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2022 retro-link! https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/2022/01/15/why-covid-19-will-never-become-endemic/164216520013155 - Covid-19 will never become endemic.

Oh dear sounds like protection is in order: Virus that causes COVID-19 can remain in sperm for 110 days after infection
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-06-virus-covid-sperm-days-infection.html

Virus that causes COVID-19 can remain in sperm for 110 days after infection
Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have shown for the first time that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can remain in the sperm of patients for up to 90 days after hospital discharge and up to 110 days after the initial infection, reducing semen quality. The study is reported in an article published in the journal Andrology. The authors suggest that people who plan to have children should observe a period of "quarantine" after recovering from COVID-19.

Nationales Obduktionsregister für interdisziplinäre Forschung  ​
Obduktionsdaten helfen beim Verständnis von Krankheiten. Das Deutsche Register für COVID-19-Obduktionen ist Grundlage für das nationale Obduktionsregister.

Marjorie Taylor Greene screams that Fauci should be jailed for his ‘repulsive evil science’ in wild Covid hearing | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/marjorie-taylor-…

Marjorie Taylor Greene screams that Fauci should be jailed for his ‘repulsive evil science’ in wild Covid hearing
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene verbally berated Anthony Fauci, saying he deserved to be prosecuted and repeatedly refusing to acknowledge him as a doctor.

EcoHealth Alliance president to testify in House hearing on origins of COVID-19 (Gabrielle M. Etzel/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/2953884/ecohealth-alliance-president-testify-hearing-origins-covid-19/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240404/p84#a240404p84

How COVID-19 has Impacted the Anti-Vaccine Discourse: A Large-Scale Twitter Study Spanning Pre-COVID and Post-COVID Era
Soham Poddar, Rajdeep Mukherjee, Subhendu Khatuya, Niloy Ganguly, Saptarshi Ghosh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01669

How COVID-19 has Impacted the Anti-Vaccine Discourse: A Large-Scale Twitter Study Spanning Pre-COVID and Post-COVID Era
The debate around vaccines has been going on for decades, but the COVID-19 pandemic showed how crucial it is to understand and mitigate anti-vaccine sentiments. While the pandemic may be over, it is still important to understand how the pandemic affected the anti-vaccine discourse, and whether the arguments against non-COVID vaccines (e.g., Flu, MMR, IPV, HPV vaccines) have also changed due to the pandemic. This study attempts to answer these questions through a large-scale study of anti-vaccin…

Loss Mitigation Strategies: Lessons and Opportunities from the COVID-19 Pandemic
#RealEstate #Housing #UrbanInstitute

Reading this NPR interview about the #COVID19 #FLiRT variants is like slamming my head against a wall https://www.

Mews, which offers cloud-based hotel management tools, raised $110M led by Kinnevik at a $1.2B post-money valuation; the company says it's not yet profitable (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/04/mews-the-hot…

Mews, the hotel SaaS startup, books $110M at a $1.2B valuation | TechCrunch
Tourism continues to bounce back in the wake of Covid-19, with 2023 raking in $2.23 trillion globally, surpassing pre-pandemic levels for the first time

COVID-19 Detection Based on Blood Test Parameters using Various Artificial Intelligence Methods
Kavian Khanjani, Seyed Rasoul Hosseini, Shahrzad Shashaani, Mohammad Teshnehlab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02348

COVID-19 Detection Based on Blood Test Parameters using Various Artificial Intelligence Methods
In 2019, the world faced a new challenge: a COVID-19 disease caused by the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. The virus rapidly spread across the globe, leading to a high rate of mortality, which prompted health organizations to take measures to control its transmission. Early disease detection is crucial in the treatment process, and computer-based automatic detection systems have been developed to aid in this effort. These systems often rely on artificial intelligence (AI) approaches such as mach…

😿 Bogus COVID-19 beliefs linked to stress, but purpose, hope and support could be antidote, say researchers
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-bogus-covid-beliefs-linked-stress.html

Bogus COVID-19 beliefs linked to stress, but purpose, hope and support could be antidote, say researchers
As Americans look back on the fourth anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, new research from Rutgers University–Newark sheds light on why some people succumb to conspiracy theories and bogus beliefs and others don't.

