bundlekin
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bundlekin
@bundlekin
CV mum, science degree (immunology, virology). Likes Classics.


🔊 Calling all UK CO₂ monitor owners AND any helpful UK voters PLEASE REPOST ♻️ ❤️ and tag others! 🙏 Can you *please* help us at the local elections next Thursday? - Even if you don't own one, we still need your help! 1/🧵 <Read our new article - next post>






There's not much BA.3.2 in the US yet, but the numbers are still pretty striking. Ages 0-18 are more than 5 times as common in BA.3.2 sequences as in non-BA.3.2 sequences. USA, 2026, Feb 1 to present (Mar 23), non-travel non-BA.3.2, 139/1172 (11.9%) BA.3.2 26/41 (63.4%)


So it's clear that BA.3.2 preferentially infects children, something we have never seen before in a SARS-CoV-2 variant. Why? The question's baffled me, but after a suggestion from Darren Martin, I think I have an explanation that makes sense. 1/16

Markets may be “overly optimistic” about the impact of the Iran conflict, says @Lagarde. She tells @zannymb that a return to normality could take years. Watch the full interview on The Insider at 6pm London time: econ.st/3NrrAIr

some of the anti-mask aid worker talking pts rhyme with "i take care of my loved one w/ cancer & they don't ask me to protect them so i don't have to mask". just more putting it onto vulnerable ppl who DEPEND ON YOU for other essential support to ask you to be more uncomfortable




Nightclub owner at centre of meningitis outbreak says 'something isn’t making sense' - as two staff in hospital lbc.co.uk/article/mening…









