Agenda:
(1) COVID-19 Omicron Case Counts, Hospitalizations, And Deaths Globally And In The United States - Regions And State-By-State (0:00 - 17:40)
(2) Most Common Symptoms Of Long COVID - Post Viral Syndromes And Overlap With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (17:41 - 21:07)
(3) Massive COVID-19 Surge In North Korea - Why They May Be At High Risk For Significant Disease (21:08 - 25:20)
(4) Omicron BA.4 And BA.5 South Africa, Portugal, And 28 Other Countries - Variant Of Concern, Immune Escape/Reinfection Risk In Vaccinated And Unvaccinated, Severity (25:21 - 32:18)
https://ourworldindata.org/covid-cases
COVID-19 cases starting to increase significantly in the United States with high case counts continuing in Australia and New Zealand. The rest of Europe, such as France, Germany, and United Kingdom, continue to see decreasing numbers, although not as robustly in some places.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html
United States hot spots seem to be in the Northeast and Midwestern United States where cases and hospitalizations are going up significantly primarily being driven by the Omicron subvariant BA.2.12.1. We go state by state looking at case counts and trends.
https://www.healthdata.org/about
Modeling data suggesting small surge in May and June with potentially much larger surge in fall and winter.
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/2500143-overview?sso=true&impID=4238142&uac=238890AN&src=WNL_infoc_220512_MSCPEDIT_long_covid-19
Common Long COVID symptoms including fatigue, cough, loss of taste and smell, insomnia, headache, shortness of breath, and much more. Some overlap with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/05/16/kim-north-korea-covid-outbreak-pandemic/
North Korea having a massive Omicron surge in a country with no vaccination and almost no natural immunity.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/05/ecdc-ups-ba4-ba5-variants-concern-warns-case-rises
BA.4 and BA.5 now variants of concern (VOC) in Europe as they spread throughout South Africa, Portugal, and 28 other countries.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.04.29.22274477v1
7.6x less immunity to reinfection with BA.4 and BA.5 for those unvaccinated and recovered from BA.1. 2.7x less immunity to reinfection with BA.4 and BA.5 for those vaccinated and recovered by from BA.1 infection.
Learn more about Omicron in the videos below!
Significant Omicron BA.2 Surge, Aspirin May Decrease COVID-19 Mortality, New Male Birth Control Pill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtZOS6x6h9U
Contagiousness Period With Omicron. Surge Of BA.2 In The USA. COVID Increases Risk For Diabetes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiwfn54dTf4
Omicron Subvariant BA.2.12.1 Mutations, Spread, Contagiousness, Symptoms, Severity, Immune Escape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvgzAuCz4I4
Omicron Is Still Mutating - Subvariants (BA.1, BA.2, BA.3), The Stealth Variant, And More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvdmLF_tabI
Omicron Symptoms - Update On Unexpected New Symptoms To Look Out For
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI0mxnbCcUE
I Have Omicron - Final UPDATE On Doctor's Experience With Omicron
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byePZoBseMs
I Have Omicron - UPDATE On Symptoms And The State Of Things (Hospitalizations, ICU Admission Rates)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOWOvTwmqS0
I Have Omicron - A Doctor's Experience And Perspective
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34dQY6ij_-U
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