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DeSantis backs Florida surgeon general in urging residents against new Covid vaccines "DeSantis backs Florida surgeon general in urging residents against new Covid vaccines ... Dr Joseph Ladapo, the governor’s hand-picked surgeon general and a vaccine skeptic previously found to have...

A couple of new-ish studies Diabetes following SARS-CoV-2 infection: Incidence, persistence, and implications of COVID-19 vaccination. A cohort study of fifteen million people (Not peer-reviewed) "There is a 30-50% elevated T2DM [Type 2 diabetes] incidence post-COVID-19, but we report the novel...

A Reddit post with links to the paper https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adf9742 and an article/news-release about it New excess mortality estimates show increases in US rural mortality during second year of COVID-19 pandemic " New excess mortality estimates show increases in US...

Earliest article about this I could find, but behind paywall: China’s New Covid Wave Set to See 65 Million Cases a Week China is bracing for a massive new wave of COVID cases. What this means for the rest of the world XBB variant at work Estimated 40 million/week by end of May Estimated 65...

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes Changes to Simplify Use of Bivalent mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines "Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration amended the emergency use authorizations (EUAs) of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 bivalent mRNA vaccines to simplify the vaccination...

Florida health officials removed key data from COVID vaccine report "Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced in October that young men should not get the COVID-19 vaccine, guidance that runs counter to medical advice issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. His...

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2023-03-23/study-vaccination-cuts-risk-of-long-covid-19-nearly-in-half "The research, which reviewed 41 studies involving more than 860,000 people, found that vaccination reduced the risk of long COVID by nearly half. Other factors like older...

China approves first home-grown mRNA Covid vaccine "China has approved its first home-produced mRNA Covid vaccine, months after ending strict pandemic rules. ... China's labs have been trying to create an mRNA vaccine for years - the country refused to clear foreign-made ones for widespread...

Here's a long read with a lot of good background info (like potential biases) on the study: Do Masks Work? Yes. No. Maybe. With one summary by "... Shira Doron, a physician and the chief infection control officer at Tufts Medicine... ... “This study has concluded, not that masks don’t work, but...

New booster works against dominant Covid strain "A new CDC study has found that the Covid-19 bivalent booster reduces the risk of symptomatic infection from the most common subvariant circulating in the U.S. right now by about half. Additional new data, set to be published on the CDC website on...

Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations - Nature Reviews Microbiology Good overview over what the currently estimated 65 million long-termers are dealing with.

Bodies Pile Up in China as Covid Surge Overwhelms Crematoriums (Worked for me only in a private tab/window) "Bodies Pile Up in China as Covid Surge Overwhelms Crematoriums Funeral home worker says ‘the whole system is paralyzed’ 'We can’t afford to die’: Soaring cremation prices stir anger...

I received a shot from the same batch yesterday, half-way across the country in MN. Pharmacist also confirmed it's the new stuff, so I guess it really should be. Very sore shoulder/arm and a headache, so far nothing else.

A quick and somewhat interesting read BioNTech Founder Uğur Şahin: "The Virus Continues To Mutate at a High Speed"

US monkeypox outbreak: Demand for vaccines outstrips supply "US health officials say they do not have enough monkeypox vaccines to cope with surging demand. The US has seen more than 1,800 cases so far, though that is thought to be an undercount as testing has also lagged. ... "We don't yet...