DeathFox4

Pfp; demented_hellhound_art on Insta. Covid updates and a bit of fluffy to lighten the mood will be my main content of retweets. Likes tab will be for anything.

[DeathFox4 @DFoxFour]

@michael_hoerger I always remind people that if you want to not mask, you need to be bringing air filters along but people usually stop both instead.

[Adri💫 @AdriWindGB]

GENERATIONAL DOWNGRADE

[Kadath @UnknownKadath]

‘Wow the new designs look great’

LOL

This is why I am grateful Krystal isn’t in this. Could you imagine how badly they’d butcher her?

You know it’s bad when I’M saying I’m glad she’s not in this.

[Maximilian Dood @maximilian_]

New Smash Bros gonna be lit

[hayden fyrus 🌺⭐️ @FyrusYT]

I really thought they were setting up Fox's redesign with the Galaxy movie, like the first one did with Donkey Kong

man what happened

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

Biobot updated today with data through the 17th already showing the Northeast & Midwest passing the summer wave on SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Likely, much worse today.

Many assuming they have "flu" actually have COVlD or co-infections. We warned of this in last week's video. 🙏

[Jess @MeetJess]

“Scientists have identified the precise point at which stopping an H5N1 pandemic becomes impossible.
When the bird flu virus jumps to sustained human transmission, authorities will have roughly 2 days to prevent catastrophe”

So, we’re f*cked https://t.co/uIIQpXVEdg

[Barry Hunt @BarryHunt008]

Up to 1.2 million Americans a week are currently developing Long Covid

Many will recover

At least partially

Many will not

At least not fully

Some ppl's lives will be changed forever

Some ppl's lives will end prematurely

Because of the infection they caught this week

😢

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

PMC Dashboard Update (U.S.) 🧵1 of 8

The 11th wave is still rising.
🔥23 states/territories High/Very High
🔥Very High: Alabama, DC, Guam, Hawai'i, Louisiana, Nebraska, Nevada, South Carolina, Texas, Utah
🔥1 in 56 estimated actively infectious
🔥876,000 new daily infections

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

California has been bombarded by over 10,000 lightning strikes today, sparking dozens of new wildfires.

It’s about to get really smoky.

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

The last CDC wastewater update reported the steepest week-over-week increase in SARS-CoV-2 transmission of any summer day since the onset of the Delta wave in July 2021.

These steps followed:
1) Data updates halted.
2) Vaccinations limited.
3) CDC Director pushed out.

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

When people think of the “Big One” in California, they imagine a catastrophic earthquake.

But the real Big One will be a megaflood, that could cause over $1 trillion in damage and become the worst natural disaster in world history... (thread) 🧵

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

PMC COVlD Update, August 18, 2025

Very High Transmission: Alaska, Guam, Hawai'i, Nevada, Texas, Utah

High Transmission: Alabama, California, Connecticut, Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina

Data note: The CDC made a major update to how it processes and provides wastewater data on Friday, August 15. The changes include the following:

1) There are some inconsistencies in label descriptions on the website (e.g., top of the page says "Very Low" or "Low" but graph says "Moderate").

2) They have reclassified how they bin states into categories, which may put more states in the Very Low or Low categories than before.

3) They have switched from "normalized" data that accounts for confounders like rainfall levels to non-normalized data. The overall effect of this nationally appears minimal, but it may reduce data quality at the state or site level.

The changes came as we were about to release Version 3.0 of the forecasting model, which now requires additional effort. We hope to have the next dashboard update on August 25, have provided this week's updated heat map on the website, and include the graphics and report from last week on the website too.

At present, new daily infections appear to top 700,000 in the U.S., but we will not know for a week or two whether real-time reports from the CDC are still reasonably reliable. The uptick the past week was very large, meaning the situation is much worse if the data hold. Stay tuned.

[Marc Johnson @SolidEvidence]

This probably isn’t a surprise to real epidemiologists, but it was a revelation to me.

Anyway, I think we’re going to have to add a rhinovirus breakdown on our dashboard.
https://t.co/S6oQ10oAbH
16/16

[Marc Johnson @SolidEvidence]

This is so cool.

I’m pleased to share version 1.0 of our new dashboard for displaying data from our wastewater metagenomic project.

This is a collaborative projected between MU, U. Wisc @dho, and SecureBio; funded by Inkfish and Open Philanthropy.
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https://t.co/HEKmOQsxlf

[Jess @MeetJess]

The World Feels Hostile — And You’re Not Imagining It 🧵

Lately, everything feels heavier.
Conversations are shorter.
People are on edge.
Smiles don’t quite reach eyes anymore.
You feel it, right? The tension? The wear?
It’s not just you.

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

PMC COVlD Report, May 19, 2025 (U.S.)

In this national "lull" in transmission, we are seeing...
🔥A quarter-million daily infections
🔥90-360k Long COVlD cases from the week's infections
🔥600-1,100 deaths from the week's infections
🔥LA, SD, NE, & GU in high transmission

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

@This_Matterz https://t.co/wBJA3QXAm5

I haven't gotten to try them yet, but I think @noxygen is a fan. Looking forward to testing them.

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

An insane 226 tornado warnings have been issued in the last 12 hours across the United States as a major tornado outbreak unfolds.

Multiple strong to potentially violent nighttime tornadoes have impacted communities across Mississippi and Tennessee in the past hour.

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

24 states + DC in the CDC high/very high range.

An estimated 1 in 87 people in the U.S. are actively infectious with COVlD today.