I want to spell this out in case the implications aren't clear: This means all public tools/webapps of GISAID data (all the ones you've been used to seeing thru the pandemic, as far as we can tell) are prohibited. The file allowed this. Cut that - cut off all tools the public & others were using.

We are looking for teachers willing to test Jasper, a CO2 monitor in their classrooms. Jasper is a prototype and we would like to receive user feedback as soon as possible from several countries. If you are interested, please fill out the form: letsair.org/jasper

So we have four branches of BA.3.2 circulating now two BA.3.2.1 related each other but distinct and two BA.3.2.2 related but distinct. My take about this is that both lineages are enough tuned to not disappear , with BA.3.2.2 having the potential of expand further.

Your best bet is to email Pharmac to ask when LP.8.1 vaccine will be available You can also check their website for updates If you hear anything feel free to tag us so we can share it www.pharmac.govt.nz/medicine-fun...

Old 3M N95 masks stayed effective for up to 13 years (though straps may fail).

Pfizer Comirnaty LP.8.1 vaccine approved 30 Oct by Medsafe NZ Timing of rollout is up to Pharmac, which has noted feedback that people want earlier access to updated vaccines Note: JN.1 approved 7 Nov 24, rolled out 20 Jan 25 Hope we don’t have to wait until 2026 for LP.8.1!

🦠Heads up. BA.3.2 has arrived in NZ BA.3.2 detected in Aotearoa New Zealand wastewater 3.2% for the week to 5 October BA.3.2 is not shown in the fortnight to 19 Oct. However, variants with a national percentage of < 1% are not included so BA.3.2 is likely to still be circulating

LP.8.1 mRNA vaccine: 💠 Markedly boosts neutralising antibody responses against NB.1.8.1 and XFG 💠 Much lower neutralising antibodies against BA.3.2.2 infections

BA.3.2 has not been detected in Aotearoa New Zealand genomic samples processed to date (3 October 2025) #BA32 www.phfscience.nz/digital-libr...

Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation Millions of adults and kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize. #LongCovid

“Immune dysfunction and systemic effects in HIV and SARS-CoV-2 infections are distinct, but share relevant similarities and downstream consequences.” “Emerging evidence that SARS-CoV-2 induces a distinct form of acquired immunodeficiency (AID).” www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...

#NZpol They feel invisible because yeah, they've been made invisible. Because we've "moved on" apparently. The utter state of things right now.

This is heartbreaking 💔

So distressing. It's bad enough dealing with long covid in midlife when you've at least lived some life. But these people are right at the start of their lives and they're so incapacitated. The platitudes from the ministry of health don't help either.

#LongCovid “No one is immune to this” Offered rest home care at 24: the lonely plight of formerly healthy young Kiwis suffering with long Covid The pandemic never ended, and we're all living proof of that. www.1news.co.nz/2025/10/10/o...

I just updated our cryptic lineage dashboard if anyone is interested. Viewer warning: this site contains a ton of actual data that really long persistent COVID infections are still occurring. 1/ dholab.github.io/public_viz/0...

There are actually so many cuties on Refresh Connections and the fact they're all Covid conscious makes it even better 😭💕💕

An excellent article by Amanda Kvalsvig and Anna-Maria Arabia, with contribution by Dr Bronwyn King AO, highlighting the reasons that indoor air quality matters more than ever, and how to translate the evidence into meaningful action. theconversation.com/why-investme...

Long covid & kids - details below: 🔹️"Children and teenagers are twice as likely to develop long Covid after a second coronavirus infection as after an initial infection, a large new study has found. The research provides evidence that Covid reinfections can... 1/6 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/h...

🔬 The compound, based on 6-methoxypyrimidine and with low molecular weight (306 g/mol), selectively inactivates Mpro. After optimization, the candidate PH521 (16f) proved to be 11 times more potent than the initial one, with antiviral activity confirmed in cells. (2/3)

🚨 New breakthrough against COVID-19 A study led by Prof. Saulo Fernandes (School of Pharmacy/UFRGS), in which I am a co-author, identified a new class of reversible inhibitors of the main protease (Mpro) of SARS-CoV-2 – an essential enzyme for viral replication. (1/3)

💊 This breakthrough paves the way for the development of new, fast-acting and effective antiviral therapies against coronavirus. 📄 Read the full preprint: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn... #COVID19 #Antivirals #ScientificDiscovery #DrugDiscovery #Virology (3/3)

AFD Blog `Taiwan CDC Statement On Increased Antiviral #Resistance in Seasonal #H1N1 Cases in 2025' afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/09/taiw...

AFD Blog `CDC MMWR x 2: Record Pediatric Flu Deaths & Pediatric Influenza-Associated Encephalopathy and Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy' afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/09/cdc-...

Nature: Exclusive: RFK Jr cancelled mRNA research — but the US military / DoD is still funding it by Elie Dolgin go.nature.com/3Kl9C8n

They have started to put PE.1.4, a KP.3.1 sublineage, on the map in New South Wales/Australia. We have seen it grow in Queensland and New Zealand as well, but it has hardly been seen outside of Oceania. Will it stay there mostly, like XBC eg. did, or will it conquer the world?

