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The Evermaskers The isolation of people who take precautions against COVID has only gotten more intense.

"The COVID-conscious people have not abandoned science, It’s the opposite: They’ve come to think that science has abandoned them."
People who are taking precautions, some of whom are immunocompromised, should not be mocked or discriminated against
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Mike Honey (@mike_honey_@aus.social) Attached: 1 image · Content warning: SARS-CoV-2 "DeFLiRT" variant - LB.1 with Spike S31del mutation

The new SARS-CoV-2 "FLiRT" lineage LB.1 (descended from JN.1.9.2) has acquired the Spike S31del mutation so becoming a "DeFLiRT".

At present this seems the most likely successor to the currently-dominant "FLiRT" KP.2 and "FLuQE" KP.3.

More details:
aus.social/@mike_honey_...

Zhang Yongzhen, the first person to publicly release the genome sequence of the virus that causes COVID-19, was camping outside his laboratory. Credit: Dake Kang/AP via Alamy

Chinese virologist who was first to share #COVID-19 genome sleeps on street after Chinese government shuts his lab

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01293-0

Ummmm

📃Scientific paper: Higher prevalence of pulmonary macrothrombi in SARS-CoV-2 than in influenza A: autopsy results from ...

➡️ Continued on ES/IODE

Source: ‘Large-scale phenotyping of patients with #LongCOVID post-hospitalization reveals mechanistic subtypes of disease.’
@Nature.
Research team: Professor @p_openshaw et al @ImperialNHLI
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

👀🍵😶 #Covid19SitRep #CovidIsNotOver #Covid19
#SARSCoV2

Bernie Sanders Releases Long COVID Moonshot Legislative Proposal. Seeking input from patients and medical community.
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WHO launches CoViNet: a global network for coronaviruses WHO has launched a new network for coronaviruses, CoViNet, to facilitate and coordinate global expertise and capacities for early and accurate detection, monitoring and assessment of SARS-CoV-2, MERS-...

The World Health Organization, WHO, has established CoViNet, a new network dedicated to identifying, monitoring, and evaluating SARS-CoV-2, MERS-CoV, and emerging coronaviruses that pose serious public health risks.

www.who.int/news/item/27...

Chart: COVID-19 Wastewater Levels by US State (April 2024)

UPDATE: COVID wastewater levels are low in most US states.

If you've been holding off on healthcare or other activities, now is one of the best times of the year to go.

Note that even in low periods you are still at risk of COVID exposure, so it makes sense to take precautions.

April 7, 2024. Nationwide Wastewater Monitoring Network shows #COVID19 trends in communities across the US. Last updated 4/1/2024. #data #analytics #wastewater #epidemiology

Letter from UK Statistics Authority to Ellie Reeves MP 27 March 2024 - main content; The ONS collects information on the labour market status of individuals through the Labour Force Survey. Responses allow us to identify how many people are not working and not seeking work due to long-term illnesses or disability. Health conditions collected are based on broad groupings of how a condition might affect an individual, rather than focussing on specific conditions or diagnoses. November 2023 to January 2024 there were an estimated 2.7 million people in UK who not working or seeking work due to long-term sickness or disability. Not possible to say how many of these were due to long COVID. The most recent estimate from the Covid Infection Survey of the number of people not working or looking for work, who self-reported as having long COVID was 375,000 in July 2022. Professor Sir Ian Diamond

Cabinet Office question from Ellie Reeves MP asking for the no. people in UK currently out of work due to #LongCovid. Answer given:

🔴 Most recent estimate July ‘22 - 375,000.

🔴 Nov 23-Jan 24 - 2.7m not working/seeking work due to long-term sickness/disability. Can’t say how many due to LC.

Fleeting Protection of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines
Limited presence of long-lived plasma cells targeting COVID-19 in bone marrow may explain lack of long-term immunity
www.chemistryviews.org/fleeting-pro...

Fuckers. Covid data tracking is gonna be more shittastic.

