This week on SouthBound, host Tommy Tomlinson talks to Mike Collins, host of Charlotte Talks on WFAE. For the 25th anniversary of his show, we put Mike in the guest chair. Tommy learned a lot about Mike’s influences and some of his favorite guests over the years.
detecting in the city of boston using wastewater data. again, this is not reflecting test results, this is not reflecting individual people s positive or negative tests, it s just how much covid is in the wastewater in the city s catchment area. and the rise has been so steep, it s almost hard to tell. if you look closely, look at the right side of the screen there. you can see the curve start to sharply bend down in recent days. boston s npr station, wbur, interviewed the epidemiologist that runs the center at harvard that monitors boston s wastewater. he told them, quote, when i refreshed the website and saw it, saw the turn-around in the data, i literally punched the air and let out a hoot because it was something i have been hoping for. it is unambiguously good news. is that recent trend we are seeing in boston, those recent reports from new york, are they reason to punch the hair and hoot? are they reason to feel hopeful about what is to come and how
wastewater levels in boston area. now, we ve talked before on this show about how cities like boston have used wastewater data to track the spread of covid in realtime. look at this graph here today out of boston. this is the amount of covid basically that they are detecting in the city of boston using wastewater data. again, this is not reflecting test results, this is not reflecting individual people s positive or negative tests, it s just how much covid is in the wastewater in the city s catchment area. and the rise has been so steep, it s almost hard to tell. if you look closely, look at the right side of the screen there. you can see the curve start to sharply bend down in recent days. boston s npr station, wbur, interviewed the epidemiologist who runs the center at harvard who monitors boston s wastewater. he told them, quote, when i refreshed the website and saw it, saw the turn-around in the data, i literally punched the air and let out a hoot because it was something i have be
use of the horse deworming medication ivermectin, they pleaded people to stop using it because it s easy to od open it and make yourself very ill. this is how the local npr station in boise headlined their article. the central health district, quote, they call covid-19 vaccine needle rape as he did, in fact, call it that. he was officially amoved to the idaho health board this week. he had competition. an ep people deemologist was up for the spot epidemiologist was up for the spot. they went for the buy the that calls it needle rape as they approach care rationing. there appears to be a mismatch in tomorrows of the crisis that
south, which has some of the lowest vaccination rights. dr. francis collins called the unvaccinated sitting ducks for the delta variant. he wouldn t be surprised if the nation sees 200,000 cases a day in the coming weeks. texas, which is facing a dire lack of icu beds requested five mortuary trailers from the federal government, one day after the texas supreme court backed up texas governor abbott s idiotic mask mandate ban. the dallas school district says it will continue with its order despite the court s decision. in another sign of how toxic and violent the fight has become over basic safety measures like masks, a standoff front of los angeles city hall turned into a brawl between antivaccine protesters and counter protesters. the l.a. times reports one man was stabbed, and a reporter for the local npr station tweeted that he was shoved, kicked and his eyeglasses were ripped off his face.