#COVID
Really interesting! SARS-Cov-2 can induce neuronal fusion over large distances, with bridges large enough to swap mitochondria. Resulting syncytia are viable but either synchronize activity or show no activity. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg2248 #covid #newpaper
Metro Vancouver wastewater COVID surveillance data was published June 6. The most recent test was May 29. #covid #covid19 #wastewater #vancouver #yvr
Good news for folks dealing with #LongCovid Metformin may significantly help. "Outpatient treatment of COVID-19 and incidence of post-COVID-19 condition over 10 months (COVID-OUT): a multicentre, randomised, quadruple-blind, parallel-group, phase 3 trial." #COVID #COVID19 #Metformin #PeerReview #PeerReviewed #Research #pandemic https://doi.org/10.1016/s1473-3099(23)00299-2
Things are starting to look up. Mostly over #COVID. I finish quarantining tomorrow.
I'll have to upload some of the pictures I took while on vacation. Some of them are really interesting.
New blog post: We're Toast 40
https://coredump3.blogspot.com/2023/06/were-toast-40.html
This post is a collection of links that support my increasingly strong feeling that the human race (or at least our technological civilization) is doomed. It is part of an ongoing series.
1,131,439 Americans Dead From COVID 19
2023-June-09 Friday
846 Americans Dead Last Week
U.S. - 16.30% of global pandemic deaths
U.S. - 4.19% of the global population
#US #USA #America #Americans #COVID19 #Covid #Corona #CoronaVirus #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborn #Pandemic #PandemicIsNotOver #Mask #Masks #WearAMask #Death #Deaths #AmericanDeaths #Vaccine #Vaccines #silentsunday #montag #sunday #Friday #SilentSunday #Monday #LongCovid #news #USNews #politics #USPolitics
Here is where the £33 billion spent during Covid disappeared to.
#Covid #Corruption
New study: COVID-19 can cause brain cells to ‘fuse’
I haven't felt the same since catching #covid #covid19 in the January 2021 spike. Do you notice any difference in your cognitive functioning?
https://qbi.uq.edu.au/article/2023/06/covid-19-can-cause-brain-cells-‘fuse’
The Next Pandemic: What We Can Learn From COVID-19 and How to Prepare for the Future
Factors for Next Pandemic
It is ce... #Covid #Pandemic #Virus #ZikaVirus https://www.knewtoday.net/the-next-pandemic-what-we-can-learn-from-covid-19-and-how-to-prepare-for-the-future/?feed_id=15196&_unique_id=6482fa7fe3d27
If a medication can reduce the incidence of Long Covid, this is further evidence that Long Covid is a real medical condition:
"If a new disease has been sufficiently well characterised by clinicians so that it can be successfully modified by a therapy compared with placebo, then the entity must, from a practical standpoint, truly exist. Put differently, a treatment can only be effective if there is something to treat."
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(23)00355-9/fulltext?s=09
#Chřipka #COVID #Vakcinace
OSEL wrote the following post Fri, 09 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0200
Vakcinace a demence
#^Vakcinace a demence
K sepsání tohoto článku mne přivedl nedávný poznatek o němž informoval MUDr. Čiernik, respektive nesouvisející poznámky pod jeho článkem snažící se nás přesvědčit o škodlivosti vakcinace. Nové poznatky z imunologie a statistiky dávají vakcinaci do souvislosti s poruchou intelektu ale ne tak, jak rádi tvrdí antiwaxeři.
@DenisCOVIDinfoguy
Bicycle helmets
Drink Driving 0.05
Travelling in the back of a ute
Vehicle Safety Inspections
Fire/Building Regulations
Bowel cancer screening
Seat belt laws
There are a lot of things that, if +150 Covid deaths a week is acceptable, look overly regulated.
