COVID-19 Coronavirus and other virus UK and World News Update 21st March 2025
5 years ago most of the world was going into lockdown. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), as of January 5, 2025, a total of 7,083,246 confirmed COVID-19 deaths had been recorded worldwide - and that does not include any of those who died without testing or who were recorded as dying from other causes.
On Sunday 9th March the UK held a Day of Reflection to remember the people lost since the pandemic began, and to give thanks to those who who have worked to help others and shown kindness above and beyond the norm.
A huge thank you from me too - we couldn't have kept going without all of you who risked your own health for us.
"COVID causes permanent brain damage and immune system dysfunction. It’s why everyone’s sick."
Dr Sean Mullen, Research Director at Exercise Tech Lab, Illinois.
Saturday 15th March was Long COVID Awareness Day. Our essential workers, those people who kept us going through lockdown, the frontline medical staff, bus drivers, cleaners, shop workers and everyone else who had to face the public back when we had Alpha, Beta and Delta strains and no vaccinations, were more likely to lose their lives to COVID, and today they are more likely to suffer severely from Long COVID.
There is no doubt for anyone now that Long COVID exists. It's real, it can be viewed on X-rays, in blood tests, scans and autopsies. COVID can affect all organs of the body, including the brain, heart and lungs, and it affects your blood. It affects your immune system. There is also no doubt that the more people who catch COVID, the more are left with Long COVID, and the more times you catch COVID, the higher your chance of having Long COVID.
Never give up on relief of your symptoms. Our bodies are miraculous things and a lot of the damage can take a long time to heal. Each week scientists and researchers piece together more of the jigsaw, and they learn more about what COVID does and how it does it. The more they learn, the more potential therapies and cures they can try, and they are making improvements in people's lives. Keep hope.
There is a fantastic post on Long COVID in The Guardian by Frances Ryan, who covers (and links to) a lot of the news I've shared over the past couple of years, and asks why we aren't talking about Long COVID? Why we aren't vaccinating to reduce it, and why we aren't ploughing money into finding ways to improve the situation of the millions of people affected? Especially as all of those things would ultimately be far cheaper financially than supporting people for years (potentially decades). And then there's the non-financial cost...
The UK has reported an average of around 150 new cases of COVID each day in 2025, with around 130 daily hospital admissions (very few people are tested for COVID, mostly those admitted to hospital) and around 1,000 people in hospital with COVID at any time. Over 920 people have died from COVID in the first 10 weeks of the year.
According to the tracker from BNO, so far this year, nearly 2 million COVID cases have been reported in the U.S., causing 139,050 hospitalizations and 9,258 deaths. It's not 'over'.
The UK NHS waiting lists for elective care have fallen for the 5th month in a row (hurrah!).
The total waiting list in January was down by 35,000 from 7.46 million to 7.43 million (down by 193,000 since July 2024), with an average wait of 17 days for tests and checks (it was 60 days in May 2020).
58.9% of patients were treated within 18 weeks, and waits of over a year fell to 198,868 - just 2.7% of the waiting list.
NHS staff delivered 1.59 million treatments in January, 5% higher than the same period pre-pandemic (1.52 million in January 2020).
Around three quarters (73.4%) of patients were admitted, transferred, or discharged in A&E within 4 hours, while the average response for category 2 ambulance calls was 31 minutes 22 seconds.
Norovirus in the UK is DOWN (also hurrah!). Week ending 9th March still double last year, but last week only up by an extra third, and less than 1,000 people in hospital for the first time this year.
The long and deadly flu wave in the USA has finally peaked and is going down rapidly (hurrah!). In common with the UK and a lot of the Northern hemisphere, the USA has had a bad time with Norovirus (sickness bug). Double last year's figures. As Tyler Durden says USE SOAP.
COVID variant BA.3.2 seems as if it might have driven a small but notable wave of infections in South Africa. This hasn't yet been seen anywhere else (although obviously testing is very low in most places). What puts it on the radar is that it has a staggering 57 mutations. It was first detected in wastewater last October and hasn't overtaken XEC or LP.8, so fingers crossed you never hear of it again...
"In a subset of children and adolescents, SARS-CoV-2 infection induces a severe acute hyperinflammatory shock termed multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) at four to eight weeks after infection."
