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New Drugs Outperform Paxlovid – A Game Changer for COVID and Future Pandemics
“The Antiviral Drug Discovery (AViDD) Center at UCSF is pioneering the development of potent drug candidates aimed at preventing future coronavirus pandemics.”
The Antiviral Drug Discovery (AViDD) Center at UCSF is pioneering the development of potent drug candidates aimed at preventing future coronavirus pandemics.
New Drugs Outperform Paxlovid – A Game Changer for COVID and Future Pandemics
COVID-19 как дополнительный фактор риска формирования основных неинфекционных заболеваний у взрослого населения: ретроспективное аналитическое описательное исследование | Галикеева | Кубанский научный медицинский вестник
A retrospective analysis of medical data from a 🇷🇺 sample showed that Covid can "be an additional risk factor for the development of major non-communicable diseases in the adult population and causes their increased prevalence."
France’s New Nasal Vaccine Aims to Cut COVID Transmission
Neural networks to model COVID-19 dynamics and allocate healthcare resources
5 years later: What happened to COVID vaccine companies?
Mike Honey (@Mike_Honey_) on X
“Earlier this month the XFL variant was defined, setting a new benchmark in SARS-CoV-2 evolution: a "quadruple-recombinant", meaning it’s evolution includes 3 recombinant ancestors.
It’s a stark example of how we are giving this virus every opportunity to evolve.
COVID19 #XFL
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Stuck in the Middle with Masking: Playing the Long Game in a Short-Sighted Age - WHN
“My identity as a healthy person had always been there—rooted in avoiding illness and protecting long-term well-being. But as the pandemic dragged on, that identity expanded, engulfing a broader view of what true health meant: seeing the bigger picture, understanding cumulative risk, and recognizing that preserving function over time is the real win.”
My identity as a healthy person had always been there—rooted in avoiding illness and protecting long-term well-being. But as the pandemic dragged on, that identity expanded, engulfing a broader view of what true health meant: seeing the bigger picture, understanding cumulative risk, and recognizing that preserving function over time is the real win.
Who should get the COVID booster? The advice might soon change.
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Individually optimal choices can be collectively disastrous in COVID-19 disease control
How ‘revenge of the Covid contrarians’ unleashed by RFK Jr puts broader vaccine advances at risk
U.S. health officials inject new uncertainty into approval process for Covid boosters
Thread by @ejustin46 on Thread Reader App
“How SARS-COV-2 spreads (Re) and why there are differences between countries ?
An explanation for kids based on the astonishing new study of @firefoxx66 @richardneher and colleagues”
Estimating Re and overdispersion in secondary cases from the size of identical sequence clusters of SARS-CoV-2 - PubMed
How Covid spreads
Thread by @MeetJess on Thread Reader App
“It’s hard to grieve what hasn’t died. Friendships. Trust. Normalcy. They’re still there—just not the same. That’s called ambiguous loss. And it’s everywhere now.”
It’s hard to grieve what hasn’t died.
Friendships. Trust. Normalcy.
They’re still there—just not the same.
That’s called ambiguous loss.
And it’s everywhere now.
CDC weighing end to universal COVID vaccine recommendations
Britons warned as negative Covid test is now required to visit 'tropical paradise' in fresh travel update
“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.”
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.
Mask For Pleasure: COVID-impacted Artists Raise Awareness at George Clooney's Broadway Opening
“On the opening weekend of the Broadway debut of George Clooney's Good Night and Good Luck, a small group of COVID-impacted NY artists offered a gesture of collective care in Manhattan's theatre district, asking a question no one else seemed willing to: what if the pandemic isn't over-and what if it's stealing our joy?”
On the opening weekend of the Broadway debut of George Clooney's Good Night and Good Luck, a small group of COVID-impacted NY artists offered a gesture of collective care in Manhattan's theatre district, asking a question no one else seemed willing to: what if the pandemic isn't over-and what if it's stealing our joy?
Transient transmission of droplets and aerosols in a ventilation system with ceiling fans
A new COVID variant is on the rise. Here’s what to know about LP.8.1
NHS warning as Covid cases jump to 'highest level of 2025'
tern (@1goodtern) on X
“It's dancing at the edge of my ability to express it, but I have an intuitive sort of feeling that the current destruction of public health in America isn't a turnaround from the policies under Biden, but a natural next step of the progression.”
Federal cuts to COVID-19 funding hit California public health efforts hard - capradio.org
“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.”
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.
Confronting the shortcomings of covid-19 vaccination will help us in future pandemics
Trump administration says it will pull back billions in COVID funding from local health departments
The never ending plague years, Covid’s lasting effects on the body, You know someone with Long Covid, and more
How Covid is still changing the way we live, work and play - in five graphs
Lessons not learned from Covid five years on from lockdown, campaigners say
“The UK is less prepared for another pandemic than it was pre-Covid because “lessons have not been learnt” five years on, campaigners have warned.”
The Institutions Are Collapsing
“This is what passes for medical care these days. Medical institutions are collapsing. Public health has collapsed. The people are sick because everyone has had covid on multiple occasions by now. And covid has trashed immune systems. Specifically, it supresses for months, sometimes even years, the T-cells that help us fight infections. This is no longer particularly controversial. Immunologists who argued about this at first are beginning to agree that yeah, something has changed.”