COVID Around the United States – December 1st 2021

 
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While the Omicron variant has been detected in California, the increase risk of hospitalization with the variant is unknown. Currently, the delta variant continues to spread with the majority of hospitalizations and deaths among those who have not been vaccinated.

Alabama    Less than 50% of the population is vaccinated, positivity rate is steady at 5%.

Alaska     Cases and hospitalizations are declining.

Arizona      Hospitalizations and cases are higher than they were one year ago.

Arkansas      After the Thanksgiving holiday, cases and hospitalizations are up.

California      Los Angeles now requires and begins to enforce that patrons of indoor venues be vaccinated.

Colorado      Staffing shortages and COVID surges force hospitals to adopt new crisis plans.

Connecticut      Positivity rate reaches 6%, the highest in ten months.

Delaware     Slight uptick in the number of cases and hospitalizations.

Florida      Thanksgiving week decreased COVID infections.

Georgia    Judge blocks vaccine mandate for health care employees.

Hawaii      The state reached over 1,000 COVID related deaths since the start of the pandemic.

Idaho      The positivity rate declines to 6.8%.

Illinois     COVID hospitalizations are increasing.

Indiana    Health care officials encourage more people get vaccinated as hospitalizations surge.

Iowa    Hospitalizations continue to climb.

Kansas     Students test scores declining during COVID pandemic.

Kentucky      Positivity rates climbs above 8%.

Louisiana      State health department announces extension of $100 incentive to vaccinate.

Maine     The number of COVID hospitalizations is surging.

Maryland     Vaccine manufacturer begins to create vaccine for Omicron variant.

Massachusetts     COVID cases rise as does the number of booster vaccinations.

Michigan     The state records a new all time high COVID hospitalizations for adults.

Minnesota     Positivity rates declining, but remain above 10%.

Mississippi      Lower rates of vaccination in the state a concern with new variant.

Missouri     Positivity rates climb above 11%.

Montana     Cases increase after Thanksgiving weekend.

Nebraska    COVID hospitalizations are increasing.

Nevada      Over 8,000 resident deaths from COVID pandemic.

New Hampshire     The state offered free at home COVID tests, they ran out of them in a day.

New Jersey     The state prepares for Omicron variant.

New Mexico     Navy medical teams head to state to help hospitals treat COVID cases.

New York      Two upstate counties declare COVID emergencies due to increasing hospitalizations.

North Carolina      Hospitalizations are up.

North Dakota    Active cases at lowest levels in three months.

Ohio     Hospitalizations climb to the highest level since January.

Oklahoma      The governor requested exemptions for the national guard and was denied.

Oregon    Residents wanting boosters may find delays.

Pennsylvania    Mask mandate in schools to remain in place until Supreme Court can hear the case.

Puerto Rico     Reasons why the island leads the nation in vaccination rates.

Rhode Island     The state launches an app to show vaccination status.

Samoa     Fifth COVID case detected since September.

South Carolina    Hospitalizations up.

South Dakota    Hospitalizations climb to the highest level since January.

Tennessee      The fully vaccinated reaches 50%.

Texas    Anti-Vaccine Evangelical leader dies from COVID.

US Virgin Islands      Cases and hospitalizations are down.

Utah      A young adult dies from COVID.

Vermont    The highest number of hospitalizations since the pandemic began.

Virginia     Positivity rate climbs to 6.6%.

Washington    The state created a digital record to confirm vaccination status to show a business when it is required.

West Virginia    The daily positive test rate is above 9%.

Wisconsin     The state hits highest case count of 2021 and exceeds 9,000 COVID deaths.

Wyoming      Wyoming adds 81 deaths and approaches 1,428 total deaths.

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Hospitalizations Around the USA –

 
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Alabama     The statewide hospital in-patient rate stands at record highs.

Alaska     ICU capacity in Alaska was in the red zone, or more than 75% full.

Arizona     The state sees its largest six-day increase of COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic.

Arkansas    Hospitalizations in Arkansas were hovering near the record set earlier this month.

California     As of Friday, hospitalizations have grown so fast that the record broke for seven consecutive days.

Colorado    Colorado’s hospital system is being overwhelmed by the virus.

Connecticut     A month of increased hospitalizations led to as many deaths in the past week as it had in all of July, August, and September combined.    

