A spike in COVID deaths has driven a decline in Australian life expectancy for the second year running.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-08/australian-life-expectancy-covid-19-decline/104578134
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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) (mackayim2022@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Oct-2024 07:00:14 JST Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) "And at the heart of Professor Howarth's finding was not carbon but, rather, methane, a far more potent greenhouse gas"
-CO2
-CH4
-C2H6
-C3H8
It's all carbon. It's all fossil fuels. You can read about the slight differences here, but understand:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-19/gas-emissions-worse-than-coal-study-finds/104481570
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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) (mackayim2022@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 07:05:42 JST Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) On PASC versus long COVID – and the potential for confusion,
via @croakeynews from Feb, 2024.
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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) (mackayim2022@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 07:05:40 JST Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) @Developmentdoc @brianvastag This is not HIV. If that's what you're alluding to.
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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) (mackayim2022@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 22:42:05 JST Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) "Yes, intellectuals and scholars are paid to think deep thoughts—but those thoughts are often owned by others. It is a great irony that society tends to look down on those who sell their bodies, but not on those who lease out their minds."
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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) (mackayim2022@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Jun-2024 21:14:46 JST Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) Part of being a leader is mentoring your replacements and then stepping aside before you're too old to be effective, innovative and flexible.
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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) (mackayim2022@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 12:47:45 JST Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) There's no good or insurmountable reason for Australia not to have weekly national graphical infectious disease data to inform the public (who provided the samples!) about what's happening to them and their risks from the more transmissible agents.
Just excuses.
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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) (mackayim2022@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 09:20:27 JST Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) "Life on planet Earth is under siege. We are now in an uncharted territory."
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"Unfortunately, time is up."
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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) (mackayim2022@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 04:03:24 JST Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) Status: Yelling at news story on #RSV.
'We have no long-term data'
'Higher than last year'
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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) (mackayim2022@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 17:54:59 JST Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) "#Omicron has comparable intrinsic severity to the ancestral Wuhan strain, although the effective severity is substantially lower in Omicron cases due to vaccination"
#VaccinesWork #Vaccination #COVID19 #Science #FactsNotFeelz
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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) (mackayim2022@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Apr-2023 08:08:54 JST Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) Are repeat COVID infections dangerous? What the science says https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01371-9
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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) (mackayim2022@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 13:46:53 JST Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) @Gargron ahhh in the head. Not just anywhere. Thx.
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