I went to an annual appointment at my cancer hospital yesterday in my N95 mask. My doctor and nurse sort of accommodated me; my doctor wore a surgical mask and commented proudly that she didn’t need to be asked again to put one on this year, while the nurse seemed to actually consider air flow and asked if I wanted to have the exam room door stay open.

When I arrived, I sat in the waiting room near the only other masked people, two people wearing surgical masks. They soon got called in, and then I was the only masked person. An unmasked guy walked past me talking to his companion, and said something like, “she’s wearing that shit.” I readied myself for confrontation, but they didn’t come back.

Lots of people there were coughing and clearing their throats.

My doctor excitedly told me that all my numbers are good, and that I am still beating the odds in surviving the aggressive cancer that I had. But I’m now surviving in spite of the masses who have “moved on” from Covid. And in spite of those who use a “risk assessment” that allows them to fool themselves into believing that they are somehow still my ally.

It doesn’t have to be this way. I want to fight harder for humanity, but humanity doesn’t want to fight for me.

#Covid #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask

"President Donald Trump said Thursday he’s nominating radiologist and former Fox News Channel contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier for surgeon general after Dr. Casey Means’ path forward stalled in the Senate over questions about her experience and her stance on vaccines."

https://apnews.com/article/trump-surgeon-general-means-saphier-cebadfb452fb577b6cd5254e2e55d86b

#PublicHealth #SurgeonGeneral #MAHA #HepatitsB #covid #vaccines #immunizations #healthcare #ACA #obamacare #UScongress #USpol

Nurse colleague of my wife collapsed at work today, full on myocardial infarction - she's in the ICU.

Covid denier, had at least 4 bouts of infections, hasn't vaccinated in years - took leave after one infection for a long recovery

She's 31

Mandate masks and vaccines in health settings

That's another nurse out for stupidity

#Covid #Covid19 #LongCovid

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 of its detected Sars-CoV-2 levels is low. The last calculation was made on 4/19.

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.

Point conseil juridique:
Quand on reçoit une ordonnance pénale pour fausse déclaration et obtention indue du "fonds de solidarité covid" (erreur honnête ici), est ce que le mieux qu’on puisse espérer c’est l’étalement du remboursement ou est ce qu’une partie de la somme peut sauter?

(Il s’agit ici d’une asso et d’une personne précaire)

Si vous n’y connaissez rien mais avez un site/une ressource qui me permettrait d’aiguiller mon ami•e ce serait merveilleux ❤️ Iel n’a absolument pas les 9200€ qu’on lui réclame en big 2026 😩

#covid

RE: https://mastodon.social/@augieray/116488149227428002

Some #GoodNews on #Covid.

Here is what #RFKJr and his minions don't want you to know about the effectiveness of #vaccines for #COVID. https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/exclusive-heres-the-covid-19-vaccine #ImpeachRFKJr

Jeremy Faust got a copy of the censored paper and published it: https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/exclusive-heres-the-covid-19-vaccine.

Faust’s source says that they think RFKJr doesn’t want to publish the study because he wants to weaken CDC recommendations for the vaccines this year, including for high risk populations like older adults. The study shows that last season’s vaccine was 50% effective against ER visits and hospitalization for immunocompetent adults.

#COVID #COVID19

Jeremy Faust has a very good piece about some recent results about Paxlovid in our current #COVID #COVID19 environment: https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/the-end-of-the-paxlovid-era-why-two. The TL;DR is that two good studies show that this drug’s utility has decreased a great deal as individual immunity developed with vaccines and infections.

What about Paxlovid benefits for immunocompromised people and preventing long covid? These are good questions, and I suggest reading the entire article to get Faust’s assessment.