CGI Stardust posted:

https://twitter.com/DrJBhattacharya/status/1668419152992940032
has anyone read this yet? it seems powerfully cursed

Zugzwang posted:

I wonder if it's genuinely extinct or if our PCR surveillance of flu is too sparse to pick it up.

Or if it's in whitetail deer now

quote:

• There have been no confirmed detections of circulating, naturally occurring B/Yamagata/16/88 lineage viruses after March 2020, including in this period.
  
• Recent reports of B/Yamagata detections could not be confirmed as naturally occurring B/Yamagata-lineage viruses or were identified as the B/Yamagata lineage component of live attenuated vaccines.
  
• We cannot yet be confident that B/Yamagata-lineage influenza viruses are extinct.
  
• GISRS will continue to actively conduct targeted surveillance for influenza B/Yamagata lineage viruses.
  

Fur20 posted:

sorry, maybe i'm misremembering some other mod. the internet!

eXXon posted:

Ok, well if you want a joke, I also lost most of my smell and taste a couple of days ago and can no longer huff my own farts properly. I rest assured that these are normal cold/flu-like symptoms that will resolve in 1-52 weeks.

Psycho Society posted:

can someone tell me why this thread has an IK who feels they need to defend the kardashians from suggestions of bad parenting. this is embarrassing

quote:

Pharmacy tech here and this has been the most ridiculous flu season I've worked. Flu shots hitting the exact same time as new Covid shots & RSV shot plus doing walk-ins only means some folks are getting 3 shots at once and having hour+ wait times. This also means that our pharmacists are basically only doing shots and can't finish people's regular maintenance prescriptions. Our systems keep track of how far behind we are, and as of yesterday, we were 72 HOURS behind.

Our pharmacists finally said "gently caress it" and said no more shots until Monday just so we can get caught up on our regular work.

eXXon posted:

speng is not the thread IK.

Anyway, thanks to the Leper's Colon, an insight into why vaxx appointments might be canceled besides supply shortages:

eXXon posted:

speng is not the thread IK.

Anyway, thanks to the Leper's Colon, an insight into why vaxx appointments might be canceled besides supply shortages (well I suppose appointment-only pharmacies should be able to avoid overbooking, but...)

bedpan posted:

not ready for this type of entrails reading

Animal-Mother posted:

Oracle posted:

pritzker once again proving he’s better than all the other wannabe president governors. Eat poo poo Newsom you Republican marrying poser.

eXXon posted:

speng is not the thread IK.

Anyway, thanks to the Leper's Colon, an insight into why vaxx appointments might be canceled besides supply shortages (well I suppose appointment-only pharmacies should be able to avoid overbooking, but...)

Platystemon posted:

speng31b posted:

I don't think that anyone going up to a baby shower while knowingly covid positive is great, and I also don't think joking about their unborn child being disabled is good to post because you're upset by that behavior. I'd recommend to do less of that.

Glumwheels posted:

Inslee is 100% garbage

My kids went to their doctor’s flu shot clinic today. I asked about covid shots and they have them but haven’t been given the green light to start giving them out

Then the cherry on top was having only the 5+ shot but not under 5 shots. They put us on the waiting list but Jesus, why not give them out now that you have them?

quote:

A microscopic parasite was detected in the Druid Lake Reservoir in Baltimore, and vulnerable residents are being told to take precautions when drinking water.

Traces of Cryptosporidium were found in the lake during a routine test by the Baltimore City Department of Public Works crew members.

Cryptosporidium is a microorganism which can cause gastrointestinal problems, including diarrhea, vomiting, fever, and stomach pain, according to a public works press release.

Children, the elderly, and those with an immunocompromising condition are more likely to experience these symptoms if exposed to the parasite.

“People with healthy immune systems typically are not impacted or quickly recover without medical treatment,” the release noted.

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/jzux/status/1708182378265375188?t=M-_88eqaOpGmTVbVJ6Ceww&s=19

I could've sworn there was something that caused this but I can't quite remember...

Real Mean Queen posted:

This is one of those things that scares me, but is real hard to get people to care about. I don’t think we can afford to lose very much when we’re talking about the average person’s ability to remember stuff. We weren’t always very good at that to begin with, and making us collectively worse at it is going to make things just that much shittier and more prone to failure

empireofcrime posted:

It really bugs me how symbiotic it feels between covid brain damage, capitalism, and people's individual thresholds for dealing with reality are working together to make it unclear whether people know it's covid and want to dance around it or just think constant sickness and new random health concerns out of thin air are "just the way it is".

