MessengerFlats @MessengerFlats@qoto.org

Happiest of Birthdays to my fellow 'Star Trek' alum and friend, LeVar Burton! 🖖

Some nice data supporting the reality that climate change impacts virus vector (bug!) expansion and movement...

Contribution of climate change to the spatial expansion of West Nile virus in Europe.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45290-3

"In the months since Texas outlawed abortion and prohibited adolescents from receiving gender-transition care, women have flooded abortion clinics in nearby states and parents with transgender children have moved to places where puberty blockers and hormone therapy remain legal.

So now, Texas conservatives are testing the limits of their power beyond state lines."

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/02/09/texas-abortion-transgender-care-outside-state-borders/

#healthcare #reproductivejustice #pregnancy #lgbtq #transgender #Texas

Long Covid in kids: a state of the science review

https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/doi/10.1542/peds.2023-062570/196606/Postacute-Sequelae-of-SARS-CoV-2-in-Children?autologincheck=redirected

A next generation Covid vax has been authorized by a major drug regulator for the first time.

It's a self-amplifying mRNA vax by Arcturus (USA), which could be more durable. It's authorized in Japan - with an application lodged in Europe, too.

Efficacy seems similar or superior efficacy to BNT/Pfizer vax.

Also in this update post @PLOS:

- Some trials of mucosal vax fully recruited or close
- Preclinical research highlights for "variant-proof" & pancoronavirus vaxes

https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2024/01/11/a-major-first-next-generation-covid-vaccine-could-there-be-more-in-2024-update-13/

"A federal appeals court shot down claims Monday that New Jersey residents’ refusal to wear face masks at school board meetings during the COVID-19 outbreak constituted protected speech under the First Amendment."
https://apnews.com/article/covid-mask-free-speech-lawsuits-new-jersey-108abf877288999f34d1c604b731d34c

#publichealth #covid #longcovid #masks #USlaw #1A #freespeech

"The guilty verdict on Tuesday against the mother of a Michigan teenager who murdered four students in 2021 in the state’s deadliest school shooting is likely to ripple across the country’s legal landscape as prosecutors find themselves weighing a new way to seek justice in mass shootings.

But, legal experts say, don’t expect a rush of similar cases."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/us/jennifer-crumbley-mass-shooting-parents.html

#publichealth #gunviolenceprevention #gunsafety #USlaw