The U.S. government on Monday will start taking orders for another round of free COVID-19 tests for delivery across the country, a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) spokesperson said. https://t.co/6ceSqSfSzK https://t.co/6ceSqSfSzK — Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) November 20, 2023 If you haven’t already sent for yours, it took me less than two minutes to …
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Weekly U.S. COVID update:
– New cases: 183,188 est.
– Average: 167,187
– States reporting: 50/50
– In hospital: 13,133 (+313)
– In ICU: 1,596 (-70)
– New deaths: 1,283
– Average: 13271/6
— BNO News (@BNOFeed) November 20, 2023
Last night's update: 183,000 new cases, up in most of the U.S. https://t.co/rhfziC4Ewe
— BNO News (@BNOFeed) November 20, 2023
#Covid will likely peak in colder months as the virus becomes endemic, a new study found. #SARSCoV2 will probably settle into a seasonal rhythm like the flu: active in winter, waning in summer. Knowing when surges are likely is key for public health policy https://t.co/OgGbpMIWUA pic.twitter.com/5OL84pVy5J
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) November 16, 2023
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The #Covid pandemic & our responses to it knocked many other respiratory bugs out of their normal seasonality. As we enter the 4th winter of the Age of Covid, it looks like they are heading back to their pre-pandemic patterns. https://t.co/0kHqkwNxMY
— Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 (@HelenBranswell) November 20, 2023
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New Zealand: Highest Covid case numbers since January 2023.
Hospitalisations up from 284 to 349 week-on-week
NZ Herald report: https://t.co/mpiQMQjOL2 pic.twitter.com/nZ6csn7x03
— CoronaHeadsUp (@CoronaHeadsUp) November 21, 2023
Winter is coming and with it Covid-19 is back. While the variants remain dynamic, the pandemic exhaustion has led to a critically low degree of surveillance. Here are all available European sequences collected in November as of this morning. (eg 20 from Germany, seriously?!?) 1/2 pic.twitter.com/V5LZHoMSgv
— Ulrich Elling (@EllingUlrich) November 20, 2023
France: A hotspot for the emergence of the JN.1 variant, with rapid development in Île-de-France. https://t.co/QH8S4XJEdm
— CoronaHeadsUp (@CoronaHeadsUp) November 20, 2023
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Sweden: Covid in wastewater.
Jaw dropping levels in November 2023. https://t.co/bQaqdUt95y research:
https://t.co/EWpDt56wVy pic.twitter.com/1nXXG8fC5I— CoronaHeadsUp (@CoronaHeadsUp) November 20, 2023
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UK Covid inquiry: Rishi Sunak said 'just let people die' of Covid.
Dominic Cummings, who was at the time Mr Johnson’s most senior adviser, told the meeting: “Rishi says just let people die and that’s okay.”https://t.co/8RniceUwtz
— CoronaHeadsUp (@CoronaHeadsUp) November 20, 2023
I see the Ontario covid wastewater signal is almost double what it was at this time last year (1.44 vs .76). The strongest growth last year started on November 20th. Ontario infection indicators typically peak in January, shortly after the holidays. pic.twitter.com/43SDNqpocK
— Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 (@Billius27) November 16, 2023
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The COVID Moonshot—an open-science, crowdsourced, and patent-free drug discovery campaign targeting the #SARSCoV2 virus—has yielded a wealth of data that could pave the way for the development of new and better therapeutics.
Learn more in Science: https://t.co/m74xNw1wai pic.twitter.com/NdHaVxN6em
— Science Magazine (@ScienceMagazine) November 18, 2023
Some support for less reactogenic side effects of @Novavax booster vs mRNAshttps://t.co/yNeAb8VF3H
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) November 20, 2023
"After 3 years, we still don't understand why some people experience symptoms after having COVID," said researcher @ShelFarFar, after a study found that spinal fluid immune profiles were largely normal in people with neurologic #longCOVID symptoms. https://t.co/MPMlJvc29A
— MedPage Today (@medpagetoday) November 19, 2023
That doesn't mean that this will cause an Omicron-like tsunami as in 2021. It won't. No variant that we've seen compares even remotely to that speed of takeover (700%+ per week).