Meer jongeren dan volwassenen hebben post-covid: 'Totale uitputting' Voor het eerst is er een exacte schatting van het aantal post-covid-patiënten in Nederland. De resultaten het onderzoek zijn opvallend, want de groep jongeren tussen de 12 en 25 jaar met langdurige kl...

Netherlands: More young people than adults have post-COVID: 'Total exhaustion'
 
"Young people between 12 and 25 years old with long-term complaints appears to be relatively larger than the group of adults"
 
#Netherlands #LongCOVID #youngpeople

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Guess who is marking their 4th Covid anniversary a.k.a. coronaversary with Long Covid today?
The ONS stopped counting us in the UK at 1.9 million almost a year ago, as that looks better than 2 million, but people are not recovering, and more with newly acquired Long Covid are joining us every month.

Blue colored brain with red SARS-CoV-2 virus particles around it

🩺Amazing summary of research on how SARS-CoV-2 can affect the brain by @zalaly

COVID-19 leaves its mark on the brain, including with significant drops in IQ scores buff.ly/3P4hIls

Includes an important video summary from Science magazine from 2022

#LongCOVID 🧠😷👩‍🔬🛟🧪

Opinion | Where Did Covid Come From? New documents bolster the theory that it not only escaped from a laboratory but was developed in one.

In the 4 years since the SARS-CoV-2 virus was unleashed on the world, data have steadily accumulated supporting the hypothesis that it emerged from a laboratory. The latest information, released last month, makes a formidable case that the virus is the product of laboratory synthesis, not of nature.

February 29, 2024. Nationwide Wastewater Monitoring Network shows #COVID19 trends in communities across the US. Last updated 2/27/2024. #data #analytics #wastewater #epidemiology biobot.io/data

February emissions dropped to our baseline summer emissions level despite 35°F temperatures.

February 2024 is in the books and the heat pump has rocked on. We had an 85% reduction in emissions during this month which averaged 35°F. The cold-climate heat pump has tamed our winter gas usage here in NE Ohio. 🧪💡🔌

You have to have your kidney function tested in a lab to be diagnosed with kidney disease. You have to have a reason for that & most people don’t because of how late symptoms show. So a lot of people don’t know they are in a stage of kidney disease.

Research shows 1 in 10 infected pregnant women develop long COVID Long COVID was not associated with any one trimester of pregnancy.

Research shows 1 in 10 infected pregnant women develop long COVID www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/res...

@STForeignDesk: New research raises concerns about long Covid in children https://t.co/nhCl4zexcD

The are lots of depressing things about the school that couldn’t open because so many teachers have C*vid, but top of the list has to be that some of those teachers may now be harmed for life because of it and it was all completely preventable.

UPDATED: Island & Interior Health estimated #COVID19 cases, #wastewater #SARSCOV2 load.

According to BCCDC wastewater data, VIHA & IH should have sustained an average of 170 (⬇️ 208) & 151 (⬆️ 128) COVID-19 cases per day from 1/19 - 1/25.

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Artwork: beautiful color drawing of a Black woman with white hair in a mask. There are pink and red hibiscus flowers on her mask, on her headwrap, and floating around her head. Art by Reese Carter, available here: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/maplewav/hibiscus/ This is a reader-supported newsletter! Share or join to ensure its continuation: https://www.patreon.com/violetblue

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–Covid sends Germany into recession
–US:1.2 million infections/day
–1 in 5 infected have “severe cognitive slowing”
–Amantadine may help #longcovid fatigue
–Covid protections at Davos
–Real 2022 World Cup winner was #covid
–Japan rises 9th week

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Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday are the same day this year and I feel like there’s a very specific category of white Christian tradwife Instagram influencer who is going to be so unbearable about it that we may be able to pencil in that day’s Main Character in advance

Ohhhh! You don’t think she’s on Bsky? That’s true, she’s not. It’s too bad. Lots of people suggested to her that she come here instead of Threads. Hopefully she does