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PRESS RELEASE 250,000 Kiwis may have Long Covid but New Zealand isn't counting #longcovid #longcovidawareness #longcovidawarenessday #kiwi longcovidsupport.co.nz/news/250000-...

There is a lack of Long COVID guidance from professional organizations like the American Psychological Association, American Psychiatric Association, and American Medical Association. A therapist’s toxic positivity can be a source of stress. #LongCovid thesicktimes.org/2026/02/24/s...

Latest NZ wastewater report shows covid-19 levels are the highest they've been since winter 2024. Respirator or regret. poops.nz

"50 reasons to mask" #maskup #covid #flu #measles #healthcare #disability #mecfs #chronicillness #millionsmissing

What a headline. "What many people don't realise is that getting Covid repeatedly is not like building immunity, it's more like accumulating damage," Petousis-Harris says. "Each infection raises your risk of long Covid and serious complications." www.rnz.co.nz/life/wellbei...

Here's the latest variant picture for New Zealand, to mid-February. XFG.* "Stratus" fell sharply to 19%, while NB.1.8.1 "Nimbus" finished at 34%. BA.3.2.* "Cicada" grew to 18%. #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #NZ #XFG #Stratus 🧵

The latest Wastewater COVID-19 Surveillance report for the week ending 22 Feb shows wastewater levels continuing to rise at most collection points. Meanwhile, all other data continues to be unavailable. The last report was for week ending 1/2/26. poops.nz

Here's the latest variant picture for New Zealand, to early February. XFG.* "Stratus" remained just dominant, but fell to 37%. #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #NZ #XFG #Stratus 🧵

A recent scientific paper compared excess death rates among countries, using the pre-pandemic period 2015-2019 as a baseline. A few years ago I integrated the same dataset they used (STMF from HMD) and built my own excess death analysis. I was reassured to see quite similar results. 🧵

OP: www.instagram.com/reel/DUjeJwl... "SARS-CoV-2 peptide fragments selectively dysregulate specific immune cell populations via Gaussian curvature targeting" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #CovidDamages #MaskUp_N95orBetter #ProtectYourselfBecauseNoOneElseWill #LongCovid #CovidRoulette

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Here's the latest variant picture for New Zealand, to late January. In a chaotic scene, NB.1.8.1 "Nimbus", JN.1.* +DeFLuQE (led by PE.1.4) and XFG.* "Stratus" are all significant. BA.3.2.* "Cicada" is also present, but at only 11%. #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #NZ #NB_1_8_1 #Nimbus #DeFLuQE #Stratus 🧵

I lost my job not long after my book came out, since then the meager income I've made on substack has helped me survive, but obviously this is a problem. I'm close to being back on my feet, and when I am, I'll be leaving the platform www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

Which is what I’ve been saying. It was a deeply inequitable decision for rich countries with strong health systems and lower HIV/malaria/malnutrition rates to decide to keep a pet SARS virus. Frankly, it’s just another form of oppression.

As you can see XFG is getting big in New York, while NB.1.8.1 does the same in California. Ontario/Canada has a decent amount of both. In Europe XFG is big in Catalunya/Spain, while NB.1.8.1 is a bit bigger in France then XFG. We'll now more in a few weeks! 2/2

I have made an overview of the battle between XFG and NB.1.8.1 in the world Samples collected on/after the 12th of May NB.1.8.1 with a very high percentage in some SouthEast-Asian countries, and big in Oceania as well XFG big in India/Pakistan/Bangladesh Mixed in North America and Europe 1/2

The failure to support alternatives to Pfizer for those that have reactions is (another) massive public health pandemic failure. Consultation closes 5 June, which isn't that far away.

Come read about our family adventure with the new game The Haunted Woods created by Steve Wilcox "In a far away land, there is a village surrounded by a sprawling forest. Once the forest was lush and vibrant, but it has grown dark and gloomy of late." 🧵1/

"Games are surprisingly useful communication tools in a world in denial about COVID-19 and Long Covid. Canadian professor Steve Wilcox has between 95 and 100% of students ... masking up with N95s after playing a simple game he designed called 'The Haunted Woods.'" thesicktimes.org/2025/05/06/l...

For those of you interested in a black Trident P2/N95/FFP3 respirator, Trident are reportedly “monitoring interest in this product and evaluating its commercial viability”. Tell them what you think tridentsafety.com.au/contact-us/

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The drop in hospitalisations to an all time low matches a drop in covid detected in wastewater to an all time low.

