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Kirsty<p>More <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Covid19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Covid19</span></a> research information, of course it’s not good</p><p><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/covid-19-left-20-of-men-with-erectile-dysfunction/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">vice.com/en/article/covid-19-l</span><span class="invisible">eft-20-of-men-with-erectile-dysfunction/</span></a><br><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CovidIsNotOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CovidIsNotOver</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/LongCovid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LongCovid</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/sarscov2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sarscov2</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/auscovid19" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>auscovid19</span></a></span></p>
Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data.<p>UPDATED: <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/Quebec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Quebec</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/SARSCoV2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SARSCoV2</span></a> variants.</p><p>⚠️ Only 50 &amp; 20 samples for weeks of 2/23, 3/2 ⚠️</p><p>Of the 20,<br>XEC.*: 45% (⬆️ 18%; ⬇️ 29.8%)<br>LP.8.1.*: 20% (⬆️ 6%; ⬆️ 4.3%)<br>KP.3.1.1.*: 5% (⬇️ 22%; ⬇️ 23.4%)<br>LF.7.7.2: 25% (⬇️ 28%; ⬆️ 23.4%)</p><p><a href="https://ratnegative.tumblr.com/QCVariants" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ratnegative.tumblr.com/QCVaria</span><span class="invisible">nts</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/COVID19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVID19</span></a> </p><p>----------</p><p>Of the samples collected in Quebec on these weeks, the prevalence of significant variants/lineages are as follows:</p><p>- 3/2 - 3/8 - (20 samples; no threshold)<br>• XEC.* (incl. XEC.5, ".9, ".11): 45%<br>• JN.1.11.1.*: 25%<br> → LP.8.1.*: (incl. LP.8.1.1): 20%<br> → KP.3.* (only MC.10.1): 5%<br>• LF.7.* (incl. LF.7.7.2): 30%<br> → LF.7.7.2: 25%</p><p>- 2/23 - 3/1 - (50 samples; 4% threshold)<br>• XEC.* (incl. XEC.2, ".9, ".13): 18%<br>• JN.1.11.1.*: 38%<br> → LP.8.1.* (only LP.8.1.1): 6%<br> → KP.3.* (only KP.3.1.*, ".3.3.5): 32%<br> → KP.3.1.1.* (incl. MC.1.2, ".10.1.*, ".11, ".13.2.1, "28.1.1): 22%<br> → MC.1.* (only MC.1.2): 10%<br>• LF.7.* (incl. LF.7.1, ".7.2.1, ".7.7.2): 40%<br> → LF.7.7.2: 28%</p><p>X.X.* in text = X.X &amp; descendants.<br>X.X.* in graph = all descendants of X.X, except for ones that have their own segment of the week’s bar. Please see "Notes on Usage" section.</p>
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬<p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/German" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>German</span></a> foreign intelligence service in 2020 put at 80%-90% the likelihood that <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/coronavirus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coronavirus</span></a> behind <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/COVID19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVID19</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/pandemic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pandemic</span></a> was accidentally released from <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a>'s Wuhan Institute of Virology, two German newspapers reported<br>According to report by Die Zeit and Sueddeutscher Zeitung, Germany's spying agency <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/BND" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BND</span></a> had indications that the institute had conducted gain-of-function experiments, whereby <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/viruses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>viruses</span></a> are modified to become more transmissible to humans for research purposes<br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/german-spy-agency-concluded-covid-virus-likely-leaked-lab-papers-say-2025-03-12/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/business/healthcar</span><span class="invisible">e-pharmaceuticals/german-spy-agency-concluded-covid-virus-likely-leaked-lab-papers-say-2025-03-12/</span></a></p>
sport of sacred spherical cows<p>Second time <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/CDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CDC</span></a> has reported estimates for more than two regions at a time since October.</p><p>To be clear, national data used for chart above are modeled on regional data collection.</p><p>LP.8.1 now estimated at majority in Great Lakes, nearing majority in NY/NJ and Mid-Atlantic.</p><p>XEC (incl. XEC.4) still around a quarter share in all three regions.</p><p>[For color key, see: <a href="https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-track</span><span class="invisible">er/#variant-proportions</span></a>]</p><p>❖ <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ThisIsOurPolio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisIsOurPolio</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Covid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Covid</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Covid19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Covid19</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/SARS2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SARS2</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/variants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>variants</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/CovidIsNotOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CovidIsNotOver</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/CovidIsAirborne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CovidIsAirborne</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/WearAMask" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WearAMask</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/BetterMasks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BetterMasks</span></a></p>
sport of sacred spherical cows<p>A FLuQE wavelet opened September, cresting as KP.3.1.1 / MC wave into November. FDA's second-guess vaccine target, KP.2, dropped out in December. Updated <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/CDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CDC</span></a> estimates indicate we've been in a JN.1.11 soup pretty much since then. </p><p>No new variants broken out by CDC, as KP.1.1.3 / LP descendant LP.8.1 approaches majority.</p><p>No recent GISAID data—as Raj's dashboard hasn't updated in near a month.</p><p>❖ <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ThisIsOurPolio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisIsOurPolio</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Covid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Covid</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Covid19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Covid19</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/SARS2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SARS2</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/variants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>variants</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/CovidIsNotOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CovidIsNotOver</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/CovidIsAirborne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CovidIsAirborne</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/dataviz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dataviz</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/datavis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>datavis</span></a></p>

