@dominiksteiger@swiss.social#Covid #Singapore
“For the past two or three weeks, we have seen a 20% to 30% cancellation rate among those booked. When we ask why, they all say they are sick. So we have been doing promotions this month, hoping to attract more customers.”
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzgood rant on public health
From Julia Doubleday back in January:
"... demanding clean air and clean water is not “living in fear” but simply expecting the bare minimum of a democratic society to which we pay taxes...
"Zero public health projects in the history of ever have had a stated goal of “ignore it because we have to live life.” It’s fundamentally antithetical to the very concept of public health."
#covid #health #AirQuality
@althavin@mastodon.socialSchon interessant was ich aus einem der letzten OkDoomer Posts erfahre:
Während wir in der Öffentlichkeit inzwischen eine "War was?"-Attitüde bei #Covid an den Tag legen, müssen alle Teilnehmer des International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg dagegen einen negativen PCR-Test [sic!] vorweisen.
@kcarruthers@mastodon.social
@funkvolk@mastodon.social @dominiksteiger@swiss.social @kcarruthers@mastodon.social“We found #COVID-19 accelerates the presence of ‘zombie’ or senescent cells, which accumulate naturally and gradually in the brain as we get older,” says University of Queensland researcher Dr Aguado.
https://w…
@jensilber@mastodon.socialAnecdotally, I myself am experiencing a wave of friends-and-acquaintances-posting-photos-of-their-positive-covid-tests-on-social-media... #covidisnotover
@dominiksteiger@swiss.social @unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzcool new research
Great little video explainer from Al Haddrell, about how more CO₂ in the air helps the covid virus to hang around longer.
This is _as well as_ the thing about using CO₂ to estimate what proportion of the air was breathed out by someone earlier. This is new research, about how fresh air helps to make the aerosol particles inhospitable as an environment for viruses, and additional CO₂ slows that process down.
With pictures of molecules!
#covid #SciComm
@timbray@cosocial.caDo you know someone with significant quality-of-life problems due to Long Covid?
Boosts appreciated.
#COVID #LongCovid
@j12t@social.coopWe are back at a #Covid spike and I'm late to notice.
https://covid19.sccgov.org/dashboard-wastewater
@jkohlmann@mastodon.socialReading this NPR interview about the #COVID19 #FLiRT variants is like slamming my head against a wall https://www.
@kcarruthers@mastodon.socialWorth reading: Long #Covid at Work: A Manager’s Guide
https://hbr.org/2024/05/long-covid-at-work-a-managers-guide
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online"COVID infections are causing drops in IQ and years of brain aging, studies suggest
Researchers are trying to explain COVID's profound effects on the brain"
#Corona #Coronavirus #COVID19
@roelgrif@mstdn.social"At the current rate of infection, most Americans may get Long COVID."
Dat zal wel voor de hele (i.i.g. westerse) bevolking gelden.
#covidIsNotOver
<…
@elliek@mstdn.caSeen on Instagram, just now:
Them: "Our family's feeling under the weather just now..."
Reply from a friend: "we've had some kind of flu..."
Reply from another friend: "Us, too. There's something going around."
Me (to myself) : "No kidding?! I wonder what it is? "
#CovidIsNotOver #covid #EllieKPosts @…
@dominiksteiger@swiss.social @unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzwhen "masks don't work"
What I was thinking about this morning:
Any intervention depends on both
• the tech itself
and
• people understanding how to use it.
If you don't know that covid is airborne and floats in the air like smoke... then you aren't going to know at what points a respi mask would be protective.
This explains a lot of the research where masks allegedly "don't work" against covid.
