The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?

Singapore epi data until week 28 2026. Influenza wave ongoing; Covid wave not over yet, as well. Polyclinic attendances so far much lower than for the peak of the Covid wave.

#Covid Schätzung Infektionsinzidenzen für Zürich aufgrund Kalibrierung der Abwasserprävalenzen Werdhölzli, Daten bis 12. Juli 2026: Schätzung Inzidenz: ~100. Ca. jede 1’000. Person infiziert sich pro Woche. Letzte Woche seit langem wieder einmal eine Sentinella-Detektion.

Excess mortality (65+) in Switzerland, data until July 5th, end of week 27. High excess mortality continues into wk 27, as expected. From the subsequent heat event end of wk28 and into wk 29, more heat-caused deaths are to be expected. bsky.app/profile/domi...

Nice tanker you got here. Would be a shame if something happened to it.

Hitzschlag in Bern bei 20Minuten: Bitte zu Hause sterben. www.20min.ch/story/kanton...

Wichtig: Sich mit Birkenruten peitschen (веник bzw. vasta/vihta in der finnischen Variante), sonst nützt es nichts.

#Covid Schätzung Infektionsinzidenzen für Zürich aufgrund Kalibrierung der Abwasserprävalenzen Werdhölzli, Daten bis 5. Juli 2026: Schätzung Inzidenz: ~50. Ca. jede 2’000. Person infiziert sich pro Woche. 1 Sentinella-Detektion in 15 Wochen, 0 seit 9 Wochen. bsky.app/profile/domi...

Excess mortality (65+) in Switzerland, data until June 28th, end of week 26. As expected, unfortunately: High excess mortality caused by the exceptional heat wave. bsky.app/profile/domi...

Switzerland, deconvolutions until June 12th: XFG* stays dominant. Negligible BA.3.2*. Absolute viral load stays very low. bsky.app/profile/domi...

Als Arbeitgeber finde ich dieses deutsche Krankschreibungstheater krank.

#Covid Schätzung Infektionsinzidenzen für Zürich aufgrund Kalibrierung der Abwasserprävalenzen Werdhölzli, Daten bis 28. Juni 2026: Schätzung Inzidenz: ~50. Ca. jede 2’000. Person infiziert sich pro Woche. bsky.app/profile/domi...

Excess mortality (65+) in Switzerland, data until June 21st, end of week 25. Taken together with the historic proportions of the heat wave and anecdotal reports from France and Germany, this does not bode well for weeks 26 and possibly 27. bsky.app/profile/domi...

Mich wundert, dass der Kanzler sich noch nicht über die fehlende Belastbarkeit der Menschen heutzutage echauffiert hat.

Singapore epi data until week 25 2026. Influenza wave. 32% positivity among ILI in the community. 28% of adult samples from the National Surveillance Programme for Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) are influenza. Polyclinic attendances so far much lower than for the Covid wave.

Hitzetote sind übrigens keine abstrakte Rechengröße. Allein an diesem Wochenende haben wir in der Klinik mehrere Patienten verloren, bei denen die extreme Hitze wesentlich zur Verschlechterung beigetragen hat. Das sind echte Menschen und reale Schicksale.

Their ministry of propaganda must be shockingly incompetent

#Covid Schätzung Infektionsinzidenzen für Zürich aufgrund Kalibrierung der Abwasserprävalenzen Werdhölzli, Daten bis 21. Juni 2026: Schätzung Inzidenz: ~100. Ca. jede 1’000. Person infiziert sich pro Woche. bsky.app/profile/domi...

Excess mortality (65+) in Switzerland, data until June 14th, end of week 24. At baseline, at that time. In week 25, the current heat wave started, exacerbating in week 26. The respective data will start coming in next week. One would expect weeks 26 and possibly 27 to be bad.

Switzerland, deconvolutions until end of May: The resurgence of XFG* is complete. Absolute viral load stays very low. bsky.app/profile/domi...

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AGES has finally, after months, updated the deconvolutions for Austria: A similar picture overall, BA.3.2* mostly gone. bsky.app/profile/domi...

So it's the 3rd year now with a single large Covid wave peaking in calendar week 21, in Singapore.

Singapore epi data until week 24 2026. Covid going down, influenza staying elevated. Marvel at the perfect one year periodicity for the Covid waves. "Seasonality", one degree north of the equator.

