Weekly update, cases rising in some places, reported deaths still just above 10K a week.
In total 3.02 million new cases were reported last week (up from 2.67 million)
Also another 10,376 more deaths were reported (10,412 last week)
USA reported 300K new cases (up from 266K) and 2,304 more deaths (2,318 last week)
Europe reported 960K new cases (up from 845K) and 4,229 more deaths (down from 4,792)
The continents
South America is rising the most atm
Corners of the world
Brazil is rising the fastest, China keeps on reporting more symptomatic cases
Locally it's still active. My wife's best friend got it now and also has co-morbidities, not doing well :/ She got it from her husband who got it from work, which made him (and everyone else) come in even though Covid was already around at the workplace. Now everyone from his work has it...
Hospitals here are still overwhelmed by the combination of RSV, bad Flu season and Covid.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/i-come-home-and-i-cry-rise-in-patients-with-respiratory-illnesses-leaving-health-care-workers-drained-1.6167560
Patti Champoux, an X-ray technologist at Niagara Health’s general hospital in Niagara Falls, Ont., says the facility has been operating at full capacity since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. But over the last few weeks, health-care workers at the site are seeing a sharp rise in the number of patients with respiratory illnesses, she said.
Not only that, but the patients visiting her for X-rays appear sicker than they usually are around this time of year, said Champoux.
“People I’ve seen in the last three weeks are incredibly ill,” Champoux told CTVNews.ca in a telephone interview on Thursday. “They’re in the emergency room and they’re white as a sheet, lethargic [and] feverish … They are weaker than I’ve seen in a long time.”
Pediatric hospitals have been hit especially hard. In British Columbia and Alberta, the increase in sick children has resulted in postponed surgeries and hospital wait times of up to 17 hours. Ontario’s pediatric intensive care units are also operating well over capacity, with some hospitals opening additional ICUs to handle the demand.
