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DeSantis backs Florida surgeon general in urging residents against new Covid vaccines "DeSantis backs Florida surgeon general in urging residents against new Covid vaccines ... Dr Joseph Ladapo, the governor’s hand-picked surgeon general and a vaccine skeptic previously found to have...

A couple of new-ish studies Diabetes following SARS-CoV-2 infection: Incidence, persistence, and implications of COVID-19 vaccination. A cohort study of fifteen million people (Not peer-reviewed) "There is a 30-50% elevated T2DM [Type 2 diabetes] incidence post-COVID-19, but we report the novel...

A Reddit post with links to the paper https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adf9742 and an article/news-release about it New excess mortality estimates show increases in US rural mortality during second year of COVID-19 pandemic " New excess mortality estimates show increases in US...

Earliest article about this I could find, but behind paywall: China’s New Covid Wave Set to See 65 Million Cases a Week China is bracing for a massive new wave of COVID cases. What this means for the rest of the world XBB variant at work Estimated 40 million/week by end of May Estimated 65...

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes Changes to Simplify Use of Bivalent mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines "Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration amended the emergency use authorizations (EUAs) of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 bivalent mRNA vaccines to simplify the vaccination...

Florida health officials removed key data from COVID vaccine report "Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced in October that young men should not get the COVID-19 vaccine, guidance that runs counter to medical advice issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. His...

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2023-03-23/study-vaccination-cuts-risk-of-long-covid-19-nearly-in-half "The research, which reviewed 41 studies involving more than 860,000 people, found that vaccination reduced the risk of long COVID by nearly half. Other factors like older...

China approves first home-grown mRNA Covid vaccine "China has approved its first home-produced mRNA Covid vaccine, months after ending strict pandemic rules. ... China's labs have been trying to create an mRNA vaccine for years - the country refused to clear foreign-made ones for widespread...

Here's a long read with a lot of good background info (like potential biases) on the study: Do Masks Work? Yes. No. Maybe. With one summary by "... Shira Doron, a physician and the chief infection control officer at Tufts Medicine... ... “This study has concluded, not that masks don’t work, but...

New booster works against dominant Covid strain "A new CDC study has found that the Covid-19 bivalent booster reduces the risk of symptomatic infection from the most common subvariant circulating in the U.S. right now by about half. Additional new data, set to be published on the CDC website on...

Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations - Nature Reviews Microbiology Good overview over what the currently estimated 65 million long-termers are dealing with.

Bodies Pile Up in China as Covid Surge Overwhelms Crematoriums (Worked for me only in a private tab/window) "Bodies Pile Up in China as Covid Surge Overwhelms Crematoriums Funeral home worker says ‘the whole system is paralyzed’ 'We can’t afford to die’: Soaring cremation prices stir anger...

I received a shot from the same batch yesterday, half-way across the country in MN. Pharmacist also confirmed it's the new stuff, so I guess it really should be. Very sore shoulder/arm and a headache, so far nothing else.

A quick and somewhat interesting read BioNTech Founder Uğur Şahin: "The Virus Continues To Mutate at a High Speed"

US monkeypox outbreak: Demand for vaccines outstrips supply "US health officials say they do not have enough monkeypox vaccines to cope with surging demand. The US has seen more than 1,800 cases so far, though that is thought to be an undercount as testing has also lagged. ... "We don't yet...

WHO advises against fluvoxamine, colchicine for COVID-19 "People shouldn't take the drugs colchicine and fluvoxamine to treat mild to moderate COVID-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) is warning. The antidepressant drug fluvoxamine (Luvox) and the gout drug colchicine are commonly used...

I quickly summed up the daily estimates from here How epidemiological models of COVID-19 help us estimate the true number of infections for the ICL and IHME models' data Cumulative estimated infections of COVID-19 (ICL, mean) Cumulative estimated infections of COVID-19 (IHME, mean)...

Quick look around found this for vaccinations: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccinations For the whole UK (aged 12 and over): ---------------- As for antibodies (from both vaccinations and infections): Coronavirus (COVID-19) latest insights - Office for National Statistics "The...

On the subject of masks, Amazon currently has a deal for 20x 3M N95 masks for ~$11 https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07574ZLS1

Article https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/05/25/long-covid-vaccines-slight-protection/ about a study by the Department of Veterans Affairs Long COVID after breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infection - Nature Medicine and a report by the CDC Post–COVID-19 Conditions Among Adult... "Six months...

Some newer (not yet peer-reviewed) studies referenced and linked to in this article: Your Case of Omicron Might Have Super-Boosted Your Immunity—If You Were Vaccinated "SARS-CoV-2 Omicron sublineages carry distinct spike mutations and represent an antigenic shift resulting in escape from...

Opinion: Rebound after taking Paxlovid is the latest twist in the Covid-19 puzzle A mostly opinion-piece with few hard numbers, but was still interesting to read (for me). Also the linked FDA-update: FDA Updates on Paxlovid for Health Care Providers

Well, now they just say 1 Million 'never happened'

Moderna seeks to be 1st with COVID shots for littlest kids "Moderna is seeking to be the first to offer COVID-19 vaccine for the youngest American children, as it asked the Food and Drug Administration Thursday to clear low-dose shots for babies, toddlers and preschoolers. ... Moderna said two...

At least 58% of U.S. population has natural antibodies from previous Covid infection, CDC says Three out of every 5 people in the U.S. now have antibodies from a previous Covid-19 infection, according to a new CDC analysis. The proportion is even higher among children, demonstrating how...

