Herzig, Magwira & Lovell investigate protein structural constraint in SARS-CoV-2 evolution, suggesting that despite its rapid rate of mutation, the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein exhibited limited genomic plasticity following zoonotic transmission into the human population.
Paxlovid shows organ-specific and age-specific impacts on risk of developing post-acute sequelae of COVID-19
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Recent analysis by several Variant Hunters has confirmed that BA.3.2.* is preferentially infecting children. This pattern has repeated in every country examined, which AFAIK are all of those with data by Patient age.
For example, here’s a comparison of recent samples from New York. For children, BA.3.2.* is 11% of samples, vs just 1.4% of adults, so around 8X more common among children.
I have integrated the Patient age data from GISAID and done my best to clean and aggregate it on a new "by Age" page in my dataviz.
Look, we have known for more than half a decade that COVID-19 is airborne, we shouldn't need to have this fight.
When an article gets something wrong to the point that it is dangerous to the public, that is the definition of a public danger. So when this piece https://theconversation.com/covid-19-variant-ba-3-2-is-spreading-quickly-across-us-a-doctor-explains-what-you-need-to-know-279447 says
First, wash your hands
if this bothers you too, you're welcome to complain until they correct (and to hopefully make their editors adjust to correct in future):
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Warning though: that 2nd link is a heavy minimizer at times:
there’s no indication that it’s any more dangerous or that it causes more severe disease than the COVID-19 variants that have circulated widely over the past few years. [2]
yeah well there's no indication it's any LESS dangerous than the rest which are ongoing costing us lives and healthspans, the trillion dollar a year economic loss, all the human cost from "about half" of healthcare workers with Long COVID, the double-digit general population with Long COVID, is there?
Still no indication it's mild, then, hm? None at all, zero? OK. Moving along.
It's 2023 - no it's 2024. It's 2025. No, no, it's 2026! And we have another variant that defeats vaccination to date:
BA.3.2-derived lineages exhibit escape from vaccine-elicited neutralising antibodies [1]
And another variant that is defeated by N95s 
and clean air, because
70 to 75 genetic changes in its spike protein [2]
can't stop aerosolized particles from being trapped by effective filtration.
[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2052297526000314
[2] https://theconversation.com/covid-19-variant-ba-3-2-is-spreading-quickly-across-us-a-doctor-explains-what-you-need-to-know-279447
The Human Cost of Failing to Name COVID 'Airborne'
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/03/27/Human-Cost-Failing-Name-COVID-Airborne/
"Is it possible that health-care workers were inadequately protected during the pandemic — and continue to be unnecessarily exposed to serious risk?"
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