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(4) Dr. Lucky Tran: "Here's a useful table that you can use to estimate real world COVID risk from Biobot wastewater data:"

[rikaklassen]

new pride flag for queer assimilationists just dropped

Read please:

Old HIV/AIDS awareness posters modified for COVID pandemic:

ACT UP / MASK UP

CDC Kills

Where Your RAGE

[crisicsgames]

The callisto protocol Final TRASMISSION

BIOBOT

[mildmayfoxe]

sealed my bedroom door extremely haphazardly but to the best of my current ability with several different foam weather stripping tapes & a draft snake & a towel & armed with my new bigger air purifier that is way overpowered for my room that will change out the air in here approx every six minutes i am about to sleep without a mask on for the first time since JANUARY SECOND

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Biobot’s interactive tracker is no longer available:

(From Raw Data to Actionable Insights: Biobot’s Evolution of Public Data Sharing | Biobot Analytics)

Blog update 5/30/24:

We want to thank the public for all the love and support of this work over the years.

After more than three years of making COVID-19 wastewater data available to the public, Biobot has reduced its public data reporting efforts. As we expand our wastewater epidemiology technologies to other population health areas, we no longer have the resources to maintain our COVID-19 dashboard. We decided to sunset the dashboard now because of other publicly available sources of wastewater data, including at the local level through our customers and partners and nationwide through the CDC NWSS program. We are optimistic that government sharing of wastewater data will continue to improve.

This does not mean we believe COVID-19 is no longer a threat, nor are we stopping our work. We see great potential for wastewater to positively impact public health efforts and the healthcare ecosystem in many areas beyond COVID-19. We remain committed to leading in this space and pioneering new applications for wastewater epidemiology.

Wastewater data resources can be found at:

You can find our risk reports here

You can find CDC’s COVID tracker here

Check your local and state public health departments and wastewater treatment facilities as they may be sharing this information directly

Epidemiologists doing important data reporting for the public:

Your Local Epidemiologist, Katelyn Jetelina

Force of Infection, Caitlin Rivers

Helen Branswell, STAT News

[sokolygrandaananeva]

TRASMVTATO Magazine

[computationalcalculator]

Here's where those screenshots are from, which includes a methodology video, and it looks like they're pulling the wastewater data from Biobot, over here.

Covid Update, USA, late December 2023: Buckle up, folks.

Takeaway from his (very informative) thread:

Wastewater counts are obscenely high right now, belying the official case numbers. Considering that we've stopped collecting or reporting most COVID data, wastewater is the best way we have to judge the actual infection rate now.

We are currently seeing ten million new infections a week, and can expect that to greatly increase within the next three weeks.

If you've stopped masking, please start again, for your own safety and the safety of your community. Many hospital systems are already trending toward being overwhelmed right now; let's do what we can to lighten their burden.

Avoid unnecessary gatherings where possible.

Ventilate your spaces well (this is a good time to build that Corsi-Rosenthal box you were thinking about! I made one, it's great).

And just from me, personally--now's a good time to reevaluate casual habits. I've been careless, again, about touching my face. Time for me to knock it off!

This is a period where we need to act with more care. Not a time to panic, but a time to be more cautious.

[rununcal]

My advice to everyone who sees a fat ass stink beetle is pick it up. I picked up three over the course of a few hours on my trip and then held them between their abdomen and thorax and they all didn’t care that much. They also didn’t do their namesake. The first one just kind of stood there, the second one actually pushed itself out of my grasp, and the third one tried walking on the air away from me. I’d generally say that, the bigger the bug the lesser fucks it will give. Think robber fly or giant millipede. If I get stinked in the near future that’s on me also probably don’t listen to this advice I just don’t see fat ass beetles often.

