Category: Health
USA: State of emergency declared in New York over polio
New York’s governor, Kathy Hochul, declared a state of emergency over polio on September 9th 2022 after the virus was detected in the wastewater of yet another county in the New York City area. More...
Norway: 46% of Covid infected report long-term effects
“As many as 46 per cent of those who had been infected with Covid in our study report long-term effects.” More...
Russia: Eight times vaccinated Vladimir Zhirinovsky dies of Covid-19
Vladimir Zhirinovsky said that in a year and a half he had shot himself eight times with different Covid-19 vaccines. More...
Significant long-term alterations in T cell populations in hospitalised Covid patients
“We see similar effects on patients with a chronic HIV infection with increased level of exhausted CD57+ CD8+ T cells.” More...
Research: “Omicron variant is highly likely a product of artificial genetic modification”
An extraordinary claim in a research paper just released: that the Omicron variant could be a product of artificial genetic modification. More...
BA.2.75.2: The “most immune evasive strain we have tested so far”
A Twitter post from Covid researcher Yunlong Cao claims that Omicron BA.2.75.2 is “currently the most immune evasive strain we have tested so far”. More...
Netherlands Covid-19: This must be some kind of mistake? *2 Updates*
It looks like a major error from whoever is inputting data into the Dutch Covid statistics feed, or perhaps at the OurWorldinData site. More...
UK: Fresh Covid-19 wave kicks off
The ZOE Covid app is showing that cases have started to climb in Britain again – just as schoolkids head back to school after the summer break. More...
WHO: Legionellosis outbreak in Tucuman, Argentina
“Further analyses of two bronchoalveolar lavage samples by highly sensitive total DNA sequencing found readings compatible with Legionella spp.”. More...
Zimbabwe: 700 child deaths from measles
The Zimbabwe Ministry of Health has released new figures for measles cases in the country. More...