#Pandemic
Nice graph showing return of foreign #travel activity after #COVID19 #pandemic
This is UK cases of #dengue over time... #infectiousdiseases #IDMastodon
1,143,192 Americans Dead From COVID 19
2023-September-22 Friday
1,410 Americans Dead Last Week
U.S. - 4.19% of the global population
Calculated 2023 Aug 07
U.S. - 16.38% of global pandemic deaths
#America #AmericanDeaths #Americans #Booster #Corona #CoronaVirus #Covid #COVID19 #CovidIsAirborn #CovidIsNotOver #Death #Deaths #Friday #LongCovid #Mask #Masks #Monday #News #Pandemic #PandemicIsNotOver #Politics #Saturday #Sunday #US #USA #USNews #USPolitics #Vaccine #Vaccines #WearAMask
In the beautiful scenery of Florence, European University Institute hosted their first #minipublic on September 9th.
The citizens shared their #pandemic experiences and started working on the 4 topics:
1: #Knowledge circulation
2: #Disinformation
3: Role of non-elected #experts
4: #Politicaltrust
Now they're warmed up for Day 2 to get concrete and formulate policy advise for the EU on Saturday!
It's a novel approach! 😂😂
I get where you're coming from. I was an early #COVID sceptic (not #antivax) until a mate who was working on the vaccine put me straight with empirical evidence. I then fell foul of the #Plandemic & antivax brigade! 🙄
A friend who I repeatedly clashed with online over COVID tragically died 18 months into the #Pandemic.
Unfortunately he succumbed to the very COVID he said didn't exist. He was ill for days & refused to seek medical help. C19 got him. 😓
The #COVID19 response inquiry being set up in Australia is already doomed. Including Catherine Bennett as chair, the renowned #COVID-minimiser, who has been wrong about essentially everything, means we will never be prepared for any future (or this ongoing) #pandemic.
I give you just two examples.
In a nutshell, we are f*cked.
Free COVID tests available again from the federal government starting Sept. 25 at covidtests.gov. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/09/20/free-covid-tests-mail-usps/ #COVID #COVID19 #COVIDIsNotOver #pandemic #PandemicIsNotOver
#health #PublicHealth
quite rare.”
⭐️ “Long Covid does not seem to be self-resolving, in the sense of spontaneous recovery or recovery in the absence of a cure or a treatment that’s been validated. It further raises the importance of finding treatment because this is not going to go away.”
#covid #covid19 #pandemic
https://www.statnews.com/2023/09/20/do-long-covid-odds-increase-with-second-infection/
'You could sense the panic when news was leaked of #RishiSunak’s plans to water down some of his #ClimateChange targets. Instead of a controlled speech later in the week – probably somewhere with green connections: ... we got a hastily arranged press conference. In the very same Downing Street media centre where No 10 staff had joked about having illegal parties during the #pandemic. Call it karma. Stay calm and carry on taking the piss out of the country.' https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/20/cynical-rishi-sells-net-zero-targets-down-the-river-to-appease-the-right #ClimateCrisis
Free COVID-19 tests will be offered again to all U.S. households.
STAT reports that Washington is "providing a fifth round of free tests in part to meet current needs, in part to stimulate a domestic testing industry that has struggled with cratering demand for the rapid diagnostics."
Beat the winter surge—get 4 free in-home Covid tests starting Monday!
"The Biden administration is providing $600 million in funding to produce new at-home COVID-19 tests and is restarting [COVIDTests.gov]..."
https://dailyprogress.com/news/nation-world/free-covid-tests-biden-administration/article_b78d3d1c-25d5-5640-b4a9-bd654f120b40.html
#COVID #Covid-19 #virus #pandemic #Pres #PresBiden #Democrats #Charlottesville #cville #Dems #DemocraticParty
Free Covid tests available for all American households (4 of them).
