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Long COVID has surpassed asthma as the most common chronic illness among US children, impacting est. 6 million kids. JAMA Pediatrics outlines symptoms, different by age, from poor sleep & appetite in toddlers to fatigue, brain fog, & mood changes in teens hubs.ly/Q03pxzmC0

@Biff234523 Thank you for this thoughtful response - very helpful 🙏

You probably don’t need to overthink it all that much. Assuming you’ve had a priming series, an annual booster at any time of the year will offer solid protection against severe outcomes for the next year. It’s not really possible to time California correctly anyway, unless CBER/VRBPAC/ACIP/etc. suddenly got their act together and regulated COVID as a non-seasonal-virus. That’s to say the last availability of Novavax this season will likely be 05/31, which is well before a summer wave in July/August. And pharmacies typically send their unused doses back sooner than that - standard practice is a couple of weeks, but I’ve heard of up to one month. So I’d be aiming for late April, or ensuring with a pharmacy that they’ll remain stocked if you’d like to make it May.

Trying to figure out best timing for a round of Novavax prior to surges in California. @michael_hoerger has me blocked 😬 🙈 not sure where I messed up (sorry 🙏), but love his dashboards - is there a way to analyze the YoY data by state or even region? pmc19.com/data/index.php

I have some exciting news I've been waiting to share: *A test for COVID viral persistence will be available in under 9 months!* A few weeks ago, I joined a small group of other tech founders with Long COVID to meet the BeaconDx team, a diagnostics company based in Atlanta. Years ago, their scientists developed a unique technology, hoping to apply it to Lyme disease: instead of typical antibody tests that show only if you've been infected historically, they figured out how to draw live circulating antibody-secreting cells from blood and figure out which specificities they are currently targeting - this test is most interesting to us looking for persistent COVID, but will also show persistent HSV, CMV, and EBV! While they never found commercial viability for Lyme, BeaconDx has been gaining ground in the Long COVID world: the test is already being used in the Mt. Sinai CoRE Maraviroc trial, and PolyBio has expressed their support for the technology to become part of their VIPER diagnostics program. The inventor, Dr. F. Eun-Hyung Lee, is an Emory professor with 20+ years in plasma cell biology, and she's teamed up with the business brains, Robyn Slicher, PhD, who as a Long COVID patient is not only personally invested in seeing this work, but comes with experience putting multiple other tests to market. To meet their goal of launching their technology as a commercial test orderable by any doctor or patient within 9 months, BeaconDx is raising a $2M seed round. The money will fund the buildout and operation of commercial lab space, including CLIA certification, regulatory sign-off and hiring of a clinical assay expert. This will be a critical investment in bringing a diagnostic to market that we've all been awaiting for years. If you're interested in investing in biotech, or know someone who is, DM me and I'm happy to make the introduction! For more: beacon-dx.com

@BBCRadioKent Sad people weren’t educated by public health on how to don a properly fitting respirator for airborne viruses 😞 those surgical masks only help achieve about 40% efficacy 🦠 KN95/ N95 sealed around nose & mouth are now easy to access. Doctors suck at modeling 🤡

Kent's meningitis outbreak is deeply unusual and defies easy explanation, according to our health and science correspondent. More here: bbc.in/4smkWCr

@laymagdalene @tokingalex Stunning 😍 truly

last day of 23. two of my favorite photos of being 23 from one of the worst nights of being 23. captures how tired and isolated i felt at times! goodbye 23!

