Eric Feigl-Ding is an epidemiogist at the New England Complex Systems Institute, with a background at Harvard Medical. In this shory hellsite thread he notes the CDC will stop reporting on excess deaths from COVID, even as the epidemic rages on. Continuing to cause excess deaths as compared to before.
Included is screenshits of the thread and images he posted.
A full week of wastewater data now shows a steep decline in covid numbers in the Boston area.
One interesting thing is that the wave peaks at January 1st. I would have expected it to be after January 1st due to transmission at New Years parties. This could imply that covid waves now are more influenced by population immunity and seasonal factors and less by human behaviors (like having parties)—though I imagine all of the above are factors.
#IDMastodon#Viralimmunology#PublicHealth#Epidemiology#CovidIsNotOver Prevalence of Persistent #SARSCoV2 infections may act as viral reservoirs that could seed future outbreaks, give rise to highly divergent lineages & contribute to cases of #LongCOVID.
In particular, infections in immunocompromised patients who cannot clear 🦠 may lead to persistence for months or even years before potentially seeding new outbreaks in the community …
Hi, I'm John. I work for UCSF in the Division of HIV, ID, and Global Medicine. I primarily work on #HIV projects in East #Africa, but also work on #COVID19 projects in #SanFrancisco. But my comments are only my own.
Hi Guys, here's a little #introduction about me 😊
I'm a public health doctor, academic & mum. British-Iraqi citizen of the 🌍 I'm passionate about my work & social justice (which I consider the same thing). I love nature, flowers, smiling, freedom & hope. Haven't changed in that respect since I was a kid (see 📷) but my personality strength is growth so I do change my mind on other things. I work on #LongCovid#HealthInequalities#Intersectionality #Epidemiology #EDI #Maternal#Child#Health
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"What if you could track public health like the weather?"
In our latest blog post, Stamen designer Caroline Carter talks about our work with WastewaterSCAN to make epidemiological charts more usable in our day-to-day lives, like checking a weather report.
COVID infection risk rises the longer you are exposed — even for vaccinated people
"Prolonged exposure in close proximity to someone with COVID-19 puts people at high risk of catching the disease, even if they’ve had both the disease and vaccinations against it, a study1 shows.
The study, published this month in Nature Communications, reveals that the greater a person’s exposure to SARS-CoV-2, the more vulnerable they are to infection, regardless of their vaccination status. This relationship has long been suspected, but the study is one of the first to document it.
The findings point to the importance of masking, improved ventilation and other measures that reduce exposure to the virus, says Akiko Iwasaki, an immunobiologist at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, who was not part of the study.
The finding “just makes intuitive sense,” she says. “But now there’s evidence that these [measures] are probably going to be important to help the vaccine-mediated immunity work for you.”
[...] "Strains of these Methuselah microbes – or zombie viruses as they are also known – have already been isolated by researchers who have raised fears that a new global medical emergency could be triggered – not by an illness new to science but by a disease from the distant past." | #environment#climate#ClimateChange#virology#epidemiology#arctic#health#PublicHealth
FREE for Kindle download Jan 14-18: Nothing To Do With Skin: The Fundamentals of #Epidemiology and Population Health– by Raywat Deonandan PhD
(an introduction to the science of population epidemiology) including a description of study designs, some of the common biases encountered, how to distinguish between correlation and causation.
More work in progress for our citizen science game 'Nergal', which creates a safe way to do research about human behaviour when confronted with infectious disease.
We've added speech bubbles, and it's suddenly getting loud in here!
The characters have a memory, and share information when they speak - but that isn't obvious yet!
At this point they can promote me or I'll start applying for jobs outside of research but that process was so ridiculous that I'm more than a little disillusioned with my field. I got some wonderful letters of support and they're much appreciated but why the hell is academia like this?
I enjoyed being an electricians apprentice, it was boring and didn't challenge me at all but it paid the bills. Maybe I should go back to that since my loans are paid off and four years from now my youngest kid will be out of highschool.
Or I could stick around and try to find a treatment that changes the progression of COPD. Either way man.
"NHLBI has launched an epidemiological cohort that focuses on these populations. It is called MOSAAIC, which stands for Multi-ethnic Observational Study in American Asian and Pacific Islander Communities...It’s also one that’s urgently needed, said Yuling Hong...'Research on these understudied groups can help eliminate disparities and advance health equity in ways never seen before.'"