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bedpan posted:I can inhale covid 19 just fine without having to use an inhaler Steve Yun posted:not sure but as a side note can you imagine the antivax nonsense they would say about this
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 20:49 |
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# ? Jun 10, 2024 10:27 |
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yeah they're counting on everyone's memory span extending at most one year / infection into the past we've been swimming in ~*acquired immunity*~ for 2 years now lmao
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 20:50 |
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The Oldest Man posted:All he's doing here is saying "the people who die don't matter" with extra words. "the vulnerable will go by the wayside" I guess it's only one extra word actually
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 20:53 |
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Gunshow Poophole posted:yeah they're counting on everyone's memory span extending at most one year / infection into the past Mass COVID infection will "help" in that regard.
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 21:05 |
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The Oldest Man posted:All he's doing here is saying "the people who die don't matter" with extra words.
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 21:41 |
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Very surprised the protocols go this far:https://6abc.com/school-district-of-philadelphia-covid-protocols-philly-schools-health-and-safety-guidelines-masks-in-isolation/13716302/ posted:School District of Philadelphia releases 2023-2024 COVID protocols
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 22:00 |
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Pingui posted:Very surprised the protocols go this far: If my kid is sick I am not going to make them do school work while at home sick. gently caress you school.
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 22:03 |
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tangy yet delightful posted:To nitpick this part, and hope for those kids and parents that it's further elaborated on, "Students who test positive will be required to isolate at home for at least five days and participate in virtual learning." Just another incentive to never, ever let a test near your child
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 22:07 |
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The Oldest Man posted:Just another incentive to never, ever let a test near your child next year there will be 0 cases in schools cementing the fact once and for all that kids don’t spread Covid
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 22:08 |
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tangy yet delightful posted:To nitpick this part, and hope for those kids and parents that it's further elaborated on, "Students who test positive will be required to isolate at home for at least five days and participate in virtual learning." I don't know, but could imagine that has to do with attendance and financing being linked. But even if they are just being clowns, it is much, much better than I expected. The full protocols are supposedly here (but doesn't load for me at all): https://www.philasd.org/studenthealth/#healthprotocols Edit: Contrast and compare: Pingui has issued a correction as of 22:39 on Aug 30, 2023 |
# ? Aug 30, 2023 22:16 |
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Testing out my old FF-400 in anticipation of returning to the office. Was my face always this sweaty? I might just have to wear Auras.
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 22:25 |
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Testing, tests and expiration dates are some of the more frequent questions posed, so the following article was pretty good (it is therefore posted in full) and I've added a few extra things afterwards:https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/29/well/live/covid-test-expiration.html posted:Wait, Is That Rapid Test Really Expired? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-covid-variant-ba286-2023-what-to-know-experts/ posted:New COVID variant BA.2.86 spreading in the U.S. in August 2023. Here are key facts experts want you to know. Link for looking up lot number with extended expiration date: https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-covid-19-and-medical-devices/home-otc-covid-19-diagnostic-tests Link for looking up if certain tests have issue with specific variants: https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-covid-19-and-medical-devices/sars-cov-2-viral-mutations-impact-covid-19-tests
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 22:36 |
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Lib and let die posted:one of the essays in Prof. Wolff's book is adapted from this early-pandemic video from d@w, it's very prescient to the discussions happening today re: conceierge care and narcan availability bought this book to read on a plane this weekend. excited!
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 22:37 |
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I know nothing about this aside from it being posted in my "still coviding" group: https://www.covidtrialandyou.com/en-US/ Astrazeneca therapeutics trial for the immunocompromised.
