Source: CBC #news #novascotia

#COVID19 wreaked havoc on this N.S. seniors' group. It's now trying to rebuild
An organization that has advocated for #novascotia seniors for more than five decades says there's a sad reason why its membership numbers have dropped sharply in recent years. "We lost a lot of people through COVID," says the president of the #novascotia Federation of Seniors.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/nova-scotia-federation-seniors-rebuilding-9.7145950?cmp=rss

Here's the latest variant picture for Europe (excluding the UK), to mid-March.

BA.3.2.* "Cicada" has continued growing to dominance at 44%

NB.1.8.1.* "Nimbus" fell to 28%.

XFG.* "Stratus" fell sharply to 19%.

#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #EUR
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Here's the latest variant picture for Canada, to mid-March.

XFG.* "Stratus" remained dominant, but fell to 47% frequency.

NB.1.8.1 "Nimbus" grew to 43%, posing a serious challenge for dominance.

#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Canada #XFG #Stratus #NB_1_8_1 #Nimbus
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Here's the latest variant picture for the United States, to mid-March.

The XFG.* "Stratus" variant remained dominant, but fell to 67%.

NB.1.8.1.* "Nimbus" grew to 19%.

#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #USA #XFG #Stratus #NB_1_8_1 #Nimbus
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Here's the latest variant picture for New Zealand, to late March.

NB.1.8.1 "Nimbus" rebounded sharply from mid-March, finishing at 66%.

BA.3.2.* "Cicada" grew to 14%.

#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #NZ
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Here's the latest variant picture for Australia, to mid-March.

Several variants are churning around in a confused picture, without any one being clearly dominant.
XFG.* "Stratus" finished up at 30%.

JN.1.* + DeFLuQE’s late surge to 29% was all driven from South Australia.

NB.1.8.1.* "Nimbus" fell to 23%.

BA.3.2.* "Cicada" fell to 17%.

#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Australia
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Here's the latest variant picture with a global scope, to mid-March.

The most interesting development in the last week or two has been the understanding that BA.3.2.* "Cicada" is preferentially infecting children.

Here’s the situation for New York (state), from February onwards. Among children (0-17), BA.3.2.* reached 17% (n=22), vs 2% among adults (n=12), so a ~7X higher rate among children.

Other states in the US have not reported enough BA.3.2.* samples to draw any conclusions.

#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Global
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Applying machine learning to identify unrecognized Covid-19 deaths in the US

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aef5697

#HackerNews #machinelearning #Covid19 #deaths #healthdata #publichealth #AIforgood