Delaware      The state is approaching a record-high number of hospitalizations last seen in the spring.

Florida     Hospitalizations are up 67% in the past four weeks.

Georgia     The state’s intensive care beds are 85% occupied as of Friday.

Hawaii    1,328 total hospitalizations in the state since the pandemic began.

Idaho    In Boise and Idaho Falls, over 85% of intensive care unit beds were in use last week.

Illinois    5,160 people in Illinois hospitalized with COVID-19. Of those, 21% were in the ICU, and 12% were on ventilators.

Indiana     COVID-19 hospitalizations in Indiana nearly doubled in November. On Nov. 30, Indiana set its highest COVID-19 hospitalization record with 3,460 patients.

Iowa   The number of people treated for COVID-19 in Iowa hospitals is more than twice as high as the summer peak.

Kansas     Number of cases doubles since October 28th.

Kentucky     Local hospitals are nearing capacity.

Louisiana      New surge in cases is impacting hospitals in the state.

Maine      The state hits an all-time high of hospitalizations on Thursday.

Maryland     Hospitalizations quadrupled since early October.

Massachusetts    More than 1,400 patients hospitalized, and nearly 300 admitted to intensive care units in the state.

Michigan    In some state communities, the number of COVID-related deaths doubled in November.

Minnesota      Hospitalizations decline as the positivity rate in the state decreases.

Mississippi     The state hit a record high number of COVID hospitalizations last week.

Missouri     The state rises to the 5th most hospitalizations per 100,000 residents in the country.

Montana     Over 2,800 hospitalized in the state.

Nebraska     New cases and hospitalizations declined in the past week.

Nevada      Saturday, the state reported a record of nearly 3,200 additional daily known COVID-19 cases and a record number of related hospitalizations.

New Hampshire    The state has seen a significant spike in cases, deaths, and hospitalizations over the last six weeks.

New Jersey    Coronavirus cases continue to surge, as Gov. Phil Murphy announced there were over 6,046 new positive cases reported on Sunday, a new record.

New Mexico     Nearly one thousand individuals hospitalized in the state with COVID.

New York     The state’s coronavirus metrics show statewide hospitalizations are rising quickly.

North Carolina    Records set for new cases on Saturday and Sunday,  another new record high.

North Dakota     Fourth in the country for the number of cases per 100,000 residents.

Ohio    Patients are being diverted to other hospitals as they reach capacity.

Oklahoma    Hospitals use tents to treat COVID patients as COVID units overflow.

Oregon     The state set record highs of hospitalizations during the week of Thanksgiving.

Pennsylvania     Hospitalizations are up 57% in the state.

Puerto Rico     40% of residents suffer food insecurity due to the pandemic.

Rhode Island    The state leads the nation in the number of new cases per 100,000 residents.

Samoa   The small Pacific nation reports its first positive test for the coronavirus, although officials say a second test on the same patient came back negative.

South Carolina     The state surges to new case highs. 

South Dakota    Some patients are flown out of state as the ICU capacity hits limits.

Tennessee   The state records nearly 5,000 total resident COVID related deaths as of Saturday.

Texas    In the Houston area, 1 in 4 of COVID patients are in the ICU.

 US Virgin Islands     Governor Albert Bryan implemented a two-week soft shutdown of government operations.

Utah   This week saw the most COVID-19 patients hospitalized, with 90% of all intensive care unit beds in the state are in use.

Vermont    The state continues to see a low number of hospitalizations.

Virginia    Hospitalizations hit new highs in the state.

Washington    The number of hospitalizations statewide more than doubled in November.

West Virginia    The state continues to set records with COVID hospitalizations.

Wisconsin   An average of 200 people admitted with COVID per day in the past five days.

Wyoming      The White House group has put all 23 Wyoming counties in the red zone for virus transmission and warns that vulnerable people should be wary.

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In the United States, many of the recent news reports are focusing on trying to find a new normal.  Merely using the word normal implies that things can go back to the way it used to be before COVID-19.  Unfortunately, we know that is not going to happen.   

One definition of fatigue is a person lacks the energy to perform tasks.  It is also known as exhaustion, feeling run down, lethargy, listless, malaise, or weakness.   Fatigue may be due to mental stress.  It may be due to physical demands.  Sometimes it is a combination of both psychological and physical.  Pandemic fatigue is feeling these symptoms as a result of adjusting our daily routine due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  We in the United States are suffering lives lost, unemployment, business disruption, and financial burden.  How the pandemic affects individual Americans varies considerably –  the contrasts can be as different as night and day.

