AusCOVID19 group

More than a quarter of people with COVID infection develop Long COVID, new research reveals.

"A new study carried out by researchers at the University of York suggests 28% of people who catch COVID-19 will go on to suffer from Long COVID."

“There is a societal tendency in the UK to think Covid is over, but Long Covid is having a profound and lasting effect on individuals and society as a whole, with many people leaving the workplace due to the condition. This is placing a heavy burden on the economy.”

#LongCOVID @auscovid19

Source: https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2024/research/long-covid-fog/

SA weekly COVID update: 20 Dec to 26 Dec

🔹PCR cases only: 1,475 (-182)
🔹Deaths: NR
🔹Total deaths: 1,663 (+0)
🔹Hospital: n/a
🔹ICU: n/a

There were no new COVID-19 deaths notified to the Department for Health and Wellbeing. Please note, Births, Deaths and Marriages data is currently received on a monthly basis.

🔸Cases numbers ⬇️Down 11% compared to the previous week.

NR = Not reported

#COVID19SA @auscovid19

COVID-19 outbreaks in Australian residential aged care facilities: 16 November 2023

🔹Active cases: 2,425 (+33)
🔹Active outbreaks: 324 (+7)
🔹Residents: 1,707 (+36)
🔹Staff: 718 (-3)
🔹Reported deaths in 2023: 1,233 (+48)

🔸6,000 aged care COVID deaths since beginning of pandemic

🔸686 reported deaths in 2020
🔸226 reported deaths in 2021
🔸3,855 reported deaths in 2022
🔸1,233 reported deaths in 2023

#COVID19AUS @AnikaWells @Mark_Butler_MP @AlboMP @auscovid19

As at 1 November 2023, Northern Territory COVID-19 data is no longer published on NT Health’s website.

#COVID19NT @auscovid19

Source: https://health.nt.gov.au/covid-19/data

WA COVID weekly update: 30 October to 5 November

🔹PCR cases only: 466 (+43)
🔹Aboriginal population: 18 cases (-3)
🔹Deaths: 2 (+2)
🔹Total deaths: 1,265 (+2)
🔹Hospital: 134 (+16)
🔹ICU: 3 (+3)

🔸 Cases up 10% from previous week

🔸 Hospitalisation up 14% from previous week

Note: From 6th November 2023, COVID-19 case rates by Australian jurisdiction will cease to be reported due to the unavailability of this data

#COVID19WA

#COVID19WA @auscovid19

Source: https://health.wa.gov.au/Articles/F_I/Infectious-disease-data/COVID19-Weekly-Surveillance-Report

🇦🇺 Australia: "Life expectancy in Australia has gone backwards for the first time in over 40 years, caused by over 10,000 COVID-19 deaths last year."

#COVID19 #Australia #LifeExpectancy #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://www.afr.com/policy/health-and-education/life-expectancy-goes-backwards-for-first-time-in-40-years-20231108-p5eii8

Family remembers Fort Worth police officer who died of COVID-19 complications.

All moments she and her kids are now holding onto after COVID-19 shattered their lives.

“I started to get better after a week, he did not. He started getting worse," said Vickie.

They contracted the virus in mid-August, and she said her husband was in and out of the hospital from then on.

Vickie said her husband got the virus while on the job.

“I was always scared of him getting COVID because he already had lung problems, he has—he’s an asthmatic," she said.

She said after being on an ECMO, Jenson's liver and kidney started failing. An ECMO machine pumps blood outside the body, allowing the patient's heart and lungs to rest.

"He went from...breathing oxygen, to a mask, to the highest form of ventilator, like within 24 hours or so," Vickie said.

They said their goodbyes to the 57-year-old on Saturday.

#COVID19 @auscovid19

Source: https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/family-remembers-fort-worth-police-officer-who-died-of-covid-19-complications/3374716/

🇦🇺 Australia: Federal COVID-19 reporting is moving to a monthly reporting schedule, with today being the final weekly report. The next report is expected 10th November 2023.

#COVID19 #Australia #monthlyreporting @auscovid19

Source: https://health.gov.au/topics/covid-19/weekly-reporting?language=und

(1/3) NSW respiratory surveillance reports: Fortnight ending 21 October 2023.

🔸COVID-19 transmission continues to increase in NSW.

🔸COVID-19 PCR test positivity at sentinel laboratories was 9.5% in the past week.

🔹COVID: 3,250
🔹Influenza: 2,335
🔹RSV: 745

#COVID19nsw @auscovid19

NSW COVID weekly update: 13 Oct to 19 Oct

🔹PCR cases only: 1,541 (+209)
🔹Deaths: 19 (+10)
🔹Total deaths: 7,748 (+19)
🔹Hospital: 702 (+43)
🔹ICU: 12 (+2)

From 20 October 2023 this NSW COVID-19 weekly update will no longer be published on NSW Health’s website and social media channels. The best indicators of COVID-19 activity in the community at this time are emergency department presentations for COVID-19 and sewage surveillance.

#COVID19nsw @ChrisMinnsMP @RyanPark_Keira @NSWCHO @NSWHealth#PandemicIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne @auscovid19

COVID-19 costing the Australian economy billions.

#COVID19 #Australia #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://www.perthnow.com.au/business/covid-19-costing-the-australian-economy-billions-c-12171403

🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA: Increase in deaths in state-wide surgical audit may reflect legacy effects of COVID-19.

Source: https://www.surgeons.org/News/media-releases/WAASM-2023-Media-Release

Snapshot: https://surgeons.org/-/media/Project/RACS/surgeons-org/files/surgical-mortality-audits/waasm/WAASM-2023-Report-Snapshot.pdf?rev=413d9c8a2def40a78c99774983ec6243&hash=1F802B002AAAC59BE2477213D083904D

Full report: https://surgeons.org/-/media/Project/RACS/surgeons-org/files/surgical-mortality-audits/waasm/WAASM-2023-Report.pdf?rev=ab10997189b342b9b7498833c8da7b98&hash=94BF689F4B6BC74CE0FA2DD7713A1CF6

#COVID19 #Australia #WA @auscovid19

The COVID-19 iceberg.