Starting Monday 9-25, at covidtests.gov
#Covid #Covid19 #Covidtests #Pandemic #Vaccines #WearAnN95 #USPolicy
👀 Politico: Feds to restart mail-order Covid test program #covid #pandemic https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/20/feds-mail-order-covid-test-00117133
The #Covid "Bump" #pandemic #publichealth #covid19 "Call it the first wave of the endemic, a bona-fide covid bump. The statistics may be hard to parse—the United States stopped systematically collecting data on coronavirus cases months ago—but, almost certainly, growing numbers of Americans are coming down with covid. " https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2023/09/19/the-covid-bump/
Oh right, that vomiting and diarrhea “thing” going around
They don’t think it was the food
This happened literally a few days after at the same venue, 70 medical professionals had the same “thing”
What could it be 🤔
#whatshappening #pandemic #covid #SarsCov2 @novid
Nightmare wedding sees 100 guests, including babies, fall ill and vomit violently - World News - Mirror Online https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/nightmare-wedding-sees-100-guests-30985740
Have you heard of the “‘Covid Collaborative”? No?
What do they want?
They want the pandemic to end by having people “make the courageous decision” to expose themselves to the Covid virus
They’re a big group of committed vocal minimizers like Gounder & Ghandi and 2nd generation minimizers like Slavitt and Frieden
Plus many many Democrat and Republican former governors, chiefs of staff, congressmen, White House staff, NSC-types
Plus hedge fund and investment types
You get the idea—people with access, $$$
An interesting member is their VP for Science & Strategy, Steven Phillips MD, MPH
He used to be the Medical Director for Global Projects at EXXON
He’s spoken repeatedly about the need to have courage and expose yourself, thereby ending the “Covid divide” (see photo below, from August)
How can so many people have signed on to this, and be willing to promote a basically eugenicist approach to this #pandemic?
Their ideas have flooded the world—scientists and doctors at some of the world’s leading universities are preaching against masks, in favor of “hybrid immunity,” even against vaccines
Signs on public transit say, “forget the mask” 😬
The president himself says I’m taking off my mask🦧
Hey, uh:
"About 30 days after the confirmation of the mother’s infection, the girl, who did not show any clinical symptoms, died in the morning. Characteristic lung changes and molecular testing showed the presence of genetic material of the SARS-CoV-2 virus both in the lungs and in the nasopharynx, with the absence of the S gene in the nasopharyngeal swab."
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4418/13/18/2980
#subclinical #pediatric #SARSCoV2 #covid #longcovid #pandemic #publichealth
@hvlint #Heat and #cropfailure combined with #pandemic ( #COVID19 , #H5N1 , #unknown ) adding #war and #logistical #breakdowns might do the trick ... this is a map of planetary boundaries (#Rockstrom e.a.) being transgressed ... South Asia and South East Asia seem at very high risk ...
#Heat and #cropfailure combined with #pandemic ( #COVID19 , #H5N1 , #unknown ) adding #war and #logistical #breakdowns might do the trick ... this is a map of planetary boundaries (#Rockstrom e.a.) being transgressed ... South Asia and South East Asia seem at very high risk ... #climate
Why Healthy #Forests Mean Fewer #Pandemic
COVID-19, SARS, and Ebola—three infectious diseases that spread across national borders since 2002—share one thing in common: They were transmitted to humans from wild animals living in tropical forests, which are losing more than 100 trees per second due to rampant, unsustainable deforestation. It is also important to note that cutting down trees negatively impacts not only biodiversity and human health but the climate:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/09/19/why-healthy-forests-mean-fewer-pandemics/
The Threat of Another #Pandemic Haunts Our Sleep
We need to curb the wildlife and exotic pet trades, better protect tropical forests, and markedly improve practices in intensive poultry and pig farming.
For most of us, it almost seems like the Covid-19 pandemic never happened. It’s like a bad dream that we woke up from and want to forget—so much so that most governments stopped tracking current caseloads. In the U.S., hospitalizations and deaths are increasing
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/threat-of-another-pandemic
An excerpt:
A #Quebec #SuperiorCourt judge is being asked to authorize a class-action lawsuit on behalf of all residents of public long-term care homes that experienced #COVID19 outbreaks during the #pandemic's first two waves.
#Montreal lawyer #PatrickMartinMénard said today in court that Quebec's early response to COVID-19 in long-term care homes was marked by improvisation and that a pre-existing pandemic plan was ignored until it was too late.
