Baddog posted:

Seems like it may be more incompetence than deliberately futzing with the data to minimize, but goddamn who knows. Hospitals are already going out of their way to put admissions down as anything but due to covid.

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“We are seeing quite a dramatic increase in flu,” said Patel. Doctor’s visits for flu-like illness, which can include the flu, Covid and other illnesses, are almost at the peak of the 2019-20 season. The CDC estimates flu has been responsible for 110,000 hospitalizations and 6,500 deaths thus far this season, with hospitalizations hitting the oldest and youngest Americans hardest.

Hospital admissions for Covid are up 20.4% from the previous week, and Covid deaths are up 12.5% in the same time period, with more than 1,600 people dying from Covid in the week ending 9 December, according to the last full data set from the CDC.

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Waves of illness like these can have long-lasting health effects. More than 5% of American adults are currently experiencing long Covid symptoms, and 14.3% have ever experienced long Covid, according to the CDC.

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Getting vaccinated is one of the most important ways to be protected, as is wearing masks in public indoor places, improving ventilation, hand washing and staying home when you’re sick. Americans can also order four free Covid tests.

For many Americans, there have been challenges to accessing these precautions. “We continue to need free masks for low-income communities, free tests and free access to antiviral medications, most importantly Paxlovid, which is being underprescribed,” Julia Koehler, an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard medical school and a clinical pediatric infectious disease specialist, said in an email.

“The pandemic is not over,” Koehler said, but added that public messages that the crisis has ended “has led many people to abandon protective measures they may have used last year”.

fosborb posted:

England's hospitalization data is a full month behind


https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare?areaType=nation&areaName=England

Silent Linguist posted:

Just checking, if everyone in our house tests positive, is there any need for us to mask/isolate from each other?

Silent Linguist posted:

Just checking, if everyone in our house tests positive, is there any need for us to mask/isolate from each other?

kreeningsons posted:

can anyone please tell me why this paper should not be cited by a PA at urgent care who is actively pushing anti vaccine views on patients. because that’s what just happened to my partner, and she is pretty upset about it, but I’m too stupid to lay out criticisms beyond:

1. this is an in vitro rat model and no studies of humans have shown increased neurological diagnosis of offspring after vaccination
2. the authors take a leap of logic from behavioral anomalies in the rat offspring to “autism-like behaviors”
3. anything with autism and vaccines in the title is probably bullshit

if there are other obvious flaws with this study then I would like to hear. because that would really help me go to bat against the many, many people like this PA who are common where I live. thank you goons

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38198049/

Pingui posted:

fosborb posted:

they gave the full human adult dose to the rats
it was only performed once with only 15 rats
what difference is there is extremely small
BDNF levels are actually the opposite what you'd see in autism

Covok posted:

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/25/1189939229/covid-deaths-democrats-republicans-gap-study

This is literally old news, but I just found it today. Lont story short, I was wondering if people saying Covid mainly was killing Republicans was true. Seened silly so I googled it. Since everyone has stopped doing protective measures or updating their vaccine, I'm sure the numbers have equaled out again, but whennthe vaccines first hit that did become true. Ghoulish, regardless, but interesting in a misery tourism kind of way.

Paradoxish posted:

There was a period where COVID was like the #1 cop killer

Soap Scum posted:

can someone link me the tinnitus thread? friend of mine got covid recently and said they developed new onset tinnitus and it was so bad they were borderline suicidal at its peak intensity =/ yikes

Pillowpants posted:

you guys keep saying it’s incompetence but it’s also possible some very intelligent data analysts listened to the CDC doctors and now have long covid and can barely function in front of a computer.

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/r/statistics [Career] I fear I need to leave my job as a biostatistician after 10 years: I just cannot remember anything I've learned.

I'm a researcher at a good university, but I can never remember fundamental information, like what a Z test looks like. I worry I need to quit my job because I get so stressed out by the possibility of people realising how little I know.

I studied mathematics and statistics at undergrad, statistics at masters, clinical trial design at PhD, but I feel like nothing has gone into my brain.

My job involves 50% working in applied clinical trials, which is mostly simple enough for me to cope with. The other 50% sometimes involves teaching very clever students, which I find terrifying. I don't remember how to work with expectations or variances, or derive a sample size calculation from first principles, or why sometimes the variance is sigma^(2) and other times it's sigma^(2)/n. Maybe I never knew these things.

Why I haven't lost my job: probably because of the applied work, which I can mostly do okay, and because I'm good at programming and teaching students how to program, which is becoming a bigger part of my job.

I could applied work only, but then I wouldn't be able to teach programming or do much programming at all, which is the part of my job I like the most.

I've already cut down on the methodological work I do because I felt hopeless. Now I don't feel I can teach these students with any confidence. I don't know what to do. I don't have imposter syndrome: I'm genuinely not good at the theory.

Zugzwang posted:

So what's the infectiousness window like post-symptom onset these days? A coworker of my wife's is flying in for a multi-day meeting and they pozzed about two weeks ago. I'm feeling less than sanguine about it.