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 22:55 |
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Washington state's weekly update, cobbled together from the state's excel reports Cumulative Counts and EpiCurve Counts. Recent Hospitalizations Hospitalizations of Washington state residents dated by week of first admission due to confirmed or probable COVID-19. pre:Hosp. Changes in state counts reported: 7-Day week of: 4wk ago 3wk ago 2wk ago 1wk ago This week Total: Aug 27 - - - - + 47 47 Aug 20 - - - 56 + 173 229 Aug 13 - - 43 179 + 24 246 Aug 06 - 49 147 10 + 8 214 Jul 30 35 123 18 9 + 0 185 All Older 131 22 7 14 + 2 Deaths due to confirmed/suspected COVID-19 are dated week of death. pre:Deaths* Changes in state counts reported: 7-Day week of: 4wk ago 3wk ago 2wk ago 1wk ago This week Total: Aug 27 - - - - + 0 - Aug 20 - - - 2 + 11 13 Aug 13 - - - 18 + 7 25 Aug 06 - - 8 8 + 3 19 Jul 30 - 9 6 - + 0 15 All Older 8 6 3 2 + 0 Recent Cases (Molecular + Antigen) Cases are dated as first specimen date of either PCR or antigen test unless greater than 90 days since previous positive, then it is considered a reinfection. pre:Cases Changes in state counts reported: 7-Day week of: 4wk ago 3wk ago 2wk ago 1wk ago This week Total: Aug 27 - - - - + 1,165 1,165 Aug 20 - - - 878 + 2,261 3,139 Aug 13 - - 405 2,304 + 69 2,778 Aug 06 - 610 1,619 128 + 17 2,374 Jul 30 575 1,522 60 32 + 8 2,197 All Older 1,314 71 1,529 33 + 5 Zantie has issued a correction as of 22:08 on Aug 31, 2023 |
# ? Aug 30, 2023 23:00 |
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:I know nothing about this aside from it being posted in my "still coviding" group: Yep this is the supernova (aka Evusheld 2.0) trial. I'm getting pretty pessimistic about this trial because: A) This mab is already pretty old. Back in April they were saying it still worked against all variants, however they were saying that sort of poo poo about evusheld after it was painfully obvious it was no longer effective. B) The timelines they're talking about are a 15 month trial, that is just starting now, meaning market in like... a year and a half at the absolute earliest? I can't imagine why they think this is worth doing if it's going to be up against the Yyz.6.21 variant in late 2025 at the earliest. All that said I probably would have done it but there's no locations anywhere near me, you have to visit like a dozen times, and given past reports about recover, they'll probably demand you take your mask off in the middle of some maskless clinic to do a nasal swab and poo poo.
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 23:03 |
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Baddog posted:recent Fauci BBC interview Compared to Dr. Birx's recent interview, in which she doesn't just shrug in the face of it all: https://abcnews.go.com/US/trumps-former-health-adviser-believes-current-covid-response/story?id=102646852 Among some of the things she said, just pulling out some quotes from a longer interview. Emphasis is mine. "Now we're living in this, a bit of a fantasy world, where we're pretending that COVID is not relevant. But I can tell you, if you can hear my voice and you know two or three people who have COVID, that means that 5 to 10% of your friends already have COVID. That means that there is a lot of COVID out there, and we're not testing for it and we're not telling people to get tested." "Well, the important thing is, this is the booster that would have been appropriate for the summer wave. This booster is most likely not going to work with the winter wave, because we already have a pretty significant escape mutant or escape variant out there that's beginning, just like the current variant, began like eight weeks ago. We are already beginning to see some evidence of a new variant for which the vaccine probably is not well matched... So right now, we should be making the vaccine against this very new variant, the [B.]2.86, so that it is ready in January to really combat what we know will be the winter wave. Now, what's interesting is this summer wave and each summer wave seems to be coming about two weeks later, and that resulted in our winter wave last year being in January rather than primarily December. And so we should expect that late December, early January wave. And so we should be making vaccines right now for that wave." "Because let's remember, the protection against infection is extraordinarily short-lived. And so the protection from either prior infection or the vaccine is short-lived. In some cases, maybe as short as four weeks. In other cases, it may be 3 to 6 months. But we know across the board, natural immunity and vaccine-induced immunity against infection wanes substantially in three to six months." "I think we wanted to make it like flu, because that was easier. But it's never going to be like flu." "So what the federal government needs to do is lay out the plan that says, 'We’re not done with COVID, COVID’s not done with us. 250,000 Americans died in 2022. We’ve got to do a better job in 2023. And this is part of our better job.'" "I'm all for not mandating, but educating. But then you have to give people the tools and the data that they need in order to make their decisions and empower them to make the decisions that's right for their family. And we're just not alerting people to when they need to worry."
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 23:23 |
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Lmao I love this kind of data obfuscation going on here. If you only get the daily data, you wouldn't even really know that everything is on the rise
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 23:33 |
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Rosalind posted:You joke but thanks to the dystopian wonder that is Amazon Pharmacy: Seems way more legit than the fish pills I bought a decade ago
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 23:34 |
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Zantie posted:Compared to Dr. Birx's recent interview, in which she doesn't just shrug in the face of it all: if things were that bad someone would do something
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 23:37 |
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Zantie posted:"I think we wanted to make it like flu, because that was easier. But it's never going to be like flu." This is funny retrospectively because almost everywhere in the US, the data available about flu transmission in the community is now better than what's available for COVID even though COVID is both more common and more dangerous.
