THE OVERALL SUMMARY - February 4, 2023
Things are still improving; but states who saw admissions rise have risen from 1 state to 6 states in the last 10 days.
Grant County NM covid cases fell.
NM covid cases rose a bit, beds rose; RSV cases fell.
US Covid cases fell, as did hospital beds and admissions. US FLU cases fell, admissions fell, deaths fell. RSV cases fell. Evusheld treatment withdrawn.
THE WEEKLY CASE AND ADMISSION CHANGES IN THE USA ARE: [page 7]
* USA weekly new case change: Covid: FELL Flu: FELL
* USA weekly hospital admissions: Covid: FELL Flu: FELL
* USA hospital beds in use this week: Covid: FELL
THE DETAILS OF COVID, FLU, AND RSV ARE:
US AND NM Grant County COVID, FLU, RSV ED visits as a percentage [page 41, 42]
* USA ED visits: latest week: COVID= 75.30% FLU= 19.88% RSV= 4.82% DATED: 01/28/23
* USA ED visits: week before: COVID= 71.70% FLU= 22.92% RSV= 5.38%
* GRMC ED visits: latest week: COVID= 1.50% FLU= 2.70% RSV= 0.40% DATED: 01/28/23
* GRMC ED visits: week before: COVID= 3.50% FLU= 3.90% RSV= 0.40%
COVID: USA as a whole [page 7]
* USA Covid: this week: WEEKLY: cases = 285,418 admissions = 26,495 deaths = 3,435
* USA Covid: last week: WEEKLY: cases = 301,243 admissions = 29,155 deaths = 3,792
INFLUENZA: USA as a whole [page 38, 39]
* USA FLU: this week: (week 4) weekly: cases = 1,649, admissions = 2,671, deaths = 129 (NCHS data) 01/28/23
* USA FLU: last week: (week 3) weekly: cases = 3,440, admissions = 4,009, deaths = 188
RSV: USA as a whole [page 40]
* USA RSV cases this week: 01/28/23 were Lower [page 40]
ADDITIONAL USA NOTES:
For vaccination data [page 26], for variant data [page 27]
US COVID hospital beds in use fell for the week, admissions (7 day average) fell [page 8, 25]
OUR LOCAL GEOGRAPHIC AREA - GRANT COUNTY COVID DATA: GRMC DATA IS SOMEWHAT ELDERLY
GRMC bi-weekly covid ED visit percentages as of 01/31/23 (NMDOH most recent data) FELL [page 20]
GRMC daily admissions as of: 02/01/23 (cdc most recent data) ROSE, was 2 in last 7 days [page 19]
Covid Grant County Week on Week cases fell, [page 5, 16, 22]
Covid Silver City week on week cases fell, Bayard cases rose, and Hurley fell; case numbers are small [page 17, 18]
Covid deaths: Grant County 2, Luna 0, Dona Ana 1, Sierra 0, Catron 0, Hidalgo 0 as of: 02/03/23 [page 15]
OUR STATE - NEW MEXICO COVID DATA:
NM week on week cases rose a bit this week, hospital bed usage rose a bit, positivity rose a bit [page 13, 14, 24]
NEIGHBORING STATES - COVID DATA:
AZ beds fell a bit. CO beds fell a bit. TX beds fell [page 24]
AZ cases and positivity fell. CO cases rose, lagging positivity rose. TX cases fell, positivity fell. [page 9, 10, 11, 12]
NOTES AND NEWS:
02/03/23: States with rising admissions increased from 1 (Alaska) Jan. 23 to 6 on Feb. 2. New Mexico is one of them.
01/27/23: FDA pulled its authorization of Evusheld, however Paxlovid, Remdesivir or Molnupiravir still effective
01/25/23: Updated COVID vaccines prevented illness from latest variants -CDC
01/18/23: CDC suggests tridemic has peaked
01/09/23: COVID-fighting chemicals identified in sea sponges and marine bacteria