Why aren't they testing... Multiple pressures as far as I can see: Reduced budget for Covid related costs. Personal desire to downplay the problem of covid. Pressure from government to reduce numbers. Bureaucratic and practical complications of positive tests. Institutional ignorance around conditions caused by covid. Instructions only to test people who are eligible for treatment, but reduced numbers of people eligible for treatment. Government message that it's nothing to worry about since vaccinations.

I've got so many medical professionals as friends or family, which comes from growing up in circles that highly value both compassion and science. Talking to them is so hard now. Last week I had a conversation with a friend who's a consultant.

Conference Attendees Vote To Share Virus That They Themselves Say More Than Doubles The Risk Of Parkinson.

Teen girls were more adversely affected by the pandemic lockdown than teen boys, with girls’ brains aging more than three times as much, a UW study found. st.news/47Daywz

This week in key Covid publications: —Young, healthy individuals with mild cases had objective cognitive deficits at 1-year that they did not perceive —Older, hospitalized adults with severe Covid had an equivalent of 20 years of decline in cognitive performance at 1-year follow-up —A nasal vaccine (2 doses) blocked infections for at least 3 months and was effective across 10 different variants —Reinfections increase the risk of #LongCovid —mRNA shots don't induce long-lived plasma cells, but we don't know if this is true with other vaccine platforms Reviewed in the new, updated edition of Ground Truths (link in my profile)