Yhdysvaltojen tilannetta:
Tartuntamääriin lisätty viikonlopun tilastot, mutta seitsemän päivän keskiarvo edelleen nousussa.
Myös sairaalohoidossa olevien määrät edelleen nousussa (pääsääntöisesti rokottamattomat ja joukossa nuoria):
https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1419736340342755332?s=20
https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1419824491346239488?s=20
https://mobile.twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1419882156055175168
Hyvää juttua Yhdysvaltojen tilanteesta verrattuna mm. Britannian tilanteeseen, sairaalahoidontarpeesta + Long Covidista ja millainen ennuste on tulevaan tartuntamäärien suhteen:
https://twitter.com/NYMag/status/1419696581381664770?s=20
The age skew for hospitalizations, while dramatic, isn’t as dramatic as the age skew for mortality. I think, according to the CDC, mortality risk is 600 times as high for someone in their 80s than someone in their 20s; for hospitalization, it’s just a 15-fold increase.
Right. And in this Delta wave, the hospitalized are mostly unvaccinated younger people. The other thing I’d say is a lot of people discount long COVID, but that’s a big deal. If we do get to 200,000 cases a day, that’s a lot of long COVID.
From what I can tell, estimates of that prevalence are really all over the place — some studies suggest rates as high as 30 percent or even 50 percent of all cases, but those don’t seem to me to be very good surveys and would suggest something like 50 million Americans are dealing with a debilitating chronic condition already. Some other estimates are very, very low — considerably under one percent, even. How do you ballpark?
Ten percent. Probably it’s either high single digits or low double digits is the real deal. When you get north of that, with those surveys showing higher figures, those people are not necessarily dealing with serious symptoms for, say, a year plus — they’re getting better, or their symptoms aren’t as worrisome. They’re not as debilitated. But for the real-deal cases — the ones that can’t work, the real, significant brain fog, the ones that really are suffering — it’s probably one out of ten.
Wow.
It’s a nasty, horrible condition for some people. It doesn’t get enough respect still.
The one other point is this breakthrough-infection thing is probably worse than we have estimated. I don’t mean for death and hospitalizations, but in terms of the ability of the disease to burn through the vaccinated to make them get them infected — it’s not looking as good as we’d hoped, I think it is fair to say.
How do you think it all plays out heading into the fall?
Looking ahead to the fall, I’m optimistic. Delta will have passed through by then — it’ll pass through by late August, or September, if it looks like India or the U.K. or Netherlands. We’ll have a rapid descent, and it’ll burn through. We’ll still have lots of COVID in this country, but it’ll be back to where it was before Delta came. It will be at a lower level. The only question is, is there something lurking that’s worse than Delta? There’s no sign of it yet, but there’s too much of this virus circulating to be confident — too many people in Indonesia and sub-Saharan Africa who are getting sick. But I hope not. I’m hoping that this is as bad as it gets. But if you talk to evolutionary biologists, they’ll tell you the variants are going to get worse.
Edit.
Liittyy tähän aiheeseen: kahtia jakautunut Yhdysvallat
https://twitter.com/MackayIM/status/1419890046786674688?s=20