I find quite little advice regarding the "" treatment "" ( or at least reducing the amount of viruses circulating in your body ) once you do have #covid

Prevention is great but when things go wrong and doctors refuse to prescribe antiviral medicine , apart from resting, flushing your nose and checking oxygen levels , are there some more last resort diy tips to lower viral load and the risks of developing #longcovid ?

Also my screen reader struggles with indexes/latin / tables so if anyone feels like doing the heavy lifting , a non AI summary/ results retranscription would be greatly appreciated :

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-25342-8.pdf

And

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-18676-w.pdf

Amongst many others
I was looking for articles assessing the effect of common spices , essential oils and other easily accessible compounds ( = no prescription needed , not too expensive and available either in most pharmacies or supermarkets )

i am NOT trying to publicize a snake oil alternative to vaccine , masking or paxlovid

This is quite literally the equivalent of comparing options before putting bubble wrap on my single glazed windows every winter
#covid19

( For any mutuals worrying : am not currently sick , friend is )

Ive spent the last 2 weeks feeling intermittently quite miserable from a #covid exposure (and subsequent illness) so expect me to once again be one of those obnoxious people who thinks we should take care of each other's health and the air quality at our gatherings.

I never really stopped but im fully back on my bs now.

This week's Pandemics in BC posts:
General: https://covidbc.webfoot.com/2026/10/16/2026-10-16-general/
BC: https://covidbc.webfoot.com/2026/10/16/2026-10-16-bc/
#covid19bc #covid19 #covid #measles #h5n1

Does anyone know whether current use of azelastine (sold in the US as Astepro) by a patient would result in any vaccinations being less effective? I'm especially interested in whether the use of azelastine would make covid or flu vaccinations less effective.

#azelastine #Astepro #CovidVaccine #CovidVaccines #InfluenzaVaccine #InfluenzaVaccines #FluShot #FluShots #covid #covid19

For those with a tighter pulse on US #Covid vaccination stuff - My age group + factors makes me eligible for any of the current formulations

Moderna (mNexspike)
Moderna (Spikevax)
Novavax/Sanofi (Nuvaxovid)
Pfizer-BioNTech (Comirnaty)

I think I've had prior formulations across the manufacturer spectrum with no adverse effects. Do any of them appear to be "better" than the others?

Today, I got vaccinated. 🥳

✅ Flu (Influenza)

✅ COVID-19

✅ HPV (Human papillomavirus)

✅ Tdap (Tetanus, Diphtheria with Whooping cough (Pertussis))

I think I should renew my Pneumonia vaccine. 🤔

#Vaccine #COVID #Influenza #HPV #Tdap

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A screenshot of my vaccine record: Human Papillomavirus (HPV) 10/15/2026 Walgreens Tdap (Whooping Cough) 10/15/2026 Walgreens COVID-19 Pfizer (COMIRNATY) 10/15/2026 Walgreens Influenza (Flu) 10/15/2026 Walgreens Influenza (Flu) 12/05/2025 Walgreens COVID-19 Pfizer (COMIRNATY) 12/05/2025 Walgreens Influenza (Flu) 12/02/2024 Walgreens COVID-19 Pfizer (COMIRNATY) 12/02/2024 Walgreens Hep A-Hep B 12/02/2024 Walgreens Pneumonia 11/25/2023 Walgreens COVID-19, Pfizer 05/13/2022 Walgreens COVID-19, Moderna 01/13/2022 Walgreens COVID-19, Johnson and Johnson (Jannsen) 04/07/2021 Walgreens

As if I didn't have hundreds of reasons to avoid getting #Covid before, but losing the few #dopamine receptors that I have would be catastrophic to my #ADHD brain.

https://social.marxist.network/@yogthos/117445661898744984

COVID "killed joy" in people; scientists have discovered a new long-term consequence—the virus literally burns out dopamine receptors.

It affects the part of the brain responsible for motivation, happiness, and memory, and the sicker a person is, the worse the consequences.

https://www.sciencealert.com/brain-scans-of-24-people-with-long-COVID-reveal-signs-of-injury-to-dopamine-neurons

#covid #science #news #covid19

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 came down this week. Still high though. The last seven day running average calculation was done on 10/6.

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.

Today: Riecco il vaccino contro il Covid: variante Xfg nel mirino, a chi viene raccomandato

Riparte la campagna vaccinale. La somministrazione del vaccino aggiornato contro ultime variante del Covid ha già preso il via. "Sars-CoV-2 è caratterizzato da continue variazioni nel suo genoma durante la replicazione, dando luogo alla continua comparsa di varianti e sottovarianti", spiega il...

Here’s the vaccine against Covid back again: Variant Xfg in the crosshairs, who is it recommended for?

The vaccination campaign restarts. The administration of the updated vaccine against the latest Covid variants has already begun. “Sars-CoV-2 is characterized by continuous variations in its genome during replication, leading to the continual emergence of variants and subvariants,” explains the…

#Covid

https://www.today.it/attualita/vaccini-covid-2026-chi-puo-farlo-gratis.html

Long-COVID symptoms may be linked to bacterial mix in the mouth, lungs

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/long-covid-symptoms-may-be-linked-bacterial-mix-mouth-lungs

#COVID #COVID19 #LongCovid

RIP to Helen Branswell. As far as I know her #COVID coverage was almost always correct, which you can't say about anyone else in the mainstream media.

https://www.statnews.com/2026/10/13/helen-branswell-stat-reporter-obituary/

Il Fatto Quotidiano: “Vivo nel tormento, nel rimorso per una domanda che mi pongo di continuo: Francesco, perché hai aspettato?”: Totti racconta la morte del padre