Lives lost due to COVID 19 – over 90,000 Americans.  Australia – lives lost 98.  Iowa State has more COVID related deaths than the country of Australia.   Lucas county of Ohio has more COVID related deaths than the country of Greece.  The city of Chicago has more COVID associated deaths than the country of Poland.  In the United States, we have a stark difference between places that have lost a significant number of lives vs places that have significantly less.  Albany in Georgia, Baton Rouge, Bridgeport in Connecticut, Boston, Buffalo, Cedar Rapids in Iowa, Chicago, Detroit, Farmington in New Mexico, Flagstaff in Arizona, Greely in Colorado, Greensburg in Indiana, New York City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Salem in Ohio, Sumter in South Carolina, Trenton in New Jersey, and Washington DC are among the hardest-hit cities with higher total death rates per capita.  Some metropolitan areas with low infection rates per capita include Portland, Sacramento, San Antonio, and Tampa Bay.   Another contrast is the percentage of African Americans who died in comparison to other races.  Theories as to why the African American population has suffered more include higher rates of pre-existing conditions, less access to health care, housing disparities, and a higher percentage of essential workers cited as probable causes.  Globally, the United States has one of the higher death rates per capita.  Countries with higher infection rates per capita should logically have higher numbers of COVID related deaths.   However, Singapore has a high number of infections per capita but is not among the top 15 countries in COVID related deaths.  It could be explained by how they define COVID related deaths.   Other undetermined factors could be reasons why they are not seeing as many deaths per capita.

Staggering unemployment is the new normal.   According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate for April 2020 spiked to 14.7% as 20.5 million workers lost their jobs.  Those facts do not include May unemployment figures.

Unemployment Rates for the World’s Largest Economies 

The unemployment rates for the world’s largest economies were generally low at the end of 2019.

  • Japan: 2.4%
  • India: 3.5%
  • Germany: 3.6%
  • United Kingdom: 3.9%
  • United States: 4.1%
  • China: 4.8%
  • Canada: 5.9%
  • France: 8.6%
  • Italy: 10.4%
  • Brazil: 11.6%4 

Source: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/062315/unemployment-rates-country.asp

In contrast the unemployment of the same countries in April 2020:

  • Japan: 3.0%
  • India: no data
  • Germany: 3.9%
  • United Kingdom: 4.8%
  • United States: 14.7%
  • China: 4.3%
  • Canada: 7.5%
  • France: 10.4%
  • Italy: 12.7%
  • Brazil: 14.7% 

Source: https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/LUR@WEO/OEMDC/ADVEC/WEOWORLD/JPN

The United States Unemployment rate is now equal to Brazil.  Other countries who have faced COVID lockdowns such as Germany and the UK have not had as much of a change as the US.  China is the only country to decrease the unemployment rate.  People who still have employment are either essential workers or jobs that accommodated them to work from home.  1 in 5 Americans who had employment, lost it due to coronavirus. Some positions terminated while some companies forced to put their employees on hold, and when the weeks turned into a month, the anger was palpable.  People protested, wanting to return to their jobs or owners fighting for the survival of their business.   We as Americans have invested years of blood, sweat, and tears into our livelihoods, and we realized that we had to return to work.   The problem remains, how to make that happen without allowing the virus to spread out of control.

Finances – While the United States has been the most exceptional economy for more than a decade, we could lose that status. Increased national debt and the loss of employment will have an impact on the GDP.  The actual financial burden with the pandemic and its effect on the US has only begun.  At the beginning of the year, our economy was strong.  Business experts are talking about a recession that could rival the great depression.  One billionaire believes the United States will suffer an economic depression if the lockdowns last for a year.  The United States was already trying to balance saving lives and saving the economy back at the end of March.

Meanwhile, two professors at Northwestern University predicted the costs of not closing down non-essential businesses and allowing the virus to spread unchecked would have been more expensive than closing non-essential businesses. They were not alone in their predictions.  In the US and abroad, experts weighed in on what the best course of action would be. Investors are now predicting a 3.9% fall in U.S. GDP in 2020.

