@nolafrenchie.bsky.social
Retired laboratory professional; 37 years in anatomic pathology
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I post random pics 😀
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✨Please share! My newsletter is out.
📰Flu, COVID, RSV updates
☹️SARS-CoV-2 causes low white blood cells for 20 months
💉COVID vaccine reduces all cause mortality for 4 years
🧠Mild COVID causes transient brain ischemia
& much more buff.ly/V1M00u0
#medsky 🛟😷🧪
📰Flu, COVID, RSV updates
☹️SARS-CoV-2 causes low white blood cells for 20 months
💉COVID vaccine reduces all cause mortality for 4 years
🧠Mild COVID causes transient brain ischemia
& much more buff.ly/V1M00u0
#medsky 🛟😷🧪
December 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
✨Please share! My newsletter is out.
📰Flu, COVID, RSV updates
☹️SARS-CoV-2 causes low white blood cells for 20 months
💉COVID vaccine reduces all cause mortality for 4 years
🧠Mild COVID causes transient brain ischemia
& much more buff.ly/V1M00u0
#medsky 🛟😷🧪
📰Flu, COVID, RSV updates
☹️SARS-CoV-2 causes low white blood cells for 20 months
💉COVID vaccine reduces all cause mortality for 4 years
🧠Mild COVID causes transient brain ischemia
& much more buff.ly/V1M00u0
#medsky 🛟😷🧪
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"Objects in your rearview mirror are closer than they appear."
November 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
"Objects in your rearview mirror are closer than they appear."
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BREAKING EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: Lunch for jurors in the “sandwich guy” trial are a variety of sandwiches, according to a source familiar with lunch.
November 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: Lunch for jurors in the “sandwich guy” trial are a variety of sandwiches, according to a source familiar with lunch.
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Looking for Novavax?
Here is the NOVAVAX (NUVAXOVID) VACCINE FINDER:
www.nuvaxovid.com/vaccine-loca...
Healthcare providers can order Novavax (Nuvaxovid) here: www.vaccineshoppe.com/vsh/en/USD/h...
#medsky 🛟😷
Here is the NOVAVAX (NUVAXOVID) VACCINE FINDER:
www.nuvaxovid.com/vaccine-loca...
Healthcare providers can order Novavax (Nuvaxovid) here: www.vaccineshoppe.com/vsh/en/USD/h...
#medsky 🛟😷
September 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Looking for Novavax?
Here is the NOVAVAX (NUVAXOVID) VACCINE FINDER:
www.nuvaxovid.com/vaccine-loca...
Healthcare providers can order Novavax (Nuvaxovid) here: www.vaccineshoppe.com/vsh/en/USD/h...
#medsky 🛟😷
Here is the NOVAVAX (NUVAXOVID) VACCINE FINDER:
www.nuvaxovid.com/vaccine-loca...
Healthcare providers can order Novavax (Nuvaxovid) here: www.vaccineshoppe.com/vsh/en/USD/h...
#medsky 🛟😷
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Here is RFK Jr.’s post about FDA approvals for COVID19 vaccines. Moderna, Pfizer and Novavax are all now approved.
A list of eligible conditions for those under 65 can be found here:
www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/cl...
A list of eligible conditions for those under 65 can be found here:
www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/cl...
August 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Here is RFK Jr.’s post about FDA approvals for COVID19 vaccines. Moderna, Pfizer and Novavax are all now approved.
A list of eligible conditions for those under 65 can be found here:
www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/cl...
A list of eligible conditions for those under 65 can be found here:
www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/cl...
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July 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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When nightmares come true and they are exactly as you would expect... I'm just glad clowns don't haunt my dreams or this story would really hit home.
Details of 1st meeting of the new ACIP roster of RFK Jr. appointees meets definition of a shitshow: www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/s...
Details of 1st meeting of the new ACIP roster of RFK Jr. appointees meets definition of a shitshow: www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/s...
All childhood vaccines in question after first meeting of RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel
Overall, the meeting was packed with anti-vaccine talking points and arguments.
arstechnica.com
June 26, 2025 at 1:32 AM
When nightmares come true and they are exactly as you would expect... I'm just glad clowns don't haunt my dreams or this story would really hit home.
Details of 1st meeting of the new ACIP roster of RFK Jr. appointees meets definition of a shitshow: www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/s...
Details of 1st meeting of the new ACIP roster of RFK Jr. appointees meets definition of a shitshow: www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/s...
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HERE WE GO AGAIN: Mike Lee is back with another attempt at a public lands heist. His new language in the Senate budget bill would open up over a million acres of BLM land around Arches, Zion, Organ Pipe and even the Grand Canyon to permanent "disposal."
