I'm so glad I discovered your channel. As a long-covid sufferer, I have some of the physical symptoms but my worst complaint is mental issues, cognitive/executive functions impairment, memory loss and poor memory formation and "lack of spark" or "losing my creative fire". It feels like pre-mature Alzheimers (I'm 43) or that I've aged 10 years. Anyway, sorry for complaining, but what I wanted to say is that I'm really interested in hearing about potential treatments or research and I will be watching regularly. Thanks for your work.
Thanks for your reports! Watching this one while home isolating with COVID. Thought i had dodged the virus all these years by doing all I could that was recommended. But got internet fiber upgrade and technician came to the house and hubby was down in the basement with him. Asymptomatic guy but hubby got a "cold" from him and I said no you have a fever you need to take a rapid test. Which was negative but got him to take another test 48 hours later. By that time I was getting symptoms. I took test 1st and it was definitely positive and then he was. Thanks to CVS for having that sign stock up on rapid tests before 5/11 public health emergency though I had to wait 30 minutes for them to go through health insurance bureaucratic stuff. And thanks People's CDC for your what to do when you get COVID guide. Thank you Death Panel podcast for their insights on the pandemic response. My hubby looked at the internet company's website where it assured us that the technicians followed COVID safety protocols. Yeah, no. Technicians probably said we aren't wearing these stupid masks anymore and you can't make me. I urged my hubby to fill out their feedback form to let them know he got COVID from the technician and I hope they inform him he has COVID and it's contagious!!! Will let you know if they respond. Your reports keep me sane during this complete collapse of any concern about the pandemic. I am one of the not so surprised people to come down with COVID. Just disappointed it has come down to this state of affairs.
Wow, there really seems to be no way now to know how many Covid-19 infections, hospitalizations, or deaths there are in the U.S. because there's no website where one can find this information. The pandemic hasn't gone away because people are still getting it, but we seem to only be able to find information on an anecdotal basis. This in the richest country in the history of the world?
People are funny. "I know exactly who gave it to me and when..." Honestly, who cares!? You are obviously well enough to write this who-done-it novel. Are you sure it wasn't Billy with the candlestick under the stairs? We've all had it and now you have immunity to it. Move on!
@@jazw4649 hey if you've been paying attention to People's CDC, COVID is not ho hum another flu. we don't know the consequences of coming down with it. the collective shrug of the mainstream polity(if that's the right term) is unfortunate but probably inevitable when productivity is king and compassion is sorely lacking. Have a nice day.
@@noellegillies2874 Apparently the number of Americans with a disability has risen from 27 million in 2009 to 34 million in 2023, an increase of 26%, and the highest level ever recorded in the U.S.
@@dbadagna Yes. Death Panel podcast has been really good in bringing up how people with pre-existing disabilities are dealing with this and how the culture doesn't care about them and their demands to continue masking to protect the vulnerable.
Anecdotal info, the local CVS pharmacist here in SW Ohio told me they had an uptick in requests for COVID testing. I'm not masking but keeping distance or limiting time in places again. TY for the info.
Did we know at what tissue temperature did SARS COV2 better replicate? Why? Because If SARS COV2 better replicate at very low tissue temperature, high body temperature protect against SARS COV2 infection. At TWiV 649 at min29 virologist Christian Drosten suggest that SARS COV2 better replicate at very low tissue temperature.
I don't know the details, but humans are typically endotherms and keep a set temperature. A febrile response has been known to make matters difficult for viruses, but up only to a certain temperature and a limited duration.
These reports take herculean effort, and we really appreciate your time and dedication. You are the ONLY source of this reliable information for laypersons. Thank you so much.
Interesting. I just found your channel. My sister and sister-in-law both tested positive in early June. I am fully vaccinated, but tested positive on Dec 31, six weeks after my last dose.
Yeah, breakthrough infections stay common, as we have let the virus continue to mutate and spread. At best, vaccines reduce the chance of severe illness, but they won't stop you from getting long covid 😔
Hospitals should be testing all who enter. The abdication of their responsibility for infection control is criminal. They are putting the sick and frail that come to them for help at risk.
This gradual push to think of covid as a background threat reminds me of how the US is treating mass shootings. Worsening problem, with no real viable mitigations: hope it doesn't happen to you. 🙃
Except Covid is a background threat as evidenced by the hospitalization rates and deaths. If covid isn’t making anyone very sick or killing anyone then why do we care what the positivity rate is?