A newly released study has established a link. They found that the children's "impaired T cell cytotoxicity" causes overproduction of 'Transforming Growth Factor Beta' (TGF-β), which "leads to EBV reactivation and subsequent hyperinflammation".
In English, in some children and young people the COVID infection damages the part of the immune system called T cells, which pump out TGF-β, which interferes with control of latent Epstein Barr virus, it reactivates and that causes the multisystem inflammatory syndrome.
The fact they've discovered this means they have options to try and treat it - and possibly prevent it happening. It also paves the way for more detective work. Post-COVID TGF-β has already been found to affect the lungs. What else does it affect?
(Never lose hope Long COVID people - we'll get there.)
Keir Starmer: “I’m bringing management of the NHS back into democratic control, by abolishing the arms-length body NHS England.”
Only a few weeks ago it was announced 2,000 jobs would go at NHS England to save £175m.
On March 10th it was reported around half the staff would be going - down from around 13,000 to 6,500 - to save more money and avoid duplication with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). It was also reported some DHSC staff would lose their jobs.
On 13th March during a visit to Hull, Prime Minister Kier Starmer announced NHS England will be scrapped entirely. Health Secretary Wes Streeting confirmed this in an address to parliament later in the day.
The changes will be overseen by incoming (and presumably temporary) NHS England senior managers, Jim Mackey (new interim Chief Executive) and Dr Penny Dash (new Chair of NHSE Board), and Alan Milburn (DHSC’s lead non-executive director).
Matt Hancock is giving evidence at the UK COVID Inquiry. He was asked about the 'VIP lanes' and replied that they were "inevitable" in a pandemic (the UK seems to have been the only country to officially set one up). He also said he had "impeccable behaviour", including promoting a PPE offer from his pub landlord, Mr Bourne.
Mr Bourne was awarded a £40m contract, which he subcontracted out.
Lord Feldman explained to the inquiry that Tory-linked recruitment company PPE SG Recruitment were given a £50 million PPE contract in large part because the owner was a "good chap" and he was impressed he was ex-SAS.
Much of what was supplied was unfit to be supplied to the NHS.
Huge thanks to Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK for making sure important questions are being asked (they are also organisers for the COVID Memorial Wall).
Last week tens of thousands of US Health and Human Services Department workers were given the option to leave their job for a payout of up to $25,000. This included staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Equally ridiculous to offering your most experienced health security staff cash to just leave, Trump has also banned federal employees from working from home.
The Food And Drug Administration enforced this on Monday - even for employees of 25 years on a work from home or hybrid contract. This meant more people in office buildings than ever before.
How do you fit 10,000 people into 6,000 car parking spaces and desks? How many can share a phone or computer? How long should you queue to get through security into the building before you call it a day and go home? What do you do when your best employees decide a 2 hour commute isn't worth it, or it won't fit in with caring responsibilities?
Fallout from this is going to be huge...
Texas is struggling to keep up with demand for measles vaccines, which is good news/bad news. Sadly, as predicted and suggested by RFK Jr, people are trying natural treatments instead of accessing healthcare, including for their children. This is resulting in patients not being taken to a doctor until their condition is more serious, such as having very low oxygen levels.
Health officials are asking that anyone with measles symptoms report it promptly, and that is true pretty much wherever you are in the world.
It's easy to see that there are far more measles cases in the US than official case counts. Social factors, embarrassment, distrust of medical science and people with very low symptoms or who refuse to believe they have measles will all add to the count.
There have now been 309 measles cases identified in Texas since late January. Only 2 were vaccinated. 40 hospitalised, and one unvaccinated 6 year old child has died. Gaines County is the epicentre, with 211 cases. At last reporting - children 5-17 account for 130 cases and children 0-4 account for 102 cases.
In New Mexico, there have been 42 cases identified - 4 known to be vaccinated. 2 are hospitalised and 1 adult has died. 40 are from Lea County, which borders Gaines County, Texas, and the outbreaks are related.
This year the following measles cases have also been reported:
California 8, Kansas 6, Oklahoma 4, New York 4, Georgia, Maryland and New Jersey 3, Alaska, Pennsylvania and Washington 2, Florida, Kentucky, Michigan, Rhode Island and Vermont 1. US total 378. Hospitalised 17% (64 of 378). Probable and suspected cases are not included.
