Rochallor posted:

lol yeah, $100-ish

Rochallor posted:

lol yeah, $100-ish

Pitcher Witcher posted:

Are these new boosters going to cost money?

Pingui posted:

nexous posted:

damnit joe give me the juice now, I’ll pay

at least someone posted that kidney trouble is no longer contraindicated for pax

Steve Yun posted:

I think that was for remdesivir, not pax

Platystemon posted:

Insurance is supposed to cover it still under CARES, but as always, personal experiences vary.

Poppers posted:

Covid cough is usually dry. If it was nasty and sloppy she might have just had COPD.

DominoKitten posted:

seems to be, yes, someone reverse engineered the error

https://twitter.com/KelleyKga/status/1691061955765624832?s=20

Gunshow Poophole posted:

i don't really thinkg this is covid related but my best friend's mom, something of a surrogate mom for me for twenty years now, also died this week. Glioma diagnosis 3 weeks ago and already gone

it doesnt' exactly feel like the sharks circling but gently caress me. the emotional toll of turning 40 is worse than the physical.

Zantie posted:

Washington state's weekly wastewater update, cobbled together from the state's downloadable excel report and supplemented with scaled National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS) data when available. Solid lines are from WADoH data and white diamond dots applied to scale are from most recent CDC/NWSS data (if available).

I have distributed 30 sewersheds across 5 charts grouped by approximate geographical region and county. See the tables below for definitions of WADoH IDs. Details for each are listed in the table posted after the graph. Trend is labeled based on the change in averages between the most recent 7 and 14 days of measurements available.

ibid posted:

https://twitter.com/Kenneth33071904/status/1691967375942574559

Zugzwang posted:

I love how many errors in Excel stem from "whoops there's an error in this critical cell that's difficult to find because what the gently caress does '$A$133' even mean anyway, or I clicked the wrong box when making this pivot table."

Sorry, goon. gently caress cancer.

Nice breakdown. Seems like there's spikes at odd intervals in many of these -- is that due to reporting?

Zantie posted:

It could be many things. During waves in particular I notice that it takes many weeks, usually months, for data to settle down. Much of it could be user error (typos from either hospital staff or public health officials, referencing wrong cells or misspellings). Sometimes I think duplicates occur when someone is initially hospitalized at one location then transferred to another hospital, sometimes several times, and not uncommonly across state lines.

I would love to see the "unknown" for the date of admission column go down for hospitalizations but it just goes up every week...All of my suggestions as to why older changes happen are hypothetical when I can't see how it changes each step of the way. Hell, for all I know someone forgot to replace an ink cartridge in a fax machine until now. It's a mess.

https://www.ktoo.org/2022/09/27/lack-of-data-blunted-alaskas-covid-response-new-york-times-investigation-shows/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/upshot/coronavirus-response-fax-machines.html

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/08/health/public-health-data-gaps-hhs-khn-partner/index.html

[edit] I'm tired and can't figure out how to get the url for the archived version of the NYT link. Anyway the problem has been around for awhile and I doubt it's been totally fixed since.

Nothus posted:

It's a useful proxy for ventilation. Someone posted a paper from Japan that looked at it in a hospital setting and showed a pretty good correlation

Zantie posted:

gradenko_2000 posted:

ibid posted:

https://twitter.com/springsteen/status/1691872953414115424

Poppers posted:

Covid cough is usually dry. If it was nasty and sloppy she might have just had COPD.

Platystemon posted:

The best endowed university on the planet ripped out a perfectly good UV air disinfection system.

The Edward Nardell mentioned in the piece is one of the world’s foremost experts on the subject. I wrote about him here.

brugroffil posted:

Hi thread what's the latest on new boosters?

e: mainly wondering if there's any firm timing yet, I know they're not going to be free etc

Rick posted:

Anyone here do trucking? In my imagination you could stay pretty covid safe despite all the driving around but maybe I'm missing something.

Gunshow Poophole posted:

it’s a loving government agency who cares about the cost! it is just fully funded, you just declare it that way!!

I hate this loving country

Rick posted:

Anyone here do trucking? In my imagination you could stay pretty covid safe despite all the driving around but maybe I'm missing something.

Rick posted:

Anyone here do trucking? In my imagination you could stay pretty covid safe despite all the driving around but maybe I'm missing something.

Zugzwang posted:

I love how many errors in Excel stem from "whoops there's an error in this critical cell that's difficult to find because what the gently caress does '$A$133' even mean anyway, or I clicked the wrong box when making this pivot table."

mawarannahr posted:

it's being reported that EG.5 can be associated with a productive cough: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/covid-cases-eris-symptoms-variant-b2391394.html
could not find a direct link to the Zoe study so would appreciate if someone can find.

https://joinzoe.com/learn/covid-new-top-10-covid-symptoms posted:

Updated 13th December 2022
What are the most common COVID symptoms?

brugroffil posted:

Hi thread what's the latest on new boosters?

e: mainly wondering if there's any firm timing yet, I know they're not going to be free etc

Zantie posted:

ibid posted:

https://twitter.com/Kenneth33071904/status/1691967375942574559

ibid posted:

https://twitter.com/Kenneth33071904/status/1691967375942574559

https://journalstar.com/news/local/...e66008a988.html posted:

Nebraska removes wastewater data as COVID cases start to rise

State officials have removed tracking data for COVID-19 in wastewater just as cases have started to rise.
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A spokesman for the state Health Department said the state’s wastewater data was taken down due to President Joe Biden’s ending of the national emergency and public health emergency declarations for COVID-19 in May.

“Data continues to be tracked for that program and is available upon request,” the spokesman wrote in an email Monday.

Laura Strimple, a spokeswoman for Gov. Jim Pillen, wrote in an email Tuesday that the state wastewater page was removed Aug. 4 in consultation with the Governor’s Office. She also cited the end of the federal public health emergency in response to questions about why the page was taken down. Since then, she wrote in an email, Nebraska has successfully phased out many of the measures put into place during the emergency.
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Dr. Bob Rauner, president of Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln, said he’s disappointed the state has stopped providing the wastewater data and has asked for a reason why but didn’t get a response from anyone at the Department of Health and Human Services.

“It’s important data for the medical community because it’s the most accurate community gauge of a possible COVID surge,” Rauner said.

He questioned the timing of the removal, pointing out that cases and hospitalizations are on the rise.
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The last statewide wastewater report before the data was removed indicated that concentrations of the virus had increased relatively sharply overall, based on preliminary data through July 19. Seven stations reported increasing levels over the previous 15 days, three counted decreasing concentrations and the rest were stable or had no recent data to report.
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“How much school start will raise the spread of COVID would be best monitored with wastewater, which we now can no longer see,” he said. “So we won’t have much indication until 2-3 weeks after that fact when we see the effect on hospitalizations.”

Dr. James Lawler, associate director of the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Global Center for Health Security, agreed that wastewater testing is a good tool for high-risk members of the community and their families to rely on to gauge their own actions in order to reduce their risk of infection.

He pointed out that state government officials have promoted the idea that Nebraskans should be free to make their own decisions about managing COVID risk.

“The state should allow people access to the data they need to make those decisions,” Lawler said.