trending (not necessarily strictly) towards ~1 wave / yr like other coronaviruses as shifts broaden population immunity?
October 19, 2025 at 7:55 AM
trending (not necessarily strictly) towards ~1 wave / yr like other coronaviruses as shifts broaden population immunity?
The masking page is really quite good and has this nice graphic
www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID...
(emphasis on wearing after testing positive for a respiratory virus; personally what I go by instead is "if you feel ill or are still recovering from illness")
www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID...
(emphasis on wearing after testing positive for a respiratory virus; personally what I go by instead is "if you feel ill or are still recovering from illness")
September 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The masking page is really quite good and has this nice graphic
www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID...
(emphasis on wearing after testing positive for a respiratory virus; personally what I go by instead is "if you feel ill or are still recovering from illness")
www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID...
(emphasis on wearing after testing positive for a respiratory virus; personally what I go by instead is "if you feel ill or are still recovering from illness")
Also I distinctly remember in-person schooling having returned by Fall of '21, *as* we were staring down two severe and disruptive waves of deaths (delta, BA.1 omicron)
Things would have been a lot different with better vaccination rates, etc. But we didn't have that!
Things would have been a lot different with better vaccination rates, etc. But we didn't have that!
September 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Also I distinctly remember in-person schooling having returned by Fall of '21, *as* we were staring down two severe and disruptive waves of deaths (delta, BA.1 omicron)
Things would have been a lot different with better vaccination rates, etc. But we didn't have that!
Things would have been a lot different with better vaccination rates, etc. But we didn't have that!
well that's interesting - I suppose this is from the reported HPAI cases in CA dairy milking cows in July? www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...
(also, hooray for wastewater testing)
(also, hooray for wastewater testing)
July 29, 2025 at 4:16 AM
well that's interesting - I suppose this is from the reported HPAI cases in CA dairy milking cows in July? www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...
(also, hooray for wastewater testing)
(also, hooray for wastewater testing)
US lagging vaccination and boosting rates left a bad plate of options, cf. the UK drop-off in deaths by fall/winter 2021-22 (when there were also Delta/Omicron waves, like here). The US was in a significantly different place on that metric alone.
May 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM
US lagging vaccination and boosting rates left a bad plate of options, cf. the UK drop-off in deaths by fall/winter 2021-22 (when there were also Delta/Omicron waves, like here). The US was in a significantly different place on that metric alone.
I mean, it really was much worse in 2022, and much, much, much worse in 2021 and 2020. And improved further in 2024 from 2023 as immunity acquisition + broadening built up.
Death reporting has been a pretty stable metric: buttondown.com/abbycartus/a...
Death reporting has been a pretty stable metric: buttondown.com/abbycartus/a...
April 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I mean, it really was much worse in 2022, and much, much, much worse in 2021 and 2020. And improved further in 2024 from 2023 as immunity acquisition + broadening built up.
Death reporting has been a pretty stable metric: buttondown.com/abbycartus/a...
Death reporting has been a pretty stable metric: buttondown.com/abbycartus/a...
🤷 penny for your clarifications @tribelaw.bsky.social
April 1, 2025 at 3:10 AM
🤷 penny for your clarifications @tribelaw.bsky.social
April 1, 2025 at 2:57 AM
post the first video game you remember playing
March 28, 2025 at 12:21 AM
post the first video game you remember playing
One more thought (and thanks to @famulare.bsky.social for sharing this one), the King's County public health dash is the best
I mean how cool is this!
I mean how cool is this!
March 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
One more thought (and thanks to @famulare.bsky.social for sharing this one), the King's County public health dash is the best
I mean how cool is this!
I mean how cool is this!
(Oh the first pic was Boston; here's another set of data using % ED +ve comparing CA and NY)
March 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
(Oh the first pic was Boston; here's another set of data using % ED +ve comparing CA and NY)
I'm happy to see this year's winter COVID wave as muted as it was (strikingly, pretty absent it seems on the West Coast!)
Additional observation re: influenza. With the benefit of tests, fairly confident now that the old adage "that's not flu, you'll know when it's flu" was ...mistaken 😅
Additional observation re: influenza. With the benefit of tests, fairly confident now that the old adage "that's not flu, you'll know when it's flu" was ...mistaken 😅
March 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I'm happy to see this year's winter COVID wave as muted as it was (strikingly, pretty absent it seems on the West Coast!)
Additional observation re: influenza. With the benefit of tests, fairly confident now that the old adage "that's not flu, you'll know when it's flu" was ...mistaken 😅
Additional observation re: influenza. With the benefit of tests, fairly confident now that the old adage "that's not flu, you'll know when it's flu" was ...mistaken 😅
I'm sure this will change at some point but FWIW we appear to be substantially more into flu/RSV season than C19 at this point in CA, likely reflecting just how extensive last summer's C19 wave was (as well as the only token evolutionary drift that has taken place since then)
Data as of Dec 17-18
Data as of Dec 17-18
December 22, 2024 at 5:40 AM
I'm sure this will change at some point but FWIW we appear to be substantially more into flu/RSV season than C19 at this point in CA, likely reflecting just how extensive last summer's C19 wave was (as well as the only token evolutionary drift that has taken place since then)
Data as of Dec 17-18
Data as of Dec 17-18
Popped back over to download archive & make what I intend to be a final good-bye to X.