But it does open up the door for a lot more evolutionary space in the coming months.
— JWeiland (@JPWeiland) November 19, 2023
#COVID19 increases risk of developing #Alzheimers by 50-80% in older adults, according to recent studyhttps://t.co/KRslQ4l2Z1 #SARSCoV2 #dementia
— MicrobesInfect (@MicrobesInfect) November 16, 2023
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Imagine being the country that was arguably best prepared to handle a pandemic—only you handle it terribly. Then, barely a couple of years later, you’ve got the NYT out here like, ‘Hang on, we could have made everything so much worse. Why didn’t we and whose fault is it?’ https://t.co/QtO73weBc4
— Jason Karsh (@jkarsh) November 20, 2023
Not just Boston… Post-TDay gaming day at our friends’ home in northern New Jersey was just cancelled because the hosts tested positive. Take a test before travelling, folks, and maybe bring an extra or two to the dinner…
Public health officials are distributing rapid COVID-19 tests and urging people to receive an updated vaccine as levels of coronavirus in Boston area waste water rise ahead of the holiday season. https://t.co/cITDD2ZmTU
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) November 22, 2023
Politicization of the #Covid pandemic is warping how the outbreak is being remembered. Polarization between the vaccinated versus the anti-vax loonies is distorting recall. Researchers surveyed >10k people in 11 countries documenting pandemic memories https://t.co/v7hO0J9blR
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) November 16, 2023
COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: November 15, 2023
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We are using the power of our diplomacy to better protect the U.S. and the world from health threats. The @StateDept's new Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy is leading the charge so the world is prepared to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious diseases. pic.twitter.com/YprRLv0wYd — Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) November 13, 2023 …
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FDA has cleared its 1st OTC home antigen test for #Covid. No, really, this is the 1st. The agency granted full bona fide clearance to a test called Flowflex. Since 2020, FDA has granted only *emergency use* approvals to multiple antigen-based Covid tests https://t.co/c1zbLSxNCu pic.twitter.com/dw7eKWaWMI
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) November 12, 2023
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Study says mass #vaccination programs cut #COVID19 cases in #Japan by 65%. Mass vaccination campaigns directly prevented 640,000 COVID-19 cases during the sixth wave, & indirectly prevented as many as 8.5 million infections.https://t.co/YHU14L3t1j
andhttps://t.co/nnrTRC2b23— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) November 6, 2023
Australia/New Zealand: Health experts recommend people wear masks amid a new COVID-19 wave.
They also recommend celebrating Christmas outdoors.https://t.co/C1hgt6GP7V report:https://t.co/feoyqgdXTr
— CoronaHeadsUp (@CoronaHeadsUp) November 11, 2023
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— Phil Jeffcock 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🐳🆔=🐘🆔[email protected] (@PJeffcock) November 12, 2023
Here's the latest variant picture for Iceland.
Iceland is the first country where BA.2.86.* "Pirola" has become dominant.
BA.2.86.* "Pirola" (74%) has risen rapidly, from 10% to 70% frequency in just 2 weeks.
EG.5.* "Eris" (18%) fell sharply.
🧵 pic.twitter.com/xzckiTgQpE— Mike Honey (@Mike_Honey_) November 11, 2023
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Sweden: Covid-19 report
"The recent increasing spread of infection continued during week 44, increases in both confirmed cases, inpatient occupancy, new ICU patients and deaths with Covid-19."https://t.co/c64WmIwt0phttps://t.co/mrVXZqYn5o pic.twitter.com/ZvFddR5Ix3
— CoronaHeadsUp (@CoronaHeadsUp) November 12, 2023
Lancet: The level of criminal incompetence exposed by recent witnesses to the UK COVID-19 Inquiry has proven that many, if not most, of over 230,000 deaths were preventable.
— CoronaHeadsUp (@CoronaHeadsUp) November 10, 2023
Canada: Mask mandate imposed for all long-term care home staff in Ontario.
5,459 COVID-19 cases among LTC residents. 181 people hospitalized Aug-Oct 2023.
