The COVID, FLU, RSV Report - November 26, 2022

Category: Infectious Diseases Infectious Diseases
Published: 26 November 2022 26 November 2022

THE OVERALL USA SUMMARY - November 26, 2022:

A long weekend, two holidays in a row, Wednesday's only reporting (except NM which is still daily), and some data types unreported, all made accurate analysis more involved. However, this report uses a lot of week-on-week analysis which is fully valid; it is just using Wednesday to Wednesday instead of Friday to Friday.

RSV weekly cases rose. FLU data was not reported. Covid cases rose in AZ, CO, NM, TX, but fell in the USA as a whole (caution: long weekends tend to report lower case numbers). However, 238,923 covid cases a week is still a very active virus. BQ--BF variant growth was slowing. Read on for more details.
Weekly US covid cases and beds fell [page 5, 7, 8, 25] but long weekends tend to report less in the CDC data files
The caution is US, AZ, TX, and CO only report Wednesday making small trends harder to see. NM has daily reporting.
Weekly Influenza cases were not reported by CDC as of 11/25/22 [page 38, 39]
Weekly RSV cases rose in AZ and CO,; TX and NM late data undetermined. [page 41, 42]

OUR LOCAL GEOGRAPHIC AREA (Grant County):

Grant County Week on Week cases rose, [page 5, 16, 22]
Silver City, Bayard, and Hurley covid week on week cases all rose [page 17, 18].
Grant County covid hospital admissions fell to 0 in the last 7 days [page 19], but covid-like ED visits rose [page 23].
Covid deaths this week 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 oscillated, and NM hospital bed usage rose [page 13, 14, 24]

NEIGHBORING STATES:

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

* US COVID daily hospital admissions (7 day average) normal [CDC] [page 25]
* COVID inpatient beds in use rose in AZ, CO, NM, and TX [HHS] [page 24]
* Grant County ED COVID like visits rose per HHS (their data lags) [page 20] and 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 = 238,923, admissions = 24,675, deaths = 2,072
* Last week: weekly COVID cases = 271,629, admissions = 23,387, deaths = 2,179
* sub variants BQ.1.1 BQ.1 BF7 57.5% of all variants. Doubled in 25 days, but slowing which is good [page 34]

INFLUENZA: [page 38, 39] CDC did not produce a flu report this week
* US Flu last reporting week: weekly: cases = 16220, admissions = 8707, deaths = 70
* US Flu week before: weekly: cases = 13883, admissions = 6465, deaths = 54

RSV: [page 40, 41]
* RSV: AZ cases rose, NM data is incomplete

MONKEYPOX: [page 43]
* US MPOX weekly cases: this week: 193 last week: 258 Cumulative deaths: 14 and last week 12

NOTES AND NEWS:

11/22/22: This year's RSV hospitalization rate for seniors is 10 times higher than usual at this point in the season - CDC
11/15/22: Banner Health in Arizona begins visitor restrictions at hospitals [KTAR]
11/14/22: A surge in pediatric flu, RSV, COVID and other health issues has the University of New Mexico Hospital activating its Emergency Operations Center [KRQE]
11/11/22: Flu cases continue to rage across the US while vaccination rates lag [ABC news, MSN]
11/11/22: California hospitals erect overflow tents amid flu uptick [AP News]
11/04/22: Hospitalization rates for the flu are at their highest level since 2010, according to the CDC. 10/31/22: Cumulative flu hospitalization rate hits 13-year high


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