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(DIR) Post #AYdOfP9GOaiWVLqA08 by tracingcovid@mstdn.social
2023-08-11T17:09:46Z
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What could be the cause? "More young Americans are dying – and it's not COVID. Why aren't we searching for answers?" 🤔 https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2023/08/11/more-americans-dying-than-before-pandemic-covid-deaths/70542423007/ "Excess deaths are a global phenomenonThis isn’t only happening in the United States. The United Kingdom also saw 'more excess deaths in the second half of 2022 than in the second half of any year since 2010,' according to the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries." #publichealth
(DIR) Post #AYdOfjmdfu66VGPt9U by tracingcovid@mstdn.social
2023-08-11T17:28:01Z
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A tragic factor contributing to excess deaths: "US suicides hit an all-time high last year" https://apnews.com/article/suicides-record-2022-guns-48511d74deb24d933e66cec1b6f2d545?taid=64d5647d99e3c900016ccfd1&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter "About 49,500 people took their own lives last year in the U.S....available data suggests suicides are more common in the U.S. than at any time since the dawn of World War II.'There’s something wrong. The number should not be going up,' said Christina Wilbur, a 45-year-old Florida woman whose son shot himself to death last year." #publichealth
(DIR) Post #AYdOfmKkC4ZCPcO9aa by tracingcovid@mstdn.social
2023-08-11T18:56:57Z
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We're under-testing for COVID in hospitals. The result is OpEds like the one upthread, which is authored by an antivaxx doctor selling his own cures https://twitter.com/PierreKory/status/1689973283586715648 #COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth #HealthCare #Antivaxx
(DIR) Post #AYs231EKIRdOq50z32 by tracingcovid@mstdn.social
2023-08-18T19:50:13Z
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For those who take precautions, we have new variants -- one with 30 mutations -- and less data than ever after the U.S. ended the Public Health Emergency (PHE) on May 11th: https://thehill.com/homenews/4157523-modernas-updated-covid-19-shot-shows-significant-boost-antibodies-against-eris-strain/?utm_source=press.coop "Only three of the 10 regions monitored by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are reporting genomic data on COVID-19, making the full picture of variant dominance in the U.S. unclear." #COVID #COVID19 #Eris #ba286 #publichealth
(DIR) Post #AZC9f4PlUSGSYneg3E by tracingcovid@mstdn.social
2023-08-28T16:30:24Z
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@Wolven Gross!
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2023-08-31T15:43:46Z
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Vocabulary time: wherein we correct UCSF's misinformation vector Monica Gandhi. Dr. Gandhi once tweeted that "autoimmunity" and "superimmunity" were synonyms. They are not. There is nothing "super" about autoimmunity. It tipped me off Gandhi doesn't check her facts or look up words. Here she claims the W.H.O. downgraded COVID-19 from pandemic to "endemic". Again, the W.H.O. didn't do this. A pathogen can be endemic and still be causing a pandemic. Endemic is in no way a virtue. #COVID
(DIR) Post #AZV0sxfzu12tjAVldA by tracingcovid@mstdn.social
2023-09-06T15:50:28Z
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Sep 05 New York State to distribute tests, masks as kids return to school amid rise in COVID cases (Newsday) http://www.newsday.com/news/health/coronavirus/new-york-masks-tests-covid-19-school-reopens-adak8p5x - "amid a rise in COVID-19 positivity rates statewide, Gov. Kathy Hochul Tuesday announced the state would make rapid testing kits and N-95 and KN-95 masks available to school districts and BOCES upon request. But unlike the early days of the pandemic, masks are no longer required in schools for students or staff" #COVID #COVID19
(DIR) Post #AZV0veCKmNXwBWuw52 by tracingcovid@mstdn.social
2023-09-06T17:02:13Z
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Nov 2022 Universal Masking Policies in Schools and Mitigating the Inequitable Costs of Covid-19 (NEJM) https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2213556 - "A study by Cowger and colleagues, the results of which are now reported in the Journal,8 provides new evidence that the removal of universal school masking policies in Massachusetts was associated with an increased incidence of Covid-19." #COVID #COVID19
(DIR) Post #AZvaPMxtedoY0qU84O by tracingcovid@mstdn.social
2023-09-19T14:32:32Z
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@Wolven 🙏 TY for saying this. Gathering is so important, even for mere ambiverts like me!
