Health Care System 😡 In last week’s post (2026-10-24), I talked about how the province was squeezing group Long COVID sessions so hard that they would probably cease to exist. A friend of mine who has contacts in the Long COVID community, suspects that the province’s motivation is to keep people from going on disability.… Continue reading 2026-10-30 BC
2026-10-30 General
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
2026-10-24 BC
Health Care System This article (2026-10-21) reports that the province is cutting providers’ reimbursement rates for telehealth group medical visits — kind of the only thing that people with tired-all-the-time patients (ME/CFS, Long COVID, fibromyalgia, etc.) have available to them. The province is cutting both the per-patient reimbursement and the number of patients per session… Continue reading 2026-10-24 BC
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 BC
COVID-19 and fluA are both going up pretty sharply. Vaccines At least four friends of mine who are not elderly got a flu vaccine and/or a COVID-19 vaccine this week. They all said that they went through the province’s Get Vaccinated web site, so I guess they aren’t making younger people wait for the older… Continue reading 2026-10-16 BC
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
2026-10-09 BC
If you didn’t read last week or the week before, let me warn you that flu season is TWO MONTHS early this year. The Oct 3 levels of flu were similar to what we usually see in late November/early December. COVID-19 is definitely going up. I was hoping that this season would be mild, since… Continue reading 2026-10-09 BC
2026-10-09 General
Multiple Pathogens Pathology 🎉🎉🎉 This article (2026-10-01) about this paper (2026-08-22) reports that scientists have discovered a relationship between PTSD, Long COVID, ME/CFS, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis! They found changes in gene expressions which looked unrelated in the linear readout of the DNA, but whose three-dimensional structures all connected to related points of the… Continue reading 2026-10-09 General
2026-10-02 BC
Flu A and COVID-19 levels are both definitely going up. COVID levels have accelerated quite a bit. I guess COVID-19 is not going to peak in early October like it did for the past few years. Pity. Vaccines The province’s fall vaccination campaign has started — sort of? I heard on Oct 1 that they… Continue reading 2026-10-02 BC
2026-10-02 General
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