Is anyone else noticing the masks they've been relying on since the start of the #covid #pandemic are being discontinued by manufacturers?
For a long time I've been using 3M KF94 masks. The model I've been buying is vanishing from suppliers. While shopping around for a replacement I found some alternatives made by LG, but they're discontinuing theirs too.
There probably is less demand now than there was, but enough to discontinue the masks altogether?
His first term was plagued by the COVID pandemic.
His second term is plagued by the Measles epidemic.
This guy is literally the third Horseman of the Apocalypse: Pestilence 
@kaffando @treleanor @DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19 #COVID
On a related note, I had a fascinating discussion with Claude.ai.
It expects a wild type hybridization between SARS-CoV-2 and any of: MERS, NeoCov, PDF-2180, HKU4, or HKU5, spawning a new more deadly pandemic within the next several years, starting in humans, or in animals and moving to humans..
It is only surprised that that has not happened already.
We are not ready. We will not be ready.
It will come as a terrible "surprise".
@kaffando @treleanor @DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19 #COVID
Wrong. SARS-CoV-2 is NOT seasonal. Human behaviors are seasonal - like crowding together indoors in winter for holidays. This dramatically increases transmission. And that along with the short period of immunity following infection or vaccination (~110-175 days for infection; 9-12 months for severe disease and death) causes a false appearance of seasonality.
It is here year round, and will remain so, since we refuse to learn.
posted by @thememeticist.bsky.social earlier today on Twitter, featuring #NeuroCovid images by @daniellebeckman.bsky.social
"We have actual photos of COVID eating brains but people will look you dead in the eye and says 'it's just a flu'."
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19082...
#Covid #Brain
"A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the Trump administration's move to cut over $11 billion in public health funding to states after 23 states and the District of Columbia sued to keep the funding intact."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-public-health-cuts-states-lawsuit/
Massive, Unarchivable #Datasets of #Cancer, #Covid, #HIV and #Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever
Days before RFK announced 10,000 #HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on #NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review." Unlike other government datasets or web pages, downloading or otherwise archiving NIH data often requires a Data Use Agreement between a researcher institution and the agency.
https://www.404media.co/nih-archives-repositories-marked-for-review-for-potential-modification/
https://archive.ph/Y8asq
BTW
am not going to tomorrow’s #protest.
am still in the post #chemo and #covid surveillance phase, which explains why am right now hobbling on one foot. after chemo and radiation my bones have felt fragile. had to wrap a foot because i have no idea how i bruised it.
feel no need to put my body on the line. did it for years and years and it cost me everything, almost my life.
let those columbusing American #fascism go out in force and flourish tommorrow.
i’ll be healing in #solidarity.
Outbreak: #COVID-19
Facility: Ajax Pickering Hospital
Facility Type: Hospital (Acute Care)
Unit/Floor/Area: 2E
Location: #Ajax #Ontario
Date: 2025-04-02
Public Health Unit: Durham Region Health Department
Facility Tracking Hash: #DRHD0028
PHU Tracking Hash: #OnObDRHD
Click or follow tracking hashtags to see data for individual facilities or a specific public health unit.
Great news! #LongCovid
thelancet.com/journals/laninf/…
Until recently the best data we had concluded that #Covid per hospitalization does 15% damage to the body (Long covid frequency) than that of influenza hospitalizations(causing #longflu ). These were from Covid data from
patientcareonline.com/view/lon…
nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM…
This new study shows however shows that while that was true for Original and delta combined, Omicron has a significantly lower impact on the organ systems, and is now even the tiniest bit less dangerous than long flu!
@bloomberg @business-bloomberg
It looks like we're going to get a reminder of what an exponential curve looks like — apparently our practical experience 5 years ago wasn't sufficient for it to imprint.
Correlation between SARS2 wastewater prevalence for Zürich Werdhölzli and the national wastewater aggregate.
Correlation between Sentinella SARS2 detection counts and Zurich ww prevalence, respectively CH ww prevalence.
#Cancer, #Covid, & #Alzheimers #Research Could Be Lost Forever
Days before #RFKJr announced that 10,000 #HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on #NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."
#Trump #health #science #medicine #AntiIntellectualism #idiocracy #USpol
https://www.404media.co/nih-archives-repositories-marked-for-review-for-potential-modification/
Metro Vancouver wastewater COVID surveillance data was published April 4. The most recent test was March 26. #covid #covid19 #wastewater #vancouver #yvr
The US government has a thing about mRNA vaccines, but the non-mRNA alternative doesn’t seem to be going anywhere in the regulatory apparatus either. #COVID
#COVID19
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/fda-novavax-covid-19-vaccine-deadline-c160454b
Paywall-free link: https://archive.ph/bFU9D
Example letter to ask for #Novavax Covid-19 vaccine full approval
#COVID #COVID19 #COVIDIsNotOver
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pd5h7lhiwdozhgk6fbvcka4c/post/3llx7xnalrs2l
Why are you sick all the time? Covid:
"a positive test for COVID-19 is associated with increased rates of diagnosis of various non–SARS-CoV-2 infections in the 12 months following an acute SARS-CoV-2 infection, even if the initial infection is mild to moderate."
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/covid-19-may-put-patients-risk-other-infections-least-1-year
source: https://bsky.app/profile/eniko.bsky.social/post/3llwd5bid2s2h
260,000 new infections/day
