A study published last week in the Journal of Medical Virology finds that US COVID-19 patients prescribed metformin, a medication that treats prediabetes and type 2 diabetes, within six days of COVID-19 infection were less likely to develop long COVID or die.
#metformin #covid #LongCovid
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/metformin-given-within-week-covid-19-slashes-risk-long-covid-death-53-paper-notes

Okay so I would like to start masking again, but the KN-95s I have are several years old (and from Amazon so IDEK if they were effective to begin with).

What's the best way to get some KN-95s? How do I ensure they're "legit?"

Also how do y'all with POTS and similar symptoms cope with masking? I start overheating and getting out of breath extremely easily, so that coupled with sensory sensitivities is a nightmare when wearing a mask.

#Disability #POTS #ChronicIllness #COVID #COVID19 #COVIDIsNotOver #Health #PublicHealth #MaskUp @pots

the back/kidney pain is new to me with #COVID, but the little bite in my throat sounds like a bit of the razor blade strain, and that my breathing is louder than my singing takes me right back to the very start, before we ever heard of it , my nose is closed again.
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anybody else get a bad back or a bad kidney with #COVID lately?

A bit of #Vancouver epidemiology:

1. Daughter went to Phoebe Bridgers concert, didn't wear mask, infected whole family with #Covid.
2. I'm recovering a bit but canceled my music lesson today; teacher gets back to me and says “I’m having about two cancellations a day from sick students as there is Covid and a severe #flu going around.”

Be careful out there! Get vaxxed, wear masks.

Don't go to the #US. You'll be shot, get #CoViD and cancer, loose your job because you criticised #Israel, loose your job because you work in academia or public service and be locked up in a camp. #ICE

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/05/trump-cancer-carcinogen-regulation

In Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦 researchers looked at flu A, flu B, RSV, and SARS2:

During the combined pandemic period (March 2020–February 2025), only SARS-CoV-2 activity predicted mortality

But maybe it predicted it weakly! How many actual deaths were due to SARS2 or sequelae to SARS2? MORE THAN 1 IN 16:

During the combined pandemic period (March 2020–February 2025), SARS-CoV-2 accounted for 6.48% (4.5–8.4%) of all-cause mortality

And no amount of "it'll become seasonal" is going to help:

SARS-CoV-2 attributable-fraction estimates were stable across modelling specifications (6.48% with versus 8.03% without seasonal adjustment),

and the authors point out that

Mortality captures only part of the societal burden of these pathogens; morbidity, quality-of-life loss, and economic costs

are large and important.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanam/article/PIIS2667-193X(26)00311-X/fulltext

via https://ohai.social/@thatkatharine/117556195077773555

#COVID #SARSCoV2 #SARS2 #COVID19 #LongCOVID #PublicHealth

katharine » 🌐 2026-11-04
@thatkatharine@ohai.social

"Respiratory-virus-attributable mortality remains substantial after the formal pandemic emergency"

New pandemic era definition just dropped. Update yr timelines.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanam/article/PIIS2667-193X(26)00311-X/fulltext

Alt...

Respiratory-virus-attributable mortality remains substantial after the formal pandemic emergency, with SARS-CoV-2 continuing to contribute materially to population mortality. These findings support sustained surveillance and continued investment in vaccination and other prevention strategies across respiratory viruses, and the transparent use of all-cause, regression-based attribution, with explicit sensitivity analyses around seasonal baselines, to quantify burden that cause-specific coding underestimates.

Greetings, here are the weekly #washingtonstate #kingcounty (that is, #seattle and environs) #COVID #COVID19 #wastewater toots.

A reminder that this King County respiratory disease data comes from Washington State, not the federal government.

The West Point (WSPT) sewage treatment plant's SARS-CoV2 seven-day running average numbers went down a fair amount, but are still elevated. The last seven day running average calculation was done on 10/27.

WSPT is one of three King County(-ish) sewersheds in this dataset. 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

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A screencap of the Washington State Department of Health's Covid wastewater data for the West Point Wastewater Treatment Plant. The trend line of the graph is described in the toot text.

