#COVIDisAirborne
"A new study based on a cohort of Brazilian infants shows those who were exposed to SARS-CoV-2 infections in the uterus may be at an increased risk for developmental delays in the first year of life. The study appeared yesterday in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases."
Did we return to fucking normal yet???
'Thursday's Pandemic Update: Covid, RSV, Flu And Other Viruses Hitting Hospitals Hard'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq2YE9MyDbM
#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Pandemic #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #MaskUp #N95 #KeepMasksInHealthcare
By Keith @keetmuise
The first billboard is up in St John’s Newfoundland!!!
Long Covid Ruins Lives, Mask Up!!
#Covid19 #MaskUp #christmas #LongCovid #CovidIsAirborne @auscovid19
Twitter/X source: https://twitter.com/keetmuise/status/1732912278125641944
Counties by adult ICU capacity (circle-hatched on map above):
⒈ Montgomery, NY—109%
⒉ Montgomery, AL—106%
⒊ Natchitoches Parish, LA—103%
⒋ Stearns, MN—102%
⒌ Campbell, KY—101%
⒍ Lynchburg city, VA—100%
⒎ Anoka, MN—100%
⒏ Muskegon, MI—100%
⒐ Clearfield, PA—100%
⒑ Hopkins, KY—100%
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks
Counties by adult hospital capacity (darkest counties on map above*):
⒈ Madison Parish, LA ≥150%*
⒉ Seminole, GA ≥150%
⒊ Barton, KS ≥150%
⒋ Wise, VA—111%
⒌ Pierce, ND—110%
⒍ Kenton, KY—107%
⒎ Smyth, VA—106%
⒏ Yuma, AZ—105%
⒐ Boone, KY—104%
⒑ Buchanan, MO—104%
* Current map omits counties with patients but no staffed beds.
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks
They're updating the data on Wednesdays now. It's a week behind. These are from 11/29.
It's going up and up and up with a 34% increase in the metro, and 29% statewide.
I'm glad to see more and more people have masks on when I go shopping. Please wear a good mask in public. As you gather during parties and gatherings, wear a mask and if you can turn on an air purifier. Stay home if you're sick, please.
#COVID19 #COVIDisAirborne #CovidIsNotOver #Covid
Pinned to my profile.
Some 45 (-4) counties ≥ 100% capacity per HHS data.
Reporting ≥ 90%: 167 (-62)—near 7% of those with any capacity. This includes surge and overflow beds: near full can mean E/Rs with day-long wait times.
For counties w/ ICUs—over one in six are full or near full.
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks #dataviz #datavis
![Map: Adult Hospital & ICU Capacity by County
Data: U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services, American National Standards Institute
As of: Nov 25, 2023
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Shows a color scale of 7-day average adult inpatient beds occupied over 7-day average adult inpatient beds staffed for 48 contiguous states only. Scale runs from black (well over 140%), to purple (120%), to red (80%), to orange (50%), to yellow (10%). Counties for which no hospitals/beds are reported are represented by colored hatch marks, reflecting state-level reported capacity.
Patterns of black circles represent counties where adult ICUs are near full; circles are filled in where adult ICUs are entirely full. Sparse grey dots show areas where no ICU beds are reported.
Most of the map is dark red-orange, with splotches of lighter orange-yellow in the interior, mostly in the Rockies. Black indicators heavily pepper the map.](https://assets.toot.cafe/cache/media_attachments/files/111/541/215/868/560/262/small/d4ecbd8d47611a92.jpg)
Free at-home testing and treatments now available for COVID and flu through federal program
#COVID #COVID19 #COVIDIsNotOver #COVIDIsntOver #COVIDISAirborne
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/free-home-testing-treatments-now-covid-flu-federal/story?id=105433059
I just want to say that I think all of this is extremely sustainable over the long run.
Yeah, definitely.
🤡
My last client was shocked that the hand sanitizer they use religiously didn't protect them from a recent bout of COVID. I also learned that COVID wasn't around in the summer or fall. #COVIDisAirborne #CovidIsNotOver
Analysis of time series data provided evidence that patients who themselves acquired SARS-CoV-2 infection in hospital were the main sources of transmission to other patients.
