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National COVlD levels would be characterized as High (WVAL=5.63) instead of "Moderate" if the CDC did not downshift all level categories, past & present, as of Aug 14. We labeled this an "ethics crisis" on Aug 16 & warned it would slow the public health response when levels worsened. We're here.

Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA@michael-hoerger.bsky.social · last mo.

NBC has picked up the #bluewashing story. On August 14, the CDC downshifted how they categorize wastewater levels to make all current and historical COVlD levels lower.

My reasons for still caring about Covid-19. 1) Each infection crosses blood brain barrier, fusing neurons, disrupting them, disrupting mitochondria energy production. I worked hard to get my brain to work how it does, I don’t want it & all my extra schooling to go down the drain with brain fog.

#PuertoRico is experiencing its highest COVID levels in over 2 years. Levels are deep into the burgundy (Very High or Muy Alto) category. They just updated wastewater levels after significant delays. This graphed levels are depicted using the CDC #bluewashing system, which downshifted... (1/3)

Is everyone really out here drinking 90-125oz of water a day? Discovered I’ve been chronically dehydrated all my years of living. What will happen when I finally meet this benchmark? Pee every 15 minutes? My organs will unshrivel like the raisins they must be? Will I unlock superpowers? 🫠

Looks like we will have to wait and see for which ~200 sites will go offline for viral activity tracking for Covid during the next 8 weeks. But as of this point since last year Verily lost sites. Going from 192 to 166. Will sites be concentrated to a state or spread out? youtu.be/tA_pZIy-vdg

10 October 2026 Verily Data Check - 200 site Announcement

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Will be interesting to see if the up-coming ACIP meeting will be cancelled again. I haven’t heard anything new. So I assume it will be. www.cdc.gov/acip/meeting...

ACIP Meeting Information

ACIP holds three regular meetings each year. Learn about upcoming meetings and view materials.

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Tracking #SARSCoV2 #Lineages - Globally | 10/02/2026 Top lineages -#30DayTrends #G30 ST.1 (11.1%) SW.2.1 (9.8%) TA.1 (5.2%) PJ.2.1 (4.8%) TK.1 (4.5%) RW.1.1.2 (3.9%) RK.1.5 (3.4%) RV.1.3 (3.3%) RF.5.4.1 (2.5%) SV.1.2 (2.4%) Tracker: public.tableau.com/app/profile/... 1/n

@michael-hoerger.bsky.social you see the new update? ~200 sites are transferring over to Verily as of 28 Sept - so we’re most likely going to have a large data pause of sites for a minimum of 8 weeks - which pushes us through to/past the peak of the winter wave period.

Lost in the chaos of everything; last week CDC (yes, this current CDC!) issued guidance for COVID vaccination. Last year they recommended vaccination based on "shared decision making." This year it's a stronger recommendation: "COVID-19 vaccine is recommended for all adults ages 18 years and older"

infuriating to see so many posts dismissing those calling for masks becuase the mask is not a systemic solution, when the only other people who showed up to beg for systemic solutions the public meetings i attended were also chronically ill & disabled people (+ woefully few allies) in masks 🤔

reporting in with wedding event look #1 [ alt caption: please invite me to your mask required lesbian bar ]

NBC has picked up the #bluewashing story. On August 14, the CDC downshifted how they categorize wastewater levels to make all current and historical COVlD levels lower.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · last mo.

The CDC raised its benchmark for levels of the Covid virus in wastewater, adjusting a key metric for assessing the disease’s transmission. As a result, officials may now classify a level that once counted as high transmission as moderate instead.

Just went for my longest continuous run since pandemic onset. Must have been the vax. 🤣 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️

Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA@michael-hoerger.bsky.social · last mo.

COVlD shot #13 for the 13th wave, and flu shot. New Orleans Costco has nuvaxovid (novavax), neither Rx nor self-attestation required. Free with private insurance, which was billed nearly $400. I am wearing a black Trident N95 (FFP3) with vintage #Saints pin on non-functional mask edge.

TikTok censors everything I post within 2 minutes. They take days to adjudicate posts & always allow them. Not any more. This is the only post they have outright refused to approve and levels are now MUCH higher on the Big Island.

Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA@michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hawai'i is in the midst of a large COVlD outbreak. Levels on the Big Island are estimated at approximately double that of the national peak of the largest COVlD surge (BA.1 Omicron, winter 2021-22). (1/2)

Vaccination reminder. Updated Covid-19 and flu vaccines are available. I was able to get the new updated Moderna Covid-19 vaccine (first time diverging from Pfizer for that). Got it in opposite arms, keeping my covid and flu arms the same. Some research shows this can help enhance responsiveness

-HI: Big Island is a raging inferno of COVlD w/levels seemingly unimaginable. -TX: On par w/the all-time largest national wave, BA.1 Omicron -CA: Many places at 1/2 an Omicron -NY: Suffolk is Very High (2/2)

Weird combination of errors today - computer went into an auto do not disturb mode (which I never set, so must have been an update thing) , which blocked signal to the 3d printer. So wasted about 45 minutes troubleshooting something that I only saw inadvertently from my computer’s daily log.

It’s important to note that the absence of counting the Pennsylvania 2 measles deaths is coming from the same playbook they used for Covid to downplay it. The died “as a result of measles” or “died but happened to die with a measles infection”.

Adding in another thing you can do - I was on the CDC NWSS page today (the color map shown), and they are doing a survey currently on that page. I wrote a paragraph explaining these types of things with reccs of what to do better in the very last part of the survey. Something to try at least 🤷🏻‍♂️

Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA@michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The CDC recently downshifted current and historical COVlD levels into lower categories. For example, 6 of the 8 states normally classified as High or Very High have been downshifted to "Moderate." This is Part 2 in our series on the CDC "Bluewashing" ethics crisis.

The CDC recently downshifted current and historical COVlD levels into lower categories. For example, 6 of the 8 states normally classified as High or Very High have been downshifted to "Moderate." This is Part 2 in our series on the CDC "Bluewashing" ethics crisis.

Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA@michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨BREAKING 🦠 On Friday, the US CDC arbitrarily shifted higher COVlD levels into lower categories depicted with cooler colors. Much of what was Very High is now "High." What was High is now "Moderate" or "Low." Low is "Very Low." 1/

PMC COVlD Update, Week of Aug 29, 2026 ▪️Outbreaks in 29 states/territories (see Alt) ▪️A projected 13th wave is under way ▪️1 in 95 Americans estimated actively infectious ▪️Peak anticipated around Labor Day THREAD 🧵(1/4)

Friday, the CDC started #bluewashing the COVlD maps. Today, the COVlD nursing home dashboard did not update, as they are modifying the site to comply with Presidential orders.

Another CDC Viral Activity Update to Artificially Lower COVID Wastewater Levels youtu.be/yPGms-SfBzQ

Another CDC Viral Activity Update to Artificially Lower COVID Wastewater Levels

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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA@michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨BREAKING 🦠 On Friday, the US CDC arbitrarily shifted higher COVlD levels into lower categories depicted with cooler colors. Much of what was Very High is now "High." What was High is now "Moderate" or "Low." Low is "Very Low." 1/

Here’s a take from another person (with more credentials), further explaining what I had been documenting for the past few years, ever since the CDC shifted to viral activity levels. I’ll tag the posts I’ve made or link the YouTube videos under this.

Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA@michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨BREAKING 🦠 On Friday, the US CDC arbitrarily shifted higher COVlD levels into lower categories depicted with cooler colors. Much of what was Very High is now "High." What was High is now "Moderate" or "Low." Low is "Very Low." 1/

After months of presumably low Covid-19 levels - barring some sort of signal attenuation from new variants (confounding variable) - we are starting to see some early activity from the Kinston, North Carolina facility. Also, 99% chance growing Covid activity from ED visits.

Murv is another excellent reporter who I was grateful to have been interviewed by over the last few weeks at the Corey Ruiz encampment in Madison, WI. pbswisconsin.org/news-item/wh...

What's next for Madison after the Ruiz shooting encampment?

The city of Madison cleared a protest encampment 13 days after Corey Ruiz was killed.

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The new names of what is currently circulating in the past 5 weeks: PQ.16.1.1 at 30% RF.5 at 11% RK.1 at 11% RW.1.1 at 7% SW.2.1 at 6% BA.3.2.2 (mostly RE.1*) at 6% RV.1 at 5% XFG.14.1.1 at 2% under 2% and over 1% PJ.2.1, XFZ.4.1, SZ.3.1, TB.1,XFG.6.13 As predicted a dozen of branches survived.

Mike Honey@mikehoney.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Here's the latest variant picture for the United States, to mid-July. XFG.* "Stratus" remained dominant but fell as low as 33% before rebounding to finish at 52%. #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #USA 🧵

Jesus Christ. Doing a new housing application and to verify I am me (who is filling out the form post-scanning my government ID), I had to do a prisoners photo set of front, left, and right side photos in the application portal. What the literal fuck…

Fourteen more PJ.2.1 wastewater detections. It is dominant in many sites. NYC (8), Maui (2). Maine, Virginia, Florida and DC. No obvious uptick in cases in any of these places that I could find though.