When I wear a #mask:
+ Indoors around other people or in high traffic rooms with a very few exceptions.
+ Outdoors in crowds with a very few exceptions.
+ Outdoors when all alone if there is #wildfire smoke to contend with.

#covid #covid19 #publicHealth #masking #respiratoryVirus
https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/110991289075000481

by #NicoleKarlis in #Salon:

"With vaccines on the horizon, RSV could finally be preventable. But anti-vax misinfo could get in the way."

https://www.salon.com/2023/06/06/a-new-round-of-antivax-misinformation-could-ruin-an-otherwise-calmer-rsv-season/

#RSV #vaccines #AntiVax #vaccination #misinformation #FDA #Pfizer #RespiratoryVirus

“Among 4372 #children #hospitalized, 62% had non-#SARSCoV2 #RespiratoryVirus testing, of which 21% had a #codetection. Children with codetections were more likely to be <5 years old (yo), receive increased #oxygen support, or be admitted to the #ICU (P < .001).” https://medibubble.org/@SourceControl21/110396073370847307

I wrote about RSV vaccines in my #NatureMedicine column in February.
Very good news this week with the FDA approval of GSK's RSV vaccine for adults 60 and over - it's the first approved RSV vaccine.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/03/health/first-rsv-vaccine-approved/index.html

Several other candidate RSV vaccines are at a late stage of development, including mRNA based vaccines. The next big thing to watch for are those seeking to protect newborns and infants by maternal immunisation.

#RSV #Vaccine #RespiratoryVirus #drugdevelopment #Pharma #Immunology

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41591-023-00017-7

Was the 2022 holiday season #tripledemic as bad as expected? Ovation’s data experts examined viral testing data from our network of molecular labs located throughout the United States, accounting for 82% of the nation’s zip codes, to see what the viral trends really looked like. The results might surprise you.

https://www.ovation.io/recap-holiday-rsv-covid-influenza-trends/

#surveillancedata #respiratoryvirus

We should ask ourselves, why we only now start to care about #respiratory #viruses and the #morbidity and #mortality that they cause. #respiratoryvirus #RSv #RSVirus

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2800696

"This observation raises a question of fundamental importance: if natural mucosal respiratory virus infections do not elicit complete and long-term protective immunity against reinfection, how can we expect vaccines, especially systemically administered non-replicating vaccines, to do so? This is a major challenge for future vaccine development, and overcoming it is critical as we work to develop “next-generation” vaccines."

Perspective @cellhostmicrobe by David Morens, Jeffery Taubenberger & Anthony Fauci

#Vaccines #PublicHealth #Vaccine Development #Virus #Virology #Immunology #Coronavirus #Covid #Covid19 #Influenza #RespiratoryVirus #MucosalImmunology

https://www.cell.com/cell-host-microbe/fulltext/S1931-3128(22)00572-8

Well I've got a low grade fever and a wet cough. I've also got multiple negative COVID RATS. So this is likely RSV or the flu. And yes I have my flu shot. If this is the flu I'm glad about the vaccine because when I get the flu, I GET THE FLU. Fucking #Asthma. 99% of the time I'm okay, well managed. Times like this.... Holy shit.

#GFDI #respiratoryvirus #WearAMask