Rick posted:

Long vid but they talk about the “mystery illness” in December and January and why people who probably had covid weren’t testing positive.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLLwG1rF/

CoasterMaster posted:

I wonder if I did have covid then in late February. I was sick for a couple days -- though none of the classic covid symptoms. No fever, still had my taste and smell, just a cough and sore throat. And I took a shitload of NAAT home covid tests over the course of 4 or 5 days (a random assortment of Cue, Metrix, Lucira) and they were all negative. I get that the rapid antigen tests are not great and are prone to false negatives, but what about the NAATs?

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

quote:

The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) is currently reviewing the CDC’s latest guidance on how people can protect themselves and their communities from respiratory viruses, including COVID-19. As an organization, our top priority is the health and safety of our communities. Currently, Washington's isolation and post-exposure guidance has not changed.

COVID-19 remains a serious threat. Washington residents have died from COVID-19 each week in 2024, and long COVID remains a risk. It is important that everyone continues to protect themselves and others from respiratory viruses. This includes staying current with vaccinations, staying home when sick, taking steps for cleaner air, wearing masks in crowded and/or poorly ventilated places, and frequent hand washing.

We will provide any updates about changes to our own guidance as we learn more about the CDC's latest announcements. In the meantime, we urge everyone to continue prioritizing their health and the health of those around them.

Zantie posted:

Yay for WA DOH for a bit longer:

quote:

’m stating that weird restrictions on business and such, to me, counts as “lockdown”. Yes you may not be physically locked in a room, but there’s laws and restrictions on businesses and people.

quote:

The exact cause of Paul’s death is unclear. He was admitted to the hospital three weeks ago due to a Covid-19 infection but was no longer testing positive this week, Philip said.

U-DO Burger posted:

lol cnn

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/13/health/paul-alexander-polio-iron-lung/index.html

If someone ostensibly recovers from pneumonia and keels over unexpectedly immediately thereafter, the underlying-if-not-immediate cause of death is obviously the pneumonia. The constant rules lawyering of COVID deaths is so aggravating

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

spotted on social media today:

They did it! They successfully made people think that seeing a mask is a lockdown!

The Oldest Man posted:

I can't understand why he died, yeah, he was shot in the chest three weeks ago but they took the bullet out. Just random death due to natural causes I guess.

roffels posted:

I know it's a popular joke around here, but did you folks not have things shut down near you? Like in Minneapolis, "non-essential" businesses had temporary closures, which included tele-learning, capacity limits imposed, or rules banning dining in. I'm assuming that's what people are referring to?

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/03/25/minnesotas-covid19-stayathome-order-what-you-need-to-know

Pooky posted:

https://twitter.com/sciam/status/1767889512863003100

Steely Dad posted:

But we can't let the cure be worse than the disease

Gunshow Poophole posted:

How's your kid did y'all turn out ok

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

In Pennsylvania non-essential businesses had to close. Just about everything was declared essential, including big box stores, liquor stores, and restaurants (which stayed open for takeout). In rural parts of the state restaurants and other non-essential businesses ignored the ban. Every county in the state entered the 'green' phase of Reopening Pennsylvania by the end of June 2020.
https://www.huschblackwell.com/pennsylvania-state-by-state-covid-19-guidance

Restaurant dining rooms closed again Nov 2020-Jan 2020 due to the surge. They reopened 1/1/2021 and never closed again.

You can straight up go on Google Maps and find pictures of people hanging out at breweries and restaurants in Summer 2020 and everyone still persists in pretending that these places were "locked down" for years.

silicone thrills posted:

This is an incredibly good and sweet response to the NPR article

https://theheatherhogan.substack.com/p/my-long-covid-isnt-a-burden-on-my

quote:

Stacy: Exactly. Am I mad? Yes, I'm loving mad. But absolutely not at you! Do I want to go to New York Liberty games? Yes! But — here's the thing. The stuff that I miss like that? It's stuff I did with you. I miss other people, and socializing and stuff sometimes, but most of the stuff I wish we could do is just stuff with you, in a different location. You're my favorite person. You are the best person I know. You're the person I enjoy being around and experiencing life with more than anyone.

