Nothing about the need to keep students (brains) healthy, or the classrooms free of things that make it harder to learn (like viruses that eat brains).

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And University of Guelph in the news again! Oh, it's for yet another example of how terrible our administration is.

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#SARSCoV2 #Convergent #Lineages ( aka #VariantSoup ) over time - Globally | #30DayTrends

BQ.1.1 ( #Cerberus ) is currently leading the charts. Followed by BQ.1 ( #Typhon ), BA.2.75.2 ( #Chiron ), XBB.1.1, BA.2.3.20 ( #Basilisk )

Tracker: public.tableau.com/app/profile/ra…

Updated 10/23/22

Stop blaming Rochelle Walensky for her recent covid infection - what is WRONG with you people?! Let's place the blame where it belongs - with the god-awful advice and misleading communication from the Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH!

Your immune system getting a workout against repeated SARS-CoV-2 variant infections.

I don't know. Here.

Teia🚵‍♀️MindOverColor How do we feel about Brian Orak being quoted in NYT saying he doesn’t wanna get tested for Covid so he doesn’t have to worry about infecting his students? nytimes.com/2021/12/23/us/… nytimes.com/2021/12/23/us/…

Emoji usage here is...

Leaders: emotional intelligence or GTFO.

Last thesis chapter out today in PNASNews w/Colin Garroway: Systemic racism alters wildlife genetic diversity. Genetic diversity & population connectivity in wild vertebrates are lower in neighborhoods with majority non-white residents. Why might this be? pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Like many viruses, #SARSCoV2 deploys a molecular arsenal to neutralize the host's immune response.

Explore how the virus wields versatile proteins to foil our immune system’s counterattack in this interactive: scim.ag/he

Ok. If you haven't blocked already, here is the last straw.

Remember that high sharp peaks are one thing (and relevant for hospitals being overwhelmed), but a drawn out plateau with a large total area under the curve is also bad. We might see more of the latter with multiple variants rather than peaks like before with individual variants.

New update from Yunlong Richard Cao: confirms extreme immune evasion by Omicron BQ.1.1 and XBB: near zero neutralizing antibody immunity 7.5 months after 3xSinovac vaccination+BA.1 breakthrough infection. Higher neutralizing titers expected after mRNA vaccination & bivalent booster.

This exists.

What happens if we're locked out of our work email and we refuse to use a personal device for authentication given the Orwellian electronic surveillance policy at University of Guelph? Because that's about where I'm at.

#LifeNotImproved

On this date in 1966, Chanie 'Charlie' Wenjack died while running away from an Indian Residential School. He was trying to travel over 600 km back to his home community before dying of hunger and exposure. He was only 12.

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