Happy #Covid #lockdown anniversary month, to everyone who still remembers just how badly their governments messed it up. (Which, in South Africa, everything suggests, is just about nobody.)
Phillip de Wet | SA won't vote the ANC out because of Covid, and that's a tragedy
https://www.news24.com/news24/opinions/columnists/phillipdewet/phillip-de-wet-sa-wont-vote-the-anc-out-because-of-covid-and-thats-a-tragedy-20240327

Dead right. https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2024/01/24/negligence-by-experts-in-the-early-response-to-covid-19/

Stay negative :blobcatthumbsup: #GPN22

“We found #COVID-19 accelerates the presence of ‘zombie’ or senescent cells, which accumulate naturally and gradually in the brain as we get older,” says University of Queensland researcher Dr Aguado.
https://w…

Turning back the clock on brains aged by COVID-19
University of Queensland researchers have found a way to reverse a cellular process triggered by COVID-19 that contributes to premature ageing of the brain.

Spatiotemporal evolution of PM2.5 diffusion in Cheng-Yu urban agglomeration in response to COVID-19 lockdown using complex network
Jiaxian Huang, Yi Huang, Yong Zhang, Jiao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.01502

Spatiotemporal evolution of PM2.5 diffusion in Cheng-Yu urban agglomeration in response to COVID-19 lockdown using complex network
As the decrease in human activities resulting from the COVID-19 control measures had a significant impact on air quality, the epidemic provided an opportunity to investigate the extent to which air pollution is influenced by human activities and review existing measures. However, the corresponding diffusion pattern on a city scale is seldom mentioned at present stage, therefore, we chose the Cheng-Yu urban agglomeration, which is the largest city cluster in Southwest China, as our study area du…

Optimal Control of General Impulsive VS-EIAR Epidemic Models with Application to Covid-19
Mamadou Abdoul Diop, Mohammed Elghandouri, Khalil Ezzinbi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.00864

Optimal Control of General Impulsive VS-EIAR Epidemic Models with Application to Covid-19
In this work, we are interested in a VS-EIAR epidemiological model considering vaccinated individuals ${V_i: i=1,\ldots,n}$, where $n\in \mathbb{N}^{*}$. The dynamic of the VS-EIAR model involves several ordinary differential equations that describe the changes in the vaccinated, susceptible, infected, exposed, asymptomatic, and deceased population groups. Our aim is to reduce the number of susceptible, exposed, infected, and asymptomatic individuals by administering vaccination doses to suscep…

Mews, which offers cloud-based hotel management tools, raised $110M led by Kinnevik at a $1.2B post-money valuation; the company says it's not yet profitable (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/04/mews-the-hot…

Mews, the hotel SaaS startup, books $110M at a $1.2B valuation | TechCrunch
Tourism continues to bounce back in the wake of Covid-19, with 2023 raking in $2.23 trillion globally, surpassing pre-pandemic levels for the first time

😿 Bogus COVID-19 beliefs linked to stress, but purpose, hope and support could be antidote, say researchers
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-bogus-covid-beliefs-linked-stress.html

Bogus COVID-19 beliefs linked to stress, but purpose, hope and support could be antidote, say researchers
As Americans look back on the fourth anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, new research from Rutgers University–Newark sheds light on why some people succumb to conspiracy theories and bogus beliefs and others don't.

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Optimal Hospital Capacity Management During Demand Surges
Effective hospital capacity management is pivotal for enhancing patient care quality, operational efficiency, and healthcare system resilience, notably during demand spikes like those seen in the COVID-19 pandemic. However, devising optimal capacity strategies is complicated by fluctuating demand, conflicting objectives, and multifaceted practical constraints. This study presents a data-driven framework to optimize capacity management decisions within hospital systems during surge events. Two k…

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Perceived Social Influence on Vaccination Decisions: A COVID-19 Case Study
In this study, we examine the perceived influence of others, across both strong and weak social ties, on COVID-19 vaccination decisions in the United States. We add context to social influence by measuring related concepts, such as perceived agreement of others and perceived danger of COVID-19 to others. We find that vaccinated populations perceived more influence from their social circles than unvaccinated populations. This finding holds true across various social groups, including family, clo…

The YouTube genre of “I’ve been sick for weeks after attending this meetup/conference but I’m sure it wasn’t COVID because clearly that’s over” is popular with creators these days

Dead right. https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2024/01/24/negligence-by-experts-in-the-early-response-to-covid-19/

Findings, published Jan. 17 in Cell Stem Cell, show that dopamine neurons infected with SARS-CoV-2 stop working and send out chemical signals that cause inflammation.
Normally, these neurons produce dopamine, a neurotransmitter that plays a role in feelings of pleasure, motivation, memory, sleep and movement.
Damage to these neurons is also connected to Parkinson’s disease.
“This project started out to investigate how various types of cells in different organs respond to …

SARS-CoV-2 infection causes dopaminergic neuron senescence
Yang and colleagues demonstrate that SARS-CoV-2 can infect hPSC-derived midbrain dopamine (DA) neurons and induce cellular senescence. Several drug candidates were identified to rescue SARS-CoV-2 infection and DA neuron senescence. Inflammation and cellular senescence were also identified in substantia nigra tissue of COVID-19 patients.