Zugzwang posted:

So what's the infectiousness window like post-symptom onset these days? A coworker of my wife's is flying in for a multi-day meeting and they pozzed about two weeks ago. I'm feeling less than sanguine about it.

kreeningsons posted:

1. this is an in vitro rat model and no studies of humans have shown increased neurological diagnosis of offspring after vaccination
2. the authors take a leap of logic from behavioral anomalies in the rat offspring to “autism-like behaviors”
3. anything with autism and vaccines in the title is probably bullshit

U-DO Burger posted:

Right here

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4033474&pagenumber=1&perpage=40

Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:

I'd like to ask these brain geniuses why if 2020 was the lowest hospitalization yet with each following year having a randomly higher level than that what conclusion can we take from that.

Phlag posted:

Do you have the source of that chart?

https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2023-064326 posted:

Outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 and Seasonal Viruses Among Children Hospitalized in Brazil

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:
Understanding how severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) interacts with other respiratory viruses is crucial for developing effective public health strategies in the postpandemic era. This study aimed to compare the outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 and seasonal viruses in children and adolescents hospitalized with severe acute respiratory infection (SARI).

METHODS:
This population-based, retrospective cohort study included children and adolescents hospitalized with SARI from February 2020 to February 2023 in Brazil. The main exposure of interest was viral etiology. The primary outcome was in-hospital mortality. Competing risk analysis was used to account for time dependency and competing events.

RESULTS:
A total of 235 829 patients had available results of the viral tests, with SARS-CoV-2 predominance. According to the competing-risk survival analysis, the estimated probability of a fatal outcome at 30 days of hospitalization according to the viral strain was 6.5%, 3.4%, 2.9%, 2.3%, 2.1%, and 1.8%, for SARS-CoV-2, coinfection, adenovirus, influenza, other viruses, and respiratory syncytial virus, respectively. Individuals with a positive test for SARS-CoV-2 had hazard of death 3 times higher than subjects with a negative test (hazard ratio, 3.3; 95% confidence interval, 3.1–3.5). After adjustment by the competing-risk multivariable analysis, admission in Northeast and North regions, oxygen saturation <95%, and the presence of comorbidities were risk factors for death in all viral strains.

CONCLUSIONS:
SARS-CoV-2 infection had the highest hazard of in-hospital mortality in this pediatric cohort hospitalized with SARI. Regardless of viral etiology, the presence of underlying medical conditions was a risk factor for death.

kreeningsons posted:

can anyone please tell me why this paper should not be cited by a PA at urgent care who is actively pushing anti vaccine views on patients. because that’s what just happened to my partner, and she is pretty upset about it, but I’m too stupid to lay out criticisms beyond:

1. this is an in vitro rat model and no studies of humans have shown increased neurological diagnosis of offspring after vaccination
2. the authors take a leap of logic from behavioral anomalies in the rat offspring to “autism-like behaviors”
3. anything with autism and vaccines in the title is probably bullshit

if there are other obvious flaws with this study then I would like to hear. because that would really help me go to bat against the many, many people like this PA who are common where I live. thank you goons

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38198049/

Zantie posted:

https://twitter.com/LongDesertTrain/status/1747051492836573375

Obvious caveat of I am posting this late and can't get into it the way Ryan does. I was also going to try to post a nitter version of the link for once so more people could read it, but I guess it's down or something?

Cretin90 posted:

My local vaccine study place has been harassing me for months to participate in an RSV vaccine trial, any reason I shouldn’t?

Cretin90 posted:

My local vaccine study place has been harassing me for months to participate in an RSV vaccine trial, any reason I shouldn’t? I’m under the impression it’s really just approved for older people so as a 33 year old why the gently caress not. Obviously the recommendation may vary on the finer details of the study (pay, time period, isolation, blah blah blah) so just assume it’s a generic double blind study for the intent of this question.

Zantie posted:

https://twitter.com/LongDesertTrain/status/1747051492836573375

Obvious caveat of I am posting this late and can't get into it the way Ryan does. I was also going to try to post a nitter version of the link for once so more people could read it, but I guess it's down or something?

Anyway Ryan's specialty covers the types of mutations that arise from chronic infections and others from treatment with molnupiravir. Here he's posting about another chronic Delta infection sequenced from Portugal about a month ago that has the same double mutation that rocketed Omicron to ACE2 affinity stardom; Q498R-N501Y. Granted this Delta sequence isn't the greatest quality and is missing some coverage, however outside it's 30+ spike mutations it also notably has changes in our good ol' mysterious friend, ORF7a.

Steve Yun posted:

Apparently iPhones have an app called Sleep Cycle which tracks your coughing in your sleep

https://x.com/garnetstar28/status/1747119872587518328?s=46

Salt Fish posted:

I think climate and covid thread posters are different groups because you have a budget for digesting grim reality and it starts to stretch thin.