Category Archives: COVID-19

The State of COVID in D.C.: I Have No F*cking Clue

Posted on June 26, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

This is a post I would love to be embarrassed about by the time it gets published–because being wrong (i.e., we have COVID wastewater data) would be far better. I wish I could tell you what the COVID data for … Continue reading →

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Some Rebuttals to the NY Times Lab Leak Propaganda

Posted on June 17, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Not only did the NY Times publish a lab leak piece by Alina Chan, David Fucking Leonhardt–the same genius who predicted the pandemic would wind down just as we were getting slammed by Delta and then Omicron–also published a piece … Continue reading →

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The Lab Leak Story Has Always Been Popular

Posted on June 13, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

In the midst of a very good Xitter thread (it happens) rebutting Zeynep Tufecki’s pandemic revisionism, this bit of polling data on the origins of the pandemic is noteworthy: Several obvious takeaways. First, support for a lab leak was always … Continue reading →

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The NY Times Goes Full Troll on the Origins of COVID

Posted on June 10, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Last week, the New York Times published a very lengthy op-ed by lab-leak hypothesis advocate Alina Chan. If you want rebuttals of the lab leak hypothesis, I’ll point you to this (more details here) and this. It’s clear this piece … Continue reading →

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The State of COVID in D.C.

Posted on May 10, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

I haven’t posted recently about the state of COVID in D.C., since, after Biobot stopped collecting wastewater data for any D.C. area municipalities, the only source left is Verily. I don’t like the exact method they use to normalize the … Continue reading →

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The State of COVID in D.C.*: A Plateau

Posted on April 3, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

*And by D.C., I mean Alexandria, VA, because the publicly available Biobot D.C. data don’t seem to be collected anymore. No decline this week: With virtually no change from 207 copies/ml to 208 copies/ml, we’re still twice as high than … Continue reading →

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Long COVID Is Rising

Posted on April 1, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

And that’s no April Fool’s. According to the Long COVID Household Pulse Survey. Here’s the percentage of all U.S. adults who are experiencing long COVID: There’s a big spike starting at the end of fall/beginning of winter, and that spike … Continue reading →

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The State of COVID in D.C.*: MOAR DECLINE

Posted on March 27, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

*And by D.C., I mean Alexandria, VA, because the publicly available Biobot D.C. data don’t seem to be collected anymore. Another good week: With a decrease from 260 copies/ml to 206 copies/ml, we’re still twice as high than the mid-June … Continue reading →

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It’s Not Just Grief, It’s Also Guilt

Posted on March 25, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

A couple of weeks ago, the Atlantic pushed a piece arguing that the Great Crankiness is due to unprocessed grief over COVID. That might be, but I think there’s something else involved too: guilt. Put simply, as this study lays … Continue reading →

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The State of COVID in D.C.*: More Declining!

Posted on March 20, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

*And by D.C., I mean Alexandria, VA, because the publicly available Biobot D.C. data don’t seem to be collected anymore. More good news: With a decrease from 378 copies/ml to 272 copies/ml, we’re still three times higher than the mid-June … Continue reading →

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