Forcing the vote came about after a handful of #Republicans signed on to a so-called “discharge petition” to unlock debate, bypassing objections from #House Speaker #MikeJohnson. The bill now goes to the #Senate, where pressure is building for a similar bipartisan compromise.
The rare political coalitions are rushing to resolve the standoff over enhanced #TaxCredits put in place during the #COVID-19 crisis but expired late last year after no agreement was reached during the government #shutdown.

1️⃣ Be young and in prime health.
2️⃣ Get COVID-19. (Mild or completely asymptomatic)
3️⃣ Find out if you're in the 25% that develop Long COVID

A peer-reviewed 2024 study in The Lancet Regional Health Americas found that out of 899 young and healthy Marines, a fourth of them went on to develop Long COVID after infection. Most of those people had mild symptoms in the up-front infection stage, and over a third of them hadn’t felt sick at all — one of the aspects I find most chilling about the virus.

https://whn.global/long-covid-can-happen-to-anyone/

Turns out that in 2026, one of the healthiest choices a person can make is to cut out respiratory disease! Which means wearing a well-fitting N95 or better in shared air!

#COVID #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #LongCOVID #PublicHealth #fitness #health #maskUp

#Boston #CovidConscious peeps…
I didn't realize we were running out of KN95 ear-loop masks and ordered more later than I should have, and now the store I ordered them from cancelled the order, so we're going to run out before I can get more delivered. Anybody know where in #BostonMA or adjacent communities I can buy them in person?
I need the fold-flat masks with ear loops and a bendable nose-piece, they're the only ones my son can wear.
Thanks!
#COVID

Hi, these are (usually) the weekly #washingtonstate #kingcounty (that is, #seattle and environs) #COVID #COVID19 #wastewater toots. But alas, there haven't been any updates with current data.

One thing I did notice was that the data for the three King County sites for the third and fourth weeks of December, which were previously missing, are now backfilled. I imagine this is all due to the holidays, but I really don't have a clue about what's going on here.

You can find overviews, individual sewershed results, and a breakdown of variants for the state wastewater surveillance program, along with other metrics like case counts and hospitalizations for Covid-19 and other respiratory illnesses, at https://doh.wa.gov/data-and-statistical-reports/diseases-and-chronic-conditions/communicable-disease-surveillance-data/respiratory-illness-data-dashboard#WasteWater. If you go to the page and click "learn more" in the statewide view tab, you can find out lots of details about how these data are calculated and how to interpret them. The dashboard gets updated every Wednesday (generally). The Department of Health is here on the fediweb, at @WADeptHealth

I just contacted someone about the possibility of working together. As far as I can tell, he, too, is of the political left. He wrote back that he doesn't want to work with someone who still masks in indoor settings. He's not the first person to have told me that. In case you were wondering why some of us prefer to stay home and keep to ourselves. #Health #Covid #CovidIsNotOver

Per the Coronavirus Vaccines R&D Roadmap Initiative, the Kostaive samRNA #covid #covid19 vaccine was approved in the UK for people 18 and older. https://cvr.cidrap.umn.edu/coronavirus-vaccine-technology-landscape

Bayer has sued several #COVID vaccine
makers over mRNASPIRIN® technology

Join I and My Associates tomorrow for
further developmental looking into this

#Health #Science #TechKnow #News

#COVID #covid19 #longcovid #pandemic #maskup #flu #fluseason #vaccines #vaccination #publichealth #science

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Facebook post from Sharon Astyk: Reading parenting groups (which I do to get a sense of what people who don't bury themselves in this stuff think) has a very medieval feel right now. 1/3 of posts are about illness, and here are some things people are recommending for flu/covid/rsv (most of them have no idea what they have and no intention of finding out.) - Onion poultice on feet - Ivermectin - Ice in your socks - For God's sake don't ask any doctor - Don't take any vaccines - Essential oils Don't get me wrong, I think it is incredibly gross to criticize people for using traditional treatments in a society where serious diseases like covid and flu usually get nothing in the way of supportive assistance, and I use herbal remedies. But the sheer number of people who are sick who are absolutely sure that onions on their feet will fix their "cold" seems...weird and archaic. Also in the same group, many women describing long covid symptoms (exhaustion, brain fog, POTS, etc...) as purely hormonal and wondering why their estrogen isn't working.

oh damn - friend's niece, 12 died of flu this evening in Saskatoon, they were about to fly her to Edmonton Children's - her nephew, in his early 20s died last month from a sudden heart attack, and his father, her uncle died about 4 months ago same, and his wife refuses to believe being bedridden is from LC - they're all evangelicals who refuse to vax and have had Covid multiple times

#CDNpoli #SKpoli #Covid #Covid19 #Flu

Bulletin de veille épidémique

On fait un petit point sur la fin 2025 et les perspectives pour début 2026.

TL ; DR : le covid a baissé mais est toujours présent, la grippe est très haute, avec des taux de positivité en labo qui dépassent parfois les 40% 😰

⚠️ Continuez à vous protéger, masquez-vous, testez vous avant une rencontre et au moindre symptôme, purifiez l'air, vaccinez-vous (en particulier contre la grippe) si ça n'est pas déjà fait (si on suit ce qui s'est passé l'an dernier on devrait grosso modo être au pic en ce moment et ça va circuler fortement jusqu'à au moins mi mars)

Quelques infos qui peuvent être utiles issues du bulletin SPF hebdo du 24 décembre semaine 51 (du 15 au 21/11)
voir https://www.santepubliquefrance.fr/maladies-et-traumatismes/maladies-et-infections-respiratoires/grippe/documents/bulletin-national/infections-respiratoires-aigues-grippe-bronchiolite-covid-19-.-bulletin-du-24-decembre-2025