#Russia, ''In St. Petersburg, according to the operational headquarters, the #incidence of #COVID19 over the week was 1,130 cases compared to 638 the week before (+77.1%). At the same time, the regional health committee told Izvestia that the increase in incidence is at a minimum.'' Full: https://iz.ru/1576450/denis-gritcenko-nataliia-bykadorova-kseniia-nabatkina/sputnik-patcienta-vaktcina-ot-omikrona-mozhet-poiavitsia-cherez-dva-mesiatca #surveillance #SARS_CoV_2 #epidemic #pandemic
Dengue situation is worsening in Bangladesh 🇧🇩. But the govt. is yet to take any commendable action.
In the past 24 hours, 3,027 dengue patients were admitted to hospitals, as reported by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). This year, dengue has tragically claimed the lives of 846 people, with nearly 173,795 individuals falling ill, marking it as the deadliest year since the first recorded epidemic in 2000.
#dengue #bangladesh #news #health #pandemic #mosquito #bdnews #bangla #বাংলাদেশ
"The pandemic may be behind us, but the Swiss are not in the best of health: according to a study for the insurance company CSS Group, 34% of people in Switzerland say they feel unhealthy or even ill, whereas three years ago the figure was 22%."
Sounds like the pandemic isn't behind you :thinkfish:
#SARSCoV2 #covid #longcovid #pandemic #publichealth #switzerland
NCHS estimates of #LongCovid—based on Household Pulse Survey—provide for volatile projections.
Census Bureau released most recent data mid-August—next update anticipated this Wed.
As more and more folk experience Long Covid, fewer and fewer staff our hospitals.
#ThisIsOurPolio #CountLongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #MassDisablingEvent
[This is first toot of a weekly thread, updated daily, providing various dataviz of ongoing #pandemic.]
Last week: https://mastodon.social/@beadsland/111048160524367468
![Chart: Estimates of Long Covid: Extrapolated to Entire U.S. Population
Data: Census Bureau, Nat'l Cntr for Health Stats, Dept of Health & Human Svcs, Bureau of Labor Stats (via FRED), CDC
[ beadsland on Ko-fi ]
Line chart, from Apr 2022 to date, of:
• Ever Experienced Long Covid for 3+ Months (45.9 M as of Aug 7)
• Reported Staffed Hospital Beds (2.1K per Million) [Was 2.3K Apr '22]
• Population 16+ With a Disability — Labor Stats (34.1M) [Apr '22: 32.7M]
• Now Living with LC (17.3M)
• Current Activity Limitations from LC (14.3M)
• Significant Limitations (4.5M)
• Experienced… — projected (+0.3M ±5.8M from Aug 8–Sep 18)
• Living with… — projected (-0.9M ±5.7M)
• Activity Limitations… — projected (-1.7M ±1.3M)
• Significant Limitations — projected (+0.4M ±0.7M)
• Cumulative Excess Deaths — 2020 forward (1.36M)
Caption (in part):
Household Pulse Survey (HPS) is an Internet questionnaire…by…Census Bureau…includes questions regarding “any symptoms lasting 3 months or longer that you did not have prior to having coronavirus or COVID-19.” [Note] that the list of long-term symptoms, provided for this question, may not reflect all sequelae of covid infection, e.g. systemic organ damage or increased susceptibility to subsequent infections and other adverse health outcomes.
NCHS uses HPS responses to estimate incidence of [LC] in adult population. For purposes of this chart, we assume that U.S. under 18 population (22% of total) meet criteria for [LC] at half the rate of adults.](https://assets.toot.cafe/cache/media_attachments/files/111/088/281/904/748/722/small/d65777dc5fc29647.png)
On a scale of 1-10 how would you rate the world’s response to the pandemic? How about your country?
#CriticalQuestions #Quiz #PubQuiz #Pandemic #Covid #Covid19 #StayHome #StaySafe #StayHomeStaySafe
#COVID19 is not just like the #flu - ScienceUpFirst https://www.scienceupfirst.com/project/covid-19-is-not-just-like-the-flu/ “Compared to the seasonal flu, #SARSCoV2:
• Is a #pandemic virus
• Has a higher #transmission rate
• Spreads even in the absence of symptoms
• Is #contagious for longer
• Still actively circulates all year long
Even though the mutation rate.. is low all these factors mean that up to now SARS-Cov-2 is always circulating among many individuals, which allows for more opportunities for variants to emerge”
#ScienceUpFirst
Tonight, Monday September 18, from 8-9:30 PM EDT, I'll perform my 181st #ambient #guitar #improv #livestream of the #pandemic era. (Appropriately enough, I've just gotten the new booster.) Tonight's likely to be #pedalsteel again. Tune in to https://twitch.tv/onezeromusic
Officials ‘asked Queen to raise concerns about Boris Johnson’s behaviour’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-queen-buckingham-palace-b2413388.html
#QueenElizabeth2
#Johnson
#Pandemic
#CivilService
#CivilServants
#MacNamara
#Covid
"Why aren't our leaders doing anything about #ClimateChange when the worst-case scenarios are underway?"