#masks #covid #stats
@kcarruthers@mastodon.socialWorth reading: Long #Covid at Work: A Manager’s Guide
https://hbr.org/2024/05/long-covid-at-work-a-managers-guide
@grumpybozo@toad.socialI am not going deep into the conversation on #H5N1 because my educationa/lprofessional background gives me enough knowledge in the field that I can only offer uncertain optimism, while the people most freaked out by this HAVE EVERY RIGHT to their concern because “knowledgeable experts” so badly handled #Covid wi…
@pmonks@sfba.socialWent to my first in-person concert in many years last night, and boy it was a *banger*! I’d kind of forgotten how good live music is (thanks #COVID!). Two great openers I’d never heard of (Pancho and the Wizards, and Sugar Candy Mountain) and then one of my more recent favourite bands as the main act (Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - yes they are as good as their name suggests, and freaking fantastic live…
@ckent@urbanists.socialA #Covid personal success story to report tonight:
My partner went to a family event over the long weekend, and her dad volunteered to take a RAT when the person who brought the infection interstate wouldn’t. Thank you!
Instead of complaining that we have to be lonely for a week, I’m grateful that I didn’t get infected today after she tested positive this morning. She was supposed t…
@timbray@cosocial.caDo you know someone with significant quality-of-life problems due to Long Covid?
Boosts appreciated.
#COVID #LongCovid
@j12t@social.coopWe are back at a #Covid spike and I'm late to notice.
https://covid19.sccgov.org/dashboard-wastewater
@kcarruthers@mastodon.social
@Defiance@sfba.socialYeah, I'll keep masking tyvm
#COVID
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/covid-california-san-francisco-wastewater-19509336.php…
@dominiksteiger@swiss.social @elliek@mstdn.caAn absolute must watch: (58 min)
Dr. Michael Greger, an infectious diseases expert on pandemic prevention | infectious diseases, Aids, Influenza, Coronavirus.
This video is a 2008 speech covering the cause of infectious diseases and the likelihood of a pandemic almost identical to the coronavirus (Covid-19).
#covid #CovidIsNotOver
Please boost if you feel it would be of interest to others. #EllieKPosts @…
@… @…
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzcognitive framing of covid risks
You know when people are like "you have to live your life", and it means acting as if covid doesn't exist?
I was thinking, it's as if they have covid risks conceptualised as a one-dimensional measurement spectrum like so:
{No fun, no risk} ............... {Fun and risk}
For me, it isn't like that: there's a quadrant which is "highly rewarding and little or no risk".
#covid #CovidCareful
@spamless@mastodon.socialChinese virologist who was first to share #COVID-19 genome sleeps on street after lab shuts https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01293-0
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzcovid origins, interesting writeups
Mojiang bat cave connection:
#covid
@ellie@ellieayla.netDid a Methacholine Challange today. Never have ever been so completely unable to breathe.
Suspecting this means I have asthma now.
Fuck #Covid.
@mcmullin@musicians.todayI don’t mean to minimize the potential risk of #H5N1, and I hope it doesn’t become a serious problem. But it bugs me that some of the same people who spent the last 4 years saying #COVID (which has killed millions with no end in sight) is “just a flu” now see H5N1 (which infected one person) and are all …
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzGuardian covid erasure (again)
This morning, the Guardian gives us a whole article about the increasing rate of strokes in the UK - somehow failing to mention the word "covid" at all.
Instead of a link to their denialtastic article, here's some actual research on covid, strokes etc:
"People who survived the first 30 d of COVID-19 exhibited increased risk of stroke (hazard ratio (HR) = 1.52 (1.43, 1.62)"
#stroke #CovidErasure #Guardian
@kcarruthers@mastodon.socialORLY? Kids are losing 'huge chunks' of their childhood to long #COVID. Too many are being told it's 'all in their head'
https://www.
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzcovid origins
Early on, the lab escape idea sounded to me unlikely - the kind of fiction people often get excited about.
But much reading later, if I had to bet on the likeliest:
• In 2012, when 3 people in Mojiang died after working in a bat cave, it was covid or a close relation.
• Samples went to Wuhan.
• Zhou Yusen had them & worked on vaccines.
• Maybe gain-of-function research too - but the Mojiang version was already deadly.