So what do you suggest we do? Hide behind the couch for the rest of our lives? If you wanna live in fear, go ahead, but don't drag the rest of us down to you.
While we don’t know the absolute number of Covid cases nowadays, we can get a sense of prevalence by looking at positivity percentages in PCR tests, hospitalizations, and wastewater analysis. We are not flying as blind as you suggest!
We did report exactly those data in this episode (and now every episode post-end of the public health emergency declaration). But comparatively little PCR testing is being conducted with the rise of the at-home rapid antigen tests no one is required to report in and with the closing of almost all community testing sites. Hospitalizations are a back-end indicator of infection cycles, many hospitals are no longer testing all patients for COVID, and percent change in hospitalizations doesn't tell us whether that's for an ongoing spike or off a lowering floor. Limited syndromic surveillance tells us little of the extent of community spread. Wastewater analysis across plants does give a general sense of the state of the national outbreak, or one angle of it, but for reasons still unclear, viral wastewater load and caseloads are often not correlated county to county. And of the 16,000 publicly owned wastewater plants nationwide, CDC is reporting results for less than 1400. Whole swaths of the country aren't reporting in. Flying blind may not be the case, but a pilot with glaucoma isn't something to cheer. Indeed, with almost all data now being publicly reported in only at the state level or by a limited network of labs, here's a test of our state of surveillance: Can we tell what the state of the outbreak is in Sioux County, Iowa? Or nearly any single county a flood of CDC resources could help in quashing a sudden surge?
@@rwallace241 Thanks for your thoughtful response. And as a Covid cautious person myself, I appreciate your concern about our current deficiencies in monitoring this disease. Where we seem to differ is that I DO believe we currently have sufficient monitoring to get a "sense" (or "grasp"--to quote one of your words) of whether an aggressive new wave of Covid is brewing. While each type of monitoring has serious imperfections, I think cumulatively they are still helpful. Especially at a time when we don't see a deadly new variant running amok, and people flooding the hospitals with Covid specific symptoms. Also, there is so little anecdotal awareness of serious Covid cases at the current time that almost everyone has stopped wearing their masks. Where I think you could have a more productive focus is if you expressed concern about whether we can quickly "ramp up" our testing if we started getting reasonably early indications that Covid was starting to revisit us. (For example, the discovery of a deadly new variant.) While I admire your work and your sincere concerns, I am just unwilling to believe we don't have the ability to get a "sense" or a "grasp" of how Covid is behaving. At the moment, all the indicators suggest that in the US it is largely taking a summer vacation. Thank you, Omicron!
Did you see what's going on in Japan? They have a wave larger than our largest wave. More sick people per capita. They have Alpha and Delta variant coming back again. That's not good. Pre-Omicron variants have some unfortunate inserts that seem to have been removed for Omicron. Bill Gates did call Omicron a vaccine...
If "cases" are determined by PCR testing then, remember that PCR has a 97% false positive rate, (depending on the cycle threshhold used). A few years ago CDC recommended to switch to only count symptomatic people, not just a positive PCR test.
A few years ago the cdc thought you had to be symptomatic to be infected lol. They are always way behind the ball. Where do you get your information about pcr tests, Fox News?
97% is bullshit (and you know that). Yes, even with its high specificity and high sensitivity, RT-PCR can produce false positives, but that's on the side of human error in administering the test (mixing up patients, for instance) or rare cross-reactivity with another pathogen. The numbers I've seen are more 5-40%, with the top measure in locales with low COVID prevalence. The answer isn't to test symptomatics alone. Because how then to break the chains of transmission through the asymptomatics? The answer is to conduct second tests on all positive RT-PCR. That's the price of failing to quash a betacoronavirus that spreads both asymptomatically and before symptoms appear.
this is probably your most important video. Thank you for it. It's so much better than other videos, because you stay focused on what matters in it. Glad also you didn't waste too much time on minor data points this time. And didn't compromise it this time with the usual heavy-handed ideological extremist stuff.
