"Although Covid-19 is circulating at a very low level right now, the US is just starting to contend with this sleeper branch of the Omicron family tree, a variant called BA.3.2, which has been nicknamed 'Cicada,' after the insect’s ability to disappear and then reemerge after years underground."

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/02/health/new-covid-variant-cicada

#PublicHealth #covid #ChildrensHealth #vaccines #immunizations

Vlad #Voiculescu cere publicarea tuturor documentelor legate de achiziția de vaccinuri 🦠#COVID.

🔗 https://yewtu.be/watch?v=SJO8AZkxO_I

#Știri #Sănătate

Il Fatto Quotidiano: Scanzi a La Confessione di Gomez (Rai3): “Le polemiche sul mio vaccino Covid? Ho pensato al suicidio, ma la mia compagna mi ha aiutato”

“Le polemiche sul vaccino durante il Covid? Se non ci fosse stata la mia compagna, non so come sarebbe finita: ho pensato al suicidio“. Così Andrea Scanzi a La Confessione di Peter Gomez, in onda sabato 4 aprile alle 20.20 su Rai 3, riferendosi alle polemiche che lo hanno travolto durante la pandemia, quando inizialmente aveva sottovalutato il virus per poi vaccinarsi subito, venendo accusato di essere “un saltafile”.
“Ho cominciato a dire: non mi stimano più le persone che io adoro, non mi chiama più la televisione, non ho più un’entrata, rischio di perdere il pubblico, rischio di buttare via tutta la vita che ho fatto. Che cavolo succede? – ha spiegato l’editorialista de Il Fatto Quotidiano – Lì devo dire che, anzitutto la mia compagna (la collega de L’Espresso, Sara Lucaroni, ndr), mi ha aiutato tanto”.
Poi l’autore di ‘Verranno a chiederti di Fabrizio De André’ ha detto anche: “L’altro paradosso è che io ho tanti amici, spero, ma che ritengono che io sia una sorta di monolite che non soffre mai. E quindi, anche quando hanno visto questa fiumana di insulti e trasmissioni intere su di me, hanno pensato: ‘Ma sì, ha le spalle larghe‘. Le ho di solito, ma quella volta lì no”, ha concluso Scanzi.
L'articolo Scanzi a La Confessione di Gomez (Rai3): “Le polemiche sul mio vaccino Covid? Ho pensato al suicidio, ma la mia compagna mi ha aiutato” proviene da Il Fatto Quotidiano.

Scanzi on La Confessione di Gomez (Rai3): “The controversies about my Covid vaccine? I thought about suicide, but my partner helped me.”

The controversy surrounding the vaccine during the Covid? If it wasn’t for my partner, I don’t know how it would have ended: I thought about suicide. That’s what Andrea Scanzi said on La Confessione di Peter Gomez, broadcast on Saturday, April 4th at 8:20 PM on Rai 3, referring to the controversy that engulfed him during the pandemic, when he had initially underestimated the virus before immediately getting vaccinated, being accused of being a “quick adopter.”

“I started saying: people I love anymore don’t value me, the television doesn’t call me anymore, I don’t have an income, I risk losing my audience, I risk throwing away the entire life I’ve made. What the hell is happening? – explained the editorialist for Il Fatto Quotidiano – There, I must say that first of all my partner (the colleague from L’Espresso, Sara Lucaroni, ndr) helped me a lot.”

Then the author of ‘Verranno a chiederti di Fabrizio De André’ also said: “The other paradox is that I have many friends, hopefully, but who think I am a sort of monolith that never suffers. And so, even when they saw this flood of insults and entire broadcasts about me, they thought: ‘Oh, he’s just got broad shoulders.’ I usually do, but not that time,” Scanzi concluded.

The article Scanzi on La Confessione of Gomez (Rai3): “The controversy about my Covid vaccine? I thought about suicide, but my partner helped me” comes from Il Fatto Quotidiano.

#Scanzi #Covid #AndreaScanzi #IlFattoQuotidiano #first #SaraLucaroni #Verranno #FabrizioDeAndré #LaConfessione #Gomez

https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2026/04/03/scanzi-a-la-confessione-di-gomez-rai3-le-polemiche-sul-mio-vaccino-covid-ho-pensato-al-suicidio-ma-la-mia-compagna-mi-ha-aiutato/8345112/

IlPescara: Arrestato un uomo condannato a 5 anni per lo spaccio in delivery durante il Covid e gli assalti ai bancomat

La polizia di Pescara ha eseguito un ordine di carcerazione nei confronti di un uomo di 56 anni raggiunto da una condanna definitiva.Nel pomeriggio di mercoledì 1 aprile, in attuazione di un provvedimento di esecuzione di pene concorrenti nei confronti di condannato emesso dalla Procura Generale...

A man convicted of 5 years for drug dealing via delivery during Covid and ATM robberies has been arrested.

The Pescara police executed a warrant for arrest in отношении of a 56-year-old man who was sentenced to final judgement. On Wednesday, April 1st, in the afternoon, in implementation of a measure of execution of concurrent sentences against the convicted, issued by the Public Prosecutor's Office...