New York has reported 4 cases of measles this year (3 are in NY City), and the Governor Kathy Hochul has launched a new website to keep the public informed and improve access to vaccinations.
“Measles doesn’t belong in the 21st century, and it certainly doesn’t belong in the State of New York.”
Go Kathy! This sort of response is very definitely putting people first.
On Wednesday of last week a mother-to-be in labour was admitted to UMC Children's hospital in Lubbock, Texas. Only after she'd been admitted to the maternity ward did they discover she had measles.
Pretty much worst case scenario for a maternity hospital.
3 day old newborns have been given injections of immunoglobulin, an antibody that has proven very effective in the past at boosting their completely immature immune systems.
The hospital has stated that the woman did not enter the NICU or have contact with any other patients.
A masking policy has been introduced throughout most of the hospital.
It isn’t just measles we need to be concerned about when we have lower vaccination rates.
Last year, especially in late Spring, the UK saw a big rise in Pertussis - Whooping Cough.
There were 856 confirmed cases in the whole of 2023, and 14,905 in 2024 (3,038 in May alone). 10 infants died.
Let's not do that again.
Pertussis is cyclical, and tends to peak every 3-5 years. It looks like last year was a particularly bad peak year. Thankfully there were just 149 cases this January, so fingers crossed it will not be anything like as bad.
At the moment people at higher risk from HIV can take daily tablets or a bi-monthly injection to lower their risk of infection (PrEP). An annual injection has completed Phase 1 trials.
Lenacapavir prevents HIV replicating inside cells, and an annual injection is far more likely not to be missed than daily or even bi-monthly treatment. 2 different Lencapavir formulations have already passed large scale trials as a 6 monthly injection, and 2 different formulas were used in the annual trial. All were found to be effective and safe.
Scotland’s chief vet has confirmed a bird flu outbreak at a premises in Daviot near Inverness. A restriction zone has been implemented.
The whole of Scotland, England and Wales was declared an Avian Influenza Prevention Zone earlier this year, enforcing extra biosecurity measures.
Last week molecular biologist and flu geneticist Professor Henry Niman, rather than the US CDC or any official agency, alerted us to an unannounced 3rd new strain of H5N1 Avian Flu, which has become widespread quite rapidly during the last month or 2, and he expects will become most prevalent.
H5N1 B3.13 is the wild bird and 'moo flu' strain which has caused most infections in US dairy cattle and farmworkers so far.
H5N1 D1.1 is the strain which is mainly affecting farmed poultry, and has (on average) caused more severe illness in humans.
The new strain is H5N1 D1.3, and it is a 'recombinant' - a hybrid. If you recall, flu virus is made up of 8 jigsaw pieces which clip together. An unknown host (probably a wild bird) has been infected with two H5N1 flu A types simultaneously - D1.1 and another with an 'A3' segment. They have broken apart and reassorted, creating D1.3. It is still a H5N1, and very close to D1.1, but it will have some different properties.
D1.3 is affecting wild birds, as well as poultry in Indianapolis, Ohio, Minnesota and Puerto Rico, and it has just been confirmed to have infected an Ohio poultry worker. The poultry worker was hospitalised, so didn't just have mild illness.
Reassuringly the CDC 2 days ago said:
"There were no markers that would impact the effectiveness of influenza antivirals or existing candidate vaccine viruses. Finally, CDC did not identify changes that would make this virus better adapted to spread among or infect mammals."
An H5N1 bird flu mutation of concern has been spotted twice in completely unrelated cases.
PB2 E627K is a mutation scientists have been wary of for a while because in lab tests on small mammals (ferrets) it was associated with increased mammal-to-mammal infectiousness (via exhaled breath) and disease severity (they all died).
The mutation has been found in 2 New Jersey cats infected last month with the D1.1 strain - which is most often seen in wild birds, but also the Canadian teenager who was seriously ill, and the Louisiana pensioner who sadly died. More recently D1.1 has also been seen for the first time in cows in Nevada.
The same concerning mutation has also been spotted in 4 dairy cow herds (presumed to be from San Bernardino, California) this week - however the cows have the usual 'moo flu' strain B3.13.
Mutation PB2 E627K was seen previously in a Texas dairy worker way back in March 2024, but seems to have taken a year off from the spotlight. The Texan only had mild illness with conjunctivitis, and human to human spread didn’t happen, so even a nasty mutation does not automatically mean bad things will happen.
