Tag: covid-19
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World Pneumonia Day – 12 November 2025
Pneumonia remains one of the world’s leading infectious killers. It still claims more lives of children under five than any other infectious disease, and also poses a serious threat to older people and those with chronic health conditions, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. — Read on www.who.int/news/item/11-11-2025-world-pneumonia-day—12-november-2025
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🫁 Global Respiratory Disease Update (Sep 2024 → Aug 2025)
Influenza and RSV shaped the 2024–25 respiratory season, with record RSV infant hospitalizations and 270 pediatric flu deaths in the U.S. Novel COVID-19 variants (NB.1.8.1, XFG) spread globally but did not increase severity. Other ARDS drivers—hMPV, adenovirus, parainfluenza—added to the global burden.
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There was never data to support this assertion, all he had to do was read a case report or death certificate to wake up from his delusions: “Even rare vaccination-related harms, both known and unknown, now have a higher chance of outweighing potential benefits in non-high-risk populations,” he wrote in the documents overriding the staff members on the Novavax shot.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/health/fda-covid-vaccines.html
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COVID-19 hasn’t changed — our response has changed…
COVID-19 has consistently without interruption evaded vaccination for 5 years. I haven’t seen a death certificate in three years or equivalent case-based surveillance report for 2 years. Any non-molecular virus expert who explains this microbe to you today is guessing. Consider this anecdote. My family has been vaccinated and reinfected religiously for 4 years and…
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Bring Out Your Dead: COVID-19 Spikes in Wastewater
apple.news/AFWVkVntxTASFOXTxpMqVyw If my earlier career in Epidemiology taught me anything it’s Pandemic viruses are bell weathers and pathogenic Bacteria are grim reapers. Together these and other microbes constantly monitor the environment and their hosts and strike when the environment and surveillance sentinels are in disarray. Fortunately, wastewater based surveillance methods gave us a little nudge…
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Take it from TEH: Misinformation during COVID-19 Pandemic and Climate Change Denial same racket — they get paid, vulnerable folks suffer.
www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/opinion/truth-climate-future.html
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See Three Years Into Pandemic, Vaccine Boosters Should Come Before Variants But We Gave Up On Case Based Surveillance, So COVID-19 is Gaining Again.
apple.news/AVceGeeXeSlGIFk7dy3rVmw Otherwise stated. Why new variant is surging now and we are suddenly chasing again? Because we refused to learn and adapt. We built up all this great surveillance and response infrastructure and then threw it away like disposable masks and kit. The microbes already had the long-odds before the climate emergency — we are…
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So When COVID-19 Surges Again and all these Vulnerable Americans Are “Purged” from Medicaid, how will we protect them then?
apple.news/AZWkwVUavRtqGPCJXhXuy5w
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Wait! What are you saying TEH? I am saying friends:
www.nytimes.com/2023/05/11/health/covid-sewage-wastewater-data.html First, spot-on NYT, you are right. I am so confident about WBE I am cashing all my Epi chips and going all in. It is the game changer I prayed for nightly during the first year of our humanity vs SARS-CoV trial along with a vaccine, which we sort of got, not really though…
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No they will not end. The hand in terms of who will suffer the most will reshuffle, the abandoned wall of immunity will generate a more virulent retrovirus (if such an outcome is even possible) to blow through it and best case scenario in two years tops we are back to March 2021.
apple.news/AE79AEXt4QTyGG1fxZSLSSA
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Mr President, 500 A Day Is Not Ok
apple.news/AOiy5PqnfR4O_RRCJQXQWlA According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 1.1 million people in the United States have died from COVID-19 since 2020, including roughly … 3,700 last week / 7 ≈ 528 A Day in US Alone
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Very wise words to hear, reflect on, and overcome!
apple.news/A5kFiKRthQraV50bIR6zplg “If governments, private enterprise, and the rest of us who share an endangered planet cannot unite against a single preventable threat, we can expect mass die-offs, sooner rather than later, as ecosystems collapse.”
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The Purpose of COVID-19 Origin Story is to Increase Distraction Not Safety
apple.news/Ah6Tx-eY1SQKL_c8GBEGxPw Honestly folks, it doesn’t matter if COVID-19 was wrought through spillover or human error, the consequence and inevitably of it happening it again with another bug are the same. What is worth obsessing over is the inequality in commitment to control and treatment and broad and deep Public Health surveillance networks. That’s how we…
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Epidemiology of COVID-19 and George Floyd Protests
No such science exists thankfully because what happened to Mr. Floyd is so heart breaking that studying it would be a crime in many ways, and that is why protest in this case is unavoidable. And, believe me, I love Epidemiology and if I could study this too somehow with my toolbox, I would find…
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