Notices by Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) (mackayim2022@mastodon.social), page 2

There's no good or insurmountable reason for Australia not to have weekly national graphical infectious disease data to inform the public (who provided the samples!) about what's happening to them and their risks from the more transmissible agents.
Just excuses.
#OpenAccessData

"Life on planet Earth is under siege. We are now in an uncharted territory."
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"Unfortunately, time is up."
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biad080/7319571?login=true

Status: Yelling at news story on #RSV.
'We have no long-term data'
'Higher than last year'
Hand-washing imagery as a msg about transmission. Frikkin seriously??

"#Omicron has comparable intrinsic severity to the ancestral Wuhan strain, although the effective severity is substantially lower in Omicron cases due to vaccination"

#VaccinesWork #Vaccination #COVID19 #Science #FactsNotFeelz
https://academic.oup.com/jid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/infdis/jiad236/7208626?

Are repeat COVID infections dangerous? What the science says https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01371-9

@Gargron ahhh in the head. Not just anywhere. Thx.