The Food and Agriculture Association of the United Nations (FAO) has called for a coordinated response to the threat of HPAI (Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza) as HPAI H5N1 especially threatens livelihoods, job security, food production and food security in countries around the world. It also threatens biodiversity, as so many wild bird species are being affected and are at risk. They asked for a 3rd time for money to be released by the World Bank, to help fund the ten-year Global Strategy for the Prevention and Control of High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza which they have just launched in collaboration with the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH).
Latest US Avian Flu counts:
Humans infected 70 (and 7 probable), Deaths 1
Dairy herds infected 989 across 17 states
51 jurisdictions with infections in both wild and farmed birds
The US CDC's latest H5N1 report is full of information! They might have been hobbled, but they aren't letting us down. Yeeay!
They are reporting that ferrets previously exposed to human flu A(H1N1)pdm09 were less ill when exposed to bird flu A(H5N1), suggesting that catching human flu beforehand may offer some protection (good to know there may be a lasting benefit from my family being so ill with flu back in 2018). They were also less likely to spread flu.
This was true whether infected by airways or eyes - so eye protection is a must for people working with potentially infected bird sor animals.
The CDC also report that when 2 Michigan dairy workers were infected and had mild illness, only 1 developed neutralising antibodies, but they have been able to extract those antibodies for further study.
Thirdly they've been assessing how useful current antivirals are in a lab, and feel that they will help humans fight current avian flu strains, so recommendations have not changed.
Risk to the general US population is still considered low, but for people working with infected animals or contaminated areas it is moderate to high.
A study by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital doesn't quite agree with the CDC on antivirals, although they tested infection of mice using milk. They found it was hard to treat severe infections, and results varied depending on how infection occurred.
"In general, baloxavir [Xofluza] caused a greater reduction in viral levels than oseltamivir [Tamiflu], but neither was always effective."
Oral route (drinking raw milk) - antivirals did very little.
Eye - Baloxavir 100% effective, Oseltamivir 25% effective
Nose - Baloxavir 75% effective, Oseltamivir 50%.
The USDA (US Department of Agriculture), HHS, CDC, NIH and FDA have announced up to $100million funding "to explore prevention, therapeutics, research, and potential vaccine candidates" to fight highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) and directly support America’s farmers and ranchers.
Well, that is taking it seriously. You can't argue with that. Excellent stuff.
The new head of US Health and Human Resources RFK Jr is well-known for his love of natural remedies, and belief natural immunity is better than immunity achieved using vaccinations.
He has several times implied this might be the best option with bird flu, and last month said he had some farms willing to try for natural immunity.
New York Times has a great article explaining why this won't work, including the fact that no-one will even buy infected chickens.
- It takes longer because you have to wait for it to go through the flock, quarantine and clear up
- Hardly any chickens or other most other poultry will survive, although survival for ducks can be very high
- Risk of infecting human workers
- Risk of variants and mutations
- Risk to the wider animal and bird populations
- The way we raise chickens means they're almost identical, they haven't picked up different immunity like humans have, so they don't have different antibody cocktails. The experiment is unlikely to work.
- Even if a chicken survives and you use it to breed, it's not going to pass on immunity like mammals do, it lacks the genetic capabilities.
- Your immune chicken could simply be wiped out by the next strain of flu to come along.
- Culling chickens is an ugly business, but letting them die a painful death from infection over a period of days is torture, especially as bird flu attacks the brain and respiratory tract.
An animal vet whose cat died from bird flu has been posting really informative reels to Instagram (username: theneighbourhoodvet).
Her cat Valentino caught bird flu from another cat who was brought in with mild fever. That cat had eaten 'Savage' brand raw cat food. She believes it was respiratory transmission as everything else has been ruled out. No humans caught bird flu from the cats. Autopsy revealed H5N1 throughout Valentino's body, including his brain, which was swollen.
Heartbreaking, but hopefully it will deter other people from feeding their cats raw meat.
Analysis reveals the strain of bird flu likely spread from cows into the chickens who were turned into the food.
Savage Raw Cat Food has been recalled, and has been linked to the death of another New York City cat.
As if one highly pathogenic avian flu wasn't enough, the US has reported an outbreak of Avian Flu HPAI H7N9 on a Mississippi chicken farm (the first since 2017).
