COVID IS STILL HERE!

A New COVID Variant Called “Cicada” Is Spreading Fast… Here’s What People Are Feeling

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https://balleralert.com/profiles/blogs/cicada-covid-variant/

Pessoas imunodeprimidas precisam usar máscara.

A BA.3.2 ou "cicada", é uma nova variante da covid-19, já detectada em pelo menos 23 países e se espalha rápido pelos EUA, onde foi encontrada em pacientes e em sistemas de esgoto de 29 estados.

É possível que a proteção pelas vacinas atuais seja reduzida, sendo necessário atualização destas.
#Covid #covid19 #cicada
https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/saude/ba-3-2-entenda-o-que-ja-se-sabe-sobre-a-nova-variante-da-covid/

I have been worrying about this for days but don't have the spoons to dig in:

BA.3.2 lost its ability to bind tightly to ACE-2 receptors on cells [1]

Remember that Long COVID rates were much higher during Delta? Remember that Delta was much more prone to syncytia (not needing ACE2 at all) in part because it had reduced ACE-2 affinity?

syncytia formation via the highly fusogenic Delta spike promotes cellular senescence and extracellular cytokine release [2]

and I know I read (skimmed) a paper suggesting that this method of direct contact cell-cell transmission was driving Long COVID - aha here:

We propose the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 transitions to persistent infection, facilitated by syncytia formation [3]

[1] https://archive.md/HWOHt#selection-3205.38-3205.105
[2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10785701/
[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40535019/

#COVID #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #CovidIsNotOver #BA32 #syncytia #syncytial

JWeiland is still on birdsite but if you are keeping informed about COVID, and especially if you have kids, this seems pertinent right now:

https://bird.makeup/users/jpweiland/statuses/2040311085371212036

A reminder that it is a deep injustice to force people of any age into contagious situations.

That applies to prisons, and it applies to schools.

#COVID19 #COVID #SARSCoV2 #CovidIsNotOver #BA32

Remember the start of the #covid19 pandemic, and trump kept saying it was only a few days, weeks, months away from being over?

The draft dodger is doing the same damn thing with the war he started in #Iran.

#FDT

Source: CBC #news #novascotia

#COVID19 wreaked havoc on this N.S. seniors' group. It's now trying to rebuild
An organization that has advocated for #novascotia seniors for more than five decades says there's a sad reason why its membership numbers have dropped sharply in recent years. "We lost a lot of people through COVID," says the president of the #novascotia Federation of Seniors.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/nova-scotia-federation-seniors-rebuilding-9.7145950?cmp=rss

Here's the latest variant picture for Europe (excluding the UK), to mid-March.

BA.3.2.* "Cicada" has continued growing to dominance at 44%

NB.1.8.1.* "Nimbus" fell to 28%.

XFG.* "Stratus" fell sharply to 19%.

#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #EUR
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