Dominik Steiger
@dominiksteiger.bsky.social
Interested in politics and policy, science and health, the analogue going digital, and endemic delusion. Views my own.
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Singapore, data until week 52 2025.
Not clear what drives the pronounced spike in ARI cases in wk52. Covid positivity in the community among ARI lower than ever. Flu positivity among ILI in the community lower than previous weeks. A year end artifact?
Not clear what drives the pronounced spike in ARI cases in wk52. Covid positivity in the community among ARI lower than ever. Flu positivity among ILI in the community lower than previous weeks. A year end artifact?
January 5, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Singapore, data until week 52 2025.
Not clear what drives the pronounced spike in ARI cases in wk52. Covid positivity in the community among ARI lower than ever. Flu positivity among ILI in the community lower than previous weeks. A year end artifact?
Not clear what drives the pronounced spike in ARI cases in wk52. Covid positivity in the community among ARI lower than ever. Flu positivity among ILI in the community lower than previous weeks. A year end artifact?
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Brandschutz, wie Infektionsschutz, ist ein Kollektivgut. Viele wollen das nicht verstehen.
January 4, 2026 at 11:02 AM
Brandschutz, wie Infektionsschutz, ist ein Kollektivgut. Viele wollen das nicht verstehen.
“It accelerates the slide from a mostly rules-based world to one of competing spheres of influence, to be determined by armed might and the readiness to use it. One US commentator, David Rothkopf, called it the “Putinization of US foreign policy”.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
The ‘Putinization’ of US foreign policy has arrived in Venezuela
Trump is no longer bending the rules – he is demolishing them, with consequences far beyond Caracas
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2026 at 7:31 AM
“It accelerates the slide from a mostly rules-based world to one of competing spheres of influence, to be determined by armed might and the readiness to use it. One US commentator, David Rothkopf, called it the “Putinization of US foreign policy”.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Eine Laienfrage an Brandschutzexperten: Verstehe ich richtig, dass die aktuelle Version der Totalrevision für periodische Kontrollen nur noch eine Periode von 10 Jahren vorsieht?
Die wäre weniger als 2023 diskutiert und weniger als im Ausland?
Entwurf:
mitwirkung-vkf.ch/de/bsv-2026-...
Die wäre weniger als 2023 diskutiert und weniger als im Ausland?
Entwurf:
mitwirkung-vkf.ch/de/bsv-2026-...
January 3, 2026 at 10:29 AM
Eine Laienfrage an Brandschutzexperten: Verstehe ich richtig, dass die aktuelle Version der Totalrevision für periodische Kontrollen nur noch eine Periode von 10 Jahren vorsieht?
Die wäre weniger als 2023 diskutiert und weniger als im Ausland?
Entwurf:
mitwirkung-vkf.ch/de/bsv-2026-...
Die wäre weniger als 2023 diskutiert und weniger als im Ausland?
Entwurf:
mitwirkung-vkf.ch/de/bsv-2026-...
#Covid
Abwassermonitoring Wien per 30.12. mit tiefstem Wert seit langem. Der Verlauf ist abseits des Ausreissers (Datenartefakts?) vom 16.11. ähnlich wie Zürich und wie das frühere bevölkerungsbereinigte Aggregat.
Ausreisser fehlt in den ansonsten hervorragend korrellierten SARI-Covid-Aufnahmen.
Abwassermonitoring Wien per 30.12. mit tiefstem Wert seit langem. Der Verlauf ist abseits des Ausreissers (Datenartefakts?) vom 16.11. ähnlich wie Zürich und wie das frühere bevölkerungsbereinigte Aggregat.
Ausreisser fehlt in den ansonsten hervorragend korrellierten SARI-Covid-Aufnahmen.
January 3, 2026 at 9:37 AM
#Covid
Abwassermonitoring Wien per 30.12. mit tiefstem Wert seit langem. Der Verlauf ist abseits des Ausreissers (Datenartefakts?) vom 16.11. ähnlich wie Zürich und wie das frühere bevölkerungsbereinigte Aggregat.
Ausreisser fehlt in den ansonsten hervorragend korrellierten SARI-Covid-Aufnahmen.
