The website maskbloc.org hasn't been updated in a year and the email on their website seems to have been deactivated, so SEPAS (https://ni.hil.ist/@sepas/) is starting a new global directory!

The original link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDNnlxtfWI0

the information within is unlikely to be news to anybody here, but I have found it to be rather effectively presented. it requires only five sheets of paper to print, so I've been printing them and leaving them on tables around my college campus. I've seen thirty get taken so far!

Years after the virus that causes COVID-19 kicked off a global pandemic, it’s still sending thousands of Canadians into hospital each year alongside other respiratory infections — despite a suite of vaccines that can slash someone’s risk of serious illness.

Striking new data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) shows hospitalization rates for vaccine-preventable respiratory diseases more than doubled in 2024 compared to pre-pandemic levels, all while vaccination rates are backsliding.

There were 142 hospitalizations for every 100,000 Canadians that year, the data shows, up from roughly 66 per 100,000 in 2019.

Yet seasonal vaccination uptake for both COVID and flu shots has dropped.

Federal figures suggest only 26 per cent of Canadian adults were vaccinated for COVID in 2024 — a dramatic drop from when shots were first rolled out mid-pandemic and lineups at vaccination clinics often spanned multiple city blocks.

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Last year's Novavax COVID-19 vaccine finder from the company itself is gone, there's nothing in the press about Novavax availability beyond saying it will be available "in the fall," and since reddit locked their cesspool down, searching "novavax reddit" with time range of "last month" is useless.

Thus I am starting a thread for anyone seeking the Novavax shot to share info. Please post if you find it, and if comfortable sharing, where.

UPDATE: Nuvaxovid locator is now online!

https://www.nuvaxovid.com/vaccine-locator

crossposted from: https://feddit.org/post/18296646

Original article in German: 3.000 Long-COVID Betroffene informieren sich über neue Nikotinpflastertherapie

Via this Mastodon post (in German).

A clinical survey of 85 pediatric long-COVID patients in Bavaria, Germany, reveals high levels of fatigue, loss of motivation, difficulty concentrating and maintaining attention, worsened mood, and greater anxiety. A

To holistically describe long-COVID symptoms and identify risk factors for post-infection neurocognitive and emotional problems, University of Regensburg researchers analyzed clinical data from COVID-19 survivors aged 12 to 17 years who had symptoms for at least 4 weeks. The average patient age was 12.5 years, 61.2% were girls, and the average interval from infection to examination was 5.7 months.

From December 2021 to June 2023, the children were given a neuropsychological evaluation made up of infection-specific interviews, psychopathologic exams, questionnaires on emotional well-being and behavioral problems, and computerized tests measuring concentration, attention, and memory. Participants also underwent neurologic, pneumological, gastrointestinal, and cardiac testing.

84% had abnormal psychological results. Most children had elevated levels of fatigue (82.4%), loss of motivation (72.9%), impaired concentration and attention (71.8%), and worsened mood (53%), and 31.8% reported more anxiety. The most common diagnoses were post-COVID adjustment disorder (38.8%) and post-COVID attention-deficit disorder (23.5%). Disturbances in attention and memory, drive and psychomotor activity, affect, circadian disturbances, and worries and compulsions were common.