#COVID #COVID19 #COVIDIsNotVoter #COVIDIsntOver #SARSCOV2 #COVIDIsAirborne #NosocomialCOVID
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06634-z
Today at the hospital: there are tables at the main entrance with hand sanitizer and Kleenex.
If people are needing to sneeze and blow their noses while they are at the HOSPITAL, they should not be sharing their germs with VULNERABLE patients.
At least put out some boxes masks along with the Kleenex!
It's not like the one-size-fits-all-loosely-but-none-tightly surgical masks the hospital buys are expensive, FFS
@EricCarroll
The trick is to wear a properly fitted mask that doesn't fog up your glasses. Which I do.
#Ocular #transmission #SARS2 #CovidIsAirborne #CO2 #SARSCOV2 #ACE2 #COVID19 #transmission #Virus #COVID19 #riskManagement #COVID
'Moreover, we show that reducing hospital transmission could substantially enhance the efficiency of punctuated lockdown measures in suppressing community transmission.'
Ben Cooper et al @MORUBKK @CGHRinfo @UniofOxford @Nature #CovidIsAirborne
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06634-z#auth-Ben_S_-Cooper-Aff1-Aff2
'Increased [#SARSCoV2] transmission to inpatients was associated with hospitals having fewer single rooms and lower heated volume per bed.' Ben Cooper et al @MORUBKK @CGHRinfo @UniofOxford @Nature
#CovidIsAirborne
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06634-z#auth-Ben_S_-Cooper-Aff1-Aff2 …
#Ocular #transmission of #SARS2 has been a risk event that makes sense to me. The failure mode is clear:
1. #CovidIsAirborne
2. poor indoor ventilation
3. High #CO2 (thus potential high viral load)
4. high #SARSCOV2 community transmission
5. ever increasing evolution of ACE2 binding strength
6. #ACE2 exists in the eyes
7. Power law distributed viral shedders
What is the ocular transmission event probability?
We don't know. Perhaps wearing ocular precautions even as simple as glasses might help inform that assessment.
Eyeglasses and risk of #COVID19 #transmission - analysis of the #Virus Watch Community Cohort study.
> Eye glasses are associated with a protective effect against #COVID19
> Protective effect was reduced for if wearing glasses interfered with mask wearing
> There was no protective effect for those who wore contact lens
> Multivariable logistic regression model showed 15% lower odds of infection for those who reported using eyeglasses always for general use (OR 0.85, 95% 0.77-0.95, p = 0.002) compared to those who never wore eyeglasses. The protective effect was reduced for those who said wearing eyeglasses interfered with mask wearing and absent for contact lens wearers.
> Still a protective association after adjusting for age, sex, occupation and income
Sure, its a survey. Yes, I can think of several confounders right off the top.
Whether it is absolutely right is not the point. How I think about this from a #riskManagement perspective is what is the trend line of the evidence? What guesstimate of probability does the *body* of evidence support?
For me, the event is credible & evidence continues to mount. This supports a growing probability estimate.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971223007592
'Wednesday's Pandemic Update: Each Covid Infection Is A Health Risk To You'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p8UChs9PLQ
#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Pandemic #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #MaskUp #N95 #KeepMasksInHealthcare
I'm advising people who have #immunecompromised #ElderlyParents who tested positive for #covid to please demand #followup #cardiac testing because it is one of the highest risks of death for elderly covid patients. This is what my Dad died from in June (long covid cardiac complications) & he never had any heart issues prior to getting covid in the hospital.
I don't want what happened to my Dad, to happen to any other family.
#CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask #MaskingIsCaring #BCcovid
Some 321 (-24) counties have pediatric care near or over capacity (≥ 90%).
Of 267 (--) counties reporting any PICU capacity, near one in four are near or over full.
So many places where there ain't enough staff for sick or injured kids to receive required care.
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #pediatric #hospitals #pedsICU #RSV #Strep #Flu #LongCovidKids #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks #dataviz #dataviz
Hormis quelques très rares potes 💙 et ma compagne 💘, TOUT le reste de mon entourage se contamine du COVID en pleine conscience. C'est-à-dire ces potes me disent qu'iels savent très bien, mais que les loisirs priment (chorale, sports, soirées festives…).
