This is why raw case numbers now mislead. Surveillance should shift from population-wide testing to fragments: hospitals, aged care, wastewater - however, very sporadic reporting in Australia at the moment. When signals weaken, outbreaks don’t vanish — they arrive late.

www.theage.com.au/healthcare/u... So while it is well established that that shingles is often a post viral syndrome, this piece focuses on stress as the likely cause in the increase of shingles in younger age groups - more denialism by those who are trying to wish C19 out of existence!

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders. Aluminum is an ADJUVANT. It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine. That’s it.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.

For those in need of seriously, seriously good news this (incredibly detailed summary) is essential reading and true hope & light in a dark world! Thank you Chise!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Does anyone know when COMIRNATY LP.8.1 is due to be available in Aus pharmacies? TGA Reg Oct 1 & A3 poster is up on Dept website but… 🤔same pre Xmas distribution debacle as 2024?

GOOD NEWS! For the first time ever, Huntington's disease has been successfully treated. A groundbreaking new miRNA treatment, AMT-130, slowed the progression of the disease by 75%. These results are likely to support the first approval of a genetic treatment for the rare neurodegenerative condition.

Annual subscriptions are 25% off for the next two weeks to celebrate. If you appreciate this freely available, regularly updated public resource, please consider supporting the Pandemic Accountability Index today! www.panaccindex.info/4d454813

I haven’t seen nearly enough people talking about this. The levels of greed and inhumane thinking on display is actually terrifying. America really is dystopian as fuck.

These young people are our future. Let's make sure they have a future. #USDemocracy

In Seoul, a trial of 12 immunocompromised patients with persistent COVID-19 found that autologous virus-specific T cell therapy led to full recovery in all 3 who received it, with no serious side effects. Manufacturing delays remain a key hurdle. academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...

Incredible turnout for the #NoKings protest in Los Angeles!

In honour of Scott Morrison being recognised in this year's King's Birthday Honours list for his leadership during the pandemic I thought it would be great to remember a few of his very finest moments of said leadership … Good times - remember “it’s not a race”?

@criprights.bsky.social Is this the program that invited you to participate and then refused you the right to wear an N95 to stay safe? www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

We need a moratorium on uni administrators making any kind of decision until we work out what's wrong with them Seriously - what *is* wrong with them. Is higher ed of the worst governed sectors of all time?!

Well, it worked.

the ACIPC says australia's IPC guidelines underestimate the risk of airborne transmission in healthcare settings, argues surgical masks = insufficient protection against COVID and recommends N95 respirators should be standard wherever airborne transmission is a risk www.acipc.org.au/position-sta...

How much of this behavioural disturbance is due to COVID-induced neurodevelopmental damage? apple.news/ABt3-JmM0QZC...

The new covid vax restrictions have "raised concerns among Americans who came to rely on annual shots, including the children of elderly parents, caregivers to the medically vulnerable and people who want to avoid the risk of long covid." 🧵1/3 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

BREAKING: Scott Pelley just risked everything to make one thing clear: The attack on free speech isn’t coming—it’s already here. Journalists are being silenced, critics are being punished, and most of the media’s playing dead. This is state-sponsored suppression. This is dictatorship in real time.

The great @suzannevega.bsky.social releases “Luka” as a single this weekend in 1987. Upon hearing it, Prince (whom she never met) sent a letter. “‘Luka’ is the most compelling piece of music I’ve heard in a long time,” he wrote. “There are no words 2 tell you all the things I feel when I hear it.”

So @markbutlermp.bsky.social What contingency plans are in place for Australia? Our supply of Covid vaccines? Of safe future flu vaccines? Time is running out. Insist the TGA & DOH act now to get Aus production going! We cannot be at the mercy of US chaos and incompetence. @brendancrabb.bsky.social

“Everyone who gets sick from measles will experience some level of immune amnesia…[which] can last for around three years.” I wonder when the mainstream media will get the okay to say the equivalent for COVID.

Republican collaborators aren't just silent—they're cheering. Fascism doesn't rise alone. It needs cowards, profiteers, and enablers. History remembers them too. #FascismIsNow #NeverForget #DefendDemocracy

We traded Europe for a guy that builds concentration camps for profit.

Health Rising: Too Much Exertion Produces Autonomic Nervous System Hit in Long COVID, ME/CFS, and Fibromyalgia All signs point to the fact that too much exertion - disrupts autonomic nervous system (ANS) functioning – in people with long COVID & ME/CFS/FM www.healthrising.org/blog/2025/04...

“Flying blind”: RFK Jr.’s cuts halt data collection on abortion, cancer rates in firefighters, HIV, and more #Medsky apple.news/A5uwI4_KNRNK...

Well this is inconvenient for Well Done Angus

Cindy Gallop posted this on LinkedIn. Am I justified in being leery of traveling to the USA this year given the work I do, and my stance on Trumpty Dumptys politics? Or is this Jenny penny territory? www.linkedin.com/posts/cindyg...

“We didn’t backflip Brian. We just gently and calmly walked back the policy to a point time where it didn’t exist”

"Do you want a good government or a country that's in ruins?" This interview was too good not to share in its entirety. So meet Grant, a 15-year-old student from Princeton, New Jersey, who spoke to our reporter at the #HandsOff rally there. He has some thoughts.

@sanaqadar.bsky.social Will you be starting up the Eyes on Gilead podcast for the final season? 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

This Long Covid Awareness Day, let's look at why people believe they don't know anyone with Long Covid. We are in the middle of a mass disabling event that most people refuse to acknowledge. When we face the truth & stop denying reality, we can save lives:

If you’re interested in a crash course from the beginning in chronic issues with COVID I recommend this excellent interview with David Putrino. Perhaps the least well understood consequence is the damage every infection likely causes everyone, symptomatic or not. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Demonstrations for International Long COVID Awareness Day have sparked around the globe. We reached out to international organizers for photos from their actions to document the demonstrations and highlight their demands. bit.ly/4im6qFk

Five Years of Pain, Fatigue, and Gaslighting: Life With Long Covid www.yahoo.com/news/five-ye...

The 15th of March is LC Awareness Day! On this day we acknowledge Australians impacted by and living with LC. #Covidisnotover

Yes, Trump came to power electorally. So did Hitler.

Military chiefs from most NATO and EU countries met in Paris yesterday to discuss new security arrangements. The US wasn’t invited. It was a closed door meeting and there’s been no announcement of outcome but with both Australia and Japan in attendance we seem to be seeing a new alliance forming.

Mr. Modore is one of thousands ... with TB who have lost access to treatments and testing in the weeks since the Trump admin. slashed foreign aid... As they go about their lives, waiting and hoping, they are spreading the disease, to others in their own families, communities and beyond.

“The act of forgetting has always been a tool of oppression. We cannot adequately resist that which has been revised, erased, or forgotten by our community members.” Important insight on COVID-19 and Long COVID erasure from @vashetc.bsky.social forgeorganizing.org/article/refl...

Trump never had a peace plan for Ukraine. He had a plan for Ukraine's surrender, with a colonial resource grab. As Zelenskyy rightly refused it, or to cooperate in Trump's TV spectacular, the US has now cut Ukraine off. That's what blackmail looks like. That's what the world is up against.