Alt Microbiology Department

See you in Canada

Hydroxychloroquine is another antieukaryotic that has the side effect of being a low grade anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressant. They would get the same result with less toxicity from literally any over-the-counter NSAID - but you can't tell these people anything.

There's a reason ivermectin has a slight impact on a number of different diseases - it's a mild anti-inflammatory, about on the same level as aspirin.

You would be better off using literally any dedicated anti-inflammatory that doesn't make your brain rot. Tylenol through dexamethasone. Anything.

It's strawberry season. Wash them thoroughly with soap. The azoles antifungals we use to keep strawberries from rotting 20min after you buy them accumulate in fat, are toxic, carcinogenic, teratogenic, endocrine disruptors, and we used 4,000,000,000lbs last year

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

"This is fucking stupid. Viruses don't come with an address label you stupid Nazi propagandist fucks. Stick to ruining the government and maybe don't try your hand at mictobiology."

-- signed, the literal microbiology department

Oh hey thanks this is very likely to end up being my journal club article

FDA Authorizes Marketing of First Home Flu and COVID-19 Combination Test Outside of Emergency Use Authorities FDA granted marketing authorization for the Healgen Rapid Check COVID-19/Flu A&B Antigen Test

If you've not seen the new combination COVID and influenza a/b rapid antigen tests, they're now available OTC thanks to a recent FDA ruling. Get them at Amazon if your neighborhood pharmacy isn't carrying them yet.

www.fda.gov/news-events/...

ESKAPE pathogens rapidly develop resistance against antibiotics in development in vitro - Nature Microbiology An extensive experimental analysis of resistance to antibiotics in development or introduced post-2017 in ESKAPE bacteria reveals the dynamics of resistance acquisition, mutational targets and the pre...

💊🦠OUT NOW - comprehensive analysis of the propensity of ESKAPE pathogens to evolve resistance to new and in development antibiotics by Csaba Pal, Balint Kintses, Balazs Papp and colleagues. Dive in here...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Insufficiently.

Mark, let's face reality. After being dropped by Blue Cross when I was diagnosed with breast cancer, the ACA saved my life twice. It may not be perfect, but I'm alive & grateful.

Oh good cuz I'm bad at that too

Flu vaccine estimated to be 21% effective against flu spread to household members

The annual flu vaccine is as anticipated "pretty shit," especially against influenza B with confirmed exposure: 79% ineffective, which is obviously terrible

Influenza B is typically less severe and infected vaccinated individuals may be nearly asymptomatic.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-va...

US respiratory virus infections rise, led by flu

As a reminder, there is a very large spike in respiratory viruses going on right now, driven by an 18% in flu test positivity which is super-awful.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/us-...