#COVID19iceberg #COVIDisNotOver #COVIDisAirborne @auscovid19

Tasmania COVID weekly update: 29 September to 5 October

🔹New cases: 275 (-2)
🔹Deaths: 0 (+0)
🔹Total deaths: 312 (+0)
🔹Hospital: 16 (-2)
🔹ICU: 0 (-1)

#COVID19TAS @auscovid19

Source: https://health.tas.gov.au/health-topics/coronavirus-covid-19/current-risk-level-and-statistics/weekly-statistics

ACT COVID weekly update: 29 September to 5 October

🔹New cases: 168 (-10)
🔹Deaths: 0 (+0)
🔹Total deaths: 279 (+0)
🔹Hospital: 8 (+0)
🔹ICU: 1 (+0)
🔹Vent: 0 (+0)

#COVID19ACT @auscovid19

Source: https://covid19.act.gov.au/updates/act-covid-19-statistics

WA COVID weekly update: 25 September to 1 October

🔹New cases: 660 (+94)
🔹Reinfections: 251 (38.03%)
🔹Deaths: 5 (+1)
🔹Total deaths: 1,246 (+5)
🔹Hospital: 56 (+13)
🔹ICU: 0 (+0)

🔸38.03% were reinfections

#COVID19WA @auscovid19

Source: https://health.wa.gov.au/Articles/F_I/Infectious-disease-data/COVID19-Weekly-Surveillance-Report

SA COVID weekly update: 27 September to 3 October

🔸Federal data

🔹New cases: 645 (-91)
🔹Deaths: NR
🔹Total deaths: 1,620 (+0)
🔹Hospital: 27 (-9)
🔹ICU: 0 (-2)

There were no COVID-19 deaths notified to the Department for Health and Wellbeing in the past week. Please note, Births, Deaths and Marriages data is currently received on a monthly basis.

NR = Not reported

#COVID19SA @auscovid19

Source: https://sahealth.sa.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/public+content/sa+health+internet/conditions/infectious+diseases/covid-19/covid-19+dashboard

The 11 COVID symptoms you need to know as Pirola (BA.2.86) strain sweeps through UK.

🔹Continuous cough
🔹High temperature, fever or chills
🔹Loss of, or change in, your normal sense of taste or smell
🔹Shortness of breath
🔹Unexplained tiredness, lack of energy
🔹Muscle aches or pains that are not due to exercise
🔹Not wanting to eat or not feeling hungry
🔹Headache that's unusual or longer lasting than usual
🔹Sore throat, stuffy or runny nose
🔹Diarrhoea
🔹Feeling sick or being sick

#COVID19 #Pirola #BA286 @auscovid19

Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/11-covid-symptoms-you-need-31111136

By Scott Squires @scott_squires

"Disney could improve ventilation and could encourage masks to stay safer but nope, just slap a legal disclaimer and you are done. No need to do anything because there are no requirements for any business from anyone."

#COVID19 #WaltDisneyWorld @auscovid19

Twitter/X source: https://twitter.com/scott_squires/status/1708948967344709960

ATAGI 2023 COVID-19 booster advice – first and additional dose.

This fact sheet provides frequently asked questions for residential aged care providers and workers on the updated September 2023 ATAGI advice for the COVID-19 booster dose.

#COVID19AUS #ATAGI @healthgovau @auscovid19

Source: https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/atagi-2023-covid-19-booster-advice-first-and-additional-dose?language=en

COVID-Related Sepsis Deadlier Than Initially Estimated: Study.

🔹SARS-CoV-2 accounted for approximately 1 in 6 cases of sepsis during the first 33 months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

#COVID19 #Sepsis @auscovid19

Source: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2809966

‘It will happen’: Need to prepare for new pandemic and what we’ll likely be hit with next.

A Melbourne-made COVID vaccine that shows great promise in protecting against Omicron’s many deadly mutations could be mass produced and rolled out across the globe.

#COVID19 #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/covid-vaccine-architects-converge-on-melbourne-to-explain-challenge-of-developing-jabs-at-speed/news-story/27d188699dc7bf0f012d04f338267a2e

NSW COVID weekly update: 22 September to 28 September

🔹New cases: 2,232 (-101)
🔹Deaths: 17 (-4)
🔹Total deaths: 7,717 (+17)
🔹Hospital: 651 (+26)
🔹ICU: 12 (+3)

#COVID19nsw @ChrisMinnsMP @RyanPark_Keira
@NSWCHO @NSWHealth #PandemicIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne @auscovid19

(1/3) NSW respiratory surveillance reports: Week ending 23 September 2023

🔸COVID notifications increased by 10.5% in the past week

🔸Increases in COVID notifications occurred for children aged 0 – 4 years and adults aged 30 – 89 years and across most LHDs

🔹COVID: 2,171 (+256)
🔹Influenza: 1,688 (+87)
🔹RSV: 564 (-77)

#COVID19NSW @auscovid19

Source: https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/covid-19/Pages/weekly-reports.aspx

🇯🇵 Japan's schools face double whammy of the FLU and COVID.

Between Sept. 11 and Sept 17:

🔹86,510 cases of COVID were reported
🔹34,665 cases of Influenza were reported
🔹2,400 schools decided to either suspend or to close school facilities altogether
🔹 48 schools reported whole facility closures

#COVID19 #Japan @auscovid19

Source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/09/25/japan/science-health/flu-covid-waves/