Abwassermonitoring Wien per 30.12. mit tiefstem Wert seit langem. Der Verlauf ist abseits des Ausreissers (Datenartefakts?) vom 16.11. ähnlich wie Zürich und wie das frühere bevölkerungsbereinigte Aggregat.
Ausreisser fehlt in den ansonsten hervorragend korrellierten SARI-Covid-Aufnahmen.
Idee für Journalisten: Ein Hintergrundartikel zur Totalrevision der Schweizerischen Brandschutzvorschriften (technische Vernehmlassung gestartet am 15. September) im Lichte des aktuellen Ereignisses.
January 2, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Idee für Journalisten: Ein Hintergrundartikel zur Totalrevision der Schweizerischen Brandschutzvorschriften (technische Vernehmlassung gestartet am 15. September) im Lichte des aktuellen Ereignisses.
#Covid
Schätzung Infektionsinzidenzen für Zürich aufgrund Kalibrierung der Abwasserprävalenzen Werdhölzli, Daten bis 28. Dezember:
Inzidenz ~1'000.
Ca. jede 100. Person infiziert sich pro Woche.
bsky.app/profile/domi...
Schätzung Infektionsinzidenzen für Zürich aufgrund Kalibrierung der Abwasserprävalenzen Werdhölzli, Daten bis 28. Dezember:
Inzidenz ~1'000.
Ca. jede 100. Person infiziert sich pro Woche.
bsky.app/profile/domi...
January 1, 2026 at 9:20 AM
#Covid
Schätzung Infektionsinzidenzen für Zürich aufgrund Kalibrierung der Abwasserprävalenzen Werdhölzli, Daten bis 28. Dezember:
Inzidenz ~1'000.
Ca. jede 100. Person infiziert sich pro Woche.
bsky.app/profile/domi...
Schätzung Infektionsinzidenzen für Zürich aufgrund Kalibrierung der Abwasserprävalenzen Werdhölzli, Daten bis 28. Dezember:
Inzidenz ~1'000.
Ca. jede 100. Person infiziert sich pro Woche.
bsky.app/profile/domi...
Infectieradar and the rioolwater continue to be immune to rising BA.3.2* fractions.
December 31, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Infectieradar and the rioolwater continue to be immune to rising BA.3.2* fractions.
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It's a good commentary on 2025 that the US President announces a major military attack on a foreign country and even the straightest arrows think, 50% chance it's an attack, 50% chance president is on another cognition bender.
December 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
It's a good commentary on 2025 that the US President announces a major military attack on a foreign country and even the straightest arrows think, 50% chance it's an attack, 50% chance president is on another cognition bender.
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🧵1/12: Russia’s economy hasn’t collapsed, but it is suffering immensely. It still runs, but only because the central bank keeps it alive with constant REPO liquidity. What was once emergency support is now the daily operating system.
📷: @evgen-istrebin.bsky.social
📷: @evgen-istrebin.bsky.social
December 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
🧵1/12: Russia’s economy hasn’t collapsed, but it is suffering immensely. It still runs, but only because the central bank keeps it alive with constant REPO liquidity. What was once emergency support is now the daily operating system.
📷: @evgen-istrebin.bsky.social
📷: @evgen-istrebin.bsky.social
Fascinating detective story around ALS, false morels, and methylazoxymethanol.
I then wondered why that wouldn't be seen in Finland, but found Linna et al. stating "The incidence and prevalence rates of ALS in Finland are among the highest in the world."
knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
I then wondered why that wouldn't be seen in Finland, but found Linna et al. stating "The incidence and prevalence rates of ALS in Finland are among the highest in the world."
knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
A devastating nerve disease stalks a mountain village
Neurologists have grappled with a cluster of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis cases in France, where a fondness for a toxic wild mushroom may hold the answer
knowablemagazine.org
December 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Fascinating detective story around ALS, false morels, and methylazoxymethanol.