H7N9 was first detected in China, and has infected 1,568 people since then (616 died). At this moment it is one farm and no humans, and we have no reason to assume it'll spread any further.
It took about 7 years after the first diagnosed cases, before people really started to die from AIDS in large numbers. Around a million people each year still die from AIDS, and it is still the leading cause of death in some sub-saharan countries.
AIDS disrupts the immune system, making people susceptible to any opportunist biohazard that comes along. They are not the same, and it doesn't work in the same way, but COVID can also disrupt the immune system.
Several of the more prominent Long COVID campaigners have sadly died recently, which is being noted and mentioned in Long COVID support groups. It is more than likely coincidental - people unfortunately do die all the time. More people do tend to die in Winter, none of them were getting any younger, and once you start to look for a pattern, you can usually find it... however it has sent ripples of concern through the communities.
We do know that your risk of death is increased after COVID. If hospitalised then 3 years later it is around 1/3 greater than people who have not been hospitalised with COVID. For most people that equates to an incredibly tiny percentage (e.g. 4 in 1,000 instead of 3 in 1,000 for a 48 year old Englishman), but for vulnerable groups with higher mortality rates it is more significant (e.g. the very elderly or very sick).
There are no official figures on recent trends, and no-one in the health or scientific world has mentioned anything that I can find, so it's definitely not something to worry about at this point. Bear it in mind by all means, but please don't lose any sleep.
UK authorities have been contact tracing a person who arrived from Nigeria with Lassa Fever.
Lassa Fever is quite hard to catch from other humans, usually requiring close contact with bodily fluids. Incubation is up to 3 weeks, and we are approaching that now with no reports of other cases that I can find, so hopefully they didn’t share.
The US CDC is reportedly planning a large study looking at connections between vaccines and autism. Lights alive are we really in 2025? I. De. Spair.
This has been done to death. Say it with me - VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.
Ever since Andrew 'struck off and blacklisted' Wakefield published his horrendously flawed and retracted 1998 study of 12 children (3 of whom didn't have autism diagnoses, and 5 had developmental delays before they had the MMR), people have attempted to find a link, and they haven't managed it. I wonder why?
Andrew Wakefield was paid at least £435,600 to try and find a link, and many millions has been wasted on this since then. There have already been more than 25 studies, including one with 600,000 children in Denmark. NO LINK.
"Like a gambler hunched over a roulette table, they want to try again and again until they get their result purely by chance. After all, if we slice data in enough different ways and look at enough different groups, eventually we’ll hit upon a coincidence. A 1-in-100 fluke becomes a lot more likely if you try 100 things."
Adam Kucharski, A Wild Vaccine Chase
Aside from repeatedly repeating studies, a big problem with this is that scientific studies should not start with a conclusion and try to find evidence to support it, because if you look long and hard enough, you'll find something. 'Does wearing different clothing affect risk of gout?' would be okay, but 'What is the link between gout and plain white t-shirts?' is going to give you an answer, and it's going to be ridiculous. You have to start with a hypothesis and an open mind.
Another problem is that despite all of the repeated studies, the fact Andrew Wakefield has been completely discredited, struck off, proven to have lied and his study rubbished by practically anyone who ever read it, people still believe it. They want to find something to blame, and they won't ever be settled unless they have that.
"What we shouldn’t do is indulge unnecessary calls for further studies into safety from groups who have no intention of accepting the results."
Adam Kucharski, A Wild Vaccine Chase.
I have autistic family members, and I feel incredibly strongly about this. I wrote about Andrew Wakefield and the MMR jab in 2013 and I can't believe we are still discussing it now.
Mother to an autistic child, Meagan McGovern, has posted a long post on Facebook talking about her experience of attending Andrew Wakefield's clinic. Staff there were great with the children and her son progressed incredibly well. She found Andrew Wakefield very charming (loved his British accent) and clever. Her son had had a seizure after his Diphtheria and Tetanus jab, and screamed from that moment on, so initially she believed vaccines were to blame for his delayed communication and other problems. Then she briefly believed maybe it was caused by food intolerances and a bad gut. Then she continued to find out as much as she could, read all the scientific studies and discovered Andrew Wakefield wasn't just wrong, he didn’t always work in good faith, and she realised her son simply has autism. She has also had her own adult diagnosis of ASD - and having ASD really isn't as bad as some people would have you believe.
