How long is airborne #SARSCoV2 infectious after an infected person leaves the room?
Study finds evidence of aerosol transmission almost 5 hours after hospital room turnover. Michael Charness et al Boston U Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Paul Sax Linsey Marr https://www.threads.net/@linseycmarr Eric Topol American Journal of Infection Control
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How #SARSCoV2 can disrupt brain synapses
nature.com/articles/s4156…
nature.com/articles/s4156…
Increased expression of 3 synaptic proteins, and finding a drug that restores synaptic function
Nature Microbiology

Over decades, the HIV response has shown how it's possible to respond effectively to a pandemic. Any #PandemicAccord must learn from the fight to #endAIDS , and be based on the principles of human rights, equity & solidarity. We mustn't repeat COVID's vaccine apartheid.
#PPPR #INB

While we know more about #LongCovid now, it remains a puzzle.

A new WHO/Europe report examines different approaches taken in 🇮🇱 🇮🇹🇬🇧 & 🇪🇸 (Aragon/Catalonia regions) to identify, diagnose and manage patients with often disabling post-COVID conditions.

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Are you in NY and want some free snacks & drinks late afternoon on Thursday? Come pretend to listen to my talk and then enjoy:
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How is the immune system linked to psychosis?

That’s what Dr Katharina Schmack at The Crick and UCL Psychiatry is investigating.

Learn more about her study: wellc.me/3ARiRFa

Microglia-derived extracellular vesicles trigger age-related neurodegeneration upon DNA damage | PNAS pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…

H5N1 flu virus outbreak in cows likely started earlier than thought

« The bad news is it looks like this is well entrenched and has been in cattle for a long time and … probably very, very, very widespread » statnews.com/2024/04/23/h5n…

Check out our new review on the immune pathogenesis of viral-associated aspergillosis. A fantastic collaboration with Simon Feys Martin Hoenigl🇺🇦🇦🇹 and several others. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Emulsifiers are a key and pervasive component of ultra-processed foods. Now a 14-year study of >104,000 participants indicates an association w/ higher risk of Type 2 diabetes (Figure, annotated)
Bernard Srour INRAE_International
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A viral assembly inhibitor blocks SARS-CoV-2 replication in airway epithelial cells nature.com/articles/s4200…

Cool pre-print showing TMPRSS11 members activate ACE2-independent sarbecos biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

This isn't good, folks.
I'm not worried about H5N1 transmission to humans (yet) but the Dept. of Agriculture pathetic lack of transparency, how long it took for the genomes to be released, lack of testing asymptomatic cattle......
All detracts from 'confidence'

Today, 23rd April, is the *final* day where you can email in & make your voice heard on the need for the Long Covid Moonshot Proposal to include #MECFS & wider infection-associated chronic illness 🚀

If you have the spoons to do safely, please do - this is a big one! In one

#InterferonPower ! Li, Yang &co show Nature Microbiology that the #IFN -stimulated gene IFITM1 protects #epithelial cells against Epstein–Barr virus #EBV , that causes mononucleosis & cancers, by competing for viral protein binding to the EBV entry receptor! doi.org/10.1038/s41564…

My biggest takeaway here is that, unlike most biopsy studies, they used ddPCR which is >100x more sensitive than qPCR. Most biopsy studies used qPCR and have therefore underestimated the level of viral RNA persistence.

Almost all biopsy studies:
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pleased to share with you my invited commentary on The Lancet ID about the las test publication on the link between SARS-CoV-2 and #longcovid .

Happy to know your thoughts and feedbacks.

Long COVID and SARS-CoV-2 persistence: new answers, more questions

thelancet.com/journals/lanin…

A lot has happened since we kicked off #UniteToFight2024 at the end of January.

We're immensely grateful to all the speakers who have joined us so far. Here's a sneak preview featuring some of them. Enjoy watching it!

We are already looking forward to the 15th and 16th of

The gut microbiome and #LongCovid :
'Gut microbiome-based multi-label machine learning accurately predicts upcoming long-term symptoms after acute COVID19.'
cell.com/cell-host-micr…
Cell Host & Microbe by Siew Ng CUHK Medicine and colleagues

Study (N=777K; 2016-2019) finds male and female patients had lower mortality rates when treated by female physicians. The benefit of receiving care from female physicians was larger for female patients. Atsushi Miyawaki
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