SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants progressively adapt to human cells with altered host cell entry | mSphere
Study: How SARS-CoV-2 is adapting to better infect people. This study found that the newer Omicron subvariants can replicate better in human cells compared to earlier Omicron strains.
"SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants progressively adapt to human cells with altered host cell entry"
There have been multiple times on TV and in my podcasts the last six months where I quite literally run out of breath from talking. Doctors said there's really nothing that can be done, so it is what it is.
So we are approaching the field hospital & freezer trucks stage. Good thing covid is over. Couldn't have gotten here without complete failure of societal leadership. Shoutout to everyone just following orders & the people giving zero fucks about walking around sick & maskless.
Invivyd Announces PEMGARDA™ (pemivibart) Demonstrated 84% Relative Risk Reduction in Symptomatic COVID-19 Compared to Placebo in an Exploratory Analysis from Ongoing CANOPY Phase 3 Clinical Trial | Invivyd
PEMGARDA™ (pemivibart) Demonstrated 84% Relative Risk Reduction in Symptomatic COVID-19 Compared to Placebo in Exploratory Analysis Ongoing Phase 3 Clinical Trial May be useful for PRE-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS (Prep) in immunocompromised & immunocompetent
OECD working paper. #LongCovid prevalence is likely high across most OECD countries. 10-30% of infections, with a minimum of 39 million people who had or are currently living with #LongCovid.
“Getting Covid was worth it!” I was disabled by my 2020 Covid infection, mostly bed-bound for two years, then I was reinfected in 2022. My driver’s license expired “during the pandemic,” & NYS made me take a class & a road test. I failed the road test due to my Covid-affected…
BREAKING: U.S. Faces Unprecedented COVID-19 Surge with 1.2 Million New Cases Daily
Covid has never been over. As of August 26, 2024, the U.S. is grappling with an alarming surge in COVID-19 infections, with a record-breaking 1.2 million new cases reported each day.
1 in 41 people is currently infected.
This surge marks a dramatic escalation compared to previous years. The current wave is more intense than those experienced in Year 1, Year 2, and Year 4 of the pandemic.
Texas Roadhouse Founder Kent Taylor Dies After Struggle With 'Post-COVID' Symptoms
Texas Roadhouse restaurant founder & CEO Kent Taylor died by #suicide last wk at 65 after what his family described as a "battle with post-#COVID19 related symptoms, including severe tinnitus." #LongCovid
New vaccines arrive this week as COVID wave wallops California. - Los…
August, 2024
LA Times:
"Each new infection also carries the risk of long COVID — in which symptoms, sometimes severe enough to be debilitating, can emerge, persist, resolve and reemerge over a period of weeks, months or years."
New intranasal COVID-19 vaccine promises broad protection and accessibility
We will never get this vaccine.
"The [live-attenuated intranasal] vaccine offers potent protection against transmission, prevents reinfection and the spread of the virus, while also reducing the generation of new variants."
Perspective: I Thought I Was Protected but I Still Got Long Covid
“I was aware of Long COVID since I had persistent loss of taste and smell going back to my first infection, but I never really considered it to be Long COVID, as it did not have a major effect on my life. The third infection is really what tipped me into Long COVID. Since then, I've had intermittent chest pain, heart palpitations, various neurological issues (face numbness, buzzing in the feet), joint pain, anxiety, issues with my vision, fatigue, complete alcohol and caffeine intolerance. I alternate between good weeks and bad weeks,”
Biden administration’s $3.2 billion antiviral pandemic plan is fizzling out
From reporter Jason Mast: “3 yrs ago, the Biden Administration announced a $3.2B plan to build antivirals for Covid and whatever pandemic nature might throw at us next
Most of the plan was never enacted. And what was built — 9 antiviral centers — may soon be dismantled”
Meta CEO Says He Was ‘Pressured’ by Biden to Pull Covid Content
“Mark Zuckerberg alleged that Facebook was “pressured” by the US government to censor content related to Covid-19 during the global pandemic and that he regrets the company’s decision to accede to the demands.
‘In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire’,”
Possible impact of national responses to the COVID pandemic on medal tallies at the Paris 2024 Olympics
Sports Medicine physician John Orchard: “We’ve done an analysis to show that countries that reduced Covid more effectively won more Gold medals than expected at the Paris Olympics and vice versa”
COVID virus evolves more rapidly in the central nervous system than in the lungs, study finds | UIC today
COVID virus evolves more rapidly in the CNS
New viral variants created in the brain & other parts of the nervous system could also travel back to the lungs, where they could become transmissible. That could spread new, dangerous variants of the virus.
Stanford University will host a conference on pandemic planning featuring the usual (COVID-19) suspects
This week, Stanford University announced a conference on pandemic policy that features several of the usual suspects who spread misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Truly, Stanford has become the “respectable” academic face of efforts to undermine public health.
This week, Stanford University announced a conference on pandemic policy that features several of the usual suspects who spread misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Truly, Stanford has become the “respectable” academic face of efforts to undermine public health.
About 14% of working-age people with Long COVID symptoms hadn’t returned to their jobs within three months of their initial infection, researchers found.