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#COVID19

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sport of sacred spherical cows

Second time #CDC has reported estimates for more than two regions at a time since October.

To be clear, national data used for chart above are modeled on regional data collection.

LP.8.1 now estimated at majority in Great Lakes, nearing majority in NY/NJ and Mid-Atlantic.

XEC (incl. XEC.4) still around a quarter share in all three regions.

[For color key, see: covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-track]

❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #variants #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask #BetterMasks

Map: Nowcast Estimates for 3/2/2025 - 3/15/2025 by HHS Region Source: Centers for Disease Control Map shows pie charts for three of ten regions, reflecting regional estimated proportions for specimens collected for the most recent biweekly reporting period. Bold text over Canada portion of map reads: "Nowcast estimates are only available for HHS regions having at least 300 sequences in the two weeks ending 02/15/2025". Dominant strains by tracked region: NY/NJ: LP.8.1 (orange) 47%, XEC (clover) 22%, LF.7 (dirty blue) 5%, LB.1.3.1 (fountain blue) 5%. Mid-Atlantic: LP.8.1 (orange) 42%, XEC (clover) 25%, MC.28.1 (flat blue) 8%, KP.3.1.1 (sea bluish cyan) 5%. Great Lakes: LP.8.1 (orange) 60%, XEC (clover) 24%, KP.3.1.1 (sea bluish cyan) 4%. Of ten regions, seven regions are blank. ALT-text by beadsland at ko-fi.
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A FLuQE wavelet opened September, cresting as KP.3.1.1 / MC wave into November. FDA's second-guess vaccine target, KP.2, dropped out in December. Updated #CDC estimates indicate we've been in a JN.1.11 soup pretty much since then.

No new variants broken out by CDC, as KP.1.1.3 / LP descendant LP.8.1 approaches majority.

No recent GISAID data—as Raj's dashboard hasn't updated in near a month.

❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #variants #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #dataviz #datavis

Chart: Estimated U.S. Variant Proportions by Common Name Sources: Centers for Disease Control, CoV-Lineages, NYITCOM Research, Daniele Focosi, World Health Network, others [ beadsland on Ko-fi ] Reskin of CDC's Variants Nowcast, and any significant variants in GISAID not broken out by CDC. Five bar-style tree-charts, for fortnights through March 2–15. Legend of last fortnight, organized by subheadings of color-grouped families and convergent clusters. Percentages overlay each color key, reflecting share as of most recent tree-chart. Essentially all WHO-Vaccine-Target JN.1. JN.1.11 accounts for over three fifths; JN.1.11 + FLiRT for near half. For fortnight of 1/19–2/1, packed bubble charts fill single-variant tiles, indicating diversification of those variants (per GISAID) that wouldn't otherwise be apparent from CDC's Nowcast. Legend: LP.8.1 [purple]: 47% - LP.8.1.1 / NY† & other LP.8.1 JN.1 + FLiRT-KS [browns]: 26% - XEC.2†, XEC.8† & other XEC 2% - XEC.4 2% - XEQ ⅒% - other KS.1 JN.1.11 [greens]: ¾% - KP.3 15% - MC.10.1, MC.28.1, MC.19, MC.1 & other KP.3.1.1 / MC JN.1 + FLiRT [reds]: 4% - LF.7 3% - LB.1.3.1 / NL 0% - LB.1 JN.1.11 + FLiRT [blues]: ½% - XEK 0% - KP.2.3 & KP.1.1.3 / LP Other [greys]: ½% - JN.1.16 ⅐% - other WHO-Vaccine-Target JN.1 ⅒% - Other (not specified) † Dagger variants are not broken out by CDC, yet represent a significant share of recent GISAID sequences.
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Houston Public Media

Vaccine hesitancy was rising even before COVID-19 emerged – but the pandemic exacerbated the trend. More kindergartners are opting out of school vaccine requirements, and Texas lawmakers are trying to make it even easier to do so.

houstonpublicmedia.org/article

#HealthScience#Healthcare#MedicineWellness
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Calishat

Good morning, y'all. 5 years ago today I did the first issue of CoronaBuzz, a daily newsletter for updates about covid. Over the next 2.5 years I indexed and tagged over 13,000 articles about covid-19 and its impacts around the world. I am still updating that dataset though much more slowly than I was.

The collection is part of ResearchBuzz Firehose. I have an article on how to explore, search, and monitor it here: researchbuzz.me/2024/03/14/cor . I hope you find it useful.

ResearchBuzz · CoronaBuzz: Navigating an Collection of Over 13,800 Covid-Related Article Summaries
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#covid19#coronavirus
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Mike Honey

Australian COVID-19 weekly stats update:

The risk estimate is trending gently upwards, now at 0.4% “Currently Infectious”, or 1-in-239.

That implies a 12% chance that someone is infectious in a group of 30.

Waves driven by the new LP.8.1.* variant have shown relatively low peaks in most places, and it is showing slow growth in the Australian genomic sequencing data.
aus.social/@mike_honey_/114135

#COVID19 #Australia @auscovid19
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Autonomie und Solidarität

Eine Ökonomie des Krieges

Ein spannender Text aus Italien aus dem Jahr 2024 zur Polykrise und wie bestimmte Entwicklungen seit der Corona-Pandemie in die Militarisierung von Staaten und Transformationen zur Kriegswirtschaft übergegangen sind.

xn--untergrund-blttle-2qb.ch/p

'Kasernenausdrücke wie „Wir sind an der Front“ oder „Hommage an die Kriegshelden“ wurden endlos wiederholt, ebenso wie die Wiederkehr veralteter patriotischer Rhetorik und Nationalhymnen auf Balkonen, die angesichts der prekären Gesundheitssituation ebenfalls nur von kurzer Dauer waren. Die menschenleeren Strassen erweckten den Eindruck einer Ausgangssperre, die bis zu einem gewissen Grad die wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse über die Entwicklung der Pandemie und die möglichen Lösungen zur Vorbeugung und Behandlung verdunkelte. Diese Massnahmen wurden in einen Rahmen gestellt, der an die Simulation einer Kriegssituation erinnerte. 