No way, buddy.
No way, buddy.
June 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
HERE WE GO AGAIN: Mike Lee is back with another attempt at a public lands heist. His new language in the Senate budget bill would open up over a million acres of BLM land around Arches, Zion, Organ Pipe and even the Grand Canyon to permanent "disposal."
No way, buddy.
No way, buddy.
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These pictures will be in the history books someday.
STUNNING!
Gift article.
www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
STUNNING!
Gift article.
www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
Photos: 'No Kings' Protests Across America
Yesterday, according to estimates by event organizers, millions marched in protest against the Trump administration, including its recent controversial immigration-enforcement raids. Hundreds of “No K...
www.theatlantic.com
June 15, 2025 at 11:44 PM
These pictures will be in the history books someday.
STUNNING!
Gift article.
www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
STUNNING!
Gift article.
www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
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Trump and Musk fighting
June 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Trump and Musk fighting
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This might be the absolute greatest reply we have ever received.
Thank you, Cookie Monster 📕🍪💙
Thank you, Cookie Monster 📕🍪💙
June 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This might be the absolute greatest reply we have ever received.
Thank you, Cookie Monster 📕🍪💙
Thank you, Cookie Monster 📕🍪💙
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FDA approves Moderna's new COVID-19 vaccine
The company's "next-generation" COVID-19 vaccine, mNexspike, was approved for adults 65 and older and younger people at risk of severe disease.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
The company's "next-generation" COVID-19 vaccine, mNexspike, was approved for adults 65 and older and younger people at risk of severe disease.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
June 2, 2025 at 8:26 PM
FDA approves Moderna's new COVID-19 vaccine
The company's "next-generation" COVID-19 vaccine, mNexspike, was approved for adults 65 and older and younger people at risk of severe disease.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
The company's "next-generation" COVID-19 vaccine, mNexspike, was approved for adults 65 and older and younger people at risk of severe disease.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
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She interrogates the lab leak theory, unpacks research on the natural origins of SARS-CoV-2, and explains how removing support for disease cure research is risky amid multiple infectious crises, such as measles, whooping cough, and bird flu.
Gain of Fiction: How COVID Origins Motivated Defunding of U.S. Science | Think Global Health
Defunding scientific research in the United States has halted disease cure studies amid multiple infectious crises
www.thinkglobalhealth.org
May 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
She interrogates the lab leak theory, unpacks research on the natural origins of SARS-CoV-2, and explains how removing support for disease cure research is risky amid multiple infectious crises, such as measles, whooping cough, and bird flu.
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Seven of the sources cited in MAHA commission's report do not exist:
“The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with," says one researcher.
www.notus.org/health-scien...
“The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with," says one researcher.
www.notus.org/health-scien...
The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist
The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.
www.notus.org
May 29, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Seven of the sources cited in MAHA commission's report do not exist:
“The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with," says one researcher.
www.notus.org/health-scien...
“The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with," says one researcher.
www.notus.org/health-scien...
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RFK Jr’s Department of Health and Human Services has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract with the company to develop, test, and license vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics, including the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus.
HHS cancels nearly $600 million Moderna contract on vaccines for flu pandemics
HHS has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract for vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics.
www.statnews.com
May 28, 2025 at 11:11 PM
RFK Jr’s Department of Health and Human Services has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract with the company to develop, test, and license vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics, including the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus.
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Extremely bad news for historians, genealogists, librarians, students, and well, everybody
Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
About this Collection | Chronicling America | Digital Collections | Library of Congress
Search America's Historic Newspaper Pages through 1963 Please Note: The Library of Congress has transitioned the longstanding Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website to this new digi...
www.loc.gov
May 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Extremely bad news for historians, genealogists, librarians, students, and well, everybody
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Just to reiterate: Since the #Covid pandemic's start, controversy has swirled about #SARSCoV2's origins. Research from UC San Diego suggests the virus likely reached the human population in Wuhan not via bat migration but thru the wildlife trade—contradicting notions it emerged from a lab👇
SARS-CoV-2 Likely Spread Through Wildlife Trade, Not Bat Migration
The virus likely reached humans not via bat migration but through the wildlife trade—contradicting hypotheses that it may have lab origins.
www.genengnews.com
May 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Just to reiterate: Since the #Covid pandemic's start, controversy has swirled about #SARSCoV2's origins. Research from UC San Diego suggests the virus likely reached the human population in Wuhan not via bat migration but thru the wildlife trade—contradicting notions it emerged from a lab👇
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✨Please share! COVID & Health Newsletter is out✨
In this issue:
💉COVID vax limitations for fall
🧬Long COVID linked to FOXP4 gene
🥱Damaged gut and Long COVID fatigue
😃Physics Girl video on Long COVID improvement
and much more drruth.substack.com/p/covid-and-...
