Ilze du Toit @IlzeduToit@qoto.org

A new vaccine to fight malaria has just been recommended for use by the World Health Organisation. Tell world leaders to fully fund programs to make #malaria vaccines available everywhere. https://act.one.org/sign/malaria-vaccine?akid=s759122..q-SVH6

@sysop408 This looks like a good explanation. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1675331352584134658.html

@desarmada This is the network activity on a single tweet by URL, recorded about an hour ago. This cannot be helping

This is the kind of PR work you get when you're a billionaire and everyone has suddenly noticed the bright line that can be drawn between your actions and the murder of a young trans girl.

https://poops.nz/ COVID-19 Wastewater Dashboard update today - results to 18 Dec. Overall levels up. About 40 samples arrived today (thanks collectors & couriers) to complete this weeks sampling. Another update to include this weeks results, before we finish for the holidays.

I asked ChatGPT to produce some R code to complete a rather annoying data collection and cleaning process. It involved reading a number of excel sheets, merging them, renaming the variables and doing some regex to split some of the data.

ChatGPT not taking any prisoners...

I'm no Stephen Hawking, but I think what happens is that they cancel each other out.

Cases on of COVID-19 had been slowly rising in South Africa since Sep. Currently roughly 475 per day on a 7-day moving average. Impact on admissions, hospital deaths and excess deaths appear limited.

This was driven by a rise in cases from KwaZulu-Natal which seems to be levelling off now, but Gauteng province cases seems to have started accelerating. In both provinces impact on admissions and deaths appear limited.
#covid #southafrica #covid19

Testing volumes again down, and signs of a decrease in the proportion testing positive in most provinces. Data from Limpopo (showing an increase) are too scanty to interpret with any degree of certainty

I still find this one of the most fascinating things about the pandemic - there are countries which have, since day 1, faked their COVID-19 data

https://gidmk.medium.com/the-countries-that-may-have-faked-covid-19-statistics-f46c2f037351