#Covid Schätzung Infektionsinzidenzen für Zürich aufgrund Kalibrierung der Abwasserprävalenzen Werdhölzli, Daten bis 24. Mai 2026: Schätzung Inzidenz: ~100. Ca. jede 1’000. Person infiziert sich pro Woche. bsky.app/profile/domi...

Singapore Covid wave, data until week 21 2026. ARI numbers now above the 90th percentile, SARS2 positivity 18%, nearing last year's peak level.

#Covid 1 Sentinella SARS2 detection within 9 weeks, up to the end of week 21. This constitutes the lowest signal since the start of the data series in October 2020. The second lowest stretch was in June July 2021, 3 detections within 9 weeks. The data correlate with wastewater prevalences.

Switzerland, deconvolutions until end of April: At historically low viral absolute viral load, BA.3.2* (turquoise) is mostly gone. XFG* (brown) and NB.1.8.1* (green) cocirculate, as before. bsky.app/profile/domi...

Excess mortality (65+) in Switzerland, data until May 17th. Runs along my baseline. An effect of the heatwave would be expected at the earliest in next week's data. bsky.app/profile/domi...

🧪 Filoviruses are among the most lethal viruses known to infect humans. Yet despite decades of research, major questions about their ecology, evolution, host range, and potential for wider geographic spread remain unresolved. ➡️A thread on Ebola, Marburg, and related filoviruses.

Donald Trump promised the war in Iran would end with unconditional surrender. But he never said which country would do the surrendering.

Singapore Covid wave, data until week 20 2026 The customary press release close to the peak. Wave so far smaller than last year. If anybody has educated guesses about the curious 1 y periodicity, please share in the copied thread. bsky.app/profile/domi...

#Covid Schätzung Infektionsinzidenzen für Zürich aufgrund Kalibrierung der Abwasserprävalenzen Werdhölzli, Daten bis 17. Mai 2026: Schätzung Inzidenz: ~25. Ca. jede 4'000. Person infiziert sich pro Woche. Enjoy. Diese Woche keine Zeit für Figuren. bsky.app/profile/domi...

WHO: LP.8.1 bleibt das empfohlene Impfstoffantigen Die Technische Beratungsgruppe der WHO für die Zusammensetzung von COVID-19-Impfstoffen (TAG-CO-VAC) hielt im Mai 2026 ihre halbjährliche Entscheidungssitzung ab. Im Anschluss an dieses Treffen empfiehlt die TAG-CO-VAC den …

Who would have thought: The mutated Spotify logo is supposed to portray a green disco ball. Thankfully the eyesore is said to represent a temporary anniversary phenomenon.

Astonishingly, it seems there will be no serology of the complete ship cohort. So the outstandingly interesting question of infection hospitalisation rates and infection fatality rates will not be answered. It wasn't answered during the Epuyen outbreak, too, where many people were quarantined.

Excess mortality (65+) in Switzerland, data until May 3rd. bsky.app/profile/domi...

#Covid Schätzung Infektionsinzidenzen für Zürich aufgrund Kalibrierung der Abwasserprävalenzen Werdhölzli, Daten bis 10. Mai 2026: Schätzung Inzidenz: ~25. Ca. jede 4'000. Person infiziert sich pro Woche. bsky.app/profile/domi...

Switzerland, deconvolutions until April 18: Remarkably, the BA.3.2* (turquoise) wave seems to be through. Note that uncertainty at the currently very low absolute viral loads can be very large, hence the observed swings in the data. Trend is clear, notwithstanding this. bsky.app/profile/domi...

Wrote the debut masterpiece aged 18 during one evening, then proceeded to have her stage sound engineer invent her a wireless headset using a coat hanger, so she could dance and sing it live. youtu.be/6H4rXunn0XM?...

BMJ Editorial by Milton et al. about this point. www.bmj.com/content/393/...

OUR NEW BMJ editorial: Andes virus should reset WHO’s default approach to airborne risk. 🧵 1/ For severe pathogens with person-to-person transmission, the starting point should be precautionary airborne protections — not waiting for definitive proof after spread occurs. www.bmj.com/content/393/...

Trump is posting absolutely deranged shit on social media this morning ahead of departing for China today. Get a load of this stuff.

This is all so botched, on so many levels. I think Peter Hotez has it right:

Update: In the fact sheet within the "Hantavirus Outbreak toolbox" (www.who.int/emergencies/...), airborne precautions for "aerosol-generating procedures" (left figure). But behold: Respirators for probable cases and high risk contacts in general. Even the contacts themselves. (right figures)

I wanted to make the obvious exasperated comment, but:

Panik in Deutschland

Surprise: One of the asymptomatic cruise ship passengers being repatriated to France turned symptomatic on the flight and tested positive for mild non-pandemic hantavirus.