106 deaths.https://t.co/XO6eje4D4o report:https://t.co/VT2eNFqxdF— CoronaHeadsUp (@CoronaHeadsUp) November 11, 2023
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Trust in science plummeted during the #Covid pandemic, a @pewresearch poll reveals, with 27% presently saying they little or no confidence in science, down from 12% in April 2020.
Wrong lesson learned. Covid would have been much worse without science. https://t.co/k2TrDI1YsF— Helen Branswell 🇺🇦 (@HelenBranswell) November 14, 2023
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Men are living shorter than ever versus women. Top reason? #COVID19.
Men are less likely to vaccinate, less likely to mask, less willing/slow to see doctors, and also higher biological risk of severe #COVID.
The last one is biological, but others are maybe toxic masculinity. pic.twitter.com/PZ40CM5Yw8
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) November 14, 2023
Study: Persistent CNS immune activation not main driver of neurologic long #COVID
The researchers found no evidence of neuroinflammation.https://t.co/B4KR8sFwPL pic.twitter.com/qCDjl0HLxF
— CIDRAP (@CIDRAP) November 10, 2023
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Long COVID linked to allergies in new study https://t.co/ooRGBzRsdz via @CIDRAP
— Paloma Franceschi (@DocpalFrancesc2) November 10, 2023
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What to know about #SARSCoV2 variant JN.1: It's a descendant of BA.2.86 & has a known immune-evasive mutation. You may recall BA.2.86 as the "Pirola" variant that never took off. Now we have JN.1, its next of kin, which may be even more immune-evasive https://t.co/1ZLIF1gVI1 pic.twitter.com/Il4XbzqWdU
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) November 11, 2023
"Many chronic illnesses have been largely ignored, dismissed, and ridiculed. Long COVID has taught the world that these diseases are real, there is a biological basis for them, and we need to study them."
– Prof. @VirusesImmunity of @YaleMed & @YaleSPHhttps://t.co/dKUcONOfps
— Yale School of Public Health (@YaleSPH) November 8, 2023
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The number of US adults who say they're having "serious difficulty" w/ memory & decision-making has gone up considerably since the start of the pandemic. Adults in their 20s, 30s & 40s are driving the trend. Researchers point to #LongCovid as a major cause https://t.co/7Rvqx85gtd
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) November 13, 2023
For 40 years, from 1980 to 2020, Republicans argued that government should never tell private businesses what to do. Now they’re passing laws, from DeSantis with Disney to Abbott with doctors, telling private businesses what to do. They are a party of no principles. https://t.co/Nlr0oneqPT
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) November 11, 2023
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Wednesday Morning Open Thread: (Another) Good Day to Be A Democrat
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Maybe it is as simple as people realize elections are binary choices between the imperfect and the insane. https://t.co/LMhP3rUX2t — HawaiiDelilah™ ?? #MauiStrong ???????????? (@HawaiiDelilah) November 8, 2023 Today, Democrats won in Virginia and protected reproductive freedom. But make no mistake: Abortion and so many other fundamental freedoms are going to be on the ballot …
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It is very good to see Biden's staffers are looking at voters concerns about prices and thinking hard about what can be done, even w/o congressional help.
Meanwhile Trump's staffers are thinking about how to enact payback at the DOJ and suppress peaceful protest.
— Mr. Nick Beaudrot (@nbeaudrot) November 7, 2023
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Republican debate tomorrow night, so tonight will probably be the the Republicans’ second worst night of the week.
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) November 8, 2023
Not really worth its own post, but the Repubs are holding another circular firing squad this evening. The always professional Ed Kilgore, at NYMag, “The Third Republican Debate Could Be Brutal”:
… As the voting phase of the GOP primary approaches, candidates other than Donald Trump are hanging onto viability by their fingernails and really need to do something to help themselves and damage the others. Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis are in a cage match for second place in the Iowa caucuses (the governor hopes a long-expected endorsement from Iowa governor Kim Reynolds on the evening of November 6 will save his steadily sinking ship). Tim Scott is on the edge of elimination in both the polls and the debates. It’s increasingly unclear why Trump mini-me Vivek Ramaswamy is running for president against his idol, even as he annoys Republican voters more each day. And anti-Trump stalwart Chris Christie is simply proving that somebody with absolutely no chance of winning the nomination can stick around by cornering the small market of GOP Never Trumpers.