- Le rebond de Covid semble s'être arrêté : fin de la hausse du niveau dans les eaux usées, et reprise d'une très légère baisse du taux de positivité en ville et à l'hôpital
- Grippe qui continue de monter, toujours un peu plus fort que l'hiver dernier (déjà assez sévère) en taux de positivité et en mortalité
- Point sur la couverture vaccinale chez les publics cibles au 30 novembre : meilleur que l'an dernier pour la grippe (+3.6 points de pourcentage), mais encore pire pour le Covid (-1.5 points) alors que c'était déjà catastrophique

Un point sur le typage de la grippe
Entre les semaines 38 et 48, un total de 245 virus A(H1N1), 67 virus A(H3N2) et 3 virus B(VIC) ont été séquencés par le CNR Virus des infections respiratoires. Le sous-clade majoritaire était le sous-clade K (52/67 ; 77,6%) pour le sous-type A(H3N2) et le sous-clade D.3.1.1 (209/245 ; 85,3%) pour le sous-type A(H1N1)pdm09. Les trois virus B séquencés appartiennent au sous-clade C.5.6 du lignage Victoria.

Bulletin CNR semaine 51
(PDF) https://www.pasteur.fr/sites/default/files/rubrique_pro_sante_publique/les_cnr/virus_des_infections_respiratoires_dont_grippe/bnhvir_france_2025_s51.pdf

La grippe dépasse les 30% de taux de positivité en ville, avec des taux encore plus élevés chez les moins de 18 ans, le Covid stagne vers 5%.

Bulletin SPF semaine 52 :
https://www.santepubliquefrance.fr/maladies-et-traumatismes/maladies-et-infections-respiratoires/grippe/documents/bulletin-national/infections-respiratoires-aigues-grippe-bronchiolite-covid-19-.-bulletin-du-31-decembre-2025

La grippe atteint 35 %, le Covid passe sous les 4%

En semaine 52, 7 654 décès ont été déclarés par certificat électronique. La part de ces décès avec mention de grippe augmentait nettement par rapport à S51/2025 (4,1% vs 2,7%) et était comparable à celle observée en S52/2024 (3,9%).

Parmi les décès liés à la grippe déclarés depuis S40/2025,
92% concernaient des personnes de 65 ans et plus, 7% des personnes âgées de 15 à 64 ans et 1% des enfants de moins de 15 ans.

La COVID-19 était mentionnée dans 1,0% des décès (vs 1,0% en S51).
Soit au moins 310 décès avec mention de grippe certifiés électroniquement et au moins 73 avec mention de Covid-19.

#Grippe
#Covid

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Alt : Taux de positivité dans les labos de ville pour le SARS-CoV-2, par région, France Hexagonale - Hauts de France : 4,76 % - Grand Est : 5,99 % - Normandie : 2,78 % - Ile de France : 1,71 % - Bretagne : 0,70 % - Pays de Loire : 4,95 % - Champagne val de Loire : 4,80 % - Bourgogne Franche Comté : 7,91 % - Nouvelle Aquitaine : 6,74 % - Occitanie : 4,92 % - Auvergne Rhône Alpes : 4,71 % - Provence Alpes côte d’Azur : 4,69 % - Corse : 0 mais peu significatif, seulement 12 tests sur la région

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Alt : Taux de positivité dans les labos de ville pour la grippe, par région, France Hexagonale - Hauts de France : 29 % - Grand Est : 27,12 % - Normandie : 28,70 % - Ile de France : 35,16 % - Bretagne : 35,92 % - Pays de Loire : 29,12 % - Champagne val de Loire : 31,20 % - Bourgogne Franche Comté : 25,99 % - Nouvelle Aquitaine : 43,26 % - Occitanie : 30,40 % - Auvergne Rhône Alpes : 33,09 % - Provence Alpes côte d’Azur : 37,18 % - Corse : 16,67 % (sur 12 tests)

@molly0xfff I tested positive for #COVID for the first time over the holidays too -and I know exactly where I picked it up -a hockey game at #BellCenter #Montreal. Flu like symptoms for a week and a half... Luckily boosted a week prior.

I would just like to remind my fellow social media friends that COVID is still alive and well in the world. And my wife has already been disabled from our first infection in November 2020. This is only our second time dealing with it.

#COVID #LongCOVID

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Picture of a positive COVID test for me.

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Picture of a positive COVID test for my wife.

#COVID folks: do y'all know of any FFP3/N95 masks with replaceable filters I can buy? Preferably machine washable? Needs to be avail in the EU.

I love my 3M Auras, but I'm also sick of buying so many. #LongCOVID #COVIDIsNotOver #Masking #StillMasking #masks

I shedded a couple of Maple MAGA’s from my friends list tonight… feeling lighter.

*Story time*

I left Christmas dinner within minutes of arriving bc my cousin was there, sick. I was leaving to see other family 2 days later & didn’t want to catch what he had. I was very annoyed in the moment that he didn’t bother to tell me before I made the 45 minute drive.

Anyways, today I made a sly comment about it in an Insta story..just saying that I’m happy with my choice to leave bc of the week I had at the cottage.

He didn’t like that and msged me. Apparently asking to be informed if someone is attending a family event sick makes me an “indoctrinated”, “brainwashed, liberal-woke” who “lacks education”. I was “completely out of line” and “don’t have the right to demand that”.

Or I’ve just learned, like so many of us, that not being sick is really cool, and that knowingly spreading unknown illnesses is not. I wasn’t ruining my Christmas holidays for a guy I tolerate 3 times a year.

#COVID #Christmas

@GossiTheDog
I've been vaccinated for #COVID-19 at least four times. The last time was about a month ago. I guess that makes me dead four times over! 😆

My mom is positive for #covid. Perspective: she’s 85, in a nursing home & has metastatic cancer

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