This week, bird flu made headlines when viral fragments were detected in the commercial milk supply. Read the latest on what this means, what we know, and what steps we’re taking.
Vaccine breakthrough means no more chasing strains
Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the immunocompromised.
COVID infections are causing drops in IQ and years of brain aging, studies suggest | CBC Radio
Researchers are trying to understand the profound effects of COVID-19 on the brain, looking at how it disrupts the blood-brain barrier, how it affects brain volume, and showing that even a mild case of COVID can lead to the equivalent of seven years of brain aging.
Adaptive immune responses are larger and functionally preserved in a hypervaccinated individual
Prime-boost vaccinations can enhance immune responses,1 whereas chronic antigen exposure
can cause immune tolerance.2 In humans, the benefits, limitations, and risks of repetitive
vaccination remain poorly understood.
Scientists Have Proven That Severe COVID-19 Is a Thrombotic Disease
Scientists from the University of São Paulo have discovered that severe COVID-19 is primarily caused by damage to the small blood vessels in the lungs, a result of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Blood clot formation (thrombosis) in the small blood vessels of the lungs is an early result of severe COVID-19,
Dr. Deborah Birx: “To be cavalier about getting repetitive COVID infections is really a huge mistake”
In the latest installment of Chris Cuomo's long COVID series, he interviewed Dr. Deborah Birx, former White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator in the Trump administration, and currently Senior Fellow, George W. Bush Institute and…
Tiredness experienced by Long-COVID patients has a physical cause
Researchers from Amsterdam UMC and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) have discovered that the persistent fatigue in patients with long-COVID has a biological cause, namely mitochondria in muscle cells that produce less energy than in healthy patients. The results of the study were published today in Nature Communications.
DNA in Covid-19 vaccines: 7 pieces of context missed from Florida Surgeon General’s unnecessary warning
Happy 2024! The first public health rumor of the year came in hot: the Florida Surgeon General sent an email airing his concerns about mRNA Covid-19 vaccines: billions of DNA fragments per dose of Covid-19 mRNA vaccines. This isn’t the first time he questioned the safety of mRNA Covid-19 vaccines, but it is a new angle. As always, each claim should be evaluated individually based on merit.
'Endemic' SARS-CoV-2 and the death of public health
Information control has replaced infection control, and that does not bode well for the near- and medium-term future of the human species on planet Earth.
Researchers Show SARS-Cov-2 Infection Affects Energy Stores in the Body, Causing Organ Failure | Newsroom
An international research team, including Jonathan C. Schisler, PhD, in the UNC School of Medicine, has found how SARS-CoV-2 causes widespread “energy outages” throughout major organs, and how these effects contribute to debilitating long COVID symptoms.
Since the last BA.2.86 update, lab and epidemiological data have trickled in. Many of us took a big sigh of relief after seeing specific results over the weekend. Here is your update. Lab data Three labs have already tested BA.2.86 in a petri dish. (The speed of scientific discovery for SARS-CoV-2 still amazes me). They found three main things:
We have a new COVID-19 variant—BA.2.86—turning heads even among the calm, cool, and collected scientists. This is what we know, what we don’t know, and what’s likely next. What is happening? SARS-CoV-2 continues to mutate. This is expected, as this is what viruses do to survive. There was ~20% possibility of another “Omicron-like event” in 2023. Since Omicron arrived on the scene in November 2021, we’ve only seen incremental changes, which have created a ladder-like pattern (see panel A below). This is a good thing—we
Former Salon editor admits "shameful role" in publishing RFK Jr.'s "mendacious, error-ridden" article on vaccines | Boing Boing
In 2005, web magazine Salon, with Rolling Stone as its partner, published Robert F. Kennedy’s article “Deadly Immunity,” about how thimerosal in childhood vaccines supposedly led …