So this is a group of candidates with little or nothing to lose, each of them desperately trying to become the one that challenges the front-runner. With Trump absent once again, it’s a recipe for intramural carnage…
… DeSantis and Haley will bash each other, and Scott will bash both of them, while Christie bashes Trump and the audience boos. And I’m sure Ramaswamy will find some way to crash every conversation and insult his rivals. It has all the makings of a spectacle that only the front-runner (and Democrats) can enjoy…
Rooting for injuries.gif: Look for unauthorized leaks concerning the ‘dinner’ TFG may (or may not) have thrown for the horserace media touts last night…
We are not involved in this dinner and are not bound by the off-the-record agreement.
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) November 8, 2023
Will Trump be running the barbecue pit? Will there be a tire swing competition in the ballroom? And who's in charge of bringing the donuts? https://t.co/ZXr4rbRqpS
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) November 8, 2023
COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: November 8, 2023
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How SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines work. https://t.co/5YIhaM1Yud — Prof. Peter Doherty (@ProfPCDoherty) November 7, 2023 Last night's update: Nearly 160,000 new cases, increasing in 23 states https://t.co/v9vycf38fc — BNO News (@BNOFeed) November 6, 2023
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Are pre-visit patient portal messages emphasizing "how" to get a COVID-19 booster more effective than "why"?
See our trial results (led by @NancyCHaff) from our @NIHAging-funded Roybal Center. @C4HDS @niteeshchoudhry @ideas42 @PunamKeller
??https://t.co/f4SYkVQ7B9 @JournalGIM— Julie Lauffenburger (@jlauffen) November 6, 2023
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Monday it was expanding testing of samples collected from international air travelers beyond COVID-19, to include flu and respiratory synctial virus (RSV) beginning November. https://t.co/KwlEP9uKae
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) November 6, 2023
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Study says mass #vaccination programs cut #COVID19 cases in #Japan by 65%. Mass vaccination campaigns directly prevented 640,000 COVID-19 cases during the sixth wave, & indirectly prevented as many as 8.5 million infections.https://t.co/YHU14L3t1j
andhttps://t.co/nnrTRC2b23— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) November 6, 2023
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Australia enters its eighth Covid wave
In the week ending October 24, 6,550 cases of COVID-19 were reported across Australia.
This marked an increase of 23.6 per cent on the previous week.
ABC report: https://t.co/tcWYaI0qyk
— CoronaHeadsUp (@CoronaHeadsUp) November 3, 2023
New Zealand: Long Covid Survey
People with Long Covid are reporting quality of life scores similar to people who have severe cancer and severe MS."
NZ must prepare for Long Covid implications.
https://t.co/b3VusbbqK3— CoronaHeadsUp (@CoronaHeadsUp) November 7, 2023
Germany, Bavaria: BA.2.86 Pirola jumps from 3.2% of sequences to 15.8% in one week.
Unspecified SARS-CoV-2 recombinant lines also make a big leap, from 6.9% to 13.2%.