Je pense ne jamais avoir atteint un niveau aussi violent à être témoin que des personnes que j'aime s'en foutent de
1) devenir très durement malades chro #LongCovid #pwEM
2) surtout contaminer des inconnu-es. 💔
@larsmb Just been to a #health event with stalls set out with assistance for #MS #dementia #Arthritis #COPD #LearningDisabilities #MentalHealth #Wellbeing #Advocates #Hospital & more. It was well attended. I was the only one wearing a #mask! #CovidisAirborne #Covid #covid19 #FFP3 #N95 #MaskUp #WearAMask #SARS2 #SARS_COV_2 #VaccinateAndMitigate #vaccines #vaxx #vaxx2themax
To those not masking.
#CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #KeepMasksInHealthCare #maskup #WearAMask #covid #covid19 @novid
Protect everyone at your holiday get-togethers this year:
Test before gathering
Serve fresh air
Mask when not eating
Pediatric staffing never recovered to pre-omicron levels. Rather, over one in six pediatric beds reported May of 2022: now missing.
PICU Capacity Level (not shown): 73%.
Weekly average ~95 PICU beds were covid patients.
We're failing our kids. The emergency is over.
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks #dataviz #datavis
🇺🇸US: "A faster and more effective rollout of the first COVID-19 booster shot authorized in 2021 would have saved more than 29,000 lives in the U.S., according to a new study."
🔹 Still, they estimated that the first round of booster shots in the U.S. saved 42,000 lives.
#COVID19US #COVIDvaccinerollout2021 #COVIDisNotOver #COVIDisAirborne @auscovid19
'Tuesday's Pandemic Update: The Winter Surge Is Quickly Getting Worse'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGIRh8Qj6Co
#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Pandemic #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #MaskUp #N95 #KeepMasksInHealthcare
Capacity Level has been elevated since independence from the virus was declared three summers ago—as fewer & fewer professionals have been available to staff hospital beds.
Critical Staffing Level, already at 2021 levels, has been further elevated for near a year—with over one in nine reporting hospitals at critical shortage.
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks #dataviz #datavis
![Chart: Hospital Capacity: United States
Data: U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services
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Stacked area chart of daily 7-day averages for Unoccupied Beds, Non-Covid Beds, and Acute Covid Beds, for the period from August 2020 through November 25, 2023.
Hash marks overlay bottom of each stacked area—indicating ICU beds. Dotted lines indicate historical and current Hospitals Surveyed (84%), Hospital Capacity Level (75%) and Critical Staffing Level (11%). First has fallen off as psychiatric and rehabilitation hospitals have gone to once-annual reporting; second is the ratio of total reported occupied beds to total reported staffed beds, nationally; last the ratio of hospitals reporting critical staffing shortages as a share of those that answered said question either 'yes' or 'no'.
From October 2020 forward, top of the total stack trends downward. A diagonal notation along the top edge reads: "Reported staffed beds have been declining on average ~810 a week for ~3⅒ years." Reported staffed beds are down again after a slight recovery in recent weeks.](https://assets.toot.cafe/cache/media_attachments/files/111/530/126/080/291/615/small/c4d3685c30252d5a.jpg)
*#GetVaccinated - #WearAMask - #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne*
Christine Antler, region director of #pharmacy at #Pharmasave, tells CityNews getting #vaccinated is not just about protecting yourself but also those in your #community.
The latest provincial data also shows cases of #influenza, #COVID19 & #RSV numbers are on the rise. For the week of Nov. 19 to 25, 8% of emergency department visits were for #RespiratorySymptoms.