Interesting. #LongCOVID #COVID https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/metformin-given-within-week-covid-19-slashes-risk-long-covid-death-53-paper-notes

Masking is mandatory at N.L. health facilities, after uptick in respiratory illnesses and outbreaks

The new rule is due to an increase of respiratory illnesses and outbreaks across facilities, says NLHS

CBC News
November 3, 2026
By Mark Quinn

https://stillcoviding.ca/en/news/masking-is-mandatory-at-n-l-health-facilities-after-uptick-in-respiratory-illnesses-and-outbreaks/

#COVID #CovidIsNotOver

[Traduit de l’anglais]

Le port du masque est obligatoire dans les établissements de santé de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador, à la suite d’une hausse des maladies respiratoires et des éclosions

Cette nouvelle règle est liée à une augmentation des maladies respiratoires et des éclosions dans l’ensemble des établissements, selon les Services de santé de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador (NLHS)

CBC News
Le 3 novembre 2026
Par Mark Quinn

https://stillcoviding.ca/fr/nouvelles/masking-is-mandatory-at-n-l-health-facilities-after-uptick-in-respiratory-illnesses-and-outbreaks/

#COVID #LaPandémieNEstPasFinie

Got my #covid and #influenza #vaccines yesterday and at first felt great... even woke up 30 minutes early at 3am to check the election results down south. Only had a little arm soreness in one arm so I went to the gym as usual. An hour after I got home the side effects hit me :(

Being vaccinated is worth it, I know they'll pass in a couple of days, but dang this year is tough.

Study identifies new targets for antiviral drugs against coronaviruses

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20261102/Study-identifies-new-targets-for-antiviral-drugs-against-coronaviruses.aspx

#science #biology #COVID #COVID19

REVEALED: The 30 senior Tories who referred companies through the Covid PPE ‘VIP lane’

https://leftfootforward.org/2026/11/revealed-the-30-senior-tories-who-referred-companies-through-the-covid-ppe-vip-lane/

#Covid #Covid19 #pandemic #Tories #UKpol #PPE #CovidPPE #CovidPPEVIPlane #UK #LeftFootForward

I spent all day yesterday anxious. We had our lefty book club and in between this meeting and last meeting I've been doing some #covid advocacy, trying to get people to mask and informing about the dangers of covid. I felt like nobody was hearing me and I felt invisible. Last night, SIX PEOPLE showed up in respirators. They said they felt inspired by what my wife and I had been sharing and it encouraged them to mask. We ended up having a 15 minute discussion about covid, disability justice, community care and covids impacts on us all. People received it well for the most part and want to have more discussions at the next book clubs. I got to share a bunch of resources and scientific articles in our group chat. I feel hope!

#covidIsNotOver #maskUp

Spannende Frage: welche Gruppe der Bevölkerung wird als nächstes zum Hassobjekt gemacht, wenn wir erst
eliminiert sind?
/zyn

„Impfschutz gegen Covid-19 wird aus dem Leistungskatalog der Krankenkassen gestrichen.“:

https://www.t-online.de/finanzen/ratgeber/versicherungen/krankenversicherung/id_101508858/corona-impfung-fuer-diese-gruppen-zahlt-die-kasse-weiter.html

#armut #gesundheit #covid

Today: Fiorella Mannoia: "Così ho conosciuto mio marito Carlo. Il matrimonio? Abbiamo scelto il wedding-Covid"

Passione civile, tanta musica, traguardi professionali ma anche un lungo amore che, sfidando i pregiudizi, è diventato sempre più una colonna portante della sua vita. Si sta parlando di Fiorella Mannoia. L'artista romana - in una recente intervista rilasciata al Corriere della Sera - ha...

Fiorella Mannoia: “That’s how I met my husband, Carlo. The marriage? We chose a Covid wedding.”

Civic passion, a lot of music, professional achievements but also a long love that, challenging prejudices, had become increasingly a pillar of her life. We are talking about Fiorella Mannoia. The Roman artist – in a recent interview released to the Corriere della Sera – has…

#FiorellaMannoia #Carlo #Covid #Corriere

https://www.today.it/gossip/fiorella-mannoia-marito-carlo.html