Wahnsinn. Dieser nie dagewesene Anstieg der CO2-Konzentration in einem Jahr ist jenseits aller Erwartungen und müsste in zig Sondersendungen erörtert werden, wenn wir als Gesellschaft noch bei Trost wären. Müsste... gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...

Death in Hamburg by Richard J. Evans: 9780143036364 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books "A tremendous book, the biography of a city which charts the multifarious pathways from bacilli to burgomaster." -Roy Porter, London Review of Books Why were nearly 10,000 people killed in six weeks ...

“Death in Hamburg” by Sir Richard J Evans.
A book written in 1987 for our COVID age. The title is a reference to Thomas Mann's novella "Death in Venice", also set in a cholera epidemic. This is a review of one of the best books I've ever read. 5/5 stars. 🧵 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/294784...

H.H.S. Scraps Studies of Vaccines and Treatments for Future Pandemics (Gift Article) Federal officials cited the end of the Covid-19 pandemic in halting the research. But much of the work was focused on preventing outbreaks of other pathogens.

"Angry, disappointed, frustrated"--Scientists were making progress on vaccines and antivirals for the next pandemic--until this week, when the Trump administration abruptly told them to stop. Here's my story with @apoorvanyt.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/43Xz77q

Gibt es Einrichtungen oder Privatpersonen, die kostenlos hochwertige gebrauchte Hepa-Luftreiniger übernehmen wollen? Es handelt sich um Geräte aus dem Schuleinsatz. Diese sind in Münster abzuholen. Bitte meldet euch bis 28.3. bei mir. Bitte teilen!
#Lufthygiene #safeair #cleanair #ProtecttheKids

French Scientist Reportedly Denied U.S. Entry Due to Trump Criticism So much for free speech in America?

"Einem französischen Wissenschaftler, der auf dem Weg zu einer Konferenz in den USA war, wurde angeblich vom Zoll und der Grenzkontrolle die Einreise verweigert, weil auf seinem Telefon Nachrichten gefunden wurden, in denen er die Kürzungen im Wissenschaftsbereich durch Präsident Trump kritisierte."

Too many catching Covid-19 in hospital, experts say - but precautions being rolled back Hospital-acquired infections are a billion-dollar burden and cause more disability than road crashes. Why aren't we doing more to prevent them?

“Based on Australian data, it is likely between 10 and 15 percent of Covid deaths are from hospital-acquired infections, representing hundreds of people”

No one should have to risk Covid to get care, yet many patients are being infected because hospitals refuse to mandate masks & clean the air

Please repost to get the word out! @nkgarg.bsky.social and I are excited to present a personalized feed for academics! It shows posts about papers from accounts you’re following bsky.app/profile/pape...

The issue is that this virus, like e.g. influenza, keeps mutating. Vaccines can only do so much if new variants keep popping up.

Update: They were removed from our reviewer assignments completely. I'm so sorry to all those graduate students. Anonymous to protect the identity of the NIH employee I spoke to...I am on study section next month to discuss F awards. We were just instructed to put the F31-Diversity applications on the bottom of our priority list for review because there is a chance we may not be able to review them. My heart is breaking for the grad students and their mentors that put so much work into these just for them to be disqualified and thrown out.

Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

C.D.C. Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Spread Between Cats and People The data, which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. Scientists called on the agency to release the full report.

Wow. So not only were several bird flu studies left out of today’s CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, some data on bird flu briefly appeared in the online report and then was quickly removed.

Letter from colleague fired from USAID, sharing devastating impact and chaos that this has wrought on her life and family.

From USAID colleague, with permission to share. It's not just chaos it is devastation and tearing apart of families and communities. Not to talk of systems that kept us safe. This is just one story, multiple this by 10,000.
Is this really making America great?

Vogelgrippe: Was Donald Trumps Gesundheitsstrategie für Pandemien bedeutet Unter Donald Trump wird es weniger Gesundheitsdaten aus den USA geben, aus der WHO soll das Land aussteigen. Die Virologin Isabella Eckerle erklärt, was das für künftige Pandemien bedeutet.