Thanks for the kind words, Susan. We'll just push back a bit under the presumption you're speaking about other episodes of "COVID This Week": One person's ideology is another's political economy. One of the core epistemologies of social medicine and population health is that the causes of a disease--say, the virus--aren't enough. Neither are the causes of the causes--say, the deforestation driving the emergence of multiple novel pathogens. One must also tackle the causes of the causes of the causes. In this case here, we view that at this historical moment global circuits of capital and the political class that protects that network are fundamental factors in the etiology of disease. In our view, failing to discuss these matters would be as much a dereliction of duty as the feds' decision to no longer recommend, much less require, masking in health settings. We share this is in the spirit of mutual understanding. Your feedback is always appreciated.
@@stevekalorin9293 Covid is a bioweapon created in the USA and farmed in China. You still cool with Fauci's bioweapon program? Ready for the next bioweapon? You'll see.
Yawn, do you find trolling rewarding, very sad. Truly not being sarcastic. I sincerely hope you find a productive way to fulfill your needs for attention. Try being helpful to others. Have a blessed day.
At least this choir still has functioning lungs! 😂 It's really funny watching the poor souls who make a hobby of mocking our continued care, sad even 😆🥲
@@kagitsune I haven't worn a mask, I got covid last winter and my lungs are fine, thank you! If you want to run around looking like an idiot wearing a no-good mask for the rest of your life, go right ahead. I'm not joining you!
this channel is gold! thank you!
I was just at a one week meditation retreat of 75 people where 2 had to leave early because of Covid. Location: Massachusetts
Thank you
I'm so glad I discovered your channel. As a long-covid sufferer, I have some of the physical symptoms but my worst complaint is mental issues, cognitive/executive functions impairment, memory loss and poor memory formation and "lack of spark" or "losing my creative fire". It feels like pre-mature Alzheimers (I'm 43) or that I've aged 10 years. Anyway, sorry for complaining, but what I wanted to say is that I'm really interested in hearing about potential treatments or research and I will be watching regularly. Thanks for your work.
Thanks again!
Thank you!
Thank you for the information.
Thanks for your reports! Watching this one while home isolating with COVID. Thought i had dodged the virus all these years by doing all I could that was recommended. But got internet fiber upgrade and technician came to the house and hubby was down in the basement with him. Asymptomatic guy but hubby got a "cold" from him and I said no you have a fever you need to take a rapid test. Which was negative but got him to take another test 48 hours later. By that time I was getting symptoms. I took test 1st and it was definitely positive and then he was. Thanks to CVS for having that sign stock up on rapid tests before 5/11 public health emergency though I had to wait 30 minutes for them to go through health insurance bureaucratic stuff. And thanks People's CDC for your what to do when you get COVID guide. Thank you Death Panel podcast for their insights on the pandemic response. My hubby looked at the internet company's website where it assured us that the technicians followed COVID safety protocols. Yeah, no. Technicians probably said we aren't wearing these stupid masks anymore and you can't make me. I urged my hubby to fill out their feedback form to let them know he got COVID from the technician and I hope they inform him he has COVID and it's contagious!!! Will let you know if they respond. Your reports keep me sane during this complete collapse of any concern about the pandemic. I am one of the not so surprised people to come down with COVID. Just disappointed it has come down to this state of affairs.
Wow, there really seems to be no way now to know how many Covid-19 infections, hospitalizations, or deaths there are in the U.S. because there's no website where one can find this information. The pandemic hasn't gone away because people are still getting it, but we seem to only be able to find information on an anecdotal basis. This in the richest country in the history of the world?
People are funny. "I know exactly who gave it to me and when..." Honestly, who cares!? You are obviously well enough to write this who-done-it novel. Are you sure it wasn't Billy with the candlestick under the stairs? We've all had it and now you have immunity to it. Move on!
@@jazw4649 hey if you've been paying attention to People's CDC, COVID is not ho hum another flu. we don't know the consequences of coming down with it. the collective shrug of the mainstream polity(if that's the right term) is unfortunate but probably inevitable when productivity is king and compassion is sorely lacking. Have a nice day.
@@noellegillies2874 Apparently the number of Americans with a disability has risen from 27 million in 2009 to 34 million in 2023, an increase of 26%, and the highest level ever recorded in the U.S.
@@dbadagna Yes. Death Panel podcast has been really good in bringing up how people with pre-existing disabilities are dealing with this and how the culture doesn't care about them and their demands to continue masking to protect the vulnerable.
What is the present US policy on hospital reporting and testing requirements?
