Cycling. Health. Covid. Diet.

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Israeli study urges ‘rethink’ of COVID’s nature, indicates antioxidants may help

Ben Gurion University geneticists suggest illness primarily targets the immune system, not the lungs, and say if the hypothesis is true, it may open up a new treatment possibility

www.timesofisrael.com

Immune system cells from COVID-19 patients display compromised mitochondrial-nuclear expression co-regulation and rewiring toward glycolysis

Mitochondria are pivotal for bioenergetics, as well as in cellular response to viral infections. Nevertheless, their role in COVID-19 was largely over…

www.sciencedirect.com

 

[guerney]

Better protection against COVID-19 for healthcare workers in England must be an immediate priority, says BMA - BMA media centre - BMA

Press release from the BMA.

www.bma.org.uk

 

[POLLY]

Better protection against COVID-19 for healthcare workers in England must be an immediate priority, says BMA - BMA media centre - BMA

Press release from the BMA.

www.bma.org.uk

Viruses don't exist

 

[POLLY]

POLLY doesn't exist.
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Viruses don't exist

 

[POLLY]

Existence is an illusion - - -

Like POLLY.
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Viruses don't exist

 

[GLJoe]

Viruses don't exist

B.S.

 

[richtea99]

Viruses don't exist

"Oh yes they do!"

A Beginner's Guide to British Pantomime Traditions -

To an outsider, pantomime traditions may seem bizarre. However, these are rules that work together to make the panto magic we know and love.

www.alexjacksonpantomimes.com

 

[AndyBike]

Viruses don't exist

Says Polly on post 666.

Coincidence ??? you tell me...

 

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Catching omicron variant could also protect against delta, study finds

www.standard.co.uk

Omicron Is Not More Severe for Children, Despite Rising Hospitalizations (Published 2021)

More children are being treated for Covid, but a combination of factors, including low vaccination rates, most likely explains the increase.

www.nytimes.com

Almost half of Omicron patients in Yorkshire's hospitals are unvaccinated

The latest data has revealed that 42.9% of confirmed Omicron cases in Yorkshire hospitals are unvaccinated

www.examinerlive.co.uk

Gold Slips Below $1800 as Investors Weigh Omicron Risks

Gold declined for a second day as investors weighed evidence that the omicron virus variant doesn’t pose a major threat to global economic growth.

www.bloomberg.com

 

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Viruses don't exist

Are you a Medical Herbalist? That was the official line from the National Institute of Medical Herbalists for many years, but even they've changed their tune:

Herbal medicine and the coronavirus - National Institute of Medical Herbalists

nimh.org.uk

 

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Omicron infection enhances neutralising immunity against Delta - Africa Health Research Institute

New research shows infection with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant creates a neutralising immune response against the Delta variant. The work, led by Africa Health Research Institute’s Professor Alex Sigal, has been submitted as a preprint to medRxiv and is available here. The research team...

www.ahri.org

Study link:

https://www.ahri.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MEDRXIV-2021-268439v1-Sigal_corr.pdf

 

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Up to 90% of Covid patients in ICU are unboosted, says Boris Johnson

Prime minister urges people to get third jab during visit to a vaccination centre in Milton Keynes

www.theguardian.com

 

[guerney]

Why ‘pruning’ friends has been so common during the pandemic

People have become ‘more insular and bonding-oriented’ amid Covid, and now many aren’t sure how to start rebuilding their social lives

www.theguardian.com

 

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UK government’s Covid advisers enduring ‘tidal waves of abuse’

Exclusive: Guardian survey shows level of intimidation, including death threats, against scientific and medical advisers

www.theguardian.com

 

[guerney]

COVID-19: Antarctica research station battling coronavirus outbreak

Princess Elisabeth Polar Station implemented strict rules to avoid infections, but at least 16 of its 25 workers have tested positive for COVID, according to a report.

news.sky.com

 

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Omicron evades immunity better than Delta, Danish study finds

The Omicron coronavirus variant is better at circumventing vaccinated peoples' immunity than the Delta variant, according to a Danish study published last week, helping explain why Omicron is spreading more rapidly.

www.reuters.com

 

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Denmark health chief says Omicron is bringing the END of the pandemic

Tyra Grove Krause - the chief epidemiologist at Denmark's State Serum Institute - said that a new study found that the risk of hospitalisation from Omicron is half that seen with the Delta variant.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

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Concern over ‘leakage’ of Omicron infections into over-50s, minister says

But Nadhim Zahawi says cases in London ‘epicentre’ are ‘beginning to plateau if not drop’

www.independent.co.uk

 

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New coronavirus variant called 'IHU' discovered in France

A new coronavirus variant called 'IHU' has emerged in France amid the rapid surge of Omicron cases across the world. The B.1.640.2 variant was discovered at the institute IHU Mediterranee Infection. Researchers believe that it contains 46 mutations. This has more mutations than the Omicron...

www.wionews.com

Emergence in Southern France of a new SARS-CoV-2 variant of probably Cameroonian origin harbouring both substitutions N501Y and E484K in the spike protein

SARS-CoV-2 variants have become a major virological, epidemiological and clinical concern, particularly with regard to the risk of escape from vaccine-induced immunity. Here we describe the emergence of a new variant. For twelve SARS-CoV-positive patients living in the same geographical area of...

www.medrxiv.org