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Okay, so I checked the wastewater again, and it was vastly different. Excluding the latest data, I zoomed again on the same time frame. Upward trends last week are now downward? @GovCanHealth can you please explain?! ImageImageImage
I heard back (thanks @GovCanHealth for being speedy & thorough 💕).

Re: discrepancies TL:DR data error & correction Image
Samples collected by Metro Van & analysed by BCCDC &National Microbiology Laboratory
Winnipeg. BCCDC and NML have slightly different methods (🤔). Periodic checks to see how methods are tracking. Image
Why is BCCDC and NML wastewater COVID analysis methods different? No standard practice yet, and we have slightly different operational needs (🤔). Working on common standard Canada & internationally (Peanut gallery: This can't happen fast enough!) Image
PHAC usu has local/provincial agency or academic colleague that is testing the wastewater as well. (@RyanZiels - is @UBCCivilLabs playing verification role?) Image
Re normalizing to pepper mild mottle virus (so cool - see ref next tweet!)

PHAC said yes, BUT due to reagent issue, had to stop for awhile. This has resumed and, yep, normalization in that way has proven useful.

Public normalization data should be available by end Jun 🥳 Image
Reference to normalizing COVID wastewater sampling to the pepper mild mottle virus is here:

I hope @GovCanHealth appreciates how grateful we are for this data. Several ppl in many provs pull & share, from screenshots (lazy me) to pulling data and replotting, like @anarchodelphis. Some greater clarity on specific data issue would be great.

For reference, I pulled some screenshots today to compare. Solid line is rolling 7-day average, dotted line is daily value.

Here's Lulu Island (Richmond). As @anarchodelphis notes, big spike then drop. Very odd. Image
Here's Annacis Island WWTP (Burnaby, Surrey, New West, (Po) Coq & NW Langley

Um, #COVIDisNotOver!!! ImageImage
And, Iona (Vancouver) and Lions Gate (North Shore)

My guess? About as low as it's gonna get and going up soon (see Fraser Valley, Ontario, much of US, UK, Europe - you don't really think we're unicorns, do you?!) #COVIDisNotOver Image
Oh, and my wastewater COVID level snapshots above were just looking at Omicron (BA.1) wave onward. If you want to get a feel for how high our COVID levels are historically, here you go:

#WearADamnMask #bced #bcpoli #COVIDisAirborne Image
To add to the wastewater picture and further underscore the current high levels of COVID circulating in BC, also check out this plot by @rdumont99

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More from @beansprouts_mom

Jul 26
1/ The BC Provincial Accessibility Committee is holding online engagement sessions (links in🧵).

Immunocompromised BCians STILL face barriers to safe access to public spaces inc schools & hospitals. People with #autism #ADHD #cancer #heartdisease & more are less safe, too!
2/ #COVIDisAirborne and #CovidIsNotOver, clearly, as seen by wastewater data & constantly overwhelmed healthcare. Image
3/ Demand SAFE, accessible indoor spaces for ALL British Columbians, but ESPECIALLY people with disabilities, whether visible or not.

Demand indoor air that transparently meets @ashraenews Standard 241. Demand CAN95 or better respirator masks.

ashrae.org/about/news/202…
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Dec 1, 2023
Best Brains Exchange
Transmission Routes for COVID-19
Oct 2020

CIHR-PHAC-CADTH Best Brains Exchange

Will try to summarize later.

So far 😱🤬 cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/documents/ph…
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"Finally, as the pandemic has progressed, there have been an increasing number of high profile publications suggesting that aerosol transmission of COVID-19 is plausible."

Translation: Actual aerosol experts keep telling us #COVIDisAirborne, and we keep ignoring them.
3/ (er, 1 & 2 not numbered)

"Aerosol science is beyond the purview of the infectious disease community."

Dr @DFisman
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Oct 18, 2023
1/ Been going through the @BiosafetyNow FOI, esp after @Mark_Ungrin & @mdc_martinus flagged #COVIDIsAirborne cover-up evidence. More on that later.

For now, I want to flag that Dr Ni Dixin, who BEGGED Western countries to save lives, is a hero who deserves a book & movie. Image
2/ The FOI Doc () has emails to/from Dr Ni & GOARN ()

There is one. OMG. It will crush you. Full text in this🧵below.

It starts:

“Dear All,

This will be for the final time, as a former GOARN Steering Committee Member,... originsearch.io
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Ou…



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3/“I write to you, GOARN experts & key tech'l experts team for epidemic response, to appeal for getting consensus & taking action to combat & contain COVID-19 right away, b/c there will be no more time for further arguing & discussion on how we should deal with this global threat
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Sep 9, 2023
Read this and try not to feel broken-hearted and nauseous from horror at the same time.

Big. Humans. Are. Supposed. To. Protect. Little. Ones.
Ovaries. They found COVID in the ovaries of a 6 year old.

Do you understand what this means at a population level once we repeatedly infect all the children?

Even a small % becomes a big number when applied to a huge number.

OVARIES.
Read 4 tweets
Apr 22, 2023
Time to fire Infection Promotion and Chaos team and bring in some veterinarians, mycologists, occupational hygienists, & building engineers.

A fungal - not viral - thread.

#PrecautionaryPrinciple #BringBackMasks
Asthma and the diversity of ➡️fungal spores in air⬅️

journals.plos.org/plospathogens/…
A year-round comparison of fungal spores in indoor and outdoor air

tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…
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Apr 20, 2023
Dark LOL at the latest efforts to spin this as Severe Allergy Respiratory Syndrome season.
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