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: Pathology
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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
2026-09-05 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
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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
2026-08-07 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
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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