Covid 19 -

[russellw]

Data valid as at 00:00 GMT March 25th 2022.

58,235 new cases for Australia and 26 deaths so the CMR is 0.140%.

NZ recorded 15,914 cases and 9 deaths for a CMR of 0.035%.

The UK reported 77,306 cases and 172 deaths for a CMR of 0.795%.

37,583 new cases in the USA yesterday and 896 deaths sees CMR at 1.229%.

Other notable points:
Global cases pass 479M;
Europe passes 174M cases;
Oceania passes 5M cases;
Germany passes 20M cases;

No countries
...recorded new highs; those in blue for the second consecutive day and those in red for a third or more consecutive day.

Malta move above the 90th percentile for the 10 day period while Norway and Russia drop below.

[T3rminator]

Originally Posted by MITCHAY

Watching everyone lose their mind having to go back to the office on Monday. To be fair I get the argument to some degree but this epic meltdown has been giving me a ****en laugh for sure

Unless you're wrapping yourself in a bubble all the time and not out doing what you want to do, you have no right to complain. Only reason I was WFH in the first place was because I was forced to and given how many have actually shown up since we were allowed to, I can't see any reason why I couldn't have been in the office the whole time!

It's quite clear that you can still WFH if your circumstances require it

I'm finding that its the older generation that have an urgency to want to everyone to return to office. They try to play it cool, but you can notice the irritation when so and so isn't in the office. Its the millennials who are quite happy to keep wfh

[Itsme]

Originally Posted by T3rminator

I'm finding that its the older generation that have an urgency to want to everyone to return to office. They try to play it cool, but you can notice the irritation when so and so isn't in the office. Its the millennials who are quite happy to keep wfh

I know quite a few including Millennials wanting to return to the workplace, they are missing the interaction with their co-workers. My SIL thought it was great at first working at home but soon turned to despair looking at the same walls 24/7.
For some people it may suit them but for others it does not.
Cheers.

[russellw]

Australia / New Zealand
NSW records 17,450 cases in the current period and the 10-day average growth rate decreases to 0.9973 (from 1.0078) while the actual line is about level with the predictive trend line.



VIC records 7,466 cases in the current period and the 10-day average growth rate decreases to 0.9817 (from 0.9957) while the actual line remains above the predictive trend.



No states set a new daily record on 26/3.

Here is the predictive trend graph for four States based on cases since Omicron was identified which, for our purposes, will be taken as December 1st.



New Zealand data goes back to January 15th and the actual line remains moves back below the predictive trend line.

[russellw]

Data valid as at 00:00 GMT March 26th 2022.

52,144 new cases for Australia and 32 deaths so the CMR is 0.139%.

NZ recorded 14,223 cases and 16 deaths for a CMR of 0.037%.

The UK didn’t report yesterday for a CMR of 0.795%.

32,463 new cases in the USA yesterday and 214 deaths sees CMR at 1.229%.

Other notable points: (weekend reporting)
Global cases pass 480M;
Europe passes 175M cases;
Asia passes 136M cases;

No countries
...recorded new highs; those in blue for the second consecutive day and those in red for a third or more consecutive day.

Malta move above the 90th percentile for the 10 day period while none drop below.

[russellw]

Australia / New Zealand
NSW records 16,199 cases in the current period and the 10-day average growth rate decreases to 0.9903 (from 0.9973) while the actual line is about level with the predictive trend line.



VIC records 8,739 cases in the current period and the 10-day average growth rate increases to1.0061 (from 0.9817) while the actual line remains above the predictive trend.



No states set a new daily record on 27/3.

Here is the predictive trend graph for four States based on cases since Omicron was identified which, for our purposes, will be taken as December 1st.



New Zealand data goes back to January 15th and the actual line remains remains below the predictive trend line.

[Polyal]

Well its taken this long but seems our family has now been hit, one of the kids so we are all in ISO for 7 days. Was only a matter of time really so we just have to play the game.

[russellw]

Data valid as at 00:00 GMT March 27th 2022.

46,842 new cases for Australia and 11 deaths so the CMR is 0.138%.

NZ recorded 10,278 cases and 6 deaths for a CMR of 0.037%.

The UK didn’t report again yesterday for a CMR of 0.795%.

15,510 new cases in the USA yesterday and 221 deaths sees CMR at 1.229%.

Other notable points: (weekend reporting)
Global cases pass 481M;
Asia passes 137M cases;
France passes 25M cases;
Vietnam passes 9M cases;

No countries
...recorded new highs; those in blue for the second consecutive day and those in red for a third or more consecutive day.

No countries move above the 90th percentile for the 10 day period and none drop below.

