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"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.Jan 9, 2024

Capacity Level has been elevated since independence from the virus was declared three summers ago—as fewer & fewer professionals have been available to staff hospital beds.

Critical Staffing Level, already at 2021 levels, has been further elevated for near a year—with over one in nine reporting hospitals at critical shortage.

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Pediatric staffing never recovered to pre-omicron levels. Rather, near one in five pediatric beds reported May of 2022: now missing.

PICU Capacity Level (not shown): 73%.

Weekly average ~175 PICU beds were covid patients.

We're failing our kids. The emergency is over.

Some 329 (-18) counties have pediatric care near or over capacity (≥ 90%).

Of 283 (+2) counties reporting any PICU capacity, over one in three are near or over full.

So many places where there ain't enough staff for sick or injured kids to receive required care.

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Counties by pediatric capacity (darkest counties on map above):

⒈ Ada, ID ≥150%
⒉ Androscoggin, ME ≥150%
⒊ Twin Falls, ID ≥150%
⒋ Clinton, IL ≥150%
⒌ Sioux, IA ≥150%
⒍ Nemaha, KS ≥150%

[Omitted: 48 counties with no staffed pediatrics beds and fewer than four pediatric patients.]

⒎ Seminole, GA ≥150%
⒏ San Juan, UT ≥133⅓%
⒐ Florence, SC—150%
⒑ Dawson, NE—150%

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Counties by pediatric ICU capacity (circle-hatched on map above):

⒈ Ada, ID ≥150%
⒉ Androscoggin, ME ≥150%

[Omitted: 3 counties with no staffed PICU beds and fewer than four PICU patients.]

⒊ Fresno, CA—118%

⒋ Spartanburg, SC—102%

⒌ Adams, CO—100%
⒍ Hamilton, TN—100%
⒎ Denton, TX—100%
⒏ Brazos, TX—100%
⒐ Cameron, TX—100%
⒑ Florence, SC—100%

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Some 43 (-5) counties are reporting ≥ 100% capacity per HHS data.

Reporting ≥ 90%: 198 (-43)—near 8¼% of those with any capacity. (Drop-off like this suggests late reporting).

This includes surge & overflow beds—near full can mean E/Rs with day-long wait times.

For counties w/ ICUs—near one in five are full or near full.

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.

When hospitals report occupied beds in excess of staffed beds, this indicates that patients are not receiving adequate care.

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[Infochart is under development. Refinements pending.]

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Third week of Pirola BA.2.86 grankid JN.1 wave. Per GISAID, in Dec, about ⅕ of this was subvariants.

Hyperion-2 XBB.1.9.2 fam (dominated by Eris 5.1 grankids), after being displaced from its brief eight week wave, still represents a plurality of non-Pirola variants.

CDC adds EG.5.1.8 to forecast this week. Also Arcturus kid XBB.1.16.17 & Python BF.11.

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Late Dec, Pirola dot1 kid JN.1 fam dominated Pirola sequences in GISAID, with bubbles for some dozen states.

Eris dot6 kid HV.1 at plurality among non-Pirola sequences, as Kraken dot102 grankid JD.1.1 in Texas & NY; while Hyperion XBB.1.9.1, Kraken XBB.1.5, Arcturus XBB.1.16 fams still active.

[Planning to incorporate this data into #AnnoPlot #dataviz above.]

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CDC now provides explanation as to why four HHS regions remain dark.

Pirola dot1 kid JN.1 was ~⅗ share in all tracked regions, except for NY/NJ where it's near ¾. Eris dot6 child HV.1 another ⅒–⅙ share across regions.

Third place held by HK.3 in Southwest and Lower Midwest, JD.1.1 in all other tracked regions.

[For color key, see: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions]

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"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.Jan 13, 2024

Folk are dying at record numbers, of comorbidities of severe acute covid that are also implicated as post-acute sequelae of covid infection. ↺

Of course, ongoing hospital staffing attrition also contributes to elevated death tolls. Said attrition continues. ↺

[CDC ended excess death reporting Sep 27.]

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"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.Jan 13, 2024

Given evidence linking covid infection to sudden onset liver damage, recent increased liver disease mortality is hardly surprising.

Final mortality data for 2020—released in Sept.—reveals spike in accidental deaths driven by poisonings & exposure to noxious substances.

[CDC 2021 data was due mid-2023.]

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"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.Jan 15, 2024

Per WHO, every 12 minutes four people die of acute covid. Three of those deaths are in the United States.

Entering April, for every three covid deaths, U.S. saw another excess death not attributed to covid.

The emergency is over—covid is not done with us.

[Global data goes to weekly as reporting ticks up.]

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"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.Jan 15, 2024

Here's hoping—as national health authorities in multiple countries ask for public masking, an estimated 2 million Usians are (re)-infected daily, WHO reports 10,000 covid deaths in December, the U.S. bombs Yemen, hundreds of hospitals reinstate masking, South Africa presents ICJ case against Israel, Oxfam reports 250 civilian deaths a day—that all those reading this are having a week wherein they and theirs are putting health and welfare of those they love—and share air with—first and foremost.