• SootySootySoot [any]@hexbear.net
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      27 days ago

      I’d be interested in the actual sources. I can’t find a source in the million tweet thread (other than “I had the data”). I can’t personally find any source/dataset myself that even slightly agrees with the heatmaps here. Their one actual source - Scottish wastewater viral load graphs, shows the seasonal behaviour and lack of synchronicity we’d typically expect.

      Am I just being silly and missin’ it? Because this is a fascinating phenomenon if actually true.

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        27 days ago

        Dug into the replies there, they say it’s all UKHSA rolling annual totals except for Lyme which is from the weekly lab-confirmed report UK does under the notifications of infectious disease system.

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          25 days ago

          Cheers for that. Sadly, I can’t find any info from UKHSA that backs it up either. Not sure how they’re getting any rolling totals there except Measles and Strep A, which they only claim a .33 correlation for anyway. I tried really hard to find UKHSA Pertussis stats but the only ones I found were absolutely not a 0.96 correlation with the same period for Measles on the dashboard.

          It genuinely could just be me being shit at finding this stuff, but I still can’t correlate.

    • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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      26 days ago

      Where is this from? finding it insanely difficult to verify any of this information or find a source other than I made it the fuck up

      Showed this to my partner who is a statistics person and they were like x to doubt immediately and have been looking for sources or any info about this other than a twitter thread