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[d_pruss6 @DPruss6]

data from https://t.co/EsX1JlXCIG
week 25 2026 levels are marked on the 2025 chart by thin horizontal lines

[バーッド・マン Ⅱ @TBM4_JP]

愛媛県のコロナ、0-4🔵、5-9🔴、10-14🟢歳の症例数は、第13波に近づいている（2枚目のグラフに書き込んだラインが現時点）

[d_pruss6 @DPruss6]

Cicada BA.3.2 in the Japanese children: growth accelerates but the absolute levels are still below the past Covid waves.
Ehime prefecture epidemiologists always pay strong attention to the kids respiratory conditions. But in the past, adults contracted Covid too. Not now.

[d_pruss6 @DPruss6]

@wartranslated Really funny but AI generated and in a language which isn't Russian

[d_pruss6 @DPruss6]

@LongDesertTrain Perhaps they concentrated on testing children? The metadata don't have ages

[d_pruss6 @DPruss6]

The "Cicada" remains a kids' coronavirus strain in NYC, 4 months old.
A new upload shows continuing slow growth of its share in children, but the older adults continue to lag far behind

[d_pruss6 @DPruss6]

NYT added more timeline details. 20 days in the North of Argentina from Mendoza to Misiones, leaving not earlier than March 9 for Uruguay. Then two weeks there, returning to Buenos Aires not sooner than March 23. And it's the last possible moment of infection...
It wasn't Andes

[d_pruss6 @DPruss6]

The Dutch couple who died of hantavirus might have got infected while cleaning their camper van, returning it b4 the cruise.
Their trip is clear from the birdwatching site logs. They weren't in the Andes in the days before boarding. But rodent feces might have remained 1/2

[d_pruss6 @DPruss6]

...in this camper from their extensive travels in the Andes in prior months!

Any cleanup in the hantavirus country is better done in respirators...

[d_pruss6 @DPruss6]

Ebolavirus #Bundibugyo genomic data have arrived from the Ituri outbreak. National labs of DRC and Uganda completed sequencing in as little as 3 days. The new strain is similar to the 2007 Bundibugyo outbreak, and a bit less so to the 2012 Isiro outbreak (400+ km away)

[d_pruss6 @DPruss6]

@fightvemodalen because the long-tailed pigmy rice rat pooped in some poorly accessible place in the camper, like in the back of a drawer or under a bed, and they didn't disturb the droppings until they started packing and cleaning?

[d_pruss6 @DPruss6]

@wasfamily1 The husband only got infected in the 2nd half of March, a week or two before boarding the ship.
To recap my theory, they weren't in the Andes then, but there camper might have been contaminated for months...

[d_pruss6 @DPruss6]

@ChrisO_wiki The translation in the English language pictures is horrible IMHO. Line 1 is Sign up bonus
Line 3 is NOW or Right away

[d_pruss6 @DPruss6]

Among coronaviruses from children with with flu-like symptoms, "Cicada" predominated. Most adults with similar symptoms had other strains.
The dataset from Malaysia is small but it clearly specifies symptoms: ILI = influenza-like infection, SARI = severe acute respiratory inf

[d_pruss6 @DPruss6]

Cicada is about as likely (or slightly less likely) to cause hospitalization, compared to other covid strains?
New data from Norway are annotated by sample origin, and is about evenly split between BA.3.2* and other strains in the outpatient and hospital patients.
But no ages...

[d_pruss6 @DPruss6]

@JosetteSchoenma Right, thank you again, corrected the chart

[d_pruss6 @DPruss6]

Is the BA.3.2* "Cicada" wave in the kids over in the Netherlands?
They test very few children, but in the 9 kids' samples collected after Feb 7, the share of the new strain kept dropping and fell below the rate in the adults.

[d_pruss6 @DPruss6]

@JosetteSchoenma Oh... gotta double check. I queried 2025 and 2026 data separately, did I process 2025 incorrectly? Thank you for checking!

[d_pruss6 @DPruss6]

@JosetteSchoenma I hoped to plot, at the very least, the increase of BA.3.2 in children in the end of 2025, but there were no children among the tons of samples available from those months. Or maybe they had ages marked as unknown. Plenty of those too

[d_pruss6 @DPruss6]

PS: in England there is finally a drop in covid positivity in the children, too (the just released week 17 report)

[d_pruss6 @DPruss6]

@simon_faire I'm sorry, how does that affect this covid strain so differently from the others?

[d_pruss6 @DPruss6]

Kids in the Cicada times: coronavirus infections are elevated compared to the adults, and there are some hospitalizations. The "Cicada" BA.3 prefers children.
Yet kids' covid rates remain fairly modest and don't show noticeable growth. Here are positivity charts from the UK
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