Speaking of low risks and mildly positive PCRs: If you enter "ebola risk to the public is low", you get all these hits from 2014 and 2015 reassuring publics that the risk is low. All the same, the Western African Ebola epidemic had 29k confirmed cases and 11k deaths. bsky.app/profile/domi...

The risk is low - even the PCR is mild.

An exhaustive dissection of the downfall of the American republic and its hegemonic power.

When in Rome, do as the Romans do

Dear epidemiologists and climate geographers. There is a curious one year period to Covid waves in Singapore. Positivities start to rise around calendar week 9, for the third time now. To what tropical seasonal pattern or other pattern could that fit?

Singapore, data until week 18 2026 SARS2 positivity among ARI now 14%. A Covid wave is building, one year after the last. bsky.app/profile/domi...

The Swiss case was sequenced and a phylogenetic analysis by Spyros Lytras shows an Andes virus "near identical" to the one found in the Epuyén outbreak, as described in Martínez et al. 2020. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Statement from the International Hantavirus Society and members of the international hantavirus research and clinical community regarding Andes virus transmission and the current outbreak investigation zenodo.org/records/2007...

#Covid Schätzung Infektionsinzidenzen für Zürich aufgrund Kalibrierung der Abwasserprävalenzen Werdhölzli, Daten bis 3. Mai 2026: Schätzung Inzidenz: <25. Weniger als ca. jede 4'000. Person infiziert sich pro Woche. bsky.app/profile/domi...

Armchair epidemiology: Acc. to the WHO, there were 147 people on the Hondius. With 7 cases and 2 deaths (excluding patient zero), we arrive at lower bounds of 5% infected and 1% infected and subsequently dead for human to human transmission on the cruise ship.

Singapore, once again, shows how to do it and how to communicate about it.

Incredibly, in their hantavirus communiqué, the WHO does not recommend respirators when in contact with suspected or confirmed cases, and brings the infamous "aerosol-generating procedures". I for one would feel better wearing a respirator when facing a patient infected with a 30% mortality virus.

🔎🇷🇺 Inside Russia's elite Bauman University, a secret department trains the GRU's next-gen hackers, saboteurs, and spies. Now, 2,000+ leaked documents expose how its graduates feed the units behind Russia's cyberattacks, election interference, and NATO sabotage.

VInay Prasad tried to prevent the FDA from even reviewing this vaccine.

The Trump regime’s war diplomacy looks like something put together by real estate guys, because it is.

Swiss authorities have confirmed a case of #hantavirus identified in a passenger from the MV Hondius cruise ship. He had responded to an email from the ship’s operator informing the passengers of the health event, and presented himself to a hospital in Zurich, Switzerland, and is receiving care. 1️⃣

Paying trice for the transatlantic flight to risk being put into an ICE prison camp is doing wonders for bookings, I guess. www.npr.org/2026/05/04/n...

"(Project) Freedom is just another name for nothing left to lose"

Excess mortality (65+) in Switzerland, data until April 26th. bsky.app/profile/domi...

Singapore, data until week 17 2026 SARS-CoV-2 positivity among ARI remains markedly elevated, but didn't further rise.

Première: Covid-Prävalenz im Wiener Abwasser gemäss AGES bei Null. Das TU-Monitoring auch extrem niedrig. Sowohl im Schweizer Monitoring wie auch in AMELAG ergeben sich tiefere Prävalenzen als zu den Minima der letzten Jahre. Im Schweizer Primary-Care-Sentinel tiefste je gemessene Detektionen.

Clandestine Covid vaccine paper secretly shows >= 50% vaccine efficacy against Covid-associated ED encounters and against hospitalisations for the 2025-2026 vaccine in age >=18. --> The adapted vaccine continues to confer robust protection, similar to annual flu vaccines.

Switzerland, deconvolutions until April 6: Interestingly, BA.3.2* relative loads have not further increased. Note that uncertainty at the currently very low abs. viral loads can be very large, hence the observed swings in the data. This in itself is not a new phenomenon. bsky.app/profile/domi...

#Covid Schätzung Infektionsinzidenzen für Zürich aufgrund Kalibrierung der Abwasserprävalenzen Werdhölzli, Daten bis 26. April 2026: Inzidenz ~25. Ca. jede 4'000. Person infiziert sich pro Woche. bsky.app/profile/domi...

The Sentinella primary care sentinel is at zero SARS2 detections, for the fifth week. This is unprecedented - the lowest numbers since summer 2021, before Delta. This aligns well with wastewater prevalences which are also lower than ever since Omicron. bsky.app/profile/domi...

Förderung der Quacksalberei, aber Impfungen mit tatsächlich hohem Präventions- und damit Sparpotential werden nicht bezahlt. www.srf.ch/news/schweiz...