This makes me very sad, and it's horrible that pharmacists have to be in the front line of this mess.

Covid boosters really ought to be free to everyone who wants them.

The government says it's not cost effective, and yet they also moan that they spend too much money on sickness benefits (which they deliberately ignore in their cost effectiveness calculations). Can they really not join the dots?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm28q5gqvppo

#Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver

This makes me very sad, and it's horrible that pharmacists have to be in the front line of this mess.

Covid boosters really ought to be free to everyone who wants them.

The government says it's not cost effective, and yet they also moan that they spend too much money on sickness benefits (which they deliberately ignore in their cost effectiveness calculations). Can they really not join the dots?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm28q5gqvppo

#Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver

"This is the narrative the left uses because it allows them to be “sympathetic” to #LongCOVID patients while refusing to mask or take any sort of preventive action. This is the idea that Long COVID is real, it exists, but only a certain kind of person gets it, and it’s a small minority of people. There’s something special about them, it must be genetic or something, and it doesn’t really affect most people."

https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-the-lion-concern-himself

#COVID19 #TheGauntlet

"This is the narrative the left uses because it allows them to be “sympathetic” to #LongCOVID patients while refusing to mask or take any sort of preventive action. This is the idea that Long COVID is real, it exists, but only a certain kind of person gets it, and it’s a small minority of people. There’s something special about them, it must be genetic or something, and it doesn’t really affect most people."

https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-the-lion-concern-himself

#COVID19 #TheGauntlet

A big month for progress on mucosal Covid vaccines!

- A 35th mucosal vax in clinical trial
- Encouraging preclinical results for intranasal self-amplifying mRNA vax from Spain
- News on progress with the Covid infection studies laying the groundwork for testing mucosal vax in human challenge studies

Plus more clinical results for self-amplifying mRNA vax & fascinating pandemic preparedness news from Singapore

Nextgen Covid vax update @PLOS https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/09/30/the-35th-mucosal-covid-vaccine-in-clinical-trial-an-intranasal-self-amplifying-mrna-vax-and-more-nextgen-vaccine-update-33/

#Covid #Covid19 #Vaccines

Princess Aiko, the daughter of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, has tested positive for COVID-19, the Imperial Household Agency says. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/02/japan/princess-aiko-covid-positive/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #covid19 #health #princessaiko #imperialfamily

@yogthos Whoa - fascinating indeed. Here's the full paper, if anyone is interested:

https://academic.oup.com/braincomms/article/7/5/fcaf337/8258475?login=false

#brain #science #neuroscience #covid #LongCovid #brainfog #COVID19

"A US modeling study published yesterday in JAMA Pediatrics estimates that vaccinating pregnant women against #COVID19 prevented 7,000 hospitalizations in infants and 3,000 in pregnant women from January 2024 to May 2025." This is the exact population #RFKJr is trying to keep from getting a #vaccination. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/covid-vaccines-may-have-averted-thousands-hospital-stays-infants-pregnant-women-over-18

A big month for progress on mucosal Covid vaccines!

- A 35th mucosal vax in clinical trial
- Encouraging preclinical results for intranasal self-amplifying mRNA vax from Spain
- News on progress with the Covid infection studies laying the groundwork for testing mucosal vax in human challenge studies

Plus more clinical results for self-amplifying mRNA vax & fascinating pandemic preparedness news from Singapore

Nextgen Covid vax update @PLOS https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/09/30/the-35th-mucosal-covid-vaccine-in-clinical-trial-an-intranasal-self-amplifying-mrna-vax-and-more-nextgen-vaccine-update-33/

#Covid #Covid19 #Vaccines

"A US modeling study published yesterday in JAMA Pediatrics estimates that vaccinating pregnant women against #COVID19 prevented 7,000 hospitalizations in infants and 3,000 in pregnant women from January 2024 to May 2025." This is the exact population #RFKJr is trying to keep from getting a #vaccination. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/covid-vaccines-may-have-averted-thousands-hospital-stays-infants-pregnant-women-over-18

STUDY: "SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with a significantly increased risk of developing prediabetes and type 2 diabetes. The risk was most pronounced within the first month following infection (prediabetes: HR 1.87; type 2 diabetes: HR 1.87) and, although attenuated, remained significantly elevated over the subsequent five years (prediabetes: HR 1.23; type 2 diabetes: HR 1.48)." #COVID19

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5520869

https://x.com/SMpwrgr/status/1971532910273679570

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/5PWCFTJ

Link to Aussie health care survey. Please take 10min to advocate for clean air in health care.

#CleanAir #Covid #covid19 #AusCovid19 #WearAMask #COVIDisAirborne #CovidIsNotOver

A tripling of threats to local school officials since before #COVID19: https://www.npr.org/2025/07/11/nx-s1-5428534/school-board-members-threats-harassment-dei-lgbtq-covid-pandemic-princeton

A rise of working-age disabled adults that just keeps getting worse: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU01074597

Accelerating decline of student test scores. Math for 4th graders (who were in kindergarten while we wore masks) declined one point in the six years before COVID but four points since. Reading for 4th graders dropped 2 points from 2013 to 2019 and 5 points since. https://www.edweek.org/leadership/reading-scores-fall-to-new-low-on-naep-fueled-by-declines-for-struggling-students/2025/01 2/3

Driving is getting worse, with half saying people in their area are driving more dangerously than before #COVID19, while only 9% say people are driving more safely. Also, road rage is more common and deadlier since COVID: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/11/20/what-the-data-says-about-dangerous-driving-and-road-rage-in-the-us/

We're choosing to ignore all the signs and research because... why? 3/3

"But Augie, if repeated #COVID19 infections were harming brains, wouldn't we see evidence of that?" Thanks for asking. Yes, we would. Diminished cognition, memory impairment, attention deficits, and damage to executive functions would lead to multiple growing problems, such as:

A doubling of unruly air passengers compared to before COVID: https://www.faa.gov/unruly

1/3

Here's the latest variant picture for New Zealand, to early September.

NB.1.8.1 "Nimbus" has continued to dominate, finishing at 57%.

It looks under serious threat from JN.1.* +DeFLuQE, which finished at 36%.

#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #NZ #NB_1_8_1 #Nimbus #DeFLuQE
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