COVID-19 Vaccines 💉 I don’t talk about pre-clinical trials much because there are so many of them, but I want to assure you that better vaccines do exist in the lab — lots of them, in fact. For example, this paper (2026-08-18) reports that their protein subunit vaccine protects hamsters from multiple COVID-19 strains for… Continue reading 2026-10-30 General
Category: Long COVID
2026-10-24 General
COVID-19 Long COVID This preprint from USA (2026-10-16) reports that a subset of people with Long COVID have activated T cells targeted to COVID-19 which are activated — which before has always (or maybe almost always?) meant that there was some level of virus in the body that was activating it. In addition, their T… Continue reading 2026-10-24 General
2026-10-16 General
COVID-19 COVID-Related Excess Death and Sickness 😬🧠 This paper from Taiwan (2026-09-14) reports that among people with type 2 diabetes, people who had a documented COVID-19 case had a way higher risk of dementia: Long COVID 😢💉 One of the theories for why people with Long COVID don’t recover is that SARS-CoV-2 virus persists in… Continue reading 2026-10-16 General
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
2026-09-05 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
2026-08-15 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
2026-07-24 General
Levels are still slowly going up locally and at many places around the world. Multiple Pathogens Recommended Reading This article (2026-07-20) discusses why people get hostile towards not just the messaging of an epidemic, but also at health care workers. COVID-19 Long COVID 🧠 This paper from USA (2026-07-21) reports that among people with neurological… Continue reading 2026-07-24 General
2026-07-17 General
COVID-19 infections are increasing in many places, including — it looks pretty clear now from the wastewater levels — in BC. The absolute rates are low, but disease spread is always exponential — which means that it can appear that the levels can switch from low to high very quickly. Based on the province’s modelling… Continue reading 2026-07-17 General