So why would I want to risk you getting sicker so I can get a loving mimosa at a mediocre restaurant? Or even a great restaurant, I don't give a poo poo. Why would it be worth having an hour of pretending I'm living in 2019 if the cost is destroying the rest of our lives? Why would I do that? I don't understand. I don't understand the petulance of, like, "But I want to go to a bar with my friends!" Yeah, I love a bar. But also? I don't want you to die, so. Pretty easy decision, really.

Heather: You are framing this in such a different way than that NPR author was framing it because you're talking about it as: we're a team. We take these precautions, we make these decisions, people get angry at us. We, we, we. Us. And when I hear you say that, it makes me feel so seen and supported, and it also makes me feel like the burden of the sacrifices is less because we're standing underneath it together. And there's never been a doubt in my mind about that. It feels like we've approached this whole thing as a team without even actually having to have a conversation about it. I guess because we were such a good team before, so why would that change?

Stacy: I guess that's one of the things that confuses me the most about the NPR piece. All these marriage counselors saying they both need to compromise. Like, she needs to compromise by not going maskless into a restaurant every night, and he needs to compromise by… risking his life? She was frustrated and annoyed that he wore a mask for the whole 13-hour flight when they went on vacation. Which, just tangentially, it was already a HUGE compromise for him to even put his life at risk getting on that plane.

Zantie posted:

A new record for a PCR sequenced chronic infection just dropped. Greater than three years, dates back to P.2 (Zeta), not to be confused with Gamma (P.1)

https://twitter.com/LongDesertTrain/status/1768044836089655741

Github post with some more details.

https://github.com/sars-cov-2-variants/lineage-proposals/issues/1431

NeonPunk posted:

Look pretty bad on the surface, but it will all work out in the end. There is still zero evidence that chronic and persistent SARS-COV-2 infection keep going after 5 years in people.

Zantie posted:

That was a beautiful read. Everything they said about teamwork, it's that meaning of partnership that I understand and value. You do things together because you actually like each other. It's not that you do things together because the other person is an accessory you carry around to make you feel less embarrassed about doing something alone.

NeonPunk posted:

I wonder what happened in 2020 and thereafter.

It's all because of lockdowns

Salt Fish posted:

This estimate line is a joke right

researchbuzz.me - Thu, 14 Mar 2024 posted:

Four years ago today I put out the first issue of CoronaBuzz, my attempt to keep up with the rapidly-evolving changes to news about covid-19/coronavirus/the ‘rona or whatever you call it.

…

ResearchBuzz Firehose (RBF) now has as part of its collection over 13,800 articles related to covid-19, most of them collected during the first two years of the pandemic. I’m writing this article to show you how to browse the collection, search it by tag, search it by keyword, and monitor it by RSS feed. It shouldn’t be considered complete, as I had a lot going on in my personal life — several people in my family had covid and one spent over a week in ICU and almost died — but it is a wide-ranging collection covering several aspects of the pandemic, including healthcare, public health, cultural considerations, politics, and international relations.

## Accessing Indexed Covid Articles on the RBF

All covid articles on the RBF are both tagged and put in their own category, Covid-19. You can access all of them at https://rbfirehose.com/category/covid-19/ . This is the easiest way to get all the articles in chronological order but it’s not great for searching. Still, if you’re trying to get articles by time span it’s great. The category is paginated (926 pages at this writing).

2021 starts on page 414: https://rbfirehose.com/category/covid-19/page/414/

2022 starts on page 103: https://rbfirehose.com/category/covid-19/page/103/

2023 starts on page 5: https://rbfirehose.com/category/covid-19/page/5/

If you’re interested in more in-depth browsing than using chronological order, you can browse by tag or search by keyword.

### Browsing Covid Articles by Tag

All covid articles on the RBF are tagged with both covid-19 and coronavirus. I think early on I was worried about other variants and had some vague idea of separating out the news, but I ended up giving all the variants their own tags so didn’t happen. Anyway, all covid stories can be accessed this way: https://rbfirehose.com/tag/coronavirus/ . I think I must have missed a tag here and there because the pagination count is 925, but that’s a human for you.