• Biosecurity lapses − people infected late 2019.
#covid
@kcarruthers@mastodon.socialThis is a damning indictment of our global COVID policy failure: #COVID lulls aren't being earned by policy; they're being bought with infections and deaths
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/cov…
@spamless@mastodon.socialChinese virologist who was first to share #COVID-19 genome sleeps on street after lab shuts https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01293-0
@dominiksteiger@swiss.social#Covid
Jean Fisch inspired me to calculate previous-year cumulative incidences and output the reciprocal number of years between infections, based on my calibration for the Zurich wastewater data.
It looks like this and broadly similar to what Jean gets for England:
@dominiksteiger@swiss.social @unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzLong Covid & blood
Pretty interesting article, on what covid may be able to do to our blood, and the implications for blood donation.
#covid #blood #BloodDonation
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzSomeone's invented a "covid-conscious" dating app!
#CovidCareful #CovidCautious #dating
@kcarruthers@mastodon.socialNIH to open long #COVID clinical trials to study sleep disturbances, exercise intolerance, and post exertional malaise
https://www.
@ckent@urbanists.socialTime for a #Covid stats update! Aussie actuarials just dropped their annual update last week — big thanks to @… — your approach is a gold standard.
Link here:
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online @dominiksteiger@swiss.social#Covid
Schätzung für Zürich aufgrund Kalibrierung der Abwasserprävalenzen Werdhölzli, Daten bis 21. April:
Inzidenz ~300.
Ca. jede 330. Person infiziert sich pro Woche.
Re-revidierte AMELAG-Daten kalibriert gemäss SentiSurv RLP (Kalibrierung
@rv_enigma auf Twitter).
@kcarruthers@mastodon.socialWhite dude (previously a skeptic) discovers long #covid Marolt: If I haven’t seemed like myself lately…
[BTW he caught covid FIVE times! 👀]
https://www.…
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzsick kids / covid erasure
"Leaked emails from April reveal concerns... Birmingham Women's & Children's NHS Foundation Trust was “surging” with acutely unwell children, beyond the number of beds it has funding for.
"However, the emails say that there is no clear reason for there being such an increase in the number of sick children."
No clear reason?
Any ideas at all tho?
Could it have anything to do with... a virus which messes up immune systems?
#NHS #CovidErasure
@dominiksteiger@swiss.social#Covid
Schätzung für Zürich aufgrund Kalibrierung der Abwasserprävalenzen Werdhölzli, Daten bis 14. April:
Inzidenz ~350.
Ca. jede 290. Person infiziert sich pro Woche.
Revidierte AMELAG-Daten kalibriert gemäss SentiSurv RLP (Kalibrierung @rv_enigma auf Twitter).
@kcarruthers@mastodon.socialChinese virologist who was first to share #COVID-19 genome sleeps on street after Chinese government shuts his lab
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01293-0
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzNHS, heart treatment waiting lists
"The number of patients with serious heart problems forced to wait more than 18 weeks for care has risen fivefold since Covid struck"
"Likely factors include “severe cardiac staff shortages” in the NHS, the ageing population and widening health inequalities"
And heart damage from covid, one might expect? But no mention of _that_ possibility!
Covid probably killed or disabled some of the heart experts as well.
#covid #CovidErasure
@simplicator@federate.social @dominiksteiger@swiss.social#Covid
Schätzung für Zürich aufgrund Kalibrierung der Abwasserprävalenzen Werdhölzli, Daten bis 19. Mai:
Inzidenz ~900.
Ca. jede 110. Person infiziert sich pro Woche.
https://swiss.social/@…
@kcarruthers@mastodon.socialResearch reveals age-dependent immune dysregulation associated with #COVID-19 immunopathology
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.adj5154
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzCovid erasure grump
Negotiating covid precautions, and the other person uses the expression "if it would make you feel more comfortable".