All this stress creates mental fatigue from the pandemic.  The kind that disrupts sleep and changes your appetite.  Psychological stress affects your ability to concentrate and contributes to other symptoms like headaches, muscle aches, and abdominal pains.  It is new stress, and our country unprepared.  Our food banks are in high demand, the unemployment offices that process payments unable to keep up, and the federal government was providing a stimulus intended to offset the financial strains are giving away money to corporations and institutions that do not need it.  While some large chain restaurants and sports franchises have already said they will return the money, one educational institution has already declared they will keep the money and use it for students.  If you don’t acknowledge the mental strain, you are in denial.  Denial itself is a psychological mechanism to try and protect oneself from facts.  When facts are too painful to admit, denial is a coping mechanism to allow you to continue to function, to move on.

Front line health care professionals are working extra hours – the physical demands of caring for more patients in hot zones day after day contributes to fatigue.  The post-traumatic disorder is already presenting in some of them from witnessing more deaths than usual.  It also gives a risk of suicide as we learned of one emergency room physician who got COVID, recovered, returned to work, and ultimately took her own life.  Nonessential workers are also affected.   They are at home, getting restless and weary as they watch the news, interact on social media, and worry about the safety of their loved ones.   In some hot zones, they are returning to work.  They now have to worry about how they can do their job safely and must plan a new work environment to reduce the chances of spreading infection.

What follows are some of the lives lost or changed due to COVID-19.  The loss of these heroes affects their loved ones, their neighbors, the communities they served, and our world:

Police officers – https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/senior-detention-officer-officer-of-23-years-man-of-faith-dead/

Paramedics – https://www.ems1.com/coronavirus-covid-19/articles/covid-19-ems-deaths-jk5zWFziwYVYUaM4/

Store workers – https://www.eater.com/2020/4/7/21212135/grocery-workers-are-dying-from-coronavirus-trader-joes-walmart

https://www.kcra.com/article/he-was-a-healthy-man-family-mourns-safeway-worker-who-died-of-covid-19/32179508#

Meatpackers – https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2020-05-01/cdc-nearly-5-000-meat-plant-workers-infected-by-coronavirus

Doctors – https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/new-jersey-er-doctor-dies-one-week-after-exhibiting-covid-19-symptoms/2354084/

Nurses – https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/04/21/us-nurses-who-died-coronavirus-honored-white-house-protest/2996839001/

Physician Assistants – https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/03/31/guardsman-who-died-covid-19-remembered-1st-responder-passion-serve.html

Nurse Practitioners – fortunately, no deaths reported https://www.11alive.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/georgia-nurse-survives-covid19-battle/85-37c7b703-fe2f-41d3-b62f-f4a6ee2a838d

Nurse Anesthetists – thankfully, no deaths reported – https://www.nola.com/news/coronavirus/article_25b835c0-7b65-11ea-ab5c-67ceca2dba77.html

Respiratory Therapists – https://www.local10.com/news/local/2020/04/24/partner-of-fallen-healthcare-worker-says-they-need-more-protection-from-coronavirus/

https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2020/the-journalists-and-colleagues-weve-lost-to-the-coronavirus/

Politicians – https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbrewster/2020/04/07/these-34-us-lawmakers-have-tested-positive-for-covid-19/#378ee12d46d9

https://www.newscenter1.tv/south-dakota-state-representative-bob-glanzer-dies-at-74/

TSA employees – https://www.khou.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/fifth-tsa-employee-dies-of-coronavirus-as-more-than-500-have-tested-positive/285-8910f312-fd8e-418a-acc6-6ca303474a05

Overall Medical workers:  https://www.businessinsider.com/healthcare-workers-who-died-with-the-coronavirus-2020-4?op=1#douglas-linn-hickok-57-a-physician-assistant-and-new-jersey-national-guardsman-became-the-first-us-military-service-member-to-die-from-the-coronavirus-7

Overall memorials: https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/health/coronavirus-victims-memories/