[russellw]

Australia / New Zealand
NSW records 21,494 cases in the current period and the 10-day average growth rate increases to 1.0279 (from 0.9903) while the actual line is back above the predictive trend line.


VIC records 10,916 cases in the current period and the 10-day average growth rate increases to 1.0441 (from 1.0061) while the actual line remains above the predictive trend.



No states set a new daily record on 28/3.

Here is the predictive trend graph for four States based on cases since Omicron was identified which, for our purposes, will be taken as December 1st.



New Zealand data goes back to January 15th and the actual line is now about level with the predictive trend line.

[russellw]

Data valid as at 00:00 GMT March 28th 2022.

46,931 new cases for Australia and 4 deaths so the CMR is 0.136%.

NZ recorded 12,942 cases and 8 deaths for a CMR of 0.038%. Case numbers pass the 600k mark.

The UK didn’t report again yesterday for a CMR of 0.795%.

17,526 new cases in the USA yesterday and 421 deaths sees CMR at 1.230%.

Other notable points:
Global cases pass 482M;
Global deaths pass 6.15M, the last 50k in 8 days;
Europe passes 176M cases;
South Korea passes 12M cases;
Indonesia passes 6M cases;

No countries
...recorded new highs; those in blue for the second consecutive day and those in red for a third or more consecutive day.

No countries move above the 90th percentile for the 10 day period and none drop below.

[FTE217]

Originally Posted by Itsme

I know quite a few including Millennials wanting to return to the workplace, they are missing the interaction with their co-workers. My SIL thought it was great at first working at home but soon turned to despair looking at the same walls 24/7.
For some people it may suit them but for others it does not.
Cheers.

yep with you from my surrounds.......

I know plenty millenials through mine and most happy to get back on the office depending what rulings have been imposed.
2/3 or 4days a week.
They miss being amongst it themselves as do the mature workers.
My soon to be daughter inlaw @ 29 was just telling me the other day how its hard to be motivated WFH - you have your ups and down and I agree with her.
My eldest son and mates say the same.

[russellw]

Global 28/3/22 (figures up to 26/3/22)


During the last 14 days, global CMR's have mostly been dropping with the global average now at 1.281% compared to 1.331% in the previous period and 2.291% a year ago today.

Case number have increased (mostly across Asia) with 26.472M in this period compared to 22.462M in the previous period with 89,269 deaths in the last 14 days for a lower CMR of 0.337% on an unadjusted basis. That's 11% less deaths than the previous period and the adjusted CMR based on the previous period case numbers is 0.408% but that's far from an exact science.

Note that 'adjusted' CMR uses the case numbers from between 16 and 30 days ago and the mortalities from the last 14 days

Overall the increase in cases numbers was 5.5% but the variance in the number of deaths only 1.45%.

Countries (with >100k cases) that were above 10% growth rate are headed by South Korea (+46.0%);Hong Kong (+39.8%); Vietnam (+38.9%); New Zealand (+38.4%);China (+20.0%); Brunei (+16.1%); Austria (+15.8%); Germany (+15.6%); Australia (+15.3%);Cyprus (+13.6%); Finland (+13.1%); Singapore (+12.9%); Laos (+12.4%);Iceland (+11.1%); Switzerland & Martinique (+10.7%) withJapan right on +10.0%.

Very few countries saw their mortalities increase by much with Hong Kong (+47.5%); New Zealand (+38.4%), South Korea (+30.6%); Chile (+22.2%); Brunei (+19.3%); Iceland (+18.6%) and Finland (+11.1%) having double digit growth amongst countries with >100k cases.

[Citroënbender]

A side note to the last two years of Covid disruption. One of the “lockdowns forever” brigade, Professor (Marylouise) McLaws, is being treated for a brain tumour diagnosed in January.

[russellw]

Australia / New Zealand
NSW records 25,235 cases in the current period and the 10-day average growth rate increases to 1.0279 (from 1.0279) while the actual line is back above the predictive trend line.



VIC records 11,749 cases in the current period and the 10-day average growth rate increases to 1.0665 (from 1.0441) while the actual line remains above the predictive trend.



Tasmania (2,473) set a new daily record on 29/3.

Here is the predictive trend graph for four States based on cases since Omicron was identified which, for our purposes, will be taken as December 1st.



New Zealand data goes back to January 15th and the actual line is now about level with the predictive trend line.



As it was the end of our week yesterday, here are the weekly case numbers with NSW having 82,162 more cases then Victoria last week while Victoria recorded 5,564 more cases than the previous week; NSW recorded 15,264 more, Queensland 20,363 more and WA 12,614 more. We’ve added WA to the chart despite the much later start to their Omicron outbreak.

