Kudos to the folks in Washington Co, Arkansas, who take covid seriously. 👏👏👏 "The Washington County Jail has long been focused on preventing the spread of illness, which led to the initiation of its COVID mitigation project." We need more of this ⬇️ nwahomepage.com/news/covid-19-…

Indiana ⬇️ wndu.com/video/2024/11/…

"...researchers found that essential workers who received a third COVID-19 monovalent mRNA vaccine dose had lower odds of long-COVID–related gastrointestinal, neurologic, and other symptoms than unvaccinated participants, by 63%, 44%, and 52%,respectively" cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/covid…

Hey y'all, I joined Bluesky. My handle is doxiemom07(dot)bsky(dot)social. I have the same profile pic. This is probably a silly question, but is there a way to set up a community like this over there? Tia

"Less than 1% of all state medical-board disciplinary actions against physicians in the five most populous US states were for spreading misinformation about topics such as vaccines and therapies during the COVID-19 pandemic ..." cidrap.umn.edu/anti-science/m…

"This story is part of the Youth Mental Health Reporting Project of the Southwest Michigan Journalism Collaborative. SWMJC is a group of 12 regional organizations dedicated to strengthening local journalism." wmuk.org/2024-11-13/the…

"A study in Nature Microbiology suggests trace-level cytokines, a marker of cardiac inflammation, may play a key role in long-COVID cardiac symptoms, including chest pains and shortness of breath." cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cardi…

"A group of New York City Department of Education and other public employees claiming religious objections were properly denied injunctions against the city’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate, the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday." news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/rel…

"... UC Berkeley School of Public Health investigated whether people living close to active oil and gas production had higher rates of COVID-19 and higher mortality from the disease from February 2020 to January 2021." publichealth.berkeley.edu/news-media/res…

🇨🇦 "Alberta’s respiratory virus tracker shows lab-confirmed COVID cases have nearly doubled since September." "Alberta Health Services says some hospitals are experiencing high occupancy levels."globalnews.ca/news/10868742/…

"State health officials are monitoring increasing cases of whooping cough and pneumonia." whdh.com/regional/state…

"California is experiencing a sharp rise in whooping cough cases, with several Bay Area counties reporting their highest numbers in a decade." 1600 cases from Jan-Sept 2024 644 cases all of 2023 sfchronicle.com/health/article…

Washington DC "According to MedStar, which operates 33 urgent care centers in the D.C. region, it saw 1,758 cases this October — a 358% increase from the 391 cases seen in October of last year." wtop.com/health-fitness…

MU Health Care pediatrician Alexandra James:"...the reason for the increasing numbers [in WP] is unknown." “It’s not anything specific that we know caused it, but we are seeing an increase in those younger children." Maybe it was all the covid? 🤔 komu.com/news/midmissou…

"Given the large numbers of potentially vaccine-preventable hospitalizations and deaths associated with RSV, increasing vaccine coverage among adults at highest risk could reduce associated hospitalizations and severe clinical outcomes." cidrap.umn.edu/respiratory-sy…

If you get pink eye, maybe get a home test for Flu A/B & Covid. Just sayin. I hate this timeline. cnet.com/health/medical…

"Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said she was “pretty sure” the next attorney general would prosecute people for “crimes against humanity” committed during the COVID-19 pandemic." thehill.com/homenews/house…

Skye Brower, a local who works on the Las Vegas Strip: “I’ve had a couple of friends get COVID recently, but none of them had really bad symptoms. It just doesn’t feel like as big of a deal anymore.” 🤦‍♀️ ktnv.com/news/las-vegas…

ON, 🇨🇦 "The Dryden Regional Health Centre is working to manage a COVID outbreak in their inpatient unit." "It is not clear how many patients have tested positive at the 42-bed hospital." ckdr.net/2024/11/14/976…

Keep masking up, y'all. Keep protecting yourself & others. You are doing a good job. Things will get better one day. Thank you for the encouragement & kind words. Hang in there!