UPDATE: Among
@mvankerkhove
's messages @ today's
@WHO
presser: We don't know how often we're being infected with
#COVID
or what the health impacts might be years, decades later. RE
#longCOVID
: "It's real. It's not in someone's head." TAG-VE to meet Monday.
As
@TRyanGregory
advises, don't believe everything you read about BA.2.86
#Pirola
. Nothing is known about symptoms; no one has said it's the deadliest variant since
#Omicron
; and it's not surging in China. A trusty summary here:
#COVID
#epidemic
"There is a reasonable chance" Pirola BA.2.86 "quickly optimizes and gains back" some transmissibility, COVID modeler
@JPWeiland
tells me. Already there are multiple subgroups forming. The evolution of a highly transmissible Pirola is entirely possible.
@TRyanGregory
@WHO
If a variant is different enough to necessitate a tailored booster, why wouldn't it deserve a new Greek letter name? Genuinely curious.
I had a chance to interview former White House COVID advisor Dr. Deborah Birx this week at
@FortuneMagazine
's Brainstorm Health conference.
#COVID
will eventually evade
#Paxlovid
and could cause deaths to "easily double," she told me. More:
#COVIDTwitter
XBB.1.16’s ability to outpace other variants suggests it “will spread worldwide in the near future,” researchers wrote. It's also “robustly resistant” to antibodies from a variety of variants, including BA.2 and BA.5. More:
#XBB116
#COVIDTwitter
#Arcturus
Are
#COVID
survivors (read: pretty much all of us) at greater risk of developing Parkinson's dz-like symptoms in the future? Perhaps, new research suggests—but the development of the dz is multifactorial,
@ChenShuibing
tells me.
#longCOVID
#COVIDTwitter
My last 2 years at Fortune as a global public health reporter have been the thrill of a lifetime, but it's on to new & different things! Hoping to stay in the world of public health
#journalism
/
#communication
. If you know of a role that might be a good fit, plz lmk!
#opentowork
As of today (Sept. 25), U.S. residents can order 4 free
#COVID
tests—12, if they're visually impaired. With a further fall/winter surge of cases expected on top of an already high plateau, now's the right time, experts say. More: H/t
@JPWeiland
@RajlabN
The so-called “R naught” value—or the number of people infected by a single person, on average—for
#COVID
initially ranged from 1.5 to 7, and now sits upwards of 12. The R naught value of H5N1 among birds: “around 100."
#sciencetwitter
#COVIDtwitter
As long as
#COVID
has existed, it's been possible for the virus to recombine w/more deadly coronaviruses SARS or MERS, if someone was infected w/both. Given COVID's vast, rapid circulation, the possibility is worrying one expert I spoke with.
#JN1
#Pirola
Regarding the 10k COVID deaths (roughly) reported to
@WHO
last month: More than half were reported by the U.S. alone, and 1k were reported by Italy,
@mvankerkhove
said. There are 234 member nations and territories, and only 50 are still reporting deaths.
@WHO
@mvankerkhove
Only 21, less than 9%, are still reporting ICU data. Because so many countries are failing to report their data, "unfortunately, we’re back to sort of scraping the web, finding each report, and adding them to our dashboard,”
@mvankerkhove
said.
Was just reminded that it's my 1st anniversary with
@FortuneMagazine
. It's been such an incredible (and incredibly fun!) year. Grateful to work with such a talented team. (And huge props to
@Nicklich
for making this happen!)
It's been a hell of a year, probably my most difficult yet. While I'm not a fan of marketing myself, I'd like to say that I finished two master's degrees this year, in spite of it all. Is M.A.² in an email sig/on LinkedIn obnoxious? Asking for a friend. Up next: MPH summer '24!
ICYMI: No, Disease X isn't a new virus. Nor is it a group project for world leaders at this week's
@wef
(Wednesday). What you need to know about the symbolic term + other potential
#pandemic
pathogens on
@WHO
's priority list. (That still includes
#COVID
.)
Unfortunately, some media outlets love to publish articles about variant symptoms—even when there is no data—as clickbait. They usually just list the typical Omicron symptoms, so nothing new—but they get your click.
I'm in Larkspur with the El Paso County Sheriff's Office. Expecting an update shortly on the search for missing 11 year old Gannon Stauch. Today was the second day of searching in Douglas County.
@csgazette
Looking to avoid
#COVID
? Grab a mask, social-distance, and go meatless. Tweaking your diet could significantly reduce your risk of infection, according to new research just published in the
@bmj_latest
.
#COVIDTwitter
#medTwitter
#pandemic
New multi-cancer early detection (MCED) blood tests have researchers seeking to define "meaningful"
#cancer
. “Just because you can detect cancer through an MCED test doesn’t mean it’s time to take action,"
@AmericanCancer
's
@AmerCancerCEO
says. More:
“I’ve been a practicing ICU doctor for a decade now, and I think I can safely say this is one of the worst surges I’ve ever seen.”
@AnitaKPatelMD
on the surge in
#RSV
,
#flu
, and
#COVID
cases threatening kids hospital capacity. More here:
#parenting
#health
DA Dan May is among those present here at the
#GannonStauch
press conference, scheduled to kick off here in about 13 minutes. We're about to head into final mic checks for TV.
@csgazette
Statement from dad, speaking of son's birth, born weighing 1 lb, 2 oz. "I'd been looking forward to his teenage years." His heart stopped with the news that "my little boy is not coming home." Mother is sobbing and partially collapsing. SO spox is crying.
#GannonStauch
@csgazette
ICYMI: No, Disease X isn't a new virus. Nor is it a group project for world leaders at this week's
@wef
. What you need to know about the symbolic term + other potential
#pandemic
pathogens on
@WHO
's priority list. (That still includes
#COVID
.) H/t
@AmeshAA