#Outpatient #treatment of #COVID-19 and incidence of post-COVID-19 condition over 10 months (COVID-OUT): a multicentre, randomised, quadruple-blind, parallel-group, phase 3 trial, https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(23)00299-2
#NHS employers are effectively claiming that not a single #healthcare worker died of #COVID caught through their work. Bereaved families of health workers can receive a £60,000 life payment from the government, but “one wonders how many bereaved families who have been denied this payment did not have the benefit of [these reports] to support their case.” https://bylinetimes.com/2023/04/06/cover-up-allegations-as-most-nhs-trusts-say-no-staff-died-of-covid-on-their-watch/
#HumanRights
#NHS employers are effectively claiming that not a single #healthcare worker died of #COVID caught through their work. Bereaved families of health workers can receive a £60,000 life payment from the government, but “one wonders how many bereaved families who have been denied this payment did not have the benefit of [these reports] to support their case.” https://bylinetimes.com/2023/04/06/cover-up-allegations-as-most-nhs-trusts-say-no-staff-died-of-covid-on-their-watch/
#HumanRights
#LNER report higher than pre #COVID #passenger numbers on their East Coast rail #route https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2023/06/lner-now-carrying-more-passengers-than-pre-pandemic.html
But just last month, the #Labour leader in #Scotland was calling for subsidies for #AirTravel. It was framed as being about struggling #rural #airports, but the #Herald report claims that #Edinburgh #airport is still down 76%. Some of that must be down to #rail taking some of the market share to #London, which in the #climate emergency can only be a good thing!
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/homenews/23508268.scots-airports-hit-post-covid-passenger-slump-50-per-cent/
Well, a new #covid variant has been discovered. Someone in #ohio in April was “shedding massive amounts” of this virus in #wastewater.
No idea if it’s more contagious or worse symptomatically than #Omicron.
It’s just unusual and something of note, so far.
Auch wenn #BillGates keine Schuld an #Covid hatte,
sollten wir nicht vergessen,
was er uns all die Jahre mit #Windows angetan hat.
…Drs. Griffin and Racaniello point out the #imprinting measurements are only from neutralizing antibody data for #COVID, not T cell data. There are other parts of the immune response that are not considered when people freak out about imprinting. Some scientists think it’s only relevant for people who are already older or immunocompromised.
#TWiVTLDR 8/
Big study of 3 million kids who got the Pfizer #COVID vaccine. #Pediatric myocarditis/pericarditis cases came up as 39 per 1 million #vaccine doses. And it’s no concern for younger kids 5-11.
#TWiVTLDR 5/
Pretty exciting: now published in The Lancet, #Covid patients who took metformin had a 41% lower incidence of #LongCovid than controls—and if treatment was initiated within three days of symptoms, the reduction was 63%!
Caveats: study population was all over 30 with BMI over 25, so may not hold for other groups.
Still pretty major news, especially as metformin is a very affordable med. Right now in the US, without insurance the script is $4 at Walmart.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(23)00299-2/fulltext
An autopsy study from Siuth Korea.
Source: https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/advance-article/doi/10.1093/eurheartj/ehad339/7188747 (published in European Heart Journal)
“the incidence and clinical courses of VRM cases confirmed by the Expert Adjudication Committee of the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency were analyzed. COVID-19 VRM was confirmed in 480 cases (1.08 cases per 100 000 persons). ”
#COVID19 #covid #vrm #myocarditis #pfizer #moderna #autopsy #autopsyreport
Nice young man cutting my fabric at the fabric store coughed and sniffled one too many times for my comfort (I was uncomfortable at 2. There were more).
Me: masked
He: unmasked
Got home...
#Mask filter in garbage. (It was a fresh one too)
Fabric in paper bag outside on deck
Mask (#Flomask) in UV sanitizer
Metformin but not Ivermectin or fluvoxamine effective in reducing incidence of Long Covid.
#COVID #LongCovid https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(23)00299-2/fulltext
Vitalik Buterin and Polygon co-founder to help send $100M toward COVID-19 research - Research into “Long COVID” and furthering medical infrastructure ... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/vitalik-buterin-and-polygon-founder-to-help-send-100m-covid-19-donation #sandeepnailwal #cryptorelief #philantrophy #covid-19 #pandemic #medicine #disease #illness #charity #health
Thanks, Alito.
