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A while ago I was talking to a researcher and he was like “a few years ago through field research I found out that __ and wrote about it, it was such an exciting find” and then added “and it’s amazing how smart ChatGPT is, recently I asked it the same thing, and it came to the same conclusion as I did in my research!”

My man, ChatGPT didn’t come to the same conclusion you did and it isn’t smart. It stole words from your article and didn’t give you credit.

That’s not amazing, that’s plagiarism.

CHR virus in winter when ticks are inactive you say?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7435795/

We don't know half of what some say we do. And for sure 90 percent have no imagination and can't imagine anything beyond what they are going to have for breakfast.

(I'm not saying the above are expelled from respiratory tract. I don't have a guess until look at host factors and see if virus can replicate there. Just noting all the exceptions to general beliefs...)

Nosocomial outbreak of viral hemorrhagic fever caused by Crimean Hemorrhagic fever-Congo virus in Pakistan, January 1976 - PubMed

This paper describes the clinical, epidemiological, and laboratory investigations undertaken to isolate and identify the etiological agent of a nosocomial cluster of hemorrhagic fever cases due to Crimean hemorrhagic fever (CHR)-Congo virus. Since this virus is usually transmitted by ticks it was su …

PubMed
Irland will start to vaccinate 6months+ starting on Monday

https://youtu.be/UVyZXHEhlHE

From Mirrormask. We loved Burt Bacharach then and this is still one of my favourite moments from the film... RIP you amazing music master.

MirrorMask "Close to you" Clockwork-Doll Dressing Room Scene - Josefine Cronholm

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Wei et al, 2022: The first cluster of #omicron cases in Taiwan involved a quarantine hotel that re-circulated air between rooms via holes in walls. Despite not interacting, strains affecting the 3 people had only 2 single-base differences each. #COVID19
https://www.reddit.com/r/COVIDZero/comments/10tv6ov/wei_et_al_2022_the_first_cluster_of_omicron_cases/
Wei et al, 2022: The first cluster of omicron cases in Taiwan involved a quarantine hotel that re-circulated air amongst the rooms via holes in walls. Despite not leaving their rooms, strains affecting the 3 people had only 2 single-base differences each.

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Long COVID clinics and patients in limbo after federal funding expires.

“We have maybe 500,000 people with long COVID. If we make this hospital-centric, we are doomed to failure,” said inquiry member Dr Michelle Ananda-Rajah, the Labor MP for Higgins in Melbourne. “People are suffering. Just about every one of us knows someone who has had LC. It’s not a niche problem anymore.”

#COVID19Aus #LongCOVID

Source: https://www.smh.com.au/national/long-covid-clinics-and-patients-in-limbo-after-federal-funding-expires-20230130-p5cgez.html

Long COVID clinics and patients in limbo after federal funding expires

Patients with long COVID, their doctors and researchers are all stranded in limbo as they wait for federal and state governments to work out how to pay for their care.

The Sydney Morning Herald
Sweeping new review of the ongoing evolution of SARS-CoV-2. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00841-7
SARS-CoV-2 variant biology: immune escape, transmission and fitness - Nature Reviews Microbiology

In this Review, the authors summarize the mutations harboured by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants of concern. They describe the impact of mutations on virus infectivity and transmissibility, and discuss SARS-CoV-2 evolution in the context of T cells, innate immunity and population immunity.

Nature

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Guess what Australia is in for this winter, my lovelies. https://twitter.com/1goodtern/status/1620380582940409856

tern on Twitter

“HOLY COW 😮 Why is this graph not on every UK newspaper front page? This is the spike in Scarlet Fever (Strep) cases.”

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Last month ( so lineages circulating in countries where sequencing intensity is lower may be underrepresented here) #variant arena:
#Collection24

New lineage to watch closely is CM.8.1.1 (a BA.2.3.20 derivative) spreading fastly in Singapore
https://cov-spectrum.org/collections/24

covSPECTRUM

covSPECTRUM is an interactive platform aiming to help scientists investigate and identify variants of SARS-CoV-2.