This is for Pfizer/Biontech: COVID-19 Third Dose Vaccine Protection Against Hospitalization Wanes After 3 Months Study: Durability of BNT162b2 vaccine against hospital and emergency department admissions... "The researchers examined 11,123 hospital admissions and emergency department visits...

Shanghai: China reports three dead in latest Covid outbreak "China has reported the deaths of three people from Covid in Shanghai for the first time since the financial hub entered lockdown in late March. A release from the city health commission said the victims were aged between 89 and 91 and...

Covid China: Elderly deaths contradict Shanghai figures "Dozens of elderly patients at a hospital in Shanghai have died after contracting Covid-19, but official government figures claim no deaths in the city have been caused by the disease since 2020. The BBC has spoken to a hospital manager...

Study out of Israel: Protection by a Fourth Dose of BNT162b2 against Omicron in Israel | NEJM "Conclusions Rates of confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection and severe Covid-19 were lower after a fourth dose of BNT162b2 vaccine than after only three doses. Protection against confirmed infection appeared...

Omicron deaths of Johnson & Johnson recipients were double the rate of other vaccinated Americans, new data show "For the week of January 8, COVID-associated deaths among Americans who were vaccinated with Johnson & Johnson reached a rate of more than 5 out of every 100,000, according to the...

I had ordered ours on Jan 18 and they arrived last week on Feb 10.

‘Pandemic of the unboosted’: low US Covid jab uptake piles pressure on hospitals FT article. Direct link doesn't work for me w/o subscription. The above is from a Twitter thread and that works (for me) [ on.ft.com/3g8Es1x ] U.S. COVID hospitalizations would be halved with European vaccination...

New, not peer-reviewed, study out of Denmark Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron VOC subvariants BA.1 and BA.2: Evidence from Danish Households "We conclude that Omicron BA.2 is inherently substantially more transmissible than BA.1, and that it also possesses immune-evasive properties that...

The NIH's take on fluvoxamine, also referencing the TOGETHER study: Fluvoxamine | COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines "Recommendation There is insufficient evidence for the COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel (the Panel) to recommend either for or against the use of fluvoxamine for the treatment of...

Effectiveness of a Third Dose of mRNA Vaccines ... "Summary What is already known about this topic? COVID-19 mRNA vaccine effectiveness (VE) in preventing COVID-19 might decline because of waning of vaccine-induced immunity or variant immune evasion. What is added by this report? VE was...

Researchers Discover Two Paths Toward “Super Immunity” to COVID-19 "“It makes no difference whether you get infected-and-then-vaccinated, or if you get vaccinated-and-then-a-breakthrough infection,” said co-senior author Fikadu Tafesse, Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular microbiology and...

It was a case study from the summer of 2020 Azithromycin, Cefixime, Vitamin C, Vitamin D, and Zinc to Treat Mild Covid-19: A Case Report | Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology View of Azithromycin, Cefixime, Vitamin C, Vitamin D, and Zinc to Treat Mild...

Because the gulf states were hogging the supply of monoclonal antibodies to treat all the people that ended up in the hospital Nation Short On Supply Of Key Covid Treatment—Desperate States Told To Reduce Requests "The HHS spoke with public health leaders from seven Southern states last week...

Article Covid loses 90% of ability to infect within 20 minutes in air – study about a study (not yet peer-reviewed) https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.08.22268944v1.full.pdf "Coronavirus loses 90% of its ability to infect us within 20 minutes of becoming airborne – with most of...

That. According to Worldometer Denmark's 7-day average for infections hasn't even peaked yet, or at least might only just about now. A short term peak was on Jan 5. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/denmark/ Much too early to count the hospitalized and dead.

Some hopeful news about efficacy of the J&J vaccine/booster: New COVID studies show promise for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine booster "Two new studies of a Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine booster showed promise against the omicron variant at a time when public health officials are urgently...

Another bit of data pointing to the possibility that Omicron is less dangerous on average: South African study suggests lower risk of hospitalisation with Omicron versus Delta "A South African study suggests reduced risks of hospitalisation and severe disease in people infected with the...

Hundreds off work ill at leading London hospital as Omicron cases surge "Omicron is having a significant impact on staff at a large hospital trust with hundreds off work due to illness, leading to the cancellation of non-essential services to tackle a surge in admissions driven by the variant...

Omicron largely evades immunity from past infection or two vaccine doses | Imperial News | Imperial College London "Omicron largely evades immunity from past infection or two vaccine doses according to Imperial's latest report. The new report (Report 49) from the Imperial College London...

South Africa: previous infections may explain Omicron hospitalisation rate "High levels of previous exposure to three previous waves of coronavirus infection in South Africa may explain the relatively low levels of hospitalisation and severe disease in the current outbreak of the Omicron...

Some preliminary data from SA: Pfizer shot less effective against hospitalisation in South Africa - study "Between Nov. 15 and Dec. 7, people who had received two doses of the shot and tested positive for COVID-19 had a 70% chance of avoiding hospitalisation, down from 93% during the previous...

Might really be testing that booster... Nearly 70 Spanish medics Covid positive after Christmas party "Almost 70 medics who attended a large Christmas party in southern Spain have since tested positive for Covid-19, authorities say. Most of the 68 infected are doctors and nurses working in the...

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Masks work. Turns out that's true even when you try and disprove that fact Missouri commissioned, then buried, a report that found mask mandates likely save lives "The office of Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) asked the state health department on Nov. 1 to study how mask mandates affected...

Foiled. But kinda funny... Italian man tries to dodge Covid jab using fake arm "An Italian man who wanted a Covid vaccination certificate without getting the jab turned up for his vaccine with a fake arm, officials say. The man, in his 50s, arrived for his shot with a silicone mould covering...