Because of course it is…🙄
CDC facing major funding cuts, with direct impact on state and local health departments
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is poised to lose about $1.3 billion in funds as a result of last month’s federal debt ceiling negotiation that were initially allocated through Covid-19 supplemental funding, the agency shared with CNN.
One week ago, a court in California ruled that employers cannot be sued for spreading COVID to their workers due to lack of protections.
This week, In-N-Out banned their employees from wearing masks.
This is horrible.
Assuming this is legit, brace yourself.
US health officials are moving forward with plans to sunset the federal government’s Covid-19 vaccine distribution program next month and transition to the commercialization of the vaccines this fall – and they are making their expectations clear to manufacturers on what that transition should look like.
Vaccination protects against severe COVID-19 but not against infection. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Danderyd Hospital now show that protection against infection with the new omicron variants is linked to mucosal IgA antibodies, which are not induced by vaccination. These are the findings of two studies recently published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, and The Lancet Microbe, and could explain the limited protection by currently available vaccines against infection.
Meta won’t say what happened to taxpayer data it may have illegally collected
One tax preparer said the scandal likely impacts every user of its services.
Published 11 July 2023
The paper is new and examines everything we know about long covid.
"Here, we focus on current thinking about the pathophysiology of long COVID and the evidence for potential underpinning mechanisms. It will be evident from this that, although great progress has been made, we are far from a coherent schema linking SARS-CoV-2 infection to the diverse array of persistent symptoms that have been described. Hypothesized mechanisms include end-organ damage, a persistent SARS-CoV-2 reservoir, an abnormal immune response to acute COVID-19, an effect of reactivation of other viruses such as Epstein–Barr virus (EBV), altered systemic immunity, auto-immunity (including effects on the autonomic nervous system), coagulopathy and microbiome dysbiosis. Different disease descriptors may clearly impact those tests chosen for analysis and, in turn, whether particular participants are selected for a given clinical trial."
@auscovid19
#CovidIsNotOver
#LongCovid
#CovidIsAirborne
To keep yourself and family and community safe and to slow down the rise of new variants:
Wear a respirator, keep vaccinations up to date, clean air, isolate when infectious.
SARS-CoV-2 infection can lead to a diverse array of chronic symptoms, collectively termed ‘long COVID’. In this Review, Altmann and colleagues explore current thinking about the pathophysiology of long COVID and discuss potential immunological mechanisms.
I haven't had the mental energy to write a substantive blog post lately, and it's disheartening to see so few readers nowadays. From thousands to less than a hundred.
But I have some Big Thoughts about this surreal stage of the #Covid #pandemic and the global Jonestown-level self-poisoning event some of us are watching from the jungle's edge, as the masses line up for their cyanide-laced drink of #SARS2 while the forces of greed & power cheer them on.
Boost if you want it written. Meanwhile...
MaksiSanctum has moved
Dr. Lucky Tran 
trendless
Ars Technica
Peter Frederick
Ed Suominen