Anecdotal info, the local CVS pharmacist here in SW Ohio told me they had an uptick in requests for COVID testing. I'm not masking but keeping distance or limiting time in places again. TY for the info.
And masking will keep you even safer! Good masks are much less expensive now, with places like Maskc and Bonafide always doing sales.
People's CDC, keepin' it real!
Thank you for an excellent video! Thanks for everyone who commented and liked, that is what brought the channel to my attention.
An interesting video, but hard to remember when there is so much data. A summary of each part could be useful.
Thank you so much for the work you keep doing.
Thank you again. 😎👍
Great job with keeping us informed on this Rob! Much appreciated! Please keep them coming.
Did we know at what tissue temperature did SARS COV2 better replicate?
Why?
Because If SARS COV2 better replicate at very low tissue temperature, high body temperature protect against SARS COV2 infection.
At TWiV 649 at min29 virologist Christian Drosten suggest that SARS COV2 better replicate at very low tissue temperature.
I don't know the details, but humans are typically endotherms and keep a set temperature. A febrile response has been known to make matters difficult for viruses, but up only to a certain temperature and a limited duration.
@@rwallace241 we are homeotherme , but at elderly mucoseal respiratory temperature can be low
These reports take herculean effort, and we really appreciate your time and dedication. You are the ONLY source of this reliable information for laypersons. Thank you so much.
And what do you do with that information?
@ThomasDanielsen1000 …?
@@тито-к9в That one's a troll, ignore them
Thank you! Just subscribed. I appreciate your ability to gather information and keep us informed.
Interesting. I just found your channel. My sister and sister-in-law both tested positive in early June. I am fully vaccinated, but tested positive on Dec 31, six weeks after my last dose.
Wonder why.
Yeah, breakthrough infections stay common, as we have let the virus continue to mutate and spread. At best, vaccines reduce the chance of severe illness, but they won't stop you from getting long covid 😔
Hospitals should be testing all who enter. The abdication of their responsibility for infection control is criminal. They are putting the sick and frail that come to them for help at risk.
Thank you for that!
This gradual push to think of covid as a background threat reminds me of how the US is treating mass shootings. Worsening problem, with no real viable mitigations: hope it doesn't happen to you. 🙃
Except Covid is a background threat as evidenced by the hospitalization rates and deaths. If covid isn’t making anyone very sick or killing anyone then why do we care what the positivity rate is?
agreed.
So what do you suggest we do? Hide behind the couch for the rest of our lives? If you wanna live in fear, go ahead, but don't drag the rest of us down to you.
What's a mass shooting what is the definition the last five shootings in the US have been by non-binary and transgenders
@@ThomasDanielsen1000 Do you wear a seatbelt when you drive? 🤔
Works on fools eh.
While we don’t know the absolute number of Covid cases nowadays, we can get a sense of prevalence by looking at positivity percentages in PCR tests, hospitalizations, and wastewater analysis. We are not flying as blind as you suggest!
We did report exactly those data in this episode (and now every episode post-end of the public health emergency declaration). But comparatively little PCR testing is being conducted with the rise of the at-home rapid antigen tests no one is required to report in and with the closing of almost all community testing sites. Hospitalizations are a back-end indicator of infection cycles, many hospitals are no longer testing all patients for COVID, and percent change in hospitalizations doesn't tell us whether that's for an ongoing spike or off a lowering floor. Limited syndromic surveillance tells us little of the extent of community spread.
Wastewater analysis across plants does give a general sense of the state of the national outbreak, or one angle of it, but for reasons still unclear, viral wastewater load and caseloads are often not correlated county to county. And of the 16,000 publicly owned wastewater plants nationwide, CDC is reporting results for less than 1400. Whole swaths of the country aren't reporting in.
Flying blind may not be the case, but a pilot with glaucoma isn't something to cheer. Indeed, with almost all data now being publicly reported in only at the state level or by a limited network of labs, here's a test of our state of surveillance: Can we tell what the state of the outbreak is in Sioux County, Iowa? Or nearly any single county a flood of CDC resources could help in quashing a sudden surge?
@@rwallace241 Covid19 & mRNA vaccines are US Military BI0WEAP0NS, everyone involved will be EXE¢UTED for WAR Crimes.