41,995,265 more Americans have reported contracting #COVID, and 291,668 have died since the Supreme Court rejected the vaccine mandates. #ThanksAlito
Total #COVID deaths per 1M/pop., 6/08:
1. Arizona 4,608 (+0)
2. West Virginia 4,544 (02)
3. Mississippi 4,527 (+0)
4. New Mexico 4,405 (+0)
5. Arkansas 4,346 (+0)
6. Tennessee 4,332 (+0)
7. Alabama 4,311 (+0)
8. Michigan 4,311 (+0)
9. Kentucky 4,212 (+0)
10. Florida 4,121 (+0)
Total cases #COVID-19, per 1M/pop., 6/08:
1. Rhode Island 416,596
2. Alaska 407,666
3. Kentucky 391,618
4. North Dakota 382,613
5. Tennessee 372,783
6. West Virginia 363,615
7. New York 361,289
8. South Carolina 360,626
9. Florida 353,292
10. Wisconsin 349,359
Top states, new #COVID-19 cases per 1M/pop, 6/08*
1. New Jersey 30
2. Minnesota 20
3. New York 17
4. Ohio 16
5. Wisconsin 15
*Only 5 states reported.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Top state reports, new cases of #COVID, 6/08*:
1. New York +336
2. New Jersey +267
3. Ohio +192
4. Minnesota +110
5. Wisconsin +87
*Only 5 states reported.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Most new cases of #COVID-19 reported 6/08:
1. France +2,603
2. USA +2,247
3. Philippines +1,131
4. Vietnam +518
5. Guatemala +371
6. Indonesia +254
7. Macao +214
8. Austria +169
9. Serbia +115
10. Myanmar +96
#COVID deaths per 1M, 6/08:
1. Peru 6,551 (+0)
2. Bulgaria 5,611 (+1)
3. Hungary 5,088 (+0)
4. Bosnia & Herzegovina 5,031 (+0)
5. North Macedonia 4,649 (+0)
6. Montenegro 4,504 (+0)
7. Croatia 4,500 (+0)
8. Georgia 4,305 (+4)
9. Czechia 3,987 (+0)
10. Slovakia 3,877 (+0)
Cases of #COVID-19 per 1M/pop, 6/08:
1. San Marino 712,865
2. Faeroe Is. 703,959 (last reported April 4, 2022)
3. Brunei 690,760
4. Austria 670,440
5. Slovenia 646,818
6. Andorra 619,844
7. South Korea 619,320
8. Martinique 614,763
9. France 611,544
10. Gibraltar 609,720 (last reported Mar. 31)
Gathering friends in
While Covid restrictions stay
Reasonably necessary
#covid #uk #borisjohnson #chequers #haiku #poetry
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-partygate-covid-chequers-b2353455.html
Over 60 covid deaths in Victoria last week, 80 in NSW.
Our governments, state and federal, continue to do nothing.
Starting to think neither my wife nor I got #Covid from last weekend being around more people than anytime since the #pandemic began. More than 3/4 of infected people would have gotten symptoms by this point. (See my original post to which I’m replying for details.)
The prior probability of having been infected from our modest controlled exposures was quite low. But the stakes are very high, so I’m still relieved.
Maybe I’ll do a 🧵 here soon on cumulative risk. It’s important and forgotten.
Considering the state is doing fuck all to mitigate the spreading of covid it doesn’t matter to me if he stays or goes.
Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton resigns from Department of Health to join CSIRO - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-09/brett-sutton-resigns-chief-health-officer-csiro/102459626
Sooo uhhh...anyone in #massachusetts know where we can get anything resembling current #covid info? I just noticed biobot, which was my last thing, hasn't updated since may 31. 😠
Thankful this kind of vacation preparation is no longer needed.
Stumbled upon this sheet from 2021 to plan a trip from NL to Spain taking the different #covid regulations and test types/timings into consideration)
I'm encountering a disturbing amount of covid minimizing and denial on here. Anyone else noticing this?
MFer blocked me immediately after I replied with this factual, well-sourced post.
https://mastodon.social/@pixplz/110510167016495011
#Covid #Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask #LongCovid #LongCovidKids @longcovid @novid
If you currently wear a mask on a regular basis, would you keep wearing one if #covid was completely eliminated?
Contrary to popular belief, trust in childhood vaccinations increased during pandemic
Ah and some one to lend aka sell me some #ffp2 masks?🫠🫠 #Interrail has used up all of the nearly and the ones legt are already rather urrgh…🫠🫠🫠 #interrail #interrailing #interrail2023 #GPN21 #covid
And as it seems you cannot buy them for a reasonable price in any shop anymore.(?)
ruh-roh. #Covid levels in @WastewaterMonitoring have tripled this month and are on a steep increase.
Damn it. #LosAngeles. Just wear your damned masks.
Thanks, Alito.
