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  • Pathfinder
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    The CDC released updated recommendations on March 1, 2024:

    Hat tip Lance:

    CIDRAP- CDC announces new respiratory virus guidance, ends COVID isolation policy

    March 1, 2024, 06:49 PM

    https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cdc-announces-new-respiratory-virus-guidance-ends-covid-isolation-policy CDC announces new respiratory virus guidance, ends COVID isolation policy Stephanie Soucheray, MA (https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/stephanie-soucheray-ma) Today at 4:05 p.m. Today Mandy Cohen, MD, director of the Centers for

  • Pathfinder
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    German patient vaccinated against Covid 217 times

    23 hours ago
    By Michelle Roberts,Digital health editor

    A 62-year-old man from Germany has, against medical advice, been vaccinated 217 times against Covid, doctors report. The bizarre case is documented in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal. The shots were bought and given privately within the space of 29 months. The man appears to have suffered no ill effects, researchers from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg say.

    'Very interested'

    "We learned about his case via newspaper articles," Dr Kilian Schober, from the university's microbiology department, said. "We then contacted him and invited him to undergo various tests in Erlangen. He was very interested in doing so." The man provided fresh blood and saliva samples. The researchers also tested some frozen blood samples of his that had been stored in recent years.
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    Researchers have written up the unusual case in a medical journal.


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    CORRESPONDENCE|ONLINE FIRST

    Adaptive immune responses are larger and functionally preserved in a hypervaccinated individualPublished: March 04, 2024DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(24)00134-8
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    In summary, our case report shows that SARS-CoV-2 hypervaccination did not lead to adverse events and increased the quantity of spike-specific antibodies and T cells without having a strong positive or negative effect on the intrinsic quality of adaptive immune responses. While we found no signs of SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections in HIM to date, it cannot be clarified whether this is causally related to the hypervaccination regimen. Importantly, we do not endorse hypervaccination as a strategy to enhance adaptive immunity.
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  • Pathfinder
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    The CDC may be reconsidering its COVID isolation guidance

    FEBRUARY 14, 2024 6:01 AM ET
    Pien Huang

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may soon drop its isolation guidance for people with COVID-19. The planned change was reported in The Washington Post on Tuesday, attributed to several unnamed CDC officials.

    Currently, people who test positive are advised to stay home for at least five days to reduce the chances of spreading the coronavirus to others. The unnamed officials told the Post that the agency will advise people to rely on symptoms instead. If a person doesn't have a fever and the person's symptoms are mild or resolving, they could still go to school or work. These changes could come as early as April.

    The CDC hasn't yet confirmed the report. In an email, an agency spokesperson wrote that the CDC has "no updates to COVID guidelines to announce at this time. We will continue to make decisions based on the best evidence and science to keep communities healthy and safe."
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    The current guidance advises five days of isolation. Unnamed health officials have indicated that this guidance may soon go away, a move that troubles public health experts.

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  • Pathfinder
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    Wastewater tests show COVID infections surging, but pandemic fatigue limits precautions

    Tulane professor says public should be made more aware of risks

    BY: TIM HENDERSON - JANUARY 23, 2024 10:29 AM
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    Although it’s spotty and inconsistent in many places, wastewater testing is pointing to a new wave of COVID-19 infections, with as many as one-third of Americans expected to contract the disease by late February.

    With pandemic fatigue also in full force, and deaths and hospitalizations well down from peaks in 2021 because of high vaccination and immunity rates, many people are inclined to shrug off the new wave, fueled by the JN.1 variant. But COVID-19 continues to take thousands of lives a month. Older, sicker people need to take particular precautions, experts point out, and everybody should think about the debilitating condition known as long COVID that can strike even young, healthy people and last years.
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    Like many experts, Hoerger said everybody should be more aware of the high risk and try to avoid getting infected or reinfected with COVID-19, since every new infection increases the chance of long COVID.
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    “Everyone is vulnerable in some way. The best way to avoid getting long COVID is to avoid getting COVID,” Hoerger said.
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    To me it’s almost unethical that we’re not warning people that this highly transmissible virus is still with us and some people should really be taking precautions.

    – David Freedman, Clemson University environmental engineer
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    Older people and cancer patients make up an increasing proportion of COVID-19 deaths, according to Stateline’s analysis. People 65 or older made up 88% of those deaths last year, compared with 69% in the peak year for deaths, 2021. Cancer patients made up 12% of COVID-19 deaths last year, up from 5% in 2021.

