Charts From the Viral Respiratory Outcomes page (updated 5 Mar 2026 with data through 28 Feb 2026). From the Viral Pathogen Characterization page: Last week, I said that I had never seen flu so low, that I thought it must be a data error? Um, yeah, about that? It was a data error: Dyslexic me… Continue reading 2026-03-06 BC
Author: Ducky
2026-03-06 General
Multiple Pathogens Vaccines 💉👃 I know I am repeating myself, but there is something extraordinary going on that I want to repeat/summarize. I have talked about “universal vaccines” which work by revving up the immune system in isolation, but I want to point out that there are THREE nasal “universal vaccines” that have had animal… Continue reading 2026-03-06 General
2026-02-28 BC
Charts From the Viral Respiratory Outcomes page (updated 26 Feb 2026 with data through 21 Feb 2026). From the Viral Pathogen Characterization page: Influenza A has fallen so far that part of me wonders if there’s a data error. I’ve never seen it in single digits before, even in the summertime. Addendum 2026-03-05: Dyslexic me… Continue reading 2026-02-28 BC
2026-02-28 General
Multiple Pathogens Vaccines 🎉🎉🎉👃🐁 You might have read articles like this one (2026-02-19) about this paper (2026-02-19) reporting the development of a nasal spray that protected mice for at least three months from a lot of different respiratory diseases, including SARS1, COVID-19, a bat coronavirus, and at least two bacteria. It even quieted reactions to… Continue reading 2026-02-28 General
2026-02-20 BC
Charts From the Viral Pathogen Characterization page: Flu is definitely still going down. Everything else is making small enough moves that it’s hard to tell if it’s noise or part of a trend. In the most recent data (ending 14 Feb 2026) as reported on 19 Feb 2026, among influenza-like illness (i.e respiratory diseases) cases… Continue reading 2026-02-20 BC
2026-02-20 General
Multiple Pathogens This report from Spain (2026-02-19) says that 8.8% of hospitalized patients got a hospital-acquired infection (HAI) and they were about twice as likely to die as patients who did not get an HAI. The authors think at least half of those are preventable. The authors note that there are three times as many… Continue reading 2026-02-20 General
2026-02-13 BC
Addendum: This originally had the date of 2026-01-13 and not 2026-02-13. Ooops, sorry. Charts From the Viral Pathogen Characterization page: Flu is going down, RSV is going up, everything else is holding pretty steady. In the most recent data (ending 7 Feb 2026) as reported on 12 Feb 2026, among influenza-like illness (i.e respiratory diseases)… Continue reading 2026-02-13 BC
2026-02-13 General
I’ve got almost nothing on COVID-19 this week. There have been some extremely technical, boring, non-actionable papers; there have been news stories about the (*sigh*) normal fecal tornadoes in the US health administration, there have been stories about people convicted of defrauding various other governments of COVID-19 relief funds, stories of Olympians *gasp* wearing masks,… Continue reading 2026-02-13 General
2026-02-05 BC
This week’s postings will be short because I have Things To Do for the next few days. This means that the wastewater information will be delayed. I might revise this blog on Friday or Saturday to add in the wastewater chart, but otherwise you’ll need to wait a week. Charts From the Viral Pathogen Characterization… Continue reading 2026-02-05 BC
2026-02-05 General
This week’s postings will be short because I have Stuff To Do for the next few days. COVID-19 Long COVID This paper from USA (2026-01-27) reports that women who had both depressive and anxiety symptoms pre-pandemic and got a COVID-19 infection were 78% more likely to get Long COVID in 2020 and 2021 of the… Continue reading 2026-02-05 General