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Jun 12
BREAKING: CDC reports SARS-2 wastewater levels increased: 🚨LA, SD, CA, HI, NM, AK. RI, MD, DC, FL, IL, CT, NE, NJ LA hit 31 percentile, and 55 seasonal SARS2 levels TX, NM, AK reported 10-11 percentile levels COVID ED visits increased in: ID, MT, ME, MN, OH, IN, KS, DC, VT, GA, MD Flu Like Illness increased in: MT, NH, WY, DE, MD, DC, CO COVID Hospital admissions increased in: MT, ID, ND, SD, OK, AZ, HI, NH, NM, WY, WV, KS, VT, TN for the latest week, or the prior week.
Jun 5
BREAKING: SARS-2 levels in WW increased in: NV, AZ, VT, MA, NC, NJ, CA, AK COVID ED visits increased in: ND, NV, RI, TX, VA, CO, NM, WY, KY Flu Like Illness increased in: ND, NV, RI, MT, TX, NM, KS, VT, NE, WV, NC, KY, NJ, MI, CA, IN, MD, OH COVID Hospital Admissions and levels are shown accounting for lag, and show an increase, or higher percentile levels for dozens of states!
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Jun 12
California reports COVID positivity of 1.05% statewide (highest since Feb 14), and 🚨1.14% (Highest since Nov 8) in Northern CA. Southern CA reports 0.95% Influenza positivity is 🚨7.6% in Northern CA, a seasonal record high year over year. Statewide Flu positivity is 4.38% a seasonal record high, with SoCal at ~2.5% Regional SARS2 WW update shows an increase in the Bay area. Statewide, and regional WW reports tend to lag longer than individual sewer site updates.
Jun 5
California reports 0.89% COVID positivity Wastewater was re normalized and showing 0.7. More WW sites are increasing than decreasing!
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21 Jun 2025
CALIFORNIA: As of June 16, Confirmed COVID ED visits ages 0-11 highest since Sep 23, and show fast rising trend.
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COVID: Highest since December in SF
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Ukrainian attack drones hit a major Russian oil depot in Rybinsk this morning, setting multiple tanks ablaze. Seen here, a Ukrainian attack drone flies towards the already burning Russian depot, descends, and then smashes into another oil tank.
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I took my son swimming today at our community pool during the quietest hour, desperate to slip past the invisible threats swirling through this summer heat. Here in the South, the relentless heat leaves us so few safe havens for our children that we chase these pockets of normalcy wherever we can. The only others there were a family with a frail, bald woman in her late 20s or early 30s, chatting softly with the mom. Pale skin, not a single hair left on her head... Cancer, I knew instantly. Then her little blonde girl, about 4 years old in a bright strawberry swimsuit, hobbled over with that familiar cough… The pieces locked together like a key turning in a rusted door. This child, born in approximately 2021, has carried Covid home again and again. Her family probably shrugged it off each round as a “stomach bug,””allergies,” or “just a cold.” Year after year of quiet accumulation, until it left her mother to face the toll of her body stripped bare by cancer. This is the timeline we now inhabit. A slow, unfolding apocalypse of Covid that most refuse to see, yet reveals itself everywhere once you truly look and listen. The damage plays out in plain sight around us while Covid keeps spreading, hidden within the everyday moments. The world glances away, makes excuses and forgets, but this nightmare presses onwards. It is simply just one unnoticed infection at a time.
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😢Another 30 something with shingles. Mother of 2, she’s missed work the past wk bc of it. The painful blisters are in her mouth & throat. 😩 She said her immune system is “down”. Diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis last yr. It’s 💔 seeing Covid’s toll on young, vibrant people.
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*TEENS WILL GET SOCIAL MEDIA CURFEW AND CHATBOT BAN IN UK: TIMES
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The FCC is to require photo ID for new phone numbers, supposedly for spam calls. It's bullshit. I discovered this when I went to make a Wi-Fi call with my Google Voice account. I left a very frustrated comment yesterday.
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Jun 12
BREAKING: CDC reports SARS-2 wastewater levels increased: 🚨LA, SD, CA, HI, NM, AK. RI, MD, DC, FL, IL, CT, NE, NJ LA hit 31 percentile, and 55 seasonal SARS2 levels TX, NM, AK reported 10-11 percentile levels COVID ED visits increased in: ID, MT, ME, MN, OH, IN, KS, DC, VT, GA, MD Flu Like Illness increased in: MT, NH, WY, DE, MD, DC, CO COVID Hospital admissions increased in: MT, ID, ND, SD, OK, AZ, HI, NH, NM, WY, WV, KS, VT, TN for the latest week, or the prior week.
Jun 5
BREAKING: SARS-2 levels in WW increased in: NV, AZ, VT, MA, NC, NJ, CA, AK COVID ED visits increased in: ND, NV, RI, TX, VA, CO, NM, WY, KY Flu Like Illness increased in: ND, NV, RI, MT, TX, NM, KS, VT, NE, WV, NC, KY, NJ, MI, CA, IN, MD, OH COVID Hospital Admissions and levels are shown accounting for lag, and show an increase, or higher percentile levels for dozens of states!