    In some states with older populations, COVID-19 deaths remain stubbornly high compared with other states. Vermont had the lowest COVID-19 death rate in the country in 2021 but now ranks fourth in the number of deaths per capita, behind Kentucky, West Virginia and Mississippi.
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    Wastewater testing points to a new wave of COVID-19, with as many as one-third of Americans expected to contract the disease by late February.

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  • gsgs
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    they talk about millions ... the 4 trillion in relief payments are forgotten
    I remember, how I was shocked in late March 2020 when I learned how
    expensive the pandemic is.
    Yet everything is fine now .. except 1M deaths and inflation



  • gsgs
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    for anyone. I remember Snowy Owl's thread long ago.
    They are better now. I got 3 used ones meanwhile.
    People don't take covid serious here now.
    Not in the news

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    States trashing troves of masks and pandemic gear as huge, costly stockpiles linger and expire

    By The Associated Press and JENNIFER PELTZ and DAVID A. LIEB
    Published: Dec. 20, 2023 at 6:12 AM CST|Updated: 2 hours ago

    (AP) - When the coronavirus pandemic took hold in an unprepared U.S., states scrambled for masks and other protective gear.

    Three years later, as the grips of the pandemic have loosened, many states are now trying to deal with an excess of protective gear, ditching their supplies in droves.

    With expiration dates passing and few requests to tap into its stockpile, Ohio auctioned off 393,000 gowns for just $2,451 and ended up throwing away another 7.2 million, along with expired masks, gloves and other materials. The now expiring supplies had cost about $29 million in federal money.

    A similar reckoning is happening around the country...

    An Associated Press investigation found that at least 15 states, from Alaska to Vermont, have tossed some of their trove of PPE because of expiration, surpluses and a lack of willing takers.

    Into the trash went more than 18 million masks, 22 million gowns, 500,000 gloves, and more. That’s not counting states that didn’t give the AP exact figures or responded in cases or other measures. Rhode Island said it got rid of 829 tons of PPE; Maryland disposed of over $93 million in supplies.
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    “Anytime you’re involved in a situation where you’re recalling how difficult it was to get something in the first place, and then having to watch that go or not be used in the way it was intended to be used, certainly, there’s some frustration in that,” said Louis Eubank, who runs the South Carolina health department’s COVID-19 coordination office. The state has discarded over 650,000 expired masks.
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    As the grips of the pandemic have loosened, many states are now trying to deal with an excess of protective gear, ditching their supplies in droves.

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  • sharon sanders
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    Is this for me? We were going to make our own with a box fan and air filters but we ran out of time. We used fans only and they were placed to push air away from the at-risk people. In addition, we had the activities outside in a screened room.

  • gsgs
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    what air-purifyer do you use ?
    Xiaomi 3H was best in German tests,
    I got a used one at $120 at ebay

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  • gsgs
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    32% in Germany in week 46 (we are now in week 49)
    percent in weeks 39,..,46 : 2,3,4,7,10,14,18,32

    hospitalizations in this wave seem to have reached the top now

    Arbeitsgemeinschaft Influenza (AGI) am Robert Koch-Institut. Von der 40. bis zur 20. Kalenderwoche, also während der Wintersaison, finden Sie hier aktuelle und fundierte Informationen zur Aktivität der Influenza.


    increasing RSV, no flu yet

  • gsgs
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    it's maybe just those , who live in an environment with much exposure ?!

  • sharon sanders
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    bump this

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  • sharon sanders
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    Joël Mossong
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    Latest update of BA.2.86* like lineages from GISAID. Still in a relative exponential growth phase with a doubling period of about two weeks. Looks like it could become dominant in the samples going to be collected next week (week 49).
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  • sharon sanders
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    So for Thanksgiving we had fans in the rooms directing air away from the vulnerable people group. Before the two events I did a nose prep and gargled with Listerine. There were 10 people total at each event - ages 9 - 88. I did not wear an N95 mask. As far as I know I did not contract COVID-19. Again, this is not medical advice. I am trying to find life hacks to be able to do more things in society.

  • sharon sanders
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    There is no such thing as "new covid".

    COVID-19 has not left. It keeps mutating to difference forms (variants).

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