#epidemiolog

[typhlonectes]

[spacetimer8031]

(Coughing up blue ink) I made the thing!!

From season two episode six "Epidemiology"

took me 2 hours to make it, also please ignore how i spelled Jacobs..i will cry

[zvaigzdelasas]

The fact that flu deaths decrease when measures are taken to concretely slow the spread of covid shows that "endemic" is effectively a political label rather than an epidemiological one

[mindblowingscience]

For the first time ever, more Americans are regularly using cannabis than they are drinking alcohol. While smoking weed for a recreational high is considered by many to be a safer alternative to using tobacco or even drinking alcohol, there is a lack of evidence on the long-term health impacts of the drug. What little is known suggests it may not be as harmless as some think. A new investigation from the American Head and Neck Society finds that excessive cannabis use disorder may increase the risk of developing any head or neck cancer, including oral, oropharyngeal, nasopharyngeal, salivary gland, and laryngeal cancer.

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[doppel-dean-er]

so like the bites would scar, right? like the zombie bites from epidemiology were deep enough to draw blood, so they would scar right. maybe they assumed before that it was like an animal that bit them so it's not that weird. but you ever think that Abed would be looking at the scar on Troy's arm like really looking at it, and has this weird thought like "hey, that's kind of shaped like my mouth." and maybe Abed like puts his teeth into the indents just to see what happens and they just slot into place and they both have the terrifying realization that there was no animal. idk just have you ever thought about that because I have. at great lengths

[lesbianwithchainsaws]

I think it's time I accept Epidemiology might be my fav episode

[morelikecommunitydick]

Troy spends so much time looking in zombie abed's eyes in epidemiology. Like damn, you could have made it to that thermostat without a scratch on you if you weren't so gay

[pillowsandblorgons]

i know people have talked about it before on here but genuinely it's crazy how the zombies in epidemiology weren't a skit or a fun game it was Real, and that's why it's so upsetting that trobed said I Love You to each other and then they FORGET. THEY FORGET. it was a real thing to them, it was the last thing troy would ever tell abed and it needed to be I Love You. and then they forget....

[reasonsforhope]

I'm sorry I'm sending so many asks. I've been struggling like this for a year now, and it's barely gotten easier, but you've often been a good help with my anxiety. I really appreciate everything you do. It's hard to have hope.

I've had a really bad moment again recently. I have to be honest, the worst thing, that makes me the most anxious out of everything else, is COVID. Because it feels like nobody is paying attention, and that there is no good news. There is never any good news. COVID is always the catalyst for the worst of my anxious slumps. It's really bad. COVID is very, very scary. If you somehow have anything for that, I'd be thankful. Often I've only been able to set my heart on nasal vaccines, or next gen vaccines in general, but they're not going fast enough whatsoever.

I'm sorry, again. I don't want to try and treat you like a therapist. I just trust you. If this is too overwhelming, you can just delete it, but if you do, I'd like to know. Just so I'm not waiting for it to be answered.

I just ravaged through someone's doomy collapse blog, again, after stumbling on it in my rising anxiousness, and it was not good. I think I'm clearly too open-minded of a person to some degree, and I feel so pulled around by information that I see. I don't want to be placated, out of the loop, or lied to, but I don't want to feel hopelessly depressed. Everything is too complex. I feel like I've been through this maze, top to bottom, over and over again, and again. I just wish I knew how much truth their words held, or anyone else's words held.

And I wish we were all masking, at the very least. I'm holding myself back from swearing. I don't know if you'd have a good way to counteract general "collapse" thoughts, either. But that's also a thing.

<3 I'm touched by your trust.

I just found some good news about COVID - the first genuinely good covid-related news article I've seen in a while, instead of all of the "ah but young abled people are fine!" bs - and remembered this ask.

"As new varieties of the coronavirus took center stage during the COVID-19 pandemic, the odds of developing long COVID dropped. Those who were vaccinated against the virus saw the biggest plunge over time.

