@elduvelle@neuromatch.socialI see a lot of posts about people getting #Covid these days, so I wonder if there is currently a wave?
Have you recently (in the past few weeks) had Covid?
See below for same question but for people you know ⬇️
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@funkvolk@mastodon.social
@markrsmith@smithtodon.org
@paulbusch@mstdn.caAt my ophthalmologist appointment and wearing a mask. So is everyone else here because my doctor insists on it.
#COVID
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzInteresting! though sounds like this hasn't been tested in actual people yet.
In future, these nanoparticles could for example be an ingredient in a nasal spray.
"The glycosystem is a specially designed particle that mimics natural sugars found on human cells. These sugars, known as polysialosides, are made of repeating units of sialic acid - structures that viruses often target to begin infection. By copying this structure, the synthetic molecule acts as a decoy, binding to the virus's spike protein and preventing it from attaching to real cells. ...
"Tests on human lung cells showed a 98.6% reduction in infection when the molecule was present. ...
"This breakthrough could pave the way for antiviral nasal sprays, surface disinfectants, and treatments to protect vulnerable groups, offering a new line of defense against Covid-19 and future pandemics."
Dr Sumati Bhatia of Swansea University is "main corresponding author and research supervisor". Looked her up and she's been working on using "glycomaterials" to lock onto other pathogens too, like flu, herpes and pseudomonas.
#Swansea #covid #nanoparticles #glycomaterials #research
@grumpybozo@toad.socialTrue.
OTOH: The same is true for TB, flu, measles, and a slate of other potentially severe diseases floating around.
#Covid is not a qualitatively new threat, it's the latest in a long line of pathogens that we have become accustomed to just living with. For a long time measles left the list, but it is now back and it is at least as harmful as Covid.
I don’t have a magic bullet.…
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange
@davej@dice.campJesus fuck. When did they start marketing #COVID strains like they were brands of aftershave? https://aus.social/@DenisCOVIDinfoguy/114792324130867133
@emd@cosocial.caBefore I go on the hunt, is it possible to get the latest #covid vaccine in BC?
Or is it that dumb invite system they’ve had for years?
@samueljohn@mastodon.world"People with no history of dementia still showed elevated amyloid beta buildup if they had a #COVID history, often yielding Alzheimer's-like retinal tissue."
https://www.scienc…
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukI just found this UK report on #covid epidemiology from 2020 to Dec 2024; the graph I most noticed is below - they looked at blood donors for spike (S) and Nucleo (N) protein antibodies over time; The spike proteins are in both infection and vaccine, while N is infection only - so you can see when people got vaccinated and how now pretty much everyone (95.5% as end of January) has been infected as…
@funkvolk@mastodon.social
@w6kme@mastodon.radioGot my #CovidVaccine and #FluShot today.
I'm not doing that covid shit again.
@servelan@newsie.social#MaskUp
#COVID-19 infections rising in 25 states. What to know
https://www.newsnationnow.com/health/covid-infections-cases-grow-25-states/
@padraig@mastodon.ie
@lilmikesf@c.im
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialGerade noch einen frischen #COVID Test geholt. Der wird schon positiv wenn ich ihn nur schief angucke. Also bin ich offenbar immer noch ansteckend. Renne also weiterhin mit Maske rum. (Auch drinnen um die Kids nicht anzustecken)
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzUseful thread from @… with latest UK covid positivity results (from last week). Going up a bit - more noticeably in certain areas.
For context, "positivity rate" isn't "how many people have covid overall": it's "when we bothered actually doing tests, how many of the tests came back positive".
So for example if you test 30 people, and 3 of the tests came back positive, that's a "10% positivity rate".
Sometimes there are blank places on the map where, if there _was_ any testing that week, they didn't bother sending it in.
#covid #UK #stats
@grumpybozo@toad.social @funkvolk@mastodon.socialWir können was dagegen tun. Wir können Maske tragen unter vielen Menschen, wir können zu Hause bleiben, wenn wir ansteckend sind, wir können Luftfilter zum Standard für Innenräume machen.
Und wir können endlich den Glauben hinter uns lassen, dass es irgendwie stark macht, wenn man möglichst oft krank wird.
Ich sag's ja nur. #Covid
@matematico314@social.linux.pizza
@nitpicking@mstdn.party @unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzNew: a helpful, thoughtful "How-to guide for Covid-safer events", from the Breathe Easy group in Sheffield!
#CovidIsntOver #CovidIsAirborne #CovidCareful #covid #events #AirQuality #masks #Sheffield #England
@markrsmith@smithtodon.org
@AmazingMeagen@historians.socialSitting at an historic London pub. I'm drinking a pint watching @… book our next COVID vaccinations.
#CovidIsNotOver
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialFinally some good negative results #COVID19
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz"The nursery said it had implemented strict protocols, such as dividing up walking and nonwalking babies to reduce the spread of infection"
(Dividing up like how? Are they still sharing air?)
“They’re using all those good hygiene practices, staff have got PPE, they’ve got aprons, gloves,"
(Aprons and gloves won't help you against an airborne virus...)
"some settings still keep masks,”
(Are they fitted ones or baggy ones? Who wears them? When and where are they taken off?)
“Thanks to Covid, we got very savvy at knowing what we needed to do in the case of a very serious illness occurring like this."
(Really seems like no you didn't...)
#measles #MeaslesIsAirborne #CovidIsAirborne
@Life_is@no-pony.farm#covid #gutachten wird veröffentlicht, aber wegen dem #datenschutz wird der #name
@life_is@no-pony.farm#covid #gutachten wird veröffentlicht, aber wegen dem #datenschutz wird der #name
@funkvolk@mastodon.socialGuten Abend, ich möchte gerne über Prävention reden.
#Corona #Covid #LongCovid
@markrsmith@smithtodon.org @unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzInteresting Bluesky thread on a bit of Canadian research: covid spreads from hospitals to the community, not the other way round.
#covid #research #Canada #CovidIsntOver #NosocomialInfection
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzJulia Doubleday on the gamble that covid would be harmless to children
"It’s worth noting that at the time Kulldorff and the rest of the GBD crew were proclaiming COVID’s harmlessness to kids, they couldn’t possibly have had enough information to determine the veracity of their own claims. Viruses like the chickenpox, EBV, HIV, HPV, and HSV often present with mild initial infections but may cause major damage years later. We now know COVID can as well.
"For so-called experts to run with an assumption that an initially mild-presenting acute infection would be long-term harmless was just that; an assumption. They were willing to gamble the health of a generation of children on a guess in order to go “back to normal” because that’s what the oligarchy clamored for. Because it costs money to shut the world economy down. Because people who mattered were angry. Because children aren’t people who matter."
(GBD = Great Barrington Declaration, a bit of 2020 propaganda including the unfounded supposition that everyone who caught covid would be immune forever after)
Overall another excellent pointy article!
#children #covid #LongCovid #CovidIsntOver #GreatBarringtonDeclaration #misinformation
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz"It is November of 2020. I wake up, eat some pancakes, slam a coffee down, and toss on a wrinkled hoodie and a fleece hat."
#covid #vaccines #hospitals #healthcare
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzInteresting thread from @…, comparing different covid variants with what the death stats were doing at the time.
#covid #death #stats #CovidVariants
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzUseful piece at The BMJ, about covid messing with T cells etc.
Depressing that there's still so much denial in this area. Anthony Leonardi was trying to raise awareness of T cell damage back in 2021. (Difficult to make head or tail of his relentlessly non-layperson explanations, but he was at least talking about it.)
#covid #immunity #research #ImmunityDebt #CovidIsntOver