#Covid #Pescara

https://www.ilpescara.it/cronaca/uomo-arrestato-condannato-spaccio-droga-delivery-covid-assalto-bancomat.html

@cremevax the #MAHA effect is chipping away at our #vaccines in multiple ways. "FDA's stricter trial requirements and low U.S. vaccine uptake hinder study progress. Pfizer and BioNTech cite slow enrollment, not safety concerns, for stopping trial. Moderna's study faces similar struggles, sources say"

#Covid #Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver

Industria turistică din #Dubai se confruntă cu impactul „devastator” al războiului.
Restaurantele s-au golit: Pare că ne-am întors în perioada 🦠#COVID.

🔗 https://wp.me/p9KpFA-5cgz

#Știri #EAU #EmirateleArabeUnite #Sănătate

This is really quite bad. The FDA’s Prasad succeeded in creating enough regulatory roadblocks such that Pfizer gave up on its #covid #covid19 vaccine trial for healthy adults.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/pfizer-biontech-halt-us-covid-vaccine-study-after-recruitment-struggles-2026-04-01/

Catastrophic events for the #world #economy :

1) #Covid
2) #Trump

Trump is overall more harmful than Covid.

Relatedly, Caitlin Rivers also has a somewhat more detailed BA 3.2 explainer post up at https://www.forceofinfection.com/the-cicada-variant-what-we-know/. She also reminds us that people who are 65+, immunocompromised, or who have chronic conditions that increase their risk can get second 2025-2026 #covid #covid19 booster shots six months following their first. As before, you can self-attest to those risk factors. https://www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/vaccine-considerations/routine-guidance.html.

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

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

The West Point (WSPT) sewage treatment plant's 7 day running average of its detected Sars-CoV-2 levels is nice and low. The last calculation was made on 3/24.

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.

#CancelarulGermaniei Friedrich #Merz avertizează că 🌍#Europa se pregătește pentru un șoc energetic fără precedent, peste criza 🦠#COVID și războiul din 🇺🇦#Ucraina.

🔗 https://wp.me/p9KpFA-5c64

#Știri #UE #UniuneaEuropeană #Sănătate #Germania

🇷🇴#România, obligată să plătească peste 3 miliarde 💶#RON și să preia aproape 29 de milioane de doze de vaccin anti-🦠#COVID.
Decizia dată de instanța din #Bruxelles nu este definitivă (surse).

🔗 https://wp.me/p9KpFA-5c5O

#Știri #Belgia #Flandra #Bruxelles #Sănătate

Katelyn Jetelina has a new newsletter out that includes a brief section about the BA 3.2 variant of #covid #covid19: https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/a-new-covid-variant-called-cicada

Domani: Roma, prosciolto Antonio Fabbrocini. Era il “vice” di Arcuri nell’affare mascherine

Fabbrocini, responsabile unico del procedimento per la struttura commissariale Covid, era accusato di frode nelle pubbliche forniture e falso

Rome, Antonio Fabbrocini acquitted. He was the “number two” to Arcuri in the mask deal.

Fabbrocini, the sole manager of the procedure for the Covid commissarial structure, was accused of fraud in public supplies and false accounting.

#AntonioFabbrocini #Arcuri #Fabbrocini #Covid

https://www.editorialedomani.it/fatti/roma-prosciolto-antonio-fabbrocini-era-il-vice-di-arcuri-nellaffare-mascherine-tsfmrkak

Much of the #Gulf #GCC is now doing #remote #online learning owing to the war and reminiscent of #COVID times. Hopefully using a proper #LMS such as #Moodle like my company at #techrich uses for its #it #docker courses at https://training.techrich.hk

https://www.khaleejtimes.com/uae/education/schools-return-to-in-person-classes-under-review

#COVID continues to heavily influence my #quilting

Like this top I finished today, many of my quilts are scrappy designs so I can use fabrics from my stash instead of shopping in person for new fabric and many of my quilt designs include words because I metaphorically lost my voice when isolating for my immunocompromised partner’s health became imperative

6+ years on I’m still screaming inside my heart

#InarticulateExploding

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Two color, exploding heart-themed quilt top shown in full on a design wall. The oversized central heart is pieced from scrappy yellow fabrics; that central image is outlined in the dark grey. Then triangles of more yellow explode outward against dark grey to fill the remainder of the top. Pieced dark grey letters in the central heart read “please scream inside your heart”

The good news: I updated my Covid vaccine yesterday.

The bad news: My autoimmune disease is attacking me with a vengeance.

#MaskUp #Covid #COVID19

@NatalyaD

My local shopping centre, which is run by literal #Nazis has had most benches removed during #Covid

Where groups of aged ethnic men gathered for social interaction... There is a multimedia advertising unit
/spit

Those with the covid vaccine are 43% less likely to experience sudden death than the unvaccinated.

#covid #vaccine #vaccines #antivaxx

https://www.bmj.com/content/392/bmj.s589

Trying to remember the last time husband and I were sick with anything, other than temporary vaccine side effects (and one time we got sick from duck eggs, either poorly cooked or a previously unknown allergy).

Why wouldn’t people prefer not to get sick? Wearing a respirator is so easy to do.

#Covid #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask #MaskUpN95