Grateful for connections made and convos had there, about COVID and Democratic politics (Go Liz!) and everything else - immensely TBH.
But also, and let's be real, a regrettably long stay.
Glad to be here 💙🤍
Grateful for connections made and convos had there, about COVID and Democratic politics (Go Liz!) and everything else - immensely TBH.
But also, and let's be real, a regrettably long stay.
Glad to be here 💙🤍
December 14, 2024 at 6:37 AM
Popped back over to download archive & make what I intend to be a final good-bye to X.
Grateful for connections made and convos had there, about COVID and Democratic politics (Go Liz!) and everything else - immensely TBH.
But also, and let's be real, a regrettably long stay.
Glad to be here 💙🤍
Grateful for connections made and convos had there, about COVID and Democratic politics (Go Liz!) and everything else - immensely TBH.
But also, and let's be real, a regrettably long stay.
Glad to be here 💙🤍
Ah. Well, *finally* picking up now (data as of 12/7, always a lag), and visible in local data in Boston and Santa Clara as well.
I'd defer to the CDC's winter respiratory virus forecast, which is still pending a COVID specific forecast:
www.cdc.gov/forecast-out...
I'd defer to the CDC's winter respiratory virus forecast, which is still pending a COVID specific forecast:
www.cdc.gov/forecast-out...
December 14, 2024 at 2:00 AM
Ah. Well, *finally* picking up now (data as of 12/7, always a lag), and visible in local data in Boston and Santa Clara as well.
I'd defer to the CDC's winter respiratory virus forecast, which is still pending a COVID specific forecast:
www.cdc.gov/forecast-out...
I'd defer to the CDC's winter respiratory virus forecast, which is still pending a COVID specific forecast:
www.cdc.gov/forecast-out...
Quick look at our respiratory virus dash after updates resumed post-Thanksgiving: certainly looks like flu & RSV season are starting to pick up. The COVID lull continues
Going off memory, I can't remember a time it's been even remotely like this for COVID in *December* - enjoy it!
Going off memory, I can't remember a time it's been even remotely like this for COVID in *December* - enjoy it!
December 5, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Quick look at our respiratory virus dash after updates resumed post-Thanksgiving: certainly looks like flu & RSV season are starting to pick up. The COVID lull continues
Going off memory, I can't remember a time it's been even remotely like this for COVID in *December* - enjoy it!
Going off memory, I can't remember a time it's been even remotely like this for COVID in *December* - enjoy it!
I'm going to try to largely steer clear from this here I think, as these convos can be less than helfpul
But I hope people will refrain from boosting unqualified dot-connecting like this and seek out reliable sources. And for everyone to nonetheless take care towards one another - and themselves
But I hope people will refrain from boosting unqualified dot-connecting like this and seek out reliable sources. And for everyone to nonetheless take care towards one another - and themselves
November 18, 2024 at 9:09 PM
I'm going to try to largely steer clear from this here I think, as these convos can be less than helfpul
But I hope people will refrain from boosting unqualified dot-connecting like this and seek out reliable sources. And for everyone to nonetheless take care towards one another - and themselves
But I hope people will refrain from boosting unqualified dot-connecting like this and seek out reliable sources. And for everyone to nonetheless take care towards one another - and themselves
If you see this post your favorite Pokémon
November 17, 2024 at 6:34 AM
If you see this post your favorite Pokémon
Oh dear. Tbh I don't like to do this* but that's gonna be a block from me fam. Take this 🗑️ back to Twitter where it belongs
*for personal accounts, no problem really with engagement farmers
*for personal accounts, no problem really with engagement farmers
November 16, 2024 at 10:11 PM
Oh dear. Tbh I don't like to do this* but that's gonna be a block from me fam. Take this 🗑️ back to Twitter where it belongs
*for personal accounts, no problem really with engagement farmers
*for personal accounts, no problem really with engagement farmers
!["Meanwhile, the guy sitting to my right was watching the Joe Rogan Podcast on YouTube the whole time. 3/3" followed by a gif of a woman screaming outside of a convenience store, with the caption: "[SCREAMING]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uycpdg4r2ihgnrbs5slckgax/bafkreicrjjkmmvxm26m3we6eskn55ik7b5yw2seljd67pzg6fm7f7hioti@jpeg)
Palmieri essentially retracted this. I think the key is whatever reservations anyone had the campaign put it aside and tried to get on Rogan. That didn’t happen for other reasons
November 14, 2024 at 4:19 PM
Palmieri essentially retracted this. I think the key is whatever reservations anyone had the campaign put it aside and tried to get on Rogan. That didn’t happen for other reasons