Serum samples from the fall of 2023 indicate a rise in protective antibodies in the youngest...This suggests that the children have regained some of protection lost after the pandemic. It also reflects the high prevalence of infection in the 2022/2023 season.

Had knives in my throat (not Covid, probably… at least tests were/are negative) so went to see my new GP and we ended up chatting about the OneWheel I rode in on (he took up skating later on in life and tried one in France apparently), the shit factory that is Silicon Valley (he used to be a software dev there before he became a doctor), the Small Web (he digs the idea), and, yes even my sore throat (I’m on antibiotics now). Needless to say, I like my new GP :)

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Modeling Health Video Consumption Behaviors on Social Media: Activities, Challenges, and Characteristics
Many people now watch health videos, such as diet, exercise, mental health, COVID-19, and chronic disease videos, on social media. Most existing studies focused on video creators, leaving the motivations and practices of viewers underexplored. We interviewed 18 participants, surveyed 121 respondents, and derived a model characterizing consumers' video consumption practices on social media. The practices include five main activities: deciding to watch videos driven by various motivations, access…

#Covid #Influenza
Ongoing pandemic, update:
The burden of disease by Covid is much higher than the burden by influenza, as evident by UKHSA/NHS SARI Watch data.
Note the scale on the ICU/HDU figures.
Sources:
@jneill on Twitter

National flu and COVID-19 surveillance reports: 2023 to 2024 season
National influenza and COVID-19 report, monitoring COVID-19 activity, seasonal flu and other seasonal respiratory illnesses.

Wir sind Weltmeister im Covid-Bullshit. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/covid-other-misinformation-varies-topic-country-social-media

COVID, other misinformation varies by topic, country on social media
The UK maintained a relatively stable proportion between questionable and reliable retweets, while Germany had the highest rates of misinformation.

KI-Update Deep-Dive: Mit "Swarm Learning" gegen Corona
Die neue KI-Technologie "Swarm Learning" ermöglicht eine dezentrale Analyse von COVID-19-Daten und könnte eine Blaupause für die Forschung der Zukunft sein.
<…

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Word frequency and sentiment analysis of twitter messages during Coronavirus pandemic
The COVID-19 epidemic has had a great impact on social media conversation, especially on sites like Twitter, which has emerged as a hub for public reaction and information sharing. This paper deals by analyzing a vast dataset of Twitter messages related to this disease, starting from January 2020. Two approaches were used: a statistical analysis of word frequencies and a sentiment analysis to gauge user attitudes. Word frequencies are modeled using unigrams, bigrams, and trigrams, with power la…

covid origins, interesting writeups
Mojiang bat cave connection:
#covid

From sewage to safety: Hospital wastewater surveillance as a beacon for defense against H5N1 #BirdFlu
https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/01/h5n1-bir…

From sewage to safety: Hospital wastewater surveillance as a beacon for defense against H5N1 bird flu
Wastewater surveillance, which demonstrated great potential during the Covid-19 pandemic, remains vastly under-leveraged for H5N1 bird flu at this precarious moment.

Fascinating how quickly COVID variants still change. The currently dominant strain basically didn’t even show up on the chart in March.
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-summary

COVID Data Tracker
CDC’s home for COVID-19 data. Visualizations, graphs, and data in one easy-to-use website.

"This political choice- elevating a single unpublished study which examined a total of zero patients and ran a total of zero tests- when tens of thousands of others contradict its findings, is unsurprising. The political choice to do so on a day intended to draw attention to the suffering of tens of millions of people is cruel in the extreme." Media celebrated Long COVID Awareness Day by denying its existence:

MAGA North Conspiracy Theorist Alberta Premier Marlaina says,
'Contrarian' doctor is a good choice to lead COVID-19 data review, Alberta premier says
Dr. Gary Davidson, who accused province of exaggerating COVID-19's impact on hospitals, to lead data review

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/contrarian-doctor-is-a-good-choice-to-lead-covid-19-data-review-alberta-premier-says-1.7182891

Fear over Friends: Examining the Perceived Influence of Others on Vaccination Decisions
Denise Yewell, R. Alexander Bentley, Benjamin D. Horne
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01489

Fear over Friends: Examining the Perceived Influence of Others on Vaccination Decisions
In this study, we examine the perceived influence of others, across both strong and weak social ties, on vaccination decisions in the United States. In particular, we focus on the case study of COVID-19 vaccinations. We add context to social influence by measuring related concepts, such as perceived agreement of others and perceived danger of COVID-19 to others. We find that vaccinated populations perceived more influence from their social circles than unvaccinated populations. This finding hol…