I then wondered why that wouldn't be seen in Finland, but found Linna et al. stating "The incidence and prevalence rates of ALS in Finland are among the highest in the world."
knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
I then wondered why that wouldn't be seen in Finland, but found Linna et al. stating "The incidence and prevalence rates of ALS in Finland are among the highest in the world."
knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
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BA.3.2 emerged in Nov 2024 after ~3 years of intrahost evolution with >50 new spike AA muts, but since then, it's changed very little.
Could the mutagenic drug molnupiravir (MOV) galvanize BA.3.2 into pursuing new evolutionary paths? A new 89-mut BA.3.2 sequence hints that it could. 1/11
Could the mutagenic drug molnupiravir (MOV) galvanize BA.3.2 into pursuing new evolutionary paths? A new 89-mut BA.3.2 sequence hints that it could. 1/11
December 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
BA.3.2 emerged in Nov 2024 after ~3 years of intrahost evolution with >50 new spike AA muts, but since then, it's changed very little.
Could the mutagenic drug molnupiravir (MOV) galvanize BA.3.2 into pursuing new evolutionary paths? A new 89-mut BA.3.2 sequence hints that it could. 1/11
Could the mutagenic drug molnupiravir (MOV) galvanize BA.3.2 into pursuing new evolutionary paths? A new 89-mut BA.3.2 sequence hints that it could. 1/11
Covid-Impfung schützt Kinder:
Studie mit ca. 100'000 Notfällen:
Der Saison-2024-2025-Impfstoff gegen JN.1 hatte eine Effektivität von 76% gegen Covid-assoziierte emergency department or urgent care encounters im Alter 9 Monate bis 4 Jahre und 56% im Alter 5-17 Jahre.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
Studie mit ca. 100'000 Notfällen:
Der Saison-2024-2025-Impfstoff gegen JN.1 hatte eine Effektivität von 76% gegen Covid-assoziierte emergency department or urgent care encounters im Alter 9 Monate bis 4 Jahre und 56% im Alter 5-17 Jahre.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
December 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Covid-Impfung schützt Kinder:
Studie mit ca. 100'000 Notfällen:
Der Saison-2024-2025-Impfstoff gegen JN.1 hatte eine Effektivität von 76% gegen Covid-assoziierte emergency department or urgent care encounters im Alter 9 Monate bis 4 Jahre und 56% im Alter 5-17 Jahre.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
Studie mit ca. 100'000 Notfällen:
Der Saison-2024-2025-Impfstoff gegen JN.1 hatte eine Effektivität von 76% gegen Covid-assoziierte emergency department or urgent care encounters im Alter 9 Monate bis 4 Jahre und 56% im Alter 5-17 Jahre.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
#Covid
Schätzung Infektionsinzidenzen für Zürich aufgrund Kalibrierung der Abwasserprävalenzen Werdhölzli, Daten bis 4. Advent:
Inzidenz ~1'400.
Ca. jede 70. Person infiziert sich pro Woche.
Trend 9 gemessene Anlagen: 4↑, 3→, 2↓
bsky.app/profile/domi...
Schätzung Infektionsinzidenzen für Zürich aufgrund Kalibrierung der Abwasserprävalenzen Werdhölzli, Daten bis 4. Advent:
Inzidenz ~1'400.
Ca. jede 70. Person infiziert sich pro Woche.
Trend 9 gemessene Anlagen: 4↑, 3→, 2↓
bsky.app/profile/domi...
December 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
#Covid
Schätzung Infektionsinzidenzen für Zürich aufgrund Kalibrierung der Abwasserprävalenzen Werdhölzli, Daten bis 4. Advent:
Inzidenz ~1'400.
Ca. jede 70. Person infiziert sich pro Woche.
Trend 9 gemessene Anlagen: 4↑, 3→, 2↓
bsky.app/profile/domi...
Schätzung Infektionsinzidenzen für Zürich aufgrund Kalibrierung der Abwasserprävalenzen Werdhölzli, Daten bis 4. Advent:
Inzidenz ~1'400.
Ca. jede 70. Person infiziert sich pro Woche.
Trend 9 gemessene Anlagen: 4↑, 3→, 2↓
bsky.app/profile/domi...
December 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Interestingly, the German wastewater aggregate shows stalling IAV prevalences (as of calendar week 51, Wed Dec 17th), similar to the English data.