EG.5* declining. H/t @ercgauhttps://t.co/2AR23B5ZAG pic.twitter.com/3pppXTNHKT
— CoronaHeadsUp (@CoronaHeadsUp) November 4, 2023
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What we learned from a shocking week of Covid testimony https://t.co/cSCaTOc9Sr
— BBC Health News (@bbchealth) November 4, 2023
Boris Johnson wanted to be injected with Covid live on TV
Covid inquiry also heard how Boris Johnson would rather ‘let the bodies pile high’ than order second lockdown.https://t.co/zH4xpRkGh3
— CoronaHeadsUp (@CoronaHeadsUp) November 7, 2023
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New study: Epidemics caused by zoonotic viruses—spillovers from animals—could become more frequent due to climate change & may kill 12x as many people by 2050. Analysis examined trends for viral types: Floviruses, like Ebola & coronaviruses, among others https://t.co/TMulG1pQmT pic.twitter.com/cnuZC7FPkt
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) November 6, 2023
A new, very good review on #LongCovid https://t.co/oiAreZ1CjE pic.twitter.com/ZO1b0qU5MX
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) November 1, 2023
All variants of #SARSCoV2 can infect the brain, a new study has found. Variants have the capacity to infect the brain via the olfactory pathway. This means it's possible for even mild infections to result in the virus infiltrating the brain https://t.co/8Y0PRLsex7
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) November 3, 2023
As COVID19 will continue to be a problem for some patients, it is important to continue to explore better treatments. This study used monoclonal antibodies but administered them by inhalation, in animals. hat reduced viral loads and lung pathology. https://t.co/OXtl4pchnd pic.twitter.com/xq13dTpCDo
— Marion Koopmans, virology; emerging infections (@MarionKoopmans) November 6, 2023
What happens with the proteins in blood in people with #LongCovid vs matched healthy controls, with or without recovery, and over time?https://t.co/2MOYqWRkOp pic.twitter.com/wcb8EhSksO
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) November 3, 2023
mRNA vaccination triggers a robust T-cell response against #Covid in the lungs, new study shows. Although #SARSCoV2 evolution continuously produces immune-evasive variants, mRNA vaccination guards against severe disease & hospitalization via memory T cellshttps://t.co/sGkyTSJM1z pic.twitter.com/fPrfDqn5OK
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) November 7, 2023
Here is a link to the tweet mentioned above https://t.co/MswuGCvbdN
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) November 3, 2023
The biased and distorted recall of the Covid pandemic from the synthesis of 4 studies across 11 countrieshttps://t.co/cEgmOzxgr8 @Nature pic.twitter.com/OY8PNg4H6F
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) November 1, 2023
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Study: 1 in 7 Americans have had long COVID
"Its incidence varies markedly across the United States – from 11 percent in Hawaii to 18 percent in West Virginia – and is higher for women than men."
Study: https://t.co/GYtTk1BUOs
CIDRAP report: https://t.co/Fs5fjPiYmR
— CoronaHeadsUp (@CoronaHeadsUp) November 3, 2023
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The Black Death killed 30-40% of everyone in Europe in about a year. I think blaming health care professionals for the fact that our lives were disrupted by Covid is a way of avoiding the reality that nature will happily murder us without a second thought.
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) November 2, 2023
The renewed attempts by rightwing disinformation merchants to push #Ivermectin as a "miracle cure" for Covid 🙄 (& now cancer 🙄🙄) are not just medical misinformation
These are deliberate actions to sow distrust in science & institutions to manipulate and mobilize GOP voters
— Philipp Markolin (@PhilippMarkolin) November 7, 2023
Ah, it’s from vaccines falling on them pic.twitter.com/N5zCk4qklB
— Bad Vaccine Takes (@BadVaccineTakes) November 5, 2023
Sunday Evening Open Thread: RFK Jr Goes Mask-Off
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr's anti-vaccine org banned me from its conference. In a keynote speech, he committed to the movement, vowed "a break" from infectious disease research, and threatened scientific journals. "I feel like I’ve come home" he said. https://t.co/CA91VPWr4d — Brandy Zadrozny (@BrandyZadrozny) November 4, 2023 Steve Bannon has been having, by his debased …
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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: November 1, 2023
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US shifting COVID antivirals to commercial market on Nov. 1 https://t.co/HdMt7jhOKh — Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) October 28, 2023 Weekly U.S. COVID update: – New cases: 163,121 est.– Average: 195,137 (-22,131)– States reporting: 50/50– In hospital: 13,036 (-497)– In ICU: 1,543 (+27)– New deaths: 1,478– Average: 1,533 (-7) 1/5 — BNO News (@BNOFeed) October 30, 2023
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"Adult immunization rates are perennially suboptimal…in 2019, only 22% of adults were up to date on all the vaccines they should have received."https://t.co/rBqO8Aq5OB via @statnews @HelenBranswell
— Anand Parekh, MD, MPH (@AParekhBPC) October 31, 2023
Update: Good news X 2. @BiobotAnalytics is back up as of today and trends are good pic.twitter.com/EjxRe9r0Rz
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) October 27, 2023
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Arguably another (incidental) pandemic casualty:
… An announcement from China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention about Wu’s death gave no cause, but said that “rescue measures failed.”
