Dominik Steiger

Dominik Steiger

@dominiksteiger.bsky.social

Interested in politics and policy, science and health, the analogue going digital, and endemic delusion. Views my own.

1,401 Followers 2,386 Following 3,623 Posts Joined Sep 2023
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Der Viktor 2025 geht an... An der Viktor-Gala im Berner Kursaal wurden Persönlichkeiten, Projekte und Institutionen ausgezeichnet, die das Schweizer Gesundheitswesen im letzten Jahr geprägt haben. Das sind die Gewinner.

Viktor Award in the category "Medical Masterpiece" for the SERO app for suicide prevention, issued by LUPS, developed by BFH, using MIDATA for safe storage and consent management. Congratulations to the team!

www.medinside.ch/der-viktor-2...

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19 hours ago

Vielleicht kommt dann irgendwann wie bei den Light-Süssgetränken raus, dass es auch negative Effekte hat...

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Es ist nicht ganz so absurd wie es scheint.

herzmedizin.de/fuer-aerzte-...

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Trump administration underestimated Iran war’s impact on Strait of Hormuz | CNN Politics The Pentagon and National Security Council significantly underestimated Iran’s willingness to close the Strait of Hormuz in response to US military strikes while planning the ongoing operation, accord...

"Top Trump officials acknowledged to lawmakers during recent classified briefings that they did not plan for the possibility of Iran closing the strait in response to strikes."

www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/p...

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Camera schizoaffectiva

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Infectieradar auf 0 :)

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1 day ago

This constitutes an insult to Ceasar.

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Der Thrill

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Zudem: Den Sack von der Rolle abreissen ist ja der Teil des Prozesses, der am meisten Spass macht.

(Ausser vielleicht das mit Schwung in den Container Schmeissen)

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Der Einfluss von BA.3.2* ist im Auge zu behalten, sollten die Abwasserprävalenzen systematisch unter die anderen Proxies fallen.

Das Verhältnis N2/N1 ebenfalls; es beträgt im Moment ca. 1.3. Medianinzidenz kalibriert mit N1: 82. Mit N2: 107.

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Chart shows, from 11.02.2023 until 08.03.2026:

Years between infections (based on infections over previous year)
% infected per week (calibration based on ww data Zurich Werdhölzli, N1)
Cumulative incidence % pop. equivalent, previous year Chart shows, from 11.02.2023 until 08.03.2026:

Sentinella SARS2 detection count
Viral load ZH SARS2 N1 /1.25
Viral load CH SARS2 Chart shows, from 11.02.2023 until 08.03.2026:

Zurich SARS2 7d incidence (calibration ww N1)
Covid-Incidence Grippeweb RKI, calibrated
ONS positivity /1.4
Grippeweb Plus RKI, calibrated (1/3 asympt.)

Linke Figur:

Kumulative Inzidenz seit Vorjahreszeitpunkt mit der Schätzung.

Rechte Figuren:

Korrelation der Zürcher Viruslast im Abwasser zu schweizweitem Abwasserdaten-Aggregat und zu Sentinella-SARS2-Nachweisen.

Vergleich zu Kalibrierungen von RKI-Grippeweb-Daten.

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#Covid

Schätzung Infektionsinzidenzen für Zürich aufgrund Kalibrierung der Abwasserprävalenzen Werdhölzli, Daten bis 8. März 2026:

Inzidenz ~100.

Ca. jede 1'000. Person infiziert sich pro Woche.

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Der Einfluss von BA.3.2* ist im Auge zu behalten, sollten die Abwasserprävalenzen systematisch unter die anderen Proxies fallen.

Das Verhältnis N2/N1 ebenfalls; es beträgt im Moment ca. 1.3. Medianinzidenz kalibriert mit N1: 82. Mit N2: 107.

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Chart shows, from 11.02.2023 until 08.03.2026:

Years between infections (based on infections over previous year)
% infected per week (calibration based on ww data Zurich Werdhölzli, N1)
Cumulative incidence % pop. equivalent, previous year Chart shows, from 11.02.2023 until 08.03.2026:

Sentinella SARS2 detection count
Viral load ZH SARS2 N1 /1.25
Viral load CH SARS2 Chart shows, from 11.02.2023 until 08.03.2026:

Zurich SARS2 7d incidence (calibration ww N1)
Covid-Incidence Grippeweb RKI, calibrated
ONS positivity /1.4
Grippeweb Plus RKI, calibrated (1/3 asympt.)

Linke Figur:

Kumulative Inzidenz seit Vorjahreszeitpunkt mit der Schätzung.

