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I had to unfollow an account that I used to trust for #COVID19 info. It said the current level of COVID in wastewater is “unprecedented.”

COVID is bad enough without inflating risks. No one will listen to us when COVID risks are high if we say silly things like this when COVID is actually low (in aggregate) in the US.

I get it. COVID risks never disappear, but the accounts addicted to spreading fear rather than knowledge need to be rejected, IMO.

Ensitrelvir Prevents #COVID19 Infection as Post Exposure Prophylaxis

> Japan-based Shionogi presented results for its investigational antiviral, ensitrelvir, that demonstrated a 67% reduction in the risk of developing COVID-19 in uninfected individuals treated after exposure, compared to a placebo at day 10

contagionlive.com/view/ensitre

ContagionLive · Ensitrelvir Prevents COVID-19 Infection as Post Exposure ProphylaxisBy John Parkinson
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This week, #Barbados’s Prime Minister Mia Mottley gave a fiery address to parliament, calling the US stance “unfair and unjustified”.

“We could not get through the pandemic without the Cuban nurses and the Cuban doctors,” she said.

Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister, Keith Rowley, warned that US interference in #Caribbean healthcare decisions was unacceptable.

Caribbean leaders have hit back at a threat issued by the United States government to cancel visas for anyone working with or supporting Cuban medical facilities, citing allegations of forced labour and claiming these missions “enrich the Cuban regime”.

Cuban medical missions, which provide doctors, nurses and other medical staff as well as medical facilities, are critical to healthcare systems in the Caribbean.

aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/15/w

Al Jazeera · Why are Caribbean leaders fighting Trump to keep Cuban doctors?By Farah Najjar
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Second time #CDC has reported estimates for more than two regions at a time since October.

To be clear, national data used for chart above are modeled on regional data collection.

LP.8.1 now estimated at majority in Great Lakes, nearing majority in NY/NJ and Mid-Atlantic.

XEC (incl. XEC.4) still around a quarter share in all three regions.

[For color key, see: covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-track]

#ThisIsOurPolio #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #variants #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask #BetterMasks

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A FLuQE wavelet opened September, cresting as KP.3.1.1 / MC wave into November. FDA's second-guess vaccine target, KP.2, dropped out in December. Updated #CDC estimates indicate we've been in a JN.1.11 soup pretty much since then.

No new variants broken out by CDC, as KP.1.1.3 / LP descendant LP.8.1 approaches majority.

No recent GISAID data—as Raj's dashboard hasn't updated in near a month.

#ThisIsOurPolio #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #variants #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #dataviz #datavis

This week's three-minute update on #COVID19 conditions in the US:

- COVID has declined to low levels nationally
- The South and Midwest are at moderate viral risks
- 14 states are at very high or high viral activity
- Tomorrow is Long COVID Awareness Day, and some pertinent links are provided.

medium.com/@augieray_66704/win

Medium · Winter COVID and Viral Respiratory Season Coming to an End: Update for March 14, 2025By Augie Ray

Good morning, y'all. 5 years ago today I did the first issue of CoronaBuzz, a daily newsletter for updates about covid. Over the next 2.5 years I indexed and tagged over 13,000 articles about covid-19 and its impacts around the world. I am still updating that dataset though much more slowly than I was.

The collection is part of ResearchBuzz Firehose. I have an article on how to explore, search, and monitor it here: researchbuzz.me/2024/03/14/cor . I hope you find it useful.

ResearchBuzz · CoronaBuzz: Navigating an Collection of Over 13,800 Covid-Related Article Summaries
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#MIS-C, eine seltene, aber schwere Entzündung nach #COVID19 bei Kindern, wird durch die Reaktivierung des #EpsteinBarr-Virus ausgelöst.

Das #Virus, das meist unbemerkt im Körper bleibt, kann durch eine gestörte #Immunabwehr erneut aktiv werden.

Forschende der #Charité haben entdeckt, dass der Botenstoff #TGFβ diesen Prozess verstärkt. Eine gezielte Hemmung könnte Behandlungswege für MIS-C und möglicherweise auch für #LongCovid eröffnen.

charite.de/en/service/press_re

Charité – Universitätsmedizin BerlinPress reports: Charité – Universitätsmedizin BerlinPress release of the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

🚀 Did Trump allow 500K Americans to die for political gain?

When data showed COVID killed more Black & Hispanic people, the strategy shifted overnight.

Watch this shocking analysis of how racism may have shaped pandemic policies. youtu.be/OPGLXTaQ3K0

youtu.be- YouTubeEnjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

How about some promising Covid-vaccine-related news? It's all early on, but it's still nice to see — and maybe buried amidst all the other news.

Nasal COVID-19 vaccine based on WashU technology to enter U.S. clinical trials
medicine.washu.edu/news/nasal-

Newly Discovered Antibody Protects Against All COVID-19 Variants
news.utexas.edu/2024/09/03/new

(Of course, who knows what will happen with any vaccine work and/or availability given this administration.)

WashU Medicine · Nasal COVID-19 vaccine based on WashU technology to enter U.S. clinical trials | WashU MedicineTrial will assess safety, efficacy of next-generation vaccine given via nasal spray, inhalation
"Multiple scientific studies have shown that the risk of developing Long COVID is compounded by each reinfection. Wastewater data, now the only reliable metric to track the spread of the pandemic, shows that the average American has been infected by COVID-19 nearly four times. At the current trajectory, this figure will reach eight infections per person by March 2030. A similar reality undoubtedly exists throughout the world."

5 years of the COVID-19 pandemic: The origins of a social catastrophe https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/12/qxrx-m12.html

#covid19 #health #healthcare #capitalism
World Socialist Web Site5 years of the COVID-19 pandemic: The origins of a social catastropheThe COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the incapacity of capitalism to deal with the problems of mass society, and that this social system is in an advanced state of regression.
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"The act of forgetting has always been a tool of oppression. We cannot adequately resist that which has been revised, erased, or forgotten by our community members. But few will acknowledge that this is happening with COVID. Just as one may utter that “slavery was back then, get over it”, when we use verbiage like “post-pandemic” we are rendering oppression as a static past event rather than an ever-evolving present that shapes our shared future. This tactic has always been useful to those who wish to profit off of our suffering and the cycle will continue to repeat if we do not acknowledge and act on the truth of our current reality. If we do not reckon with our failures to each other around COVID and do the work to remedy it, are we better than those who try to ban our people’s histories’ from the schools? We aid in the crusade to forget every day when we do not consider the pandemic as both current and deadly."

~V. Copeland

forgeorganizing.org/article/re

The ForgeReflecting on COVID, Year 5 - The ForgeVee Copeland, a disabled organizer and former policy analyst details their experience facing the lack of care in movement strategy around surviving the current administration It has been a treacherous five years since the COVID pandemic began.  According to the World Health Organization, more than seven million people across the globe have died from COVID-19, […]