I'm happy to report that the #washingtonstate #covid #covid19 #wastewater site is being updated again, yay. It's been down due to a supplier issue since early June.

Let's start with the West Point (WSPT) sewage treatment plant. The 7-Day running average of the Sars-CoV-2 levels is up above the nice low baseline level we were enjoying this spring. The last data is from 7/14.

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.

*Please* mask. Please. COVID is still out there, and it's deadly.

#covid

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Reddit post screenshot: I just got long covid I'm so angry about this. I'm 14 and have been advocating with my parents to let me start masking but i was never allowed to because of how it made me look sick. It got so bad my mom even threw all my masks out. Then in March I tested positive for COVID which I only isolated w for 3 days and every day since I felt horrible. Pain in my chest, out of nowhere nosebleeds and also brain fog. Two nights ago I was diagnosed with Long COVID and now all of a sudden I've been allowed to start masking but not vaccinated so idk. I only tried protecting myself and now I have LC. I feel like my life is ruined, what should I do and what precautions should I start taking

I used to think if Covid was visible or smelled bad that more people would wear masks.

Seeing all these bare-faced coughing people walking around in the orange stinky wildfire smoke tainted air has reset my expectations.

#WearAMask #MaskUpN95 #Covid #CovidIsNotOver

Says long #Covid may partly be changes in brain function through reduction in available #neurotransmitters. (Correct me if I've misread -- currently struggling with brain fog myself -- unsure if one or multiple causes) >>

Loss of vesicular monoamine transporter 2 in striatum of long COVID and relationship to neuropsychiatric symptoms - PIIS2352396426002227.pdf

https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2352-3964%2826%2900222-7