🇪🇸 Spain hits back: Masks are mandatory again Spain’s Health Ministry warns of rising flu and COVID this winter and mandates masks in hospitals, primary care, long term care, and elderly facilities in high-risk areas to protect at risk people, prioritizing nursing homes and immunocompromised patients. Source:
Queensland Weekly Respiratory Surveillance Report: 25 Nov to 1 Dec 2025 Reported cases: 🔹COVID: 288 (+11.6%) 🔹Influenza: 1,538 (+18.6%) 🔹RSV: 390 (-9.3%) Hospitalisations: 🔸COVID: 40 (+17.6%) 🔸Influenza: 73 (-1.3%) 🔸RSV: 35 (+2.9%) Source: https://health.qld.gov.au/clinical-practice/guidelines-procedures/diseases-infection/surveillance/reports/flu image
BNO News @BNOFeed "6 years ago today: A man in Wuhan, China starts feeling ill, becoming the first confirmed case of COVID-19" Source: image
🇪🇸 Spain may bring back indoor face mask rules as flu and COVID cases surge. Health leaders will meet on December 3 to decide whether masks should again be required in hospitals, health centers, and possibly other crowded indoor venues like cinemas or theatres to help reduce transmission. Source: https://archive.md/2ySDF image
You know someone with Long COVID. They need you to ask about it genuinely. Written by Philip Hoover "The problem with Long COVID is that most of society would rather not see it. We want to believe the pandemic was just a bad dream we awoke from years ago. (When I hear someone say during COVID, in the past tense, I want to flip a table.)" #LongCOVID Source: https://archive.md/7Rer1 image
I have long Covid. Don’t call my chronic disease a ‘journey’ Peter Swenson, a Yale professor and one of about 20 million Americans with long COVID, says calling chronic illness a “journey” needs to stop. He feels “pinned down by it, stuck with it,” calling it a “bad trip” with fatigue, brain fog, dysautonomia and heart problems. Source: https://archive.md/CgY81 image
Queensland Weekly Respiratory Surveillance Report: 18 Nov to 24 Nov 2025 Reported cases: 🔹COVID: 258 (-11.3%) 🔹Influenza: 1,296 (-2.6%) 🔹RSV: 430 (+11.3%) Hospitalisations: 🔸COVID: 34 (+17.2%) 🔸Influenza: 74 (+34.5%) 🔸RSV: 34 (+17.2%) Source: https://health.qld.gov.au/clinical-practice/guidelines-procedures/diseases-infection/surveillance/reports/flu image
Yep, this! High-quality masking slows transmission because the virus has fewer hosts to jump to for viral replication. It’s basic science, but people forget how effective it still is. #COVIDisNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #MaskUp😷 Source: https://x.com/helenaddy/status/1992429358129271282 image
UK health officials urge extra precautions, including wearing a mask if you have symptoms, as 4 winter viruses spread: RSV, Flu, COVID and Norovirus. Source: https://archive.md/z6uDK image
Brazilian singer Eva Rodrigues Praia Walkey, 40, has died after nearly 5 years battling severe Long COVID. She faced repeated hospitalisations, grueling treatment, and never regained her health. Her family confirmed she passed away on 18 November in Manaus, Brazil. Source: https://archive.md/nxK4K image