This week's Pandemics in BC blog posts:
General: https://covidbc.webfoot.com/2026/10/02/2026-10-02-general/
BC: https://covidbc.webfoot.com/2026/10/02/2026-10-02-bc/

#covid19bc #covid19 #covid #measles #rsv #h5n1

#Vermont #vaccine recommendations are live. #flu #COVID #RSV https://www.benningtonbanner.com/health/health-department-releases-flu-covid-and-rsv-vaccine-recommendations-for-2026-27/4923799

Are there any #COVID conscious children's books? We're especially interested in board books because of our baby's age and destructiveness, but I'll take anything.

What I hear from other parents is that there are a few from the early pandemic with outdated info like standing 6 feet apart and cloth masks, but nothing really relevant today.

Alternately, if you want your child to care about public health, what books might help?

#CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #KidsBooks #BoardBooks #PublicHealth

#Covid

Genf publiziert im Episcope-Newsletter Covid-Hospitalisierungsdaten des HUG (einzige Schweizer Daten, die mir bekannt sind).

Die Spitaldaten wirken proportional zu den Abwasserdaten.

Auch interessant: Zum ersten Mal Impfempfehlung für *ab September*.

Dutchies,

Does anyone have recommendations where to buy 3M aura FFP2 masks for a reasonable price?

#Covid

Greetings, here are the weekly #washingtonstate #kingcounty (that is, #seattle and environs) #COVID #COVID19 #wastewater toots.

A reminder that this King County respiratory disease data comes from Washington State, not the federal government.

The West Point (WSPT) sewage treatment plant's SARS-CoV2 seven-day running average numbers are still bouncing around at a fairly high level. The last seven day running average calculation was done on 9/22.

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.

So, me being me, when I use the phrase "dope" as in "awesome", I spell it "doap" (rhymes with soap). I've done this for a great many years.

I kinda disappeared off the radar when I was very ill with #covid, right into #LongCovid (you are still masking, right?), and lost touch with a lot of formerly close people.

Recently I've been in contact with several old pals, and each one at some point used my spelling. A silly thing, but deeply meaningful - they're giving me a sign like they remember *me*.

#oneNiceThing

RaiNews: Covid, Pregliasco: "Incremento di casi e ricoveri. Attenzione ai fragili"

Il direttore della scuola di specializzazione in igiene e medicina preventiva Università degli Studi di Milano: "Invito alla vaccinazione per l'influenza, che può essere associata nella stessa seduta al richiamo Covid"

Covid, Pregliasco: “Increase in cases and hospitalizations. Attention to vulnerable individuals.”

The director of the School of Specialization in Hygiene and Preventive Medicine at the University of Milan states: “Invitation to influenza vaccination, which can be combined with the COVID booster during the same appointment.”

#Pregliasco #COVID

https://www.rainews.it/video/2026/09/fabrizio-pregliasco-e-professore-di-igiene-alluniversita-degli-studi-di-milano-e3f40751-d4a6-4ffe-a7e0-fa377ddbe141.html

RaiNews: Covid, casi in aumento: "Fenomeno mondiale di recrudescenza dell'epidemia"

La variante NB.1.8.1 è oggi quella più diffusa, ma non appare più aggressiva delle precedenti Omicron

COVID, rising cases: “Global resurgence of the epidemic”

Variant NB.1.8.1 is today the most widespread, but it no longer appears as aggressive as previous Omicron variants.

#COVID #Omicron

https://www.rainews.it/articoli/2026/09/covid-cosa-ce-dietro-laumento-dei-casi-fenomeno-mondiale-di-recrudescenza-dellepidemia-01dca77a-fec1-4770-8a5c-76d727ec9ad8.html

Via Betsy Ladyzhets at The Sick Times, the CDC says there will be an interruption in the reporting for about 200 respiratory disease #wastewater testing sites as they change contracts for testing companies: https://thesicktimes.org/2026/09/29/national-covid-19-trends-september-29/. The note at the CDC website at https://www.cdc.gov/wastewater/respiratory-viruses/national.html is terse and doesn't make any promises about when the testing will be restored.

In Washington State, I believe almost all the wastewater testing happens at the state level, so I don't expect there to be much of an impact here. One possible exception is Snohomish; it gets its testing data from Verily, the existing CDC contractor, and therefore might be one of the two hundred affected sites. But I don't know that for a fact.

#covid #COVID19

Newly released #memos reveal Dr. Anthony #Fauci’s private alarm over Army #biodefense experiments with #Ebola and their results, which he worried would erode public trust in #vaccines. His concern predated the #COVID #lockdown by almost four years. Ebola is not only deadly, but reports show a death rate 50 times that of COVID.

justthenews.com/government/con…

@chadmccullough Maybe a description of the guy (young/old, hair color, clothing) might help narrow things down. I know of some cycling pandemic videos, but it was part of Alexei Sayle's cycling video series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGO22mT2plc&list=PLbIjmIiqAXCU8NLTiuvLezSoKNc7Je_p9 #BikeTooter #COVID #Cycling

My latest nextgen Covid vax update is online:

—New feature: Combined flu & Covid vaccines — the first one has been approved for people 50 & over, plus a massive effectiveness trial is beginning in Denmark & Spain
—Results from a phase 2 trial of a "variant-proof" vaccine
—A phase 1/2 clinical trial of a featured vax has fully recruited

Plus preclinical reports & more:

https://vaxtracker.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/the-race-for-combined-flu-covid-vaccine-nextgen-vax-news/

#Vaccines #Covid #Covid19 #Influenza

Well damn. The weird cold has turned out to be #covid. That explains so much now.

Coworker A: Talking about illness symptoms (it’s been a week). They think it might be the change in the weather.

Coworker B, to my surprise: Maybe it’s #COVID ?

Coworker A: Oh I didn’t even think of that.

As though COVID is ancient history.

Anecdata, but if you’re hoping people will connect the dots eventually, I don’t know about that…

Email campaign to get masks back into healthcare in BC. If you live in BC, please sign and share!

#Canada #BritishColumbia #Covid #MaskUp #Health #Healthcare

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/fallwinter-202627-restore-improve-healthcare-mask-protections-in-bc

@LewisFord

Just in case you're not trolling, here's the NHS's page on #LongCovid:

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/long-covid/

Extreme fatigue, shortness of breath, joint pain, brain fog, and a dozen other symptoms — does that sound as if #Covid were over?

Get up to date on your vaccine. Wear a respirator when you're indoors in public spaces. Be sensible. It's not hard.

#CovidIsNotOver

@broadwaybabyto

We're the ones who keep us safe. Unfortunately, that "we" is not big enough.

Too often it's disabled folks who are the caregivers of other disabled folks. That's because of disableism.

"I haven't had any adequate support until I found [peer support]... It really bothers me that those who are sick and struggling have to do all of this for me when there are nondisabled, privileged people who have the energy to help," says Mari.

https://thesicktimes.org/2026/07/20/abandoned-by-our-governments-people-with-severe-me-and-long-covid-are-supported-by-severely-ill-peers/

#MECFS #disability #covid #covidIsNotOver

#covid19bc #covid19 #covid #rsv #measles

In der einen Apotheke in Aarau gefragt, ob sie gegen Covid impfen würden. Antwort: ja, aber der neue Impfstoff werde frühestens Dezember geliefert...
#Covid #Impfung