The highest number of deaths are centred in the state of Amazonas, where 242 Indigenous people have died. Brazil's Indigenous People Articulation says that over 51,000 Indigenous people of Brazil have tested positive while 1,022 have died. The virus has also disproportionately burdened Brazil's Indigenous population, who have already been facing the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. "Inherently you would think there would be fewer deaths, but just the situation there just seems to have spiralled totally out of control," said Jean-Paul Soucy, an infectious disease epidemiologist and PhD student at the University of Toronto in a phone interview. Newsletter sign-up: Get The COVID-19 Brief sent to your inbox.Hopefully it will fall further, since it’s three times the rate we were seeing in September, right before the winter increase began. Roughly three people are dying of COVID-19 every two days in New Hampshire, a rate that has held pretty steady since the start of April. Number of deaths – what’s the trend? Stable and fairly low. Similarly, this figure has fallen by more than 10% in the past week, the first extended decline since March, but is still very high: 112 as I write this. Number of hospitalizations – what’s the trend? High but starting to decline It’s still over 400, however, so it’s too early to say that the latest peak is past. The two-week average of new cases reported each day has slipped about 8% in the past week, the first extended decline in six weeks. Number of new cases – what’s the trend? High but maybe starting to go down.
If you’d told me in April 2020 that this would be the case, I wouldn’t have believed you. And get vaccinated as soon as you can.ĭaily updated charts and other information can be seen on the Monitor’s COVID-19 page at How are we doing on vaccinations? Good!Īs I write this, one-quarter of the state population – 30% of the eligible folks who are over 15 – is fully vaccinated. Even if we’ve passed a fourth peak, that doesn’t mean we can’t be hit by a fifth. They are a reminder that the pandemic is not a solved problem and can turn on us at any time. People are dying by the hundreds and thousands in India and Brazil while in Ontario, Canada’s richest and most modern province, they called out the police to enforce stay-at-home orders.Īll three were doing pretty well, even quite well, handling COVID-19 until the past month or two. Those three places don’t have much in common but all have seen COVID cases increase so fast that hospitals have been overwhelmed. I’m being careful even though it feels like New Hampshire has gotten over the hump of a fourth wave and vaccines are rolling out nicely because I’ve seen what’s happening in rural India, urban Brazil and modern Ontario. The article credited the idea to Linsey Marr, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech and it’s going to be my mantra through at least the summer. You’re inside a public place? Mask on even if nobody’s close by because who knows what’s circulating in the air. You’re outside but on a crowded sidewalk, meaning six feet of separation is not possible? Mask on, my friend. You’re outside and nobody’s nearby? Take off the mask! If you’ve got two of those three, you’re OK. Three things can keep us safe until everybody is vaccinated and the virus has stopped circulating: mask-wearing, social distancing, and being outdoors. My apologies to the New York Times, but I’m going to swipe advice that newspaper ran earlier this week about how we should behave among other people as COVID-19 starts to recede in the face of vaccination, by using the two-out-of-three rule. EDITOR’S NOTE: The Monitor’s weekly COVID tracker is returning to Mondays as of this week, and Granite Geek will return to its Tuesday slot.
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