These 2 points taken together spell catastrophe:
"serious long-term outcomes often start to escalate around the 3rd infection"
"3.5 cumulative infections per person on average in the US so far
7.3 cumulative infections per person on average in the US by 2028"
https://

Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA (@michael_hoerger) on X
PMC COVID-19 Forecast, March 11, 2024 🧵1 of 3 🔹3.5 cumulative infections per person on average in the U.S. so far 🔹7.3 cumulative infections per person on average in the U.S. in four years, IF transmission continues according to the status quo of the linear trend 🔹Many…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15738 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_…

Optimal Hospital Capacity Management During Demand Surges
Effective hospital capacity management is pivotal for enhancing patient care quality, operational efficiency, and healthcare system resilience, notably during demand spikes like those seen in the COVID-19 pandemic. However, devising optimal capacity strategies is complicated by fluctuating demand, conflicting objectives, and multifaceted practical constraints. This study presents a data-driven framework to optimize capacity management decisions within hospital systems during surge events. Two k…

In a video statement, Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan says she was released from prison after serving four years for charges related to covering COVID-19 in Wuhan (Huizhong Wu/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/zhang-zhan-…

Zhang Zhan is released from prison after 4 years for 'provoking trouble' while reporting on COVID
Zhang Zhan has been released from prison after serving four years for charges related to reporting on the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. Zhang was charged with “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” and served her full term. But on the day of her release a week ago, her former lawyers could not reach Zhang nor her family. In a short video released Tuesday, Zhang said she was taken by police to her brother Zhang Ju’s home on May 13, the day she finished her sentence. The video was posted by…

I am not going deep into the conversation on #H5N1 because my educationa/lprofessional background gives me enough knowledge in the field that I can only offer uncertain optimism, while the people most freaked out by this HAVE EVERY RIGHT to their concern because “knowledgeable experts” so badly handled #Covid wi…

🚥 Chemists develop method to confirm mRNA vaccine stability
#medicine

Chemists develop method to confirm mRNA vaccine stability
University at Albany researchers at the RNA Institute have developed a new method to test COVID-19 vaccine integrity that could allow anyone with basic skills in vaccine handling to detect expired vaccines quickly and effectively, without specialized lab equipment.

Serum samples from the fall of 2023 indicate a rise in protective antibodies in the youngest...This suggests that the children have regained some of protection lost after the pandemic. It also reflects the high prevalence of infection in the 2022/2023 season.

Bhattacharya and the other Great Barrington Declaration ghouls are a menace to public health. They should be shamed and shunned forevermore. https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/112328639948379688

Weil die #UDV gerade Horrorszenarien um 0 schwer verletzte und 0 getötete Kinder, die in Lastenrädern transportiert wurden, aufbaut, hier: https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemi…

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Non-coresident family as a driver of migration change in a crisis: The case of the COVID-19 pandemic
Changes in U.S. migration during the COVID-19 pandemic show that many moved to less populated cities from larger cities, deviating from previous trends. In this study, building on prior work in the literature showing that the abundance of family ties is inversely related to population size, we analyze these migration changes with a focus on the crucial, yet overlooked factor of extended family. Employing two large-scale data sets, census microdata and mobile phone GPS relocation data, we show a…

😈 Ex-officials of alleged Chinese police base in Tokyo not indicted
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/03/26/japan/chinese-fraud-case-suspects-not-indicted/

Ex-officials of alleged Chinese 'police station' in Tokyo not indicted
One of the women was suspected of falsely claiming that her sex-related business was a chiropractic clinic in order to receive COVID-19 subsidies.

Tolle Studie:
➡️ Intelligente Leute sind häufiger geimpft
➡️ Frauen sind intelligenter¹
Was heisst das für unsere Bevölkerung?
Wieso sind intelligente Menschen so "dumm", sich impfen zu lassen? </Ironie>
Wie schaffen wir wieder einen besseren Umgang mit Fakten?
¹ Ok, die eigentliche Studienaussage ist: «Frauen mit hoher Intelligenz ließen sich besonders oft impfen»; aber ich konnte einfach nicht widerstehen

Studie: Corona-Pandemie hat digitale Kluft zwischen Firmen verstärkt​
Die Covid-19 Pandemie wird oft als Booster für die digitale Transformation dargestellt. Das gilt laut neuer Forschung aber nicht für die gesamte Wirtschaft.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.14876 has been replaced.
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Stochastic COVID-19 Model Influenced by Non-Gaussian Noise
Natural fluctuations have played a crucial role in affecting the dynamics of pervasive diseases such as the coronavirus. Examining the effects of irregular unsettling disturbances on epidemic models is important for understanding these dynamics. In this study, we introduce a mathematical model for the SIR (Susceptible-Infectious-Recovered) dynamics of the coronavirus, incorporating perturbations in the contact rate through Levy noise. The utilization of the Levy process is essential for the pro…

