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hello new followers and welcome! a little about me, 4 years ago, i was intubated with severe breakthrough #covid i had a #stroke and i am currently #disabled and doing my best to recover i read a looooot of #books and i like to post and talk about themas well as other random stuff i hope you enjoy following me and vice versa

Wife is entering week 4, I'm in week 3 of an 'unknown' virus that truly feels like a combination of noro and Covid. Reduced lung function, no appetite, incredible fatigue

She was tested for everything at ER with no conclusion. Now friends reporting they have this and are cancelling Spring Break trips.

Stay masked, stay safe - public health is asleep

#Covid#Covid19#Flu

Today is Long Covid awareness day. An example of the lack of awareness: Last month one of my Long Covid patients died in the hospital. CT scan reported ground glass opacities in the lungs characteristic of Covid but it was ignored. None of the clinical notes made mention of this.
#COVID #LongCovid
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Long Covid AwarenessInternational Long Covid AwarenessLong Covid Long Covid Awareness Day March 15th #LongCovid #LongCovidAwarenessDay COVID Viral persistence PASC. COVID19 Long Covid awareness ribbon colors grey/teal/black

Statt bei der "#Covid-Aufarbeitung" immer nur zu monieren, wie viel zu streng die Maßnahmen doch gewesen seien, sollte man sich in meinen Augen viel mehr damit befassen, was wir aus dieser Erfahrung gelernt haben und in die nächste #Pandemie mitnehmen wollen. Denn eins ist sicher, die nächste Pandemie kommt bestimmt. Und wenn wir da nur mit "das machen wir aber nicht mehr" reingehen, machen wir am Schluss einfach weniger als zuvor - und nehmen so mehr Todesopfer und Langzeitfolgen in Kauf.

The mRNA technology behind coronavirus vaccines is now being used to create bespoke vaccines for cancer patients.

"Cancer vaccines weren’t a proper field of research before the pandemic. There was nothing. Apart from one exception, pretty much every clinical trial had failed. With the pandemic, however, we proved that mRNA vaccines were possible.

mRNA cancer vaccines work by giving the body instructions to make a harmless piece of a cancer-related protein. This trains the immune system to recognize and attack cancer cells carrying that protein. Think of it like a training manual for security guards. The vaccine gives the immune system a guide on what cancer looks like, so it knows exactly who to watch for and remove.

Going from mRNA Covid vaccines to mRNA cancer vaccines is straightforward: same fridges, same protocol, same drug, just a different patient.

In the current trials, we do a biopsy of the patient, sequence the tissue, send it to the pharmaceutical company, and they design a personalized vaccine that’s bespoke to that patient’s cancer. That vaccine is not suitable for anyone else. It’s like science fiction.

The UK was ready. We had fridges and we had world-class manufacturing and research facilities. During the pandemic, we had proven we could open and deliver clinical trials fast. Also, the UK had established a genomic global lead with Genomics England and the 100,000 Genome Project. All doctors and nurses in this country are trained in genomics.

So the UK government signed two partnerships: one with BioNTech to provide 10,000 patients with access to personalized cancer treatments by 2030, and a 10-year investment with Moderna in an innovation and technology center with capacity to produce up to 250 million vaccines. The stars were aligned.

For many years, we believed that research is inherently slow. It used to take 20 years to get a drug to market. Most cancer patients, unfortunately, will succumb by the time a drug gets to market. We showed the world that it could be done in a year if you modernize your process, run parts of the process in parallel, and use digital tools.

We have a trial to stop skin cancer coming back after you cut it out. It’s now completed. We over-recruited again, just like every single one of the trials that we ran, and the trial finished one year ahead of schedule. That’s completely unheard of in cancer trials because they normally run over-long.

What will happen now is that, over the next six to 12 months, we will monitor the people in the trial and work out if there’s a difference between the people who took the cancer vaccine and the ones who didn’t. We’re hoping to have results by the end of the year or beginning of 2026. If it’s successful, we will have invented the first approved personalized mRNA vaccine, within only five years of the first licensed mRNA vaccine for Covid. That’s pretty impressive."

- Dr. Lennard Lee, UK National Health Service oncologist and medical director at the Ellison Institute of Technology in Oxford

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WIRED · Covid Vaccines Have Paved the Way for Cancer VaccinesBy João Medeiros

Eine Ökonomie des Krieges

Ein spannender Text aus Italien aus dem Jahr 2024 zur Polykrise und wie bestimmte Entwicklungen seit der Corona-Pandemie in die Militarisierung von Staaten und Transformationen zur Kriegswirtschaft übergegangen sind.

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'Kasernenausdrücke wie „Wir sind an der Front“ oder „Hommage an die Kriegshelden“ wurden endlos wiederholt, ebenso wie die Wiederkehr veralteter patriotischer Rhetorik und Nationalhymnen auf Balkonen, die angesichts der prekären Gesundheitssituation ebenfalls nur von kurzer Dauer waren. Die menschenleeren Strassen erweckten den Eindruck einer Ausgangssperre, die bis zu einem gewissen Grad die wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse über die Entwicklung der Pandemie und die möglichen Lösungen zur Vorbeugung und Behandlung verdunkelte. Diese Massnahmen wurden in einen Rahmen gestellt, der an die Simulation einer Kriegssituation erinnerte. 

Leopard 2A6M CAN der Canadian Army (rechts) auf der Rüstungsmesse Eurosatory.
Untergrund-BlättleEine Ökonomie des Krieges: Das Kind der permanenten wirtschaftlichen DepressionDer Trend zur Kriegswirtschaft hat sich seit der Pandemie Covid 19 herausgebildet. Was auch immer der Ursprung von Covid 19 war, der schockierendste Aspekt war die Kriegssprache, die sofort in den Medien des Regimes die Runde machte.

“If we were to see immune damage manifesting at a population level, it would look like what we’re seeing today: big waves of common illnesses. Unusual spikes of uncommon illnesses. Course reversal for previously declining and eliminated illnesses. An unexplained, global wave of sickness.”

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The Gauntlet · Kids keep getting sicker as evidence for COVID immune damage buildsBy Julia Doubleday