#COVID19
People globally facing acute food insecurity exceeds 222 million & is highest ever: #UNICEF report
It highlights that women across the world have been particularly hard hit by the impact of the #COVID19 -pandemic on livelihoods and access to nutritious food.… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1665905094175625216 #press
"Novavax exec says its new COVID shot should work against variants on the rise"
Exclusive: Ministers had ‘chilling’ secret unit to curb lockdown dissent
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/02/counter-disinformation-unit-government-covid-lockdown/
#PROTECC #covid #covid-19 #vaccine #politics #pandemic #COVID19 #COVID_19 #democracy #CovidIsNotOver #maskup #prevention #WearAMask #GetVaccinated #vaccinessavelives #COVIDIOTS #disinformation #USPol #VaccinesWork #australia #policestate #cdnpoli #Omicron #OmicronVariant #resist #USA #canada #honk #Truckers #covidisnotover #covidisairborne #wearamask #vaccinesplus #KeepMasksInHealthcare
NEW: Interior Health (#Kamloops, #Kelowna, #Penticton) wastewater data tracker & daily new case estimations. #COVID19 #SARSCoV2
Interactive versions & explanation here as always. https://anarchodelphis.tumblr.com/BCWW
#NewJersey #COVID19 Weekly Forecast 6/5
🤞 Newark has very high Local Prevalence maxing at 22 /area which is lower than a week back but Memorial Weekend & NYC commuter impact TBD
🤞 Greater Newark area is also high but stable
Real time updates & FAQ at: https://my.hubbubworld.com
#SmogWarning in effect for #Montreal, somewhat elevated. Rain should help tomorrow. I have my noisy Corsi-Rosenthal going, windows shut.
I bought the Honeywell Turbo fan (8”) in order to assemble a smaller box, (See photos below)
It’s quiet.
Photos via @DavidElfstrom
I might assemble a triangular shaped box with the 20x20 Merv 13 filters, it’s much smaller.
#Wildfires #quebec #Montréal #alberta ##halifax #novascotia #canada #covid #covid19 #MaskUp #usa #usa
#Texas #COVID19 Weekly Forecast 6/5
⚠️ Houston has high Local Prevalence at 20 /area & increasing 📈
👀 Dallas, Austin, San Antonio & El Paso are under 27 /area & stable
Real time updates & FAQ at: https://my.hubbubworld.com
RT @DrTedros: Glad to launch the Global #DigitalHealth Certification Network with Commissioner @SKyriakidesEU, DG @SandraGallina building on 🇪🇺’s #COVID19 certification system. This work will strengthen health systems and help Member States better prepare for future epidemics and pandemics.… https://t.co/JwSDlzFl2F https://t.co/JAplAGZi7H
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUintheUS/status/1665819560677654528
@EU_Health @SKyriakidesEU There is still work to do with the #COVID19 #DigitalHealth certification system. Something like an alarm when the precautionary principle is disregarded. Even better, an alarm when people are getting infected by any bug flying around, at a rate never seen before and with unknown impacts on the immune system.
Bi bip bip bip bip!
#HealthSupremacists
#Illinois #COVID19 Weekly Forecast 6/5
⚠️ #Chicago has high Local Prevalence at 45 /area & increasing 📈
🙂 Bloomington is moderate at 6 /area & decreasing 📉
🙌 Rest of IL is doing great
Real time updates & FAQ: https://my.hubbubworld.com
#Florida #COVID19 Weekly Forecast 6/5
‼️ Miami has very high Local Prevalence maxing at 70 /area & increasing 📈
⚠️ Orlando is moderate at 15 /area & increasing 📈
👍 Other metros are all moderate & stable
Real time updates & FAQ: https://my.hubbubworld.com
RT @DrTedros: Glad to launch the Global #DigitalHealth Certification Network with Commissioner @SKyriakidesEU, DG @SandraGallina building on 🇪🇺’s #COVID19 certification system. This work will strengthen health systems and help Member States better prepare for future epidemics and pandemics.… https://t.co/JwSDlzFl2F https://t.co/JAplAGZi7H
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Health/status/1665808101419765760
Why is the Tour de France safer from Covid than a BC Hospital or doctor's office? #CovidIsNotOver #covid19 #LongCOVID #BringBackMasks #BCpoli https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/face-masks-to-return-at-tour-de-france-to-limit-covid-19-cases-in-the-peloton/
Minors in Texas faced a range of barriers to finding accurate info & obtaining confidential contraceptive services, which were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Expanding options for accessible confidential contraception, along with repealing parental consent laws, would better support minors' reproductive autonomy.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36604208/
#NICHDImpact #COVID19 #Contraception #ReproductiveAutonomy #Youth #Minors #Teens #ParentalConsent #ReproductiveHealth
RT @DrTedros: Glad to launch the Global #DigitalHealth Certification Network with Commissioner @SKyriakidesEU, DG @SandraGallina building on 🇪🇺’s #COVID19 certification system. This work will strengthen health systems and help Member States better prepare for future epidemics and pandemics.… https://t.co/JwSDlzFl2F https://t.co/JAplAGZi7H
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/SKyriakidesEU/status/1665808557969666051
Woah!
