Patrickthebiosteamist
Engineer & Scientist.
Breaks down Covid papers & data.
Masked fitness series.
All views expressed are my own, I speak from a US perspective.
Not a Covid researcher nor a Covid scientist.
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- Rough week for me, but still masked. Wear a mask ya’ll. 👍
- Reposted by Patrickthebiosteamist"It’s 2026, & culture has frozen into nostalgia— ...creators like Abby Mahler have spoken about the ways COVID has kept us stuck...refusing to grieve, or even acknowledge, the lost life, ability, time, opportunities, & freedoms we had before the ongoing pandemic made the world more hostile."
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- Covering this paper live tomorrow at 12:15pm on my Patreon! "Destruction/Inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 Virus Using Ultrasound Excitation: A Preliminary Study" www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/18... Check it out :) www.patreon.com/Patrickthebi...
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- From Raj’s Covid Variant tracker in yesterday’s (1 Feb 2026) update: just one BA.3.2 lineage was sequenced in New York. Variant RE.2.1 (which is the title given to a BA.3.2.2 type). It’s interesting Mike Honey’s tracker is showing about a 20% frequency of BA.3* in the US. May be CDC data?
- Reposted by Patrickthebiosteamistwho could’ve ever imagined a member of the insurrectionist lead medical extremist group america’s frontline doctors would do this
- The woes of design is sometimes reinventing the wheel. But the benefit is still the learning along the way Fortunately, this only took part of a morning to make my shiny new wheel.
- Flowflex is also my go-to rapid test. From the data it has done the best to maintain a high level of sensitivity compared to other rapid tests. (Although they are also overdue for an update in test target). Particularly when one does a combined cheek, throat, and nasal swabbing.
- Reposted by PatrickthebiosteamistSo far there has only been one US patient reported with BA.3.2. Meanwhile, these are the wastewater detections to date. Want to know what's really going on? Check the wastewater; we don't miss shit.
- Reposted by PatrickthebiosteamistHere's the latest variant picture for the United Kingdom, to early January. BA.3.2.* soared to 70% of recent samples in Scotland. #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #UK #BA_3_2 #Cicada 🧵
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- Back Squat - up to 315 lbs youtube.com/shorts/MAIt-...
- Reposted by PatrickthebiosteamistTaekwondoin Tina Sugandh and her black belt kids, who always compete in their masks, warn about #LongCOVID— why they support #MaskTogetherAmerica and @publichealthaction.bsky.social. “This is for all that say you can't compete to your fullest potential at athletic events with a mask on.”
- Reposted by PatrickthebiosteamistBA.3.2 has gone from ~8% to ~44% of all sequences in Scotland over the course of December. Larger sample sizes in a smaller nation (Scotland), unsurprisingly present a much more consistent picture in variant trends than smaller sample sizes over a much larger, more heterogeneous country (Germany).
- Reposted by PatrickthebiosteamistBavaria was the last region to receive BA.3.2 , in the second half of December BA.3.2 has been already 30% there from 0% in November. In UK in January we are seeing higher % of BA.3.2 in Scotland and Northern Ireland
- Don’t know if anyone else is having issues on TikTok. I haven’t been able to post anything that is seen for over 2 days now. Stuck at zero views for multiple videos. Thanks Oracle.
- Any reputable online fabric stores people can recommend for sewing projects? Recently got into sewing, but am in a raw material desert location - no brick and mortars near me. #sewing #sewingquestion #fabrics #fabricstore #help
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- Deadlift - 405lb Target Hit in Masked Fitness Series youtube.com/shorts/AAncq...
- Reposted by PatrickthebiosteamistNew Cryptic (North Carolina) derived from a 2020, pre-B.1.1 lineage, meaning from an infection that has lasted nearly six years. It has one of the classic patterns of Cryptic reversions to Bat-CoV/SARS-1 spike residues: Q498Y-N501T. Eager to see the rest of the genome.
- Reposted by PatrickthebiosteamistWHO statement on notification of withdrawal of the United States WHO regrets the United States’ notification of withdrawal from WHO – a decision that makes both the United States and the world less safe. Full statement: bit.ly/46dT0HF
- Follow on patreon - free and paid levels. Covid-19 content. www.patreon.com/Patrickthebi...
- The most aggravating thing about Gavin Newsom in this present moment is that he’s literally just emulating his behaviors after Trump - a direct mirror of how Trump is and how he communicates. And Blue MAGA appears to be eating it up. He’s not the one. He’s not the guy. Don’t let him be.
- Button Saver 3D Print youtube.com/shorts/DyT60...