Wu’s health had been poor. He disappeared out of the public eye for months last year while battling cancer.
Wu, who earned his master’s and doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles, had spent much of his early career working on HIV/Aids prevention in China…
Yet, as China battled the COVID-19 virus, Wu came to be criticized by some for his choice to publicly voice support for the country’s strict virus control measures even as the weaknesses of the strategy became more pronounced.
“Dynamic zero-COVID is appropriate for China’s reality, and is the best choice to control our country’s current COVID situation,” he said in April 2022, during the height of Shanghai’s lockdown…
In private, Wu disagreed with the excesses of the zero-COVID strategy, but felt powerless to go against it.
As zero-COVID got unsustainable in the fall of 2022, he wrote an internal report urging the government to avoid excessive measures. But in public press conferences throughout the past few years, he voiced the official line.
Wu visibly aged during the virus fight. He was pictured in 2020 with mostly black hair; by 2022, his locks had gone entirely gray.
None of the below stories from India are scientifically rigorous, but IMO they’re an indicator of the kind of sociopolitical toll the pandemic will be taking for the next many years…
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India: One in three parents surveyed say their children have fallen sick with flu/respiratory symptoms four or more times in the last 12 months. https://t.co/RNIIgNKRix
— CoronaHeadsUp (@CoronaHeadsUp) October 31, 2023
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Australia 8th Covid wave: The facts don't entirely support the Chief Medical Officer's assertion of decreasing Covid severity this year. pic.twitter.com/mTpm2HTvCm
— CoronaHeadsUp (@CoronaHeadsUp) October 31, 2023
Two-year+ follow-up of Covid in 4 Nordic countries
High prevalence of #LongCovid
Risk associated with acute illness severityhttps://t.co/ioqBTwAVBY pic.twitter.com/Uul437eG0V— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) October 27, 2023
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Danish Long Covid Study:
•Similar patterns of symptoms and severity across all 4 variants
•No clinically significant decline in median severity up to 1.5 years after infection
•50%+ of patients failed to improve using any outcome measure
— CoronaHeadsUp (@CoronaHeadsUp) October 31, 2023
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BA.2.86* as a % proportion of UK daily SARS-CoV-2 sequences.
Yes, that is 13%. #Pirola https://t.co/qw6c5gcRwM
— CoronaHeadsUp (@CoronaHeadsUp) October 31, 2023
Another hard-hit, populous nation now seeing political blowback from its leaders’ (shameful) actions during the pandemic:
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Covid inquiry: Read the private WhatsApp messages from inside Downing Street https://t.co/BCUtCvKRSO
— BBC Health News (@bbchealth) October 31, 2023
#KayBurley – Boris Johnson said covid was just nature's way of dealing with old people… & you supported that guy?
Oliver Dowden – What you're seeing there is a very partial one piece of evidence…
KB: I'm giving you the opportunity to say that's a shocking thing to say? pic.twitter.com/j1W6Eir9HP
— Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@Haggis_UK) November 1, 2023
My mother’s dying words were “please give the ventilator to someone younger, I don’t want to cause any trouble”. https://t.co/yqoC4kGKN1
— Trisha Greenhalgh (@trishgreenhalgh) October 31, 2023
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You know how flu comes in annual waves because, among other reasons, it's slow to mutate and there's a bad season only every few years because we have immunity to existing flu variants?