Virologist hunting mystery COVID strain in Ohio wastewater suspects one individual infected for 2+ years
https://boingboing.net/2023/06/05/virologist-hunting-mystery-covid-strain-in-ohio-wastewater-suspects-one-individual-infected-for-2-years.html
#COVID #COVID19 #LongCOVID #SARSCoV2 #COVIDvariants #wastewater #wastewaterMonitoring
@bendrath Sounds to me more like they offered the #WHO to maintain the free software and keep a public key infrastructure running (just in case). #coronacertificates #covid19
The pandemic’s true death toll:
"Although the official number of deaths caused by covid-19 is now 6.9m, our single best estimate is that the actual toll is 22m people. We find that there is a 95% chance that the true value lies between 17.7m and 30.6m additional deaths."
Study Defines Four Distinct Phenotypes of Long COVID
#COVID19 # COVID #LongCOVID
Tour des Masques 😷
Bei der Tour de France 2023 wird es ein #COVID19-Protokoll geben. Fahrer, Teammitarbeiter und Offizielle müssen Masken tragen. Den Fahrern ist der nahe Kontakt mit Fans untersagt (keine Autogramme, keine Selfies). Es soll nicht auswärts gegessen und in den Hotels Abstand gehalten werden.
Die Radrennfahrer David Gaudu und Julian Alaphilippe gehen mit dem #COVID-Protokoll d’accord.
Gaudu: "I don't mind, as long as we protect our health."
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
#IDMastodon 🚨Do Not Use Certain SD Biosensor Pilot #COVID19 At-Home Tests: @fdadeviceinfo Safety Communication . #FDA has significant concerns of bacterial contamination . Direct contact with the contaminated liquid solution may pose safety concerns and could impact the performance of the test.
📌 https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/safety-communications/do-not-use-certain-sd-biosensor-pilot-covid-19-home-tests-fda-safety-communication?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
ÜBELLLASCHUUUNGL!!!!
„Unsere Ergebnisse deuten darauf hin, dass die Auswirkungen von #COVID19 auf die #Sterblichkeit bei Berücksichtigung der jährlichen Schwankungen/Veränderungen der Sterblichkeit tiefgreifender sind als bisher angenommen. […] liefert diese Studie eine neue Bewertung des durch COVID-19 verursachten Verlusts an Lebenserwartung in 27 Ländern “
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█ Classes per tornar a aprendre a somriure al Japó després de la mascareta ▓▒░ L'ús de la mascareta durant la pandèmia ha fet perdre aquesta capacitat a molts joves, preocupats ara per entrar al mercat de treball #324cat #covid19 #cultura #japo https://www.ccma.cat/324/classes-per-tornar-a-aprendre-a-somriure-al-japo-despres-de-la-mascareta/noticia/3233364/?ext=MASTODON_ONLINE
I’ve been continuing to wear a N95 #mask on planes and in airports while travelling. Also at concerts. I’m feeling affirmed in this decision by the Friendly Neighbor Epidemiologist, who is now in Tanzania with her family. They all wore masks on the plane. After three years escaping #COVID19, one of her family members tested positive for Covid the day they arrived — so he was already contagious while on the plane (although symptomless until after arriving at destination). https://open.substack.com/pub/emilysmith/p/hello-from-tanzania-with-covid?r=7p2cc&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Die Leistungssportler sind in Sachen #COVID19 ein bisschen schlauer als der Rest der Meute und so müssen bei der diesjährigen #TourDeFrance Fahrer, Team und Officials #Maske beim Sign-on Tragen. Autogrammstunde fällt auch aus. #CovidIsNotOver
Studie: 4% der Infizierten scheiden nach 7 Monaten noch #SarsCov2 RNA im Stuhl aus. #COVID19 https://www.cell.com/med/fulltext/S2666-6340(22)00167-2
#NewYork #COVID19 Weekly Forecast 6/5
‼️ #NYC has very high Local Prevalence up to 1400 /area & increasing in all 5 boroughs 📈
‼️ Suburbs of NYC are at 65 /area & increasing 📈
⚠️ Buffalo is at 40 /area & increasing 📈
Real time updates & FAQ: https://my.hubbubworld.com
PSA:
If you use "brain damage", or any other medical disorder or diagnosis as an insult, you are ableist.
