You can find updated COVID info with charts and URLs from some countries here:
40+ Olympic athletes test positive for COVID/other respiratory diseases
Vaccination rates have been plummeting, especially among children and some countries (like freaking Canada) have chosen to just do a fall vaccine. Worldwide, test positivity rate is above 10%, but in Europe, the figure is over 20 %. From The WHO:
wastewater surveillance — which tends to give a two-to-three-week advance indication on hospitalisations — suggests SARS-CoV-2 circulation is “two to 20 times higher than what is currently being reported”, she said. “This is significant because the virus continues to evolve and change, which puts us all at risk of a potentially more severe virus that could evade our detection and/or our medical interventions, including vaccination.”
Antibodies From Long COVID Patients Provide Clues to Autoimmunity Hypothesis
Even though I got a brand new autoimmune vascular disease from COVID, my doc is still pooh-poohing me as she "also caught COVID." Maybe you will have better luck than I... (I tried to find a new doc, but after almost 2 years, they got me a doc that I already see when mine is on vacation FFS. She is in the same freaking clinic and was trained by my doc and is like a clone) This is a blog, but it provides resources. https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/antibodies-from-long-covid-patients-provide-clues-to-autoimmunity-hypothesis
The have pinpointed an enzyme in the blood of severe COVID patients
Amal Amer, the principal investigator and OSU professor, suffered from brain fog following a moderate bout of COVID.
"It was the most disturbing experience of my life," she tells Axios via email. "To suddenly lose the ability to think, put ideas together, follow a simple conversation, was devastating. I am among the few fortunate patients who recovered after several months."
The study will last five years. How quickly a cure may become available to patients is not yet known. That depends if an existing drug could be used to target the enzyme in question, Amer says, or if a new one would need to be developed and tested, which would take longer.
https://www.axios.com/local/columbus/2024/08/08/ohio-state-long-covid-research-grant
Some of these are from July because I was sick and then had a nasty bout of wasp bites to also recover from and just did not have time or energy ... but they may still be news to YOU!
Fox QAnon Host Calls Covid a ‘Scam.’
It is 2024, in the middle of what may become another surge of COVID, Rachel Campos-Duffyis spewing her lies and Conspiracy theories on the most watched network in the US. She previously said the virus is a "psy op." She also praised Ron Johnson for his bravery during "the covid pandemic scam" and for standing up for "the vaccine injured" and his podcast with another COVID expert… Russel ”also an asshole” Brand. Calling Karma! https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/fox-host-campos-duffy-covid-scam-1235073841/
I was outcast... when I started vaccinating my child.
Woman who was an antivax leader has changed her mind as she now has a daughter 3 tears old. I am still pissed that she may have killed many people and especially children…but she is on the road to redemption. https://www.reddit.com/r/vaxxhappened/comments/1ehfbph/i_was_outcast_by_almost_everyone_i_knew_when_i/
Long-term cognitive and psychiatric effects of COVID
‘Many people who were hospitalised with COVID-19 continue to have cognitive and psychiatric problems even two to three years post-infection.’ https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-08-01-long-term-cognitive-and-psychiatric-effects-covid-19-revealed-new-study Study https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(24)00214-1/fulltext
See also... https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/forum/general-discussion/update-1-covid-19-leaves-its-mark-on-the-brain
These 12 symptoms may define long COVID, new study finds.
Let's put a big emphasis on that "may! There are 200 symptoms that have been attributed. We can't let doctors bully us because they have a "list" and make define ... definite! For anyone re-infected with COVID and had not getting the full vaccine doses, there is evidence of worse outcomes. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/these-12-symptoms-may-define-long-covid-new-study-finds
Incidence of heart attacks/strokes was lower after COVID-19 vaccination
The study, published today in Nature Communications, showed that the incidence of arterial thromboses, such as heart attacks and strokes, was up to 10% lower in the 13 to 24 weeks after the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Following a second dose, the incidence was up to 27% lower after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine and up to 20% lower after the Pfizer/Biotech vaccine.
Incidence of cardiovascular disease is higher after COVID-19, especially in severe cases. This may explain why incidence of heart attacks and strokes is lower in vaccinated people compared with unvaccinated people, but further explanations are beyond the scope of this study. https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/incidence-of-heart-attacks-and-strokes-was-lower-after-covid-19-vaccination
New vaccine effective against coronaviruses that haven’t even emerged
Preparation for the next pandemic is well underway.
