I'm at a board game restaurant, and the guy beside me coughed quite a lot over 30mins, so I asked him.

"Are you sick?"

"Yeah. A little."

"THEN WHY ARE YOU HERE?"

New: FDA staff walk out on RFK, study links #Covid to car crashes (similar to driving drunk), N95 respirator use significantly lowers hospital costs & carbon footprint, a new variant warning, I explain what to expect re: upcoming CDC vaccine decisions, and more:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-april-17-126843911

Please share! #LongCovid #CDC #birdflu #health

Outbreak: #COVID-19
Facility: Kilean Lodge
Facility Type: LTC Home
Unit/Floor/Area: Escarpment Ridge
Location: #Grimsby #Ontario
Date: 2025-04-17

Public Health Unit: #Niagara Region Public Health Department
Facility Tracking Hash: #NRPH0014
PHU Tracking Hash: #OnObNRPH

Click or follow tracking hashtags to see data for individual facilities or a specific public health unit.

A ‘globally significant’ bank of biosamples from a study into the immune effects of Covid vaccines is set to be destroyed, two years after the award-winning research project was defunded by the Queensland Government.

Intended “to better understand the short, medium and long-term impacts of COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines in Queensland,” the QoVAX Safety and Efficacy Statewide Study boasted 10,000 adult participants across 86% of postcodes, both vaccinated and unvaccinated, generating over 100,000 biospecimens and 11 million data points.

“It’s a terrible example of research wastage and loss of a globally significant opportunity to realise benefits and generate knowledge through research based on the unique samples provided by the 10,000 Queenslanders who gave consent and participated,” Professor Davies, who heads up the Allergy Research Group at QUT, told Canberra Daily.

https://canberradaily.com.au/queensland-government-to-destroy-globally-significant-covid-vaccine-study-biobank/

Outbreak: #COVID-19
Facility: Oshawa Hospital
Facility Type: Hospital (Acute Care)
Unit/Floor/Area: OC5
Location: #Oshawa #Ontario
Date: 2025-04-14

Public Health Unit: Durham Region Health Department
Facility Tracking Hash: #DRHD0010
PHU Tracking Hash: #OnObDRHD

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Studies show 25% to 30% rate of Long Covid.
#COVID #LongCovid

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/studies-across-14-nations-show-25-30-rate-long-covid

Outbreak: #COVID-19
Facility: St. Joseph's General Hospital - The Oaks Centre (Withdrawal Management Services)
Facility Type: Hospital (Acute Care)
Unit/Floor/Area: Facility Wide
Location: #ElliotLake #Ontario
Date: 2025-04-16

Public Health Unit: #Algoma Public Health Unit
Facility Tracking Hash: #APHU0018
PHU Tracking Hash: #OnObAPHU

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The UK PCR positivity map is out.
Last week national positivity was up from 4.2 to 4.6%.

This week it's risen to 5%.

Where are the rises?

https://jamestindall.info/skeuomorphology/ladb_covid/index.html

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Franchement, difficile de faire mieux pour illustrer à quel point nous baignons dans le mensonge depuis la crise #Covid. Et le plus beau ? Trois petites minutes de l’interview d’Alain #Fischer (sur les 25 au total) m’ont largement suffi pour en être convaincu.

1/ https://www.bfmtv.com/replay-emissions/les-entretiens-exclusifs/l-entretien-exceptionnel-d-alain-fischer-president-du-conseil-d-orientation-de-la-strategie-vaccinale-a-bfmtv_VN-202108300444.html

2/ http://www.fedr.ibpc.fr/fr/la-fondation-edmond-de-rothschild-85.htm

3/ https://web.archive.org/web/20220428081523/https://www.edmondderothschildfoundations.org/nous-connaitre/gouvernance.aspx

https://open.substack.com/pub/yourlocalepidemiologist/p/whats-happening-in-us-vaccine-policy

What passes as good news these days: some posturing but no significant quackery at the delayed vaccination meeting

In the Netherlands I see a lot of You are scared because you wear a mask and You are scared of AI or you would be enthousiast to use it. I deeply detest this form of manipulation.

New Threat Model: Covid from @violetblue: in the US,
• #BirdFlu: 1K+ infected dairy herds, 17 states
• #Measles: 700+ cases (undercount)/3 deaths, 25 states
•RFK Jr continues to US public health

And, of course, all the #Covid news. Read (always free)/share/support (subscribe to the Patreon or send a tip): https://www.patreon.com/posts/126843911

I often include a screenshot of Top Stories. Today I'm sharing her call for support and subscribers (and a sample of the quality cat content she also offers):

#Covid #SouthTyrol (Italy) 2025-04-17

#Covid #Lithuania 2025-04-17

#Covid #Germany 2025-04-17

#Covid

Schätzung für Zürich aufgrund Kalibrierung der Abwasserprävalenzen Werdhölzli, Daten bis 13. April:

Inzidenz ~400.

Ca. jede 250. Person infiziert sich pro Woche.

https://swiss.social/@dominiksteiger/114312492538920758

I had some woman who was accompanying an elderly patient at the hospital I work at look at me and say "why are you wearing a mask? Is there a virus or something?"
I couldn't believe it so I said, "yes, it's called COVID-19".
She then asked for a mask and wore it.

Are people really this unaware and unable to assess risk and make decisions for themselves?
#CovidIsNotOver #covid #MaskUp

Hi, it’s the weekly #washingtonstate #kingcounty (that is, #seattle and environs) #COVID #COVID19 #wastewater toots.

A quick reminder that this King County respiratory disease data comes from Washington State, not the federal government.

I usually start with the West Point (WSPT) sewage treatment plant, but the last value in the table, for 4/8, is 0.0. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to live in a world with zeroed-out readings for the Sars-CoV-2 concentration levels were an actual thing! And to be totally fair, the readings from 4/6 are, historically speaking, quite low. But 0.0? I think that's a glitch.

Hardcore wastewater nerds might recall that King County runs their very own Sars-CoV-2 dashboard for the same treatment plants. Alas, the county's dashboard has the same problem. I'm just going to skip WSPT's graph this week.

WSPT is one of three King County(-ish) sewersheds in this dataset. You can find overviews, individual sewershed results, and a breakdown of variants for the state wastewater surveillance program, along with other metrics like case counts and hospitalizations for Covid-19 and other respiratory illnesses, at https://doh.wa.gov/data-and-statistical-reports/diseases-and-chronic-conditions/communicable-disease-surveillance-data/respiratory-illness-data-dashboard#WasteWater. If you go to the page and click "learn more" in the statewide view tab, you can find out lots of details about how these data are calculated and how to interpret them. The dashboard gets updated every Wednesday (generally). The Department of Health is here on the feditubes, at @WADeptHealth.