Take it from this American: you don't want the antivaxers to win. Here's a really helpful tipsheet for submissions: covidaction.nz/en/covidinqu...

“If you look at the tests they have the profile of a person with very early Alzheimer’s disease. Do they have Alzheimer’s disease? We don’t know.” apple.news/AjLJlXpTWR9G...

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"Students were turning up [at Otago university's Student Health Centre] with flu even weeks ago. The message for everyone is, it looks like the flu season is going to be early and don't delay [getting the flu vaccine]." www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

This is a patient group that has experienced decades of staggering hostility alternating with ignoring from the medical profession and society at large. They show why we can't treat disability benefits as a "treatment" for the problem of "not working". It's misdefining the problem.

Radio interview following the article published by RNZ earlier this week. www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

"If people understood how to protect themselves and why they should avoid repeat infections, I’m confident more people would make the effort. But they need to be informed." #Maskup😷 #COVIDisNotOVER #COVIDisAIRBORNE

Here are 50 reasons someone might be masking in 2025. None of them have to do with anxiety or criminal behavior, and not all of them about COVID. Use them in your accommodations requests or when advocating to protect the right to wear masks/prevent mask bans. open.substack.com/pub/misfitme...

Influenza cases and deaths are crazy high in California — especially deaths 2.5x higher than other recent years. Get tested and get flu antiviral medications if you’re sick. www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID...

UK: Rise in UK economic inactivity since Covid is genuine, says ONS chief. "Sir Ian Diamond, the UK’s national statistician was “very confident” in data showing that the number of people neither in work nor looking for work due to ill health had risen to some 2.8mn since Covid-19" archive.md/gc1kQ

In case you missed it, here is the New Zealand Ministry of Health confirming that Covid-19 infection carries great risks to your health, and every time you get infected your risk of Long Covid and other medical issues increases.

While joy emanates from within, managing external influences is crucial for maintaining it. This doesn't mean turning a blind eye to global issues— it's about disconnecting regularly to reconnect with our inner selves. Joy is precious. Nurture it before time slips away. gurdeeppandher.substack.com

Men more likely than women to develop COVID-19 pneumonia, research suggests. 🔹The risk of pneumonia was 7.0% for women, and 12.0% for men. 🔹Data on more than 1.6 million adult COVID-19 patients in Mexico from February 2020 to August 2023. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/men...

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Long COVID symptoms prevalent among healthcare workers New research has found that 33.6% of surveyed healthcare workers in England report symptoms consistent with post-COVID syndrome. Yet only 7.4% of respondents reported that they have received a formal diagnosis.

Of course they are ‘The JN.1 and KP.2 vaccines "are all way better than XBB would have been" against XEC’ Waiting on “early 2025” for the JN.1 vaccine in New Zealand…

You may think that neurological symptoms in #LongCovid are for old people, but it is the opposite. Young adults (18–44 years) and middle-aged (45–64 years) with mild acute #COVID cases (non-hospitalized), represent 90% of the cases of #NeuroCovid. Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Huge study of 18 million births from US found the proportion of babies born with a congenital heart abnormality increased by 16% after the first year of the Covid pandemic. Study: obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... www.news-medical.net/news/2024111...

As someone who lives down that end of town the difference between today and Feb 2022 was night and day. V telling that Seymour was happy to meet with the antivaxxers threatening to hang his colleagues but couldn’t hack the Hīkoi.

Sadly, 13 deaths being reported today: 🔸COVID-attributed deaths: 4 🔸Not COVID: 3 🔸Not available: 6 1 was less than 10 years old 1 was aged between 10 and 19 years 4 were in their 60s 6 were in their 80s 1 was aged over 90 Of these people, 6 were women and 7 were men #COVID19NZ

New Zealand COVID weekly update: 11 November to 17 November 2024 🔹New cases: 1,411 (-1.3%) 🔹Reinfections: 947 (67.1%) 🔹Deaths: 4 (-42.8%) 🔹Total deaths: 4,470 (+4) 🔹Hospital: 76 (-10.5%) 🔹ICU: n/a 🔸67.1% were reinfections #COVID19NZ Source: www.tewhatuora.govt.nz/for-health-p...