“Travellers from Reunion Island to Mauritius will face new entry requirements from tomorrow, the Foreign Office has warned travellers.

Starting April 9, 2025, passengers must produce a negative PCR test before departure, adding to existing entry protocols for the Indian Ocean island nation.”

“Federal funding cuts related to COVID-19 on Monday are now sending California public health departments and organizations into a scramble.

The cuts target local programs for COVID-19 prevention. But it doesn’t all go to one cause — the funding also goes to epidemiology work related to other illnesses, like the avian flu.”

Scientists at Rensselaer developed a high-yield method to produce SARS-CoV-2 PLpro, a key enzyme for viral replication and immune evasion.

This breakthrough enables large-scale production for drug discovery and inhibitor screening.

“Do you remember BA.3—the weakling cousin of BA.1 & BA.2 that seemed to take the worst from each & had weaker ACE2 binding than even the ancestral Wuhan Virus?

After 3 years, BA.3 is back.”

“We are in year six of the Covid pandemic, and patients are still struggling to access safe healthcare. Hospitals removed mask mandates, didn’t bother upgrading their air quality or ventilation, and stopped requiring staff to test or isolate for Covid.

As a result, Covid aware patients have to take enormous steps to protect themselves in the one place they should have a reasonable expectation of safety.”

This boosts airflow into the olfactory region, at the roof of the nasal cavity, which controls smell. Doctors said the surgery enabled an increased amount of odorants – chemical compounds that have a smell – to reach the roof of the nose, where sense of smell is located.

They believe that increasing the delivery of odorants to this area “kickstarts” smell recovery in patients who have lost their sense of smell to long Covid.

Scientists in China found a potent antibody, CYFN1006-1, from early COVID-19 survivors.

It neutralizes all major variants and even SARS-CoV.

In hamsters, it cut viral loads, showing promise for future treatments

“Everyone is freaking out about measles because it's "the most contagious virus"... and measles is very dangerous. This concern is warranted, but our vaccines against it are extremely successful.

It has an RO of between 12 and 18.

That's how many people a single infected person can infect (and tbh this is a terrible system because it doesn't include modern rooms packed with people.)

When we were still tracking RO of COVID, it was sitting AROUND 12, and that was in 2022. This was at a point when it was steadily increasing.

So, we can assume it has increased since then.

COVID is just as infectious as Measles, but we vaccinate against Measles extremely well. Measles is also a more visible disease, which makes it easier to identify.

But in the end...

COVID causes much more death.

COVID causes blindness, hearing loss, and developmental delays just like Measles.

And we don't successfully vaccinate for COVID on a wide scale like we can for Measles.

There is no real difference between the folks saying getting Measles is normal and those saying getting COVID is normal.

The main difference though is that we have two millennia of tiny graves from Measles, and we've only just started the grave sites for dead kids from COVID.

Please vaccinate your children, and we need to push for Novavax access for kids... because every child under 12 is not properly vaccinated for COVID...

And this carries many of the same risks as a measles infection...

Kids don't even have access to the better vaccine.

So, for every bit of concern for kids unvaccinated for measles, there should be equal concern for every kid not properly vaccinated for COVID.

The mRNA vaccine simply does not create the safety the measles vaccine does for a virus that can cause almost equal but less visible damage.

Every kid under 12 and most kids in general are just as unvaccinated for COVID as these kids catching measles are, except the concern should be much larger because the outcomes are just as bad or worse, and it's far more children at risk.

Currently, all of our children are at risk.

And people clearly care about that level of risk, but they simply don't know it is present.”