When does the pandemic improve?  It could dramatically improve with successful treatments.   Finding effective antiviral medicines would allow for less severe outcomes.  A successful vaccine would prevent illness.   Herd immunity.  Even the possibility of finding a post-exposure prophylactic medication that is mostly safe and lessen the severity of disease would dramatically change things.  Until then, defense remains our best strategy.  Good luck in avoiding exposure to coronavirus in America.  Recent data shows you have had it with the shelter in place recommendations.  The latest guidelines implemented by the CDC to safely return us to work suppressed by the White House task force.  Some Americans are unwilling to wear masks when out in public but eager to protest and visibly display assault weapons to make their voices heard.  The concept of comprehensive testing before Americans returned to work seems to have lost traction.   America is suffering, and it will continue to do so in the unforeseen future as we will are unwilling to help stop the spread.  What we do here in the US has implications for others all around the globe. Our actions as a country will not only affect our economy but will have a ripple effect on other countries that rely upon the US for their country to function.  Many innovators and scientists are finding solutions to these complex problems.  Keep them in your prayers, for they are the ones who will save lives and decrease the suffering.  Our government had the opportunity to prevent the devastation of this pandemic, but that window of opportunity closed a long time ago.  At this time, our politicians can only react as prevention was not enough of a priority.

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Motivating me to be active: Week one with the Apple Series 4 Watch and Fitbit Versa.

 
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With week one completed, I am satisfied with the performance of both fitness trackers. Both products send reminders to be active throughout the day.  Apple Watch 4 encourages you to “stand” for more than 1 minute at hourly intervals throughout the day. In addition to standing, it will monitor movement and exercise. Should you complete one, two or all three of the categories, the watch will congratulate you and “close” a ring. Rings are displayed on the watch in a calendar format to visually see your performance. On one occasion the watch didn’t recognize when I went from sitting to standing. It also encouraged me to move one morning when I was still in bed. I found it odd that I had just woke up and the reminder was starting so early. The notifications can all be turned off or specific notifications can be turned off.

Apple Watch 4 Rings
The Fitbit Versa encourages 250 or more steps every hour from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. If you have not achieved 250 steps by 10 minutes prior to the top of the hour, it will remind you to “look alive” or “move” allowing you the opportunity to get those steps in before the hour changes. The app on the phone will graph your hourly activity and also show you your longest stationary periods. The tracker will congratulate you when you a celebratory notification when you achieve a goal. The reminders can be turned on or off and you can change the start and stop times as well which days of the week you want reminders to be active.

Fitbit Versa Daily Steps

Neither tracker is accurate with logging flights of steps climbed.  So far, this seems to be one of the biggest misses for the trackers. Yesterday, I climbed 10 flights of stairs as I wanted to complete that goal. Fitbit Versa logged 7 flights and the Apple Watch 4 logged 6 flights. The Fitbit Versa logged 12,166 steps, 5.46 miles, and 3,196 calories while the Apple Watch 4 logged 12,077 steps, 6.37 miles, and 3,171 calories. On Tuesday, the Fitbit Versa logged 9,889 steps, 4.34 miles, 3,763 calories and 1 flight climbed and the Apple Watch 4 logged 10,083 steps, 5.00 miles, 2,930 calories and 2 flights climbed.

Both trackers easily allow you to share your progress via text or posting to social media, compete with friends, get coached or join community groups. The apps will give you awards when you achieve goals. The amount of information that the trackers log, graph and analyze will keep any user who loves statistics more than satisfied. I have yet to swim with trackers and am curious as to how that will track that activity.

My summary for the week, 2.5 pounds of weight loss and more active than I would have been otherwise.  I went for a morning run one day, played tennis during the week, lifted weights one day and went for a walk one evening to accomplish goals.  Both trackers motivate me.  As the weeks go by and my attention to the trackers fades, will it help to achieve my ultimate goal of remaining physically active during the week?  I hope so, my health is too important and I want to maintain an ideal weight and overall fitness.

Vaccinations / Prevention

 
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Vaccinations may now be included in your personal record. With the COVID vaccines, keeping track of your vaccinations is timely and important. It may be required information for future travel, employment, or other concerns. Your health care providers may want to know which COVID vaccines you got and which manufacturer created your vaccine. It will be valuable information to recall in the future if additional COVID vaccines are recommended. There is already talk of booster vaccinations for COVID variants. Plus, the length of immunity protection of COVID vaccinations has yet to be determined.

In addition to COVID vaccines, you may keep track of other preventive vaccinations and review them with your health care providers. All adults are recommended to get yearly flu vaccinations as well as updated tetanus vaccines. You may now also document your childhood vaccines.

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Published 2/28/21