No ifs, ands, or buts. This is not up for debate.
Equating having brain damage to being a bigot is ableist. Equating having a personality disorder to being a bigot is ableist. Equating having a learning disability to being a bigot is ableist.
Trump does not have a learning disorder just because he's a fascist.
Covid19 deniers do not have brain damage because they're selfish and want disabled people to die.
If you can't criticize bigotry without being ableist, then you just need to shut your mouth and put down the keyboard. You are not helping anyone by claiming that Trump is autistic. You are not helping anyone by claiming that everyone who abused you actually had a personality disorder.
Stop throwing disabled people under the bus because you're too lazy to actually criticize bigotry.
"How long does it take after people leave a room before an acceptably low risk for airborne transmission? Here’s how you can calculate it."
#ClearAir #CO2 #AirFiltration #IAQ #Ventilation #Covid #COVID19 #SarsCov2 #CovidIsAirborne
https://itsairborne.com/flushing-spaces-after-occupancy-222c3717665b
Änderungen im aktuellsten Entwurf des Abkommens der WHO zum globalen Umgang mit der nächsten Pandemie beunruhigen Forscher. Die Sprache wurde an zahlreichen Punkten von klaren Handlungsanleitungen zu bloße Empfehlungen herabgestuft.
"Ich habe keinen Zweifel daran, dass es eine starke Lobbyarbeit von kommerziellen Akteuren aus einer Reihe von Branchen gegeben hat, um zu diesem verwässerten Entwurf zu gelangen. Wir haben während der #COVID19-Pandemie gesehen, dass marktgesteuerte Prozesse allein nicht zu einem gerechten Zugang zu pandemiebezogenen Produkten führen."
#IDMastodon #COVID19 study under fire @ScienceMagazine
📌 https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2023/05/29/clinical-trials-at-didier-raoult-s-former-institute-in-the-absence-of-any-institutional-reaction-the-serious-breaches-observed-could-become-the-norm_6028406_23.html
📌 https://www.science.org/content/article/news-glance-long-covid-defined-x-rayed-atoms-and-tally-deep-sea-biodiversity
#California #COVID19 Weekly Forecast 6/5
⚠️ #SFBayArea very high Local Prevalence maxing at 140 /area & stable
🤞 Los Angeles & San Diego are high at 50 /area & decreasing 📉
🤞 Sacramento is at 18 /area stable
Real time updates & FAQ: https://my.hubbubworld.com
📆𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗨𝗞 #SARSCoV2
🦠𝗨𝗞 𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗗 #COVID19 𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗘𝗦
▫𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆
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▫𝗗𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘆
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➡️ http://PMP-Magazine.com/covid-today
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Kingston Health Science Center COVID hospitalizations, Mon Jun 05 2023:
* Total COVID-positive patients: 0 (-2)
* Patients in Intensive Care Unit (ICU): 0 (no change)
* Patients in acute care: 0 (-2)
Declared Outbreaks: (no change)
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"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
Nach 3 Jahren Pandemie habe ich jetzt endlich! eine wunderbare AtemMaske gefunden, unter der man super leicht atmen kann und die man, weil sie extrem leicht ist, fast gar nicht merkt. Sie eignet sich deshalb besonders gut, wenn man lange eine Maske tragen möchte.
#Corona #TragtMaske #Atemmaske #FFP2 #Covid19
Immunologist Akiko Iwasaki: ‘We are not done with Covid, not even close’
The Yale professor and long Covid expert on why the virus is causing ongoing illness for so many, and the challenges she faces as a woman of colour in science
#LongCovid #NewResearch #EBV #CovidIsNotOver #Covid19 #WomenInSTEM
I find it silly that #Republicans believe that a Woke-Mind Virus is a real virus and is so dangerous they are running their campaigns on that lie.
And Republicans also believe #COVID19 isn't dangerous even after that virus killed over 1 million Americans.
It takes a damaged, addled brain to actually believe all that and also that former President #Trump won the 2020 election.
Now can you see why I'm a #Democrat? Why aren't you?
Elkan Abrahamson, who represents the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group, which is a core participant at the inquiry, said the dispute between the government and the inquiry over texts and other documents had become “an existential struggle”.
