Forecast: flat transmission
Despite all the headlines like this...
🚨BREAKING: BA.3.2 Cicada Eats Children🚨
Levels are lower nationally than any point in the past year. That's not minimizing. It's very serious, and the "lull" is unlikely to last longer another 4-10 weeks.
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Two screenshots against a background of telephone wires and blue sky. The first is a map of the US showing COVID transmission, with states colored light blue to berry pink depending on severity. Oregon is light green, which means “Low”. Text warns that this data is based off April 4th. The second screenshot is text that reads, “67% of Oregon community wastewater treatment centers were positive for SARS-CoV-2 on the most recent sample.”
It’s Wastewater Wednesday! How are COVID levels? We’re using two sources to help us keep track of the country and our state of Oregon.
Thank you to @michael-hoerger.bsky.social for the map and graph, and OHA for continuing to track data coming from our wastewater treatment centers!
Forecast, described in post
PMC forecasts continued slow declines in transition nationally.
There's about a 25% chance that levels drop below 100,000 new daily infections in the near future. That's happened 3 times since onset.
-May/June 2020
-Sep 2020
-May-Jul 2021
40% chance of slow increases.
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Learn more at pmc19.com/data
Stay tuned for a slew of updated features. Please use, share, mark up, and improve the graphics. Make videos. Spread the word across social media. 🙏
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ALA Clean Air School Symposium NOTE: All times listed below are in Central Time. Agenda times and order of topics are subject to slight change. 10:00 AM: Opening Remarks + The Case for Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) 10:50 AM: Core Elements and the Intersection of IAQ and Energy Efficiency 11:25 AM: Voices from the Field - a Panel Discussion 11:55 AM: Break 12:05 PM: Taking Action: 6 Key Drivers 12:35 PM: How to Make it Happen - Programs and Resources for Schools 12:50 PM: Voices from the Field - a Panel Discussion 1:30 PM: Closing Remarks and Adjourn Featured Speakers Speaker list and bios coming soon!
The American Lung Association is hosting a 3.5-hour virtual "Clean Air School Symposium" on May 5.
Register: action.lung.org/site/TR?fr_i...
COVlD cases need to fall "well below 10,000" per day for the country to achieve some semblance of pre-pandemic life.
-Dr. Anthony Fauci
CDC heat map with PMC estimates
COVlD: Week of Apr 20, 2026 (PMC, US)
Levels are at their lowest in nearly 3 years, but unfortunately with a high baseline of >200,000 estimated new daily infections.
Very High = WV (1 site only)
Moderate = MS (limited data) & Guam
All others low/very low
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I just saw a wild leftist take about masking being performative and, my good bitch, my partner has become disabled from long COVID from three years ago.
We're not asking you to not live your lives, but for damn, wastewater COVID shows about 200k infections/day in the States *today*.
Mask vending machine at JFK
So great to see JFK airport still has mask vending machines, which have 3M Auras!
"It teaches girls to doubt themselves while protecting those who would exploit that doubt...."
This unbearably sad story makes clear what glib eugenicist talk like “cleaning up the risk pool” actually means at the level of individuals and families, in this case a child who died years after measles infection in infancy. Devastating.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
Testifying to the Energy and Commerce committee in the House
“The term included people with disabilities and later those considered grossly inferior according to the racial policy of Nazi Germany. This concept formed an important component of the ideology of Nazism and eventually helped lead to the Holocaust.”
Not sure how ppl dont see the connections between eliminating healthcare via Medicare cuts, soon to slash Medicare, eliminating food programs, destroying ACA and a flat-out goal to get rid of anyone they deem non-productive.
RFK Jr. just said HHS is "cleaning up the risk pool" (i.e., people who are unhealthy) to bring down healthcare costs.
Notoriously anti-science RFK def wants to cut NIH programs.
Notoriously anti-government Russ Vought deffffff wants to cut NIH programs.
Trump's 2027 budget proposal would pile onto our national debt with the largest budget hike since WWII. finance.yahoo.com/economy/poli...
"The glasses would be only one more addition to the rapidly expanding surveillance state under the Trump administration, which is collecting massive amounts of data on people and organizations in the U.S.”
newrepublic.com/post/209309/...
Not unexpected. That's three cabinet members down. And yet, Bobby Kennedy is still there, destroying American health on the daily.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Things I keep saying that no one likes.
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So much this 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
Can I recommend/plug “Between Two Rivers” by @moudhy.bsky.social to really highlight this point — we humans, connecting to humans in our deep past, who in turn were also connecting to humans in their deep past — through storytelling.
The machines can *never* do this.
Canada's prime minister says economic ties with US are a weakness that must be corrected
apnews.com/article/cana...
EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027.
The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.
For the first time in decades, consensus broke at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The United States cast the lone “no” vote on a document aimed at improving justice systems for women and girls worldwide. Misogyny is the official policy of the US under Trump.
www.tumblr.com/robertreich/...
We’re building something beautiful in the Bronx.
A sensory garden where children with disabilities can feel safe, seen, and free to explore.
Volunteers needed.
Come grow something that will last.
#Bronx #Accessibility #Community
NEW: The RNC claimed it scored an 'election integrity win' over a Virginia county by forcing it to change its elections guidance on detecting noncitizen voters. The county's elections director said the RNC's claims are unfounded - an attempt "to fabricate a nonexistent problem."
MLK’s white moderate commentary will forever be relevant
"She’s been a court interpreter for over 20 years, the only one licensed in Texas for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu. Her language skills are requested nationwide..."
"One of her children recently enlisted in the military...
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