#MMR, #COVID19 booster, #pneumococcal and #RSV vaxxed all at once today. Hopefully they'll all still be available in the future, if we have one.
Anyway, get vaccinated if you possibly can. It's not safe out there.
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How about some promising Covid-vaccine-related news? It's all early on, but it's still nice to see — and maybe buried amidst all the other news.
Nasal COVID-19 vaccine based on WashU technology to enter U.S. clinical trials
https://medicine.washu.edu/news/nasal-covid-19-vaccine-based-on-washu-technology-to-enter-u-s-clinical-trials/
Newly Discovered Antibody Protects Against All COVID-19 Variants
https://news.utexas.edu/2024/09/03/newly-discovered-antibody-protects-against-all-covid-19-variants/
(Of course, who knows what will happen with any vaccine work and/or availability given this administration.)
WashU Medicine · Nasal COVID-19 vaccine based on WashU technology to enter U.S. clinical trials | WashU MedicineTrial will assess safety, efficacy of next-generation vaccine given via nasal spray, inhalation
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"The act of forgetting has always been a tool of oppression. We cannot adequately resist that which has been revised, erased, or forgotten by our community members. But few will acknowledge that this is happening with COVID. Just as one may utter that “slavery was back then, get over it”, when we use verbiage like “post-pandemic” we are rendering oppression as a static past event rather than an ever-evolving present that shapes our shared future. This tactic has always been useful to those who wish to profit off of our suffering and the cycle will continue to repeat if we do not acknowledge and act on the truth of our current reality. If we do not reckon with our failures to each other around COVID and do the work to remedy it, are we better than those who try to ban our people’s histories’ from the schools? We aid in the crusade to forget every day when we do not consider the pandemic as both current and deadly."
~V. Copeland
https://forgeorganizing.org/article/reflecting-on-covid-year-5/
The ForgeReflecting on COVID, Year 5 - The ForgeVee Copeland, a disabled organizer and former policy analyst details their experience facing the lack of care in movement strategy around surviving the current administration It has been a treacherous five years since the COVID pandemic began. According to the World Health Organization, more than seven million people across the globe have died from COVID-19, […]
Keep those #COVID19 vaccinations up to date!
STUDY: "The adjusted RR (95% CI) for developing persistent PCC compared with unvaccinated individuals was 0.81 (0.59-1.10) for 1 dose, 0.42 (0.35-0.52) for 2 doses, and 0.37 (0.27-0.52) for three doses."
Each dose lowers your risk of #LongCOVID.
https://academic.oup.com/jid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/infdis/jiaf133/8071565?login=false
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“If we were to see immune damage manifesting at a population level, it would look like what we’re seeing today: big waves of common illnesses. Unusual spikes of uncommon illnesses. Course reversal for previously declining and eliminated illnesses. An unexplained, global wave of sickness.”
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/kids-keep-getting-sicker-as-evidence?utm_campaign=post
The Gauntlet · Kids keep getting sicker as evidence for COVID immune damage builds
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#AskFedi bc I need a refresher:
Were there, or were there not, studies during the *designated pandemic years (2020-21)* (/s) re: #Covid19 + #ClimateChange impact on gut health, with one major symptom being something like the stomach flu?
If anyone has the links and receipts, PLEASE REPLY!
Even a local newspaper here in West Bengal, India, carried a headline recently re: the outbreak of a kind of stomach flu, with symptoms such as lack of appetite, exhaustion, indigestion, and diarrhoea. My BFFs are down with it, and I am, too. And yesterday the news announced an oncoming heat wave this weekend 
Masking is sporadic here, almost rare. I still mask up, but ~ it does get difficult to breathe in a mask at 12:30 PM at 36°C ~ especially when chronic pain makes it hard for me to breathe even at home. Outside, there's also significant shaming and peer pressure to NOT mask up.
And as always, it's way worse for people with #Disabilities and #ChronicIllness (for instance: me), but people in this ableist, fascist hellhole of a country never want to talk about it.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/covid-19-doctor-opens-up-toll-stress-1.7480601 “Wong said the scars from the #COVID19 #pandemic are long-lasting for many health-care workers. He said many left their professions in Saskatchewan because of the "moral trauma, moral injury" they faced.”
CBCDr. Alex Wong became a public face during COVID-19. The stress broke him down to the point he couldn't walk | CBC NewsDr. Alex Wong became well-known during the COVID-19 pandemic, doing multiple interviews locally and nationally, but his work led to his body breaking down.
Cause of post-#COVID inflammatory shock in children identified: Reactivation of the Epstein-Barr virus appears to cause the rare condition #MISC. The findings, uncovered by a team from #CharitéBerlin & the DRFZ, have now been published in #Nature.