Read it, it's fascinating - Meagan McGovern - experience of Andrew Wakefield's clinic
Not a virus, but scientists are warning that Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), a condition which affects cervids (moose, elk, deer and reindeer) is a “slow-motion disaster in the making”.
First detected in 1981 in Colorado and Wyoming, this is a contagious and 100% fatal prion disease which affects an animal's brain.
As of 4th March according to USGS (united States Geological Survey): "Chronic wasting disease has been detected in free-ranging cervids in 36 U.S. states and four Canadian provinces and in captive cervid facilities in 22 states and three provinces".
CWD has also been found in Scandinavia (Norway, Finland and Sweden) and South Korea imported a small number of cases.
Because it is caused by prions (a type of protein that can trigger normal proteins in the brain to fold abnormally), the disease can't be killed because it isn't alive. It can't be beaten by antibodies, boiling, radiation, alcohol or acid. If an animal dies from CWD the prions pass to whatever eats it, and if a carcass rots on the ground, the prions are still there. Although prions are a protein and break down eventually, that can take years, or in the right conditions, potentially even decades. One of the few ways to destroy it is to immerse in neat strong bleach for at least an hour - which destroys pretty much anything else too. Prions are really one of nature's scariest concoctions.
CWD works in a similar way to Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) or 'mad cow disease'. Humans who ate infected cow meat developed Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), which could take 10 years to show up. One worry is that humans eating meat infected with CWD could also eventually also develop disease, and at present, it simply isn't being taken seriously enough.
Stand down Clade 1b Mpox.
Clade 1 Mpox has traditionally had a very high mortality rate, but, just like Clade 2, the recently discovered Clade 1b is not proving as dangerous as anticipated. While this is fabulous news, is it not as dangerous, or is it at least in part because the worldwide spread is infecting people who are fit, healthy, well-fed and able to access vaccinations quickly? Hmmmm.
The UK Government have declared:
"Clade 1a and 1b mpox will no longer be classified as a high consequence infectious disease (HCID) following a review of available evidence by the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens."
It no longer meets the criteria for an HCID, which includes having a high mortality rate and a lack of available interventions. They do remind us:
"...the decision should not be interpreted as clade I mpox no longer being of any public health consequence. The disease is still a public health emergency of international concern as defined by the WHO."
“Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.”
This quote from the COVID-times US Chief Medical Advisor Anthony Fauci used to appear alongside his image in a mural, as you entered the headquarters of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). It has been painted over at the request of the Trump administration.
Fauci spent 50 years at the NIH before retiring in 2022. Despite an amazing record of achievement and barely smirking when Trump suggested he look into injecting light and disinfecting blood to remove COVID, Fauci has become the butt of Trump's dislike, and is by being baselessly blamed by conspiracy theorists for all kinds of 'crimes' regarding COVID. Lockdowns, mask mandates, causing the pandemic, hiding evidence that China created COVID. It's all a load of bunkum, but if you are determined to find someone to blame for things you don't like, you will.
Makes you wonder who would willingly take any role close to Trump in the future...
It is the weekend! Huzzah! We've got a 15th birthday to celebrate, so that's my treat sorted. I hope you have organised something nice for yourself, you've made it though another week, and that's always something to be celebrated. You've earned something nice, and we all need things to look forward to. Life isn't just about worries and illness, it is so much more. Have a long bubble bath or take a walk and listen to the birds, arrange a picnic or watch a good movie, but feed your soul and forget about pressure just for a while.
I'll be back in 2 weeks, until then... Play Outdoors, Get Some Fresh Air And Sunshine Vitamin D, Save The NHS...
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Sources COVID
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/
https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
Reference pages H5N1
https://www.paho.org/en/topics/avian-influenza
https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/index.html
Infectious disease tracker
https://promedmail.org/
Bird flu updates and news
https://www.paho.org/en/news/6-1-2025-paho-launches-interactive-dashboard-monitor-avian-influenza-ah5n1-americas
Moo flu B3.13
Wild bird flu D.1.x
Images:
5 years since the covid pandemic began - WHO images
https://x.com/WHO/status/1899479585034477908?t=GOilOSsYTqJC03yMJrZw7A&s=09
Image covid day of reflection
https://x.com/long_covid/status/1898661361724387696?t=eAAcN_3OSx5jwFqgaPa2QQ&s=19
Image UK Gov new online laws
https://x.com/SciTechgovuk/status/1901561338171675037?t=ywFOtWANcvcsviH4TF0CGg&s=09
Image WHO Air pollution
https://x.com/WHO/status/1901549091185647848?t=ayebLFbcFFx5KrqMQwy4Xw&s=09
UKHSA wah your hands to prevent Norovirus
https://x.com/UKHSA/status/1900114411005644888?t=9ebvmvcwtUHPIYMMr9rGAg&s=09
Roald Dahl's letter about his child dying from Measles.
