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Living Safely With Covid #CovidIsAirborne Profile picture
Living Safely With Covid #CovidIsAirborne
@CovidSafeNZ
Covid Safe NZ | #CovidIsNotOver | Getting Covid is Not Inevitable | Masks + Ventilation + Filtration | Pandemics | Typos
Oct 29 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Actor @MattMcGorry shares the devastating impact of long Covid.

This is so well told and well referenced. Thank you for sharing this important story and raising awareness.

Part 1 of 4
2 mild infections April 2022 and April 2023.
18 months later Matt has never fully recovered. Matt McGorry #longcovid story
Part 2 of 4 talks more about his symptoms including dysautonomia, brain fog, sleep difficulties, Raynaud's syndrome and a vascular lesion.
Matt also suggests that many people are in denial that they have long Covid. Hard agree.
Jul 16 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
#H5N1 Colorado bird flu outbreak at poultry farm

5 out of 55 workers tested positive

16 additional symptomatic workers tested Monday, awaiting results

> 150 workers received antivirals Federal officials said temperatures above 104°F made it difficult for workers to wear the required full-body suits, goggles & N95 masks for protection.

Large-scale industrial fans were used to help cool the barns, but also spread feathers around, which are known to carry virus. Image
Jul 12 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Violet Affleck’s parents proud of her stand on masks and COVID precautions

'She’s wanted to do this for some time, but her parents wanted her to wait until she was 18,' an insider told DailyMail

dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/arti… Despite growing up in the limelight, the teen has maintained a modicum of silence, but reportedly decided to speak out publicly to quash the persistent speculation around her prolific mask wearing, and the accusations of 'hypochondria.' #VioletAffleck Image
Apr 17 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
Excellent article on all things Covid with useful facts from @AmandaKvalsvig and @DrAnnaNZ on the risks of Covid and the need to do more to prevent infections.

Balanced by some less helpful quotes from the usual suspects.

Paywalled
nzherald.co.nz/the-listener/h… One of the many reasons that Covid can't be treated the same as influenza:

“People might expect to get flu twice in a decade,” says @AmandaKvalsvig. “With this virus, some people are getting it twice a year.”
Dec 17, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
An exciting discovery! There’s a way to boost antibodies against Cov1d by sucking a lozenge.

A study found that Blis K12 S. salivarius oral probiotic boosts salivary anti-SARS-CoV-2 Spike IgG antibodies in vaccinated people via a process known as via molecular mimicry.
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Image Within two weeks of taking #BlisK12 probiotic, vaccinated participants showed increased antibody levels compared to controls or unvaccinated participants.

Participants took 50 mg (10^7 CFU) of Streptococcus salivarius K12 once per day before sleep.
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Oct 26, 2023 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
Potentially concerning mutations in BA.2.86 descendant JN.1

“What is most intriguing about JN.1 and why I believe there is cause for concern is the striking amount of differences between it and the leading viruses today: XBB.1.5 & HV.1.” @WmHaseltine


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JN.1 was identified in Luxembourg on August 25 2023 followed by England, Iceland, France & the US. In GISAID there are 91 instances of JN.1 at the time of writing, suggesting hundreds if not thousands have been infected with JN.1 as sequencing efforts have been largely halted.
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Oct 18, 2023 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
Taranaki healthcare staff volunteer to help colleagues with Long Covid - because there are no nationally coordinated Long Covid resources to help patients.
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 rnz.co.nz/news/national/… The clinic has no funding and relies on physios, occupational therapists and nurses volunteering to care for staff with the disease.

This is what #LongCovid looks like. Debilitating symptoms and limited support.
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Jul 24, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Novavax is commencing a phase 2/3 clinical trial of higher doses of an XBB.1.5 vaccine NVX-CoV2601 as a heterologous booster for people who have had 3+ mRNA vaccines.

The trial will test the original dose (5μg) compared with doses of 35μg and 50μg

1/clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05925… #Novavax’s original Covid vaccine in doses ranging between 5μg to 35μg were well tolerated in Novavax's Phase 2 COVID-Influenza Combination trial.

Now, Novavax is testing even higher doses of up to 50μg in its XBB1.5 monovalent vaccine NVX-CoV2601
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Jan 16, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Exciting news!
Novavax is working on an Omicron XBB specific vaccine with data expected to be presented at this month's FDA VRBPAC meeting.

Unlike Pfizer and Moderna #Novavax hasn’t yet updated its vaccine to specifically target more recently circulating strains of the virus.
1/ “Up through BA.5, our immune responses had held steady,” said Filip Dubovsky, Novavax’s chief medical officer.
“I can tell you right now that this #xbbvariant XBB, XBB.1, it looks different to us.”
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 #kraken #XBB #XBB15 $NVAX
barrons.com/articles/novav…
Sep 18, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Ayesha Verrall on the most recent changes to Covid settings:
“I advocated for this package to be adopted.”

There was an obvious reluctance to step up protections in the future, because the government has promised "certainty" that events will go ahead.
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 The certainty of summer festivals and events appears to be more important than preventing infection or allowing medically vulnerable people to safely access public transport or to participate in society.

Ableism, we see you.
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Sep 17, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
When asked if COVID was going to be with us forever, like cancer and heart disease, and be one of our biggest killers @DrAndrewOld said we would be “very unlikely” to eliminate it from the world but hopefully it would be manageable with an annual vaccine like influenza.
1/ Dr Old says the jury is out on where cases will plateau but the expectation is that there will be a lull and then future waves, with the possibility of a wave over summer.
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Sep 16, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
BA.2.75.2 (subvariant of #Centaurus) is one to watch. Early data suggests Omicron BA.2.75.2 exhibits more extreme antibody escape than any variant to date. It’s too early to know whether this will result in a wave Further explanation here. Neutralizing antibody levels for vaccinated & (overwhelmingly) infected serum is >5-fold lower than BA.5 & nearly 4-fold lower than BA.4.6