Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social

2 days ago

'The unexpected finding that vaccination-only participants showed superior cross-neutralization compared to individuals with hybrid immunity challenges conventional assumptions about hybrid immunity advantages'.

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 variants LP.8.1, LF.7.1, NB.1.8.1, XFG and BA.3.2 following KP.2 monovalent mRNA vaccination

The evolution of SARS-CoV-2 has resulted in antigenically distinct variants that challenge vaccine-induced immunity. The KP.2 monovalent mRNA vaccine was deployed in 2024 to address immune escape by e...

Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social

2 days ago

This is an outstanding development.

Australian-led trial shows nasal spray reduces COVID-19 risk in cancer patients - Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social

3 days ago

Beth, that's appalling!!

Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social

4 days ago

5. I've been in situations like this before, and I have the same thought each time: how our public health and healthcare guidance is failing people like that frail elderly woman in the pharmacy this morning every single day.

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social

4 days ago

4. Diligently, because she obviously wants to protect herself, not realising that the loose blue surgical mask she is wearing is much, much less effective than the FFP2 I'm wearing, the FFP2 that likely hasn't even been mentioned to her by her doctor.

Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social

4 days ago

3. As I waited, what I saw was this: a woman who is likely vulnerable to Covid-19, and has been told by her doctor to mask. A woman who probably has no access to information other than from her doctor and NHS leaflets. So she diligently wears her loose blue surgical mask.

Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social

4 days ago

2. She was also quite obviously unwell, and frail in a manner very similar to the frailty my late mother first developed around 2017. As the pharmacist spoke to her, she adjusted her mask again, making sure it fully covered her nose and mouth.

Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social

4 days ago

1. I was at my local pharmacy this morning to pick up a prescription, and as I walked up to the counter, I immediately noticed that the elderly woman in front of me in the queue was wearing a blue surgical mask. She was adjusting it, pulling it up over her nose.

Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social

4 days ago

Biological risks are inseparable from politics.

Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social

6 days ago

3. This is precisely how Long Covid hides in plain sight. Societally camouflaged by the imperative not to test. This is precisely why so many people have Long Covid but so few realise they do.

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