Who is still planning to wear a mask in public?

⚠️Listen up—Top 🇬🇧 scientists warns that “In the last week—there’s now evidence that T-cells…get damaged the same way that HIV and other RNA-virus damage T-cell immunity”. ➡️Prof Costello (Anthony Costello) raises serious concerns on #COVID19 & the 🧠—a🧵: twitter.com/HUMANBEANZZ/st…

If you think Prior Covid protects against Omicron (B.1.1.529), think again
medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
and
'Neutralizing antibody titers against Omicron were low, even below the limit of detection in a significant fraction of convalescent individuals
drive.google.com/file/d/1zjJWsy…

While we are all very upset about the omicron variant I would like to remind you to point the finger at everyone who recommended a mass infection strategy, the kind that bore the alpha variant from the UK that became omicron

I'm still hearing that hospitals are making people take off N95s and put on surgical.

Total negligence and if you catch COVID doing this and are hurt, go talk to a lawyer.

Please protect yourself
AND
the immunodeficient
and immunocompromised
💉GET VAXXED💉!

'Our results suggest that immunocompromised patients could be a source for the emergence of potentially harmful SARS-CoV-2 variants'
⬇️
This is already known;
❗️Immunocompromised patients
ARE NOT to blame!
💉Please help protect patients like these
💉GET VAXXED!💉

These cases are unique to immunocompromised individuals
1⃣4⃣5⃣ days of SARSCoV2 positivity
+ 🦠🧬viral mutation
👤in an immunosuppressed kidney transplant patient
nature.com/articles/s4146… #bioinformatics #openscience #scicomm #mednews #itrtg #immunology #genomics #COVID19

I shield and help out my vulnerable CEV parents and now have been left with no choice but to move in with them as the risk of bringing back Covid is too great. It's not a case of 'if' but 'when' my gf's lad gets Covid this term. I'm not going to be responsible for.....5/6

Starting therapeutic heparin LATE in severe COVID-19 is akin to starting IVIg LATE in MIS-C. Both bind abnormal immune complexes that DRIVE illness

Do we wait for MIS-C to escalate to ICU w/ multiorgan failure, THEN start IVIg? It will be pointless by then. Futile. Harmful.

👤 I have Common Variable Immunodeficiency
🧬 this research is personal
jaadcasereports.org/article/S2352-… #bioinformatics #snrtg #openscience #mednews #immunology #genomics #raredisease

Too little too late. After lots of criticism. And probably still pretty expensive.

Disconcerting to see many countries in Europe starting to heat up again, possibly reflecting, at least in part, some waning of vaccine effectiveness

⚠️BREAKING—REINFECTION & NATURAL IMMUNITY—new CDC study in hospitalized adults finds: unvaccinated people with prior #COVID19 infection recently were **5 times more likely** to be reinfected / get breakthrough versus people recently fully vaccinated! 🧵 cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…

Immunodeficient/immunocompromise life.
It's not easy 😑

💉Quoting the article 💉:
'Some immunocompromised people were fine
with 2⃣ doses'
...some of them were not fine with 3⃣ doses
...some of them do need a 4⃣ dose.”

💉💉💉💉
4th-dose
is now officially
'a thing'
nbcnews.com/health/health-… #scicomm #mednews #snrtg

Negative thought of the day: I think we will be as unprepared for the next pandemic as we were for this one.

Maybe I am just too negative but I don't see anybody stepping up their game. I hope I am wrong.

How many #SARSCoV2 virions are needed to seed an infection from an infector to infectee (the viral transmission bottleneck size)?
1-3
(not on the order of 1000 as previously published)
Science Translational Medicine by Katia Koelle and Michael Martin
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…