Wednesday 10 August 2022 

Currently listening to a Spotify play list on my Sonos sound system which includes a lot of Seekers songs.  As you would be aware Judith Durham, the original female singer with the Seekers, passed away last week.  Then yesterday we got the news that Olivia Newton-John had also passed away.

Was there any red blooded young Aussie bloke who wasn't in love with Olivia in the 70's and 80's, I wouldn't think so.  

Also last week we heard the the boxer Johnnie Famechon has also died.  All three died of natural causes, Judith and Olivia had both been ill for some time and Johnnie had serious health problems after a motor vehicle accident many years ago.

Which of the current wave of entertainment and sporting stars will be remembered so fondly as these three?  Maybe somebody from "The Voice" or "The Masked Singer", oh, I forgot we can't remember who was on these shows last week let alone years later.

Anyway must not be churlish.

Interesting table below showing the total deaths in Australia caused by covid for the entirety of the pandemic and the daily numbers for Tuesday 9th August broken down by age groups.  As usual these figures don't quite match the total deaths and daily deaths reported elsewhere but the general thrust of the figures is accurate enough to give a pretty good idea of the deaths by age group.

I have added in a column showing the % of deaths by age group as compared to the total number of deaths.  As can be seen the most dangerous age was the 80-89 age group with 36.00% of total covid related deaths.

To give this table some further relevance I tried to find a population distribution by the same 10 year age groupings as in the table below but was unsuccessful, I am sure that it is in the ABS figures somewhere but be blowed if I could find it.

I did find that 21.5% of Australians are aged between 55 and 74 and 7.5% are aged over 75.  Even using these figures it is obvious that the 70 pluses  at 84% of deaths are heavily overrepresented in the covid death figures, which we probably knew anyway.

I am pleased that I hadn't reached 70 when I had my dose of covid.

DEATHS AGE

Tue 9 Aug - Confirmed Deaths by Age Group

AGEDEATHSVARNET%
00-09           .13%15 00.0%
10-19           .08%9 11.2%
20-29            .26%29 11.2%
30-39            .76%86 00.0%
40-49            1.56%177 11.2%
50-59            3.74%423 22.4%
60-69            8.85%1,001 89.8%
70-79            20.41%2,309 1012.2%
80-89            36.00%4,061 2935.4%
90+               28.29%3,199 3036.6%
Total           100.00%11,309 82100.0%

From the current daily and weekly figures both nationally and for Victoria it would appear that the current covid wave is on the decline.

Nationally 27,000 new covid cases were reported in the last 24 hours compared to 41,000 seven days ago.  In Victoria we reported 5,900 new cases in the last 24 hours compared to 9,100 seven days ago.

Victoria's covid hospitalisation numbers have decreased from 743 last week to 610 currently, ICU figures are down from 40 to 30 and there is still 8 covid patients on ventilators.

Victoria has been reporting extremely high death figures over the last seven days with 52 covid related deaths in the last 24 hours, however I understand that these high figures are as a catch up in reporting of previously unreported cases.  Hopefully these figures will now settle down a bit and we will be able to get a more accurate figure in the days to come.

Corona Virus Weekly Stats – From 22 March 2022 – Week 9 Reasonably Covid Normal

D

Aus Infected

Aus Increase Daily

Aus

1st Dose

Vacc

Vic Infected

Vic Increase Daily

NSW Increase Daily

*Aus

Active Infection

NSW Active Infection

Vic

Active Infection

Aus

2nd Dose Vacc

22/03

3,975,559

32,379

96.7%

1,195,239

9,594

9,594

387,622

211,527

52,983

94.9%

30/03

4,436,572

50,082

96.8%

1,271,494

11,749

25,235

479,116

258,112

58,488

95.1%

04/04

4,715,763

35,015

96.8%

1,320,678

10,011

15,572

500,914

266,110

63,545

95.2%

13/04

5,207,650

54,185

96.9%

1,410,828

10,907

18,265

443,901

234,081

60,756

95.3%

20/04

5,494,804

36,856

97.0%

1,471,567

10,628

15,414

311,570

188,676

53,518

95.4%

27/04

5,780,569

24,135

97.0%

1,532,685

10,734

12,188

340,481

157,589

51,835

95.4%

04/05

6,072394

42,725

97.1%

1,597,464

10,779

11,939

317,353

139,572

57,154

95.5%

11/05

6,387,747

53,338

97.2%

1,673533

13,973

12,265

350,262

137,336

67,608

95.5%

17/05

6,683,581

33,281

97.2%

1,747,794

13,694

10,972

382,835

135,280

77,809

95.6%

25/05

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15/06

 

 

 

 

8,687

 

 

 

 

 

22/06

7,885,040

30,303

97.5%

2,049,802

7,769

9,472

214,105

88,746

41,690

95.8%

29/06

8,078,931

24,986

97.5%

2,091,140

10,777

11,067

234,276

104,191

43,174

95.9%

06/07

8,324,143

32,886

97.6%

2,156,525

10,056

13,775

280,368

124,706

50,376

95.9%

13/07

8,605813

44,183

97.6%

2,223,522

11,176

10,622

316,773

135,832

58,357

96.0%

20/07

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

27/07

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

03/08

9,517,112

41,238

97.8%

2,447,381

9,122

16,648

327,373

171,284

55,195

96.1%

10/08

9,711,780

27,058

98.7%

2,492,023

5,898

11,356

257,259

150,347

37,085

96.2%






























Corona Virus Daily Stats Hospitalisation Etc – From 22 March 2022 – Week 9 Reasonably Covid Normal

Date

Aus New Infection Daily

Aus Hospital

Aus

ICU

Aus

Ventilate

Vic New

Infection Daily

Vic

Hospital

Vic

ICU

Vic

Ventilate

AUS Daily Deaths

Vic

Daily Deaths

22/03

32,379

2,090

93

21

9,594

256

24

5

26

7

30/03

50,082

2,446

100

21

11,749

280

18

5

28

7

04/04

35,015

2,645

108

21

10,011

305

17

3

7

1

13/04

54,185

3,147

126

29

10,907

391

19

2

39

14

20/04

36,856

3,325

155

39

10,628

437

34

12

35

14

27/04

24,135

3,385

144

N/A

10,734

456

32

8

33

13

04/05

42,725

3,111

148

N/A

10,779

473

25

6

44

11

11/05

53,338

3,102

114

N/A

13,973

533

33

5

40

17

17/05

35,281

3,154

129

N/A

13,694

516

31

3

49

20

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15/06

 

2,887

104

N/A

8,687

476

35

8

57

18

22/06

30,303

3,029

110

N/A

9,472

402

29

10

59

24

29/06

24,986

3,237

115

N/A

10,777

468

35

9

36

23

06/07

32,886

3,757

137

N/A

10,056

523

29

5

38

23

13/07

44,183

4,477

137

N/A

11,176

739

36

5

57

20

20/07

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

27/07

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

03/08

41,238

4,861

162

N/A

9,122

743

40

8

65

6

10/08

27,058

4,416

126

N/A

5,898

610

30

8

132

52


 
Activity is picking up at the Shrine again so I did an extra shift this morning, therefore I was a bit late in preparing the blog,  but with perfect timing I have finished just in time for drinkies......cheers 😁

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