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2023/12/04/bc-pharmacists-vaccines-virus-season
'Checking In On The Walgreens Covid Positivity Rates'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leEEhKyfsP4
#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Pandemic #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #MaskUp #N95 #KeepMasksInHealthcare
'We need to advocate for what is right and what is true. We need to become politically engaged because that is how we get good leaders. We need to support each other, this road will be long, and hard.' @jvipondmd
Truth: #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver
https://www.una.ca/1385/worlds-slow-recognition-of-airborne-transmission-of-covid-was-most-egregious-public-health-error-in-modern-history
'We need to advocate for what is right and what is true. We need to become politically engaged because that is how we get good leaders. We need to support each other, this road will be long, and hard.' @jvipondmd
Truth: #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver
https://www.una.ca/1385/worlds-slow-recognition-of-airborne-transmission-of-covid-was-most-egregious-public-health-error-in-modern-history
Louis Lebrun 🇺🇳 (@lolbrun): "« Après la fin du Covid-19 » ? @franceinfo vous êtes sérieux ? Fin de l’état d’urgence sanitaire de portée internationale ne signifie pas fin de la pandémie, est-ce raisonnable et responsable de titrer ainsi ? #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #MaskUp" | nitter
RT @Violet_Kitteee :
Yikes. Attached to this tweet are groups who will provide free masks to people who can’t afford to buy them in NY. Donate if you can to help provide masks. #MaskUp #ProtectYourself #ProtectYourKids #ProtectYourBrain #ProtectYourHeart #WearARespirator #CovidIsAirborne #COVID19
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RT @BNOFeed :
New York reported nearly 18,000 new COVID cases this week, up 43% from last week
🇺🇸US weekly COVID update: More than 200,000 new cases and sadly 1,288 deaths.
#COVID19US #COVIDisNotOver #CovidIsAirborne @auscovid19
Source: https://twitter.com/BNOFeed/status/1731509261841137880
Reminder, people are falling off the booster wagon. Thus transmission (and thus R value) will go up.
The best year for transmission to be knocked down would have been right after the development of vaccines when almost everyone was freshly vaccinated (twice).
Things aren't going to get better in this regard from here on out until a change of attitude.
What Doesn't Kill You Mutates And Tries Again.
#COVIDisNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #CleanAir #MaskUp @auscovid19
By Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78
"Stunning to have to say this in 2023, but: COVID-19 isn't a virus; it's the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection: SARS-CoV-2 is the virus. SARS-CoV-2 is airborne: it can spread, linger in the air, a bit like cigarette smoke. Hand washing isn't the way to prevent airborne spread"
#COVIDisAirborne #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19
Source: https://twitter.com/elisaperego78/status/1731470320182198550
Those of you who follow postings from me and others here about #Covid and the sad but true reality that #CovidIsAirborne and #CovidIsNotOver will understand the slow fading of hope, the endless grind of wearing an #N95 everywhere you go with other people around who increasingly seem like aliens from another planet and surely look at us like we are.
Today was made even worse by listening to an epidemiologist I used to respect, Dr. Michael Osterholm, spouting bullshit about “immunity debt.”
A 🧵
Today is #MaskedMondays! Show that your are still #masking by posting your weekly #maskedselfie as a reply. #masked #mask #maskup #maskup #BringBackMasks #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #n95 #p100 #weareyeprotection #WearARespiraror #wearamaskoutside #MaskMonday @covid @covid19 @covidisairborne @auscovid19 @longcovid
Ever wonder why we still wear masks?
Printable versions: https://archive.org/details/flowchart-masking-a-4
https://ia601204.us.archive.org/35/items/flowchart-masking-a-4/Flowchart_Masking_A4.pdf
The QR code leads here: https://lettertoourcomrades.bearblog.dev/
#maskUp #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne
[Artwork by: @fr3nzin3]
@textcontainer so berdammt relatable...
I can not convey clearly just how hard it is for those of us who are truly hardcore #CovidCautious to coexist on this planet with people we care about.
Instead of arguing, bringing up the non safe things they are all excited about doing, just swallowing it and nodding. And that takes a hit on #MentalHealth and #Flareups /#Crashing w/ #LongCovid for the next day or two, curled up in a ball because you don't want to be that screaming wet blanket.
Per WHO, every 12 minutes four people die of acute covid. Three of those deaths are in the United States.
Entering April, for every three covid deaths, U.S. saw another excess death not attributed to covid.
The emergency is over—covid is not done with us.
[Share chart has stalled w/ low global reporting.]
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #LongCovidKills #LongCovid #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #DeathCult #LifeExpectancy #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask #BetterMasks
![Chart: Rolling Year Pandemic Mortality: United States
Data: CDC, NCHS, Census
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Line chart plotting various mortality measures on a logarithmic scale, with reference percentages on right-axis.
Legend:
• Elevated Deaths vs. 2017-2019 (adj. for pop.)
• Est. Excess Deaths — All Causes / Rolling Year
• Acute Covid Deaths — Rolling Year
• Share of Excess Deaths Not Attributed to Covid
• Percent Elevation Observed Deaths over 2017-2019 Average
First two figures held ~325K & ~190K, respectively, Feb-Jun—despite annual acute covid deaths down from ~190K to ~120K same period. Entering Aug, ~300K & ~150K—with 3rd down to ~100K entering Sep.