He said if the inquiry did not receive the potential evidence “the only logical response of the chair is to resign because she can’t properly do her job”. #COVID19 #UKpol #UKlaw
📢#OutNow in #OA: 'Play in a #Covid Frame: Everyday #Pandemic #Creativity in a Time of #Isolation', edited by Anna Beresin and Julia Bishop.
During the international #coronavirus #lockdowns of 2020–2021, millions of children, youth, and adults found their usual play areas out of bounds and their friends out of reach.
How did the #pandemic restrict everyday play and how did the pandemic offer new spaces and new content? This unique collection of essays documents the ways in which #communities around the world harnessed play within the limiting frame of #COVID19
#Folklorists Anna Beresin and Julia Bishop adopt a multidisciplinary approach to this phenomenon, bringing together the insights of a #geographically and #demographically diverse range of #scholars, #practitioners, and #community #activists.
Access this OA title for free or get a hard copy at https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0326
Revealed: Bereaved families denied a voice as Covid-19 inquiry begins.
Not one of Covid Bereaved Families for Justice’s 20 witnesses has been called to speak in the inquiry’s first module.
And now Dr Susan Oliver weighs in on the #misinformation being spread by #antivaxxer Dr John Campbell about #Covid19 #mRNA #vaccines and #MultipleSclerosis that isn't even a study published by #WHO
https://youtu.be/BCW-3mHSpYE
⚠️⚠️⚠️ "Recently published data from the Netherlands suggests that among people ages 25 and up, memory and concentration problems have risen by 24% since the beginning of the #COVID19 pandemic." #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver
Attention everyone who's been #vaccinated against #COVID19: Did you know we're all supposed to be dead by now, according to the #antivaxxers? Apparently they were confused. h/t @greenhombre
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/4/2173312/-Anti-vaxxers-said-we-d-all-be-dead-by-now
"Face masks to return at Tour de France to limit COVID-19 cases in the peloton"
#COVID19 #Facemasks #TourdeFrance @LeTour
Je me rends compte que le theme du space n'apparaît pas. C'était "#Covid19 et inégalités sociales" et il est possible de le ré-écouter en rediff.
Je découvre ce soir l'excellent tag #PandémieDesPauves lancé par Gwenola: n'hésitez pas à l'utiliser
https://twitter.com/G_Ricordeau/status/1665402200938409985
Per WHO, every twelve minutes four people die of acute covid. Three of those deaths are in the United States.
Entering April, for every three covid deaths, U.S. saw another excess death not attributed to covid.
The emergency is over. Covid is not done with us.
#ThisIsOurPolio #LongCovidKills #LongCovid #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #DeathCult #LifeExpectancy #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask #BetterMasks
![Chart: U.S. Share of 28-Day Covid Deaths
Data: JHU before 2/28/23; WHO to 5/14/23 (via Our World in Data); NCHS (via CDC) for U.S. thereafter
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Shows covid 28-day mortality as reported for the U.S. as share of G8, G20, and global 28-day mortality. Share of population for each comparison is provided for reference.
7-day avg of U.S. share of G8 covid deaths at 55.4%, on an upward trajectory, well exceeding share of pop. (~38%). This time last year, share of G8 covid deaths was 38.4%, climbing toward winter.
Avg. U.S. share of G20 covid deaths flatter: now 30.0% (vs. ~7% of G20 population). This time last year: 21.1%.
U.S. share of global parallels: now 30.5% (vs. ~4% of pop.). This time last year, U.S. share of global covid deaths was 21.1%.
All three metrics were near or below respective populations roughly May through August of two years ago; thereafter have been profoundly higher than population share ever since.
Caption:
United States represents about a third of G8 population, yet well over half of all recent reported G8 covid deaths.
Likewise, U.S. share of G20 deaths is now near four-and-a-third times its share of population; share of global deaths: over seven times population share.](https://assets.toot.cafe/cache/media_attachments/files/110/487/012/333/689/872/small/d47f01d27e2e7a4c.png)
![Chart: Rolling Year Pandemic Mortality: United States
Data: CDC, NCHS
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Captions:
Rolling Year shows deaths reported latest 365 days.
As of May 11, CDC ended reporting of PHE aggregate covid deaths. CDC now provides provisional covid death counts from NCHS NVSS. This chart uses aggregate data through May 6, provisional data thereafter.
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As of April 1, over one in four excess deaths in the U.S. were “not covid”. Incomplete preliminary data has this ratio approaching three in ten entering May.
