Sarah

That’s really rough 😞

Each Covid-19 wave wrecks your health. Here's what you can do Hospitalisations and deaths from the virus are climbing as the ninth wave of Covid-19 surges across Aotearoa.

Prof. Helen Petousis-Harris, Auckland Univ.: There's not enough awareness of the impact of Covid-19 on overall health.

"What many people don't realise is that getting Covid repeatedly is not like building immunity, it's more like accumulating damage"

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#COVID #COVID19

New Zealand tackled Covid by going in early and hard, shutting the virus out until vaccines arrived and ending up with one of the lowest death rates anywhere #NZPol

Good to hear you’ve headed out of it now. PEM is brutal!

All the best! It sure is tiring to have a kid in hospital 🌻🌷

What's up with the GPs in Australia? They keep promoting GET as if the PACE trial were actually not a fraudulent, discredited piece of crap! virology.ws/2026/03/09/t...

Screenshot of a news article from The Post titled “Repeatedly getting Covid doesn’t build immunity, ‘it’s more like accumulating damage’,” written by Melanie Earley of RNZ and dated March 10, 2026. Below the headline is a portrait of leading vaccinologist and associate professor Dr Helen Petousis-Harris, shown facing the camera against a dark background. The article discusses how repeated COVID-19 infections may cause cumulative harm rather than building lasting immunity.

"Leading vaccinologist Helen Petousis-Harris says there's not enough awareness of the impact of COVID-19 on overall health."

"What many people don't realise is that getting COVID repeatedly is not like building immunity, it's more like accumulating damage," she says.

Source: archive.md/Qsv13

No AI, I don’t want you to summarize everything. I want to read things and think about them with my own brain.

Spots are still available for people with Long Covid/MECFS in Ōtepoti Dunedin to participate in free facilitated creative writing workshops. I'm one of the facilitators. There's no commitment—if you think you might be interested, get in touch.

It’s a good time to chuck on a respirator mask, esp in health care settings, public transport & busy places (indoors and out). @covidactionnz.bsky.social have set up a couple of mask blocs around the country if you’re close to one and need some masks.

Bring back the half price public transport fares again to combat high petrol prices!!!!!! #nzpol

Hahahahaha I'm in this post and i don't like it

walking - joints hurt sitting - joints hurt standing - joints hurt bending - joints hurt lifting - joints hurt doing nothing - joints hurt there is no magic amount. your joints just hate you. mybodyistryingtokillme.com

Te Papa, botanical gardens added to measles locations of interest There are now 15 locations of interest linked to a traveller in February.

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Covid-19 vaccines still protect us: How do we get the best out of them? International evidence shows that even during the Omicron era, Covid-19 vaccines continue to provide protection against infection, hospitalisation, death, and Long Covid, as well as improving outcomes...

The Public Health Communication Centre Aotearoa recommended in *2024* to extend eligibility for additional doses to younger age groups, especially those at occupational risk.

Could NZ media please follow up on why public health expert recommendations are not being followed, as a new wave ramps up 🫠

We need clean air in schools. Covid is airborne with tiny aerosol particles. Ventilation and air filtration are proven to reduce levels of Covid in the air. We need to minimize transmission in schools.

With Aotearoa in its ninth wave, it is vital to stop Covid spreading in schools.

Ninth wave of Covid-19 suggests wane in immunity, expert says everyone must 'act to reduce impact' The latest figures show 50 hospitalisations and 19 deaths with the virus in the past week.

Covid Wave: Expert says everyone must 'act to reduce impact'

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Clean Air in Schools Covid can have substantial impacts on peoples’ health. Although Covid initially enters the body through the respiratory system, it can affect virtually every bodily system and organ. There are no adva...

New Zealand is in our ninth Covid wave, with 19 fatalities last week. More must be done to prevent Covid.

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@health.govt.nz @healthnz.govt.nz why is there no offical comms telling people to get boosters?!?! Of course only over-30s can regularly get them. 😡
Why is Prof Baker the only person talking about this??
The current and previous Ministers for Health do not want to talk about it, that’s why. #nzpol

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That really sucks 😞 Not what you need 🌷🌻

NZ Police actually live up to your claims of caring about survivors of SV, challenge level: are you joking

Dude gave them a screen recording then factory reset his phone and somehow this was compelling evidence that *she* was the liar

rebecca needs their own transport! rebecca is chronically ill and needs an e-scooter for transport!

okay so, here goes nothing: i've just set up a givealittle page to see if i can crowdfund getting me a scooter!

i need NZ$999 total and i've set this to run until the end of april, i will see if i can extend it if i don't quite get there by then.

if you can't chip in, please consider reposting!

Oh no! Hoping it’s mild and you recover quickly

And 99% of airline passengers vote for no masks on airplanes because they’re sick of the mildest inconvenience and besides it’s just a cold anyway and wait are you still going on about that thing from six years ago? #COVID

our elected politicians are using Ai to do their job is sickening - I mean, if you NEED to ask Ai to do what you're supposed to be ABLE to do, you need to stop being in that job

I'm just annoyed that I feel like all the knowledge and the technology we have means we could all be having a really nice time and scientists could be doing science and everyone could have enough food and shelter and everything they need but instead *gestures at everything*

A friend's grandma lw/Alz in a care home recently had RSV and is now rapidly decompensating. Why can we not protect our elderly with respirator mandates for caregivers, employees and visitors in care homes?

6 years on from Covid, BBC Look North highlights the ongoing impact of #LongCovid. Reporter Cathy Minton says it’s personal, her husband Tom hasn’t improved in a year. He still can’t care for his toddler or go for walks. @franhaddock.bsky.social says new people continue to get long Covid.

Working in a pandemic world is just listening to colleagues say “there must be something going around” on a weekly basis for years and trying to decide if you wanna remind them it’s covid or silently scream into the void again.