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Crawling on here to say Novavax is in stock in NYC, at your local CVS! Just got my flu + Nova, today. As always, I:

• Scheduled online for Moderna
• Checked in for my appt and requested Novavax
• Had to explain that they had Nova in stock, when the attendant told me that they don’t have it

Current Levels for Jun 23, 2025 % of the Population Infectious 0.6% (1 in 167) New Daily Infections 287000 New Weekly Infections 2009000 Resulting Weekly Long COVID Cases 100,000 to 402,000 Resulting Weekly Excess Deaths 700 to 1,200 Monthly Forecast Average % of the Population Infectious 1.0% (1 in 97) Average New Daily Infections 493300 New Infections During the Next Month 14799000 Resulting Monthly Long COVID Cases 740,000 to 2,960,000 Resulting Monthly Excess Deaths 5,300 to 8,800 Running Totals Infections Nationwide in 2025 74869000 Average Number of Infections Per Person All-Time, U.S. 3.775249328 How Does Risk Increase with More Social Contacts? Number of People | Chances anyone is infectious 1 0.6% 2 1.2% 3 1.8% 4 2.4% 5 3.0% 6 3.5% 7 4.1% 8 4.7% 9 5.3% 10 5.8% 15 8.6% 20 11.3% 25 14.0% 30 16.5% 35 19.0% 40 21.4% 50 26.0% 75 36.3% 100 45.2% 300 83.6% There is more COVID-19 transmission today than during 33.6% of the pandemic.

PMC COVlD Dashboard, Jun 23, 2025 (U.S.)

🔹With >90% probability, we have entered the 11th COVlD wave.
🔹In a room of 50 people, there is already a 1 in 4 chance of an exposure.
🔹We expect nearly 15 million infections in the next month, and rising.

🧵2/6

Selfie of Stella wearing a KN95 black face mask and holding a sticker that says I voted

i heard voting makes u 69% cuter :3

Screenshot of a message reading “she said it’s expiring too soon so may not effective and nowhere has it”

I’m going to LOSE MY EVER-LOVING MIND WITH UNEDUCATED PHARMACISTS AND DOCTORS. I had to BEG my mom to go get the Novavax before this batch expires, on March 31, and this pharmacist told her NOT TO GET IT BECAUSE IT IS EXPIRING SOON? ARE YOU JOKING?!

#COVIDINFORMED AND ABOUT TO LOSE MY MIND

Conducting COVID research regarding the impact of a single glass of wine, post-Novavax… by drinking a glass of wine after my 6-months-post-September-2024 #Novavax booster that I got, today 😀

#HOCl is to me as Windex is to Toula’s dad in My Big Fat Greek Wedding—I spray that shit on everything 🤭

Most recent uses? Windex replacement for my bathroom mirror; sides of Darcy’s litter box; Darcy’s cactus scratcher + catnip toys 🤭

I am at a loss for words at the feeling in my chest knowing the universal masking and other airborne mitigation so many have been begging for across the nation for literal years could have prevented this. If you work in healthcare and you’re not wearing something better than a surgical mask, why?

five years of
protect each other
this is not normal
take care take care take care

who did you think you would be, when you came to understand how a mask could protect you & others?

are you still that person?

what choices could you make to reduce suffering? toward clean air?
@kcrw.com @npr.org

Digital photo of an ivory colored zine on a light pink background. The text on the zine says, "Dancing Through Life with Long COVID by Clarisa (peamilkstan)." There is a photo Degas artwork of two ballet dancers sitting, and a pink KN95 mask is edited on one dancer's face.

Photo of an ivory colored zine on a white background. The text on the zine says, "Dancing Through Life with Long COVID by Clarisa (peamilkstan)." There is a photo Degas artwork of two ballet dancers sitting, and a pink KN95 mask is edited on one dancer's face.

Photo of an ivory colored zine on a white background. The text on the zine says, "A dancer's experience living with Long COVID."

my new zine "Dancing Through Life with Long COVID" is available now! 💌
l!nks below or in bi0

I can’t believe that we are at the point where we need to constantly remind everyone that children aren’t meant to die from vaccine-preventable diseases.

And yet so many purported “leftists” throw a fit when called out for perpetuating eugenics by not masking and living superspreader lives that are in direct contravention of everything they claim to stand for

Stand for what? You can’t even withstand social pressure re: masking 😭

Non-Hospitalized Long COVID Patients Exhibit Reduced Retinal Capillary Perfusion: A Prospective Cohort Study The mechanism of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC) is unknown. Using optical coherence tomography angiography (OCT-A), we compared retinal foveal avascular zone (FAZ), vessel density (VD), and ...

The study: Non-Hospitalized Long COVID Patients Exhibit Reduced Retinal Capillary Perfusion: A Prospective Cohort Study ( www.mdpi.com/2313-433X/11... ) 2/

For a pal—does anyone know the timing of a second, updated shot for those who got a Fall 2024 mRNA vaccine? I’ve only kept up with Nova update timing, as I’ve been Nova for my past two doses! #yallmasking

patrick mahomes and drake embracing each other after getting embarrassed during super bowl

Wear a goddamn mask like you should’ve been doing for the past half-decade 🤷🏻‍♀️

Ontario having had to take out a Super Bowl ad to remind Americans that Canada is and always has been an ally to the north is . 🫠

unreal. Baun is the prettiest ballerina I ever did see

COOOOOOOOOOP 🦅🦅🦅

too scarred by 2023** to feel any joy from this 10-point lead #GoBirds

Lucky in front of a lunar new year of the snake mural

Lucky in front of a mural that says “Our Asian Community Is Safe”

Chúc mừng năm mới! In this year of the snake, one of the most important things we must always remember: WE KEEP US SAFE! ✊🐍🧧

Strength and durability of indirect protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection through vaccine and infection-acquired immunity - Nature Communications Vaccines and infection-acquired immunity reduce infection risk to close contacts through ‘indirect protection’. Here, the authors characterise the strength and durability of vaccine- and infection-acq...

More evidence that being vaccinated against COVID confers indirect protection to others. The strength & durability of this protection is a bit higher with infection-acquired immunity, but for that you must get the very thing you're trying to avoid in the first place.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Embroidery of two snakes on dark blue felt. One, Hades, is a ball python with yellow and orange patterning, and the other, Serpentine, is a little blue and black fellow chilling with some leaves.

Detail of embroidery of two snakes on dark blue felt. One, Hades, is a ball python with yellow and orange patterning, and the other, Serpentine, is a little blue and black fellow. In the close-up, you can see the use of brick stitch for Hades’s scales.

Happy Lunar New Year! Sharing one of my favorite embroideries in honor of the Year of the Snake!