Images Long COVID SOS
https://x.com/LongCovidSOS/status/1899792319840162151?t=tjYkXCfA0Y1dOfblre1N2w&s=09
SOURCES:
International Long COVID Awareness Day on March 15th
https://dayofreflection.campaign.gov.uk/
https://www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-events/events/international-long-covid-awareness-day
Day of reflection
https://x.com/SkyNews/status/1898693448493863268?t=g0g6jI2J7AWJC6N0XnyHnQ&s=19
Five years on from the pandemic, the right’s fake Covid narrative has been turbo-charged into the mainstream | Laura Spinney | The Guardian
"COVID causes permanent brain damage and immune system dysfunction. It’s why everyone’s sick."
Dr Sean Mullen, Research Director at Exercise Tech Lab, Illinois.
Chest - Selection of studies for Long COVID
Long Covid is the pandemic’s dark shadow. Why does no one in power in Britain want to talk about it? | Frances Ryan
UK COVID update
US COVID update
Latest NHS performance figures (inc Norovirus bed use)
https://x.com/DHSCgovuk/status/1902411524750160357?t=GLFlyolEacxjTEyT1NPmYQ&s=09
BA.3 saltation with 57 spike AA mutations, South Africa
https://open.substack.com/pub/yourlocalepidemiologist/p/norovirus-covid-19-variant-measles?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=354hjt
TGFβ links EBV to multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/study-mis-c-may-be-triggered-latent-epstein-barr-virus
Transforming Growth Factor Beta (TGF-β) and effects in the lung
https://x.com/EricTopol/status/1899863371744502213?t=_17sM5zjIsUnckxBfZz8tQ&s=19
The Elon Musk method of saving money has come to the UK
https://x.com/BBCHughPym/status/1899134983475699889?t=Tjd2N3SdijMGbI49eO2ANw&s=09
NHS England is being scrapped
Performance - NHS Scotland consistently outperforms NHS England and NHS Wales in areas including cancer waiting times, nurses pay and A&E waitong times.
https://x.com/_CatintheHat/status/1900157366328345037?t=hpLMW5lpB0IpkKisNvC54w&s=19
https://x.com/PeterStefanovi2/status/1900149495305826627?t=AzaeK58kK9f76rA01ChnTg&s=19
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx29lrl826rt
UK COVID Inquiry
https://x.com/CovidJusticeUK/status/1902384709004361894?t=5UJ3m2_BWVpWDaGvqi7cgQ&s=09
https://x.com/CovidJusticeUK/status/1900222149408784668?t=GHyvDaM9lhA3bccHniFPyg&s=19
Voluntary separation hasndshake US HHS
Trump WFH mess
MEASLES
US MEASLES LATEST NUMBERS BELOW:
Centre for outbreak response and innovation latest figures
UK cases Measles
Lubbock, Texas local news
https://www.everythinglubbock.com/
Texas HHS News Alerts
Measles Texas 18th March
Latest measles US 18th March
Measles US latest 17th March
Natural remedies instead of healthcare
Keeping With Kennedy’s Advice, Measles Patients Turn to Unproven Treatments
Texas short on mmr vaccines
US
Public health officials believe they are capturing only a fraction of cases because of societal factors; number of deaths suggest more widespread infection.
"As of Friday 14th, the U.S. has reported 326 measles cases—more than the annual total in 12 of the past 15 years, and it’s only March"
"the Texas/New Mexico outbreak, measles cases continue to climb—and estimates suggest the true count could be 4 times higher than reported. The outbreak is spreading beyond the Panhandle to East Texas, Oklahoma, Mexico, and possibly Kansas. The vast majority of cases are in unvaccinated, school-aged children"
Panhandle outbreak.