(DIR) Post #AZvbNMBHhNHuxKLplQ by tracingcovid@mstdn.social
2023-09-19T14:43:23Z
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@Wolven The thing about the "everyone should be allowed to work from home forever" argument is, the need for in-person school instruction punctures it. But maybe extroverts are too extroverted to examine the interior benefits of face-to-face. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/18/opinion/letters/empty-offices-storefronts.html
(DIR) Post #AaqWogVfwLkErP7qvg by tracingcovid@mstdn.social
2023-10-16T18:25:27Z
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Emidemiologist Irene Petersen wants more children infected. https://twitter.com/i_petersen/status/1713882618561769917 Epidemiologists are NOT: immunologists, endocrinologists or doctors. Also, few epidemiologists argue for infection-pushing the way Irene Petersen does. #COVID #COVID19 #publichealth
(DIR) Post #AcDMF7IcvgmsKFaqp6 by tracingcovid@mstdn.social
2023-11-26T16:28:48Z
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1/ Yesterday's newsletter Tracing Long: Team Chemistry is about a response to author Michael Lewis' data myopia. https://tracingcovid.substack.com/p/tracing-long-team-chemistry #COVID #COVID19 #dataheads
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2023-11-26T16:34:40Z
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2/ Michael Lewis, for people who travel outside my targeted content algorithm, spent October promoting his book "Going Infinite" by defending the intent and character of his book's subject, Sam Bankman-Fried. The book hit store shelves the day Bankman-Fried's trial for seven counts of fraud and money-laundering started, Oct. 2. #cryptocurrency #datachauvenism #STEMchauvenism #crypto
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2023-11-26T16:46:26Z
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3/ But the book of Michael Lewis' less-known contemporary who is equal in talent, Joan Ryan, hit store shelves in April 2020. Few heard about "Intangibles" and that's everybody's loss. A masterwork written over 10 years, drawing from Ryan's 30 years of sports-reporting, "Intangibles" is an engaging written investigation on whether "team chemistry" exists, in sports and outside of it. #teamchemistry #humanities #datachauvenism #sports
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2023-11-26T16:52:34Z
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4/ Author Joan Ryan, in "Intangibles" looks outside the sabermetrics data cell for evidence of team chemistry. (Sabermetrics is the name of the data analytics system Michael Lewis' "Moneyball" introduced to the world.) https://tracingcovid.substack.com/p/tracing-long-team-chemistry #analytics #humanities #isolation #interaction #COVID #lockdown
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2023-11-26T17:10:29Z
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5/ Parts of "Intangibles" emit sunshine so discomfiting to my hardened heart, I rush-read to get past them: Ryan got the idea for the book after seeing a news article on "The Love Hormone as Sports Enhancer" about the neuropeptide oxytocin (not to be confused with the pharmaceutical Oxycontin). Oxytocin is "produced in the brain and released in our bloodstream we fall in love ... It can also be triggered by meaningful touch." (Love? There's no love in baseball!) https://tracingcovid.substack.com/p/tracing-long-team-chemistry
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2023-11-26T17:24:58Z
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6/ In an under-told account, Joan Ryan relays the mutiny Dustin Pedroia and a half-dozen players pulled in the fourth game of the 2013 World Series when their teammate Jonny Gomes’ statistics dropped him from the lineup. Manager John Farrell angrily acceded to their insubordination “Jonny Gomes is playing” they’d told him. "Numbers that time of year are irrelevant" Pedroia told Ryan. https://tracingcovid.substack.com/p/tracing-long-team-chemistry #humanities #STEMchauvenism #baseball #sports #JoanRyan
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2023-11-26T19:12:57Z
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7/ I prefixed this newsletter title with "Tracing Long: " to look further back and further forward before & after March 2020. An societal recovery remains elusive when COVID keeps killing the 200 Americans per day. Because historical accounts of the 1920's show their post-pandemic world was not post-pandemic at all. The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic didn't screech to a halt in 1920. It resurfaced in pockets and waves.https://tracingcovid.substack.com/p/tracing-long-team-chemistry #history #pandemics #publichealth
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2023-12-19T20:27:01Z
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Dec 18 Report, monitor all respiratory infections: Centre releases advisory in the wake of rising Covid cases (News9Live India) http://www.news9live.com/health/covid-19/report-monitor-all-respiratory-infections-centre-releases-advisory-in-the-wake-of-rising-covid-cases-2380294 - "New Delhi: In the wake of rising new cases of Covid variants JN.1, Union Health Ministry has issued an advisory to maintain a state of constant vigil over the Covid situation. The advisory urged all states to report and monitor district-wise severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) and Influenza like illness (ILI) cases on a regular basis."
(DIR) Post #AdYEszAsB2ygO8q3hg by tracingcovid@mstdn.social
2024-01-05T23:41:38Z
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@rchusid Which is it tho: "US to impose visa bans on Israeli extremist settlers for violence against Palestinians" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/01/visa-ban-israel-extremist-palestine