Bereit für Tag 3. Noch etwas müde. #rp24

MAGA North Conspiracy Theorist Alberta Premier Marlaina says,
'Contrarian' doctor is a good choice to lead COVID-19 data review, Alberta premier says
Dr. Gary Davidson, who accused province of exaggerating COVID-19's impact on hospitals, to lead data review

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/contrarian-doctor-is-a-good-choice-to-lead-covid-19-data-review-alberta-premier-says-1.7182891

"COVID infections are causing drops in IQ and years of brain aging, studies suggest
Researchers are trying to explain COVID's profound effects on the brain"
#Corona #Coronavirus #COVID19

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.

NYT covers the expired paper license plate plague.
And puts it in context!
And credits @… for breaking story!
Even worse in Missouri than NYC & DC: “A real breakdown in automotive law and order’
Texas to require metal temporary plates.

Expired Paper License Plates Multiplied During Covid. The Crackdown Is Here.
Officials are moving to increase enforcement and change laws to correct the “breakdown in automotive law and order,” part of a broader trend making U.S. roads less safe.

Vets fret as private equity snaps up clinics, pet care companies
"As pet ownership soared during the COVID-19 pandemic, private equity followed close behind. The pandemic years of 2020-2022 were 'the peak years for private equity acquisitions of veterinary services and practices' [...]

Vets fret as private equity snaps up clinics, pet care companies
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — About a year ago, veterinarian Melissa Ezell started noticing subtle changes at the midsized animal clinic in Huntsville, Alabama, where she works. Hollowed Out This story is one in a series examining private equity’s impact on health care and the ways that states are responding.

"COVID-19 poses a serious risk to brain health, even in mild cases, and the effects are now being revealed at the population level," clinical epidemiologist Ziyad Al-Aly said
https://people.com/covid-linked-lower-iq-poor-m…

COVID Linked to Lower IQ, Poor Memory and Other Negative Impacts on Brain Health
Mounting scientific evidence reveals that being infected with SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that causes COVID — profoundly impacts brain health in many ways.

An absolute must watch: (58 min)
Dr. Michael Greger, an infectious diseases expert on pandemic prevention | infectious diseases, Aids, Influenza, Coronavirus.
This video is a 2008 speech covering the cause of infectious diseases and the likelihood of a pandemic almost identical to the coronavirus (Covid-19).
#covid #CovidIsNotOver
Please boost if you feel it would be of interest to others. #EllieKPosts @…
@… @…

Variability in Aggregate Personal Income Across Industrial Sectors During COVID-19 Shock: A Time-Series Exploration
Didarul Islam, Mohammad Abdullah Al Faisal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.20039

Variability in Aggregate Personal Income Across Industrial Sectors During COVID-19 Shock: A Time-Series Exploration
This study explored the variability in Aggregate Personal Income (PI) across 13 major industrial sectors in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic. Utilizing time-series data from 2010 Q1 to 2019 Q4, we employed Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) models to establish baseline trends in Personal Income (PI) before the pandemic. We then extended these models to forecast PI values for the subsequent 14 quarters, from 2020 Q1 to 2023 Q2, as if the pandemic had never happened. This forecas…

Precision nutrition to reset virus-induced human metabolic reprogramming and dysregulation (HMRD) in long-COVID - npj Science of Food
“SARS‐CoV‐2, the etiological agent of COVID-19, is devoid of any metabolic capacity; therefore, it is critical for the viral pathogen to hijack host cellular metabolic machinery for its replication and propagation. “

COVID-Cautious Americans Feel Abandoned (Jamie Ducharme/TIME)
https://time.com/6960789/covid-19-cautious-americans/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240327/p71#a240327p71

Startling Discovery: COVID-19 Virus Can Stay in the Body More Than a Year After Infection
https://scitechdaily.com/startling-discovery-covid-19-virus-can-stay-in-the-body-more-than-a-year-after-infection/

Startling Discovery: COVID-19 Virus Can Stay in the Body More Than a Year After Infection
The COVID-19 virus can persist in the blood and tissue of patients for more than a year after the acute phase of the illness has ended, according to new research from UC San Francisco that offers potential clues to why some people develop long COVID. The scientists found pieces of SARS-CoV-2, ref