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CDC COVID Forecast - Potential for high transmission during Fall? x.com/CyFi10/status/20654893…

Jun 12
CDC publishes outlook for COVID, predicting a later start to the Summer wave, but the wave potentially peaking later than usual. As of June 12, with moderate confidence cdc.gov/cfa-qualitative-asse…
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COVID: Verily reports the Midwest surges even higher, up to 56.9 🚨 ( 284% from May 21) and WWscan has 59.5! The West is up to 11.7 on Verily and 8.8 on WWscan US national is up to 20.4 ( 60.6% from May 19) Many HIGH sites in Florida!
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OpenERV is criticizing a free donation of air purifiers to the Corsi-Rosenthal Foundation for people in need. He’s not happy that vulnerable people are getting extra machines — he complains they’re “too expensive” and shouldn’t receive them. It’s like telling homeless shelters: “You got hot dogs free lobster… but refuse the lobster, it costs too much.” Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. x.com/open_erv/status/206574…
Ok I'm sorry but this cannot pass without comment. Promoting a machine which gets a seriously inferior actual cost to performance ratio is really weird. If it's for a school with wacky purchasing requirements, that's one thing. This is for people who have no such requirements. Why are you promoting this machine rather than the other machines such as the Northboxes, clean air kits, Tempest or other machines with *superior actual performance to cost ratio*? If you want clean air, then that's what you do. This is something else. This machine is 480 GBP for 288 CFM cadr. That's 643 USD. The northbox polaris get the same CADR, lower operating cost and slightly less noise for $365. The tempest is similar. The ones I build in my workshop are $79 CAD, $57 USD, slighly less cadr, in the 230-250 range, same noise level basically, probably lower running cost. That's a huge difference. I call that profit, basically. This is not non-profit behavior and it's not in pursuit of clean air. It's something else. This bothers me largely because it's so disrespectful to people that are doing a good job offering solutions. It's a ton of work to get that performance to cost ratio, and then make and ship units. That needs to be appreciated or nothing *real* will ever get done. And you don't even use it, instead you pick the inferior one??? Indeed, it has not been getting done. Very little deployment of clean air measures has actually happened over all these years. If this is the approach even the advocacy orgs and "non-profits" are taking, no wonder. Now I know it's bad to criticize well meaning orgs and so on but that's partly how this kind of thing comes to pass. We all have to do our part to strive to encourage doing the actual things that actually matter, and to do a good job. Sometimes that means criticism. I also build, in fact I do that a lot, and not just machines, I also do the workshops for instance. And I elevate people who are doing a good job, indeed I am doing that right here at the very same time. These all have their place.
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COVID: Verily reports the Midwest surges even higher, up to 56.9 🚨 ( 284% from May 21) and WWscan has 59.5! The West is up to 11.7 on Verily and 8.8 on WWscan US national is up to 20.4 ( 60.6% from May 19) Many HIGH sites in Florida!
Jun 11
BREAKING: Verily and WWscan report SARS2 levels in the Midwest surges to 49.7, and WWscan downgrades it to HIGH category! Verily and WWscan reports US national levels up to 20, highest since April 26. The Northeast is 28.4 The South drops to 18.5 from over 25 the prior day. The West gets a downward revision, but jumps from 7.2 to 10.2 on the last day, and WWscan shows 8.5 The significant moves on the final day are more likely to get revised in the future. In the Bay Area, Fremont reports 67 and 453 jumping up to HIGH!
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MAJOR divergence between >60's and younger demographics: younger adults are now *following* the children UPWARD. NB: BA.3.2.2 will register poorly on surveillance systems that look *only* at hospitalizations - which are dominated by >60's. @snpoehlm @LongDesertTrain
モデルナ推計 60歳以上は減少しているが 20〜59歳も増加し始めたか BA.3.2* は成人同士の感染は以前よりは少ないと思うがどうなっていくか
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Jun 12
Los Angeles reports 1.48% COVID positivity highest since Dec 6, up from 0.49% after revisions. The extreme spike was revised. Orange County reports 1.1% COVID positivity.
Jun 6
🚨🚨🚨 Los Angeles county reports the highest COVID positivity rate (4.42%) since Oct 11, and the most cases (54) since Oct 18 after revisions for the prior week and a 3.4% rate for the latest week! The COVID rate crossed above both 2024, and 2025 levels year over year! This is one of the most extraordinary relative,and absolute increases recorded in recent years! ph.lacounty.gov/acd/respwatc…
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20 Jun 2025
NEW: SARS-2 Positivity increased for the 4th week in a row in Los Angeles, highest since September. Notably, Mortality has spiked to epidemic status.
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2021 levels surpassed x.com/i/status/2065536749154…

Jun 12
🚨🚨🚨The COVID test positivity rate in Los Angeles is 2.6x 2021's level! They removed 2021's data from the reports! Last year's copy shown here.
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RT @extremetemps: EUROPEAN HEAT WAVE Exceptional hot day in Galicia,SPAIN Hottest June day in history 37.2 La Coruna AP 35.7 La Coruna…
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