That includes: covid deaths not reported as such or for which no covid test was administered; deaths from post-acute sequelae of prior covid infection (whether consequences of symptomatic Long Covid or otherwise asymptomatic, heightened risk for sudden adverse health outcomes); and deaths from causes that would otherwise had not been fatal but for deferred medical care, continued strain on understaffed hospitals, and shortages of vital medical supplies.](https://assets.toot.cafe/cache/media_attachments/files/110/487/012/458/023/185/small/5cdee5d9dd9e5c30.png)
Close reading of a single paragraph by GBDer Richard M. Salsman, via Naked Capitalism.
"I can’t stop thinking about a recent analysis that found over 300,000 Americans might be alive today had all adults been vaccinated. Even though I predicted “a deluge of misinformation about the Covid vaccines”, I never thought things would be this bad.
How did we get here?"
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October 2022:
Screenshots of anecdotes sent in response to that original (October 2022) post.
Had been sitting on all this because I'd seen no one else talking about it outside of the original thread, and also to see if there'd be confirming studies later on.
Both those conditions now having been met ...
#tcovidii #ToxoplasmaCovidii #LongCovid #covid #covid19 #C19
Aus Anlass einer neuen Studie zur Rolle der Kinder bei der Übertragung von SARS-CoV-2 ein paar Betrachtungen darüber, wie Kinder zum Spielball von Interessen in der #COVID19 Pandemie wurden.
Im Blog #AllCoronavirusesAreBastards
https://allcoronavirusesarebastards.substack.com/p/uber-die-rolle-von-kindern-in-der
Influenza haben die meisten Menschen alle paar Jahre mal (wenn überhaupt), #COVID19 haben viele vermutlich einmal oder mehrmals im Jahr. Gute Aussichten also für #Alzheimer. Unsere Politiker:innen wollen es wohl so.
#COVID #CovidIsNotOver #Corona #SARSCoV2 #vaccinesPLUS 😷
"Alzheimer’s disease risk after COVID-19: a view from the perspective of the infectious hypothesis of neurodegeneration"
On the whole, the #COVID19 situation in #Ireland is better in 2023 than in past pandemic years--but better doesn't mean safe.
Number of COVID patients hospitalized on June 2nd each year:
2020: 194
2021: 93
2022: 197
THIS YEAR: 207
In past years, early summer was a trough between surges. I don't expect a major surge to develop soon, but I also am worried we'll have the risk of another significant fall/winter surge ahead. Time will tell if those concerns are founded. #WearAMask
This video from two years ago by Owen Jones on Sunak's role in the pandemic is a useful adjunct to current media speculation on why #RishiSunak is so jittery about Lady Hallett's #CovidInquiry
Good Law Project challenged the Cabinet Office’s refusal to disclose #RishiSunak’s #WhatsApps on the “Eat Out to Help Out” scheme, which caused #COVID19 surge in cases and deaths.
#Government #BorisJohnson #CovidInquiry
https://www.pmp-magazine.com/2023/06/03/cabinet-office-accused-of-covering-up-rishi-sunaks-involvement-in-eat-out-to-help-out-scheme/
Recovery and symptom trajectories up to two years after #SARSCoV2 infection: population based, longitudinal cohort study
n=1106, unvaccinated, self-reported health status
Not recovered after months:
- 6: 22.9%
- 12: 18.5%
- 24: 17.2%
Worsened: 5.2%
Relapsing/recovering: 4.4%
High concentrations of COVID detected at all 14 New York City wastewater treatment plants.
#COVID19 #NewYork #wastewater
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/covid-rebound-detected-new-york-city-wastewater/
Given evidence linking covid infection to sudden onset liver damage, recent increased liver disease mortality is hardly surprising.
Elevated accidental deaths, however, are less open to presumptive explanation. Our world has changed and with it our expectations.
#ThisIsOurPolio #LongCovidKills #CovidIsNotOver
#hospitals #nurses #LongCovid
#MassDisablingEvent #liver #accident #Covid19 #SARS2 #DeathCult #LifeExpectancy
![Chart: Select Causes of Death: Reported Annual Data
Data: NCHS, Census. Accidents figure for 2022 is provisional (not final).
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Caption:
Accidents (unintentional injuries) have returned to their pre-pandemic standing as third leading cause of death in the United States. While deaths for which covid-19 was the attributed underlying cause of death were, indeed, down from prior two calendar years, 2022 saw many more deadly accidents than would have been predicted based on 2015-2019 trendline. Were it not for this sustained spike in accidental deaths, covid would have retained third place.
Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis saw a near identical jump in relative mortality over the first two years of the pandemic. As of yet, only provisional figures for 2022’s top four causes of death are available. (Final “statistics”—if not “data”—for all causes might be available end of this year.)