[russellw]

Data valid as at 00:00 GMT March 29th 2022.

60,248 new cases for Australia and 29 deaths so the CMR is 0.135%.

NZ recorded 17,211 cases and 35 deaths for a CMR of 0.042%.

The UK reported 295,047 cases and 520 deaths over 4 days for a CMR of 0.786%.

26,594 new cases in the USA yesterday and 494 deaths sees CMR at 1.230%.

Other notable points:
Global cases pass 484M;
Europe passes 177M cases;
Asia passes 138M cases;
South America passes 56M cases;

No countries
...recorded new highs; those in blue for the second consecutive day and those in red for a third or more consecutive day.

No countries move above the 90th percentile for the 10 day period and none drop below.

[russellw]

The current fortnight of UK data for cases and elapsed mortalities has finished.

There were 801,826 cases in the period to 12/3 and 1,815 deaths between 13-27/3 for a CMR of 0.226% which is lower than that of the previous period (0.242%) and closer to what it had been however there was also a 24% increase in case numbers so that impacts the data.

Thus, in the 240 days since 'freedom day' they have totalled 14,125,040 cases and 35,015 deaths for an overall CMR of 0.248% which is fractionally below the 0.249% at day 225. That’s 34.65% of the adult population who have been infected in that time!

Here it is graphed - note that the base column at the end is the 2 week period prior to freedom day.





On an annualised basis, that’s 22.9M cases and about 56.8k (at the average CMR) deaths in a full year.

[russellw]

Australia / New Zealand
NSW records 22,107 cases in the current period and the 10-day average growth rate decreases to 1.0557 (from 1.0571) while the actual line is back above the predictive trend line.



VIC records 11,292 cases in the current period and the 10-day average growth rate decreases to 1.0501 (from 1.0665) while the actual line remains above the predictive trend.



WA (9,754) set a new daily record on 30/3.

Here is the predictive trend graph for four States based on cases since Omicron was identified which, for our purposes, will be taken as December 1st.



New Zealand data goes back to January 15th and the actual line is now about level with the predictive trend line.

[russellw]

Data valid as at 00:00 GMT March 30th 2022.

67,420 new cases for Australia and 36 deaths so the CMR is 0.134%.

NZ recorded 15,977 cases and 12 deaths for a CMR of 0.043%.

The UK reported 86,839 cases and 213 deaths for a CMR of 0.784%.

37,384 new cases in the USA yesterday and 1,291 deaths sees CMR at 1.231%.

Other notable points:
Global cases pass 486M;
Asia passes 1.4M deaths – 37% of those in India;
Europe passes 178M cases;
UK passes 21M cases;
Greece passes 3M cases;

Bhutan (1,087); and
Laos (2,697);

...recorded new highs; those in blue for the second consecutive day and those in red for a third or more consecutive day.

No countries move above the 90th percentile for the 10 day period and none drop below.

[russellw]

Australia / New Zealand
NSW records 25,495 cases in the current period and the 10-day average growth rate decreases to 1.0310 (from 1.0557) while the actual line remains above the predictive trend line.



VIC records 10,424 cases in the current period and the 10-day average growth rate decreases to 1.0150 (from 1.0501) while the actual line remains above the predictive trend.



Tasmania (2,478) set a new daily record on 31/3.

Here is the predictive trend graph for four States based on cases since Omicron was identified which, for our purposes, will be taken as December 1st.



New Zealand data goes back to January 15th and the actual line is now about level with the predictive trend line.

[Citroënbender]

Basic pasta, which was first bought obsessively and then over-produced in the days of Covid hoarding, has finally gone up in price after eighteen months. Aldi in particular, have hiked penne and spirals 25%. The stockpiles must have run down.

[russellw]

Data valid as at 00:00 GMT March 31st 2022.

60,251 new cases for Australia and 32 deaths so the CMR is 0.133%.

NZ recorded 15,300 cases and 21 deaths for a CMR of 0.045%.

The UK reported 74,418 cases and 192 deaths for a CMR of 0.782%.

46,323 new cases in the USA yesterday and 1,250 deaths sees CMR at 1.232%.

Other notable points:
Global cases pass 488M;
Asia passes 139M cases;
Germany passes 21M cases;
South Korea passes 13M cases;

Bhutan (1,138); and
Laos (2,762);

...recorded new highs; those in blue for the second consecutive day and those in red for a third or more consecutive day.

No countries move above the 90th percentile for the 10 day period and none drop below.

[russellw]

Australia / New Zealand
NSW records 20,389 cases in the current period and the 10-day average growth rate decreases to 0.9959 (from 1.0310) while the actual line remains above the predictive trend line.