Wrong framing, people. It's not about how I feel! It's about whether specific viruses do or don't have the opportunity to get into my body!
I mean yeah, I _do_ feel uncomfortable when that risk is present - but that's a signal, not the actual point!
(I didn't take my vexation out on them. They don't know.)
#covid #CovidCareful #CovidErasure
@kcarruthers@mastodon.socialResearch reveals age-dependent immune dysregulation associated with #COVID-19 immunopathology
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.adj5154
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzAnother covid erasure rant
Also from conversations at the dentist: staff don't test themselves regularly any more, but they do if they have respiratory symptoms!
There's a giant list of possible covid symptoms besides those! Like headache for example! Are we in a timewarp back to spring 2020?
It's really up in my face right now how weird the world is nowadays. No longer medical professionals' jobs to know even the basic facts necessary for infection control.
#CovidErasure #covid
@dominiksteiger@swiss.social#Covid
AMELAG-Daten bis 15.5. zeigen erfreulicherweise auch wieder nach unten.
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzWhooping cough / covid erasure
BBC & UKHSA giving "immunity debt" rhetoric...
"Dr Ben Rush, from the UK Health Security Agency in the East Midlands, said ... “We were expecting a spike in cases, particularly after the reduced social mixing from the pandemic ... But it is a bigger spike than many of us were expecting.”"
Well that would probably be because you're in denial about covid's role in messing up people's immune systems.
#WhoopingCough #pertussis #CovidErasure
@dominiksteiger@swiss.social#Covid #Vaccine
Preprint: Excellent protection by the XBB.1.5 monovalent Covid vaccine in large Scandinavian cohort.
https://www.
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz @dominiksteiger@swiss.social#Covid
Note on calibrating Covid infection incidences.
We saw the UKHSA Winter CIS daily infection incidence estimate for England coming down to 74, a 7 d incidence of about 500 beginning of March.
1/4
@dominiksteiger@swiss.social @simplicator@federate.social @dominiksteiger@swiss.social#Covid #Influenza
The 2023/2024 "flu season" according to CH-SUR, surveying 6 hospitals:
Twice as many Covid hospitalisations (3'483) as compared to influenza.
Inacceptably high rates of nosocomial infections (33%).
7.1% mortality. Half of deaths reported as causally…
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzCovid reinfection stats, JN.1 - stats geekery
The end-of-year stats even dip into the negative. Negative numbers for protection would mean one infection leaving people _more_ susceptible to the next.
But there weren't enough people in the study to consider that statistically proven. They give a range, like saying "roughly hereabouts", and only one side of the range dips negative.
So in reality, the previous infection could still have left some small level of protection after a year.
#covid
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzCovid reinfection stats - comment
I was just talking with someone yesterday about reinfections, contrasting the reality with the early hype.
"Yeah, I've had it - got that over with!"
And then
"Everybody get the vaccine so we can go back to normal!"
And at some point it dawned on people that might not have worked, & we got the expression "breakthrough infection" - even a special name at first, for this notable event!
No, people. You can just... keep getting it again.
#covid #WishfulThinking
@dominiksteiger@swiss.social @kcarruthers@mastodon.socialThe WHO issued a report that transforms how the world understands spread of respiratory infections like #COVID-19, #influenza, & #measles: 🙄😷 “However, a committee advising the CDC appears poised to…
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz @dominiksteiger@swiss.social#Covid
Schätzung für Zürich aufgrund Kalibrierung der Abwasserprävalenzen Werdhölzli, Daten bis 12. Mai:
Inzidenz ~700.
Ca. jede 140. Person infiziert sich pro Woche.
Seitwärtsbewegung, wie letzte Woche bereits in Genf und Lugano, sowie in D.
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzcovid origins / USA FOIA evasion
Interesting update on the US end of the covid origins mystery.
"Top officials used private email addresses and perhaps burner phones to conduct official government business and to delete communications about COVID-19 origins in order to defeat FOIA requests — all of this is stated in their own words.
