An important new study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases found SARS-CoV-2 virus proteins persisting in blood in about 25% of people who had COVID up to 14 months prior. polybio.org/covid-19-virus… Comparison blood drawn pre-COVID showed only 2% assay positivity.

UC San Francisco #LIINC study on SCV2 protein persistence up to 14 mon post-COVID in The Lancet Infectious Diseases .

Now need to study this systematically in larger cohorts to pin down what it means. Does it have consequences? #LongCOVID ?

Thanks PolyBio NIH for support

thelancet.com/journals/lanin…

It’s official: A new Lancet Infectious Disease paper solidifies evidence of long-term viral persistence after #COVID -19.

Up to a quarter of people in the study harbored viral proteins indicative of persistent virus for up to 14 months after infection: polybio.org/covid-19-virus…

Last month, talking about microglia at the inaugural meeting of a new Infectious Disease Imaging Symposium. An important frontier: using noninvasive medical imaging to detect infections and their consequences.
Meeting support from UC San Francisco, with research support from PolyBio

Excited to announce the PolyBio Spring Symposium. It will take place online May 17 from 12 -5 pm ET.

Join to hear PolyBio-supported investigators give short updates on their projects.

Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

This one is for the 'only rich white women get Long COVID' dickheads: amp.theguardian.com/global-develop…

Dr. Dolan The War Nerd has a great new piece up in The Baffler — 'How To Read Wars ' — a rare foray outside the fortified walls of Radio War Nerd, surveying the awful conflicts of the 2020s.
thebaffler.com/salvos/how-to-…

US Approves Transfer of Thousands of More Bombs for Israel
The shipment was approved on Monday, the same day Israel killed seven aid workers and bombed Iran's consulate in Syria
by Dave DeCamp
Dave DeCamp #Israel #Gaza #Iran #Syria #Militaryindustrialcomplex …

It shouldn't matter what politicians think about conditioning military aid because conditioning military aid is literally US law (see: Arms Export Control Act, Foreign Assistance Act, Leahy Law)

Important vote at the United Nations. Continued arms transfers to Israel is unacceptable at this point. Every state that continues to transfer arms to Israel is complicit in violations of international law, including the Genocide Convention.

“We see gunshot wounds now in children from quadcopters, which are basically drones with guns.

And we have been seeing an alarming number of increasing infectious diseases, including hepatitis A outbreaks.” - Dr Amber Alayyan, MSF Deputy Programme Manager for the Middle East.…

That’s what Melak is drawing this morning

Palestinians are dying every day.. due to hunger and the war machine. Children are dying and have no where to find water and food..
Families are buried in the rubble of their homes.. we mean these are real people who had real lives
STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP

Reminds me of this, when Israel struck a Red Cross ambulance in Lebanon in 2006 right in the logo. There is a series of such images.

The girl in pink is my sister Tasnim. She’s 10. Today she went with our sheep when the army stormed my village in Masafer Yatta. Soldiers stopped her, and arrested two women for herding flock on their land, which they decided to make a “closed military area”. >>

Focusing on statements of college students is a great rhetorical distraction because:

1) They don’t actually have any power
2) Young people naturally express themselves more radically
3) It takes the attention away from objectively more extreme statements of elected officials

A Guardian investigation finds evidence Israeli snipers have been deliberately targeting children. Among their findings:

Though we cannot confirm the exact number of casualties, hundreds of people have been killed, including medical staff. Bodies are lying in the street, according to public reports. There have also been mass arrests of medical staff and other people in and around the hospital.

The same bomb that killed my family. Now the US is sending more bombs so that Israel massacres more families.

'the most shocking number [in the Biden budget] is the cost increase related to the expanded plutonium bomb facility at the Savannah River Site (SRS), which more than doubled from an estimated $11 billion in 2021 to $25 billion' georgiarecorder.com/2024/04/02/pla…