@NCNEDResearch 😷 😷 😷 do better, please

On this International #longCOVID Awareness Day, the NCNED Team acknowledges the ongoing challenges faced by individuals living with #longCOVID. As Australia’s leading research centre focused on chronic multi-system illnesses, we remain committed to improving healthcare & outcomes

@speedbird821417 Greag = great 🫠

@speedbird821417 Rock on 🤘🏼 Zimi is a greag mask, too

The journey begins…

@Spookjiggaboo Dang, that’s a stretch 😆 but you do you Jiggaboo

This is child abuse

@magnoliasskye His friends told him it was the BEST tasting lemonade with the strawberry & suggested he start a small business 😆

@CaliforniaCodes :,) this is so precious!!! as a big fan of fruit-flavored lemonade the torani syrups are a nice touch

Yesterday was a beautiful day with our local friends who still mask to protect one another during this ongoing pandemic 😷 Rented an outdoor hockey rink to skate 🛼 & my kiddo hosted his 1st lemonade stand. He sold out in 20 mins 🍋 💵

@singingsox 2020 my dad about my sister who has organ transplants due to T1 Diabetes complications “I could live with myself if I infected her & she died. That’s life & the hand she was dealt. It’s on her to stay home & protect herself”. He’s a raging trumper - 2026 can’t tell liberals apart

“I think disabled/vulnerable ppl should just stay home & not have access to public life if they want me to wear a mask to protect myself & others during a mass disabling event that largely affects marginalized populations & intersects w every anti-capitalist issue”, but leftistly

@izzziemik @Sembe_1312 Yeah, influencer was what came to my brain instead of content creator or video essayist late night 🤷🏻‍♀️ wish I had an edit button, but 🫤, he does influence over 1M

@CaliforniaCodes @Sembe_1312 he's THE video essayist, calling him an influencer sounds a bit funny 😭

This is a great video by an influencer with over 1M followers on YouTube to hopefully connect the dots for the majority who checked out on the ongoing COVID pandemic in ~2021-22 👏 youtu.be/v1nS_-ra8xE

@Feisty_Waters @SerenaBarton17 Same 🫠 do you think year 6 will be the one 🙏 loved this video an influencer with over 1M followers on YouTube just created youtu.be/v1nS_-ra8xE

@SerenaBarton17 I hate it so much and wish people would snap out of the denial.

It’s Friday March 13 again just like it was in 2020 but that’s not spooky when compared to the fact that we’ve been living in the twilight zone for 4+ years as most of the world past tenses a pandemic that is still disabling and killing people. Your constant denial is spooky.

@TaylorLorenz @broadwaybabyto Is that a wellbefore N95 or trident 🤔 You look fierce either way 💪

Had a great time chatting about creators, free speech online, protecting Section 230, AI, algorithms and more today at SXSW!!!!

@NicholasTyrone @squirrelpalooza Now do COVID and clean air reform! 🦗 The new talk track towards this debilitating ongoing pandemic & anti mask “vibes” by the left/ liberals is eerily similar to the minimizing perspective held by MAGA in the early days. Y’all full of 💩

It is astounding how pretty much the entire left have given up on climate change as an issue. It was omnipresent for ages, and now it barely features at all in leftist discourse. Sort of makes you wonder if their commitment to it was ever real.

@Jen30282684 Thank you 🙏 I shared this visual & summarized - hope it does something to break through the denial. This same (< 40 yr) person has struggled with heart issues & severe anxiety this year sooo 🤦🏻‍♀️

@CaliforniaCodes I find this image pretty darn clear and hard to deny. The flu is localized in the mouse body but SARSC2 is found literally throughout the body. I haven’t successfully convinced anyone but we will turn tide, eventually

Tired of seemingly zero impact within my wide social network of mostly US based “liberals” regarding COVID’s ongoing harms. Easiest way to show covid is significantly riskier to longterm health than other viruses like colds, flu, etc? (Posed by a well intentioned 🤔 acquaintance)

@tryna_do_rite They all assume I have long covid because of my advocacy, but none have bothered reaching out to learn more or make simple changes 🤷🏻‍♀️ Big main character energy & a false sense of a strong safety net should they get sick. High edu, $, “liberal” politics, but so out of touch

@CaliforniaCodes I wish I knew. Maybe if they connected with pwLC to see what their life is like now? Both vaccinated & unvaccinated and no cure.