“Appena ho sentito quel purtroppo al telefono, ho capito, il mondo è crollato“. Esattamente sei anni fa, il 12 ottobre 2020, Francesco Totti ha ricevuto quella tremenda chiamata dallo Spallanzani di Roma: il padre Enzo era morto per via delle complicanze del Covid. Per tutti lo “Sceriffo”, aveva 76 anni. Nel libro “Oltre”, Totti ripercorre anche quei giorni difficili: non nasconde la disperazione e il rimorso che ancora oggi lo attanaglia.
“Non potevamo andarlo a trovare, né sentirlo al telefono: tutto impossibile, considerati il periodo storico e la situazione”, ricorda Totti nel suo libro. “In terapia intensiva ha lottato, finché ha potuto. Speravo che uscisse, che fosse una parentesi, quando l’hanno ricoverato non lo vedevo da quasi un mese. Un figlio ha sempre qualcos’altro da fare, perché pensa che ci sia tempo la volta successiva, che un genitore sia eterno“, sottolinea l’ex capitano della Roma.
Da qui, appunto, il grande rimpianto: “Io vivo nel tormento, nel rimorso causato da una domanda che mi pongo in continuazione: Francesco, perché hai aspettato? Scusami, papà. Per tutte le volte che non ho capito. Per tutte quelle in cui non hai sentito ti voglio bene, per gli abbracci mancati e le parole non dette. Per gli sbagli che ho fatto”, si legge nel libro. Nel quale Totti ricorda: “Stavo annegando nella disperazione. Quando l’ho saputo sono andato con il pilota automatico. E adesso mi ammazzo. Non l’avrei fatto, ma l’ho pensato. Un momento di debolezza”.
L'articolo “Vivo nel tormento, nel rimorso per una domanda che mi pongo di continuo: Francesco, perché hai aspettato?”: Totti racconta la morte del padre proviene da Il Fatto Quotidiano.

I live in torment, in regret for a question I constantly ask myself: Francesco, why did you wait? Totti recounts his father’s death.

As soon as I heard that unfortunately on the phone, I realized, the world collapsed. Exactly six years ago, on October 12, 2020, Francesco Totti received that terrible call from Spallanzani of Rome: his father Enzo had died due to complications from Covid. For everyone he was “The Sheriff,” he was 76 years old. In the book "Beyond," Totti also recounts those difficult days: he doesn’t hide the despair and remorse that still afflict him today.

“We couldn't visit him, nor speak with him on the phone: everything was impossible, considering the historical period and the situation,” Totti recalls in his book. “In intensive care he fought, until he could. I hoped he would recover, that it would be a parenthesis; when they admitted him to hospital I hadn’t seen him for almost a month. A son always has something else to do, because he thinks there's time next time, that a parent is eternal,” the former Roma captain emphasizes.

From here, precisely, comes the great regret: “I live in torment, in remorse caused by a question I constantly ask myself: Francesco, why did you wait? Forgive me, Dad. For all the times I didn't understand you, for all the times you didn’t hear how much I loved you, for the missed hugs and unspoken words, for the mistakes I made,” it reads in the book. In which Totti remembers: “I was drowning in despair. When I heard it, I went with autopilot. And now I'm killing myself. I wouldn't have done it, but I thought about it. A moment of weakness.”

The article “I live in torment, in remorse for a question that I constantly ask myself: Francesco, why did you wait?”: Totti recounts the death of his father comes from Il Fatto Quotidiano.

#Francesco #Totti #FrancescoTotti #Spallanzani #Covid #TheSheriff #Beyond #IlFattoQuotidiano

https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2026/10/12/totti-morte-padre-enzo-rimorso-domanda-tormento/8535985/

I'm finally no longer sick with #COVID after someone decided to visit without telling me they were feeling under the weather.

Took about two weeks.

Still have some mucus in my throat.

Please, for the love of everything, watch out for one another and just don't go visiting other people when you're feeling under the weather.

Mask up.

#CovidIsNotOver

#Halloween #Halloween2026
#Pandemic #PandemicEnd
Día de los Muertos #DíadeMuertos

Since the clergy religions of the world did not organize a #JazzFuneral or #IrishWake for all those lost to #COVID #COVID2019

We should turn November 1 into a GLOBAL Pandemic Hunger Games funeral wake party.

Autumn vaccinations done.

#MastoDaoine #flu #covid #vaccine

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Photo of flu and Covid vaccination cards with my name and batch numbers

Today: Covid e influenza: tornano i virus con l'apertura delle scuole e il maltempo autunnale. I sintomi sono simili

In Italia negli ultimi giorni hanno ripreso a circolare il covid e altri virus stagionali, complice sia la riapertura delle scuole sia la prima ondata di maltempo autunnale e aria fredda che sta colpendo la penisola. I sintomi spesso sono simili: adesso che quasi nessuno esegue più i tamponi, è...

COVID and flu: viruses are returning with the opening of schools and autumn bad weather. The symptoms are similar.

In Italy over the past few days, COVID and other seasonal viruses have started to circulate again, due in part to the reopening of schools as well as the first autumn storm wave and cold air hitting the peninsula. The symptoms are often similar: now that almost no one is taking swabs anymore, it’s…

#COVID #Italy #first

https://www.today.it/salute/covid-influenza-ottobre-2026-sintomi.html

Gut Bacteria Protein Linked to Fever After COVID Vaccines, Study Finds
https://www.medicaldaily.com/gut-bacteria-flagellin-vaccine-fever-science-study-479838
A Science study links flagellin, a gut bacteria protein, to fever after mRNA COVID shots in 171 adults. Antibody responses were not affected.
#wellness #covid-vaccine #gut-health