…so maybe we shouldn’t be demonizing dietary salt and instead encouraging good hydration.

In this retrospective cohort study of 6,245,282 older adults (age ≥65 years) who had medical encounters between 2/2020-5/2021, we show that people with COVID-19 were at significantly increased risk for new diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease within 360 days after the initial COVID-19 diagnosis (hazard ratio or HR:1.69, 95% CI: 1.53-1.72), especially in people age ≥85 years and in women.

More wealth = better health

catching Covid makes you more likely to catch a later variant.

"That is a good idea, and it will have absolutely no effect unless three major agencies take action immediately," says Kertesz. "The DEA, the National Committee for Quality Assurance, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, all three agencies use the dose thresholds from the 2016 guideline as the basis for payment quality metrics and legal investigation."

The ability to coordinate and fix the harms that came from the 2016 guidance relies on leadership from the CDC"

...so we're fucked.

Researchers found the RSV and influenza viruses fused together to form a new type of virus pathogen

Post-covid fungal infections

Face to face reopening “prioritizes the losses that our most privileged students fear over the losses that our most vulnerable students face.”