41,966,775 more Americans have reported contracting #COVID, and 291,591 have died since the Supreme Court rejected the vaccine mandates. #ThanksAlito
Total #COVID deaths per 1M/pop., 6/07:
1. Arizona 4,608 (+3)
2. West Virginia 4,544 (+2)
3. Mississippi 4,527 (+0)
4. New Mexico 4,405 (+0)
5. Arkansas 4,346 (+0)
6. Tennessee 4,332 (+0)
7. Alabama 4,311 (+0)
8. Michigan 4,311 (+0)
9. Kentucky 4,212 (+0)
10. Florida 4,121 (+0)
Total cases #COVID-19, per 1M/pop., 6/07:
1. Rhode Island 416,596
2. Alaska 407,464
3. Kentucky 391,618
4. North Dakota 382,613
5. Tennessee 372,783
6. West Virginia 363,615
7. New York 361,271
8. South Carolina 360,626
9. Florida 353,292
10. Wisconsin 349,257
Top states, new #COVID-19 cases per 1M/pop, 6/07*
1. Maine 160
2. Delaware 67
3. Hawaii 62
4. Louisiana 47
5. Arizona 32
6. Georgia 24
7. New York 20
8. Nevada 20
9. Indiana 19
10. Colorado 18
*Only 11 states reported.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Top state reports, new cases of #COVID, 6/07*:
1. New York +398
2. Georgia +260
3. Arizona +231
4. Louisiana +220
5. Maine +215
6. Indiana +127
7. Colorado +103
8. Hawaii +88
9. Delaware +65
10. Nevada +61
*Only 11 states reported.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Most new cases of #COVID-19 reported 6/07:
1. USA +3,269
2. France +2,762
3. Colombia +982
4. Costa Rica +906
5. Philippines +898
6. Lebanon +808
7. Israel +749
8. Macao +727
9. Bangladesh +667
10. Vietnam +575
#COVID deaths per 1M, 6/07:
1. Peru 6,551 (+0)
2. Bulgaria 5,610 (+0)
3. Hungary 5,088 (+0)
4. Bosnia & Herzegovina 5,031 (+0)
5. North Macedonia 4,649 (+0)
6. Montenegro 4,504 (+0)
7. Croatia 4,500 (+0)
8. Georgia 4,301 (+0)
9. Czechia 3,987 (+0)
10. Slovakia 3,877 (+0)
Cases of #COVID-19 per 1M/pop, 6/07:
1. San Marino 712,865
2. Faeroe Is. 703,959 (last reported April 4, 2022)
3. Brunei 687,723
4. Austria 670,424
5. Slovenia 646,811
6. Andorra 619,844
7. South Korea 619,320
8. Martinique 614,763
9. France 611,504
10. Gibraltar 609,720 (last reported Mar. 31)
Now I have #COVID. Can't a man get a break?
Interesting to see some of the people who denied the science of masks for preventing coronavirus transmission suddenly accepting that masks protect us from wildfire particles. It’s clear their stance against masks for #COVID wasn’t based on data, but was due to political beliefs.
Study: Cats can transmit COVID-19 to each other
Cats can become infected with COVID-19 through contact with other infected animals or contaminated pens and should be considered part of the household dynamics of the virus, according to a new study in Microbiology Spectrum.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/study-cats-can-transmit-covid-19-each-other
#Cats #ScienceMatters #Covid #Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #pandemic
Best understandable plans I've seen so far to build a corsi-rosenthal box. Everything else I've seen was practically gibberish.
Flights are being disrupted by wildfire smoke. Whether #COVID or #climate, there is no back to normal. We can't ignore crises. We must deal with them by taking action. https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/wildfire-smoke-from-canada-disrupts-new-york-flights-1.6431409
Stop saying #COVID is in the past, and #ClimateChange is in the future! We are being significantly impacted by both crises NOW and need to take action.
How #COVID changed high school seniors' plans about college and their future careers
@josh Make a #CorsiBox it’s cheaper, as effective against smoke & when the smoke issue has passed keep using it everytime you have company to reduce the spread of #Covid. People are still dying needlessly every day. You can reduce the number that do. 40% of Covid is spread by asymptomatic people. Don’t be one of them. When you walk past a pregnant woman in a store imagine being part of the reason she lost her child even though she got the vaccine. #CovidIsNotOver #WildFires #Smoke.
Just heard. Somebody in my wider family tested +ve for Covid 10 days ago. One degree removed as I met their husband at a big funeral around the same time. I guess it's not over, then. She wasn't there and he didn't get it.
#Covid is only real when somebody you know gets it. Same for #LongCovid. #CovidIsNotOver
Pre-omicron study over 2 years with ~2.2k patients tracked #recovery from #COVID and persistent symptoms. 91% got better slowly (still relapses 2 years later), while 5% (mostly younger) got better faster (back to normal in 2 years) and for 4%, symptoms didn’t improve. People who got better faster more likely to report neck/back pain, diarrhea in first year. People w/ persistent symptoms had more cardiac-related symptoms, sweats, heat/cold intolerance, sensitivity to light/sound.
