Marc Johnson

Do you think you've had long-term GI problems since having Covid? We are performing a study examining the characteristics of viruses, specifically persistent SARS-CoV-2 infections, in stool samples. 1/3

@erinjeffries45 One thing I noticed that also happened with COVID is I had a clearly elevated resting heart rate.

@SolidEvidence I had something horrible. Knocked me out the first week of February. Almost reminded me of covid because I slept for almost 3 days strait.

If you had a nasty cold recently, it's probably HKU1 or 229E (two of the other human coronaviruses). Both have been surging in wastewater all over the place. Pretty sure that's what I had.

@patroned1 It wasn't COVID. I checked.

@SolidEvidence Could of been covid too, it’s around all year long and one of the most contagious. Wont know until you test.

@jcakcmo respiratory. bad cold.

@SolidEvidence What symptoms? I feel like what I have right now is getting worse even at 4 days in

And penguins. 3/3

And flamingos. 2/

We added St Louis to our dashboards this week. The St Louis zoo clearly has Hippos. 1/

New cryptic from Little Rock, Arkansas this week. Not enough info to make the big board yet, but it's clearly an XBB.1.5 derivative (over 2 year infection) that has started picking up new mutations.

@Morthan91 This is a pre B.1.1 though. It doesn't have the two mutations in N that define B.1.1

@SolidEvidence B.1.... and what more? Omicron is a B.1 lineage too. B.1.1.529, in case anyone forgot in theendless hurricane of names since 2022.

The most prominent cryptic lineage in the world right now is from Lincoln, Nebraska. It's a B.1 infection (about 5 years old) that has been detected in their wastewater every week for about the last 18 months. Sooo.... 1/

BA.3.2 is starting to show real traction.

@equibotanica @JoeyOtweets exactly

@JoeyOtweets @SolidEvidence Suppose it's an IBD patient who uses immune suppressants. They + their doctors might think that the Crohn's or UC is causing any GI symptoms. Maybe they've tried changing meds, hitting it with steroids, etc and just assume it's a bad flare. Tho I guess they could be asymptomatic.

@minimatic x.com/SolidEvidence/…

@SolidEvidence stupid question here : could the (very long) infected body not be human ?

The Nebraska cryptic lineage appeared again this week. It really puts BA.3.2.2 in perspective.

@boxermama123 COVID

@SolidEvidence What is it covid or flu?

@JoeyOtweets x.com/SolidEvidence/…

@SolidEvidence Could this be multiple people? Or maybe an animal source (e.g. deer) getting mixed in with WW through combined sewer overflows? It's evolutionary distance from WT could be because it's adapted for another organism, no?

@ovrcast1 I am not trying to track them through wastewater.

@SolidEvidence Are they trying to find the person? My city does samples wastewater and they can zero it down to the subdivision.

FYI, I updated the cryptic dashboard this morning with the latest data about the Lincoln variant. dholab.github.io/public_viz/006…

@ChristosArgyrop @JohnWest_JAWS They don't sample every day, but funny thought.

@SolidEvidence @JohnWest_JAWS So that poor person poops once a week? Damn

@Bigjabn The place where we've found the most cryptic lineages is New York City.

@SolidEvidence How much you wanna bet these other places on this map anomalous viruses in their watershed…

Here was the profile of the NE lineage. x.com/SolidEvidence/…