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so, Island Health has apparently been trying to contact us for urgent tests, but Gmail is flagging emails from them as Spam and Suspicious - go figure that tech is against public health
Never heard of paravirus 'parainfluenza' - but that is what we have, and they want more from us.... and a good friend who is an infectious disease NP is like WTAF!!!
Wife is entering week 4, I'm in week 3 of an 'unknown' virus that truly feels like a combination of noro and Covid. Reduced lung function, no appetite, incredible fatigue
She was tested for everything at ER with no conclusion. Now friends reporting they have this and are cancelling Spring Break trips.
Stay masked, stay safe - public health is asleep
People thinking COVID-19 is harmless now should have a listen to the podcast from Quirks and Quarks
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/mar-15-the-silent-long-term-effects-of-covid-and-more-1.7483146
EEeeek wear a mask.
This week, #Barbados’s Prime Minister Mia Mottley gave a fiery address to parliament, calling the US stance “unfair and unjustified”.
“We could not get through the pandemic without the Cuban nurses and the Cuban doctors,” she said.
Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister, Keith Rowley, warned that US interference in #Caribbean healthcare decisions was unacceptable.
Caribbean leaders have hit back at a threat issued by the United States government to cancel visas for anyone working with or supporting Cuban medical facilities, citing allegations of forced labour and claiming these missions “enrich the Cuban regime”.
Cuban medical missions, which provide doctors, nurses and other medical staff as well as medical facilities, are critical to healthcare systems in the Caribbean.
More #Covid19 research information, of course it’s not good
https://www.vice.com/en/article/covid-19-left-20-of-men-with-erectile-dysfunction/
#CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid #sarscov2 @auscovid19
UPDATED: #Quebec #SARSCoV2 variants.
Only 50 & 20 samples for weeks of 2/23, 3/2
Of the 20,
XEC.*: 45% (
18%; 
29.8%)
LP.8.1.*: 20% ( 6%; 4.3%)
KP.3.1.1.*: 5% ( 22%; 23.4%)
LF.7.7.2: 25% ( 28%; 23.4%)
https://ratnegative.tumblr.com/QCVariants #COVID19
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Of the samples collected in Quebec on these weeks, the prevalence of significant variants/lineages are as follows:
- 3/2 - 3/8 - (20 samples; no threshold)
• XEC.* (incl. XEC.5, ".9, ".11): 45%
• JN.1.11.1.*: 25%
→ LP.8.1.*: (incl. LP.8.1.1): 20%
→ KP.3.* (only MC.10.1): 5%
• LF.7.* (incl. LF.7.7.2): 30%
→ LF.7.7.2: 25%
- 2/23 - 3/1 - (50 samples; 4% threshold)
• XEC.* (incl. XEC.2, ".9, ".13): 18%
• JN.1.11.1.*: 38%
→ LP.8.1.* (only LP.8.1.1): 6%
→ KP.3.* (only KP.3.1.*, ".3.3.5): 32%
→ KP.3.1.1.* (incl. MC.1.2, ".10.1.*, ".11, ".13.2.1, "28.1.1): 22%
→ MC.1.* (only MC.1.2): 10%
• LF.7.* (incl. LF.7.1, ".7.2.1, ".7.7.2): 40%
→ LF.7.7.2: 28%
X.X.* in text = X.X & descendants.
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.
“If we were to see immune damage manifesting at a population level, it would look like what we’re seeing today: big waves of common illnesses. Unusual spikes of uncommon illnesses. Course reversal for previously declining and eliminated illnesses. An unexplained, global wave of sickness.”
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/kids-keep-getting-sicker-as-evidence?utm_campaign=post
German spy agency believed CoVid-19 likely started in a laboratory in Wuhan.
The widely accepted theory is that Covid-19 emerged in bats and then jumped to humans, most likely through another animal, or "intermediary host."
As time worn on, scientists have not found a virus in either bats or another animal that matches the genetic make-up of Covid-19, leading some to doubt the theory.