#Covid The trajectories of the Covid wasterwater calibrations for Switzerland correspond well to respective calibrations for Vienna. The calibrations also correspond well to the Dutch Infectieradar survey results.

#Covid Schätzung Infektionsinzidenzen für Zürich aufgrund Kalibrierung der Abwasserprävalenzen Werdhölzli, Daten bis 14. Juni 2026: Schätzung Inzidenz: ~100. Ca. jede 1’000. Person infiziert sich pro Woche. bsky.app/profile/domi...

President Trump Signs Memorandum of Surrender at Versailles. 🇺🇸 The final Surrender Agreement will be signed in 60 days, in the wagon at the Forest of Compiègne. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

No matter what you or I might think about the editing at the NYT these days, or how much Trump pretends he doesn't care, he *does* care a lot about what the Times says. So I'm really glad they are saying this. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/o...

Excess mortality (65+) in Switzerland, data until June 7th. The heat wave signal seems clear. The possibly coming extreme heat wave would be expected to have strong effects, if it realizes as some models predict. bsky.app/profile/domi...

Spendi spandi effendi www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3IA...

Was sind das für Wolken?

Abfuhr für Asylantenbashing

So it's the 3rd year now with a single large Covid wave peaking in calendar week 21, in Singapore.

Singapore epi data until week 23 2026. The large Covid wave has peaked, rising influenza prevalences. Any educated input re the curious almost perfect 1y period? bsky.app/profile/domi...

Lufthygiene und Prävention von Infektionen ist kein Thema im Beitrag. "Manche seiner Kolleginnen schleppten sich selbst mit hohem Fieber noch an ihre Schule, ..." "Die genauen Ursachen für die vielen Ausfälle kenne das Departement bisher nicht." Nichts gelernt. www.srf.ch/news/schweiz...

Operation Epic Moron canceled

Two huge takeaways for me: #1. Big wins for vaccination & mRNA vaccines: • Kids vaccinated before being infected have robust antibodies against BA.3.2 • Unvaxed adults much more vulnerable to BA.3.2, esp. compared to mRNA-vaxed adults. 2/6

#Covid Schätzung Infektionsinzidenzen für Zürich aufgrund Kalibrierung der Abwasserprävalenzen Werdhölzli, Daten bis 7. Juni 2026: Schätzung Inzidenz: <50. Weniger als jede 2’000. Person infiziert sich pro Woche. bsky.app/profile/domi...

Are they now going to block the Strait of Zurich?

Singapore epi data until week 22 2026. Covid wave possibly peaked, rising influenza prevalences, resulting in very high ARI numbers.

Switzerland, deconvolutions until mid of May: BA.3.2* staying gone, XFG* staying mostly dominant, at very low absolute viral load. Sources: cov-spectrum.org wise.ethz.ch bsky.app/profile/domi...

Emsig ist emsig.

Excess mortality (65+) in Switzerland, data until May 31st. I deem it likely that the elevated mortality is caused by the heat wave. (Caveat: Weekly mortality data from the last weeks are extrapolated and subject to change) bsky.app/profile/domi...

Original antigenic sin for the win: Niu et al. show in a preprint that lack of ancestral SARS-CoV-2 imprinting promotes BA.3.2.2 infection in children, while pre-Omicron mRNA vaccination prevents. The risk being future escape from Class I ABs, like with the 455-456 "FLip" mutations.

The won not-war is not-on again?

#Covid The Swiss wastewater aggregate from 10 plants correlates remarkably well with case numbers, even at prevalences lower than ever since Omicron arrived and at very high underascertainment for the case numbers. Sources: wise.ethz.ch www.idd.bag.admin.ch

BA.3.2 and children: Preprint shows lacking neutralisation in pseudovirus assays on sera from 6-28 month olds and in 3-10 year olds, in contrast to adults and in contrast to their response against JN.1, XFG, and NB.1.8.1, fitting to the epidemiological behaviour of BA.3.2.

Distinctly lower prevalences are visible in Swiss and German wastewater prevalences, too. Also in sentinel system data.

#Covid Schätzung Infektionsinzidenzen für Zürich aufgrund Kalibrierung der Abwasserprävalenzen Werdhölzli, Daten bis 31. Mai 2026: Schätzung Inzidenz: ~50. Ca. jede 2’000. Person infiziert sich pro Woche. bsky.app/profile/domi...