THE OVERALL USA SUMMARY - November 12, 2022:

As a general rule, COVID, FLU, and RSV weekly cases rose, as did positivity. Read on for more details.

Weekly US covid new cases and beds in use rose, deaths fell, and admissions oscillated [page 5, 7, 8, 25]
Three new covid sub variants BQ.1, BQ.1.1 and BF.7 continued to rise [page 34]
Weekly Influenza cases have rapidly risen for the 10th week [page 38, 39]
Weekly RSV cases rose in AZ, CO, TX, and NM [page 40, 41, 42]
Weekly Monkeypox cases are very low and continued to fall even lower this week [page 43]

OUR LOCAL GEOGRAPHIC AREA (Grant County):

Grant County Week on Week covid cases oscillated [page 5, 16, 22]
Silver City and Bayard covid week on week cases rose, Hurley fell [page 17, 18]. Grant County covid hospital admissions were 0, but covid ED visits rose [page 23]. Deaths in Grant County 0, Luna 0, Sierra 0, Dona Ana 1 [page 15].

OUR STATE (New Mexico):

NM week on week cases this week rose; positivity rose, and NM hospital bed usage rose [page 13, 14, 24]

NEIGHBORING STATES:

AZ, NM, TX cases, beds, and positivity rose. CO cases fell, but positivity and beds rose [page 9, 10, 11]

HOSPITALS:

* US COVID daily hospital admissions (7 day average) may be reversing up [CDC] [page 25]
* COVID inpatient beds rose in AZ, CO, TX, and NM all rose [HHS] [page 24]
* Grant County ED COVID like visits rose per HHS (their data lags) [page 20] also rose per NM DOH [page 23]
* COVID admissions in Grant County were 0 in the last 7 days (per CDC) [page 19]

ACTIVE PATHOGENS - COVID, INFLUENZA, RSV, MONKEYPOX

COVID: US all states [page 7, 34]
* This week: weekly COVID cases = 288,989, admissions = 23,926, deaths = 2,349
* Last week: weekly COVID cases = 273,021, admissions = 22,911, deaths = 2,490
* sub variants BQ.1.1 BQ.1 BF7 44.30% of all variants, and doubled in 15 days

INFLUENZA: [page 38, 39] US show a weekly rise for 10 weeks now
* US Flu this week: weekly: cases = 13883, admissions = 6465, deaths = 54
* US Flu last week: weekly: cases = 7971, admissions = 4326, deaths = 29

RSV: [page 40, 41] AZ and NM show a weekly rise for 10 weeks now
* RSV: AZ on 10/22 weekly cases were: 91 and the week before: cases: 86
* RSV: NM on 10/22 weekly cases were: 170 and the week before: cases: 93

MONKEYPOX: [page 43]

* US Mpox weekly cases: this week: 224 previous week: 355
* AZ Mpox weekly cases: this week: 0 previous week: 0
* NM Mpox weekly cases: this week: 1 previous week: 2

NOTES AND NEWS:

11/11/22: Flu cases continue to rage across the US while vaccination rates lag
11/04/22: Hospitalization rates for the flu are at their highest level since 2010, according to the CDC.
11/02/22: RSV, influenza can fuse together to create hybrid virus. "viruses from two completely different families combining with the genomes and the external proteins of both viruses. It is a new type of virus pathogen."
11/01/22: Pfizer's trial RSV vaccine will be submitted to the FDA for approval by the end of 2022
10/31/22: Cumulative flu hospitalization rate hits 13-year high