Share of excess deaths reflects above—holds ~30% since May. Percent elevation observed deaths—over 20% mid 2022—holds near 11% since Feb.
Caption (in relevant part):
As of April 1, over one in four excess deaths in the U.S. were “not covid”. This ratio has been above three in ten since May.
That includes: covid deaths not reported as such or for which no covid test was administered; deaths from post-acute sequelae of prior covid infection (whether consequences of symptomatic Long Covid, post-acute organ damage not specifically identified as Long Covid or otherwise asymptomatic, heightened risk for sudden adverse health outcomes); and deaths from causes that would otherwise had not been fatal but for deferred medical care, continued strain on understaffed hospitals, and inadequate availability of vital medical supplies.](https://assets.toot.cafe/cache/media_attachments/files/111/519/402/472/764/058/small/6624e05a5e1ff7dc.png)
![Chart: U.S. Share of 28-Day Covid Deaths
Data: WHO (via Our World in Data), NCHS (via CDC), official srcs (via Wikipedia)
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Shows covid 28-day mortality as reported for the U.S. as share of G8, G20, and global 28-day mortality, for 3 years through Nov 14, 2023, this being the most recent date on which at least 50% of world population was represented in weekly reporting (see note regarding ◇ data points, below). Share of population for each comparison is provided for reference.
With the end of PHE aggregate tracking, U.S. ceased reporting covid deaths to WHO. After 5/14/23, chart uses provisional covid deaths from NCHS.
◇ data points represent sum population (via Wikipedia) of those countries that reported at least one death in prior week, as percentage of world pop. [Down to near 60% as of July. Was 90% last August.]
7-day avg of U.S. share of G8 covid deaths flattened somewhat, around 76.7%, well exceeding share of pop. (~38%). Same date last year, share of G8 covid deaths was 39.3%, jaggedly climbing toward winter.
Avg. U.S. share of G20 covid deaths down to 49.1% (vs. ~7% of G20 population). Same date last year: 21.9%.
U.S. share of global parallels: now 49.1% (vs. ~4% of pop.). This date last year, U.S. share of global covid deaths was 24.1%.
All three metrics were near or below respective populations roughly May–Aug 2021; thereafter have been profoundly higher than population but for few troughs, including a data dump by China in May 2023.](https://assets.toot.cafe/cache/media_attachments/files/111/519/402/627/783/561/small/b916bce7378b72d1.png)
Grâce a l'aide du @MaskBlocNantes et de l'@arra@toot.aquilenet.fr nous avons réussi a mettre en place des purificateurs d'air et une distribution de masques dans le bâtiment de nosig !
à tout à l'heure !
#COVIDisAirborne #AutoDefenseSanitaire #Nantes
Last Sunday was THE busiest travel day EVER.
!!!!!
SEVEN (7) of the TOP TEN (10) busiest travel days in TSA's history happened in 2023.
!!!!!
#WTAF #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #MaskUP #NotJustACold #NotJustLikeTheFlu #Top3Killer #JustYourLuckYoullSurvive
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tsa-records-busiest-air-travel-165545961.html
Infectivity of exhaled SARS-CoV-2 aerosols is sufficient to transmit COVID within minutes.
"A susceptible person would inhale an infectious dose within 6 to 37 min in a room with normal ventilation."
Stopped by #YEG Bedrock Supplies today and picked up chains, beads, clasps, and related components to make myself a couple of face mask lanyards. One understated, one a teeny bit Christmassy.
#CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #crafting #MaskUp
![On a wooden table lies a black [breathe] Prescientx mask with its ear loops clasped to a dark silver chain with alternating sections of 3 larger links then a stretch of thinner chain. Between the clasps and the chain are clear glass beads with black and gold in the centre, surrounded on either side by smaller black cultured pearls. Beside this is another chain lanyard, this one a brighter silver with alternating larger and smaller oval links. It has a series of green glass beads with one red one in the middle on each end between the chain and the clasp. One end of it is clasped to another mask which is out of the frame of the photo.](https://assets.toot.cafe/cache/media_attachments/files/111/513/692/446/754/369/small/df5d6e9981e8c3d0.jpeg)
After 16 weeks, CDC yet again had thrown up its hands for more than half of all HHS regions.
