🇦🇺AUSTRALIA weekly COVID update: 14 February 2025 #COVID19Australia #COVIDisntOVER #COVIDisAIRBORNE @npub15gr4...ztdn image
H5N1 🇺🇸 U.S. Tracker Lots of H5N1 about. Source: image
🇺🇸US COVID update: Feb 10, 2025 🔸1 in 67 people currently infected 🔸716,000 new daily infections 🔸5,012,000 new weekly infections 🔸251,000 to 1,002,000 weekly Long COVID cases "There is more transmission today than during 61.0% of the pandemic" Source: 📄.pdf @npub15gr4...ztdn
🇺🇸 USA: A nasal vaccine for COVID-19 – based on technology developed at Washington University in St. Louis – is poised to enter a phase 1 clinical trial in the U.S. "Hamsters vaccinated with the nasal COVID-19 vaccine and subsequently infected did not pass the virus on to others, breaking the cycle of transmission." “All effective vaccines reduce sickness and death, but COVID-19 vaccination through the nose and mouth also seems to reduce transmission” Source:
Queensland: Weekly infection surveillance report: 22 Jan to 28 Jan 2025 Reported cases: 🔹COVID: 1,086 (-16.6%) 🔹Influenza: 577 (-12.9%) 🔹RSV: 412 (+9.2%) Hospitalisations: 🔸COVID: 179 (-12.6%) 🔸Influenza: 24 (-27.2%) 🔸RSV: 21 (-34.3%) Source: https://www.health.qld.gov.au/clinical-practice/guidelines-procedures/diseases-infection/surveillance/reports/flu @npub15gr4...ztdn image
🇦🇺Australia: It has been 5 years since COVID-19 hit Australia. These numbers show its impact | ABC News "Tomorrow marks 5 years since the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Australia." #COVID19Australia #COVIDisntOVER #COVIDisAIRBORNE @npub15gr4...ztdn Source: image
Queensland: Weekly infection surveillance report: 15 Jan to 21 Jan 2025 Reported cases: 🔹COVID: 1,303 (-12.2%) 🔹Influenza: 663 (+14.9%) 🔹RSV: 377 (-3.0%) Hospitalisations: 🔸COVID: 205 (-19.9%) 🔸Influenza: 33 (-13.1%) 🔸RSV: 32 (-13.5%) Source: https://www.health.qld.gov.au/clinical-practice/guidelines-procedures/diseases-infection/surveillance/reports/flu @npub15gr4...ztdn image
Meet the Americans who still take COVID-19 precautions seriously. “I don’t consider myself COVID cautious. I consider myself COVID competent,” Zebrowski said. “Cautious would imply that I have an unreasonable fear of something. I do not have an unreasonable fear of this disease.” Source: @npub15gr4...ztdn
🧵(1/3) Queensland: Weekly infection surveillance report: 13 Jan 2025 **Change in cases since last report (15 Dec 2024)** Reported cases: 🔹COVID: 1,485 (-27.3%) 🔹Influenza: 577 (+102.4%) 🔹RSV: 389 (-32.1%) @qldhealth @npub15gr4...ztdn Source: https://www.health.qld.gov.au/clinical-practice/guidelines-procedures/diseases-infection/surveillance/reports/flu image
‘The pandemic isn’t over’: my year of long Covid – video "Darren Parkinson is one of about 2 million people living with long Covid in England and Scotland. The illness is having a detrimental impact on his life, stopping him from being the kind of active and involved parent he wants to be to his two children. The Guardian has spent a year with Darren and his family to document his journey as he tries to recover from long Covid and come to terms with his new reality" Source: @npub15gr4...ztdn #LongCOVID