Notices by Denis - The COVID info guy - (deniscovidinfoguy@aus.social)

🇹🇼 Taiwan: Weekly COVID-19 cases in Taiwan surge 78%

"Nearly 6,000 individuals sought medical treatment for COVID-19 last week, marking a 78% from the previous week and the 4th consecutive weekly rise in cases"

"Most the patients were individuals aged 65 or older or those with chronic illnesses, and over 91% of them had not received JN.1 vaccinations"

Source: https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202505070007

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Clinical trial underway for potential Long Covid treatment.

"A clinical trial is underway to assess the effectiveness and safety of Sipavibart, AstraZeneca’s long-acting monoclonal antibody designed to provide protection against COVID-19, as a potential treatment for Long Covid."

Source: https://silc.org/news/clinical-trial-underway-for-potential-long-covid-treatment/

Study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37944296/

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Air filters in classrooms reduce sick days by more than 10%

"Putting air filters in classrooms seems to boost student attendance, which may be due to them reducing levels of air pollution, pollen, pathogens or all three."

Report: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-20302.html

Source: https://archive.md/fJMuT

🇦🇺 Australia: COVID cases are set to soar this winter in Australia due to the highly contagious Omicron strain LP.8.1, which caused major outbreaks overseas and accounted for 3 in 5 COVID cases in the UK in March 2025.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14657785/Covid-cases-australia-vaccine.html

By ExtroSpecteur @ExtroSpecteur

And also in Japan, checking the CO2 levels at the cinema... as good as fresh air!

Source: https://x.com/ExtroSpecteur/status/1915393342642286827

'It interfered with my voice...' Kim Wilde says COVID-19 had an impact on her voice

Kim Wilde, 64, the British pop icon, revealed she feared that repeated battles with COVID might permanently damage her singing voice. Over the past year, she contracted the virus several times, experiencing recurring symptoms that left her physically and vocally weakened.

Source: https://archive.md/Fbw79

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Unvaccinated kids face up to 20 times higher risk of long COVID, analysis finds.

"Preventing COVID-19 infections in the first place, including through vaccination, appears to be the best way to avoid long COVID"

Study: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(24)00541-8/fulltext

Source: https://archive.md/ljlLj

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🇺🇸 USA: Study - Covid May Make Sick Drivers Worse Behind the Wheel

As evidence mounts that Covid affects our brains, one study suggests it could also affect our ability to drive safely.

"In a new analysis of seven states during and after the worst of the pandemic, researcher and physician Baran Erdik found a 25% increase in crash risk associated with acute Covid-19"

Study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40198595/

Source: https://archive.md/X2abL

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Child, adult COVID survivors more likely to have heart disease, symptoms, data suggest.

New studies from the U.S. and Poland show COVID-19's heart impact: infected children have higher risks of issues like high blood pressure and heart failure, while adults often face lasting heart symptoms.

Source: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/child-adult-covid-survivors-more-likely-have-heart-disease-symptoms-data-suggest

Study 1: https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12879-025-10774-0

Study 2: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56284-0

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Hidden impact of COVID-19: How lack of testing and isolation played key role in pandemic's spread.

"Silent" COVID-19 infections—cases in which individuals carried the virus without symptoms and avoided testing or isolation—likely exacerbated the pandemic's early spread and distorted containment strategies"

"A vast proportion of 'excess deaths' was directly attributable to undetected infections. Unattributed deaths contribute to an underestimation of excess mortality, with lower testing capacities exacerbating this issue."

Study: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0309423

Source: https://archive.md/08TVW

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No mask on
your face

You big
disgrace

Spreading
your
germs all
over the
place.

#MaskUp😷 #COVIDisAIRBORNE

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/funnysigns/comments/p0a3f7/queen_no_mask_on_your_face_you_big_disgrace/

🇺🇸 USA: FDA delays full approval of Novavax Covid-19 vaccine even though it was on track for clearance.

"Full approval would make the vaccine available beyond an emergency declaration and could provide additional reassurance to people seeking the vaccine."

Source: https://archive.md/3mPiv

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COVID-19 may put patients at risk for other infections for at least 1 year.

A Lancet study found COVID-19 increases the risk of other infections for a year post-infection, even if mild.

Hospitalised COVID-19 patients face higher risks for other infections than those hospitalised for influenza.

Source: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/covid-19-may-put-patients-risk-other-infections-least-1-year

Study: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(24)00831-4/abstract

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Study estimates current Moderna vaccine 53% effective against COVID hospitalization.

"Most individuals in the study (over 70%) previously received a 2023-2024 mRNA-1273 [Moderna] vaccine targeting the XBB.1.5 variant"

Source: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/study-estimates-current-moderna-vaccine-53-effective-against-covid-hospitalization

Study: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.27.25324770v1

🇺🇸 USA: RFK Jr. makes eyebrow-raising comments about people who get COVID-19.

"He said that healthy Americans were not dying of the disease and that it only affected sick people" 🤦♂️

Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/video/rfk-jr-makes-eyebrow-raising-comments-people-covid-19/

Universal Coronavirus Vaccine Breakthrough: A Single Shot That Could Protect You From COVID, MERS, and the Common Cold.

"Viruses, including those that cause COVID-19, use sugar molecules on their surfaces to hide from the immune system, much like a protective coating. Now, researchers have developed a universal coronavirus vaccine that targets both the viruses and the sugars they use to avoid detection."

Two published studies:

Study 1: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.4c11723

Study 2: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.4c11724

Source: https://scitechdaily.com/universal-coronavirus-vaccine-breakthrough-a-single-shot-that-could-protect-you-from-covid-mers-and-the-common-cold/

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A recent study from the University of Toledo (UToledo) shows link between COVID-19 and rise in POTS diagnoses.

"The paper adds clear scientific evidence to the strong relationship between COVID-19 infection and the development of POTS — a link that previously had been limited to anecdotal accounts"

Source: https://news.utoledo.edu/index.php/03_24_2025/covid-19-brought-about-a-large-rise-in-pots-cases

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COVID-19 outbreaks in Australian residential aged care facilities: 20 Mar 2025

🔹Active cases: 534 (-90)
🔹Active outbreaks: 91 (-4)
🔹Residents: 397 (-28)
🔹Staff: 137 (-62)
🔹Reported deaths in 2025: 127 (+6)

7,331 aged care COVID deaths since beginning of pandemic

🔸686 reported deaths in 2020
🔸226 reported deaths in 2021
🔸3,855 reported deaths in 2022
🔸1,359 reported deaths in 2023
🔸1,078 reported deaths in 2024
🔸127 reported deaths in 2025

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Source: https://www.health.gov.au/sites/default/files/2025-03/covid-19-outbreaks-in-australian-residential-aged-care-homes-21-march-2025_0.pdf

🇦🇺Australia: Covid-19 kills 5 times more people than flu in 2024.

"Five times as many Australians are dying from Covid-19 as the flu five years after the outbreak of the global pandemic, shock new research has revealed."

"New analysis by the Institute’s Mortality Working Group of mortality between January and November 2024 found 3,676 people died from Covid-19 – 69% more than predicted."

"Covid-19 deaths at 3,676 were five times more than the 728 recorded for influenza"

Source: https://archive.md/jV6Jt

#COVID19Australia #COVIDisNotFLU #COVIDisNotOVER @auscovid19

🇮🇳 India: Kolkata woman contracts HKU1 – How THIS Coronavirus Differs from COVID-19.

"Studies suggest infection by HCoV-HKU1 occurs worldwide and causes syndromes such as the common cold, bronchitis, and pneumonia."

Source: https://archive.md/cbzY3

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