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 23:39 |
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I hate when advocates say they're against mandates. Grow a spine or don't mention the word.
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 23:42 |
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Baddog posted:recent Fauci BBC interview lol "the vulnerable will fall by the wayside" might as well be his epitaph, that's what his plan was for HIV too. one trick pony mf
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 23:43 |
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Fansy posted:I hate when advocates say they're against mandates. Grow a spine or don't mention the word. auth left is the light and the way. all kinds of poo poo has to be mandated and backed up by force. all the bad things already happen that way, why not make some good things happen that way. no tankie? no thank ye.
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 23:44 |
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3 to 6 months lmao
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 23:44 |
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one year ago; The Biden administration said Tuesday that it is rolling out the newest Covid-19 booster and anticipates that going forward, Americans can expect to get annual updates to the shot just like they do for the flu vaccine. “This week, we begin a new phase in our COVID-19 response. We are launching a new vaccine – our first in almost two years – with a new approach. For most Americans, that means one COVID-19 shot, once a year, each fall,” President Joe Biden said in a statement.
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 23:46 |
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The Oldest Man posted:There's no fundamental way to make more covid cases not equal more covid deaths unless we get a much better (but still non-sterilizing, I guess) vaccine or something about the virus's evolution pushes it to be less intrinsically severe. I’m really interested how much we could reduce morbidity and mortality if we actually did what we have the pretences of doing—monitoring variants and speculatively producing millions of doses of (mucosal?) vaccines within weeks, multidrug antiviral regimens that everyone can take, prophylactic and therapeutic monoclonal antibodies that work on circulating strains, assigning rooms full of PhDs to investigate leads like nasals sprays. Cleaning the drat air is still the the low‐hanging fruit, but even within the confines of the pharmaceutical‐only paradigm, there’s a ton of stuff that we could be doing that we just aren’t. The Oldest Man posted:This is funny retrospectively because almost everywhere in the US, the data available about flu transmission in the community is now better than what's available for COVID even though COVID is both more common and more dangerous. RealityWarCriminal posted:one year ago; Yeah we have better tools against influenza than against the world’s infectious disease with the highest death toll, the captain of all these men of death. Even just in vaccine land, flu shots are quadrivalent and get updated twice per year, one for each hemisphere’s primary season. Platystemon has issued a correction as of 23:56 on Aug 30, 2023 |
# ? Aug 30, 2023 23:49 |
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annual booster that only works for like 6 weeks, glad the adults are back in charge
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 23:50 |
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Petey posted:did i miss anything of clinical significance (read that i would update the google doc for) in the last 1000 posts we've the tools
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 23:50 |
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Parent posted:Coaches, [player] is sick. Not making practice nice. i was in a car with this parent and player two (2) days ago. wish me luck, lol, lmao
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 23:54 |
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Platystemon posted:I’m really interested how much we could reduce morbidity and mortality if we actually did what we have the pretences of doing—monitoring variants and speculatively producing millions of doses of (mucosal?) vaccines within weeks, multidrug antiviral regimens that everyone can take, prophylactic and therapeutic monoclonal antibodies that work on circulating strains, assigning rooms full of PhDs to investigate leads like nasals sprays. Almost all effective interventions that reduce deaths do so by reducing cases (and thus deaths) or by reducing both cases and severity. Pretty much the only one left that reduces hospitalizations and deaths without having some negative effect on case rates is paxlovid. The reason I keep banging on about this is the messaging campaign and data removal have focused on hiding the number of cases on the pretext that cases don't matter. But cases do matter. Raw case counts are the thing that matters the most, even without considering all the non-hospitalization pasc outcomes.