[arolesbianism]

unless the printing pods questlog is pulling a bait and switch... i have discovered that the Super Cool Secret Power Source thats been so hyped up is just a geothermal plant :[ klei wont let us have the Infinite Explosion Death Machine

Yeah I found that out during the beta, I might have mentioned it but I was mostly too busy with other new stuff. I mean it makes sense from a gameplay standpoint, but I will admit that it's probably the weakest part of the dlc from a lore standpoint. Now to be fair, the devs have said that they're hoping to make a couple more similar scale dlcs, so there's still a chance they'll say fuck it and throw the temporal bow at us lol. This is also my copium for Calvin dupe not being in the game yet, pls klei release my boy his dupe description is still in the code I see him give him to me klei

[polyphonetic]

Sharing a lil zine from Hazel Newlevant on Twitter about some updated Covid info in 2024! You can get the PDF on their site here. In this thread I'll include their notes on Twitter about each page. Original thread here. Breaking this up into three posts in case Tumblr crashes while I'm posting this.

New zine!! This is my (well-informed layperson’s) understanding of what’s going on with COVID right now and how to lower your risk of getting it (again). [0/14]

"Let Them Eat Plague!" via USUML Press gives a great overview of what's up with COVID and the powerful interests that want to hide the ongoing pandemic. [1/14]

its-airborne.org has a roundup of aerosol transmission evidence and a timeline of the CDC's waffling. [2/14]

The Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative takes wastewater data and uses it to model population infection levels in the US. Follow Dr. Hoerger or go to pmc19.com/data/ for weekly updates. [3/14]

Go to Biobots and search for your state or territory, and then use PMC's conversion chart to get a more local and current estimate of how many people have COVID in your area. [4/14]

See Pandemic Patients for more info about LONG Covid and a disturbingly extensive list of documented post-COVID conditions. [5/14]

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[covid-safer-hotties]

I know I’m kinda flooding your inbox today, sorry, But I was looking at the wastewater data and I couldn’t find where to find data older than a year old I feel I used to be able to see that, is it just me? If not do you know where to find it?

The data obfuscation has gotten so much worse since the Biden administration started it by selling off public wastewater site rights to private corporations. Statisticians used to be able to go to one site (then to four sites) to get the data they needed to make a model. Then Biobot stopped providing public access to their data, then 7 other companies like QIAGEN, Zymo, LuminUltra, and more joined the party, and they have variable access to their data, some you have to pay for access.

The closest we get to a wastewater-through-history resource we have now is the long-running PCM wastewater model. The folks running this model gather all the data they can, add in a conservative model to catch the sites without wastewater, and produce a threat model based on the latest wastewater counts.

https://pmc19.com/data/

[perkwunos]

Physicists are very comfortable with patterns arising from mathematical causes such as symmetries. Biologists instead typically land on one of two sources of patterns that are acceptable: heredity and environment. Heredity provides a long history, backed by selection via interaction with an external environment, of shaping a chemical medium (DNA) that is thought to explain why specific patterns (rather than alternatives) are observed. Many interesting questions exist about the origin of useful solutions – a pre-requisite for being able to select them from a pool of less useful ones, but here I want to focus on a source of order that pervades the living and non-living world: that studied by the discipline we call mathematics. … Consider the remarkable and beautiful (also life-like) pattern seen in the Halley plot kinds of fractals (Figure 6). That entire highly specific form is encoded in the very simple formula in complex numbers, and can be revealed by a simple algorithm. The fact that this highly complex pattern is indicated by a very short description of a function provides an un-ending richness from a small seed. I propose that it’s better to think of it not as a kind of infinite compression, but rather as the function serving as an index or a pointer into a morphospace of possible shapes. This idea will be developed further below, casting physical objects (such as embryos and biobots) as other types of pointers into the Platonic space. What sets the nature of this shape – where does it come from? There is no history of selection, no prior events in our universe that determine it. Like pi, e, and many other remarkable constants, forms emerge from mathematics in ways that cannot be explained by any kind of history or properties of the physical world – they would be this way even if the physical world was entirely different. … I argue that this breaks the closure of the physical world, as these mathematical facts impinge on physics and dynamics that are the substrate of evolution. It is a non-physicalist approach to the project of looking for sources of information and influence when we try to understand and guide biology (and the other disciplines that build on it).

