How our family stayed COVID-negative when my 2-year old was infected. An epidemiologists’ perspective.

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Cosmos article/retraction on the “zero deaths” debacle.

cosmosmagazine.com/news/deaths-de…

Guardian Science SBS have already retracted their very similar article, based on the same “misunderstanding” of the data lags in this dataset.

When will The Guardian retract their misleading article?
sbs.com.au/news/article/w…

This is that billionaire who’s obsessed w anti aging!! I actually rly appreciate him documenting and sharing this bc I’ve been saying for a WHILE how wild it is that fitness/ wellness ppl ignore COVID. This is reality! Masking up is anti aging y’all

Some fact checking on this article.
TLDR: Australia has not reached a 'significant' COVID milestone
A short thread/

Last yr everyone was an expert on COVID. Last week, measles. Now on #H5N1 . Bird flu attaches to 2-3Sia receptors in birds. We have 2-6Sia receptors in resp tract, so #birdflu does't spread betwn ppl easily. The risk of receptor 'switch' mutation is high though:…

Approved in Japan, this self-amplifying Covid vaccine that uses much lower doses of mRNA, with less side-effects and potential longer duration of efficacy, is a better template than current mRNA shots
cell.com/cell/abstract/…

Not me. I'm not catching RSV, C19 or influenza. I wonder why?

In sepsis, dysregulated thromboinflammatory response may▶️multiorgan dysfunction.

Sepsis-associated acute kidney injury (AKI) ▶️📈morbidity & mortality.

Iba et al introduce thromboinflammation in AKI pathogenesis & innovative vascular-targeting 💊

linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S…

Not me. I'm not catching RSV, C19 or influenza. I wonder why?

Ignorance is bliss

It's a mystery…

For more context: The team found #SARS -CoV-2 proteins indicative of viral persistence in 25% of people up to 14 months after #COVID . They controlled for vaccination + reinfection. There were very few false positives in the pre-pandemic samples, confirming accuracy of the methods

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…

𝙎𝘼𝙍𝙎-𝘾𝙤𝙑-2 𝙢𝙖𝙮 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙢𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙣𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧 4 𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨, 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙨𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 !

(with abstract but under paywall)
H/t Association Action Covid Long
ajicjournal.org/article/S0196-….

Among patients with obesity-related heart failure with preserved ejection fraction & type 2 diabetes, semaglutide produced greater reductions in symptoms, physical limitations & body weight than placebo at 1 year. Full STEP-HFpEF DM trial results: nej.md/3TPKpUC

#ACC24

Please consider supporting the 'Clean Air Naarm' initiative to set up a 'library' in Naarm /Melbourne of Hepa filters etc for artists to borrow from to help make their shows more 'Covid Safe'

artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2EM…

As usual, Kashif Pirzada, MD nails it:

#Paxlovid

Embattled researcher Didier Raoult earns more than 100 expressions of concern and another retraction.
retractionwatch.com/2024/04/03/emb…