Leopard 2A6M CAN der Canadian Army (rechts) auf der Rüstungsmesse Eurosatory.
Untergrund-BlättleEine Ökonomie des Krieges: Das Kind der permanenten wirtschaftlichen DepressionDer Trend zur Kriegswirtschaft hat sich seit der Pandemie Covid 19 herausgebildet. Was auch immer der Ursprung von Covid 19 war, der schockierendste Aspekt war die Kriegssprache, die sofort in den Medien des Regimes die Runde machte.
#Corona#Covid#Pandemie
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Jeri Dansky

How about some promising Covid-vaccine-related news? It's all early on, but it's still nice to see — and maybe buried amidst all the other news.

Nasal COVID-19 vaccine based on WashU technology to enter U.S. clinical trials
medicine.washu.edu/news/nasal-

Newly Discovered Antibody Protects Against All COVID-19 Variants
news.utexas.edu/2024/09/03/new

(Of course, who knows what will happen with any vaccine work and/or availability given this administration.)

WashU Medicine · Nasal COVID-19 vaccine based on WashU technology to enter U.S. clinical trials | WashU MedicineTrial will assess safety, efficacy of next-generation vaccine given via nasal spray, inhalation
#Covid#Covid19#CovidIsNotOver
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Lohan Gunaweera
"Multiple scientific studies have shown that the risk of developing Long COVID is compounded by each reinfection. Wastewater data, now the only reliable metric to track the spread of the pandemic, shows that the average American has been infected by COVID-19 nearly four times. At the current trajectory, this figure will reach eight infections per person by March 2030. A similar reality undoubtedly exists throughout the world."

5 years of the COVID-19 pandemic: The origins of a social catastrophe https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/12/qxrx-m12.html

#covid19 #health #healthcare #capitalism
World Socialist Web Site5 years of the COVID-19 pandemic: The origins of a social catastropheThe COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the incapacity of capitalism to deal with the problems of mass society, and that this social system is in an advanced state of regression.
#capitalism
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aby is tired of your bullshit

“If we were to see immune damage manifesting at a population level, it would look like what we’re seeing today: big waves of common illnesses. Unusual spikes of uncommon illnesses. Course reversal for previously declining and eliminated illnesses. An unexplained, global wave of sickness.”

thegauntlet.news/p/kids-keep-g

The Gauntlet · Kids keep getting sicker as evidence for COVID immune damage buildsBy Julia Doubleday
#covid#covid19#GetVaccinated
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JiKo

German spy agency believed CoVid-19 likely started in a laboratory in Wuhan.

The widely accepted theory is that Covid-19 emerged in bats and then jumped to humans, most likely through another animal, or "intermediary host."

As time worn on, scientists have not found a virus in either bats or another animal that matches the genetic make-up of Covid-19, leading some to doubt the theory.

#Pandemic #CoVid19 #Asian #Health #Virus #PublicHealth #SARSCov2

bbc.com/news/articles/cz7vypq3

Four security guards wearing face masks, whose figures are slightly blurred because of the camera's focus, stand in the foreground of the picture. Behind them is the Wuhan Institute of Virology with signs in English and Mandarin
www.bbc.comGerman spy agency 'believed Covid likely started in lab'China denies German media reports of an assessment carried out by spying agency BND in 2020 supporting the theory.
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neocolonial malcontent chic

#AskFedi bc I need a refresher:

Were there, or were there not, studies during the *designated pandemic years (2020-21)* (/s) re: #Covid19 + #ClimateChange impact on gut health, with one major symptom being something like the stomach flu?

If anyone has the links and receipts, PLEASE REPLY!

Even a local newspaper here in West Bengal, India, carried a headline recently re: the outbreak of a kind of stomach flu, with symptoms such as lack of appetite, exhaustion, indigestion, and diarrhoea. My BFFs are down with it, and I am, too. And yesterday the news announced an oncoming heat wave this weekend 🫠

EDIT 15:33 HRS: following @hopeward 's clue, I think this could be a norovirus outbreak, because reading up on it, the symptoms all match. I don't know if the TV news channels have covered it at all.

Masking is sporadic here, almost rare. I still mask up, but ~ it does get difficult to breathe in a mask at 12:30 PM at 36°C ~ especially when chronic pain makes it hard for me to breathe even at home. Outside, there's also significant shaming and peer pressure to NOT mask up.

And as always, it's way worse for people with #Disabilities and #ChronicIllness (for instance: me), but people in this ableist, fascist hellhole of a country never want to talk about it.

#ClimateDiary
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Mike Honey

The latest example of a potential new variant evolving in a long-term chronic infection has been detected by the diligent work of those collecting and sequencing samples in South Africa.

As Ryan H describes on this thread, it is descended from the BA.3 lineage, which last in circulation about 3 years ago. So presumably it has been evolving in a chronic case since then, and recently managed to transmit to other people. The latest sample is from a different province and with one added Spike mutation (K356T).

threadreaderapp.com/thread/189
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threadreaderapp.comThread by @LongDesertTrain on Thread Reader App@LongDesertTrain: Do you remember BA.3—the weakling cousin of BA.1 & BA.2 that seemed to take the worst from each & had weaker ACE2 binding than even the ancestral Wuhan Virus? After 3 years, BA.3 is back....…
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