‘Mutant’ Covid-19 wave hits Queensland. "The latest wave has come as a result of the newest Covid-19 strain – XEC" "Almost 1 in 5 Queenslander hit with COVID-19 this year were hospitalised" Source: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/mutant-covid19-wave-hits-queensland/news-story/06773784e59a8981688c06fb43731dd1 @npub15gr4...ztdn

🇦🇺AUSTRALIA weekly COVID update: 20 December 2024 #COVID19Australia #COVIDisntOVER #COVIDisAIRBORNE @npub15gr4...ztdn

Aussie scientists make huge Covid discovery. "Researchers developing Australia’s first mRNA Covid vaccine say they may have solved the “immune imprinting” issue that has contributed to the declining effectiveness of boosters as the virus mutates" Study: https://www.cell.com/molecular-therapy-family/methods/fulltext/S2329-0501(24)00196-7 Source: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/australias-first-mrna-covid-vaccine-candidate-could-solve-immune-imprinting-problem/news-story/0082546e557b54c71bbbb6af81e738d3

Queensland: Weekly infection surveillance report: 9 Dec to 15 Dec 2024 Reported cases: 🔹COVID: 2,044 (+11.2%) 🔹Influenza: 285 (+6.7%) 🔹RSV: 573 (+4.9%) Hospitalisations: 🔸COVID: 305 (+55.6%) 🔸Influenza: 16 (+77.7%) 🔸RSV: 40 (+73.9%) @npub15gr4...ztdn Source: https://www.health.qld.gov.au/clinical-practice/guidelines-procedures/diseases-infection/surveillance/reports/flu

🇺🇸US COVID update: Dec 16, 2024 🔸1 in every 64 people currently infected 🔸748,000 new daily infections 🔸5,236,000 new weekly infections "There is more transmission today than during 73.3% of the pandemic." #COVID19US Source: 📄.pdf

🇦🇺AUSTRALIA weekly COVID update: 13 December 2024 #COVID19Australia #COVIDisntOVER #COVIDisAIRBORNE @npub15gr4...ztdn

WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the media briefing – 10 December 2024 Source: https://www.who.int/director-general/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing---10-december-2024

Queensland: Weekly infection surveillance report: 2 Dec to 8 Dec 2024 Reported cases: 🔹COVID: 1,838 (+25.4%) 🔹Influenza: 267 (+22.4%) 🔹RSV: 546 (+1.8%) Hospitalisations: 🔸COVID: 196 (+49.6%) 🔸Influenza: 9 (-25.0%) 🔸RSV: 23 (+43.7%) @npub15gr4...ztdn Source: https://www.health.qld.gov.au/clinical-practice/guidelines-procedures/diseases-infection/surveillance/reports/flu

🇬🇧UK: More than 2,000 people hospitalised as UK faces "quad-demic" including COVID. "The fact that COVID continues to spread, 20 months after the World Health Organisation said in May 2023 that it was no longer a public health emergency... an average of 1,390 patients with COVID in hospital beds each day last week. Several hundred people are still dying of the disease every week — the COVID death toll in Britain, to November 22—stands at almost 246,000." Source:

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More than 2,000 people hospitalised as UK faces “quad-demic” including COVID

National Health Service England's first report of the winter warned, “New weekly figures published today for the first time this year show the NH...

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🇺🇸 US: COVID Map Shows US Positivity Rates Across Thanksgiving. For the week ending November 30: Highest rates: 7.1% positivity rate, California, Arizona, Hawaii and Nevada. Meanwhile, 6.3% positivity rate, Wyoming, Utah, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana and Colorado. Source: https://archive.md/TzOaL @npub15gr4...ztdn