libera/##covid-19/ Saturday, 2024-06-29

ublxah00:03
ublxhm, owid still recording UK data weekly for new cases, but recording of deaths stopped in october last year00:13
LjLublx, does it have percentage of positive tests? absolute case numbers don't really mean anything anymore, if they ever did00:14
ublxsec00:15
ublxnot since May 2022, looks like00:17
LjL:(00:18
LjLthat's silly00:18
LjLif they have cases, they have tests00:18
ublxdata set has as field 32: positive_rate,National government reports,Tests & positivity,"The share of COVID-19 tests that are positive, given as a rolling 7-day average (this is the inverse of tests_per_case)"00:22
ublxno data except zero in that field since 2022051900:23
ublxfield 27 is: new_tests,National government reports,Tests & positivity,New tests for COVID-19 (only calculated for consecutive days)00:26
ublxreporting ends on same day00:26
ublxoh hrm, neither field is populated with zeroes (or at all) after that date, the zeroes just came from the awk format specifier i used00:27
BrainstormNew from Ars Technica: Science: NASA orders more tests on Starliner, but says crew isn’t stranded in space → https://arstechnica.com/?p=203443101:02
LjLspeak of tests...01:06
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): COVID19_Pandemic: A New Kind of Clinical Trial: Bringing Long COVID Research Into Patients’ Homes - For those living with Long COVID, debilitating symptoms can make traveling to a study site impossible < Yale School of Medicine → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19_Pandemic/comments/1dqyx7t/a_new_kind_of_clinical_trial_bringing_long_covid/02:48
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: We finally know why some people got COVID while others didn’t → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/1dr2ak1/we_finally_know_why_some_people_got_covid_while/05:50
LjLwhy finally know why headlines headline05:53
BrainstormNew from This Week In Virology: TWiV 1126: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin: In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses RSV vaccination recommendations and revisions to guidelines before reviewing the recent statistics on SARS-CoV-2 infection, data suggesting that individuals with high HLA-DQA2 expression (MHC class [... want %more?] → https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-1126/06:10
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): CoronavirusUK: Surge in Covid infections and spike in hospital admissions in Scotland → https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronavirusUK/comments/1dr63an/surge_in_covid_infections_and_spike_in_hospital/10:00
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): CoronavirusUK: We’re experiencing a high number of patients being admitted to our hospitals with Covid-19 which is impacting wait times in A&E. If you’re unsure where to seek care visit: https://nhsggc.scot/your-health/right-care-right-place/https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronavirusUK/comments/1dr6bow/were_experiencing_a_high_number_of_patients_being/10:38
BrainstormNew from Retraction Watch: Weekend reads: Huge cash bonuses for publishing in Nature; Alzheimer’s researcher charged with fraud; fines for buying authorship: Would you consider a donation to support Weekend [... want %more?] → https://retractionwatch.com/2024/06/29/weekend-reads-huge-cash-bonuses-for-publishing-in-nature-fines-for-buying-authorship-have-retraction-notices-improved/12:04
BrainstormNew from StatNews: First Opinion: Opinion: What readers have to say about long Covid, FDA and diversity, and more → https://www.statnews.com/2024/06/29/first-opinion-reader-letters-long-covid-fda-diversity/13:12
BrainstormNew from Eric Topol on Mastodon: (news): Our NEJM piece today on academic freedom, and why institutions cannot remain silent, such as when lives are potentially at stake, as occurred with Covid. → https://mstdn.social/@erictopol/11270058229376686917:24
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): COVID19_Pandemic: The Supreme Court basically put our federal agencies in their hands. → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19_Pandemic/comments/1drg6rh/the_supreme_court_basically_put_our_federal/19:39
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): COVID19_Pandemic: A summer wave of Covid-19 has arrived in the US - Covid-19 levels have been rising in the United States for weeks as new variants drive what’s become an annual summer surge. → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19_Pandemic/comments/1drjonf/a_summer_wave_of_covid19_has_arrived_in_the_us/22:41

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