The LP.8.1 Covid Variant Is Now Dominating On The Global Level
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The LP.8.1 Covid Variant Is Now Dominating On The Global Level
A new list of priority pathogens in the UK. #ClimateChange comes with many risks. #GlobalWarming #pandemic
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/priority-pathogen-families-research-and-development-tool
GOV.UKPriority pathogen families research and development toolA reference tool to help guide England-based funders of research and development.
Politicians managing a pandemic have a difficult balance:
Deploy interventions too early, they lose.
Lift interventions too late, they lose.
Too many people die, they lose.
Can you find the balance?
#BirdFlu found for second time in seals at north Norfolk colony UK
#Wildlife #pandemic
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/25047692.bird-flu-detected-15-dead-seals-blakeney-point/?ref=yahoo
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Some highlights from @ducky 's weekly roundup at https://covidbc.webfoot.com/2025/03/28/2025-03-28-general/
SARS-CoV-2 can interact with / activate the CD147 receptor to get into lymphocytes (T-cells and B-cells). (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2319417023000872)
women are 13.4 times more likely to get Long COVID if they are
pregnant than if they are
the rate of cases of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) has gone up more than fourteen times compared to pre-pandemic (https://academic.oup.com/ehjqcco/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/ehjqcco/qcae111/7945206)
covidbc.webfoot.com2025-03-28 General – Pandemics in British Columbia
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“It has become clear that #truth & #transparency are not desired by the secretary [#RFKJr], but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his #misinformation & #lies,” Dr. Marks wrote to Sara Brenner, the #FDA’s acting commissioner.
Hours earlier in WV, RFKJr asserted that #Covid did not kill healthy people, contrary to research showing that 30% of those who died early in the #pandemic did not have underlying conditions.
#RFKJr. forces out Peter Marks, #FDA’s top #vaccine scientist
Marks, an architect of Operation Warp Speed, warned that a recent #measles outbreak shows how confidence in #science & #PublicHealth is being “undermined.”
#Trump #idiocracy #medicine #disease #pandemic #health #healthcare #kakistocracy #ConspiracyTheories
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/28/rfk-jr-fda-vaccine-scientist-peter-marks/
The Washington Post · RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist
2025-March-28 Friday
567 Americans Died Last Week From COVID 19
1,224,920 Americans Dead From COVID 19 In Total
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
Via Dave Levitan:
Per a source with knowledge, the entire #HHS Office of #InfectiousDisease & #HIV / #AIDS Policy, or #OIDP, was just fired.
So with the spread of untreatable candida auris, is the US border policy simply showing good pandemic practice: shutting down all truly non-essential travel?
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
#Genetic and #antigenic characteristics of #zoonotic #influenza A viruses and development of candidate #vaccine viruses for #pandemic preparedness {WHO, March 28 '25}, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/03/genetic-and-antigenic-characteristics.html
etidiohnew.blogspot.com#Genetic and #antigenic characteristics of #zoonotic #influenza A viruses and development of candidate #vaccine viruses for #pandemic preparedness {WHO, March 28 '25}
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@Nonilex "growing resistance to #PublicHealth interventions since the #pandemic." <- fuelled by conspiracy theories
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The #law, which was signed by #Republican Gov #SpencerCox on March 27 & will go into effect on May 7, comes amid renewed scrutiny of #fluoride, a mineral that has been widely added to US #DrinkingWater since 1945 to prevent cavities. Controversy over the safety of water fluoridation has intensified in recent years, driven in part by #ConspiracyTheories & by growing resistance to #PublicHealth interventions since the #pandemic.