And is virus blowing in the Asian wind?

US

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-da....ta-tracker/#variant-

BA 4, 5.4%

BA 5, 7.6%

BA.4 and BA.5, first detected in South Africa, early 2022

Now, at 13% of cases

Last week, 7.5% of cases

Probably mostly immune escape

UK

https://www.gov.uk/government/....publications/covid-1

https://www.gov.uk/government/....publications/covid-1

Last 90 days (updated 7th June)

BA.1, 2,175508

BA.2, 469,309

XE, 2,009

BA.4, 289

BA.5, 219

ONS

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplep....opulationandcommunit

Percentage of the community population that had COVID-19

1.44% in England (1 in 70 people)

1.30% in Wales (1 in 75 people)

1.33% in Northern Ireland (1 in 75 people)

2.01% in Scotland (1 in 50 people)

Long covid, UK, as of 1st May 2022

2.0 million

3.1% of the population

72% for at least 12 weeks

42% at least one year

19% at least two years

Symptoms

Fatigue 55%

Shortness of breath 32%

cough 23%

muscle ache 23%

Symptoms adversely affected the day-to-day activities

1.4 million people (71% of those with self-reported long COVID).

More LC after delta than omicron

(in double-vaccinated people)

Self-reported long COVID was almost twice as common after Delta than after Omicron BA.1 infections

North Korea

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/0....6/07/opinion/north-k

Dr. Mike Ryan

we have real issues in getting access to the raw data and to the actual situation on the ground

It is very, very difficult to provide a proper analysis to the world when we don’t have access to the necessary data

Extensive use of Sinovac

Jean H. Lee

Chronic food shortages

Since a massive famine in the 1990s

Fruit, vegetables and meat are luxuries

Malnutrition shows, splotchy skin, sunken cheekbones, gaunt frames

Most hospitals and clinics do not have heat, medicine or supplies

North Korean nurses washing syringes

Doctors and patients bundle up in quilted jackets

One North Korean doctor, relied on preventive care because she had no medicine,

not even for diarrhea, which she said kills scores of North Korean children every year

North Koreans living in mountainous areas

China

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/china

Cases, 2,101,049

Deaths, 14,615

Fully vaccinated, 89.05%

Doses administered 3.5 billion

Government notice, Dandong

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/90KdrMD4Gc7WVFfnnN4WCw
https://www.bloomberg.com/news..../articles/2022-06-07

try not to open windows in southerly weather for residents along the river, and do not disperse pigeons during the epidemic

Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses

https://www.science.org/doi/10.....1126/science.abd914

Long-range airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 has been observed,

hotel quarantines,

in a large church

Half live of virus in aerosols

One to to 3 hours

SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 (laboratory-generated aerosols)