- This is a sad day. While the Biden administration initiated the work on this… ceasing reporting to the WHO of COVID-19 data, fighting equitable vaccine access by prioritizing US patent protections, mishandling the rollout of COVID vaccines to other countries… This final action will impact us all
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- Some great more accurate terms for ICE obscuring their faces with fabric. We can say gaiters (what they predominantly wear), we can say face coverings, we can say they are concealing their faces, hiding their identities, etc. We will NOT call those masks. We will NOT conflate this.
- Covid wastewater signal trending downwards. Wouldn’t count out a second Winter bump due to BA.3.2/subvariants of it landing in the US with crossover expected by end of January or early February (when it starts to overwhelm current dominant variants).
- Are you sick of being sick? Consider wearing an N95, KN95, or KF94 face mask 😷
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- Reposted by PatrickthebiosteamistBA.3.2 reaches dominance in Netherlands
- Reposted by PatrickthebiosteamistStill more new NSP1 mutations in the BA.3.2 uploaded from the Netherlands today. We've never seen anything like this kind of rapid evolution in NSP1 (whose primary role is to shut down host-protein translation and degrade host mRNA). I've labeled all BA.3.2-specific NSP1 muts here. 1/3
- Another weird aspect of BA.3.2 evolution so far: an extraordinary number of NSP1 mutations. NSP1 is only 180 AA, but a new mutation shows up almost every day there, often on top of previous new ones. The @nextstrain.org visual here can't even accommodate all the NSP1 muts—at least 2 are invisible.
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- A communication point we need to work on is that the immune system is not a muscle that needs to be flexed. It is a finite resource. Many parents I’ve talked to view illness sharing as a twisted form of community care for children and coworkers. That by spreading it, they’re making them stronger.
- One of my coworkers consistently brings up how her young kids are sick all the time, & how this is very good for them, as it will mean they will be less sick later in life. Also, that kids are just sick all the time, you can’t do anything to avoid it. That outbreaks in daycare aren’t too common.
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- Thankful
- BREAKING: The controversial hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau has been *cancelled,* I can now report. A senior official with Africa CDC confirmed the cancellation and said GB officials are working to make sure any research is conducted ethically: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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- If anyone ever wants to give me a MacArthur style grant to just exclusively study whatever I wanted for 5 years, I wouldn’t turn you down.
- Replacing Filters on Your Corsi-Rosenthal Box Fan Prism youtube.com/shorts/Yjlnv...
- Link to 3D print for linkages: cults3d.com/en/3d-model/...
- Live paper review on Patreon - Saturday 4pm PST (16 Jan) www.patreon.com/15342031/eve...
- I love designing things for work - but when the hyper focus hits so hard that you work the full day non-stop, that I don’t like. My eyes feel heavy. But I got my stuff done, and now I can reset, gym and shop for some fabrics.
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- In our fight for clean air, it’s important to not use qualifiers for masking. First, yes, we should improve air filtration and air turnover rates across the board. However, it’s ridiculous to think that negates the need for masking. They talk with you, sneeze/cough on you. You’ll get sick.
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- 👏🏻 and it even emphasis that Covid spreads both through droplet AND airborne transmission, being more predominantly spread by the airborne route. However, that greater preference towards airborne transmission doesn’t mean that it only spreads via the airborne route to those that make that mistake.
- It’s about damn time.
- Going live through Patreon later tonight at 6pm PST Reviewing paper on Enduring Outcomes of COVID-19 Work Absences on the US Labor Market www.patreon.com/Patrickthebi...
- Guys, you don’t want this super flu…
- Reposted by PatrickthebiosteamistYou might not have heard, but the northeastern U.S. is in a COVlD surge. We use wastewater levels to derive estimates of the proportion of people actively infectious in each state (prevalence), e.g., 1 in 24 people in Connecticut.
- This is the exact same rhetoric that has been used to downplay the on-going Covid pandemic. As always, wear a mask, get vaccinated, don’t spread diseases.
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- I agree - I believe sex workers can play a pivotal role in making masking cool, and educating people. I also believe sex workers are a vulnerable class to the ravages of repeat covid infections, by proxy of the work.
- Recent piece published w/ @thesicktimes.org arguing that “Long COVID advocacy is inadequate without sex workers, who have a long legacy of catalyzing consent education and facilitating disease prevention,” using the experiences of Black trans disabled Sex Workers. thesicktimes.org/2026/01/06/l...
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- WastewaterSCAN data 6 Jan 2025 on the 147 sites currently collecting data - showing increasing levels. Zoomed in data on present time. Showing majority of facilities are continuing to generate increasing levels of Covid in the wastewater.