Guardian covid erasure (again)
This morning, the Guardian gives us a whole article about the increasing rate of strokes in the UK - somehow failing to mention the word "covid" at all.
Instead of a link to their denialtastic article, here's some actual research on covid, strokes etc:
"People who survived the first 30 d of COVID-19 exhibited increased risk of stroke (hazard ratio (HR) = 1.52 (1.43, 1.62)"
#stroke #CovidErasure #Guardian

More scientific evidence of the safety of the mRNA COVID vaccines.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), has issued a report that has rejected a causal relationship between COVID mRNA vaccines and several severe adverse events.
The repeated tropes and claims about the safety of the COVID mRNA vaccines have always been based on anecdotes, misuse of data, and unscientific claims,
but real science has always supported the fact that the mRNA COV…

More evidence for the safety of COVID mRNA vaccines
An April 2024 report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) refutes any causal link between mRNA COVID vaccines and most severe adverse events. Acknowledging a connection to mild, recoverable myocarditis, it found no evidence of association with other rare adverse events, underscoring the vaccines' safety.

Transnational Network Dynamics of Problematic Information Diffusion
Esteban Villa-Turek, Rod Abhari, Erik C. Nisbet, Yu Xu, Ayse Deniz Lokmanoglu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01467 …

Transnational Network Dynamics of Problematic Information Diffusion
This study maps the spread of two cases of COVID-19 conspiracy theories and misinformation in Spanish and French in Latin American and French-speaking communities on Facebook, and thus contributes to understanding the dynamics, reach and consequences of emerging transnational misinformation networks. The findings show that co-sharing behavior of public Facebook groups created transnational networks by sharing videos of Medicos por la Verdad (MPV) conspiracy theories in Spanish and hydroxychloro…

Meanwhile in Ireland, you can get your first dose of the Covid vaccine at age 12 and, in just 68 years, you can get your first booster.
Because that’s cool and normal.
https://www.boots.ie/vaccinations/covid-vaccination

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Covid-19 detection from CT scans using EfficientNet and Attention mechanism
Manual diagnosis and analysis of COVID-19 through the examination of lung Computed Tomography (CT) scan images by physicians tends to result in inefficiency, especially with high patient volumes and numerous images per patient. We address the need for automation by developing a deep learning model-based pipeline for COVID-19 detection from CT scan images of the lungs. The Domain adaptation, Explainability, and Fairness in AI for Medical Image Analysis Workshop and COVID-19 Diagnosis Competition…

Low key wonder if “it’s antisemitism to say cluster bombing babies is wrong” has something to do with deteriorating brain function after COVID

"COVID-19 poses a serious risk to brain health, even in mild cases, and the effects are now being revealed at the population level," clinical epidemiologist Ziyad Al-Aly said
https://people.com/covid-linked-lower-iq-poor-m…

COVID Linked to Lower IQ, Poor Memory and Other Negative Impacts on Brain Health
Mounting scientific evidence reveals that being infected with SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that causes COVID — profoundly impacts brain health in many ways.

The US says it is deeply concerned over reports that Zhang Zhan, imprisoned after covering COVID-19 in China, has disappeared after her expected prison release (Hayley Wong/South China Morning Post)
https://www.

US raises ‘deep concerns’ over disappearance of Chinese Covid-19 journalist
Zhang Zhan, arrested in May 2020 after reporting on coronavirus in Wuhan, has not been heard from since her expected prison release date earlier this week, advocates say.

Worth reading: Long #Covid at Work: A Manager’s Guide
https://hbr.org/2024/05/long-covid-at-work-a-managers-guide

Long Covid at Work: A Manager’s Guide
Nearly 18 million U.S. adults have long Covid, a multisystem illness that sometimes appears after a bout of Covid-19. Its wide range of symptoms vary from person to person, veer from mild to severe, and can wax and wane over time. There are no official treatments for long Covid; while some people see their symptoms resolve, others remain chronically ill. For those employees, the right workplace support can be transformative. Employers must not only help these individual employees but also build…

Mehrere Forschungszentren, Universitäten und Universitätskliniken wollen mit Hilfe von KI dezentrale Daten über COVID-19 gemeinsam auswerten.
Wir sprechen heute mit Prof. Dr. Joachim Schultze über das Verfahren "Swarm Learning": https://kiupdate.podigee.io/242-31-05-2024

#Covid
Schätzung für Zürich aufgrund Kalibrierung der Abwasserprävalenzen Werdhölzli, Daten bis 19. Mai:
Inzidenz ~900.
Ca. jede 110. Person infiziert sich pro Woche.
https://swiss.social/@…

More scientific evidence of the safety of the mRNA COVID vaccines.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), has issued a report that has rejected a causal relationship between COVID mRNA vaccines and several severe adverse events.
The repeated tropes and claims about the safety of the COVID mRNA vaccines have always been based on anecdotes, misuse of data, and unscientific claims,
but real science has always supported the fact that the mRNA COV…