Vaccine hesitancy was rising even before COVID-19 emerged – but the pandemic exacerbated the trend. More kindergartners are opting out of school vaccine requirements, and Texas lawmakers are trying to make it even easier to do so.

houstonpublicmedia.org/article

This week's three-minute update on #COVID19 conditions in the US:

- COVID has declined to low levels nationally
- The South and Midwest are at moderate viral risks
- 14 states are at very high or high viral activity
- Tomorrow is Long COVID Awareness Day, and some pertinent links are provided.

medium.com/@augieray_66704/win

Medium · Winter COVID and Viral Respiratory Season Coming to an End: Update for March 14, 2025By Augie Ray

"Chronic lung disease, high blood pressure, weakened immune system, chronic fatigue syndrome or #fibromyalgia (aOR = 2.20), & arthritis were associated with a higher odds of more severe Covid19 infection"

bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.

#MEcfs @mecfs @covid19 #Coronavirus
#COVID19 #COVID #COVID_19 #COVIDー19 #SARSCoV2 @novid@chirp.social #novid @novid@a.gup.pe #CovidIsNotOver
@auscovid19 #auscovid19
@longcovid
#LongCovid

Good morning, y'all. 5 years ago today I did the first issue of CoronaBuzz, a daily newsletter for updates about covid. Over the next 2.5 years I indexed and tagged over 13,000 articles about covid-19 and its impacts around the world. I am still updating that dataset though much more slowly than I was.

The collection is part of ResearchBuzz Firehose. I have an article on how to explore, search, and monitor it here: researchbuzz.me/2024/03/14/cor . I hope you find it useful.

ResearchBuzz · CoronaBuzz: Navigating an Collection of Over 13,800 Covid-Related Article Summaries
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Australian COVID-19 weekly stats update:

The risk estimate is trending gently upwards, now at 0.4% “Currently Infectious”, or 1-in-239.

That implies a 12% chance that someone is infectious in a group of 30.

Waves driven by the new LP.8.1.* variant have shown relatively low peaks in most places, and it is showing slow growth in the Australian genomic sequencing data.
aus.social/@mike_honey_/114135

#COVID19 #Australia @auscovid19
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Eine Ökonomie des Krieges

Ein spannender Text aus Italien aus dem Jahr 2024 zur Polykrise und wie bestimmte Entwicklungen seit der Corona-Pandemie in die Militarisierung von Staaten und Transformationen zur Kriegswirtschaft übergegangen sind.

xn--untergrund-blttle-2qb.ch/p

'Kasernenausdrücke wie „Wir sind an der Front“ oder „Hommage an die Kriegshelden“ wurden endlos wiederholt, ebenso wie die Wiederkehr veralteter patriotischer Rhetorik und Nationalhymnen auf Balkonen, die angesichts der prekären Gesundheitssituation ebenfalls nur von kurzer Dauer waren. Die menschenleeren Strassen erweckten den Eindruck einer Ausgangssperre, die bis zu einem gewissen Grad die wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse über die Entwicklung der Pandemie und die möglichen Lösungen zur Vorbeugung und Behandlung verdunkelte. Diese Massnahmen wurden in einen Rahmen gestellt, der an die Simulation einer Kriegssituation erinnerte. 

Leopard 2A6M CAN der Canadian Army (rechts) auf der Rüstungsmesse Eurosatory.
Untergrund-BlättleEine Ökonomie des Krieges: Das Kind der permanenten wirtschaftlichen DepressionDer Trend zur Kriegswirtschaft hat sich seit der Pandemie Covid 19 herausgebildet. Was auch immer der Ursprung von Covid 19 war, der schockierendste Aspekt war die Kriegssprache, die sofort in den Medien des Regimes die Runde machte.

How about some promising Covid-vaccine-related news? It's all early on, but it's still nice to see — and maybe buried amidst all the other news.

Nasal COVID-19 vaccine based on WashU technology to enter U.S. clinical trials
medicine.washu.edu/news/nasal-

Newly Discovered Antibody Protects Against All COVID-19 Variants
news.utexas.edu/2024/09/03/new

(Of course, who knows what will happen with any vaccine work and/or availability given this administration.)

WashU Medicine · Nasal COVID-19 vaccine based on WashU technology to enter U.S. clinical trials | WashU MedicineTrial will assess safety, efficacy of next-generation vaccine given via nasal spray, inhalation
"Multiple scientific studies have shown that the risk of developing Long COVID is compounded by each reinfection. Wastewater data, now the only reliable metric to track the spread of the pandemic, shows that the average American has been infected by COVID-19 nearly four times. At the current trajectory, this figure will reach eight infections per person by March 2030. A similar reality undoubtedly exists throughout the world."

5 years of the COVID-19 pandemic: The origins of a social catastrophe https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/12/qxrx-m12.html

#covid19 #health #healthcare #capitalism
World Socialist Web Site5 years of the COVID-19 pandemic: The origins of a social catastropheThe COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the incapacity of capitalism to deal with the problems of mass society, and that this social system is in an advanced state of regression.