Despite discourse about suicide rates in recent years, intentional self-harm deaths were still below trendline as of 2021’s final mortality figures.
Legend (in part):
* Accidents (unintentional injuries) (+45K more annual deaths vs. 2019)
* Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis (+12K)
* Intentional self-harm (suicide) (+1K)
* Projected U.S. population
Dotted lines indicate trendlines for Jan 2020 forward, for each disease category.](https://assets.toot.cafe/cache/media_attachments/files/110/482/716/889/465/540/small/4ab6a454db40d17d.png)
![Chart: Causes of Accidental Deaths: Reported Annual Data
Data: NCHS, U.S. Census Data 2015 to 2019. 2020-2022 blank.
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Caption:
Historically, U.S. health authorities have published “Final Data”—detailed tables and demographic analysis of causes of mortality—about eighteen months, give or take, from the close of each calendar year. This pattern has largely held for every year back to 1996, likely reflecting non-digitized (pre-PDF) practice from long before that.
Yet for 2020 and 2021, we only have abridged “final statistics”, released December of last year. We would have typically expected final data for 2020 to be released last year, and final data for 2021 sometime in the next few months.
Undoubtedly, steeply elevated deaths by unintentional injury in recent years are attributable to a combination of factors: biomedical (consequences of both of deferred treatment for progressive and chronic conditions and newly emerged post-acute sequelae, i.e. Long Covid), sociotechnical (risks introduced by as yet unexamined pandemocene changes to our built environment and our collective navigation of same), and systemic (less access to life-saving interventions and post-injury care as a result of ongoing attrition of medical professionals).
Absent data, however, we’re left only with speculation and conjecture.](https://assets.toot.cafe/cache/media_attachments/files/110/482/716/996/892/130/small/42699bfc93f26201.png)
Here's the latest variant picture for New Zealand. The sample volumes seem representative up to May 18.
XBB.1.16.* "Arcturus" (28%) has been growing steadily and now appears dominant, displacing CH.1.1.* "Orthrus" (23%).
Be alert for conjunctivitis symptoms, which seem more common with the "Arcturus" variant, although it's wave has likely peaked already by now.
XBB.1.5.* "Kraken" (19%) and XBB.1.9.* "Hyperion" (15%) are both significant.
XBB.2.3.* "Acrux" (9%) is starting to rise
The vigorous mix of variants implies increased immediate reinfection risks, for those relying on immunity from a prior infection.
#COVID19 #NZ #XBB_1_16 #Arcturus #CH_1_1 #Orthrus #XBB_2_3 #Acrux
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Reinfection by SARS-CoV-2 by divergent Omicron sublineages, 16 days apart
"This case of reinfection affected a 52-year-old male patient, without comorbidities, with three doses of vaccines against #COVID19. ... Analysis of the viral genomes recovered from patients’ clinical samples revealed that the two #COVID19
episodes were related to two divergent VOC Omicron sublineages,"
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42770-023-01018-x
h/t @ChristosArgyrop
Folk are dying at record numbers, of comorbidities of severe acute covid that are also implicated as post-acute sequelae of covid infection. ↺
Of course, ongoing hospital staffing attrition also contributes to elevated death tolls. Said attrition continues. ↺
#ThisIsOurPolio #LongCovidKills #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #hospitals #nurses #HeartDisease #Diabetes #Alzheimers #Dementia #Sepsis #Cancer #Covid19 #DeathCult #LifeExpectancy
![Chart: Circulatory Causes of Death: Annualized Deviation from 2015-2019 Average
Data: Centers for Disease Control, U.S. Census Bureau. Reflects death certs that do not identify covid as underlying cause.
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Caption:
Heart failure mortality stands out as having declined during the pandemic, remaining well below historical trendline to this day.
Ischemic heart disease deaths increased during the first year, but have been more or less declining toward baseline since then. (Notably, ischemic heart disease is the only subgroup to have been on a downward trajectory pre-pandemic.)
Hypertensive, cerebrovascular, and other diseases of the circulatory system, though each seeing declining annualized mortality in recent months, all remain well above historical trendline.
Legend (in part):
* Hypertensive disease (+29K more annualized deaths vs. 2019)
* Cerebrovascular diseases (+14K)
* Heart failure (+2K)
* Ischemic heart disease (+1K)
* Other diseases of the circulatory system (+8K)
Dotted lines indicate trendlines from Jan 2020 forward, for each disease category.](https://assets.toot.cafe/cache/media_attachments/files/110/482/488/802/251/393/small/4d131ceca8e31b54.png)
![Chart: Elevated Non-Circulatory Causes of Death: Annualized Dev. from 2015-2019
Avg Data: CDC, Census. Reflects death certs that do not identify covid as underlying cause.