VIC records 9,149 cases in the current period and the 10-day average growth rate decreases to 0.9936 (from 1.0150) while the actual line remains above the predictive trend.



No states set a new daily record on 1/4.

Here is the predictive trend graph for four States based on cases since Omicron was identified which, for our purposes, will be taken as December 1st.



New Zealand data goes back to January 15th and the actual line is now about level with the predictive trend line.

[wodahs]

w.a. just seem to be playing pingpong
down to x one day back up to y the next
rinse and repeat
back down to x one day back up to y the next
rinse and repeat

[russellw]

Data valid as at 00:00 GMT April 1st 2022.

64,539 new cases for Australia and 16 deaths so the CMR is 0.131%.

NZ recorded 13,537 cases and 15 deaths for a CMR of 0.047%.

The UK reported 69,449 cases and 191 deaths for a CMR of 0.780%.

37,687 new cases in the USA yesterday and 590 deaths sees CMR at 1.232%.

Other notable points:
Global cases pass 489M;
Europe passes 179M cases;

No countries
...recorded new highs; those in blue for the second consecutive day and those in red for a third or more consecutive day.

No countries move above the 90th percentile for the 10 day period and none drop below.

[T3rminator]

Worth noting that catching a severe case of covid can also cause hearing loss...

WHO examining potential hearing problems linked to Covid vaccines
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...ines-rcna21911

The World Health Organization is examining rare reports of hearing loss and other auditory issues following Covid-19 vaccinations.

In a newsletter posted on its website, the international public health agency said that it has been made aware of sudden hearing problems, particularly tinnitus, or ringing of the ears, that may be associated with Covid vaccines.

The WHO reported 367 cases of tinnitus and 164 cases of hearing loss globally among people who had received a Covid-19 vaccine, usually within a day of the shot. That's out of more than 11 billion doses of Covid vaccine given worldwide, so the hearing problems seem to be extremely rare.

[russellw]

Australia / New Zealand
NSW records 16,807 cases in the current period and the 10-day average growth rate decreases to 0.9755 (from 0.9959) while the actual line remains above the predictive trend line.


VIC records 9,008 cases in the current period and the 10-day average growth rate increases to 0.9941 (from 0.9936) while the actual line remains above the predictive trend.



No states set a new daily record on 2/4.

Here is the predictive trend graph for four States based on cases since Omicron was identified which, for our purposes, will be taken as December 1st.



New Zealand data goes back to January 15th and the actual line is now aa little above the predictive trend line.

[russellw]

Data valid as at 00:00 GMT April 2nd 2022.

54,317 new cases for Australia and 26 deaths so the CMR is 0.137% after an adjustment which added almost 300 deaths in 2021 and 2022. That also pushes total deaths to date over 9,000.

NZ recorded 11,662 cases and 6 deaths for a CMR of 0.047%.

The UK didn’t report yesterday for a CMR of 0.780%.

31,260 new cases in the USA yesterday and 538 deaths sees CMR at 1.232%.

Other notable points: (weekend reporting)
Global cases pass 490M;
Europe passes 180M cases;
Asia passes 140M cases;

No countries
...recorded new highs; those in blue for the second consecutive day and those in red for a third or more consecutive day.

No countries move above the 90th percentile for the 10 day period and Estonia drops below.

[russellw]

Australia / New Zealand
NSW records 15,572 cases in the current period and the 10-day average growth rate decreases to 0.9726 (from 0.9755) while the actual line remains above the predictive trend line.


VIC records 10,011 cases in the current period and the 10-day average growth rate increases to 1.0151 (from 0.9941) while the actual line remains above the predictive trend.



No states set a new daily record on 3/4.

Here is the predictive trend graph for four States based on cases since Omicron was identified which, for our purposes, will be taken as December 1st.



New Zealand data goes back to January 15th and the actual line is now about even with the predictive trend line.

[Citroënbender]

I’m wondering if the NZ data will be significantly influenced by reopening to general traffic between there and Australia.

(Also wondering if the frozen chip shortage is being blamed on Covid.)

[russellw]

Data valid as at 00:00 GMT April 3rd 2022.

47,747 new cases for Australia and 17 deaths so the CMR is 0.136%.

NZ recorded 8,845 cases and 20 deaths for a CMR of 0.050%.

The UK didn’t report yesterday for a CMR of 0.780%.

12,661 new cases in the USA yesterday and 150 deaths sees CMR at 1.232%.

Other notable points: (weekend reporting)
Global cases pass 491M;

Bhutan (1,384);

...recorded new highs; those in blue for the second consecutive day and those in red for a third or more consecutive day.

No countries move above the 90th percentile for the 10 day period and none drop below.