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kendryck.bsky.social @kendryck.bsky.social · 2d

It's really very complicated. A new variant could evolve at anytime that is much more deadly than the original CoVid variant. We are just gambling with CoVid. It won't magically not be a big risk.
www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

Do Bad Viruses Always Become Good Guys in the End?

In our social media age, talk of virulence has gone viral, with most of us atwitter about the course the new coronavirus is taking. As novel variants move up the ladder of concern, we are left asking ...

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kendryck.bsky.social @kendryck.bsky.social · 2d

People just don't believe this could happen to them. Every infection is a gamble. I've seen people not appear to have lasting side effects--nothing obvious like you had. They assume it didn't do damage & won't with a new infection.
I don't get why health care providers don't get it. Denial?

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kendryck.bsky.social @kendryck.bsky.social · 2d

I didn't figure there was ever a good time to stop masking in public, so I never did. Just easier to not be sick & take the risk at anytime.

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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 5d

“Most of us now view COVID-19 as more of a nuisance than a danger, thanks to vaccines and past exposure to the virus…”

If I may offer an edit: “Most of us now view COVID-19 as more of a nuisance than a danger, thanks to [the government and corporate media]…”

Repeat COVID-19 Infections Could Double Your Risk of Long COVID

The latest study shows that getting repeat COVID-19 infections can come at a high health cost.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 7d

this study highlights that Long Covid remains a risk with every Covid infection, including for children and adolescents.

Particularly relevant as the Children's module opens for the UK Inquiry.

It's nonsense to say that children are and were at no risk from Covid.

Prof Brendan Crabb AC @brendancrabb.bsky.social · 7d

“These findings add to previous evidence linking paediatric long COVID to multisystem effects and highlight the need to promote vaccination in younger populations...”

Time to reconsider our approach to kids and COVID/long COVID.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Long COVID associated with SARS-CoV-2 reinfection among children and adolescents in the omicron era (RECOVER-EHR): a retrospective cohort study

Children and adolescents face a significantly higher risk of various PASC outcomes after reinfection with SARS-CoV-2. These findings add to previous evidence linking paediatric long COVID to multisyst...

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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 5d

“Patients w/ severe long COVID who had not been hospitalised for COVID-19 were examined.”

I know someone w/ POTS & Long COVID. But unfortunately she doesn’t know or acknowledge she has LC, despite my several attempts to tell her about LC. So for her & her doctors, it’s a mystery why she has POTS.

Unusual heart rhythm disorder common in people with long COVID

A new study from Karolinska Institutet shows that an unusual heart rhythm disorder, POTS, is particularly common in people with long COVID. The majority of those affected are middle-aged women.

www.news-medical.net

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kendryck.bsky.social @kendryck.bsky.social · 11d

I did a Shringrix with no chasers. It's the worst vaccine I've ever had with fever & all over body shakes. I'm done now forever with that one. CoVid & Flu-no biggy.

kendryck.bsky.social @kendryck.bsky.social · 18d

Costco in the past has had availability. You don't have to have a membership to use the pharmacy. I don't know if you have a Costco nearby or how that would effect insurance coverage. I've had friend contact a number of pharmacy to find Novavax in the past.

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 18d

💊 New antibiotic class

Scientists have developed Novltex, a new antibiotic with strong activity against multidrug-resistant bacteria like MRSA. It’s cheaper to make and highly effective in lab tests.

🔗 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

#SciComm #Antibiotics #AMR 🧪

Novltex: A New Class of Antibiotics with Potent Activity against Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Pathogens─Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation

Increasing spread of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria demands antibiotics that combine potent activity with scalable synthesis. Novo29 (clovibactin) is promising but suffers from low yield (1%), dep...

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 18d

🍂 🏛️ 🧪 New H-1B Visa Executive Order

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 18d

Yes, that’s exactly what the EO says.

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · Sep 8

7/ Covid-19: Now for the complicated one. This fall, updated Covid-19 vaccines target Omicron subvariants JN.1 & LP.8, offering ~30-60% added protection against urgent care or hospitalization.
Available options:
🔹Pfizer, 5 and up
🔹Moderna, 6 months and up
🔹Novavax, 12 and up

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kendryck.bsky.social @kendryck.bsky.social · 26d

Read this right after listening to a Nobel prize winner on the BBC saying why RFK is wrong about mRNAs.
I've been screaming all day. Why are idiots running the USA.
Wasting money on stupid decisions that don't benefit anyone much less the USA.

