Progress New York
The de Blasio administration updated online
records about Coronavirus variants on Sunday, but the newly-released
trend and cumulative data for various strains don’t add up.
The Municipal Agency tasked with ensuring public health, NYC Health,
released on Sunday a long-awaited update to Coronavirus variants
sequencing that revealed, for the first time, the presence in New York
City of the B.1.617 strain that appeared to originate in India and that
has been ravaging that Asian nation. Not only did the update report, for
data pulled from the GISAID database as of May 11, disclose the first
cases of the B.1.617 variant in New York City, but the report also made
retroactive disclosures, showing that the strain was first detected in
COVID-19 cases from sequencing of specimens collected from April 5 – 11.
Notwithstanding the disclosures, the trend data and the cumulative
data don’t add up. In the cumulative table, the B.1.617.2 strain showed
12 cases, whereas the trend table showed 16 cases for the most current
week. Furthermore, the sample size was the second-lowest and less than
half of recent peaks in March, according to the report’s figures. The
press office supporting Mayor Bill de Blasio (WFP-New York City) did not immediately answer a media request to offer explanations.
As reported by Progress New York, the de Blasio administration has for several days refused to account for the missing data.
For
the week of April 26-May 2, the P.1 variant, first detected in Brasil
in 2020, was observed in 5,9 per cent. of COVID-19 cases, as noted in a social media post.
The rate of detection has been steadily increasing since early March.
The upward trend in that strain has been happening as New York City
residents have increasingly received vaccinations against the
Coronavirus.
Separately, the number of cases of the B.1.526 strain subclassified
as S:E484K+ plunged from 229 in the May 4 report to 34 in the May 11
report for the week of April 19-25 without explanation. The change was
first observed on social media.
As reported by Progress New York, it not known why Mayor de Blasio
hasn’t faced a Federal inquiry over apparent violations of open records
laws, even when they may be detrimental to public health. The press
office supporting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss, whose office would have jurisdiction, have again refused to answer questions submitted in advance for this report.
Can't have a recovery for all of us without jukin' the stats...
4 comments:
India still has Bubonic Plague. I'm surprised they noticed this.
The longer-term presence of the strain while hospitalizations and deaths decline buttresses evidence for the efficacy of the vaccines against all known strains at this time. That's good news. The original strain will of course become a less and less common infection because the variants are more contagious.
The India strain is another name for the adverse side effects of the VAXX
Isn't it culturally insensitive to call it "The India COVID strain", "The UK strain", etc? Notice how the media has now mostly stopped calling it "The Spanish Flu" and uses "1918 Flu Pandemic".
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