A Concerned Scientist @BE@qoto.org

@paulbusch @bhoutlook

Thanks for the link! A study they reference in it shows an estimated 9% job loss from automation. Not going to lie, I started reading the pay data in the appendix to see if the shift was towards higher paying jobs overall and my eyes glossed over...never could get into economics.

@jik @GinnyMooy

By all means. But, you are overthinking it, and that's not patronizing. It's an extremely common occurrence amongst scientists trying to figure things out. You're not saying anything different than they are, you're just trying to go beyond what they're saying and put a greater significance in it than there likely is. Humans are complicated biological systems and blood vessels run through it all.

@bhoutlook

I don't know. Unless they build, maintain and repair themselves it seems like they just shift jobs around, and possibly toward higher paying jobs.

@jik @GinnyMooy

If I'm understanding what you're saying then I think you're reading more into the info than they're saying. The way I'm seeing it is that each person was put into one group, but that doesn't preclude that person from having multiple other symptoms from other groups. It just seems to mean that group is more likely to share symptoms in those bodily systems.

Look at cardiac and renal(group 1) vs respiratory, sleep and anxiety(group 2). They call "breathing abnormality, throat/chest pain" part of the second group, but it's basically just as prevalent in the first group and is more prevalent in group 1 than a few other things that they attribute to the first group.

Don't overthink it. Endothelial damage does damage to systems of your body and this is an endothelial disease.

@GinnyMooy @jik

I thought that at first, too, because of the way table 2 sums up the type 1, 2, 3, and 4 into a neat 100%.

Figure 3 lays it out pretty well, though, by showing each outcome and how, for example, cardiac dysrhythmias show up in all 4.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02116-3/figures/3

@DavePerrino @Billius27@mstdn.ca

In our local school district they pack all of the kids into an auditorium and teach hand washing every Friday during the winters as part of their COVID preparedness. When I asked why they said they're following CDC guidelines.

https://www.cdc.gov/handwashing/show-me-the-science.html

"During the Coronavirus Disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic, keeping hands clean is especially important to help prevent the virus from spreading."

@Billius27@mstdn.ca

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Then it just became the stupidest of times, but, what are you going to do? Think for yourself? Pfft. Not likely. That's what algorithms are for.

@fifilamoura

This is such a good(and correct) point about Mastodon. Current events are actually here.

Not only that, but there's so much good content here if you look for it. I cleared out a bunch of people that I was following this past weekend and one major news event in my timeline later I've replaced all of that plus some.

@TomSullivan

Looks like it. Probably largely planned out in Florida...

https://toad.social/@jimstewartson/109655245697413934

I'm pretty sure "grappling with candidate quality" isn't the best way to frame the GOP's electoral problems.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3802872-gop-grapples-with-candidate-quality-problem-ahead-of-2024/

@SweetieLC @ecclesias

Aww, thank you! It was one of those parenting moments where I was really proud of them for pushing through.

@pollak

Completely agree! I think if you were, say, transitioning from BA.5 to BQ.1 you might not necessarily see another wave, per se.

I should have made my point more specific to this variant. I suspect everyone in the US will see a wave due to XBB 1.5. So, therefore, I'm guessing everywhere that has a low prevalence of it currently is about to see a wave. The data I've seen on it thus far seems to indicate, to me(not an epidemiologist) that prior infections of the variants we've mostly had in the US and vaccinations are going to do a poor job in containing this one. Thus my guess for Indiana.

I absolutely hope I'm wrong!

@tomwatson

Pretty sure he's at least smart enough to realize that this is temporary, and it's probably the height of his career. Has to show it off while he's got it.

@Mjo321@mstdn.social

That was a great read. Thanks for sharing!

@pollak

Thanks for sharing your state's data. I think people get numb to the national data sometimes and assume it doesn't matter to them. Reports like this are important.

In my opinion, like you said, excess mortality is the better way to look at it, and that generally seems to be running about equal to the COVID numbers in most places, so the overall excess death during the pandemic is double the "COVID" number for most places that I've looked at. A lot of this is regional, though. In Florida, for instance, district/county ME's have a lot of sway on cause of death and many are COVID deniers. Excess mortality and hospital admissions are far more important in that case.

I don't know the Indiana excess mortality data, maybe you can find that in the data set you're referencing, but from January - November of 2022 across the US it was ~714 people dying per day according to Our World in Data.

To your overall point, I thoroughly enjoyed your post on substack. Thank you for referencing the biobot.io data as having variant info. Quickly looking at it, my first guess would be that Indiana is between decreasing BA.5/BQ.1 and increasing XBB 1.5 and it'll actually go up across January, but, as you alluded to in your article, the lack of case data makes this all so much harder than it needs to be.

This seems to indicate that XBB is only just beginning in your region:

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/public-health/xbb-1-5-prevalence-by-region.html

I think we need to stop referencing seasons and start referencing variants. I'm not sure "winter" matters so much, particularly in a case like this when the data appears to show XBB hasn't really hit yet.

@LucyWrambles

I'm so sorry for your loss.

@gemcarey

I don't know how I missed this before.

"The atypical glycaemic parameters and increased rates of DKA suggest that COVID-induced diabetes is a novel form of diabetes."

Thanks for sharing that one!

@rchusid

More Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System content and less UCSF in 2023.

@aintist @velshi

Pretty sure they're about to find out that one of those is easy and one of those is hard.

@DrCanuckMD@med-mastodon.com

As a parent that's terrifying! One of the more bizarre encounters I've had with someone during the pandemic went like this:

*We show up to an unavoidable meeting wearing N-95's as a family and the person we meet is maskless*

Him: Oh hey there! I see you're all wearing masks. Cool! I also take COVID very seriously. Actually my son was just recently hospitalized with MIS-C. Have you ever heard of it?

Me: Yeah, I have. Scary stuff. I hope he's OK?

Him: Oh yeah, he's fine. So....I mean....I wear a mask sometimes and all....not sure where my mask is....looking at you all in your N-95's is making me wish I decided to wear it today...

Me; Yeah, me too....