A group of psychotic Republican conspiracy theorists in the #Minnesota legislature have proposed a bill "designating #mRNA injections and products as weapons
of mass destruction [and] prohibiting mRNA injections and products".
As this is Minnesota, and not, say, Texas, one assumes sanity will prevail and this crap will end up forgotten by history (other than as a cautionary tale about what happens when you let the #fascist fox into the #democratic hen house.
@whn
@themaskerscomic
Also relevant to COVID-19 today, Ash ignored quarantine in the movie ALIEN on the orders of the Corporation
On Alien Day (4/26), Reddit users shared this meme from the movie “ALIEN”, reminding us what happens when quarantine is ignored. It’s not just sci-fi. The lesson applies to COVID-19 today. Don’t be an Ash. Prioritize safety, protect your community.
"Former government health officials fear the Trump administration is moving to slow-walk vaccine approvals, including by imposing new regulatory hurdles on drugmakers, such as changing the requirements for approval or seeking additional clinical trial data."
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-appears-slow-walking-vaccine-approvals-rcna202596
Data hoarder problem. During the #COVID lockdown and the news about BioNTech and their #mrna vaccine being developed, I thought that mrna could become an open thing. "Print" vaccines on standardised machines that are open hardware and open source (the basic patents on mrna are about to expire). Open "libraries" of mrna recipes. So I booked openmrna.com, .net and .org. They are about to expire. Should I keep them? (don't open them in your browser, don't)
I'm sick and tired of being unable to gig, or even go to gigs, due to the lack of COVID cautious events with sensible mitigations (masks, LFTs, ventilation etc)
I'm not the only one, and I know such events are starting to happen in the UK and elsewhere.
Thinking v srsly about putting sth together locally, but first I need to find out more.
So if you know of any COVID cautious music events anywhere in the world, please let me know.
(Pls boost?)
We need a long #COVID postmortem conversation between experts on both sides, so that we do better next time. #AndrewSullivan is trying.
https://pca.st/episode/15ef8bc6-9feb-4490-9824-e6574fbffa3a
'Paediatricians, GPs, and schools don’t understand childhood long covid': Parents can find it difficult to get the right medical support, as it is not widely known young people can develop the condition
https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/parenting/arid-41622136.html
Good. Pity no mention of #MEcfs
#LongCovidKids #LCKids @longcovid
#LongCovid #PwLC #PostCovidSyndrome #LC #PASC #postcovid
#CovidBrain
@covid19 #COVIDー19 #COVID19 #COVID #COVID_19 #SARSCoV2 @novid #novid #CovidIsNotOver #auscovid19
If you think you know all about #COVID: Efficacy of booster depends on whether it is administered in same or opposite arm as first jab. Probably also true for vaccination against the next pandemic. A closer look points to complex dynamics of immune response. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01326-2
Mike Masnick compares how the Free Press covered the (misleading-to-false) story of the #Biden admin’s "censorship" of #SocialMedia [actually trying to combat harmful #disinformation like #election & #COVID #lies & #ConspiracyTheories or #HateSpeech like #WhiteSupremacy], to how they handled the very real #censorship attack on #Wikipedia by #Trump’s DC #USAttorney #EdMartin.
Spoiler: there are differences.
#law #tech #moderation #dictatorship #FourthEstate #journalism
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/28/government-actually-threatens-wikipedias-editorial-freedom-self-proclaimed-free-speech-warriors-suddenly-have-other-plans/
FDA has blocked approval of the updated COVID-19 vaccine without a new clinical trial. #COVID #FDA #vaccine https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/fda-scrutiny-novavax-covid-19-vaccine-sparks-uncertainty-121256091
What does it really look like to stay COVID-cautious as a doctor in 2025? Dr. Nancy Malek shares her daily routines, the science that drives her, and why she won’t stop advocating for airborne precautions.
Read her perspective here: http://whn.global/why-i-still-wear-an-n95-a-doctors-perspective.
Aktuelle #Covid-7-Tages-#Inzidenz je 100.000 Einwohner:
#SentiSurv im Standby
#GrippeWeb/RKI, 22.4.25:
<100 
bundesweit ("sehr niedriges Niveau", Schätzung ohne Konfidenzintervall)
Die #Grippe-Welle ist in der KW 14 geendet.
#Infektionsradar/RKI, 28.4.25:
0,5 
(4-Wochen-Entwicklung ) bundesweit (#PCR-basiert)
#AbwasserMonitoring/AMELAG (bis zu 70 Kläranlagen, oft verzögertes Reporting, Werte in 1000 Genkopien/L)
KW16: 9,56 (49 Anlagen)
KW14: 10,23 (70 Anlagen)
@cremevax Here is a link to 5calls.org to call your reps with a generic script on vaccine access concerns which you are free to change on your own. It literally took me 5 min to make several calls and leave voice mails. Great site.
https://5calls.org/issue/rfk-hhs-vaccine-access-public-comment/
Eager to get a new Covid vaccine this fall — one updated to target currently circulating strains? Me, too. But we may be out of luck.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/27/fda-covid-vaccine-approval-process-novavax-pfizer-moderna/
I just want to point out that this is not a done deal, Trump’s approval numbers are crap, and the R congressional majority is paper-thin.
If you have an R Senator or MoC, now is the time to be calling their office every day with your HHS leadership concerns for vaccines, cancer research funding, and so on. If you hate talking to people on the phone, you can call after hours and leave a polite voicemail.
I swear to you there are some battles we can win.
I like the scientific process, and, within #SoftwareDevelopment, the #agile process.
They are self correcting.
I wish science had a more central role in governance, but with the amount of disinformation, and unrealistic expectations on the medical/science community re: #covid, I don't think society is capable of trusting experts who say "we don't know", or "it depends".
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