Eris dot6 child HV.1 at ~¼–⅓ share in all tracked regions, w/ Hyperion-2 kid EG.5 another ⅛–⅕ share.
Omicron-2 kid Pirola 2.86 already over ⅛ share in NY/NJ, nearing ⅒ in Mid-Atlantic.
[See toot above for variants CDC map color key & links to sources for charts.]
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #CDC #variants #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask #BetterMasks
![Chart: SARSCoV2 Variant Dashboard - USA | 30-DAY TRENDS
Source: NYITCOM Research Report (Raj Rajnarayanan)
Caption (in part): Circulating Variants in…following US States: All - Specimen Collected in…last 30 days | Updated on 12/1/23 4:50:03 AM [GMT?] | Source (sequences): GISAID
Bubble chart showing tallies of each identified variant for each state. Data has been filtered to show over a hundred Pangolin subvariants, excluding EG.5.1* lineage and EG.5.1* recombinants, for collection dates 11/7/2023 to 11/20/2023. Top subvariants: Pirola dot1 kid JN.1 (14.70%), Fornax FL.1.5.1 (10.11%), Kraken dot102 grankid JD.1.1 (8.52%), Arcturus dot6 XBB.1.16.6 (8.33%), Arcturus dot11 XBB.1.16.11 (5.06%), .
Raj has standardized bubbles to orange (Kraken XBB.1.5.*, incl JD), pink (Hyperion XBB.1.9.1*, incl. FL), red (Hyperion-2 XBB.1.9.1*, excluding EG.5.1 lineage), green (Arcturus XBB.1.16.*, incl. JF & HF), yellow (Acrux XBB.2.3.*), brown (XBB.1.18.*), purple (XBB.1.22.*), blue (BA.2.75.*), violet (BA.2.86.*—not mentioned in color key as provided) and grey (all others but for EG.5.1 lineage).
Bubbles largest and most prominent for: JN.1 (violet) for New York (38), Iowa (29), New Jersey (19), Nevada (18), Washington; FL.1.5.1 (pink) for NY (29) & Utah; XBB.1.9.2 (pink) for Texas (26); XBB.1.5 (orange) for Texas (22); XBB.1.16.6 (green) for Utah & Iowa.
Numerable additional variously smaller bubbles for well over 100 variants, across various states.
ALT-text by beadsland at ko-fi.](https://assets.toot.cafe/cache/media_attachments/files/111/507/936/985/644/446/small/75c6a55fbe1ac892.png)
Fourth week of Eris EG.5.1 wave, after CDC Nowcast added Omicron-2 kid Pirola BA.2.86 & Arcturus dot6 kid JF.1; with Eris dot6 child HV.1 at over ³⁄₁₀ of CDC samples.
For 2-wk GISAID sequences, Eris EG.5.1 fam over ½ share, with HV.1 already over ¼ share. Arcturus XBB.1.16 family almost down to ⅛.
[Srcs: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions
https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/raj.rajnarayanan/viz/USAVariantDB/VariantDashboard]
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #CDC #variants #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask #BetterMasks
![Chart: SARSCoV2 Variant Dashboard - USA | 30-DAY TRENDS
Source: NYITCOM Research Report (Raj Rajnarayanan)
Caption (in part): Circulating Variants in…following US States: All - Specimen Collected in…last 30 days | Updated on 12/1/23 4:50:03 AM [GMT?] | Source (sequences): GISAID
Bubble chart showing tallies of each identified variant for each state. Data has been filtered to near three dozen Pangolin subvariants and recombinants of EG.5.1, including parent, for collection dates 11/7/2023 to 11/20/2023. Top subvariants: Eris dot6 kid HV.1 (50.49%), Eris dot1 kid HK.3 (13.50%), Eris dot1 EG.5.1.1 (6.88%), Eris EG.5.1 (6.35%).
Raj has standardized bubbles to red (XBB.1.9.2*, here only EG.5.1*) and grey (here, X* strain recombinants of EG.5.1* with other lineages), although some newer pango aliases may still be getting unique colors assigned by Tableau.