These insights open the door to new treatment methods, potentially not limited to MIS-C.
#CharitéPaper #Science #Research #Medicine #EBV #PIMS #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #corona
@nature.portfolio
5 years ago was the start of Pandemic restrictions/staying home.
five years
Still feels like yesterday
What a weird time
#covid19
"They cant do that!"
My sibling in Ishtar.
They gaslit 6 billion people that #Covid19 was over, just a cold, no biggie.
And then targeted the one country containing Covid w/a massive propaganda campaign.
They absolutely can:
️Disappear US citizens️Try to invade Canada️Try to occupy & claim Greenland
Its the same bastards through & through.
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@nwchapman wow, this is really astounding.
If you're reading this, and you haven't yet, click through to the NY Times article and look at those charts.
A Phase 2 trial, run by McMaster University, of an inhaled COVID-19 vaccine is starting; they are looking for participants in Hamilton, Ottawa, and Halifax. The eligibility details are in the press release:
https://healthsci.mcmaster.ca/made-at-mcmaster-inhaled-covid-19-vaccine-begins-phase-2-human-trial/
A STUDY of outpatients diagnosed with mild COVID-19 in 2022 and 2023 found that age ≥40 years was associated with a 3.8x increased risk of respiratory and 4.35x higher risk of neurologic symptoms.
Mild #COVID19 is not mild.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S221253452500019X
Americans are spending nearly 1.5 hours less outside their homes in 2023 than in 2003. New research shows the pandemic accelerated a long-term trend of staying in. Does this sound familiar? https://buff.ly/zzztMZJ
#wfh #sociallife #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver
(Edit: Now with the right graph)
The pandemic’s impact on #education runs deeper than an embrace of remote learning. New research shows growing mistrust of #teachers, reversing the praise they received during lockdowns. https://theconversation.com/5-ways-schools-have-shifted-in-5-years-since-the-covid-19-246449
#COVID19 #highered #edsky
The Conversation5 ways schools have shifted in 5 years since COVID-19Public school access to high-quality teachers is shrinking, while teen reports of feeling unsafe at school are on the rise.
outbreak of unknown disease not publicly declared at my wife's LTC 3 weeks ago, she got almost immediately ill as no one masks (she does, but none are perfect) - intense fatigue, eventually into ER onto 02, steroids, anti-biotics, back home and will be off work for weeks more
I got it, 2 weeks can barely function, now a neighbour same, into ER, same thing, unknown - all neg PCR on Covid, RSV, Flu
It seems the medical community don't WANT to know
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@c_9 That IS really exciting!
prophylactic: "1500-fold reduction in viral load compared with the untreated control" and therapeutic: "mean viral load was ~110-fold lower"
(in live mice)
"RBD-specific nAbs have been shown to be the most potent and have exclusively been deployed as approved therapeutics. However, with the emergence of the highly divergent Omicron variants [...] the efficacy of most RBD-specific nAb clinical treatments diminished, leading to their withdrawal from the market"
"several research groups, including ours, have developed multivalent constructs such as bispecific antibodies (bsAbs). These bsAbs feature two different antigen-binding fragments (Fabs) targeting nonoverlapping spike protein epitopes"
Two of the developed bsAbs "retained potent in vitro neutralization activity against all Omicron variants tested"
They observed "infrequent escape mutations in the NTD in response to [bsAbs]"
"the epitope targeted by C1596-like mAbs is under minimal selective pressure and that bsAbs using C1596 as an anchoring modality, such as CoV2-biRN5, may be resilient to circulating strains."
"the versatility of this platform extends beyond SARS-CoV-2, with potential applications against other viral proteins, including those in influenza or HIV. By leveraging broadly binding antibodies to tether other antibodies or inhibitors, these bispecific modalities offer a promising next-generation prophylactic or therapeutic option"
@ducky this seems like it'd be of interest to you too
If 100,000 #COVID19 deaths were “an incalculable loss” in May 2020, what should we call the 168,344 COVID deaths since Joe Biden declared the pandemic ended on September 18, 2022?
What's the difference, besides that people got tired of avoiding crowds, wearing masks, and worrying about each other's health?
Do the deaths in 2020 count more than the deaths in 2022 to 2025? Yes, COVID killed more in 2020, but COVID continues, threatening tens of millions with chronic #LongCOVID symptoms.
It really is incredibly sad, but also totally predictable, how we've allowed our state apparatus to pigeon-hole the continuing existence of #Covid19, and the past decisions that guaranteed the failures, deaths, short-term effects, and the long-term harms we don't yet know - all for continuing the myth the status quo is all that can exist.
Sky · COVID anniversary: Day of reflection across UK to mark five years since start of pandemic