BA.3.2 / USA flu down, Norovirus up / Measles latest Friday 14th
March 14th - passes 2023 total
12th March Mexico measles update
16 cases in Chihuahua
March 11th
Two probable measles cases reported in Oklahoma
Ontario measles figures 13th March
March 12th Latest figures Canada
New York responds to measles
Newborn babies exposed to measles.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/umc-in-lubbock-refutes-claims-of-newborn-babies-being-exposed-to-measles/ar-AA1B64kr
University Medical Center Children’s Hospital in Lubbock
Whooping Cough
Annual jab for HIV protection
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)00405-2/abstract
Bird Flu outbreak Scotland
https://www.gov.scot/publications/avian-flu-bird-flu-in-daviot-near-inverness-aiv-2025-30/
https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/avian-flu-case-found-south-of-inverness-with-protection-zo-377358/
https://www.gov.uk/animal-disease-cases-england/bird-flu-regional-avian-influenza-prevention-zone-east-of-england
D1.3 H5N1
Unpublicized New H5N1 Strain (Genotype D1.3) in US Birds
https://x.com/HNimanFC/status/1901422228022960204
H and N in H5N1 stand for HA(hemagglutinin) and NA(neuraminidase)
D1.3
Quote from u/Large_Ad_3095 :
"One of the concerns is that these different neuraminidase (NA) proteins can a) result in more balanced HA-NA activity, increasing risk of human infection and b) be more different from the neuraminidase in seasonal H1N1, reducing pre existing immunity "
https://www.reddit.com/r/H5N1_AvianFlu/s/SN60lMm5NC
https://bsky.app/profile/hlniman.bsky.social/post/3lkr3mumsfs24
Cats mutated H5N1
Cows mutated H5N1
Ferret study last Spring
All exposed ferrets died.
ten-year Global Strategy for the Prevention and Control of High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza
https://www.fao.org/animal-health/news-events/events/detail/update-avian-influenza-situation-and-pandemic-fund-3rd-call/en
10 year global strategy for HPAI
Latest avian flu update CDC
https://www.cdc.gov/cfa-qualitative-assessments/php/data-research/h5-risk-assessment.html
Efficacy of current antivirals against bird flu using mice
USDA update extra funding new proposals to battle avian flu
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/cdc-confirms-d13-genotype-recent-h5n1-case-ohio
Kennedy's alarming prescription for bird flu
Neighbourhood vet cat death H5N1
H7N9
https://www.reddit.com/r/ContagionCuriosity/s/Xzf8ydIc8E
Bloomberg version of the H7N9 story
COVID long haulers dying
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-02987-8
Long COVID SOS Ondine died
HIV - no treatment 7-15 years (typically 11-13) treatment now 54.9 total years. Once an AIDS diagnosis has been made, 3 years.
https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/living-well-with-hiv/taking-care-of-yourself/aging-with-hiv
https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/about/?CDC_AAref_Val=https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/whatishiv.html
https://x.com/1goodtern/status/1900261605922738439?t=qFoXUPt-o90GxyHWKCytfA&s=09
Lassa faver patient UK
https://x.com/UKHSA/status/1899059351232409771?s=19
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/lassa-fever-origins-reservoirs-transmission-and-guidelines
Vaccines don't cause Autism
Vaccines don't cause Autism
The MMR Vaccine and Autism
One of the cohort studies was conducted in Denmark. Using national population and health-care registries, the authors of a retrospective review of all children (>500,000) born in Denmark between 1991 and 1998, including nearly 100,000 who had not been vaccinated with MMR, found no association between MMR vaccination and the development of autism or ASDs
"Like a gambler hunched over a roulette table, they want to try again and again until they get their result purely by chance. After all, if we slice data in enough different ways and look at enough different groups, eventually we’ll hit upon a coincidence. A 1-in-100 fluke becomes a lot more likely if you try 100 things."
"What we shouldn’t do is indulge unnecessary calls for further studies into safety from groups who have no intention of accepting the results."
Adam Kucharski, A Wild Vaccine Chase.
Autism and vaccines - NiniaAndTheBrain
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/20/chronic-wasting-disease-spread-zombie-deer-global-us-aoe
https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/basics/prions/
https://www.cdc.gov/chronic-wasting/data-research/index.html
Stand down Clade 1 Mpox
Anthony Fauci
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