#TWiVTLDR 6/
People using #SSRIs were 1.3x more likely to die if they got #COVID compared to non-SSRI users. (Apparently people on social media were advising to take SSRIs just to prevent COVID??) The study was with Danish adults, up to 60 days after positive RT-PCR test.
(IANAD, but I’m sure if you’re already on SSRIs it’s best to keep taking them. The lesson here is don’t take SSRIs expressly to prevent COVID…)
#TWiVTLDR 4/
A rapid antigen #test (European Sofia brand) was studied in clinical setting. It was less sensitive for omicron and for ppl with lower viral loads compared to RT-PCR. Interestingly, more sensitive in men and older patients. Big takeaway is that we can’t really use RATs to screen for early asymptomatic #COVID cases anymore. Best time to use a RAT is day 2-3 of #symptoms…
#TWiVTLDR 2/
Still trying to catch up with #TWiV. 😅 May 18, 2023: https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-1008/
The CDC finally issued #ventilation guidance for buildings! 5 air changes per hour. To compare, negative pressure isolation rooms in hospitals have at least 12 air changes per hour. A standard hospital room has 6 air changes per hour. Dr. Griffin would love to see air changes per hour posted on public buildings to make educated decisions about #COVID risk. 1/
Whoever needs to hear this:
.
.
.
It's ok to wear a mask.
2/🧵
We were the only people wearing masks anywhere, with the exception of another person wearing a KN95 at the grocery store. It was alienating and surreal. I now feel almost more like a stranger in a strange land (nod to Heinlein for his classic sci-if book title) than I did before.
WTF is wrong with everybody? Sure, there is less virus circulating in this part of the country right now. And sure, you probably won’t wind up in a hospital or morgue from #Covid if you’re vaccinated. But…
My wife and I just returned from a trip to Western Washington State, doing our best to stay free of #Covid. Mostly outdoor stuff, darting into a restaurant for takeout, using way more public toilets than we’d have liked. This after basically living like hermits for much of the past three years.
I wish I could say it was great to be around people again, but it wasn’t. I’m frustrated, tired, and so very disappointed with almost everyone.
This 🧵 is a bit of a rant for fellow #ZeroCovid people.
Study: Stopping universal admission testing was linked to significant increases in hospital-onset SARS-CoV-2 infections. Hospital infections remain common with high mortality rates.
Hospitals should not stop universal admission testing.
#covid @whn
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2805585
May 2023:
Oh, and last:
There’s a major symptom of brain injury called anosognosia.
It’s a deficit of self-awareness and insight into one’s own condition — the brain cannot perceive the damage done to it, so the patient is unaware that they have sustained an injury.
— @czedwards
#tcovidii #ToxoplasmaCovidii #LongCovid #covid #covid19 #C19
It is unfailingly depressing that the majority of #COVID illnesses and deaths are so ridiculously easily avoidable. Vaccines aside, simply wearing a mask and avoiding gatherings could essentially wipe out the virus. But the "I need to see faces" and "I miss the office" folks won't have it.
Folks will be like "I could easily walk faster than these shuffling zombies but I miss the touch of people" and intentionally walk straight into their clutching grasp. Humanity is doomed.
"More than 70% of transmissions in households with adults and children were from a pediatric index case, but this percentage fluctuated weekly," the study authors wrote. "Once US schools reopened in fall 2020, children contributed more to inferred within-household transmission when they were in school, and less during summer and winter breaks, a pattern consistent for 2 consecutive school years."
#Covid19 #Covid #Parenting #MaskUp #SchoolSafety #CovidIsNotOver #Schools
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/more-70-us-household-covid-spread-started-child-study-suggests
So... #Twitter is replatforming all the #Nazis, #insurrectionists, and anti-vaxxers, #Trump is allowed to run for #POTUS, ringleaders of the sedition are leaders in #Congress, nobody takes #COVID seriously anymore, and we're just gonna let the #shootings continue and the planet broil, because #America has no memory and our only concern is whether rich people can retain more yacht money. Am I caught up? Did I miss anything?
Oh yippee Doc things I may have heart complications from #COVID after blacking out and collapsing yesterday, plus a fast heart rate and being less active and short of breath.
Not only was it my first time, but manage to really fk me up. Have a feeling these heart specialist are going to be buying a new boat after this.
In docs words - you’re too young to have 50+ yo symptoms 😱
#Hospitals 'were dangerously understaffed' when #Covid hit because of years of #austerity https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/hospitals-were-dangerously-understaffed-covid-30151875