Hello, 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.

Let's start with the West Point (WSPT) sewage treatment plant. The 7-Day running average of the Sars-CoV-2 levels is heading down, but still high. The last data is from 9/9.

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 fediweb, at @WADeptHealth

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A screencap of the Washington State Department of Health's Covid wastewater data for the West Point Wastewater Treatment Plant. The trend line of the graph is described in the toot text.

Northeast Public Health Collaborative Recommendations for the 2025-2026 COVID-19 Vaccine

https://www.mass.gov/info-details/dph-recommended-guidance-for-vaccines

Background
The Northeast Public Health Collaborative is a voluntary coalition of regional public health agencies and leaders, brought together to share expertise, improve coordination, enhance capacity, strengthen regional readiness and protect evidence-based public health. In summer of 2025, the Collaborative’s Immunization Working Group, consisting of immunization and epidemiology experts in each jurisdiction, was charged by the Leadership Group, consisting of state health officials and/or their designees, to review the scientific evidence, public health considerations, and existing recommendations pertaining to the 2025-2026 COVID-19 vaccine. This was accomplished, with the following recommendations written
and approved by the Leadership Group.

The recommendations below are consistent with the Fall 2025 COVID-19 vaccination recommendations from the following US professional medical societies:
• American Academy of Pediatrics
• American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology
• American Academy of Family Physicians

#PublicHealth #covid #VaccinesForAll #Massachusetts #NewEngland #MApoli

I’m back in the States today. Figure I’d just go ahead and get my #covid shot.

OMG

All the fucking questions. The shit I had to sign. The pharmacy tech having to LEAD me to thinking of an underlying condition to say…

Barriers for a vaccine that should be standard and REQUIRED.

Absurd. Dangerous

Und drin! Dass man dafür aber nach #Pforzheim fahren muss, weil in #Karlsruhe anscheinend noch niemand impft 🤦🏼 .

Wer auch nicht länger warten will guckt hier: https://die-impfstelle.de/

#Impfung #CoVid #CovidIsNotOver

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Eintrag im Impfpass: 17. September 2025 / Comirnaty LP.8.1 / 20 mcg injection/ Covid19 mRNA Vaccine

Well, it’s Day Three of my #COVID journey. For funsies here’s a list of my symptoms in chronological order:

Day 1 (negative antigen test)
Headache
Body aches
Visual distortions (like everything I was looking at was far away or under water)

Day 2 (positive antigen test)
Hungry
Sinus congestion
Chills
Sweats
More sweats
Extreme fatigue
Nausea
Gas
Total lack of appetite
Painful cough

Day 3 (no test because why bother?)
So much sweating
More gas
Congestion continues
Runny nose
Productive cough
Sore intercostals
Still with the gas
Appetite returning
Super-mega chapped lips (probably from all the sweating)

So far: no fever, no issues with taste or smell.

Dammit, probs picked it up last Friday.

Half the choir seems to have come down with it - another choir member's referred to it as "Coldplague" 🤪

#covid #notOverYet #coldplay

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Close-up of a positive COVID test showing two thick red lines.

@DenisCOVIDinfoguy Thanks for posting about #Ohio "⬆️ USA: "COVID-19 hospitalizations in Ohio nearly doubled during the past month." #COVID

#AppalachianOhio

Try this COVID competency exam to see how much you know about COVID:

https://seanmullen.com/covidcompetencyexam/

There's a short version (20 questions) and a long version (50 questions). I took the short version 😁

#COVID #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #Education #Quiz

Update. Ontario Health got back to me:

Updated COVID-19 vaccines will be available starting the week of September 22nd for priority populations, including people 65 years and older, health care professionals (including students), people with underlying health conditions and young children.  Eligibility will open up to the general population starting October 27th.

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection/guidance-documents/signs-symptoms-severity.html#a3

Eligible populations for priority access (starting next week) will also include: 

Residents in long-term care homes and other congregate living settings
Individuals from First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities
Members of underserved communities
Health care workers and other providers in facilities and community settings as per National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) guidelines.

#CovidBooster #Ontario #Covid #vaccines

#covid update!

Two of daughter’s co-workers have it & were in the office, masked; she danced with someone yesterday who now has it; her boyfriend is coughing; she’s negative for now.

My sister is ok but weak. My dad (89) tested positive for 3 days but is neg now and never had symptoms.

I got a #covid booster and flu shot today at CVS with zero fuss. There are concerns about what the CDC vax committee might do Friday. Unless your most recent shot was less than 2 mos ago, consider going NOW.

