it was at the peak of the pandemic.

Let's be a warning.”

#FreedomDayStoppen
25) A worthwhile piece to read this weekend.
26) 15/15
As soon as you correct for CDC stopping counting when the number of dead kids got too large they de-resurrect.

They go right back in the ground. Still dead, but no longer able to be ignored.

1200 children have died since schools opened.

Be accountable for that.
27)(A) Australia has recorded 295,146 new Covid-19 cases in the past week, surging by more than a third compared with 215,701 cases the previous week, according to data from the tracking site Covid Live;
27)(B) Case numbers remain relatively high, since Omicron subvariant was detected. 46,422 new cases were reported Saturday in🇦🇺.

There were 28 covid-related deaths reported across 🇦🇺Sat, with 12 in NSW, 10 in Queensland, four in Western Australia and two in Victoria;
28) NY….
29) NY….
30) Something to keep an eye on….
31) Sunday March 20

There were 46,422 new Covid infections and 24 deaths reported across the Australia today. New case numbers nationally have risen by 37% in the past week, linked to
the more transmissible BA.2 Omicron sub-variant;
32) In addition, the Ministry of Health said there were 957 people in hospital, including 26 in ICU, the highest number there has been in intensive care.
33) Thailand COVID-19 update on March 20.
34) Indonesia COVID-19 update on March 20.
35) 153 cases of the 22,341 new daily Covid-19 cases reported for March 19 involved those categorized in 3 to 5, said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

He said the remaining 22,188 cases were in categories 1 and 2.
36) 🇰🇷 reported 334,708 new cases ( 22 from overseas), KDCA said.

🇰🇷death toll from COVID-19 came to 12,428, up 327 from Saturday.

The number of critically ill patients stood at 1,033, down from 1,049 tallied the previous day.
37) COVID-19 cases in Hong Kong on March 20.
38) Deaths in Hong Kong for today.
39) Global cases, deaths and other metrics updated through March 19, 2022.

The world had reported a total of 469,640,306 cases of COVID-19, along with COVID-19 linked deaths totaling 6,097,588.

The top 25 countries ( by total cases) are set out below. Image
40) FT

2/ There are many differences between UK/Europe and the US, but almost all differences weigh against the US avoiding the impact of #BA.2
- Lower vax/booster rate
- Less testing
- Fewer COVID restrictions
- Longer period of waning immunity
41) FT( Graph for 4/at Myoung’s thread).
4/ The U.S. BA.2 penetration as of last week was ~23% and has roughly doubled every week since early February. At this rate, we would reach the 50-60% threshold in the coming week.
42) The entire 23 point thread (from above) in its entirety set out below.

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