December 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Interestingly, the German wastewater aggregate shows stalling IAV prevalences (as of calendar week 51, Wed Dec 17th), similar to the English data.
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The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
December 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
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The most valuable viral research tools—@nextstrain & CovSpectrum—are being destroyed—not only blocked from new data but now forbidden from even sharing info from the PAST. Why?
Because GISAID is run dictatorially by a con man, paranoid egomaniac, & liar named Peter Bogner. 1/
Because GISAID is run dictatorially by a con man, paranoid egomaniac, & liar named Peter Bogner. 1/
My account's upload and bulk download access were terminated permanently in 2021 without explanation after I published *checksums* of GISAID genomes. GISAID and its SAB have since ignored a dozen emails seeking explanation.
4 yrs on, even Nextstrain has lost access. GISAID has rotted from its core.
4 yrs on, even Nextstrain has lost access. GISAID has rotted from its core.
On Oct 1, 2025, GISAID informed us that they had ended updates to the flat file of SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences and associated metadata that we had used to update Nextstrain analyses since Feb 2020. GISAID's stated rationale was that their "resources are limited". 1/5
December 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The most valuable viral research tools—@nextstrain & CovSpectrum—are being destroyed—not only blocked from new data but now forbidden from even sharing info from the PAST. Why?
Because GISAID is run dictatorially by a con man, paranoid egomaniac, & liar named Peter Bogner. 1/
Because GISAID is run dictatorially by a con man, paranoid egomaniac, & liar named Peter Bogner. 1/
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One of the reasons why I go so hard on science misinformation/disinformation, is that as a working scientist it is frustrating to see your research misreported to push an agenda.
For example, consider this piece of right-wing propaganda from The Telegraph that was just published
For example, consider this piece of right-wing propaganda from The Telegraph that was just published
December 20, 2025 at 10:49 PM
One of the reasons why I go so hard on science misinformation/disinformation, is that as a working scientist it is frustrating to see your research misreported to push an agenda.
For example, consider this piece of right-wing propaganda from The Telegraph that was just published
For example, consider this piece of right-wing propaganda from The Telegraph that was just published
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Read the full email Sharyn Alfonsi sent her team about CBS pulling their segment on the Trump admin’s deportations of Venezuelan migrants
December 22, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Read the full email Sharyn Alfonsi sent her team about CBS pulling their segment on the Trump admin’s deportations of Venezuelan migrants
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Here’s a gift link to this stunner Washpost story, quoting the 60 Minutes correspondent on the CECOT story, who accuses Bari Weiss of spiking the piece all because the Trump Administration wouldn’t comment.
“Government silence is a statement, not a VETO.”
wapo.st/3YL4T3D
“Government silence is a statement, not a VETO.”
wapo.st/3YL4T3D
‘60 Minutes’ correspondent says CBS’s Bari Weiss abruptly pulled segment on Trump deportations
CBS News pulled a ‘60 Minutes’ segment about a prison in El Salvador one day before it was set to air because the Trump administration declined to participate.
wapo.st
December 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Here’s a gift link to this stunner Washpost story, quoting the 60 Minutes correspondent on the CECOT story, who accuses Bari Weiss of spiking the piece all because the Trump Administration wouldn’t comment.
“Government silence is a statement, not a VETO.”
wapo.st/3YL4T3D
“Government silence is a statement, not a VETO.”
wapo.st/3YL4T3D
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🚨 The DOJ appears to have redacted Donald Trump’s name from the allegations made in this exhibit in the Epstein files.
Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out.
See for yourself.
Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out.
See for yourself.
December 21, 2025 at 4:56 AM
🚨 The DOJ appears to have redacted Donald Trump’s name from the allegations made in this exhibit in the Epstein files.
Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out.
See for yourself.
Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out.
See for yourself.
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A few days before Christmas and near record high temperatures are occurring around the North Pole in the #Arctic 🎅🥵
Download at zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...
Download at zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...
December 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
A few days before Christmas and near record high temperatures are occurring around the North Pole in the #Arctic 🎅🥵
Download at zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...
Download at zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...