#medsky #pedsky #IDsky 🛟😷🧪
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In this issue:
💉COVID vax limitations for fall
🧬Long COVID linked to FOXP4 gene
🥱Damaged gut and Long COVID fatigue
😃Physics Girl video on Long COVID improvement
and much more drruth.substack.com/p/covid-and-...
#medsky #pedsky #IDsky 🛟😷🧪
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COVID & Health News, 5/25/25
COVID, Flu and RSV are at low or very low levels in wastewater.
drruth.substack.com
May 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
✨Please share! COVID & Health Newsletter is out✨
In this issue:
💉COVID vax limitations for fall
🧬Long COVID linked to FOXP4 gene
🥱Damaged gut and Long COVID fatigue
😃Physics Girl video on Long COVID improvement
and much more drruth.substack.com/p/covid-and-...
#medsky #pedsky #IDsky 🛟😷🧪
📷:YLE
In this issue:
💉COVID vax limitations for fall
🧬Long COVID linked to FOXP4 gene
🥱Damaged gut and Long COVID fatigue
😃Physics Girl video on Long COVID improvement
and much more drruth.substack.com/p/covid-and-...
#medsky #pedsky #IDsky 🛟😷🧪
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The CDC has been updating #SARSCoV2 genomics every 2 weeks but has failed to do so since their 9 May post.
covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-t...
This isn't a good idea with 2 new variants emerging (NB.1.8.1 in Asia, and XFG in the US). Graph by @jpweiland.bsky.social
covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-t...
This isn't a good idea with 2 new variants emerging (NB.1.8.1 in Asia, and XFG in the US). Graph by @jpweiland.bsky.social
May 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The CDC has been updating #SARSCoV2 genomics every 2 weeks but has failed to do so since their 9 May post.
covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-t...
This isn't a good idea with 2 new variants emerging (NB.1.8.1 in Asia, and XFG in the US). Graph by @jpweiland.bsky.social
covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-t...
This isn't a good idea with 2 new variants emerging (NB.1.8.1 in Asia, and XFG in the US). Graph by @jpweiland.bsky.social
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The FDA is giving folks TWO DAYS to comment on this! Go and make your voice heard now: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
May 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The FDA is giving folks TWO DAYS to comment on this! Go and make your voice heard now: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
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If you do in fact want Covid boosters for yourself or anyone, you can submit public comment to the FDA here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
May 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
If you do in fact want Covid boosters for yourself or anyone, you can submit public comment to the FDA here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
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DOGE is red tape.
It is putting spending in such a bottleneck that SSA employees are unable to cover the cost of basic administrative tools.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
It is putting spending in such a bottleneck that SSA employees are unable to cover the cost of basic administrative tools.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
May 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
DOGE is red tape.
It is putting spending in such a bottleneck that SSA employees are unable to cover the cost of basic administrative tools.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
It is putting spending in such a bottleneck that SSA employees are unable to cover the cost of basic administrative tools.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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This is such an important shift. For many years the catholic church withheld support for HPV vaccination which prevents cervical cancer.
119,000 women die from this cancer in Africa every year.
This full throated support of the HPV vaxx by the church will help uptake.
nation.africa/kenya/health...
119,000 women die from this cancer in Africa every year.
This full throated support of the HPV vaxx by the church will help uptake.
nation.africa/kenya/health...
We can't remain indifferent to suffering: Catholic Church now champions HPV vaccination
From opposition to advocacy: After dismissing vaccine over promiscuity fears, church now tells faithful early intervention saves lives
nation.africa
May 16, 2025 at 9:14 PM
This is such an important shift. For many years the catholic church withheld support for HPV vaccination which prevents cervical cancer.
119,000 women die from this cancer in Africa every year.
This full throated support of the HPV vaxx by the church will help uptake.
nation.africa/kenya/health...
119,000 women die from this cancer in Africa every year.
This full throated support of the HPV vaxx by the church will help uptake.
nation.africa/kenya/health...
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WHO’s expert group on COVID vaccine composition (TAG-CO-VAC) recommends monovalent vaccines targeting the JN.1 or KP.2 lineages ( last year's boosters). LP.8.1 is also a viable alternative -these strains better match what’s currently circulating.
May 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
WHO’s expert group on COVID vaccine composition (TAG-CO-VAC) recommends monovalent vaccines targeting the JN.1 or KP.2 lineages ( last year's boosters). LP.8.1 is also a viable alternative -these strains better match what’s currently circulating.