#Pandemic #CoVid19 #Asian #Health #Virus #PublicHealth #SARSCov2
#AskFedi bc I need a refresher:
Were there, or were there not, studies during the *designated pandemic years (2020-21)* (/s) re: #Covid19 + #ClimateChange impact on gut health, with one major symptom being something like the stomach flu?
If anyone has the links and receipts, PLEASE REPLY!
Even a local newspaper here in West Bengal, India, carried a headline recently re: the outbreak of a kind of stomach flu, with symptoms such as lack of appetite, exhaustion, indigestion, and diarrhoea. My BFFs are down with it, and I am, too. And yesterday the news announced an oncoming heat wave this weekend 
EDIT 15:33 HRS: following @hopeward 's clue, I think this could be a norovirus outbreak, because reading up on it, the symptoms all match. I don't know if the TV news channels have covered it at all.
Masking is sporadic here, almost rare. I still mask up, but ~ it does get difficult to breathe in a mask at 12:30 PM at 36°C ~ especially when chronic pain makes it hard for me to breathe even at home. Outside, there's also significant shaming and peer pressure to NOT mask up.
And as always, it's way worse for people with #Disabilities and #ChronicIllness (for instance: me), but people in this ableist, fascist hellhole of a country never want to talk about it.
Germany's foreign intelligence service in 2020 put at 80%-90% the likelihood that the coronavirus behind the COVID-19 pandemic was accidentally released from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology, two German newspapers reported on Wednesday
#Germany's spying agency BND had indications that the institute had conducted gain-of-function experiments, whereby viruses are modified to become more transmissible to humans for research purposes https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/german-spy-agency-concluded-covid-virus-likely-leaked-from-lab-papers-say/ar-AA1ALWxy #COVID19 #Germany #China #Covid #Wuhan
This is excellent.
Six years into this pandemic, you’d think people would want their beliefs to match reality.
I don't know about you, but I long for some cognitive...consonance.
https://healthydebate.ca/2025/03/topic/denial-airborne-covid-transmission/
"They cant do that!"
My sibling in Ishtar.
They gaslit 6 billion people that #Covid19 was over, just a cold, no biggie.
And then targeted the one country containing Covid w/a massive propaganda campaign.
They absolutely can:
️Disappear US citizens️Try to invade Canada️Try to occupy & claim Greenland
Its the same bastards through & through.
McMaster University is starting a clinical trial of an inhaled COVID-19 vaccine. They are looking for participants in Hamilton, Ottawa, and Halifax. The eligibility details are in the press release:
https://healthsci.mcmaster.ca/made-at-mcmaster-inhaled-covid-19-vaccine-begins-phase-2-human-trial/
A STUDY of outpatients diagnosed with mild COVID-19 in 2022 and 2023 found that age ≥40 years was associated with a 3.8x increased risk of respiratory and 4.35x higher risk of neurologic symptoms.
Mild #COVID19 is not mild.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S221253452500019X
Americans are spending nearly 1.5 hours less outside their homes in 2023 than in 2003. New research shows the pandemic accelerated a long-term trend of staying in. Does this sound familiar? https://buff.ly/zzztMZJ
#wfh #sociallife #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver
(Edit: Now with the right graph)
The pandemic’s impact on #education runs deeper than an embrace of remote learning. New research shows growing mistrust of #teachers, reversing the praise they received during lockdowns. https://theconversation.com/5-ways-schools-have-shifted-in-5-years-since-the-covid-19-246449
#COVID19 #highered #edsky
outbreak of unknown disease not publicly declared at my wife's LTC 3 weeks ago, she got almost immediately ill as no one masks (she does, but none are perfect) - intense fatigue, eventually into ER onto 02, steroids, anti-biotics, back home and will be off work for weeks more
I got it, 2 weeks can barely function, now a neighbour same, into ER, same thing, unknown - all neg PCR on Covid, RSV, Flu
It seems the medical community don't WANT to know