Long Covid’s ‘missing thousands’ in NZ. "New Zealand may have 100,000-150,000 people affected by Long Covid and ME, and of those, 85% will be moderately to very severely affected and needing significant support." #COVID19NZ #LongCovid Source:

Newsroom

Long Covid's 'missing thousands' in NZ

New Zealand may have 100,000-150,000 people affected by Long Covid and ME, and of those, 85 percent will be moderately to very severely affected an...

Scientists call for Brits to wear masks again due to startling new Covid variant. "The warning comes as the latest data showed that Eris, a subvariant of Omicron, now accounts for 1 in 10 Covid cases - while the number of people recorded with the virus jumped from an estimated 3.3 per 100,000 to 7.2 in the space of less than a month." #COVID19UK @npub1j92g...6nfj Source:

Daily Mirror

Scientists call for Brits to wear masks again due to startling Covid variant

The call for mask-wearing comes after a rise in Covid cases and the worrying emergence of a new 'mutation', with one expert saying it was more like...

Lots of Taylor Swift fans (Swifties) are saying they got COVID after the Los Angeles shows. “Outdoor transmission has become more likely with the newer variants as they have become more transmissible, but outdoors remains a much lower-risk setting than indoors,” Linsey Marr, PhD, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech who studies viral transmission. #COVID19 #TaylorSwift #swifties @npub1j92g...6nfj Source:

SELF

Lots of Swifties Are Saying They Got COVID After the LA Eras Shows

Turns out scream-singing your heart out comes with some risks.

Surprise COVID discovery helps explain how coronaviruses jump species. "The virus that causes COVID-19 uses ACE2 as the front door to infect cells, but we've found that if the front door is blocked, it can also use the back door or the windows," said researcher Peter Kasson, MD, PhD, of UVA's Departments of Molecular Physiology and Biomedical Engineering. #COVID19 @npub1j92g...6nfj Source:

ScienceDaily

Surprise COVID discovery helps explain how coronaviruses jump species

Unexpected new insights into how COVID-19 infects cells help explain why coronaviruses are so good at jumping from species to species and will help...

By T. Ryan Gregory @npub1sgm5...uyfd "Omicron" Special nickname edition. Centaurus = BA.2.75 Typhon = BQ.1 (BA.5.3.1.1.1.1.1) Orthrus = CH.1.1 (BA.2.75.3.4.1.1.1.1) Kraken = XBB.1.5 Hyperion = XBB.1.9 Arcturus = XBB.1.16 Acrux = XBB.2.3 Eris = EG.5.1 (XBB.1.9.2.5.1) @auscovid19 #COVID19 Twitter source:

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"Omicron"

🇳🇿New Zealand COVID weekly update: 7 August to 13 August 2023 🔹New cases: 5,372 (+727) 🔹Reinfections: 2,736 (50.93%) 🔹Deaths: 22 (-3) 🔹Hospital: 171 (+11) 🔹ICU: 4 (-1) 🔸50.93% were reinfections Sadly, of the 22 deaths being reported today: 2 were in their 30s 1 was in their 50s 1 was in their 60s 7 were in their 70s 6 were in their 80s 5 were aged over 90 Of these people, 7 were women and 15 were men. #COVID19NZ News source:

Stuff

Data source: https://www.tewhatuora.govt.nz/our-health-system/data-and-statistics/covid-19-data/covid-19-current-cases/