🇩🇪German government to discontinue wastewater monitoring for COVID-19. "The planned abolition of this vital public health program illustrates the aggression and criminality with which the ruling class is enforcing the “forever COVID” policy. It not only spreads the lie that the pandemic is over, it also seeks to eliminate all data that proves the opposite." “Unfortunately, no funds for the continuation of wastewater surveillance could be included in the government’s draft federal budget for the time being.” Source:

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German government to discontinue wastewater monitoring for COVID-19

Especially since the abolition of mandatory personal testing and all other coronavirus protection measures, wastewater monitoring is one of the mos...

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Stevie Nicks, you absolute legend 😷 "As a singer with asthma, I fucking hate the masks, but I wear them. People give you dirty looks. I dare anybody to give me a dirty look. I would just say, “Hey, you know what? I’m Stevie Nicks. And if I get sick, my entire thing goes down. Forty families are out of work. So that’s why I have a mask on, asshole.” Source: https://archive.md/5x2KV X source:

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🇦🇺AUS weekly COVID update: 25 October 2024 #COVID19Australia @npub15gr4...ztdn

The TGA last year made a decision to reduce paracetamol pack sizes from February 2025. "Each year in Australia around 225 people are hospitalised with liver injury and 50 Australians die from paracetamol overdose" @TGAgovau Source: https://archive.md/8MGf2

🇯🇵Japan COVID deaths 14 times that of flu after guidelines lifted. "More than 30,000 people in Japan died of COVID-19 in the first year after most coronavirus-related guidelines were lifted in May 2023, a figure over 14 times higher than deaths caused by influenza during the same period, government data showed Thursday." "After the virus was downgraded to the same legal status as influenza on May 8 last year, the government removed guidelines, including the seven-day quarantine period for those who tested positive, to facilitate the normalization of social and economic activities." Source:

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Japan COVID deaths 14 times that of flu after guidelines lifted

More than 30,000 people in Japan died of COVID-19 in the first year after most coronavirus-related guidelines were lifted in May 2023, a figure ove...

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"Maternal COVID-19 infection during pregnancy may adversely affect the development of the newborn's heart, resulting in congenital heart defects (CHD), researchers suggested yesterday in Scientific Reports." Study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-76690-6 Source:

Maternal COVID infections may affect newborn heart development

Ten percent of newborns in the COVID-19 group had abnormalities, compared with 4% in the control group.

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"Long COVID, a major public health crisis, is also becoming a significant economic crisis. A new study in Nature reports that the global annual economic impact of long COVID has hit $1 trillion — or about 1% of the global economy." New study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03173-6 Source: https://archive.md/tfccG

By CT @cdtwriter If we are "living with covid", if it's no big deal now, why is it taboo to even say the word? Sounds like a lot of fear and denial going on. Source:

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If we are "living with covid", if it's no big deal now, why is it taboo to even say the word? Sounds like a lot of fear and denial going on.

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COVID XEC variant “taking charge” and leading to surge of cases and deaths across Europe “Its evolutionary rate is something like 3 or 4 times faster than that of the fastest seasonal flu. So you’ve got this constant change in the virus, which accelerates the number of susceptible people." “It’s creating its own new pool of susceptibles every time it changes to something that’s ‘immune evasive’. Every one of these subvariants is distinct enough that a whole swathe of people are no longer immune to it and it can infect them. That’s why you see this constant undulatory pattern which doesn’t look seasonal at all.” "The detection and rapid spread of new variants disproves the lies of governments that the pandemic is long over and COVID-19 should be treated no differently to influenza." Source:

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COVID XEC variant “taking charge” and leading to surge of cases and deaths across Europe

The XEC variant, a combination of the KS.1.1 and KP.3.3 variants, was detected and recorded in Germany in June and has been found in at least 29 co...

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🇦🇺AUS weekly COVID update: 18 October 2024 Reported cases: 🔹ACT: ⬆️Up 75.6% 🔹WA: ⬆️Up 15.6% 🔹QLD: ⬆️Up 1.8% 🔹SA: ⬆️Up 1.2% 🔹NSW: ⬇️Down 17.5% 🔹TAS: Currently low but increasing as of 13 Oct 2023 🔹VIC: Hospital admissions 7-day average is 100 compared to 97 last week #COVID19Australia @npub15gr4...ztdn