@@rwallace241 Thanks for your thoughtful response. And as a Covid cautious person myself, I appreciate your concern about our current deficiencies in monitoring this disease. Where we seem to differ is that I DO believe we currently have sufficient monitoring to get a "sense" (or "grasp"--to quote one of your words) of whether an aggressive new wave of Covid is brewing. While each type of monitoring has serious imperfections, I think cumulatively they are still helpful. Especially at a time when we don't see a deadly new variant running amok, and people flooding the hospitals with Covid specific symptoms. Also, there is so little anecdotal awareness of serious Covid cases at the current time that almost everyone has stopped wearing their masks. Where I think you could have a more productive focus is if you expressed concern about whether we can quickly "ramp up" our testing if we started getting reasonably early indications that Covid was starting to revisit us. (For example, the discovery of a deadly new variant.) While I admire your work and your sincere concerns, I am just unwilling to believe we don't have the ability to get a "sense" or a "grasp" of how Covid is behaving. At the moment, all the indicators suggest that in the US it is largely taking a summer vacation. Thank you, Omicron!
Did you see what's going on in Japan? They have a wave larger than our largest wave. More sick people per capita. They have Alpha and Delta variant coming back again. That's not good. Pre-Omicron variants have some unfortunate inserts that seem to have been removed for Omicron. Bill Gates did call Omicron a vaccine...
Then there's also recombinants. Where two variants combine. I'll give Gates an E for Effort, but I doubt that hail Mary worked.
If "cases" are determined by PCR testing then, remember that PCR has a 97% false positive rate, (depending on the cycle threshhold used). A few years ago CDC recommended to switch to only count symptomatic people, not just a positive PCR test.
A few years ago the cdc thought you had to be symptomatic to be infected lol. They are always way behind the ball. Where do you get your information about pcr tests, Fox News?
97% is bullshit (and you know that). Yes, even with its high specificity and high sensitivity, RT-PCR can produce false positives, but that's on the side of human error in administering the test (mixing up patients, for instance) or rare cross-reactivity with another pathogen. The numbers I've seen are more 5-40%, with the top measure in locales with low COVID prevalence. The answer isn't to test symptomatics alone. Because how then to break the chains of transmission through the asymptomatics? The answer is to conduct second tests on all positive RT-PCR. That's the price of failing to quash a betacoronavirus that spreads both asymptomatically and before symptoms appear.
500 views...
this is probably your most important video.
Thank you for it.
It's so much better than other videos, because you stay focused on what matters in it.
Glad also you didn't waste too much time on minor data points this time. And didn't compromise it this time with the usual heavy-handed ideological extremist stuff.
Thanks for the kind words, Susan. We'll just push back a bit under the presumption you're speaking about other episodes of "COVID This Week": One person's ideology is another's political economy.
One of the core epistemologies of social medicine and population health is that the causes of a disease--say, the virus--aren't enough. Neither are the causes of the causes--say, the deforestation driving the emergence of multiple novel pathogens. One must also tackle the causes of the causes of the causes. In this case here, we view that at this historical moment global circuits of capital and the political class that protects that network are fundamental factors in the etiology of disease. In our view, failing to discuss these matters would be as much a dereliction of duty as the feds' decision to no longer recommend, much less require, masking in health settings.
We share this is in the spirit of mutual understanding. Your feedback is always appreciated.
Wallace is a national treasure, not an ideological extremist.
@@rwallace241 This particular virus, which was perfectly adapted to human airway cells from the get-go, didn't emerge via deforestation.
@@dbadagnaBillions of virus mutations a day are a thing, my guy. Evolution exists. 🙄
Yawn. Are you still preaching to the ever dwindling choir?
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
@@stevekalorin9293 Covid is a bioweapon created in the USA and farmed in China. You still cool with Fauci's bioweapon program? Ready for the next bioweapon? You'll see.
Yawn, do you find trolling rewarding, very sad. Truly not being sarcastic. I sincerely hope you find a productive way to fulfill your needs for attention. Try being helpful to others. Have a blessed day.
At least this choir still has functioning lungs! 😂 It's really funny watching the poor souls who make a hobby of mocking our continued care, sad even 😆🥲
@@kagitsune I haven't worn a mask, I got covid last winter and my lungs are fine, thank you! If you want to run around looking like an idiot wearing a no-good mask for the rest of your life, go right ahead. I'm not joining you!
Thank you!
Thank you!