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mackayim2022

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virologist. husband. dad. reader. writer. fixer. bad typist. learner. in no order. facts referenced. opinions mine alone. not medical advice or endorsement.
I am https://mastodon.social/@MackayIM from birdsite.
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Rhinoviruses (about 160 of them, true common cold viruses but also major exacerbators of wheezing and asthma) are having a real moment this year. These are data from the State of New South Wales in Australia.

https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/covid-19/Pages/reports

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Are electric cars better for the environment than fuel-powered cars? Here's the verdict.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-27/comparing-electric-cars-and-petrol-cars/103746132?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-27/comparing-electric-cars-and-petrol-cars/103746132?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

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Orthopoxvirus monkeypox cluster in Queensland, Australia.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-30/queensland-mpox-cluster-low-risk-to-community-monkey-pox/103907820

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@Nonya_Bidniss That name I used is the current viral species name. Recently changed. Monkeypox virus is the conversational name. It's a whole thing. 😭

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Perfect from Cathy Wilcox.

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Unlikely to be popular among some, but nonetheless factual, the most common respiratory virus (those ones that transmit through the air) you have right now in Australia is mostly likely to be a rhinovirus. Likely been the case since about Feb.
That may change soon, though.

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Wiley's 'fake science' scandal is just the latest chapter in a broader crisis of trust universities must address

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-21/wiley-hindawi-articles-scandal-broader-crisis-trust-universities/103868662

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Australia's first human case of bird flu detected in child travelling back from India

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-22/bird-flu-avian-influenza-human-detection/103879886?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

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Hundreds of patients died after catching COVID in Victorian hospitals, new data shows.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-06/hundreds-died-catching-covid-victoria-hospitals-testing-masking/103784896?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

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Happy Sunday moooorninngg!

mackayim2022,
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@PieterPeach It was a challenge, but one I was able to meet.

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The following post can be read 2 ways.

  1. As written
  2. Laden with expletives & name-calling directed at the deliberately misinforming group determined to convince you that SARS-CoV-2 was an entirely new form of biology & that immunity did not or could not result from it.
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This overview deliciously confirms what some of us have been trying so hard to communicate for a long time now. Infection by SARS-CoV-2 - or vaccination with a SARS-CoV-2 active ingredients - produces real, solid, functional immunity.

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Just like infection by or vaccination with other pathogens.

Scientists tried to give people COVID — and failed.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01284-1

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The studies in this article show that an infected human produces an immune response—they developed immunity—to SARS-CoV-2, which helps to protect them from infection by the same variant. Immunity makes it really hard to intentionally infect that person with the same variant.

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The same principle applies to vaccination - especially when well-matched with what's around - which is how it saved so many lives when used early on (see Australian and New Zealand examples), reduces the occurrence of long-term COVID-19, and makes disease outcomes less serious.

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I’ve also talked about viral dose before.
https://virologydownunder.com/masks-matter-for-more-than-mandates/

The new study shows that once there's immunity to a variant, it takes SO MUCH MORE (10,000X in one study) of that variant to kick off a 2nd infection. Thanks immunity that does exist, is produced and protects us.

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Unfortunately, the term “reinfect” was never defined; it was just used incredibly lazily and without thought. And so, it was taken to mean infection by any variant. Which it shouldn't have been. It should have been used with a definition, for example:

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..Reinfection is either by the same variant (which is not very common because IMMUNITY) or by a newly evolved variant (which is pretty common and is what we mostly see with SARS-CoV-2 "reinfection"). Despite wanting some clarity, it never emerged.

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Immunity exists to that which triggers it. But if a new variant emerges, it has BY * DEFINITION done so because it changed itself to escape previous immune system recognition. That’s why we see one variant REPLACE another instead of the same variants causing multiple epidemics.

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Of course, our vaccines have not been good enough to prevent everyone getting seriously ill, & they can’t work as well for those with certain predisposing factors. We’ve also been pathetically slow at rolling out new variant vaccines and so, apart from the very early days...

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Oh good. Ridiculous people who don't 'believe' in biology have found me by email again. 🙄🤦

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Huge piece of work by my team almost done. One of the gnarliest single pieces just fell into place with a satisfying thunk.
I'm just revelling in that feeling of satisf...okay, done.
Back to it.

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@PieterPeach This!

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The. Middle East rn😔

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