Each indexed article has  a page that looks like this:

The tags used to index the article are at the very bottom of the entry:

As you can see I also occasionally forget to remove my tag spelling errors, which is why this article is tagged with both “public health” and “public helath”. I’ll take it out later but y’all can just laugh at me for the moment, because I want to show you can combine tags to search the covid articles.

You can combine tags in WordPress with +. For example, if we wanted to browse for healthcare articles related to covid on the RBF, we could do this:

https://rbfirehose.com/tag/coronavirus+healthcare

If there’s a space in the tag, you express that space with a hyphen. So a browse for public health related to coronavirus would look like this:

https://rbfirehose.com/tag/coronavirus+public-health

You can stack keywords as well. Want to know what Ron DeSantis was doing about mask mandates in Florida? No problem:

https://rbfirehose.com/tag/coronavirus+Florida+Ron-DeSantis+mask-mandates/

I created tags as necessary, so there’s no big directory, but you should be able to get a sense of what’s available from the tag listings on each entry.  The news is primarily American, but I indexed articles from other countries as I found them; https://rbfirehose.com/tag/coronavirus+Mongolia/ only has one result, but it does have one result.

You might be wondering if you HAVE to use the coronavirus or Covid-19 tags when browsing the ResearchBuzz Firehose for covid-related articles. The answer is sometimes you don’t, but it’s best if you usually do. For example, one of the RBF tags is “vaccine cards.” If you go to https://rbfirehose.com/tag/vaccine-cards/ without including coronavirus as part of your search, you’ll only get covid stories, because I created the tag vaccine cards due to covid.

On the other hand, if you go to https://rbfirehose.com/tag/Elon-Musk/ you’re going to get lots of news about Twitter. It’s only if you add coronavirus and make it https://rbfirehose.com/tag/coronavirus+Elon-Musk/ that you’ll immediately see articles about outbreaks at Tesla and SpaceX.

If you’re not have much luck either searching by tags or finding appropriate tags for your search, I recommend searching by keyword and looking at the tags in your search results.

### Searching Covid Articles By Keyword

Maybe you’re interested in how fairs and festivals were impacted by covid-19. You’re not sure what tag might be useful so you search the RBF instead.  The basic syntax for searching a WordPress site is https://rbfirehose.com/?s=, so searching for the words “state fairs” would look like this: https://rbfirehose.com/?s=state%20fairs (The “%20” is how the browser encodes a space. If you just include a space when you enter the URL in your browser it will encode automatically.) That search will get these results:

The first two results aren’t relevant, but the third is, and clicking on that one will give us some tag ideas for our next search:

### Monitoring Updates to Indexed Covid Articles With RSS Feeds

While the news cycles have moved on to other things the fact remains that covid-19 is still circulating and unfortunately people are still getting sick and dying from it. I am adding articles to the index as I have time and will do so indefinitely; I have turned off most of my covid-19 information monitoring structure but I still get plenty of news via university RSS feeds and ancillary information coming in via Google Alerts.

You can get an RSS feed for the whole covid-19 category here: https://rbfirehose.com/category/covid-19/feed/ .

Want to monitor a particular tag with an RSS feed? Here’s a feed for the tag “Wastewater-Based Epidemiology (WBE):” https://rbfirehose.com/tag/wastewater-based-epidemiology-wbe/feed/

You can also monitor combinations of tags, though this is kind of stunty and you’re gambling that I’m going to use ALL these tags in an upcoming post. I don’t recommend doing it, but this does work: https://rbfirehose.com/tag/coronavirus+Florida+Ron-DeSantis+mask-mandates/feed/ 

You can even monitor a keyword search with an RSS feed. https://rbfirehose.com/?s=wastewater&feed=rss will give you an RSS feed for the RBF search “wastewater.” I recommend that you use tag feeds whenever possible, as the summaries I’m including don’t have enough text to reliably allow you to use the additional keywords “covid-19” or “coronavirus.”

Salt Fish posted:

This estimate line is a joke right

Zantie posted:

That was a beautiful read. Everything they said about teamwork, it's that meaning of partnership that I understand and value. You do things together because you actually like each other. It's not that you do things together because the other person is an accessory you carry around to make you feel less embarrassed about doing something alone.