Living Safely With Covid
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Layers of Protection: Vaccines + Masks + Ventilation + Filtration
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Pandemics | Typos
- LP.8.1 vaccine availability From 2 March 2026, the COVID-19 vaccine for people aged 12+ will be updated from JN.1 to Comirnaty LP.8.1. The vaccine for children has already moved to LP.8.1 and the vaccine for infants will change during February. www.pharmac.govt.nz/medicine-fun...
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- Preprint: Long COVID, POTS, and LC-POTS are biochemically distinct diseases. Their differences are encoded in post-translational modifications inside fibrinaloid microclot complexes; not in protein abundance. 🧵 by @resiapretorius.bsky.social threadreaderapp.com/thread/20063...
- BA.3.2 now 13.0% in NZ wastewater "Cicada" is making itself known in New Zealand with a big jump in the last fortnight. BA.3.2 was below 1% in the fortnight to 30 November, increased to 11.7% week of 7 Dec and is now at 13.0% Also present: 28% MC.10.2.1 24% PE.1.4 19% NB.1.8.1 16% XFG
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- Long Covid’s long reach: Long Covid & ME/CFS are post-infectious chronic conditions that can change people’s lives and sense of identity. "For parents and caregivers, it’s scary seeing a child with such a debilitating condition and with no clear treatment or pathway to recovery." #LongCovidKids 1/
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- Today’s WHO Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 Vaccine Composition update is already out of date. The TAG-CO-VAC recommends a monovalent LP.8.1 vaccine stating available data indicate BA.3.2 does not currently exhibit a clear fitness advantage over JN.1-derived variants 1/
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- Immunity theft: COVID infection may leave people more susceptible to other infections
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- First there was reduced wastewater surveillance for Covid and now the crowdsourced FluTracking survey is being discontinued
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- New Zealand BA.3.2 “Cicada” wastewater update Detected each week to date in November, but fell below 1% threshold in week to 23 Nov. Detected in a few sampling sites. Not yet widespread. NB.1.8.1 NImbus: 40.7% PE.1.4: 18.0% XFG Stratus: 16.0% 45% of population covered by ww testing.
- 2025 Australia & New Zealand flu seasons prolonged due to influenza A(H3N2) subclade K (formerly J.2.4.1) Australia had record numbers of laboratory-confirmed flu cases and an unusually long season stretching from May to November NZ had a more moderate season but with a longer than usual tail
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- Huge reduction in ED and urgent care visits for children who received a 2024–2025 COVID vaccine. If only Pharmac would get up to date with the science and offer vaccines and boosters for all age groups.
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- Refresh Connections app for Covid Conscientious friendships, dating and to find community online Available on iOS and Android Please share to help people connect! www.refreshconnections.com
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- Reposted by Living Safely With CovidWe're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
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- A real-world experiment in how schools spread viruses The main risk is not close contact, but prolonged exposure to contaminated air in enclosed spaces CO₂ >1000 ppm nearly doubles transmission ris It’s the air we share. We need ventilation and clean indoor air www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Otago University public health professor Nick Wilson said the proposed cuts were "deeply worrying" at a time when other countries were gearing up public health expertise in the face of rising threats from pandemics and climate change. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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- BA.3.2 detected again in New Zealand wastewater 💩 Week ended: 💠5 Oct 3.7% 💠2 Nov 1.4% 💠9 Nov 2.0% #BA32 🎃 Variants with a national percentage of less than 1% are not shown 1/
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- Serological Evidence of HPAI (#H5N1) in Invasive Wild Pigs in Western Canada Legitimate concern that wild pigs could act as mixing vessels for bird + human flu strains ➡️ emergence of new more swine-adapted reassortants ➡️ swine strain could infect people and create a novel pandemic virus in humans
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- More countries need to invest in researching, preventing & treating Long COVID “Karl Lauterbach: The CDU/CSU and SPD want to invest more money in research into post-infectious diseases like Long Covid. Former Health Minister Lauterbach says that Germany could thus become a global leader.”
- The Washington State Department of Health has announced their presumptive H5 bird flu case announced yesterday has tested positive , not for #H5N1, but for HPAI #H5N5 - the first recorded case in humans. bsky.app/profile/fla-...
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- Pfizer Comirnaty LP.8.1 vaccine approved 30 Oct by Medsafe NZ Timing of rollout is up to Pharmac, which has noted feedback that people want earlier access to updated vaccines Note: JN.1 approved 7 Nov 24, rolled out 20 Jan 25 Hope we don’t have to wait until 2026 for LP.8.1!
