このブログへ訪れ頂いた総数2023年12月31日/11:30現在:865355
2023年年初が:840261
2023年の訪れて頂いた方の総数25094
びっくりです、訪れ頂き感謝です
このブログへ訪れ頂いた総数2023年12月31日/11:30現在:865355
2023年年初が:840261
2023年の訪れて頂いた方の総数25094
びっくりです、訪れ頂き感謝です
来年はどうなるのか、平和産業である、旅行産業はコロナ禍が明けても前途多難、日本国内での旅行はもう完全復活と言っても間違いが無いですが、海外旅行は無理、特に小規模海外専従旅行社の収益の要の企業法人の海外出張は2023年の総括はコロナ禍前2019年の2割〜3割程度の戻り、大手でも5割〜6割くらいの戻りでしょうか
最初は特別軍事作戦と云っていた、識者はまさかロシアがウクライに侵攻するとは、当時は云ってなかったが2022年2月24日にロシアのウクライナ侵攻が始まって今も続いている、2023年10月7日(土)から始まったパレスチナ戦争、心無い海外メディアでは大東亜戦争の日本の真珠湾攻撃になぞらえて報道
そして以下の報道が、
中国の習近平国家主席が11月下旬、軍指揮下の海警局に対し、沖縄県・尖閣諸島について「1ミリたりとも領土は譲らない。釣魚島(尖閣の中国名)の主権を守る闘争を不断に強化しなければならない」と述べ、領有権主張の活動増強を指示したことが30日、分かった。
これを受け海警局が、2024年は毎日必ず尖閣周辺に艦船を派遣し、必要時には日本の漁船に立ち入り検査する計画を策定したことも判明した。
岸田文雄首相が11月中旬の日中首脳会談で習氏に、尖閣を含む東シナ海情勢への「深刻な懸念」を直接伝えたばかり。中国側がこの指摘を顧みず、実際の行動によって領有権主張を強める方針であることが浮き彫りになった。
中国が日本漁船の立ち入り検査計画を策定したことが明らかになるのは初めて。実際に検査を行おうとすれば、海上保安庁の船舶との摩擦拡大は必至で、偶発的な衝突が起きる懸念がさらに高まりそうだ。
習氏は上海で11月29日、海警局の東シナ海海区指揮部を視察した。関係筋によると習氏は尖閣について「前進のみ。引くことはできない」と言明した。
/ CBS NEWS
Hospitals and emergency rooms could be forced to ration care by the end of this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Thursday, saying recent trends in COVID-19 and influenza are now on track to again strain America's health care system. The new COVID variant JN.1 is making up an increasing share of cases, the CDC's tracking shows.
"COVID-19 hospitalizations are rising quickly," the agency said in its weekly update. "Since the summer, public health officials have been tracking a rise in multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), which is caused by COVID-19. Influenza activity is growing in most parts of the country. RSV activity remains high in many areas."
The CDC has been urging people to get vaccinated as the peak of this year's mix of three seasonal respiratory viruses — influenza, COVID-19 and RSV — is nearing.
In pediatric hospitals, the CDC says beds "are already nearly as full as they were this time last year" in some parts of the country. Data from emergency rooms published Wednesday tracked emergency room visits nearly doubling in school-age children last week.
The increase, driven largely by an acceleration in flu cases, follows weeks of largely plateauing emergency room figures nationwide ahead of Thanksgiving.
Similar to this time last year, influenza emergency room visits are now outpacing COVID-19 for the first time in months across most age groups. Only in seniors do rates of COVID-19 remain many times higher than influenza.
Nursing homes have seen a steep rise in reported COVID-19 across recent weeks. In the Midwestern region spanning Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin, infections in nursing home residents have already topped rates seen at last year's peak.
A new COVID-19 variant called JN.1 has been driving a growing share of the latest wave of infections, officials estimate.
The JN.1 lineage — a closely related descendant of the highly mutated BA.2.86 variant that scientists first warned about over the summer — was estimated last week in the CDC's projections to make up as much as 29% of infections nationwide. That's up from 8.8% at the end of November.
Health officials have been closely tracking the acceleration of BA.2.86 and its descendants, like JN.1, around the world in recent months. More than 4 in 10 test results from the CDC's airport testing program for international travelers have turned up these strains.
A panel of experts convened by the World Health Organization concluded this month that JN.1's changes were not steep enough to warrant a new revision to this season's vaccines, but acknowledgedearly data suggesting these shots were less effective at neutralizing the strain.
"CDC projects that JN.1 will continue to increase as a proportion of SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences. It is currently the fastest-growing variant in the United States," the CDC said last week.
"Right now, we do not know to what extent JN.1 may be contributing to these increases or possible increases through the rest of December like those seen in previous years," they wrote.
However, so far the CDC had said that so far JN.1's fast spread does not appear to be leading to any upticks in the severity posed by COVID-19.
As COVID-19 and other respiratory viruses have accelerated in recent weeks, health officials say they have also been closely tracking an unprecedented drop in vaccinations this season.
Data from insurance claims suggest flu vaccinations in adults are around 8 million doses behind vaccination levels seen last year. The CDC's survey data suggests flu shots in children are also down around 5 percentage points from the same time last year.
"Covering the missed volume is going to be very difficult or not possible," vaccine manufacturers concluded at a recent stakeholder meeting with the CDC, according to a readout from the National Adult and Influenza Immunization Summit.
Health officials have also been urging providers to redouble their efforts to buoy COVID-19 vaccinations this year, especially for those most at-risk of severe disease like seniors.
In nursing homes, just a third of residents and less than 1 in 10 staff are vaccinated with this season's COVID-19 shot.
"We aren't seeing the uptake in vaccines that we would like to see," CDC Director Dr. Mandy Cohen told doctors at an American Medical Association event Tuesday.
Cohen also cited survey data on uptake of the RSV vaccinations, which were greenlighted for the first time this year in older adults. Around 16% of adults ages 60 and older say they have gotten the shot.
"We acknowledge that is too low and it is one of the reasons we wanted to have this conversation," she said.
冬が本格的に成って来ました、新たな新型コロナの変異株の発症速度が速いですね、それはアメリカで最初の確認されたのが2023年夏の認識ですが、11月ごろから欧州各国で流行の兆しがとの報道をよく見ますが、
海外旅行には、掛け捨てですが海外旅行保険の加入をお薦めしています、万一旅行先で掛かったならびっくりするくらいの医療費が必要です
December 8, 2023,
CDC is posting updates on respiratory viruses every week; for the latest information, please visit CDC Respiratory Virus Updates.
次から次に、旅行へ行く気が阻害される、要因が出てきますね
2023年12月16日
インフルエンザ流行が異例にも年中続く中、患者数が5年ぶりの最多となった。
韓国疾病管理庁は15日、「12月第2週(3-9日)の外来患者1000人あたり、インフルエンザが疑われる症状を見せた患者は61.3人」とし「過去5年間(19-23年)で最高水準」と明らかにした。
(中略)
一部の専門家はパンデミック時期の3年間に累積した「免疫負債(immune debt)」を返しているとしてこの現象を説明する。強力な防疫措置で新型コロナだけでなく他の呼吸器感染も大幅に減ったが、感染で得る自然免疫力も共に減少し、返すべき負債のように一度に多数が感染するということだ。