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Caption:
After spiking in first year of the pandemic, annualized Alzheimer disease and dementia mortality dropped just as swiftly, thereafter remaining near or below historical trend.
Diabetes mortality has not been so quick to recover from first year spike, only beginning to decline in the second half of last year, though still well above pre-pandemic trend.
Deaths by sepsis were markedly down in 2019, following a coordinated national effort by hospitals. Despite this, sepsis mortality has been climbing at a rate well above even pre-2019’s relatively flat trendline, for over three years now.
Renal failure deaths didn’t see an appreciable climb until the latter part of 2021, peaking only months ago. Meanwhile, malignant neoplasm (cancer) deaths, slower to manifest, have been suggestively creeping above trend for well over a year.
Legend (in part):
* Diabetes (+11K more annualized deaths vs. 2019)
* Alzheimers and dementia (+19K)
* Renal failure (+5K)
* Sepsis (+4K)
* Malignant neoplasms (+11K)
* Projected U.S. 65+ population
Dotted lines indicate trendlines from Jan 2020 forward, for each disease category. A dash-dot line indicates sepsis trendline if concerted effort at reduction in 2019 not occurred.](https://assets.toot.cafe/cache/media_attachments/files/110/482/488/906/469/175/small/22ac81002f052f1b.png)
Certain doctors lied repeatedly to push this fake news. Bonnie Henry is one. She should have been fired when she stated covid isn't transmitted in schools, but she was doing what the government wanted.
"Before #COVID19, parents would always say their kids were virus sponges, catching and bringing home illnesses.
"Then COVID comes along, and people actually believed (with zero merit) that COVID someone skipped kids and children couldn't spread it."
The local Pride parade is setting up outside our window, and we'd like to (1) put out some extra n95 masks in case anyone needs them, and (2) put up some kind of #CovidIsNotOver sign that reads as positive and supportive and possibly humorous.
Any recommendations for what to say?
Before #COVID19, parents would always say their kids were virus sponges, catching and bringing home illnesses.
Then COVID comes along, and people actually believed (with zero merit) that COVID someone skipped kids and children couldn't spread it. Of course, that was wrong. COVID wasn't a magic virus that ignored classrooms, children and household spread.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/more-70-us-household-covid-spread-started-child-study-suggests
Arcturus XBB.1.16 (incl. FU.*) clan third of non-Kraken XBB sequences in GISAID; one in five CDC specimens most regions.
Hyperion XBB.1.9.1 (incl FL.*) quarter of sequences. CDC shows most prominent in Middle South.
Unnamed XBB.1.9.2 (incl EG.*) near two fifths.
#ThisIsOurPolio #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #CDC #variants #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask #BetterMasks
Fourth week of post-Kraken soup, unmitigated XBB.1.5 spread has lead to over 80 pango variants.
Latest dashboard for Kraken clan has XBB.1.5.26 lineage (EU.*) standing out in Utah.
Near three in four of 21-day GISAID sequences not descended from Kraken at all.
[Srcs: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions
https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/raj.rajnarayanan/viz/USAVariantDB/VariantDashboard]
#ThisIsOurPolio #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #CDC #variants #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask #BetterMasks
May 2023:
(re: SARS-CoV-2 optimizing the social conditions for its reproduction by causing brain damage)
I mean, it explains SO MUCH… https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7845145/
— @czedwards
Full title of linked paper finishes with "... Affects Cognitive Processes to Induce ‘Brain Fog’ and Results in Behavioral Changes that Favor Viral Survival"
#tcovidii #ToxoplasmaCovidii #LongCovid #covid #covid19 #C19
October 2022:
@LazarusLong13 & I are wondering about this: https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7175891/ He uses the toxoplasma gondii parasite as an example & I use the rabies virus as an example.
— @happyhexer
#tcovidii #ToxoplasmaCovidii #LongCovid #covid #covid19 #C19
Good times huffing saccharine! :ageblobcat: I did my first fit test today. I took liberties with the official setup because a) the house trash bags are perfumed and that messes with me and b) in the real world I am unlikely to be exposed to such an intense concentration of aerosols as I would inside a fit test tent. 1/
COVID virus levels increasing in city wastewater: https://gothamist.com/news/is-covid-back-in-nyc-wastewater-surveillance-shows-coronavirus-is-rising #COVID19 #NYC
I see the numbers of people dying with #COVID19 is still falling in England. Now the number of deaths with COVID on the death certificate is only the same as a Boeing Dreamliner crashing into a hillside every single week...
