Long COVID

• The Company is hosting at Booth F43, and management will be available for discussions with research organizations and potential partners.
• "We are very pleased to launch ImmuneSelect, an important portfolio of immune profiling solutions within our ViraxImmune™ T-Cell diagnostic platform," commented Mr. James Foster, Chief Executive Officer of Virax Biolabs.
• "The launch marks a significant milestone for Virax as it brings us a step closer to commercializing ViraxImmune™ as a full In-Vitro-Diagnostic product."
• ImmuneSelect is the Company's new portfolio of immune profiling solutions dedicated to investigating adaptive immunity.

• ATLANTA, Feb. 29, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Virios Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: VIRI) (the “Company”), a development-stage biotechnology company focused on advancing novel antiviral therapies to treat debilitating chronic diseases, including fibromyalgia (“FM”) and Long-COVID (“LC”), today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2023.
• General and administrative expenses for the fourth quarter of 2023 remained level with the fourth quarter of 2022 at $0.8 million.
• As of December 31, 2023, Virios Therapeutics’ cash totaled $3.3 million.
• The Company believes it has sufficient resources to fund operations into the fourth quarter of 2024.

• “Chefs, chefs, chefs!
• Australia is seeing a similar gap, with chefs ranked the eighth most in-demand occupation.
• Our study is the first quantitative survey to examine working conditions and mental health issues among chefs in both Australia and New Zealand.
• The survey also followed up previous Australian studies, which indicated exploitation was an industry norm, with chefs experiencing burnout and wage theft.

‘Banter, bollockings and beatings’

• As one British study titled “Banter, bollockings and beatings” made clear, an often macho culture can prevail, including bizarre induction rituals.
• An Australian study published in 2022 showed chefs were significantly more likely than the general population to commit suicide.
• And even before the pandemic, the industry’s “toxic” workplace culture was blamed for mental health issues and high suicide rates among employees.
• Two-thirds (67%) of respondents worked more than 38 hours weekly, but a fifth of the chefs worked 52-61 hours.

Leaving the industry

• Results showed high levels of physical and mental fatigue (“exhausted at work”, “emotionally drained”, “becoming disconnected”).
• The majority of respondents said they were likely (with 20% extremely likely) to look for a new employer during the next year.
• Read more:
  All these celebrity restaurant wage-theft scandals point to an industry norm

Mental health and healthy hospo

• The Better Work Action Plan, the first phase of New Zealand’s Tourism Industry Transformation Plan, was launched by MBIE in 2023 under the previous government.
• It followed extensive consultation with representatives from hospitality and tourism, Māori, unions, workers and government.
• Its aim was to develop a sustainable tourism workforce by addressing longstanding issues of low pay and poor conditions across the sector.
• By chance, however, New Zealand’s new minister for mental health, Matt Doocey, is also tourism and hospitality minister.

The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

• LUND, Sweden, Jan. 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Post-Covid, there has been considerable advancement in integrating video conferencing into meeting spaces.
• However, users continue to seek more engaging and collaborative experiences that go beyond video and audio calls afforded by current solutions.
• FlatFrog is thrilled to unveil the next wave of innovation, enabling IT to future-proof their meeting rooms with TeamTablet™Flex and TeamTablet™55 appliances.
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