Bubbles largest and most prominent for: HV.1 (red) for New York (121), Utah (50), Minnesota (43), Virginia (37), Texas (34), Iowa (29), California (24), Delaware (24), New Jersey (24), Arizona (19), Maryland (19), Illinois, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wyoming; HK.3 (red) for New York (36), Washington, Iowa, Minnesota, California, Utah, New Jersey; EG.5.1 (red) for Texas; EG.5.1.1 (red) for New York, Utah, Iowa, Nevada; JG.3 (red) for New York.
Dozens of additional smaller bubbles for various variants and states.
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Une assistante de vie en contrat depuis juste une semaine : malade aujourd'hui avec mitraillette de symptômes pleinement significatifs du #COVID.
😤 Bordel les gens mais vous allez continuer pendant des siècles à vous échanger les uns les autres un virus qui aggrave silencieusement votre système vasculaire, immunitaire (des études montrent de plus en plus de similarité avec le VIH), neuronal ?! Pour quoi, mourir jeunes ?
#CovidIsNotOver
#CovidIsAirborne
#MaskUp
#AutodefenseSanitaire
Recently came across this gem, very well-said
#covid #CovidIsNotOver #Covid19 #LongCOVID #LongCovidKids #CovidIsAirborne
Just so you know...
You do NOT have to just wait for your number to come up for the inevitable!! 🤷
• #MaskUP anytime you leave your home or car. 😷🏠🚗
• Don't remove it to eat out at a restaurant. #Covid doesn't take a break so you can socially eat or drink. 😷🍽️🍔🍨🍸🍺
• Don't remove it because nobody else is in the room & it seems safe. #CovidIsAirborne & aerosols can stay in the air for well over AN HOUR after infected people have left the building.😷 🪑🪑🪑
Do you have any questions?
Stay Safe!!
And yet another day where people think it’s perfectly fine to get on a packed train coughing like there’s no tomorrow and NOT wearing an effing mask! How hard can it be to have a little respect for other people’s health? I am so tired of this. Moved seats…
#COVIDisNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #MaskUp
Pediatric staffing never recovered to pre-omicron levels. Rather, over one in six pediatric beds reported May of 2022: now missing.
PICU Capacity Level (not shown): 74%.
Weekly average ~100 PICU beds were covid patients.
We're failing our kids. The emergency is over.
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks #dataviz #datavis
Capacity Level has been elevated since independence from the virus was declared three summers ago—as fewer & fewer professionals have been available to staff hospital beds.
Critical Staffing Level, already at 2021 levels, has been further elevated for near a year—with over one in nine reporting hospitals at critical shortage.
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks #dataviz #datavis
I did the riskiest non-medical thing I have done in 3 years today.
I let two people in my house to do an assessment for maintenance work that I had been pushing off for quite some time. It was do it now or lose the resource.
What was my risk mitigation plan?
I asked them to wear head strap #N95. They did. They both had beards so the fit wasn't great.
I turned up the 5 HEPAs we own to full. Plus kept the furnance circulation (which has a central HEPA) running full.
I opened the windows throughout the house.
We both wore our GVS Elipse #P100 #elastomeric in our own house the whole time.
I left the house empty for an hour post-vist: windows open & #HEPA cranked.
Then checked my #ARANET4 CO2 before re-entering to confirm the rate of decrease of CO2 over the hour to make sure I was getting good ACH.
I used nasal spray after returning.
Lotta effort.
Why? This is what #DefenseInDepth #airbornePrecautions looks like.
Because #COVIDisAirborne
ANY of the following can be the case:
• Mask wearers are immunocompromised.
• Mask wearers are sick.
• Mask wearers are caregivers of high risk people.
• Mask wearers know that #CovidVax is not enough to stop transmission.
• Mask wearers are healthy and want to STAY that way.
You, if you're smart.
#MaskUp #ButNotSurgicalMasks #N95 #Respirator #Elastomeric #CovidIsAirborne #Covid #CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid
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After 16 weeks, CDC yet again has thrown up its hands for more than half of all HHS regions.
Eris dot6 child HV.1 at ~¼–⅓ share in all tracked regions, w/ Hyperion-2 kid EG.5 another ⅛–⅕ share.
Omicron-2 kid Pirola 2.86 already over ⅛ share in NY/NJ, nearing ⅒ in Mid-Atlantic.
