DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 19 hours ago to auscovid19

(3/4) NSW COVID-19 Whole Genome Sequencing: Week ending 18 May 2024

🔹The proportion of tested samples that are KP.2 and KP.3 continued to increase this week.

🔹The emergence of COVID-19 variants has been associated with new waves of COVID-19 infections.

#COVID19nsw @NSWHealth @auscovid19

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 19 hours ago to auscovid19

(1/4) NSW respiratory surveillance reports: Week ending 18 May 2024

⚠️COVID-19 has increased to moderate levels⚠️

🔸COVID PCR test positivity rate: 8.0% (-0.3%)

🔹COVID: 3,478 (+23%)
🔹Influenza: 3,220 (+60%)
🔹RSV: 2,909 (+16%)

#COVID19nsw @auscovid19

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

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DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 2 days ago to auscovid19

(1/4) NSW respiratory surveillance reports: Week ending 11 May 2024

⚠️COVID-19 has increased to moderate levels⚠️

🔸COVID PCR test positivity rate: 8.3% (+2.9%)

🔹COVID: 2,820 (+40%)
🔹Influenza: 2,016 (+32%)
🔹RSV: 2,510 (+3%)

#COVID19nsw @auscovid19

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

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DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 14 days ago to auscovid19

NSW: "New COVID-19 ‘FLiRT’ variant surges in NSW as winter looms."

#COVID19nsw #JN1 #FLirt #KP2 #KP3 #KW11 @NSWHealth @RyanPark_Keira #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://www.smh.com.au/national/australia-news-live-tax-cuts-worth-nearly-1900-in-federal-budget-home-affairs-botched-sex-trafficking-investigation-20240509-p5idde.html

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DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 14 days ago to auscovid19

(1/4) NSW respiratory surveillance reports: Week ending 4 May 2024

⚠️COVID-19 activity low. Influenza activity is low. RSV activity is high⚠️

🔸COVID PCR test positivity rate: 5.4% (-0.9%)

🔹COVID: 2,019 (+34%)
🔹Influenza: 1,526 (+30%)
🔹RSV: 2,429 (-7%)

#COVID19nsw @auscovid19

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

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DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 20 days ago to auscovid19

NSW: The COVID variant that now accounts for almost every case in NSW. By Angus Thomson

"The latest NSW Health respiratory surveillance report released on Thursday shows the JN.1 variant now accounts for almost all COVID-19 cases in NSW."

#COVID19nsw #JN1 #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-covid-variant-that-now-accounts-for-almost-every-case-in-nsw-20240502-p5foey.html

While those updated vaccines may be available for the northern-hemisphere winter, Deakin University epidemiologist Professor Catherine Bennett said it was more likely to be the vaccine Australians get “next year or in six months’ time”. “The point is, don’t wait for this next magic booster,” she said. “It’s good to see we’ve got this capacity now to keep monitoring what’s happening with the virus [variants] but ... for now, the main focus is to try and get ahead of a wave with your vaccination to give yourself time before your exposure risk goes up in the community.” Bennett said current vaccines still worked well but a “monovalent” immunisation (focused on a single strain) would be more effective at creating an antibody response to the virus and any future variants that evolve from it. “It becomes more like the annual flu shot where we try and build our vaccines to be closest to the circulating strains,” Bennett said. “You just want to try and get the greatest effectiveness you can from your vaccines – particularly for people who are really still relying on vaccine-induced immunity as their main protection.” Associate Professor Stuart Turville, a virologist at Sydney’s Kirby Institute, said the pace at which JN.1 had spread and evolved to better evade the body’s immune system showed it would be difficult to predict what future variants should be targeted by new vaccines.

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 21 days ago to auscovid19

(1/4) NSW respiratory surveillance reports: Week ending 27 April 2024

⚠️COVID-19 activity low. Influenza activity is low. RSV activity is high⚠️

🔸COVID PCR test positivity rate: 6.2% (+1.2%)

🔹COVID: 1,505 (-8.8%)
🔹Influenza: 1,178 (+24%)
🔹RSV: 2,618 (-15.2%)

#COVID19nsw @auscovid19

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

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DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 27 days ago to auscovid19

(1/4) NSW respiratory surveillance reports: Week ending 20 April 2024

⚠️COVID-19 activity low. Influenza activity is low. RSV activity is high⚠️

🔸COVID PCR test positivity rate: 5.0% (+0.3%)

🔹COVID: 1,650 (+13.7%)
🔹Influenza: 1,559 (+17.4%)
🔹RSV: 3,087 (+9.0%)

#COVID19nsw @auscovid19

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

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DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 1 month ago to auscovid19

(1/4) NSW respiratory surveillance reports: Week ending 13 April 2024

⚠️COVID-19 activity low. Influenza activity is low. RSV activity is high⚠️

🔸COVID PCR test positivity rate: 4.6% (-0.8%)

🔹COVID: 1,452 (+5.5%)
🔹Influenza: 1,328 (+20.3%)
🔹RSV: 2,832 (+7.0%)

#COVID19nsw @auscovid19

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

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DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 1 month ago to auscovid19

(1/4) NSW respiratory surveillance reports: Week ending 6 April 2024

⚠️COVID-19 activity low. Influenza activity is low. RSV activity is high⚠️

🔸COVID PCR test positivity rate: 5.4% (+0.4%)

🔹COVID: 1,376 (+13.8%)
🔹Influenza: 1,104 (+4.4%)
🔹RSV: 2,646 (+6.0%)

#COVID19nsw @auscovid19

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DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 1 month ago to auscovid19

(1/4) NSW respiratory surveillance reports: Week ending 30 March 2024

⚠️COVID-19 activity low. Influenza activity is low. RSV activity is high⚠️

🔸COVID PCR test positivity rate: 5.0% (-0.6%)

🔹COVID: 1,209 (-16.3%)
🔹Influenza: 1,058 (-4.9%)
🔹RSV: 2,496 (+0.2%)

#COVID19nsw @auscovid19

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

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DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 1 month ago to auscovid19

(1/4) NSW respiratory surveillance reports: Week ending 23 March 2024

⚠️COVID-19 activity low
⚠️Influenza activity is low
⚠️RSV activity is high

🔸COVID PCR test positivity rate: n/a

🔹COVID: 1,444 (-5.7%)
🔹Influenza: 1,112 (-0.3%)
🔹RSV: 2,500 (+8.7%)

#COVID19nsw #PandemicIsNotOver @auscovid19

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DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 2 months ago to auscovid19

(2/4) Pneumonia in children and young adults in NSW: Week ending 16 March

🔹Presentations and admissions for children 0-4 years have
continued to increase
🔹For children aged 5–16 years there was a continued increase in presentations to ED and an uptick in the number admitted to hospital
🔹For those 17-34 years presentations have been fluctuating in an overall upward direction

#COVID19nsw @auscovid19