For every 1,000 unvaccinated people, 104 developed long COVID up to one year after an infection during the pre-delta phase of the pandemic. That fell to 95 per 1,000 during the delta variant’s era and 78 during omicron’s reign. Among vaccinated people, just 53 out of 1,000 developed long COVID up to a year after infection during delta and only 35 during omicron, researchers report July 17 [2024] in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The study of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System data looked at people who had a COVID infection from March of 2020 — the month the pandemic began — to the end of January in 2022. The researchers, from the Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System, compared the rates of long COVID during three phases of the pandemic among those who had and had not gotten vaccinated...

A comparison of omicron infections with infections from prior eras found that 72 percent of the drop in the long COVID rate during omicron was attributable to vaccines. The remainder was due to changes in the virus and improvements in medical care and the use of antiviral treatments during the omicron phase.

Even with the steep decline in the occurrence of long COVID for vaccinated people, there is still a risk, the researchers write. With “the large numbers of ongoing new infections and reinfections, and the poor uptake of vaccination,” they continue, this “may translate into a high number of persons” with long COVID."

-via ScienceNews, July 17, 2024

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Masking continues to be important. The virus continues to be a problem. But especially given the decline in masking, I'm really encouraged to see this news. Because long covid IS scary. And I'll take any good news on this front that I can get.

It's especially encouraging because it shows how much staying on top of your vaccinations really does matter and really can prevent long covid.

I'm also really hopeful (though I don't have a related background and have no idea how realistic my hopes are) that this trend has been continuing past the end of the study (2022).

[milogoestogreendale]

troy and abed pay the dean to crash their wedding dressed in a devil costume yelling “GAYYYYYYY MARRIAGEEEEEEE”

(happy hallow-dean!)

[fondofthesea]

I just realized the room abed learns to let go and accept that troy is leaving in season 5 is the SAME room where they say “I love you” “I know” to each other in season 2😭😭 and in the s2 scene troy leaves too 😭😭

[stampgwifeyera]

Zombie abed

[great-and-small]

I got excited just now seeing some of your mosquito-positive posts because I am currently on a deep dive about mosquitoes as well! same hat!

It will actually be pretty funny if I cultivate a reputation for myself as a pro-mosquito blog despite the sheer number of them I ruthlessly squish on a daily basis. I must admit I am not immune to becoming absolutely incandescent with rage at the mere sound of that telltale whine by my ear.

That said, I am very grateful that I am the type of person that can hold both irritation and curiosity towards an animal at the same time. I am a pro at smacking skeeters, but I still find them incredibly interesting, and I’m still able to understand the role that they play in all kinds of ecosystems.

There are so many mosquitoes that are completely incapable of harming humans but I still get so many furious people in my ask box whenever I say I think mosquitoes are important! The only way to effectively prevent vector-borne diseases in humans is to start with a thorough understanding of the animals that spread these illnesses. And sure, you and I trawling Wikipedia for information on an obscure mosquito species won’t cure Dengue fever, but maybe the two of us adding to the collective human understanding of these animals is objectively a good thing?

Anyways sorry for the rant but hell yes same hat 😅 🎩

[gamoraswonder]

COMMUNITY | "Epidemiology"

[mindblowingscience]

Vaccines ensure bouts of COVID are far less deadly than they were at the pandemic's start, yet multiple studies now suggest even seemingly mild cases of the coronavirus have a cost. With every single infection, our risk of long COVID increases. While this risk starts (relatively) low for most of us, particularly those vaccinated and in younger people or children, there are concerning signs it may not stay low. If each new invasion of our bodies allows this insidious virus a greater chance to cause damage, such small risks will eventually add up to a big one. Even if you only experience the symptom of the initial infection mildly.

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[ricisidro]

SARS-COV-2 PCR percent positivity during the four-week reporting period from 24 June to 21 July 2024, increased from 7.4% in the beginning week of the reporting period to 13.0% in the last week across 85 countries.

Globally, JN.1 is the most reported variant of interest (VOI), accounting for 25.7%.

The number of new cases and deaths increase by 30% and 26% compared to the previous 28-day period. Over 186,000 new cases with more than 2,800 new fatalities reported.

As of 21 July 2024, over 775M confirmed cases and more than 7M deaths have been reported globally since the beginning of pandemic. 

https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/covid-19-epidemiological-update-edition-170