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2025-March-28 Friday
567 Americans Died Last Week From COVID 19
1,224,920 Americans Dead From COVID 19 In Total
Cases of #flu and #RSV in #NYC continue to fall, a week or two later than they did last year. Unfortunately, cases and hospitalizatios of #COVID are going up.
I'm going to be pissed if we have a full-blown Spring #COVID19 wave and I have to start moving karaoke online, after months of not singing in person to avoid spreading #influenza and #RSVirus!
While there are meaningful numbers of people being hospitalized for airborne diseases, I #WearAMask in elevators, trains and doctors' offices!
New Data Just In Shows The Latest Covid Variant Is Clearing The Board
New Data Just In Shows The Latest Covid Variant Is Clearing The Board
Bonnie Henry declares respiratory season over but launching a spring Covid vaccination campaign because actually it isn't, and never will be seasonal
cognitive dissonance anyone?
How many people died of #COVID19 BECAUSE of trump? Honestly, I don't give a rat's ass about when they decided to announce their results of anything bc it's irrelevant. He LIED to the American people, claiming there were 14 cases that would be "gone by Easter" & instead we lost healthcare workers, first responders, family, friends, neighbors. He & the gqp intentionally lied to people & told them not to get vaccinated. THEY KNEW IT WAS AIRBORNE.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2025/03/27/did-pfizer-delay-covid-vaccine-announcement-until-after-2020-election-heres-what-we-know/?utm_medium=browser_notifications&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=6547244
My weekly update on #COVID19 risks in the US:
- COVID viral activity is low in the US
- COVID declined in all four regions last week
- COVID is still high in 10 states
- Mainstream media has been doing a slightly better job of covering COVID's chronic health impacts
Really good video on the effects on your life of long covid
https://youtu.be/HSRM-mxDK0c?si=JUoqvCw2clR9KxRo
#LongCovid #covid #COVID19 #mecfs
#LongCovid office ‘will be closing,’ #Trump administration announces
#Covid #Covid19 #republicans #NeoNazis #uspol #health #healthcare
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/24/trump-administration-shuttering-office-of-long-covid-research-and-practice-00246836
I haven’t had a journal article accepted for publication in six years. Until today, by Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education…
Celbis, O.; van de Laar, M.; Windsor, W. L.; Papatsiba, V.; Ofosu-Ampong, K.; Kurawa, G.; Sadat Bole, A.; Ani-Ampsonah, Mary; Xu, Linlin
Towards an ecological systems approach to doctoral student resilience: qualitative evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic.
I’ll share the open access version when it’s ready, but here’s the abstract:
Purpose
This study contributes to the growing body of literature documenting responses to short- and long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on doctoral students. We examine support practices at different levels of the system in which doctoral students are embedded, drawing on Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems model to better understand how these contribute to doctoral students’ degree of resilience under stress.
Design
Using paired online interviews, we explore the experiences of 21 doctoral students from 7 universities across Europe, Africa and Asia.
Findings
We find that support of supervisors at the microsystem level was a pivotal mediating factor in explaining to what extent the negative impacts of the pandemic were experienced by the doctoral students in our sample. At the same time, factors at the systemic level, such as weak infrastructure for online education, and limited incentives for supervisors to engage in additional mentoring beyond supervision, affected the repertoire of actions available to students at lower levels of the support system. In less resourced settings where systemic constraints were felt particularly strongly, students had to self-facilitate sources of resilience, resorting to peer and external mentors’ support at the mesosystem level of their environment.
#covid19 #pandemic #research #HigherEducation #PhD #postgraduate #resilience #Bronfenbrenner
An article I won't link is titled "Brain Fog Is Here to Stay"
Imagine saying since the huge increase in brain fog after 2020 includes folks with who haven't been diagnosed with Long COVID, the brain fog can't be because of previous COVID infections.
I can see the placards now: No causality without diagnosis!
The author has brain fog herself, and she's clearly in a tremendously challenging local situation as her article does communicate, so fine, but her editors still OK'ed and published an article based on a ridiculous premise.
Last year, a large study of adults in the U.K. found that 28 percent reported brain fog associated with “functional impairments,” and while it’s tempting to chalk that figure up to long COVID, the version of the disease that can last for months or years, the survey didn’t bear this out. Long COVID was just one predictor of brain fog, along with migraines, concussions, and being a middle-aged woman. So, if it isn’t only that, what is fogging up our thoughts?
There ARE other causes of brain fog. Folks with ME/CFS have heard of "fibro fog"; fighters know of "punch drunk", the list goes on. Cases from 2018 and earlier weren't Long COVID, though many cases do seem to be postviral conditions.
But this logic is awful and the fact that editors would print a piece that is completely based on a fallacy - well I guess I know not to trust The Cut as a publication.
I won't link to it, to not give false logic the traffic.
Metro Vancouver wastewater COVID surveillance data was published March 28. The most recent test was March 19. #covid #covid19 #wastewater #vancouver #yvr
We know so much about what #COVID19 does to the body, but is it oncogenic? Research on cancer takes many years, but this STUDY found:
"SARS-CoV-2 infection caused dramatic changes to the molecular profile and some immune subsets" in the stomach and "the gene sets related to metaplasia and gastric cancer were significantly enriched after viral infection."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352345X25000529
Hello, it’s the (delayed this week -- sorry!) weekly #washingtonstate #kingcounty (that is, #seattle and environs) #COVID #COVID19 #wastewater toots.
A quick reminder that this King County respiratory disease data comes from Washington State, not the federal government.
Starting with the West Point (WSPT) sewage treatment plant: last week, the Sars-CoV2 7-day running average crept up a bit, though it is still at the low end of the scale, historically speaking. Last data is from 3/18.
WSPT is one of three King County(-ish) sewersheds in this dataset. You can find overviews, individual sewershed results, and a breakdown of variants for the state wastewater surveillance program, along with other metrics like case counts and hospitalizations for Covid-19 and other respiratory illnesses, at https://doh.wa.gov/data-and-statistical-reports/diseases-and-chronic-conditions/communicable-disease-surveillance-data/respiratory-illness-data-dashboard#WasteWater. If you go to the page and click "learn more" in the statewide view tab, you can find out lots of details about how these data are calculated and how to interpret them. The dashboard gets updated every Wednesday (generally). The WA Department of Health is here on the feditubes at @WADeptHealth.
Lord Hendy: Colne to Skipton railway line is a ‘good scheme’ and is ‘worth doing’ but no money is available http://dlvr.it/TJpRqz #Colne #Covid19 #Lancashire #Network
This could be a game changer if we could get off our collective asses and implement its use.
Ensitrelvir Shows Promise for COVID-19 Prevention Following Exposure
Oral ensitrelvir was significantly more effective than placebo for preventing COVID-19 infection in uninfected at-risk adults and adolescents who had exposure to those infected
The March IHI newsletter is out - read it at https://europa.eu/!Hw6nXm 
Our director met with the European Parliament's Public Health Committee
Success stories from our projects on #Type1Diabetes, #COVID19 and #preparedness, & #immunotherapy 
Meet a new IHI #imaging project, and sign up for a webinar on our paediatric #cancer project ITCC-P4.
Last but not least - the deadlines for IHI calls 9 and 10 are approaching fast!
#IHITransformingHealth #HorizonEU #health #research #funding
