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
Category: COVID-19
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
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