Rechte Figuren:

Korrelation der Zürcher Viruslast im Abwasser zu schweizweitem Abwasserdaten-Aggregat und zu Sentinella-SARS2-Nachweisen.

Vergleich zu Kalibrierungen von RKI-Grippeweb-Daten.

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#Covid

Schätzung Infektionsinzidenzen für Zürich aufgrund Kalibrierung der Abwasserprävalenzen Werdhölzli, Daten bis 8. März 2026:

Inzidenz ~100.

Ca. jede 1'000. Person infiziert sich pro Woche.

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2 days ago

And data-scarce.

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A third approach involves putting users' data under independent control through a trust or cooperative with a legal duty to act in users' interests. For instance, Midata, a Swiss cooperative, lets members store their health data on an encrypted platform and decide, case by case, whether to share it with researchers. Midata's members govern its policies at a general assembly, and an ethics board they elect reviews research requests for access.

MIDATA mentioned in the New York Times as a way to "design structures that avoid excluding people from these [AI] tools and potentially manipulating them as consumers."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/o...

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A photo shows the aftermath of the strike on an Iranian school. A headline reads: "U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says." More copy reads: "An ongoing military investigation has determined that the strike, which killed mostly children, was the result of a targeting mistake. The finding undercuts President Trump’s claim that Iran could be to blame." Photo by IRIB TV, via Agence France-Presse

The U.S. was responsible for a strike on an Iranian elementary school, an ongoing military investigation found. The inquiry said the strike — which Iranian officials said killed at least 175 people, most of them children — was the result of a targeting mistake. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

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I really wonder. BA.3.2 is around for quite some time now. Wouldn't they have noticed in Perth?

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A propos "right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open"

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I find the data most strange! It spares the <1 years old?

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I remain quite skeptical about the observed being BA.3.2-specific and not just children coming first when prevalences rise.

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How Trump and His Advisers Miscalculated Iran’s Response to War

Related NYT story (gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

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The NZ PHF Science report has some data about that.

They refer to "data from other countries". Do they mean the UKHSA data?

www.phfscience.nz/digital-libr...

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I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share: 2/ Maybe the lead is that the war goals DO NOT involve destroying Iran's nuclear weapons program. This is, uh...surprising...since Trump says over and over this is a key goal.

But then of course we already know air strikes can't wipe out their nuclear material.

3/ Second, they confirmed "regime change" is also NOT on the list. So, they are going to spend hundreds of billions of your taxpayer dollars, get a whole bunch of Americans killed, and a hardline regime
- probably a MORE anti-American hardline regime - will still be in charge. 4/ Ok, so what ARE the goals? It seems, primarily, destroying lots of missiles and boats and drone factories.

But the question that stumped them: what happens when you stop bombing and they restart production?

They hinted at more bombing. Which is, of course, endless war.

5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.

Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.

Dem. Senator Murphy from a closed briefing about the Iran war:

No regime change goal
No destruction of nuclear program goal
No long term plan
No plan for the Strait of Hormuz

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While in the Netherlands, it's stalling at very low absolute prevalence (7d incidence, symptomatic, at 100 as per infectieradar), after fulminant relative growth.

I presume that nobody currently understands the behavior.

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3 days ago

Fascinatingly, it did something similar in Germany, fulminant relative growth followed by capitulation. But there, things happened in a high absolute prevalence background (while 7d incidences /100k were at 1'500 or higher, by my estimate).

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And now, BA.3.2 is mostly gone in Perth. It didn't do anything discernible in terms of absolute growth, it wasn't replaced by anything noteworthy. It had kind of a clinical specimen tropism. Most peculiar.

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Excess mortality (65+) in Switzerland, data until March 1st.

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Chart shows, from week 9 2024 until week 9 2026: 

ARI cases (daily average)
Covid cases among ARI polyclinic attendance acc. to SARS2 community positivity Chart shows, from week 9 2024 until week 9 2026: 

SARS 2 positivity among ARI, %
Influenza positivity among ILI, %
FLiRT fraction estimate beginning of week (%, covSPECTRUM data 07.07.24)
DeFLiRT fraction estimate beginning of week (%, covSPECTRUM data 07.07.24)
MV.1* fraction estimate beginning of week (%, covSPECTRUM data 23.10.24)
NB.1.8.1* fraction estimate beginning of week (%, covSPECTRUM data 27.05.25)
XFG* fraction estimate beginning of week (%, covSPECTRUM data 22.07.25)

Singapore, data until week 9 2026

Sources:
www.cda.gov.sg/resources/we...
cov-spectrum.org

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