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
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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
2026-10-09 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 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