Musée du Quai Branly in Paris today, impressive exhibits and great ventilation. The pic is from the permanent exhibition, but even in the really busy Amazonia temporary exhibition CO2 levels didn't go above 850 ppm and were usually around 750.

The space under the curve (if we follow NL wastewater figures, independent from testing, same result from the US wastewater figures) is certainly smaller in 2024-25 than in 2023-24. This is partly because 2023-24 had the great JN.1 spike, but also because of an unusual low-COVID winter in 2024-25

... so as to avoid politically problematic newspaper headlines. Wastewater, for examples contributes to the "Respi-radar" system that, if indicators go above certain thresholds would lead to a higher alarm level and therefore to recommendations of masking in hospitals, etc.

...looking more closely at the graphs, I saw that in the latest one (week 40, right) the y axis had been truncated to cover a smaller period, which had the result of making the increase seem slower than it did last week (week 39, left). This continuous tinkering with formats means it's difficult..

Here's the pic from his account, where you can see that, for example, comparing this week's graph with last week the Y axis labelling has changed, but the shape of the curve is the same.

Phrases like "during COVID" empower people like Kennedy who make the point that COVID is not an issue anymore. If you care about vaccinations and public health, it's better to avoid these phrases. I think this should not be controversial.

Hi, I see an increase too in Wallonie, although indeed it's the smallest increase of all three regions. I think this is people coming back from holiday, now let's see if it leads to a sustained wave in Belgium.

Actually the newsletter itself has graphs with the best summary of current trends, but the description at the top of "no significant increase" in EU or US seems to be wrong. Levels are indeed still low, but this is clearly a generalised significant increase.

Very similar data from Spain in the Annual Report of the Bank of Spain (page 172). People who are on incapacity leave from their employment has gone up sharply in Spain since 2020. Same thing in most EU MS.

By the way, because of holidays in Belgium, it should be noted that several stations did not report any results, which you can see in this graph. The black columns at the top represent the stations that did not report any data in the last period. I have tried to show them with clumsy red arrows.

It's in the other place (that I prefer not to link to). Here's a screenshot of the correlation between COVID cases (at a time when Delta was dominant) and pediatric hepatitis. @mikehoney.bsky.social can complement...

Para acabar de confirmar, he buscado la edición de 1963 (posiblemente la primera edición) que tengo de Astérix y los Godos, primero de la serie y en la página 16 aparecen los primeros saludos romanos. Nos parecía inocente cuando lo leíamos porque no sospechábamos que los nazis fueran a volver...

El primer párrafo resume muy bien la falta de previsión

I have to say I do not understand Paul's Hunter reasoning that this year's flu wave is big because last year's was small. Last winter's wave was similar to the 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20 winters, which did not give rise to any wave comparable to this winter's.

The job applications for the new administration just keep on coming...