Are you eligible for the RSV vaccine? The NHS is now vaccinating people against the virus for the first time in its history. Professor Peter Openshaw explains what RSV is and who can receive the jab. #KayBurley OM

Many are unaware of the respiratory illness #RSV, but it causes 20,000 hospitalisations each year in babies under 1, just in England. A new vaccination programme has launched for pregnant women and older adults aged 75 to 79. Prof Dame Jenny Harries said on the programme 🔽

I'm so excited that we finally have vaccines that are protective against severe #RSV disease. I started working on immunity and pathology in #rsv disease in 1985, and here it is!

"It's hugely exciting that we now, after all these years, have a vaccine that lasts for this incredibly important condition that affects both babies and older adults." Prof Peter Openshaw from NHLI discusses the new #RSV vaccine on Sky News 👇

New report of a nasal vaccine booster provides strong, durable #SARSCoV2 cross-variant protection—preventing infection— compared with shots in non-human primates nature.com/articles/s4159… Nature Immunology

Houston Health Department opens COVID-19 testing centers as surge happens nationwide ⁦Houston Chronicle⁩ houstonchronicle.com/health/article…

Evidence from omics that aging is not a gradual, linear process. The new study, highlighted here, only assessed people up to age 75 among 108 participants with short term follow-up (1.7 yrs). A previous large study (N>4,200, up to age 95) found a 3rd peak at age 80.

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Measles case diagnosed at Belfast’s Royal Victoria Hospital as 300 people contacted by trust – The Irish News ⁦Jan - TTI, wear respirator, demand more ACH. HEPA⁩ irishnews.com/news/northern-…

Last night's "COVID Myth-busting" webinar with Dr Noor Bari Dr Noor Bari was packed with useful information and (of course) debunked many common myths. If you missed it you can catch up on the recording 👇 covidsafetyforschools.org/webinars

Measles is highly infectious. 1 person with measles can infect 15 other unvaccinated people on average❗ Being vaccinated helps protect you, and others who can't be vaccinated such as young and unborn babies. 👶 #MMR #Measles

BREAKING: Allan Lichtman, who has correctly predicted the last 40 years of Presidential elections, has predicted Kamala Harris will win. Let’s go.

Joseph Allen, Joseph Allen; Associate Professor Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health: 'The Pivotal Importance of Air Quality, Ventilation and Exposures (Such as "Forever Chemicals") For Our Health', by Eric Topol open.substack.com/pub/erictopol/…

🚨Doctor to take the stand at COVID-19 Inquiry to expose UK officials TL/DR: they knew it was airborne in Jan 2020, but when the RPE stockpile was gone, they said it was ‘mild’, took away our respirators, & let us all get infected instead #expendable bohs.org/media-resource…

“There never has been a building that we could not turn into a healthy building with just a little bit of attention” - just as relevant to Oz Kids Are Headed Back to School. Are They Breathing Clean Air? | Scientific American scientificamerican.com/article/kids-a…

Multiple waves, exhausted healthcare services, unsustainable burden. Minimal efforts to limit disease spreading, such as vaccinations, distancing, masks, ventilation and testing; What to do? Improve airborne infection control, especially in healthcare; manage Long COVID crisis.

🇪🇺💚 Dr Joe Pajak CSci FRSC SARSCoV2 is airborne Andrew Gwynne MP I have lost a friend and relative to this virus. One from hospital acquired infection. One from an infection in a care home. We are in our fifth year and this government is still not mitigating. There are still no tests in care homes. Around 200 children have died.

Artist Akiko Nakayama 中山晃子 makes the real-time flow of paint, ink and other liquids the centre of her work. Using a variety of colours, she encourages the fluids to move & mix, creating intricate patterns that transmute into unexpected forms & shades. Physics World physicsworld.com/a/akiko-nakaya…

'For those with Long COVID, the pandemic is far from over, as they experience ongoing breathlessness, fatigue, pain, anxiety, depression & neurological issues, among other symptoms, months & even years after contracting COVID.' Jingmin Zhu Centre for Health Economics & Policy Innovation imperial.ac.uk/business-schoo…