People who are in your 40s+ and are mitigating C19 risk, where are meeting friends and potential partners? No, I’m not looking 😊, just hoping to find some resources or suggestions for others.

“What I want to see is ultimately, is that we completely turn this situation on its head and school becomes one of the safest places a child can be.” - Amanda Kvalsvig. The attached link goes to the RNZ interview. The fight for clean air in NZ schools rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

Summary: Long covid labs' first Pemgarda + Paxlovid patient initially improved, then worsened, then returned towards baseline. It's not clear to me but seems like LCL are moving away from / stopped treating patients, & will instead be compiling the results of treatment by others.

Look, I'm sick of telling you all about how important it is that we have clean air in schools and you'll be sick of me too. So listen here to the excellent Amanda Kvalsvig do a completely fantastic job of telling you instead. rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

AFD Blog `CFIA Update On #H5N1 In a B.C. Ostrich Farm: First Report of Genotype D1.3 in Canada' afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/05/cfia-u…

New review in BMJ by Trisha Greenhalgh and Raina MacIntyre says for respiratory protection from viruses/bacteria in air: N95 > surgical > cloth masks > nothing ❗️but only if continuously worn not intermittently. (e.g. taken off for discomfort/eating)

⚠️ PUBLIC HEALTH WARNING ⚠️ Outbreak of covid-19 at North Shore Hospital, AK. If you were planning on going in for any reason, you may want to reconsider, or be prepared for an infection & to spread it to others. Amanda Kvalsvig RNZ

Hospitals, schools, workplaces. 3 settings where most of us go sooner or later, & it's not easy to opt out. They overlap, of course: hospitals and schools are the workplaces of the health & education sectors. When we clean the indoor air in these vital spaces, everyone benefits.

Euan Arnott CFR in the flock is unknown to me. I have been contemplating within flock and herd adaptation. Cat sequences were informative regarding rapid within group increases in lethality. We know layers producing eggs for vaccines harbor influenza viruses that alter affinity and

Charting the Circulating Proteome in ME/CFS: Cross System Profiling and Mechanistic insights medrxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/5-Our new preprint on the blood proteome of ME/CFS is a deep dive into the pathophysiology. ~7000 blood proteins were measured in 54 ME/CFS and 27 healthy.

Another reason why we need New Zealand wastewater tracking to return to weekly updates of Covid levels, along with weekly variant analysis.

🦋 Living Safely With Covid #CovidIsAirborne GT💉💉💉💉 💉💉🇳🇿 The study had flaws and limitations that the authors discuss. Nonetheless, it demonstrates natural ventilation doing exactly what I would expect from any intervention that relies on someone doing something inconvenient or uncomfortable. Not much good.

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Federico Gueli 🏳️ 🦋 Living Safely With Covid #CovidIsAirborne Mike Honey Catherine GT💉💉💉💉 💉💉🇳🇿 NB.1.8.1 in new Zealand

I wrote a piece for The Spinoff #MECFS #LongCovid NZ needs: - proper data incl prevalence - tailored, accessible healthcare - to reclass ME (& assoc conds) as a disability - to 🔽 infections Patients & supporters: - Pls join in emailing MPs to call for change. Link below.

Link to today's article is here, mucked up the sharing somehow! 😅 thespinoff.co.nz/society/03-06-…