I had no idea long covid had surpassed asthma. That is astounding and disturbing. I still have trouble with how some folks just refused to protect others by simply protecting themselves. Just crazy.

This is the way Boston schools: Indoor air quality sensors in every classroom and office connected to a ventilation system with monitoring data publicly available.

“No one can escape the impact of poor indoor air quality”@drbronking.bsky.social

"Clean air for every child in every classroom is a right, not a privilege." "This is why for Montenegro, improving air quality in schools is not a secondary concern. It is a fundamental responsibility. A matter of safeguarding the next generation." 👏👏👏

"We have the tools. What we need now is the collective will to act. To mandate indoor air quality performance standards that effectively reduce the risk of exposure to pathogens and pollutants." "So accessible indoor air becomes the reality in all public spaces everywhere."

Incredible moving speech by 20 year old Violet Affleck at the UN today. Violet listed the harms of infection, pleaded for people to do more to protect children from COVID infections and advocated for masks and for clean filtered indoor air for everyone.

“Clean indoor air is one of the lowest-hanging fruits to drive immediate and lasting change. By ensuring the air we breathe indoors is healthy and safe, we can deliver transformative benefits for public health and wellbeing.” A/Prof Suman Majumdar,
Chief Health Officer, Burnet Institute

Scientist behind Trump’s Tylenol claims was paid $150K to give evidence against drug maker The Harvard academic Andrea Baccarelli gave an ‘unreliable’ testimony on the links between autism and paracetamol, and produced research that raises ‘serious concerns about bias’

In animal models an adenovirus-based mucosal booster vaccine was superior to vaccination + prior infection: - Strongly boosted IgA antibodies in nose & lungs - Triggered local T-cells in airways - Provided stronger, longer-lasting protection against SARS-CoV-2. threadreaderapp.com/thread/19705...

Times, UK: Scientist behind Trump’s Tylenol claims was paid to give evidence against drug maker by Samuel Lovett bit.ly/4nHrad9

"Unlike classical oncogenic viruses, which transform cells through viral oncogenes or by activating host oncogenes, SARS2 appears to promote tumorigenesis by inhibiting tumor suppressor genes and pathways, while activating survival, proliferation, and inflammation-associated signaling cascades"

Oncogenic potential of SARS-CoV-2: "the virus encodes several proteins that alter key signaling pathways associated with cancer hallmarks." #LongCovid biosignaling.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Health and science reporters should lead the coverage of all these health-related conspiracy theories & newsroom leaders should keep their both-sides political reporters out of their way.

What Brett Sutton is saying now is nothing new. He was one of the few CHOs who openly stated that #COVIDisAirborne even in the early crisis years of the pandemic. This is an official Victorian Dept of Health video from 21 Dec, 2021.

In humans, HPAI infection is often respiratory, and recently conjunctivitis. Here, demonstration that the gut expresses abundant avian receptors, is infected ex vivo by the H5N1. Also, HPAI detected in an autopsy colonic sample. 👉 academic.oup.com/jid/article-...

EPI_ISL_20175638 is the first possible recombinant with Jn.1 if real and not artifact or contamination or coinfection it would be BA.3.2.2/NB.1.8.1/BA.3.2.2/NB.1.8.1 getting from 245 to 439 in the spike from NB.1.8.1 and getting back orf7ab/Orf8 and acquiring Orf9b:I5T all from NB.1.8.1

An ACIP agenda item described as Covid manufacturer updates will be a couple of minutes for each company (Moderna, Novavax and Pfizer) to respond to presented data. Two sources tell Endpoints those remarks or presentations have to be reviewed by ACIP and HHS for "transparency."

Scoop: Covid-19 vaccine makers have been sidelined ahead of this week's ACIP meeting. Working group members have not asked companies to produce any data, though Pfizer had a call with members last week, per one source. For @endpts.com: endpoints.news/covid-19-vac...

💉 Update on Pfizer’s application to register the LP.8.1 vaccine in NZ 15/9/2025: The initial appraisal has been completed with Medsafe now requesting additional information No application on record from Biocelect to register the latest Novavax vaccine in New Zealand

Sydney Airport hit by major delays after COVID outbreak swept through control tower forcing multiple air traffic controllers to call in sick “Highlights the ongoing impact of COVID-19 on critical infrastructure, with the virus continuing to cause staffing shortages across essential services.”

Could a new NIH preprint rewrite the COVID textbooks? Turns out SARS-CoV-2 latches onto heparan sulfate (HS) clusters on the cell surface. ACE2 only acts later, inside endosomes. Blocking HS with pixantrone stopped Omicron JN.1 infection in human airway cells. twitter.com/threadreader...

“A surveillance survey…finds an almost 70% elevated prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in the blood of pet dogs exposed to the virus in their homes… The animals showed no signs of SARS-CoV-2 infection and were brought to the vet clinic for other indications.”

👀👀👀 I still can’t believe we didn’t go all out on indoor air quality tbh

Hospitals overflowing but media calls it "lurgies" 🧵 ED like a ‘mass casualty situation’: Why this year’s winter lurgies are later and longer-lasting | Stuff share.google/ovOKLTXDj8IO...