Just found out I can't get my COVID booster until the end of October at the earliest, even though I'm high risk and due for one. What the fuck, Ontario? #HealthcareOrLackThereof #Ontario #Covid #CovidBooster

Since people are asking:

Moderna has TWO fda approved #covid #covid19 vaxxes this year. Both have been updated for 2025.

The new one is mnexspike. It has some changes that in theory will make it work better as the virus evolves. And when they looked at the bloodwork of study participants who took the new version, older people had much better neutralizing antibodies production than with the original version. That should in theory translate to better protection for older people. Also the dosage has been reduced, so in theory there should be less of a reaction.

The drawback is that it’s new and we don’t have real world data for it beyond the study I mentioned above: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(25)00236-1/fulltext. That is why the previous paragraph was littered with “in theory”s.

If you have more questions about which vaccine, I encourage you to discuss them with your health provider.

My apologies for the world’s most niche post: KP generally just does Pfizer #covid #covid19 shots for adults, so if you want one of the Modernas you can go to an in network third party pharmacy instead. But when I looked at the in network pharmacy list for my plan, there was just one in the entire state! I called member services and they said that was incorrect; the one I had been going to was still in network, and all the CVS/Safeway pharmacies were going to be in network, specifically for covid shots.

If you are looking specifically for the new mnexspike vaccine, it looks like they are available in the Seattle area including in KP covered pharmacies: https://products.modernatx.com/mnexspike

I am an internet rando and we randos have a deservedly bad reputation with respect to factual statements! So please go verify your pharmacy’s in network status yourself before proceeding.

Folks, Mohammed ( @mohshbair) has taken ill after his trip to the South to try and secure a place for his family.

It’s likely Covid.

It’s the second account I’m seeing of someone who visited the South falling ill with Covid in as many days.

Please help him cover cost of treatment in addition to everything else.

This is his fundraiser: https://chuffed.org/project/mohshbairgaza

You can also find him on Gaza Verified:

https://gaza-verified.org

Please share so it can reach others who might be able to help also.

Thank you!

💕

#Gaza #Palestine #Mohammed #Covid #GazaVerified #fediAid #FreePalestine https://mastodon.social/@mohshbair/115201995885670592

My first cold of the season is _not_ #COVID , but I will still be glad when I get the new #booster #vaccine this Friday.

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A negative rapid COVID test.

The real reason they are fighting, aside from obviously gaining huge media attention… is the huge media attention.

Once the insanity stops, they will have the cull, then take the eggs that they have from the flock and grow new birds plus get birds from elsewhere that also came from their flock.

It’s not rocket science, these people are just using the publicity to further their financial prospects. More Culture War grifters.

The screenshots are from the wayback machine, 2021 before they took down their website, for obvious reasons.

https://web.archive.org/web/20211109063432/http://www.universalostrich.ca/

#charlatans #fools #antivax #grifters #ostrich #covid #birdflu

I still believe we are ripe for another #pandemic. Sadly I also believe that given the current #political, and #medical leadership, it would be worse than anything that happened with #Covid.

#covid #covid19 #ausgov #politas #health #healthcare #fact #science #proscience #vaccine

FYI: Kaiser sent me an email recommending I get a flu vaccine, but I checked their website and covid vaccines are also available starting the 15th!

Irresponsible of them not to headline that imo, but glad to see it.

[edit] apparently people are receiving between 0 (me) and 2 (some other folks) emails about the covid vaccine, so who knows lol

#covid

Prayers up for my Mom 🕯 ❤️🕯🙏
May we obtain clear diagnosis for her.
May she be given the necessary medical treatments she needs.
May she not be infected.
May she have full recovery.
May governments stop trying to kill people by no masking mandates in hospitals 😷

#BCHealth #BCMedical #HospitalER #HospitalSafety #CovidIsNotOver #Covid #MaskUp #MaskMandates #FireBonnieHenry #BCNDP #BCpoli #FailureToProtect #Eugenics #HealthCanada #CDNpoli #MedicalFails #BCNewDeathParty #SocialMurder #NewDeathParty

RFK Jr.‘s CDC may limit COVID shots to 75 and up, claim they killed kids https://arstechni.ca/ZurM #COVID-19 #vaccines #kennedy #Health #mRNA #CDC #fda

I'm almost like you deserve it screwups - airlines being one of the main drivers of reducing protections

#Covid #Covid19

https://7news.com.au/news/covid-outbreak-in-control-tower-causes-sydney-airport-chaos-c-20000466

Polite request to nonmaskers to consider keeping their masks handy. I'm currently in a house with a persistent cougher (who had a damaged arm since covid) who says 'everyone' is coming down with Covid. My friend who now has a progressive illness says covid could've triggered it. Another says his arm hasn't been right since covid. My Auntie wasn't home, she's in hospital... With covid. I use mask & nasal spray, so far so good since 2020. But it ain't over, no natter what Bojo says! #MaskUp #covid

Got the #flu #covid again... fuck this shit

Still Not Magnetized

I just got my new COVID booster and an influenza shot. I think I’m at 9 COVID shots now and I’m still not magnetic or experiencing any other ill effects like immune system collapse—it’s just good health for me. Consider me a vaccine junkie.

