Dr. Lisa Iannattone Here is RSV in Texas as of 11/30/23. 3rd year in a row with significant caseloads. In fact all data points to the worst season ever THIS year. When exactly is immunity debt (or gap) supposed to catch up???

A randomized, placebo-controlled trial of modulating the gut microbiome is successful for symptom alleviation in #LongCovid thelancet.com/journals/lanin…

Once again seeing C19, Flu and other viral cases in huge numbers in the ER. Hardest hit are kids <2 and adults >65. Some advice for this season: Use fever medications - Every child with a high fever will look terrible. Keep ahead of it with Tylenol/Paracetamol and

What absolutely breaks my brain is that people will catch Covid this week and develop that.

🚨🚨 A friend put it this way: "Public Health organizations should be informing people that 1. Covid is aerosolized airborne (not droplet) and what that means; 2. That vaccines are not sterilizing but are nonetheless protective against serious COVID infections and apparently

We are now officially into year 5 of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic/endemic. I gave a lecture to my virology class this Fall about the history of the pandemic through the lens of viral genotypes. I thought I would share that lecture as a thread. This is a long one. 1/

Why we need better, maybe real-time, indoor air quality monitoring. I went to go see a movie (Godzilla Minus One - highly recommended if you haven't seen it), and picked a theater that a user indicated had a decent CO2 rating a year ago on the Clean Air Map

Dire warning from US HCW as the more severe JN1 novel Covid runs rampant 'The building I'm at has five floors, 3rd, 4th and a lot of the ICU full of COVID patients.'

Waves of infection are caused by exposure of a susceptible population to an infectious agent. For endemic/seasonal infections, we see one or two waves per year as this susceptible pool is replenished by young (unvaccinated) kids, and older/other folks losing their immunity...

After a long wait, our longitudinal long COVID study is finally published in Nature Communications: nature.com/articles/s4146…. We find a skeletal muscle alterations in patients with #longcovid, which worsen with exercise. 1/n

Braeden Charlton Blocking of capillaries by amyloid-containing deposits (or microclots) could reduced exercise capacity. We found these deposits in muscle tissue, but surprisingly not inside capillaries. They were located in between fibers, were higher in patients, and went up after exercise 5/n

The most important lesson from Appelman et al is not that everyone with PEM should get a two day CPET with muscle biopsies, but that we should listen to patients. 🧵

"We're playing make-believe with COVID". "The pandemic is far from over." Grand slam, nail on the head, dead on Op-Ed by Eric Topol. 👇

What's the leading infectious disease cause of death? Covid

What's the third leading cause of death overall? Covid

Florida has estimated that purchasing prescription drugs from Canadian wholesalers to treat such conditions as HIV/AIDS, diabetes and hepatitis C could save the southern state $150 million US annually. Maybe Florida Congressmen should support reforming US drug pricing laws.

2) Q: What is meant by immune dysregulation and how does this relate to disease? We recommend this interesting article, which allows in layman terms, to understand this topic technologynetworks.com/immunology/blo…

A #Toronto driver and car leapt into Lake Ontario off of Lakeshore and Cherry St. on January 20, 2024. Fire Dept divers confirmed that there is 1 occupant in the vehicle. It's now a recovery mission. Was it: A. Drinking and Driving? or B. A heart attack? or C. A #COVID sneeze?

You corrupted my son's mind in your U of T classes. Everyone who took your classes should get a refund and free access to legit psychology courses. #UofT