"The huge question that this raises is — Why the cover-up?"
Includes suggested questions for future hearings.
#covid #USA #FOIA #NIAID
@dominiksteiger@swiss.social#Covid
It gives me great scientific joy that
1. my calibration of the Zurich wastewater prevalences was confirmed by the resumption of the representative cohort SentiSurv RLP, and that
2. after almost complete exchange by a saltation variant, the calibration continues to closely align with SentiSurv RLP and the calibrated German wastewater prevalences. Additionally, it is supported…
@dominiksteiger@swiss.social#Covid
The Swiss variant deconvolutions (https://cov-spectrum.org/stories/wastewater-in-switzerland) now discriminate between JN.1* and KP.2*. Data until May 18th. <…
@dominiksteiger@swiss.social @dominiksteiger@swiss.social#Covid
Schätzung für Zürich aufgrund Kalibrierung der Abwasserprävalenzen Werdhölzli, Daten bis 7. April:
Inzidenz ~300.
Ca. jede 330. Person infiziert sich pro Woche.
Verlauf ähnlich zu den deutschen AMELAG-Daten (Kalibrierung
@rv_enigma auf Twitter).
@dominiksteiger@swiss.social @dominiksteiger@swiss.social#Covid
Anstieg bei den deutschen Abwasserdaten (bis 01.05.)
https://swiss.social/@dominiksteiger/112378487334079647
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzLong Covid stats for children in England & Scotland
Cat in the Hat did some analysis of the ONS stats for England & Scotland, and made this chart. Number of kids with Long Covid still gradually increasing :-(
#children #covid #LongCovid #LongCovidKids #England #Scotland
@dominiksteiger@swiss.social#Aufarbeitung #Covid
Aufarbeitung der Pandemie:
Wann arbeiten wir das eklatante Politikversagen vor und während der zweiten Welle auf?
9'000 Tote, 34% Übersterblichkeit.
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzNHS cardiology waiting lists
"The British Heart Foundation warns that heart care waiting lists are now at a record high, reaching 414,596 at the end of March 2024 in England, almost double what it was in 2020."
Another Guardian story about the NHS which ought to mention covid & doesn't.
(because having covid increases the likelihood of heart problems)
#NHS #heart #WaitingLists #covid
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzWorld Health Org air quality mismatch/hypocrisy
It's now come out that when the World Health Org did its own "return to office" in May 2020, they upgraded air quality! while telling _us_ "covid isn't airborne, that's a myth"!
Maaaybe the department talking to the world wasn't the same department as sorted out the precautions and wrote that document.
But still extremely "do as I say, not as I do".
Info & image via Maarten De Cock on Twitter.
#CovidIsAirborne #WHO
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzcovid / collective amnesia
Great article by Jessica Wildfire at OK Doomer.
“Communities often respond to traumatic events in their histories by destroying objects that would cue memories of a past they wish to forget.” - Alessandra Tanesini
"... our societies are having a fit of collective amnesia. They're targeting anything and anyone that cues memories of trauma, corruption, or incompetence."
#covid #CollectiveAmnesia #masks #AirQuality
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzcovid-careful voting, UK, 2/n
The voting papers should then be posted to you. You get a ballot paper, an envelope to put it in so it's secret, another bit of paper which iirc you have to sign, & a pre-paid envelope to post it in.
Then you can either post back your vote in advance, or take it to the polling station on the day. And new at the recent local elections, if you take it to the polling station you have to fill in even _another_ little form!
#CovidCareful #UKElection #PostalVote #UKPol
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzcovid-careful voting, UK
I don't want to take off my mask in the polling station! So my work-around these days is to get a postal vote.
You still have to register to vote "ordinarily" at gov.uk, if you hadn't already - by 18 June 2024 for this next election.
Then you apply for the postal vote, by 5pm on 19 June:
#CovidCareful #UKElection #PostalVote #UKPol
