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Category: Infectious Diseases Infectious Diseases
Published: 11 February 2023 11 February 2023

THE OVERALL SUMMARY - February 11, 2023 (The last report will be March 25, 2023)

Things are still generally improving, yet short term trends rose [page 5]. The HHS covid emergency will end May 11.
Grant County Week on Week cases fell, but did reverse up mid week.
NM covid cases fell, beds in use fell; RSV positivity fell.
US Covid cases, hospital beds and admissions fell. US FLU cases and admissions fell, deaths rose. RSV cases fell.
US covid sub-variant XBB.1.5 is growing in AZ, CO, NM, TX, and the USA [page 27]

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 visit s as a percentage [page 41, 42]
* USA ED visits: latest week: COVID= 77.38% FLU= 18.32% RSV= 4.31% DATED: 02/04/23
* USA ED visits: week before: COVID= 75.16% FLU= 19.83% RSV= 5.01%
* GRMC ED visits: latest week: COVID= 3.00% FLU= 2.00% RSV= 0.30% DATED: 02/04/23
* GRMC ED visits: week before: COVID= 1.50% FLU= 2.70% RSV= 0.40%

COVID: USA as a whole [page 7]
* USA Covid: this week: WEEKLY: cases = 282,827 admissions = 25,291 deaths = 3,540
* USA Covid: last week: WEEKLY: cases = 290,209 admissions = 26,495 deaths = 3,435

INFLUENZA: USA as a whole [page 38, 39]
* USA FLU: this week: (week 5) weekly: cases = 1,222, admissions = 2,137, deaths = 44 (NCHS data) 02/04/23
* USA FLU: last week: (week 4) weekly: cases = 2,134, admissions = 2,671, deaths = 129

RSV: USA as a whole [page 40]
* USA RSV cases this week: 02/04/23 were: Lower [page 40]

ADDITIONAL USA NOTES: VACCINATION DATA [page 26], 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: 02/08/23 (cdc most recent data) FELL, was 1 in last 7 days [page 19]
Grant County Week on Week cases fell, but reversed up mid week [page 5, 16, 22]
Covid Silver City week on week cases rose, Bayard cases fell, and Hurley rose; case numbers are small [page 17, 18]
Covid deaths: Grant County 1, Luna 0, Dona Ana 2, Sierra 0, Catron 0, Hidalgo 0 as of: 02/10/23 [page 15]
OUR STATE - NEW MEXICO COVID DATA:

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

NEIGHBORING STATES - COVID DATA:

AZ beds fell a bit. CO beds mostly level. TX beds fell [page 24]
AZ cases level, positivity rose. CO cases fell, lagging positivity rose. TX cases fell, positivity fell. [page 9, 10, 11, 12]

NOTES AND NEWS IN 2023:

NOTE: Absent a rise in covid, flu, or RSV, this report's last date will be March 25; data collection will still continue.
NOTE: HHS covid emergency ends May 11. Johns Hopkins ends data March 10 (this report does not use JHU).
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