Ich habe mit FAZ über die aktuelle Situation der Vogelgrippe in den USA gesprochen & warum der Datenstopp ein globales Risiko darstellt. Obwohl gestern erst erschienen, schon von der Realität eingeholt: Neuer Genotyp in Milchkühen & mehr Fragen zu zurückgehaltenen Daten.
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Heard a version of this from a source earlier today: Everyone from USAID working abroad forced to uproot their lives, let alone abandon their work, on three days notice. Uprooting thousands of families on no notice, in an intentionally humiliating and harrowing way.

We were just told that they won’t let us in. They are denying entry to 2 dozen members of Congress. Elon Musk has all our private information & we have no idea what he’s doing with it. This is happening completely behind closed doors. HELL NO. It’s illegal. We demand oversight!

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YouTube video by Heidi Reichinnek, MdB ME/CFS Lemon Challenge

@heidireichinnek.de macht auch bei der #lemonchallenge zur Aufklärung über und Kampf gegen #MECFS und #PostCovid mit.

Danke dafür 💜

Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.

BREAKING NEWS: Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.

Very good advice to find after a day of doomscrolling

betekent dat er dus wel een effect is die op bevolkingsschaal te zien is.

volgt niet dat "SC2 het enige pathogeen zijn waartegen immuniteit niet werkt", dit is een enorme sprong en volgt geen logica. Er gaat in een bevolking altijd strooiing zijn, niet elke infectie gaat in iedereen de zelfde schade verrichten. Maar zegt zelf dat abnorme waardes in LC voorkomen, toch? Wat

dat repeat infections enorm common zijn, wat natuurlijk ook door de snelle mutaties komt, en 2) dat deze schade kunnen verrichten zelfs als voorgaande infecties dat niet hebben gedaan (en hier is alleen sprake van symptomatische LC, niet van andere vormen van orgaanschade).
Hieruit

Cumulative incidence blijft constant als er geen niewe gevallen optreden. Dit zou het geval zijn als door repeat infections niet meer schade zou ontstaan (modulo newborns), wat blijkbaar wel duidelijk het geval is. We weten dus 1) door wastewater data en ook alledaagse ervaring

insurance claims, stijgende afwezigheid door ziekte etc. is er dus wel degelijk reden om dit serieus te nemen. Het feit dat het fenomeen van post-acute virale aandoeningen niet uniek is voor SC2 betekent niet dat de ontstekingsreactie niet alsnog door SC2 is losgetrapt.

er (zover ik weet, correct me if I'm wrong) geen data die het tegendeel toont. De stijgende cumulatieve incidence uit de review is dan ook een conservatieve schatting uit de beste data die we hebben. In combinatie met data uit vele andere bereiken, b.v. van werkers met disabilities, stijgende

Ah, slechte woordkeuze van mij - ik bedoel natuurlijk de data waarop de review baseert. Zover ik het begrijp is het door de grote variatie in datacollectie in verschillende landen moeilijk om een strikt getal te krijgen maar is er wel een duidelijke trend te zien in de data die we wel hebben, en is

herhaalde infecties onder LC lijdt en vervolgens wel abnorme waardes heeft, is het excluderen van
LC als groep cirkelredenering. Daarmee zeg je in principe alleen dat "gezonde mensen gezond zijn", wat natuurlijk per definitie klopt.

Oprechte interesse: is de data in b.v. www.nature.com/articles/s41... en doi.org/10.1016/j.la... over de stijgende incidence van LC door herhaalde infecties niet solide?
Ik snap dat de data van LC patienten niet voor de brede bevolking geldt maar als een steeds groter gedeelte van de bevolking door

The “pandemic of abandonment”: Navigating friendships five years into COVID-19 - The Sick Times Over the last five years of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, many people have experienced significant changes and ruptures to their personal relationships. People with Long COVID and people taking COVID...

I'll have more to say about this later, but for now I want to share this piece I was honored to write for @thesicktimes.bsky.social about friendship & COVID. I hope ppl will read it if they are the covid-cautious friend or if they are not, and find some clarity here
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Science at risk: The funding pause is more damaging than you might think Research that helps drive our economy is on hold and may face new ideological limits.

If you're wondering why scientists are freaking the fuck out about what's being described as a pause in spending, I have written an article just for you:

Line graph from FRED showing a steep increase in the number of labour force workers over 16 in the U.S. with a disability. There is a sharp increase from ~6 million in 2020 to close to 9 million in 2023

Something that keeps me up at night: The growing global number of people disabled by Covid & how they will be left further deserted as the climate crisis escalates