Latest COVID-19 children (0-19 year) deaths for England - 219.
Last updated on 27/05/2023
#COVID19 #python #pandas
newDeaths28DaysByDeathDateAgeDemographics
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/developers-guide/main-api#structure-metrics
Deaths within 28 days for COVID-19 in England
Weekly deaths = 320
7-day average = 45
Last updated on 2023-06-01
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/whats-new/record/4d64ce27-f18c-4908-b204-23c11da2da9c
#COVID19 #python #pandas
October 2022:
Toxoplasma CoVidii - have you noticed that those who have gotten CoVid, suddenly seem to no longer care about avoiding it?
This is similar to Toxoplasma gondii which removes rats' fear of cats.
https://nature.com/articles/nature.2013.13777
A [thread] of Toxoplasma CoVidii stories
— @LazarusLong13
https://twitter.com/LazarusLong13/status/1576494303538401285
#tcovidii #ToxoplasmaCovidii #LongCovid #covid #covid19 #c19
🆕Der #Wochenbericht ist online.
Darin finden Sie u.a.
🔵Kennzahlen und Charts
🔵Bewertungen der epidemiologischen Lage in Deutschland (#COVID19, akute respiratorische Erkrankungen #ARE)
🔵Handlungsempfehlungen bei Symptomen einer #Atemwegsinfektion
All 14 NYC wastewater treatment plants are reporting high levels of COVID-19. (And yet everyone, including city hospitals, has dropped mask requirements.)
#NYC #COVID #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver
https://gothamist.com/news/is-covid-back-in-nyc-wastewater-surveillance-shows-coronavirus-is-rising
A few hours ago, Eric Feigl-Ding tweeted this:
Let this sink in—N95/FFP2-wearing cyclist @rogla just won elite @giroditalia 🚴♂️ race! This man even won a strenuous mountain ⛰️ time trial while wearing a mask. Several top contenders got knocked out with #COVID. No more “can’t breathe in a mask” excuses. 🚵♀️
The original, twitter dot com/DrEricDing/status/1664034919360745472, includes a video.
#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #COVIDIsNotOver #LongCOVID #WearAMask #BringBackMasks #NormaliseMasks #Sports #Cycling
@waldoj Good point, and I’ve wondered that too. During the supposed border closure of the first year of the #COVID19 pandemic, it was fascinating to see the impact of restricted cross-border traffic and trade. There was a definite effect on some product availability here even with the government effort to keep trade (especially trucks) moving. We have become heavily reliant on the #USA with significant market integration. Whatever happens there economically affects us here.
May 2023:
I love* the part of c19 research basically going, “Yeah, we think it causes the same YOLO effect as toxoplasmosis does to rats, but on humans. C19 REALLY wants you to have a kid’s birthday party at a busy Chuck E Cheese, then go clubbing!”
*am horrified by
— @czedwards
If toxoplasmosis is a new word/concept, here's Kevin Slavin's (<7 minutes, NSFW) classic comedic explainer: https://vimeo.com/69181785
#tcovidii #ToxoplasmaCovidii #LongCovid #covid #covid19 #c19
SARS-CoV-2 optimizing the social conditions for its reproduction by causing brain damage
(topic via Lambert at Naked Capitalism yesterday afternoon, 5/30)
Going to alternate some of the quotes Lambert posted with some others I noticed last October. Also suggesting a hashtag or two, patterned after Toxoplasma gondii:
#tcovidii #ToxoplasmaCovidii #LongCovid #covid #covid19 #c19 #jackpot
Both the WHO and the White House have made clear that the emergency phase of the #pandemic has ended, even as deaths continue.
We spoke with two public health experts:
Interview with Immunologist Akiko Iwasaki: “We are not done with Covid, not even close”
“At a recent gathering with my classmates, someone mentioned they had heard that WHO said Covid is over. These are well-informed doctors, possessing extensive training and experience. If even they believe that the pandemic has vanished, it’s a problem,” said Dr Rajeev Jayadevan, Co-Chairman of the Indian Medical Association’s National Task Force on the #Covid19 Epidemic. “WHO has not explicitly declared the end of the pandemic, but only the end of the health emergency." https://thesouthfirst.com/news/mask-or-no-mask-who-says-covid-19-is-no-more-a-global-health-emergency-do-we-still-need-to-wear-masks/