Covid is flu on speed: https://t.co/Kku6xoVKUR— tern (@1goodtern) October 27, 2023
In people with #LongCovid, persistently elevated #SARSCoV2 antigen levels in the blood out to 1 year+ https://t.co/LmY1LuKG1f by @MichaelPelusoMD and colleagues @UCSF @wyssinstitute pic.twitter.com/HAvuXI9N1X
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) October 26, 2023
Could gut fungi be linked to severe #Covid? Fungal organisms in the microbiome are referred to as the fungal microbiota, or mycobiota. While it's normal to have a range of fungal organisms in the gut, changes in the types or amount can be linked to disease https://t.co/ZbR3MT3vwl
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) October 29, 2023
#SARSCoV2 found to migrate within neurons and infect the brain. New research from the Pasteur Institute. In vitro study confirms that SARS2 is capable of infecting human neurons & migrating into axons, the nerve cell projections that carry information https://t.co/Swjw8hRc0u
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) October 29, 2023
Predators targeting people with #LongCovid with unproven stem cell treatments, charging up to $25,000. Nearly half of the 60 clinics identified are operating in the United States https://t.co/xhGb1ylRMZ @LeighGTurner @stemcellreports pic.twitter.com/zUVmrKpj98
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) October 26, 2023
Don’t panic:
Your post is misleading.
This was a study of *severe* long covid clinical patients only. It did not consider mild cases. pic.twitter.com/0dMm0toEZF
— Kristen Mag (@kristenmag) October 30, 2023
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Armed with this information, there is NO EXCUSE for the pandemic to continue for much longer. We finally have a variant-proof solution to SARS-CoV-2.
— CoronaHeadsUp (@CoronaHeadsUp) October 31, 2023
What a terrible piece. 1. We didn’t have lockdowns in the us 2. The reduction in movement / shared indoor air saved thousands, if not millions of lives pre-vaccine. 3. Nocera and McLean have been full of shit on this (in the same lane as Nate Silver and Alec MacGillis) for years. https://t.co/bHYNCQlhRs
— Clean Observer (@Hammbear2024) October 31, 2023
Apocalypse pretty soon!
Same 😐 https://t.co/9yrT36Ptxq
— Bad Vaccine Takes (@BadVaccineTakes) November 1, 2023
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(Potentially) Encouraging Medical News: Flu shots may protect against the risk of Alzheimer’s
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There are many reasons to get a flu shot this fall, but here’s one that might surprise you: It could protect your brain. Some studies have shown that vaccinated individuals appear less likely than the unvaccinated to develop dementia. https://t.co/Uw9301VwNf — The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 25, 2023 The “vaxx skeptics”, of course, will insist …
In quelling the immune response to amyloid, vaccines may save brain cells that the body’s immune system might otherwise kill, he said. It’s also possible that vaccines strengthen the immune system’s ability to get rid of plaque. “Fewer plaques lead to less inflammation and less brain cell loss,” Schulz said, adding: “We aren’t sure yet exactly what the mechanism is, but something is going on with the brain and the immune system that seems to make a big difference.”
Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and co-director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, said the studies “suggest long-term benefits from immunizations with vaccines that may go beyond the intended direct benefits.”…
Schulz led a recent study that found a statistically significant difference in the incidence of Alzheimer’s after following two groups — one vaccinated against flu, the other unvaccinated — for up to eight years.
In the flu study, the researchers took participants from a national patient database, two groups of 935,887 each, one group vaccinated, the other not. To avoid the potential influence of various factors that could affect the results, the scientists ensured that each group shared many of the same characteristics, such as age, gender, how frequently they went to the doctor, and certain medical conditions, such as high blood pressure and elevated cholesterol.
Schulz and his colleagues found that an annual flu vaccination for three consecutive years reduced the dementia risk 20 percent over the next four to eight years, while six shots doubled it to a 40-percent reduction…
In another study, his team found similar results with vaccines for other infectious diseases, including shingles, pneumococcal pneumonia and the combination of tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (whooping cough), known as Tdap, or with tetanus and diphtheria without the pertussis component.
With the shingles vaccines, for example, (Zostavax, the early shingles vaccine, and Shingrix, the most recent one), the researchers compared 198,847 patients, who were vaccinated to an equal number who were not, Schulz said. Among the vaccinated, 16,106 patients developed Alzheimer’s during the eight-year follow-up, compared with 21,417 of the unvaccinated — or 5,311 fewer patients in the vaccinated group got dementia…
Wear those upper-arm bandaids proudly!
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