Michael Levin, “Ingressing Minds: Causal Patterns Beyond Genetics and Environment in Natural, Synthetic, and Hybrid Embodiments”

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Biobot's Wastewater Data and Wastewater Intelligence Platform

[gumjrop]

Here are the latest national COVID-19 trends, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and major wastewater surveillance providers:

About 1.0 in every 100,000 people were hospitalized for COVID-19 during the week ending May 3.

COVID-19 test positivity stayed the same, with 2.9% of COVID-19 tests returning positive results during both the weeks ending May 3 and May 10.

SARS-CoV-2 concentration in wastewater has decreased 8% between the week ending May 3 and the week ending May 10, and the national wastewater viral activity level is “low,” per the CDC.

SARS-CoV-2 concentration in wastewater has decreased 7% between April 30 and May 7, and the national wastewater trend is “medium,” per WastewaterSCAN.

The U.S. remains in a moderate lull between COVID-19 surges, with national metrics reporting slow declines through mid-May. There are increases in disease spread in a few West Coast states, however, and new variants now arriving in the country are likely to spur outbreaks this summer. Also, Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine is finally approved — but not universally. Federal health officials are introducing new challenges for further shots.

Wastewater data from the CDC, WastewaterSCAN, and Biobot Analytics all report slight declines in average SARS-CoV-2 levels for early- to mid-May. These levels have declined slowly since February, and are close to reports from early November 2024 or late April 2024 — the last “baseline” points in between surges. Of course, SARS-CoV-2 levels at these points are still several times the true lows that we experienced in 2021 and 2022, when collective health measures were still in place.

Healthcare system data from the CDC’s surveillance networks similarly report slow declines through mid-May. COVID-19 test positivity, from the labs reporting to the agency, was about 2.9% in the weeks ending May 3 and May 10. Last year, the lowest point for this metric was 3.1%, during the weeks ending April 20, April 27, and May 11, 2024.

Most states and regions report COVID-19 declines, but there are continued signs of increased disease spread on the West Coast, following a trend from last week. Test positivity data for federal health regions 8, 9, and 10 (which include West Coast states) report increases in early May, as do wastewater data from the CDC and WWSCAN.

The CDC’s disease forecasting center also estimates that COVID-19 cases are “likely growing” in Nevada and Hawaii as of May 13. Cases are “declining or likely declining” in 30 states and “not changing” in 14, per the center. As I noted last week, it’s hard to say yet whether these are isolated hotspots or first signs of a summer surge, but it would make sense for the West to see a wave first given the last few months’ patterns.

In addition to travel and gatherings without collective precautions, new variants may aid a surge this summer. Variant trackers are now watching recombinant lineages called XFG and XFC, which have been detected in the U.S. but are not spreading widely yet. The CDC estimated that XFC caused 9% of cases in the two weeks ending May 10. Another variant, called NB.1.8.1, is contributing to high cases in Asia.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) finally approved Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine last weekend. But the vaccine was approved only for people over age 65 and those with health conditions that “put them at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19,” even though it’s previously been available more widely. Trump officials have also indicated further COVID-19 vaccine updates may be more restricted, threatening to take away another protective option for millions of people.

Update, May 20, 12 p.m. ET: FDA leaders have just announced that future COVID-19 vaccines will also be limited to those over age 65 and with health conditions that put them at “high risk for severe COVID-19,” until further clinical trials can be conducted. An article by Trump-appointed FDA officials in the New England Journal of Medicine explaining this new policy has no mention of Long COVID or of other measures Americans can use to protect themselves from COVID-19, such as high-quality masks.

Ladyzhets, Betsy. “National Covid-19 Trends, May 20.” The Sick Times - Chronicling the Long Covid Crisis, 20 May 2025, thesicktimes.org/2025/05/20/national-covid-19-trends-may-20/.

The proposal to limit vaccine access is open to comment for three more days:

[gloomybear-vexillologist]

Biobotic / Biobotgender

a gender related to the mix of biology and tech. this can be related to cyborgs, but it was created with tech-based body horror in mind. there is no wrong way to identify with this gender.