#COVID #Vaccines #Immunizations #Health

Update: Apotheke gefunden, die ab nächster Woche loslegt. Genauere Infos in der Antwort auf diesen Tröt.

Weiß eins in #EssenRuhr und Umgebung eine Praxis oder Apotheke, die den neuen angepassten #covid Impfstoff schon hat?
Gerne

Ich hab ein bisschen rumtelefoniert.
Die Apotheke in der Rathaus Galerie wird ab Mittwoch 17.09.2025 wieder mit dem angepassten Impfstoff impfen und zwar immer Mittwoch, Donnerstag, Freitag und Samstag von 8:00-17:00 Uhr.

#covid #impfung #EssenRuhr

'Onderzoek wijst uit: met deze neusspray heb je drie keer minder kans op corona'

"Specifiek gaat het om een spray met als actief bestanddeel ‘azelastine’. Dat is een vrij te verkrijgen geneesmiddel dat al jaren gebruikt wordt voor de behandeling van hooikoorts"

"niet alleen interessant is voor de behandeling van een besmetting maar ook voor het voorkomen ervan"

"Op vlak van bijwerkingen zagen de wetenschappers exact wat zij verwacht hadden voor dit geneesmiddel. De bekende vermoeidheid (3,1 procent), neusbloedingen (6,6 procent) en bittere smaak (9,3 procent)"

"Onderzoek testte neusspray met azelastine (geneesmiddel tegen hooikoorts) voor bescherming tegen coronavirus.
450 mensen tussen de 18 en 65 jaar namen deel, 227 van hen spoten 56 dagen lang 3x per dag de spray in hun neus.
Bij deze mensen zag men 3x minder besmettingen met het coronavirus in vergelijking met de controlegroep.
Ook het aantal luchtweginfecties met andere ziekteverwekkers was lager (tien procent versus ongeveer twintig procent).
Personen met de azelastine neusspray waren ook minder lang ziek."

"Deze neusspray zou daarom een toegankelijk middel zijn dat als aanvulling kan gebruikt worden op bestaande beschermende maatregelen zoals bijvoorbeeld een mondkapje"

https://www.margriet.nl/gezondheid/onderzoek-wijst-uit-met-deze-neusspray-heb-je-drie-keer-minder-kans-op-corona~b6bcf473/

https://archive.ph/wrilk

#gezondheid #azelastine #Covid #preventie #hooikoorts

Der Herbst kommt, und #COVID verbreitet sich auch in Deutschland wieder. Und ich habe gerade einen Termin für den 19. gebucht, damit ich auch wider die neuste #Booster - #Impfung bekomme, die ab Montag zur Verfügung steht.

ProTip: Wenn sich die Arztpraxis eures Vertrauens beim Impfen ziert ("Wir impfen bloß Risikogruppen nach Empfehlung des #RKI !"), dann sucht mal in eurer Umgebung ab, ob es auch irgendwelche Apotheken gibt die Impfen - die machen da weniger Umstände.

(Zumindest in den letzten Jahren musste ich da auch nichts bezahlen...)

https://robert-koch-institut.github.io/Abwassersurveillance_AMELAG_-_Wochenbericht/#/

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Eine logarithmische Kurve der COVID-Abwasserwerte für Deutschland in den letzten drei Jahren.

It's 2025, when back in 2022 the World Bank, numerous national financial orgs, business groups warned about the impending crisis in retaining employees, especially health as they are most exposed to Covid and other airborne pathogens

And people seem surprised when a study confirms the obvious - no mitigations like masking or filtering air, this is the result

#Covid #Covid19 #CDNpoli #ONpoli #ABpoli #BCpoli #Health

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/long-covid-healthcare-study-1.6395013

New Mexico Department of Health order makes COVID-19 vaccines available without prescription

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/new-mexico-department-of-health-order-makes-covid-19-vaccines-available-without-prescription/article_1e34469f-227d-427f-a24e-e96d9c5356a9.html

#NewMexico #COVID #Vaccines

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