Death of Innocence posted:

Does anyone have any good ideas on covid safe jobs? I know most people would suggest work from home and remote jobs, I have a BA in Economics and I’m open to those suggestions, but as a cursed Millennial nearly all my jobs have been retail, grocery, and food service. I did work at an extremely hosed up family business for more than a decade so I do have business management, clerical, administrative, etc. experience. I was working at a fast casual restaurant when covid hit, and I eventually left for a job maintaining the landscaping around utility poles, which was equally awesome and terrible (threats from chud landowners, working with herbicides, pay was good but not enough to move within commuting distance) and I would like to get back to something like that if I can find the right opportunity. Most recently I have been working as a medical courier, which probably doesn’t count as covid safe, but I got only minimal pushback on my mask. Working as a medical courier does not pay enough. These last two jobs are similar in that I would drive a company vehicle places and then do stuff. Driving a company vehicle means most of the day I am not exposed to coworkers and customers. I would prefer outside work that lets me move around and physically do things, I maybe wouldn’t prefer to sit at a computer. I don’t want to be just a driver, which is also too much sitting. Mostly I need something attainable that gets me out of minimum wage hell and lets me rent like a basic studio apartment and save a little money every month.

Platystemon posted:

Chinese fire drill with American characteristics

Platystemon posted:

(..)
Chinese fire drill with American characteristics

Platystemon posted:

My neighbor told me that respiratory pathogens keep eating his nurses so I asked how many nurses he has and he said he just goes to the global south and gets new nurses afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding nurses to respiratory pathogens and then his daughter started crying.

Pingui posted:

Constantly donning and doffing an assortment of masks depending on the individual public health risk assessment of the patients, min-maxing protection to cost like a normal person.

[…]

Steve Yun posted:

Today is the third anniversary of Hope Hicks getting coronavirus and the circus around whether Trump had it

https://amjcaserep.com/abstract/full/idArt/940564 posted:

Abstract
BACKGROUND: Prion disease (PrD) is one of the rapidly progressive dementias. It typically requires several diagnostic criteria to fulfill a probable diagnosis, as definite diagnosis is based on isolated brain biopsy. There has been much debate on a possible infectious etiology of PrD. Viral infections are commonly pathologic in most neurodegenerative conditions. In PrD, misfolded proteins can be contagious and act as infective proteins, regardless of the pathologic agent. There is evidence that COVID-19 can result in neurologic manifestations, and neurodegeneration has been reported in the literature. There are several case reports describing parkinsonism after COVID-19, with Parkinson’s disease in particular noted in COVID-19. Few cases of PrD were reported after COVID-19 infection. We identified 1 case of PrD in the setting of COVID-19 at our hospital.

CASE REPORT: We report the case of a 62-year-old man admitted to Mount Sinai Queens Hospital Center, who presented with rapidly progressive dementia along with difficulty walking and myoclonus. All workup results were negative. He underwent MRI brain, but results were not revealing. Due to the high clinical suspicion, CSF protein 14-3-3 testing was ordered and was positive. Clinically, he experienced worsening neurological function after having been COVID-19-positive on admission. The case fulfilled the probable diagnostic criteria for diagnosing PrD. The patient continued to deteriorate and died due to the rapid progression of his condition.

CONCLUSIONS: Our case demonstrates the potential correlation of COVID with neurodegenerative conditions, especially prion disorders. While such cases are highly likely to be due to COVID-19, there is no definite evidence beyond coincidental findings. Future studies might be required to establish this correlation.

Pingui posted:

What kind of bullshit is this now?


I don't like that BA.2.86 keeps producing new variants that appear to be spread all over the world (JN.1 = BA.2.86.1.1), again I submit that BA.2.86 was caught very very early and is still doing the easy single point optimization.

Crazyweasel posted:

re: Forgetfulness and related dumbness. ok here is the thing, I can guarantee to you I have never had COVID. I’m pretty healthy, i don’t drink/smoke/do drugs. Really no reason for my mental state to change other than getting older/kids.

The amount of typos, bad grammar, and clumsy copy/paste I make in work messages has blown up in the past year. I’m just way sloppier, and every time I catch it after the fact I think “what the hell, I was never this bad.” Memory is probably on par with before-times, maybe a bit worse. So, I do think a portion of getting dumber is just us all getting older en masse

Spoondick posted:

i had a pediatrician flat out tell me they aren't ordering any pediatric covid vaccine because the last time they ordered some 80% of it went to waste