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kendryck.bsky.social @kendryck.bsky.social · Sep 7

I read the comment as sarcasm...d/t the comment about him talking over others.

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kendryck.bsky.social @kendryck.bsky.social · Sep 6

I will wait until tomorrow to feel thankful. Shingrix has the worst side effects of all the vaccines I've gotten. I'm still suffering from it today, but should be much better tomorrow.

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kendryck.bsky.social @kendryck.bsky.social · Aug 28

Isn't absolutely everyone dealing with depression that would like to get the vaccine & aware of what's going on around them in health care?

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Jul 25

Covid vaccination saved ~2.5 million lives between 2020-2024
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Lives and life-Years Saved From COVID-19 Vaccination

This comparative effectiveness study analyses the number of lives and life-years saved worldwide among those who had been vaccinated during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020-2024 years.

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · Jul 27

Fantastic visit to Perth to visit one of the hubs of radio astronomy on the planet! In pic 2 I’m standing next to a Square Kilometer Array (SKA) antenna, currently under construction about 8 hours north of Perth. 🔭🧪

Astronomer with a ton of logos like csiro and skao

Me and a SKA antenna that looks like a Christmas tree

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · Jul 22

🧪 Here’s the link to an elegant study about the preventive effects of shingles and RSV vaccines for dementia—and an important thread about the key findings.

Read all the way down to see how the deductive powers of science can shed light on underlying cellular mechanisms. So cool. Get vaccinated.

BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · Jul 22

Do vaccines protect against dementia?
A new EHR-based study of >430,000 older adults found that AS01-adjuvanted vaccines (Shingrix for shingles & Arexvy for RSV) were associated with a lower 18-month risk of developing dementia whether given alone or together.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Lower risk of dementia with AS01-adjuvanted vaccination against shingles and respiratory syncytial virus infections - npj Vaccines

npj Vaccines - Lower risk of dementia with AS01-adjuvanted vaccination against shingles and respiratory syncytial virus infections

www.nature.com

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Kenneth Becker @geophotographer.org · Jul 21

A small asteroid just passed very close by to Earth

🧪🔭☄️
Object designation
neoexchange.lco.global/target/151500/

Observation follow-ups are here
groups.io/g/mpml/topic...

Reddit post
www.reddit.com/r/space/comm...

#asteroid
#flyby

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Der Führer hat immer recht! 🇺🇦 @grrlscientist.bsky.social · Jul 21

Giant Hairy Pitcher Plant Discovered In Northern Borneo

#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social

#plants #Nepenthes #PitcherPlants #CarnivorousPlants #botany #NewSpecies medium.com/grrlscientis...

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · Jul 11

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Snaps Closest-Ever Images to Sun

Newly released images - taken closer to the Sun than we’ve ever been before - are helping scientists better understand the Sun’s influence across the solar system, including events that can affect Earth. 🧪🔭

science.nasa.gov/science-rese...

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kendryck.bsky.social @kendryck.bsky.social · Jul 11

I see this & immediately think of photosynthesis. We need the plants to grab all that energy.

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kendryck.bsky.social @kendryck.bsky.social · Jul 11

We will select for a human species that can not think ahead?? The disincentives are huge.Young people are having a hard enough time in some countries just making enough to care for themselves.
I see the money grab helping push this a long.Housing & health care is so expensive & jobs pay too little

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kendryck.bsky.social @kendryck.bsky.social · Jul 11

Does it really have to be a problem?
There were 2 billion in 1930.
Could we think our way out of the problems?
We do seem bad at thinking our way out of problems currently-global warming.

Humans are bad for all other life on earth & the sun will eventually burn out.

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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · Jul 11

Sharing here that Jamie @followingmybody.bsky.social prepared a google drive of studies about menstruation and COVID (there are a lot of them)! Jamie works with people to chart their cycles and has seen a lot of disruption post COVID infection. #LongCovid #Covid

drive.google.com/drive/folder...

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