43:07[1] love this stealman. Glad you caught the backhanded word slide.

Yeah I was not fond of the term #essentialworker namely because all workers are essential. The desire to shutdown some jobs is ridiculous. But I do understand the desire to kill off only the essential workers, I mean save the lives of non-essential, I mean err nope I'm out. #covid

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1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZjSXS2NdS0&lc=UgxkfOQpwA7RL-Y8vqV4AaABAg&s=2587
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#Covid #longCovid in het #FD.

‘Er is nog veel werk te verzetten. Denk aan haalbare structurele preventiemaatregelen. Het systeem laat mensen vallen. Dat moet anders.'

'Meer dan een half miljoen mensen in Nederland zijn langdurig ziek na #corona. Het kan iedereen overkomen, ook na een milde besmetting. Long covid is geen verlengde verkoudheid, maar een invaliderende ziekte, waarvoor nog geen oplossing bestaat.’

https://fd.nl/samenleving/1561380/zij-leven-met-long-covid-mijn-identiteit-is-vervaagd

https://archive.ph/2025.07.11-230055/https://fd.nl/samenleving/1561380/zij-leven-met-long-covid-mijn-identiteit-is-vervaagd

@HarriettMB They didn't mention #COVID, that is understandable as instead of inciting fear it would incite contempt. People in the states are more worried now about the government overreach then they are about COVID.

Which brings me to a question, what do you expect society to do? Covid is still a thing, influenza is still a thing. The world exists with and function with deadly diseases. People's livelihood relies on "doing", we can't stop society and expect people to be fead and housed. Even if the government provided all that for free, it isn't possible if the government does have people working. So what do you want to see?

The Lancet published the results of Moderna's mRNA-1273 (Marketing name: mNexSpike) phase 3 trial a couple of days ago: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(25)00236-1/fulltext.

The goal of the trial was to prove that mRNA-1283 wasn't inferior to the current mRNA-1273 vaccine, and the study definitely showed that. There's also some good reasons to think it might be an improvement, but the paper doesn't address that: "Our [relative vaccine efficacy] and immunogenicity findings suggest that mRNA-1283 might have a clinical efficacy benefit over mRNA-1273, but further studies will be needed to confirm the potential benefit." So we will have to wait for more data on this.
#COVID19 #COVID

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 has been creeping up. Last data is from 7/1.

The variant analysis for all three sites has been updated for the last week of June. Both NB 1.8.1 and XFG are showing up in the samples.

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). New! 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.

Good article about MA/RI folks still taking Covid precautions.
https://pvdeye.org/why-we-mask-solidarity-creativity-community-care-in-a-not-quite-post-pandemic-world/
#massachusetts #PVD #Providence #RI #RhodeIsland #Boston #Covid #MaskUp

National Independent Venue Alliance told #DOJ #FTC it would ultimately perfer breakup of consolidated #LiveNation arms into four separate #LiveMusic industry companies.

#NIVA filed briefs suggesting separation of the #Concert #ticketing, from the production & #promotion being firewalled from from #advertising & #sponsorship wings, while #Artist management activities be split off as well after both federal #GOV agencies jointly requested public input on “unfair practices in the live #entertainment marketplace.”

NIVA was founded in 2020 as a collective live music industry voice during #COVID pandemic when most #events were cancelled and staff and #venues faced dire straits financially.

https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2025/07/niva-calls-on-doj-ftc-to-break-live-nation-into-four-companies.html

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National Independent Venue Alliance

Despite the misinformation from both Trump and Biden, Covid is not over. While deaths are down, here's a summary of the damage it does to the body.
#COVID #LongCovid https://www.panaccindex.info/p/what-covid-19-does-to-the-body-eighth

Fostul primar din #Wuhan, orașul chinez din care a pornit primul focar de 🦠#COVID-19, anchetat pentru „încălcări grave”.

🔗 https://wp.me/p9KpFA-4z6M

#Știri #China #Sănătate

The new Vitals feature in the #iOS18 #Health app is pretty neat. No new data really, but a straightforward way to visual data. When I got #Covid a couple weeks ago I felt awful and there was no doubt that I was sick, but interestingly the day before I started feeling bad the Vitals app showed “Outliers” in my sensor data. High body temperature, fast respiration, rapid heart beat, etc…

The new Vitals feature in the #iOS18 #Health app is pretty neat. No new data really, but a straightforward way to visual data. When I got #Covid a couple weeks ago I felt awful and there was no doubt that I was sick, but interestingly the day before I started feeling bad the Vitals app showed “Outliers” in my sensor data. High body temperature, fast respiration, rapid heart beat, etc…