Oh you HAVE to be kidding. Headline:

Why are so many kids calling in sick for school? [1]

summary says "CBC's Tara Carman breaks down what the data reveals"

interview:

of those that track illness, our analysis shows that compared to five years ago, absences for reported illness went up

So what does CBC investigate?

They ... ask one talking head about anxiety and don't considre any other options. Well maybe they'll quantify? Naw they'll literally say only:

anxiety definitely is a contributor to attendance

no kidding but where's the data that you promised to break down?

Look, I'm not saying that kids aren't avoiding school because of bullying.

But MAYBE CHECK SOME ACTUAL NUMBERS. Because there's a new disease, in the last five years, and now Long COVID is more prevalent than asthma in kids[2] and ignoring that in a piece on calling in sick seems, bluntly, stupid?

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6988481
[2] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2834486

#BadJournalism #CBC #CDNPoli #Canada #COVID #COVID19 #LongCOVID

So much to know.
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"University of Alberta researchers studied 445,646 adults and found that of those who had taken antibiotics in the three months prior to COVID infection, at least 50% were to experience poor outcomes, including emergency room visits, hospitalization, or death, within 30 days of COVID infection.

"The increased risks persisted even after adjusting for comorbidities, suggesting that the disruption of the gut microbiome caused by recent antibiotic use may negatively impact the body’s immune response to a subsequent COVID infection."

#Covid #Health #Antibiotics
https://drruth.substack.com/p/covid-and-health-news-112325

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Dusted off and worked on the #frameworkLaptop yesterday, up and running. The kiddos both game on the weekends, so I had some use for it again. Almost took this puppy for donation when I was dealing with #covid last year; my brain and sausage fingers really couldn't work on keeping it going (it has many quirks; it's the 13-inch Tigerlake one, lol). I'll probably use it out and about too; it's super lightweight.

New NVME drive, and started out with #cachyos, unlike my bigger laptop and desktop that use Arch with repos from Cachy 😄 I'll bump up the monitor and solder the new RTC controller (one of the quirks) when they arrive in the coming weeks.

So you may have seen that the commentariat has decided that one key issue coming out of the Covid Inquiry is its cost (at around £200mn) with all sorts of opining that this really is not not a good use of scarce money...

Well, I'll tell you wasn't a good use of scarce money: the nearly £1.5bn that was lost on contracts for faulty/unusable PPE & the associated fraud(s).

It makes £200mn for something actually (potentially) useful look like pretty good value to me!

#Covid #PPE #politics

One of the major thoughts I have reading around this and thinking back to covid is how catastrophic it was that the reckless far right Johnsonites were in government at the time. Things may have gone vastly better with a responsible government in power.

And another pandemic is basically inevitable in the near future — one of many reasons to never let the right wing into power — and yet Reform is in ascendancy anyway.

#covid #coronavirus

I honestly don’t think people have laid enough blame at the doors of Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak and Matt Hancock for the horrific death toll from #Covid in the UK.

This report should correct that. Make apparent the shambolic, distracted, peacocking and misogynistic nature of the #Tory PM and his cabinet.

No one expected perfection, but where was the action or leadership???

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/20/too-little-too-late-damning-report-condemns-uk-covid-response

‘Events such as the early #Covid crisis in Italy “should have prompted urgent planning across the four nations”

“Instead, the governments did not take the pandemic seriously enough until it was too late. February 2020 was a lost month.”

28 days of dithering, procrastinating and half term spent importing the virus from ski trips to Italy/ Austria…all the while Johnson was holed up in a grace and favour stately home, not receiving updates, probably just catching up on his side hustle writing gig

Raport. Aproximativ 23 de mii de decese ar fi putut fi evitate în 🇬🇧#RegatulUnit, dacă primul lockdown, de la începutul pandemiei 🦠#COVID-19, ar fi fost impus mai devreme. 🇬🇧#GuvernulRegatuluiUnit de la acea vreme este criticat pentru reacțiile întârziate în contexul unei crize de sănătate publică, lipsa de coordonare și crearea unei culturi “toxice și haotice”.

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#Știri #Sănătate

I won't have time to read the full report for a while, but the #covid inquiry report seems fascinating.

Wales got picked on a lot during and after the pandemic, but much of it was silly, failing to acknowledge the differences in our population, regional health service availability, and funding — but the report confirms here the firebreak was a good decision but made too late, and opening up early for Christmas was a bad idea.

#wales

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15p5d04j9zo

After a #GOP #DOJ #GrandJury proceeding #Florida #Democrat Congresswoman of Haitian-American descent Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick has been #indicted for allegedly taking $5 million in #FEMA funding from running a #COVID-19 #vaccination clinic and funneling exce$$ into her first ever Congressional #campaign.

A recent addition to #Congress, Ms. Cherfilus-McCormick won a special election to fill her seat in 2022, pouring an astounding $2.3 million dollars of "her own money" into her campaign, winning "bigly" with 78% of the vote. This no doubt put her on the #Drumpf team radar.

The new #PamBondi #MAGA approved charges could result in decades of #prison time if the mother of two who represents #BrowardCounty, and parts of the #TrumpCountry enclave Palm Beach, were ultimately to be convicted.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/democratic-rep-sheila-cherfilus-mccormick-indicted-could-face-up-to-53-years-in-prison/ar-AA1QLUUs

Hi, these are 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.

The West Point (WSPT) sewage treatment plant's 7-Day running average is the lowest[*] it's been since the state switched data providers in fall of 2024. And you know what that means: it's time to deploy some celebratory emoticons: 😍👯:dance_cool_doge:The last data was calculated on 11/9.

[*] if you exclude the 0.0 "no data" placeholder values that pop up from time to time in this dataset.

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.

Generally, to prevent a scene, most of us give pretty civil responses to "Why are you wearing a mask?"

Which of the following would be most satisfying (in the moment) to give, just to see the a-hole lose it

#covid19 #covid

Die #COVID -Welle in Deutschland für diese Saison scheint bereits wieder abzuflachen. Sie ist natürlich im Vergleich zum Sommer immer noch hoch, und ich empfehle bis mindestens Ende Januar noch vorsichtig zu sein.

Aber trotzdem gut, daß sie von Jahr zu Jahr schwächer wird.

(Ich denke, es war auch eine gute Entscheidung daß ich die Auffrischungs- #Impfung bereits Mitte September zu mir genommen habe...)

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

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Die COVID-Abwasserwerte für Deutschland für die letzten drei Jahre in einer Kurvendarstellung. Die Spitzenwerte sind im Spätherbst/Winter, und sinken von Jahr zu Jahr.