More evidence for the safety of COVID mRNA vaccines
An April 2024 report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) refutes any causal link between mRNA COVID vaccines and most severe adverse events. Acknowledging a connection to mild, recoverable myocarditis, it found no evidence of association with other rare adverse events, underscoring the vaccines' safety.

covid origins
Early on, the lab escape idea sounded to me unlikely - the kind of fiction people often get excited about.
But much reading later, if I had to bet on the likeliest:
• In 2012, when 3 people in Mojiang died after working in a bat cave, it was covid or a close relation.
• Samples went to Wuhan.
• Zhou Yusen had them & worked on vaccines.
• Maybe gain-of-function research too - but the Mojiang version was already deadly.
• Biosecurity lapses − people infected late 2019.
#covid

Gestern wurde ich aufgrund meiner Maske gefragt, ob ich Corona hätte oder mich schützen möchte. Laut Schnelltest ist weiterhin zweiteres der Fall. Und die nicht genannte dritte Option, dass ich andere schützen möchte. #whoCares #rp24

Worth reading: Long #Covid at Work: A Manager’s Guide
https://hbr.org/2024/05/long-covid-at-work-a-managers-guide

Long Covid at Work: A Manager’s Guide
Nearly 18 million U.S. adults have long Covid, a multisystem illness that sometimes appears after a bout of Covid-19. Its wide range of symptoms vary from person to person, veer from mild to severe, and can wax and wane over time. There are no official treatments for long Covid; while some people see their symptoms resolve, others remain chronically ill. For those employees, the right workplace support can be transformative. Employers must not only help these individual employees but also build…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11505 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_ees…

Covid-19 detection from CT scans using EfficientNet and Attention mechanism
Manual diagnosis and analysis of COVID-19 through the examination of lung Computed Tomography (CT) scan images by physicians tends to result in inefficiency, especially with high patient volumes and numerous images per patient. We address the need for automation by developing a deep learning model-based pipeline for COVID-19 detection from CT scan images of the lungs. The Domain adaptation, Explainability, and Fairness in AI for Medical Image Analysis Workshop and COVID-19 Diagnosis Competition…

Also worth noting: the human cases so far in the US that have come via cows have been relatively minor, in contrast to past bird->human infections, which have been alarmingly fatal. https://mastodon.social/@COVID19_DISEASE/112521778111150352

Vets fret as private equity snaps up clinics, pet care companies
"As pet ownership soared during the COVID-19 pandemic, private equity followed close behind. The pandemic years of 2020-2022 were 'the peak years for private equity acquisitions of veterinary services and practices' [...]

Vets fret as private equity snaps up clinics, pet care companies
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — About a year ago, veterinarian Melissa Ezell started noticing subtle changes at the midsized animal clinic in Huntsville, Alabama, where she works. Hollowed Out This story is one in a series examining private equity’s impact on health care and the ways that states are responding.

A look at Pixar's missteps since COVID-19: movies were released on Disney and key executives departed, leading to a focus on sequels to get back on track (Thomas Buckley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

Calling all over-80s in Ireland!
(When you enter Ireland a leprechaun greets all under 80s at the border and gives you a lucky charm with immunity to COVID so we only offer the booster to over 80s.)
#covid #ireland

Dr Joe Pajak (@JoePajak@mstdn.science)
Attached: 1 image Once again, COVID-19 cases and hospitalisations have risen this week, so now is the time to get your COVID-19 spring vaccine if you're eligible... so says Dr Mary Ramsay, Director of Public Health Programmes at @UKHSA. 🧑‍🔬🧑‍⚕️Common sense, and science, would suggest we all should?

The pandemic inflicted higher rates of excess deaths on both Republicans and Democrats. But after COVID-19 vaccines arrived, Republican voters in Florida and Ohio died at a higher rate than their counterparts, according to a new study.
Researchers from Yale University who studied the pandemic's effects on those two states say that from the pandemic's start in March 2020 through December 2021, "excess mortality was significantly higher for Republican voters than Democratic v…

Global News Synchrony and Diversity During the Start of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Xi Chen, Scott A. Hale, David Jurgens, Mattia Samory, Ethan Zuckerman, Przemyslaw A. Grabowicz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00280

Global News Synchrony and Diversity During the Start of the COVID-19 Pandemic
News coverage profoundly affects how countries and individuals behave in international relations. Yet, we have little empirical evidence of how news coverage varies across countries. To enable studies of global news coverage, we develop an efficient computational methodology that comprises three components: (i) a transformer model to estimate multilingual news similarity; (ii) a global event identification system that clusters news based on a similarity network of news articles; and (iii) measu…

