Fascinating article highlighting the way brain health changes in midlife & #aging .

Super interesting recap of the #aging research being done at UCSF:
The Road to Rejuvenation buff.ly/3OblWY4

Covid (UC San Francisco) Chronicles, Day 1371
I haven’t X'ed much about Covid lately, mostly because things are fairly stable. But a lot of folks have asked me what I’m doing, Covid-wise.
So today: how I’m acting, & why. Graphic below shows my general approach; more details follow. (1/25)

COVID cases going up...expected but still something to pay attention to! #aging adults are the ones most likely to get hospitalized. For more on current state of things (there's flu & RSV out there too), I rec Katelyn Jetelina's update yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/state-of-aff…

First data to roll in on the effectiveness of fall 2023 covid vaccines: 70% additional effectiveness against hospitalization.

Place: Denmark
Population: Adults >60
Published?: Preprint
Link: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
Bottom line: Vaccines for the win

If you are immunocompromised or age 65+, please consider joining our study that provides free molecular Covid tests, telemedicine, and rapid Paxlovid home delivery. ⁦Scripps Research Translational Institute⁩ ⁦Scripps Research⁩ ⁦Cue Health⁩ ⁦Julia MV⁩ immunocare.scripps.edu

This is amazing & fascinating! It gives me hope for future #alzheimers treatments

What New Nursing Home Staffing Rules Would Mean For Residents And Patients buff.ly/3ZgMj36

So true, unfortunately. And definitely affect #aging adults.

🧵 LOTS of folks with #COVID19 in my text messages this week for the first time in months, & many of my #MedTwitter friends are saying the same. This has happened before every recognized 🇺🇸 surge. Be careful, esp if you are higher risk. All, please 😷 & test if you feel sick. 1/

Am honored to be included in this fantastic article about helping resistant #aging parents cnn.com/2023/05/17/hea… #aging

More on covid boosters. I haven't changed my stance: important for those who are older/frailer/at high risk, marginal absolute benefit for everyone else. If you want to avoid covid, masks & ventilation are what works.

This is terrific.

This is big, folks. The The White House is supporting next generation—nasal and variant-proof Covid vaccines —and therapies with a $5 billion program washingtonpost.com/health/2023/04… by Dan Diamond
Thanks to the relentless efforts of Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH and White House COVID-19 Response Team👍

This is super interesting re gut microbiome & #aging

This Nature article provides a fascinating overview of how #aging affects the brain, & how it can be rejuvenated. #geriatrics

Interesting study using data from the Netherlands.

After 6 months:
- all people who were initially off sick flu-like symptoms had returned to work.
- 2% of those off with Covid were still off sick.
- 7% of those sick with Alpha variant (ie pre-vaccination) were still off sick

Wow! France is getting serious about indoor air quality in schools!

A classic mode of undermining public health is to misrepresent it as a matter of individual behavior rather than as necessarily collective and shaped by policy choices like paid sick leave, universal healthcare, ventilation standards, etc. Case in point: news.google.com/articles/CBMiO…

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