News weekly update: Sept 12th 2025

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Every Saturday evening: PandemicA global outbreak of a disease. Pals meetings on Zoom. Every Saturday at 5 pm PT/8 pm ET, the PandemicA global outbreak of a disease. Collaborative hosts a Zoom call that is inclusive and welcoming to all COVID-conscious folks. They offer several breakout rooms based on age-groups, life situations, special interests, or just for general hanging out. PandemicA global outbreak of a disease. Pals Check their Google Document the day of the call for that week's Zoom link.

Every Monday & Sunday: Rising Hope meetings on Zoom. Rising Hope is a community of COVID-conscious folks that meet Monday evenings, plus Sunday mornings for church services. Contact them through their Reddit post.

September 18th, 2025 – Twitter Space event with PHAN and Air Support Project: This Twitter Space will focus on schools and improving indoor air quality to protect kids against COVID and other airborne pathogens. Twitter Space event link.

September 23rd, 2025 – Healthy Indoor Air: A Global Call to Action, a side-event for the United Nations General Assembly. The public is invited to join global leaders, policymakers, scientists and health experts for “Healthy Indoor Air: A Global Call to Action” – the inaugural High-Level Side Event on indoor air quality, to take place on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. Find more information at the event website.

October 20th & 21st 2025 – 2025 Canadian Symposium on Long COVIDPersistent and new symptoms following recovery from acute COVID-19. More, St John's, Newfoundland, Canada: Long COVIDPersistent and new symptoms following recovery from acute COVID-19. More Web and Memorial University of Newfoundland will host the 2025 Canadian Symposium on Long COVIDPersistent and new symptoms following recovery from acute COVID-19. More. ​Registration options include in-person and virtual attendance, plus a discounted rate of $5 for those with lived Long COVIDPersistent and new symptoms following recovery from acute COVID-19. More experience. Ticket sales end on October 3rd at 7:29am Newfoundland time. Get more information and purchase tickets at their website.

October 21st, 2025 – Free in-person and online Atlantic Meetup as part of the 2025 Canadian Symposium: As part of the 2025 Canadian Symposium on Long COVIDPersistent and new symptoms following recovery from acute COVID-19. More in St John's, NL, the organizers are hosting a free Canadian Atlantic provinces Meetup session on Tuesday, October 21st, at 7 am ET/8 am Atlantic time. This Meetup will be available in-person and online. Separate registration for this meetup is required – register for it here.

LATEST NEWS

Sept. 3rd, 2025: Long COVIDPersistent and new symptoms following recovery from acute COVID-19. More hitting Doctors and Nurses Hard. https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/long-covid-hitting-doctors-and-nurses-hard-2025a1000n7q

Sept. 4th, 2025: COVID vaccine locations vanish from Google Maps due to an unspecified technical problem. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/covid-vaccine-locations-vanish-from-google-maps-due-to-alleged-technical-issue/

Sept. 4th, 2025: Intersectionality and Long COVIDPersistent and new symptoms following recovery from acute COVID-19. More: Understanding the Lived Experience of Ethnic Minority Groups in the U.K. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hex.70413

Sept. 4th, 2025: Long COVIDPersistent and new symptoms following recovery from acute COVID-19. More and the Kidney. This study finds that COVID may contribute to Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), and that patients with kidney disease are more at risk of COVID infection and severe outcomes from COVID. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41581-025-00997-4

Sept. 9th, 2025: Dogs exposed to COVID-positive people had an increased chance of infection. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/dogs-exposed-covid-positive-people-show-increased-risk-infection

Sept. 9th, 2025: What alarms doctors the most about COVID right now. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/covid-vaccines-experts-what-to-know_l_68bb3c15e4b0a78951966045

The TL;DR:

Sept. 9th, 2025: The CDC has taken down its previous COVID-19A disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, leading to respiratory illness. data dashboard and replaced it with a page with fewer metrics. https://thesicktimes.org/2025/09/09/national-covid-19-trends-september-9/

Sept. 10th, 2025: Kids with COVID had a 50% to 60% higher risk of depression and anxiety in 2021. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/kids-covid-had-50-60-higher-risk-depression-anxiety-2021-researchers-say

Sept. 10th, 2025: Report from George Washington University shows that the proposed CDC budget cuts will harm public health. https://mediarelations.gwu.edu/new-research-proposed-cdc-budget-cuts-harm-public-health

Sept. 10th/11th/12th, 2025: The governors and/or public health departments of Delaware, Virginia, New Mexico, Maine, Illinois, Arizona, and Rhode Island have each issued orders to ensure residents’ access to COVID-19A disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, leading to respiratory illness. vaccines, contrary to the new CDC guidelines.

Sept. 12th, 2025: The U.S. national wastewater overview for COVID-19A disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, leading to respiratory illness. is “high”. https://data.wastewaterscan.org/

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