I heard belatedly that Levoit has retracted their claim that their most popular air purifiers are actually HEPA at all. Has anyone in #8020agang or #CleanAirCrew evaluated these to determine their filtration efficiency? Seems the whole Levoit CORE line...
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@FinchTH I was just reading this earlier. The mmwr has this particular jarring turn in it. They're describing misunderstandings that can be easily attributed to their own community levels system and the simplistic steno journalism that echoed it. 1/

cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7… @FinchTH Under "limitations"

"some respondents might have been aware of the CDC COVID-19 Community Level site and responded to survey questions accordingly, [... lowering] perceived local COVID-19 transmission levels."

That's the obvious problem with the community levels. 2/

BA.4 and BA.5 are making their appearance in the US on CDC nowcast. Not sure when to expect them to comprise a majority of cases yet. /647

https://twitter.com/cyrusshahpar46/status/1534175007001268224?t=otUN5dpfIskQxwyfOUrxMw&s=19

BA.4 & BA.5 as expected are progressing, approximately at the speed at which Delta took over from Alpha (as I've seen in the data for Massachusetts and the UK) in Illinois, here in the US. They'll likely be the majority of cases in just weeks.
/648
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Made a good thing out of a stupid, careless concrete mess. This has attracted a Cone. Nature is amazing. My beans grow unmolested under the protection of The Cone.