Josette Schoenmakers

@josetteschoenma.bsky.social

Group B strep (GBS) is one of the biggest killers of newborn babies worldwide, disproportionally affecting children in low- and middle-income countries. 🧵

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Als de treinen nou eens niet zo smerig zouden zijn dat je je tas gelijk in een verbrandingsoven moet gooien als die in contact is gekomen met de vloer van een IC.....

The basis for the last sentence below: New data from David Ho's lab showing that while adults & kids have ~equal antibody responses to XFG & NB.1.8.1, children have essentially no neutralizing antibodies to BA.3.2. This seems to solve the BA.3.2 + kids mystery. 1/14 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Ryan Hisner@ryanhisner.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My best guess is dead-end virus evolution combined with a continually broadening global population antibody response that makes it more difficult for novel variants to completely escape—except in those with few exposures (such as children).

Insightful article: Children in the water make noise when they are fine. “When they go quiet, go and find out why!”. They might be drowning. You have 20-60 seconds. Drowning is most often quiet. Also for adults. Shouting or waving often does not occur, as all energy goes into the effort to breath.

Perry Barber@umpireplb.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/

I made an overview for BA.3.2* samples in 2026 from Europe. A bit less than half of the sequences came from children and of those around half probably came from babies/children wearing diapers. So, a bit less than a quarter? But of course, sequenced samples are probably not be representative.

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Hier een tabel waarin te zien is dat ook in Nederland BA.3.2 een voorkeur lijkt te hebben om kinderen te infecteren. Het is natuurlijk de vraag hoeveel invloed zij hebben op het SC2 niveau in het water. Zeker de luier dragende babies en peuters!

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I still checked, just out of curiosity. No way of knowing which WW levels or infection levels these numbers represent. Most children's samples are from babies anyway, so their waist will end up in the bin and not in WW. Jan+Feb 2024, 26/626 JN.1, Nov25-Feb26, 29/175 BA.3.2 samples from children.

I’m amazed. It’s really true: BA.3.2 (new COVID lineage) is infecting children at a much higher rate than previous lineages. I’m late to this party, but I couldn’t really believe it was true until I did the analysis for myself. 1/

Kinderen sluit je niet op. Daar ligt voor ons een harde ondergrens. Daarom was ons voorstel om de mogelijkheid tot detentie van kinderen uit de wet te halen. Teleurstellend genoeg kiest de minderheidscoalitie van D66, CDA en VVD voor de route op rechts. En daarmee voor onnodig hardvochtig beleid.

“Compared with non-active travelers, the cyclists had a 19% lower risk of all-cause dementia, a 22% lower risk of Alzheimer's, a 40% lower risk of young-onset dementia (before the age of 65), and a 17% lower risk of late-onset dementia.” Getting around a bike more often could reduce dementia risk.

Cycling Linked to Lower Risk of Dementia, Study of Half a Million Finds

Getting from A to B on a bicycle more often could reduce risk of dementia, possibly by protecting a part of the brain tied to memory functions, new research finds.

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