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 23:54 |
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RealityWarCriminal posted:3 to 6 months lmao quote:I caught it again this year on February, and ever since then it's just been reinfection after reinfection. I'm now on my 5th covid reinfection, 4 of them were throughout this year only. It seems I keep getting it every 2/3 months. https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19positive/comments/164fco0/reinfection_every_few_months/
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# ? Aug 30, 2023 23:55 |
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A year or so ago the thread was big on comparisons between Corsi-Rosenthal boxes and commercial air purifiers and the Corsi-Rosenthal boxes generally did as well or better. Is that limited to covid sized particles though? And I'm assuming quality of construction is big in this too. In a recent in-my-apartment test the C-R box was just blowing the burnt vegetable oil smell around and around all night that my extremely overpriced commercial purifier zapped in ten minutes when I finally moved it into the living room. Maybe C-Rs are not meant to stop VOC though? Or maybe my construction just sucked?
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# ? Aug 31, 2023 00:17 |
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Rick posted:A year or so ago the thread was big on comparisons between Corsi-Rosenthal boxes and commercial air purifiers and the Corsi-Rosenthal boxes generally did as well or better. The commercial purifier must had a carbon filter somewhere in there. All particulates filter do nothing about chemicals, they're far too small to capture.
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# ? Aug 31, 2023 00:27 |
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Rick posted:A year or so ago the thread was big on comparisons between Corsi-Rosenthal boxes and commercial air purifiers and the Corsi-Rosenthal boxes generally did as well or better. There are a few things to know about CR boxes: 1. They out perform commercial air purifiers on exactly one measure: clean air delivery rate (CADR) per dollar spent for particulates. 2. CR boxes with MERV-13 filters will filter particles both larger and smaller than the really tricky 0.3um range particles that are regarded as the toughest to filter out. Thanks to physics, both larger and smaller particles are filtered out better than ~0.3um particles using electrostatic filters. Quality of construction matters in that if you have leaks, you're just allowing a bunch of air to bypass the filter entirely. Same as any other purifier. Apply more tape. 3. VOCs, NO2, etc. are gasses that aren't filtered by particulate air filter media at all. This is why a lot of commercial air purifiers come with an activated carbon filter insert or layer. It's the same reason why 3M makes a p100 filter and then also filters for various gasses, because p100 particulate filters don't do anything about gasses. It's also why if you're walking around in an n95 you will get some smells coming intensely through the mask since everything else is filtered out.
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# ? Aug 31, 2023 00:27 |
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merv 13 filters won’t stop smells while your air purifier may contain charcoal to absorb them Covid droplets/aerosols vary in size but all the filters are rated at their ability to stop the MPPS (most penetrating particle size) of .3 microns which is generally larger than Covid and as such more efficient than stated that said I’ve never built a CR box so no idea how easy it is to mess up.
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# ? Aug 31, 2023 00:28 |
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Rick posted:A year or so ago the thread was big on comparisons between Corsi-Rosenthal boxes and commercial air purifiers and the Corsi-Rosenthal boxes generally did as well or better. Nah the difference in particulate filtration performance is even greater for particles of other sizes. HEPA removes 99.97% of particles with effective diameters of three hundred nanometres, whereas the filters used in C–R boxes might remove only fifty percent per pass. C–R boxes can only compete favorably with HEPA units because they move multiple times as much air in the same span of time. For particles both larger or smaller than this, both HEPA filters and the filters used in C–R boxes come close to removing all the particles in a single pass, so it all comes down to airflow and C–R boxes dominate. Rick posted:C-Rs are not meant to stop VOC though Correct. Install a carbon-impregnated filter or prefilter if you need to get ride of stuff like that.
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# ? Aug 31, 2023 00:30 |
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C-R cubes are also kinda loud and large, so a commercial purifier or a different DIY design (like the PC fan one) might suit some use cases better. They specifically optimize for CADR performance vs operating cost at the expense of almost every other characteristic.
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# ? Aug 31, 2023 00:40 |
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Zantie posted:Washington state's weekly update, cobbled together from the state's excel reports Thanks!
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# ? Aug 31, 2023 00:51 |
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# ? Jun 10, 2024 10:27 |
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Speaking of CR Cubes and PC fans, I recently ran across some...very swank computer fan based CR kits at: https://www.cleanairkits.com/ and am sorely tempted to start replacing our duct taped behemoths with these sleeker ones. They cost a lot more upfront than duct taping a cube to a box fan, but they claim to "match CR Box capacities at 1/5 noise, 1/5 power, and half the footprint." Because they use so little electricity, you can even run them for hours off of a lithium power bank or a cigarette lighter adapter in your car or your laptop. And they've got a tiny double barrel personal HEPA that they say is super quiet and also will run on a power bank.
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# ? Aug 31, 2023 00:58 |