7 jaar!
"COVID-19 Leaves Its Mark on the Brain. Significant Drops in IQ Scores Are Noted. Research shows that even mild COVID-19 can lead to the equivalent of seven years of brain aging"
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COVID-19 Leaves Its Mark on the Brain. Significant Drops in IQ Scores Are Noted.
Research shows that even mild COVID-19 can lead to the equivalent of seven years of brain aging

Deep Learning Approach to Forecasting COVID-19 Cases in Residential Buildings of Hong Kong Public Housing Estates: The Role of Environment and Sociodemographics
E. Leung (JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong), J. Guan (JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong), KO. Kwok (JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong), CT. Hung (JC School of Public Health and Primary Ca…

Deep Learning Approach to Forecasting COVID-19 Cases in Residential Buildings of Hong Kong Public Housing Estates: The Role of Environment and Sociodemographics
Introduction: The current study investigates the complex association between COVID-19 and the studied districts' socioecology (e.g. internal and external built environment, sociodemographic profiles, etc.) to quantify their contributions to the early outbreaks and epidemic resurgence of COVID-19. Methods: We aligned the analytic model's architecture with the hierarchical structure of the resident's socioecology using a multi-headed hierarchical convolutional neural network to structure the vast…

Study: COVID-19 Vaccine Not Linked to Sudden Cardiac Death Among Young People | Health News | U.S. News
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2024-04-11/study-covid-19-vaccine-not-l…

Trump asked if U.S. was better off in his last year. In many ways, the answer is no. (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/24/trump-2020-better-off-covid/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240324/p19#a240324p19

Uh oh 😧 for neurospicy folks: People with hypermobility may be more prone to long #Covid, study suggests
https://www.theguardian.com/society/20…

good pointy article about long covid minimisation/denial
... in particular, that shoddy unreviewed paper and its press release timed deliberately for Long Covid Awareness Day.
"Articles like these aren’t simply insulting or offensive; they have material impacts. ...
"There is a deliberate, highly successful effort to misinform the public that COVID cannot harm them."
#LongCovid #denial #LongCovidAwarenessDay

The main driver of wealth gains last year was from the stock market hitting record highs.
While wages are increasing for average Americans, the top 1% is gaining wealth at a much faster pace.
The wealth of U.S. #billionaires is currently at $5.5 trillion, 🔸which is up 88% since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.🔸
The nation's rich accruing so much wealth in recent years has renew…

Wealth of the top 1% in U.S. hits all-time high of $45 trillion
Data released by the Federal Reserve on Thursday shows the top 1% of Americans are the richest they've ever been.The new data reveals that at the end of the fourth quarter last year they had a record $44.6 trillion in wealth. That's up from $30 trillion in 2020.The main driver of wealth gains last y...

Uh oh 😧 for neurospicy folks: People with hypermobility may be more prone to long #Covid, study suggests
https://www.theguardian.com/society/20…

Een mooi overzichtsartikel met de feiten op een rijtje als het gaat om de oorsprong van het coronavirus. #labLeak
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/covid-19…

What Might the US Owe the World for Covid-19?
A US-funded laboratory origin of Covid-19 would certainly constitute the most significant case of governmental gross negligence in history. The people of the world deserve transparency and factual answers on vital questions.

Alcohol intolerance may be linked to long COVID, specifically the post-viral fatigue syndrome (PVFS) type.
Long COVID refers to persistent symptoms that occur more than three weeks after the initial COVID-19 infection.
According to several anecdotal reports, alcohol intolerance, which is characterized by reactions like nausea, low blood pressure, fatigue, and dizziness when consuming alcohol, may be a unique symptom of long COVID.

Alcohol Intolerance After COVID: Symptoms, Causes, Treatment
Alcohol intolerance is not a common side effect of long COVID, but people have reported it happening to them.

Research reveals age-dependent immune dysregulation associated with #COVID-19 immunopathology
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.adj5154

Research reveals age-dependent immune dysregulation associated with #COVID-19 immunopathology
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.adj5154

Of course tea fixes everything: Can a Cup of Tea Keep COVID Away? Study Finds 99.9% Virus Reduction
https://scitechdaily.com/can-a-cup-of-tea-keep-covid-away-study-finds-99-9-virus-reduction/

Can a Cup of Tea Keep COVID Away? Study Finds 99.9% Virus Reduction
New research from the University of Georgia suggests that something as simple as a cup of tea can help in the fight against COVID-19. Tea has been renowned globally for its many health benefits, and Malak Esseili, a virologist with the University of Georgia Center for Food Safety in the College o