COVID Bookmark Dump
The COVID pandemic is done (and the endemic begun, read below). Here’s my bookmark pile from that era. All the COVID sites you ever wanted to fret over, all in one place.
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- WCCUSD 2022-2023 COVID Dashboard
- Activities for Children & Families – Google Sheets
- CCHealth Coronavirus
- Coronavirus Archives — Berkeleyside
- The COVID Tracking Project | The COVID Tracking Project
- COVID-19 Map – Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center
- Mortality Analyses – Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center
- Mortality Risk of COVID-19 – Statistics and Research – Our World in Data
- Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) – Statistics and Research – Our World in Data
- Corona Virus Science
- Coronavirus Information & Resources | Berkeley Unified School District
- COVID State-by-state by date total deaths
- US All Key Metrics | The COVID Tracking Project
- COVID-19 Projections Using Machine Learning | We use artificial intelligence to accurately forecast infections, deaths, and recovery timelines of the COVID-19 / coronavirus pandemic in the US and globally
- District Updates / WCCUSD Return 2 School
- Covid Trends
- WCCUSD 21-22 COVID Dashboard › Daily Totals by Site
- Covid Trends – US Cases
- Covid Trends – CA cases
- 21-22 COVID Dashboard
Given that my tenant died of COVID last week, I’m far from convinced that the pandemic is “done.” Even the World Health Organization says the pandemic isn’t over, even though the emergency nature of it is. And leaving aside the people dying of it, about 10% of people who have gotten COVID have ended up with long COVID. Even among the vaccinated, and even among those who got omicron rather than the original strain, the percentage was 3.5%. By contrast, only one in 200 polio infections leads to paralysis, yet no one argued that polio was “done” before there was a vaccine.
Unfortunately, the concept that the pandemic is done is leading people to go out in public (including to work) with COVID, to skip vaccinations, to avoid masks, and generally to make sure that COVID remains so prevalent that those most at risk are faced with a choice between a life-threatening illness and complete social isolation.
[Citations omitted because your blog thinks my comment is spam if I include them.]
COVID is not over. There is still a lot in the population, confirmed by testing wastewater.
According to the People’s CDC (started after the Federal Government ordered the CDC to stand down) COVID in wastewater report
“According to data last updated 9/27/2024, the CDC’s national wastewater map shows 34 states and territories (including the District of Columbia) with “High” or “Very High” wastewater levels.
There is no data for Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, or North Dakota. South Dakota, Mississippi, Rhode Island, and Virginia are indicated as having limited coverage, which means that data in these states represent less than 5% of the population. ”
Thanks for the links
I’ll qualify and say that the pandemic, the part where people were lined up outside hospitals dying of a poorly understood, highly infectious, untreatable, unvaccinatable disease has ended. Now it’s endemic like automobile accidents, AIDS, breast cancer, and obesity. Definitely dangerous but manageable. It’s in the ~1000 deaths/week (50k/year) range instead of the ~20,000 deaths/week (a devastating 1 million/year) range according to charts like this.
Free, I very much welcome you post links, just remove the first “h” from your “http” link to fool my spam filter. I’ll manually fix it. (my simple “http” filter blocks some 160 spams a day, which keeps commenting possible on my blog!)
And of course, I just came across this tremendously unsettling mastodon toot: read me.
Augie Ray
@augieray@mastodon.social
I’m sure it is just a coincidence that the disability and long-term sickness rates in three nations starting rising at the start of the #COVID19 pandemic and are still rising almost five years later, despite the fact the global health emergency ended.
Data shown is for Spain, the US, and the UK.
Data via FRED
and from the UK and other places. Read the toot.