COVID-19 COVID-Related Excess Death and Sickness 🧠 This preprint from Israel (2026-09-23) reports that COVID-19 infections increase your risk of a stroke in the next two years: NB: It wasn’t clear if the lower risk of stroke among people vaccinated four times was because the vaccine made people more resistant to stroke, or just because… Continue reading 2026-10-02 General
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2026-09-26 General
COVID-19 Long COVID This paper from USA (2026-09-21) looked at health care workers and Long COVID. They found that 11.3% of the healthcare personnel reported persistent Long COVID symptoms. Different groups had different risks: I found the clinical/non-clinical split surprising. In the discussion, the authors theorize that the clinical people probably had better masks/better fit… Continue reading 2026-09-26 General
2026-09-19 General
Multiple Pathogens Recommended Reading This post by Biobot (2026-09-01) discusses exactly how they normalize their wastewater readings to account for variations in the wastewater stream. TL;DR: they use a combination of the pepper mild mottle virus concentration (which changes over time, as apparently peppers have outbreaks too) and the quantity of water in a week… Continue reading 2026-09-19 General
2026-09-12 General
I don’t have much news for you this week. COVID-19 levels seem to be increasing around us. COVID-19 COVID-Related Excess Death and Sickness This report from Canada (2026-09-10) reports that people who self-reported having had a COVID-19 infection had a much higher risk of developing a new medical condition compared to people who said they’d… Continue reading 2026-09-12 General
2026-09-05 General
Multiple Pathogens Vaccines 💉🧬 This manifesto (2026-03-17) by PopVax is interesting and very, very long. They want to make a ton of mRNA vaccines in India. They think that they should and can do it. Why they should: Why they can/how they are going to do it: They go hard on the idea of speed,… Continue reading 2026-09-05 General
2026-08-29 General
COVID-19 Pathology 🤰😬 This paper from USA (2026-08-12) reports that pregnancy-related death — for both mothers and babies — is higher if the mother catches COVID-19 while pregnant, that the risk varied with variant, and that it was much higher (especially for the mothers) than for mothers who don’t catch COVID-19. Compared to women who… Continue reading 2026-08-29 General
2026-08-21 General
COVID-19 Vaccines 💉 This paper from USA (2026-07-31) reports that brain surgery patients who got a COVID-19 vaccination (92% of which were mRNA) within 100 days before surgery had a median post-surgery survival time that was about twice as long as the median for people who did not get a COVID-19 vaccination survived. Influenza vaccines… Continue reading 2026-08-21 General
2026-08-15 General
COVID-19 Long COVID 🧠 This paper from UK (2026-07-21) reports that (surprise surprise!) Long COVID reduces the performance of working memory. Increasing age and number of COVID-19 infections also correlated with worse scores. This paper from USA (2026-08-03) reports that, in addition to Long COVID being sucky by itself, Long COVID also increases the risk… Continue reading 2026-08-15 General
2026-08-07 General
COVID-19 Pathology 😲‼️🦠 This paper from USA (2026-08-05) reports that many people hospitalized with COVID-19 have evidence normally dormant viruses reactivated, particularly cytomegalovirus (CMV), Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV), Human Herpesvirus 6, herpes simplex 1 and 2 (cold sores and genital herpes), and anelloviruses (which 90% of people catch but which normally has no symptoms). They also… Continue reading 2026-08-07 General
2026-07-31 General
Multiple Pathogens Pathology This paper from USA (2026-07-27) reports that children under six have a lot of asymptomatic infections and that infants under one year old are more vulnerable to illness than older children. Among children in the study, all of whom were under six years old, these were the percent of illnesses which were… Continue reading 2026-07-31 General