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.

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.

Tulip posted:

Lmao gently caress

Sunny Side Up posted:

Fwiw when I took ~24 Luciras in Dec 22 my false positive rate was 8% (and another 8% tests “errored out” flashing the lights, which Lucira refunded).

Steve Yun posted:

seventh biggest wave and climbing

Jort Fortress posted:

My 91yo grandma has been stuck in a nursing home doing rehab the past 2 weeks after breaking her hip at home. Shockingly, both her and my grandpa are now sick with Summer Flu for the first time. Guess my grandpa had it so bad he was hospitalized the last 3 nights, and according to my uncle they didn't even test him for Covid, instead suggesting it might be bronchitis or RSV. They also told my uncle he didn't need to wear his mask in the hospital, lmao.

Thank God for all these tools that are available!

Zantie posted:

Right now the new sublineage we're talking about (BA.2.86), its spike protein has >30 amino acid changes from it's parent of BA.2 (an omicron), it's also >30 compared to XBB.1.5 (an omicron recombinant), and has nearly 60 different from the original back in 2019.

Rochallor posted:

(Padme face) Per lifetime, right?

(Padme face) Per lifetime, right?

Zantie posted:

There's a list of them in the slides published by Bloom that Pingui linked earlier. They aren't encouraging though, mostly tied to the usual ones found in chronic infections. Obviously we don't know how these particular mutations may differ in presentation together vs separately either and most of what's outlined with them (regarding concern/severity) are based in hypotheticals.

ibid posted:

https://twitter.com/pedsmd2b/status/1692319357333037385
https://twitter.com/pedsmd2b/status/1692323957733814296

Pingui posted:

Platystemon posted:

A fifth case has now been found, in London.

Would anyone offer an opinion that BA.2.86 is anything other than the most interesting and concerning strain identified since Omicron in November 2021?

Pillowpants posted:

Good news guys! The CDC updated its variant sequencing data today. It's very helpfu...oh


I guess that is ok though - because the CDC updates its main wastewater data on Thursdays at 8pm. SEE!


Goddamn it


No worries though! Hospitalization Data is always updated on Friday mornings! gently caress


Ahahahahhah

Nothus posted:

Don't worry about it.

Can I see the data?

...No

fosborb posted:

lol first locally transmitted malaria case in the DC area in the last 40 years just announced tonight

Platystemon posted:

It’s falciparum malaria.

That’s the bad malaria, the malaria that you do not want to get.


It’s pretty weird that after twenty years with no local malaria, in one summer the United States has three independent outbreaks.

Glumwheels posted:

I took another test and it turned positive right away so going to get my paxlovid now.

gently caress me

Pingui posted:

Getting in on the ground floor of malaria infections maybe? Possibly leprosy?

Raskolnikov2089 posted:

Pockets of standing water is 100% not a problem in Texas at the moment.

Pingui posted:

Why do you want to dismantle the public malaria vaccination program??

nexous posted:

it’s been back and forth between just ignoring it and freaking out. Another goon in the goon doctor thread really helped, he had the same thing (renal cell carcinoma) and it’s like the easiest cancer to treat so I’m not gonna die or anything it’s just very tedious waiting to do anything about it. I am quite concerned about getting Covid during the surgery tho. it’s gonna be close to see if I can get the updated booster before.

RandomBlue posted:

yeah he was the president

Harik posted:

The schoolyear started with a bang.

Insanite posted:

e: we didn’t get covid during the delivery of kid 2. this is in spite of half of the personnel around us having coughs. Ty, 10 ACH labor and delivery room air, I guess.

VomitOnLino posted:

I think the problem was less it running out and more that it made your intestinal lining fall out of your rear end in a top hat.

Steve Yun posted:

eyyyyy

guess who has two thumbs and was asked by their Covid positive friend to take them home from the airport because they’re known for having goggles and elastomeric respirators

Steve Yun posted:

hey but at least they don’t want to get an Uber driver infected

Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:

Walgreens unfucked itself

Buffer posted:

Mostly she's just in shock that it was one day. Like I stop wearing it for one day and I immediately get sick... come on!!!! Overall I'd say she's taking it pretty well. Holed up in her room with video games(new genshin region), a coway, and a window cracked w/a fan pointing out.

Rosalind posted:

You're in luck--I went down this rabbit hole because I was getting eaten alive while visiting a family member last summer and I hate OFF.

Off Spray is 15% DEET so if you are specifically having a reaction to DEET there are some options. You could try a 20% picaridin spray or a permethrin clothing treatment. There are also lotion versions available of picaridin if some other ingredient in the sprays is causing the dermatitis.

For use in a backyard or patio, thermacell makes spatial repellents. Mosquito coils (those green spiral things) do work as well.

Rosalind posted:

academia.txt

The Oldest Man posted:

Animal-Mother posted:

We have the tools. (they are shovels)

Pingui posted:

We've had 3 major studies the last few days and everyone gets distracted by food chat

Goons. Goons never change...

The Oldest Man posted:

I could be getting paid for this????

The Oldest Man posted:

"Did you mean 'Sign up for Amazon Prime?"

NeonPunk posted:

Can some of those doctor or scientists in here tell me if science direct is reputable or not?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2319417023000872

Because there's a study that straight up says that yup, Covid is airborne AIDS.

Pingui posted:

Being allowed to call it AIDS (airborne or not) here isn't really a hill worth dying on. That COVID can give immune deficiencies is the important part.

If people really want to discuss the immune deficiency angle, they should jump into the very large study I posted today as it is good poo poo (from a science standpoint).

Pingui posted:

Overall good news for the COVID vaccinated crew and terrible news for the unvaccinated. It should be noted that vaccinations in HK were Sinovac and Pfizer, which would change the specifics of the immune response. The authors don't make the distinction, however the first dose distribution was 61.7% BioNTech and 38.3% Sinovac in general (according to study further down), it is something to consider as well when looking at the age distribution.

Glad to see a reduction of associated immune disease post-vaccination, but take it with a grain of salt, as the authors do not appear fully confident in that part of the results.

Risk of autoimmune diseases following COVID-19 and the potential protective effect from vaccination: a population-based cohort study

Unassociated vaccination distribution in HK chart:

Source (for the specific vaccine distribution mentioned at the start of the post as well): https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/10/5/747

Edit: It should also be noted that the vast majority of cases in Hong Kong have been Omicron soup, as the case distribution in HK looks like this:

The Oldest Man posted:

Oh wow a new home NAAT test? Sound gr-



D'oh

I don't see anything on their website about test specificity or agreement with a benchmark lab PCR so, unclear whether it's better/worse/the same as Cue.

e: found it https://www.fda.gov/media/162403/download. Comparison with benchmark is on pages 30 onward but someone else will have to look at Cue's to see if they're better or worse since I need to go.