[See toot above for variants CDC map color key & links to sources for charts.]
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #CDC #variants #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask #BetterMasks
Third week of Eris EG.5.1 wave, holiday-delayed CDC Nowcast adds Omicron-2 kid Pirola BA.2.86 and Arcturus dot6 kid JF.1; with Eris dot6 child HV.1 now over ³⁄₁₀ of CDC samples.
For 2-wk GISAID sequences, Eris EG.5.1 fam at ½ share, with HV.1 already over ¼ share. Arcturus XBB.1.16 family below ⅕.
[Srcs: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions
https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/raj.rajnarayanan/viz/USAVariantDB/VariantDashboard]
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #CDC #variants #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask #BetterMasks
Emailed a person last week and got an automated OOO message saying they were on holiday and wouldn't be back till today. No problem.
Today I got a reply to my email, so I sent a response back to them. And got this automated message: "Hello, I am out sick this week."
Well. No guessing required to know what happened there. Mask up, folks. 🙁#CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne
Is it easy to hold conferences that have a low risk of sharing Covid-19? I think so.
#AASA #AASA2023 #Animals #AnimalStudies #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne
#CDC Advised To Weaken Infection Protections
> Aerosol researcher Jose-Luis Jimenez @jljcolorado added, “The Cochrane Review is scientific garbage.” He continued, “There is high-quality evidence from many angles that shows that, of course, #N95 masks are better.”
> Jimenez, was also critical that #HICPAC is “ignoring the huge body of evidence coming out of the pandemic” that most respiratory viruses have airborne transmission. “They don't mention ventilation at all. They don't address all the measures that you can do to remove the virus from room air.”
> Each expert I spoke with is also concerned about #HICPAC and the CDC’s secrecy. Jimenez said that #NIOSH experts he’s spoken with agree with him but “are basically forbidden from talking to the press.” This is because “if they talked freely about the science, it will contradict the policies of the #CDC,” he added.
Counties by adult ICU capacity (circle-hatched on map above*):
⒈ Elmore, AL ≥150%*
⒉ Summit, CO ≥150%*
⒊ Shelby, OH ≥150%
⒋ Lincoln, MS ≥150%
⒌ Montgomery, AL—111%
⒍ Natchitoches Parish, LA—110%
⒎ Houston, AL—106%
⒏ Cheshire, NH—104%
⒐ Tazewell, VA—103%
⒑ Danville city, VA—101%
* Current map omits counties with ICU patients but no staffed ICU beds.
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks
Counties by adult hospital capacity (darkest counties on map above*):
⒈ Madison Parish, LA ≥150%*
⒉ Shelby, OH ≥150%
⒊ Seminole, GA ≥150%
⒋ Smyth, VA—131%
⒌ Barton, KS—131%
⒍ Wise, VA—121%
⒎ Buchanan, MO—115%
⒏ Warren, MS—108%
⒐ Kenton, KY—105%
⒑ Yuma, AZ—105%
* Current map omits counties with patients but no staffed beds.
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks
Some 48 (+5) counties ≥ 100% capacity per HHS data.
Reporting ≥ 90%: 204 (+16)—near 8½% of those with any capacity. This includes surge and overflow beds: near full can mean E/Rs with day-long wait times.
For counties w/ ICUs—near one in six are full or near full.
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks #dataviz #datavis
Some 286 (+21) counties have pediatric care near or over capacity (≥ 90%).
Of 269 (+8) counties reporting any PICU capacity, over one in four are near or over full.
So many places where there ain't enough staff for sick or injured kids to receive required care.
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #pediatric #hospitals #pedsICU #RSV #Strep #Flu #LongCovidKids #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks #dataviz #dataviz
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Pediatric staffing never recovered to pre-omicron levels. Rather, over one in six pediatric beds reported May of 2022: now missing.
PICU Capacity Level (not shown): 74%.
Weekly average ~90 PICU beds were covid patients.
We're failing our kids. The emergency is over.
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks #dataviz #datavis
Capacity Level has been elevated since independence from the virus was declared three summers ago—as fewer & fewer professionals have been available to staff hospital beds.
Critical Staffing Level, already at 2021 levels, has been further elevated for near a year—with over one in nine reporting hospitals at critical shortage.
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks #dataviz #datavis
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