New:
- US on track for worst whooping cough outbreak since 1948
- Conspiracy creep w/no medical license tapped as US Surgeon General
- HICPAC, NIOSH ended
- Cool Haunted Woods #LongCovid game
- #Covid surges land in AU, Thailand, Taiwan
- I got ranty
https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-may-8-2025-128426416 #PublicHealth
#Trump's nominee for #SurgeonGeneral is a social Darwinist who got #COVID completely wrong. https://www.importantcontext.news/p/trumps-new-surgeon-general-pick-had?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1267172&post_id=163150592&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1aric&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
If you're in the U.S. and you have #LongCOVID, check out our list of Long COVID clinics and providers: https://publichealthactionnetwork.org/long-covid-pasc-clinics/ We're expanding this list to other countries, and if you know of clinics to add, drop a line in the comments.
#COVID #publichealth
Long COVID/PASC Clinics - Publ...
Favorable results in trial of combined influenza and Covid vaccine in adults over 50.
#covid #influenza #vaccines
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2833668
I was checking out "And Still It Remains: A Long COVID Exhibition" and these really spoke to me. I couldn't find her (Lisa Sheets) on masto but she's on Instagram @lisasheets_artspawn
1. "Stop"
2. "It Was a Shock to Us"
By creating a chilling effect on masking and ample opportunities for harassment and profiling, mask bans gravely escalate the life-threatening impacts of police violence, doxxing, #COVID, and #LongCOVID. They have no place on college campuses.
If you no longer wear a mask in public, what would you say is the main reason why?
If you no longer wear a mask in public, what would you say is the main reason why?
The PCR positivity map is out, and weekly surveillance is reporting quite a large increase from 5.3 to 6%.
There's a higher level across all areas, but some are worth pointing out.
https://jamestindall.info/skeuomorphology/ladb_covid/index.html
1/7
"In the #Covid pandemic & ensuing global economic meltdown of 2020 we were #InThisTogether & gonna #BuildBackBetter for a hot minute but when all was said & done the rich got richer (WAY richer) while everybody else got poorer, AGAIN."
ffs #usa #uspol #canada #cdnpoli #maga #trump #news #MedMastodon #covid #gop #ai #rfkjr #publichealth #science
BREAKING: FDA launches agency-wide AI rollout. Scientific reviews that took days now take minutes. No more busywork, it’s time to act, said Marty Makary. Full deployment by June 30, 2025.
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-announces-completion-first-ai-assisted-scientific-review-pilot-and-aggressive-agency-wide-ai #press https://med-mastodon.com/@cbarbermd/114472914075013601
https://open.substack.com/pub/yourlocalepidemiologist/p/the-rise-of-a-new-form-of-germ-theory
A hungry tiger in a field with Usain Bolt will kill him 99 times out of 100. It'll erase the average Joe 999 times out of 1000. The way to be safe is to construct a barrier between the two.
If Joe wants to feel better day-to-day he can take up jogging but there's no point in him doing sprints with the goal of improving his Tiger survival odds.
Random reminder that #BillGates is the reason why AstraZeneca #COVID vaccine is patent-encumbered:
https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-the-world-loses-under-bill-gates-vaccine-colonialism/
> Gates bragged about convincing Oxford University not to open-license its vaccine. Gates leveraged his $750 million donation to the university for vaccine research—even though its vaccine was developed in a publicly funded lab. Eventually, Oxford sold the sole right of production to AstraZeneca, with no guarantee of low prices and an extraordinary opportunity for profit.
Review finds significant risk of Long Covid symptoms
#COVID #LongCovid https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59012-w
#Genetic Study Retraces the Origins of #Coronaviruses in #Bats
As #China and the #UnitedStates trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the #Covid #pandemic got its start, like a previous one, in the wildlife trade.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/science/covid-coronavirus-bats-genetics.html
https://archive.ph/BP1OJ
Feeling hopeless about the ongoing pandemicene. Watching from afar a senior loved one deal with a serious illness that is probably #Covid. Which she probably got at the final church service for a church that is closing because their members are old and in failing health and dying off. But nobody masks. But today she went grocery shopping. She can barely function or stop coughing, but she went grocery shopping. She did at least wear a surgical mask, but... And she went because she doesn't know how to order groceries online and all of her friends are older and frailer than she is. And she isn't the type to ask for help. Ever. So all of the cultural baggage of a lifetime has trained her to believe that 1) Pushing through is noble.
2) It's shameful to ask for help. We should work hard and take care of ourselves.
3) Good Christian People serve others, but don't accept help. And Good Christian People go to church. To a building. In person. And hug each other. And sing together. And kill each other.
From Brazil:
Acute and chronic post-COVID-19 conditions: A study of genetic integrity and clinical markers
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1383571825000294
Screenshot is from the latest Science for ME weekly update
@longcovid
#LongCovid #PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19 #LC #Covidlonghaulers #PostCovidSyndrome #longhaulers #COVIDBrain #NeuroPASC
@covid19 #Coronavirus
#COVID19 #COVID #COVID_19 #COVIDー19 #SARSCoV2 #CovidIsNotOver
@auscovid19 #auscovid19
The FDA's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee ("VRBAC") has a meeting scheduled for May 22nd to discuss the strains targeted for the 2025-2025 #covid #covid19 vaccines: https://www.fda.gov/advisory-committees/advisory-committee-calendar/vaccines-and-related-biological-products-advisory-committee-may-22-2025-meeting-announcement. Note that VRBAC is an advisory committee; the FDA leadership has the discretion to accept (or not) VRBAC's recommendations.