For example, the new vaccine does not include the SARS-CoV-1 coronavirus, which caused the 2003 SARS outbreak, yet it still induces an immune response to that virus.
“Our focus is to create a vaccine that will protect us against the next coronavirus pandemic, and have it ready before the pandemic has even started,” said Rory Hills, graduate researcher in the University of Cambridge’s Department of Pharmacology
He added: “We’ve created a vaccine that provides protection against a broad range of different coronaviruses – including ones we don’t even know about yet.”
Study https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-024-01655-9
🚨 WARNING!! 🚨
Anyone reading here who has Long COVID, please read: Beware; Reddit r/longcovid taken over by an AntiVaxxer Site.
UPDATE 1
This is good news
Sorry this is so late but my news feed is restricted as I am one of those prolific searchers that has been targeted to make Canadians pay for new laws in the Online News Act. For anyone else who missed it:
Another physician who lost ABIM certifications because of COVID conspiracies was Peter McCullough in 2022. All should have lost their licenses for the people they killed with their misinformation and selling Invermectin online!
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/111481
US: FDA Authorizes Updated COVID Vaccines
to Better Protect Against Currently Circulating Variants. Sadly, the program that temporarily paid for the shots for uninsured people expired at the end of August. Some states have started a rollout so check with your pharmacy. https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-and-authorizes-updated-mrna-covid-19-vaccines-better-protect-against-currently
https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/updated-2024-2025-covid-vaccines
CANADA: Updated COVID Vaccines
Updated COVID vaccines will target the JN.1 or KP.2 strains are anticipated to be authorized by Health Canada in the coming weeks. This chapter will be updated to provide guidance on the use of the new 2024 COVID-19 vaccine products at that time. https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications/healthy-living/canadian-immunization-guide-part-4-active-vaccines/page-26-covid-19-vaccine.html
Study: Late start of COVID treatment
may still benefit immunocompromised patients.
Peer-Reviewed Publication: https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jvi.00905-24
Delirium, protein called IL-6 and tocilizumab
Originally, the main neurological complications ranged from brain inflammation and delirium to nerve damage and stroke. As patients started to get a plethora of medications, the numbers decreased exponentially, but until now, there was no specific medication pinpointed. It may be possible that use of this medication could reduce the long lasting brainfog and other debilitating neurological symptoms of Long COVID and OTHER viruses and THEIR post viral complications .
https://www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/covid-medication-also-helps-prevent-delirium/
Just some added good news:
COVID mRNA tech spurs more research
Phase 1 clinical trials have been launched across 34 research sites in seven countries: the U.K., the U.S., Germany, Hungary, Poland, Spain and Turkey. In the U.S., three locations are currently recruiting patients, accepting people at both early and late stages of the disease.
“It’s very exciting. When we look back less than four years ago with the mRNA COVID vaccine, people had doubts and there was uncertainty, but it definitely works,” Lee said. “I think people need to remember the COVID-19 vaccine worked for cancer patients. It reduced mortality more than the general population.”
The vaccine works by identifying and targeting cancer cells, Lee said, and is designed to complement other lung cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy and immunotherapy.
The RNA vaccine research is going gangbusters
1st lung cancer vaccine trials launch, powered by COVID mRNA technology. This vaccine is designed to treat the most common form of the disease.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10712395/lung-cancer-vaccine-trials-mrna-covid/
Clinical Trial Results for mRNA Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine in Phase 2. (Ongoing)
https://www.mskcc.org/news/can-mrna-vaccines-fight-pancreatic-cancer-msk-clinical-researchers-are-trying-find-out
Phase 3 trial begins for Melanoma
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/26/cancer-mrna-vaccine-melanoma-trial
1961: mRNA Ferries Information
Although the technology of mNRNA had been worked on for 20 years before vaccine research was accelerated by COVID, it was discovered in 1961 and research into how mRNA could be delivered into cells was developed in the 1970s.
Just one more tool in your arsenal for Antivaxxers saying how "new" this all was.
RNA is chemically similar to DNA except that
The sugar in its nucleotide building blocks is ribose and not deoxyribose.
RNA uses the nucleotide base uracil instead of thymine. But like thymine, uracil can pair with adenine.
RNA, especially mRNA, tends to be single-stranded, not double-stranded like DNA.
https://www.genome.gov/25520298/online-education-kit-1961-a-mrna-ferries-information