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This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.

I appreciate Andrew Nikiforuk at @TheTyee for highlighting the continuing science of COVID and the importance of prevention.
The virus keeps reshaping health and society — we can still choose to act wisely.

thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Marty Makary's House of VAERS Humiliation, Angst, and Revenge at the FDA

A+ by @panaccindex.bsky.social

www.panaccindex.info/p/marty-maka...

🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel.

Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣

This is a must-watch. 🔥

YouTube video by Al Haddrell How Air Pollution Causes Heart Attacks and Strokes

If you're curious as to why inhaling particles in your lungs will affect your blood pressure, I put an explainer video that gets into all of that:
youtu.be/idddJ-JsV_o

An image with a black and white background and a Latin American immigrant and a title Schröinger's Immigrant. On the left, it reads, "Lazily collecting all the welfare." On the right, it reads, "But also somehow taking all the jobs."

Public Health Alerts - WHN This page provides real-time updates on emerging health threats and important public health developments. Our goal is to keep healthcare professionals and the public informed about critical outbreaks,...

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HIV protection with just two shots a year: FDA approves Gilead drug A new twice-yearly shot could be a "game changer" in the fight against AIDS, but experts' hopes have dimmed because of the current political climate.

www.statnews.com/2025/06/18/f....

Eight things you need to know about the new “Nimbus” and “Stratus” COVID-19 variants The NB.1.8.1 and XFG sub-variants are rapidly spreading and competing for global dominance.

8 things you need to know about the new “Nimbus” and “Stratus” COVID-19 variants.

"The NB.1.8.1 and XFG sub-variants are rapidly spreading and competing for global dominance."

www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...

CBS reporter Scott Pelley:

This is a warning that I fear many will look back on in five or six years and think “he was so right”.

If you haven’t already shared this, please do.

There's nothing holy about writing discrimination into the law.

Carl Sagan speaking at MIT in 1987 on lowering our C02 emissions.

Apply these words to any technological problem our world faces today and it holds up.

Comparing the COVID-19 Vaccines: How Are They Different? Keeping up with COVID-19 vaccines can be a daunting task. To help people keep up, Yale Medicine mapped out a comparison of the most prominent ones.

Comparing the COVID-19 Vaccines: How Are They Different?

In its 6th year, COVID-19 continues to spread, driven by Omicron subvariants. Updated vaccines, revised yearly since 2022, are still expected to protect well against severe illness, hospitalisation, and death, even with new strains.

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We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State.

H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

Front page of the manuscript titled, “Experimental analysis to quantify inactivation of microorganisms by Far-UVC irradiation in indoor environments.”

Far-UVC light (222 nm) kills airborne bacteria in indoor spaces, reducing pathogens by up to 99.5%—even with low ventilation. Tested at room scale, it works fast & effectively. A game-changer for infection control in schools, hospitals, offices. Let’s deploy this tech!

Can you add an edit and save option? 🙏

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudoscience and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive. Where have we heard it before? Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls. The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”

Carl Sagan's prediction in 1995. We are here now.

Ozempic Could Crush the Junk Food Industry. But It Is Fighting Back. As revolutionary new weight-loss drugs turn consumers off ultraprocessed foods, the industry is on the hunt for new products.

For decades, the junk food industry has deliberately engineered foods to be addictive. GLP-1 drugs have helped people break free from this cycle. The industry is now searching for ways to undo the effects of these meds, aiming to design foods that remain addictive for those on GLP1. buff.ly/40QHDnk

Can you solve it? Connect the dots to reveal the answer! (It's obviously COVID and there are only two dots.)

Wait. What if it's not lockdowns from 5 years ago and a lack of infections causing "immunity debt", but actually repeated infection with a virus with known immunological, cardiovascular, neurological, and many other effects?!?

There's a Surprisingly Easy Way to Remove Microplastics From Drinking Water Tiny fragments of microplastics are making their way deep inside our bodies in concerning quantities, significantly through our food and drink.

There's a Surprisingly Easy Way to Remove Microplastics From Drinking Water
Tiny fragments of microplastics are making their way deep inside our bodies in concerning quantities, significantly through our food and drink.

www.sciencealert.com/theres-a-sur...

🚨Our #LongCovid Groups’ Barrister Ms Sarah Hannett KC is giving our closing statement for UK #CovidInquiry mod. 3:

“Witnesses to the Inquiry have suggested that the pandemic is historic. This is both incorrect and dangerous.”

#CovidIsNotOver

Hidden in plain sight: the threat of mpox to children and adolescents In August 2024, WHO declared mpox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern for the second time in 2 years in response to a surge in cases driven by the novel clade I sublineage (Ib) in easte...

Huh. I remember minimizers getting very upset at the mere suggestion that kids *might* be at risk and we should maybe try to protect them.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I’m Sof and I’m also often in another world.

H5N1. We HAVE VACCINES but INSUFFICIENT STOCKPILES

Research indicates that H5N1 vaccines developed in the mid-2000s may still be effective against more recent variants of the virus.

So happy to see @polybiorf.bsky.social on here! A definite follow for anyone looking for brilliant #LongCovid #MECFS #PAIS research!

Added them to my starter-pack (which keeps evolving daily with the amazing researchers & MDs joining) ⬇️

Anyone know if Amy Proal is here yet?

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Real Impact of COVID-19 Infection and Why We Should Care

The web version of this article with a nice table of contents and easy to share with others can be found here ( tinyurl.com/COVIDrealImp... ) and ( docs.google.com/document/d/1... ). 2/