It's not the innocent question you're thinking of.
Just look at the #COVID #pandemic: it would take an infinitesimally small proportion of the actions required to stop climate collapse.
Our leaders are competing to see who can make their country default as quickly as possible:
To keep CAPITAL flowing and create huge debts!
Symptoms of #Eris variant appear a week before positive test https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/health-news/covid-eris-variant-symptoms-appearing-a-week-before-positive-test-report-says-know-more/photostory/102771225.cms?from=mdr
A phenomenon called '#preCOVID' is being witnessed currently.
#GlobalHealth #WomensHealth #COVID #pandemic
Symptoms of #Eris variant appear a week before positive test https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/health-news/covid-eris-variant-symptoms-appearing-a-week-before-positive-test-report-says-know-more/photostory/102771225.cms?from=mdr
A phenomenon called '#preCOVID' is being witnessed currently.
#GlobalHealth #WomensHealth #COVID #pandemic
Is anyone else who's #CovidCautious noticing the quality of #Lucira #covid19 tests seems to be...lacking? I assume their results still very accurate, but anytime I take one, it almost always gives the "inconclusive" result, so I have to take another one, and I end up having to wait over an hour to figure out if it's safe for me to see high risk friends or not while also more quickly using up my dwindling supply.
I'm also noticing that many boxes seem to have pieces missing, usually the nasal swabs, so I end up using a swab from some rapid antigen tests that are about to expire, and I'm not sure if that impacts the quality of the result or not.
Is this happening because the only Lucira tests left are close to their expiration dates? Is it because they're likely from when Lucira was going bankrupt? Has anyone else noticed this? And does anyone know if Pfizer has any plans to make these tests available again in the future?
Q. is the #Pirola variant of #Coronavirus likely to offer the #Tories another chance to mishandle a #pandemic?
The Pirola variant is spreading, covid monitoring & data gathering has been stripped back, #vaccination *is* getting under way but is limited by capacity & demographic(s)... no social measures (#masking, #socialdistancing) are as yet being publicised.
Could this be about to be a very difficult #winter? The trouble is as yet we have no good way of knowing until well down that road!
Why? It's as dead & irrelevant as the team who authored it. 🙄
Mate, wake up out of your slumber! It's 2023, & since 2019, we've had #Brexit, a global #Pandemic, an ongoing war in Europe, FOUR Prime Minister's & our economy & currency were crashed, with pensions decimated?
What're you harking back to 2019 for? 🤔
"The work cited here suggests many more people, and perhaps everyone, who has been infected with SARS‑CoV‑2 may already be experiencing the same heightened T cell activation as those suffering Long COVID with the only difference being symptom expression."
https://johnsnowproject.org/insights/a-new-disease-paradigm/
I finally saw the #BarbieMovie, and I'm kind of glad I saw it alone, because I cried a lot.
Art and literature after the flu #pandemic didn't directly address the flu, but it was there in the background, and #Barbie feels like that with #covid19 and with #ClimateChange—who are we and what does life mean now? What does it mean to be human when the parties, popularity, validation and shiny, fun distractions are stripped away? Yes, there's a lot of privilege to having those things to lose, but we still have to #grieve the loss and build not just a new world but new selves. We're in a very #existential moment.
Also, okay, yes, the movie is very #Feminism 101, but given that the point is that we haven't even achieved that, I think #feminist films are worth celebrating.
And the soundtrack is great. I'm going to go listen to "What Was I Made For?" and feel my Feelings™️ for a bit and then listen to #Aqua's "Barbie Girl" because it's fun!
#BarbieMovie2023 #existentialism #CovidIsNotOver #Grief #Mourning
…he left no doubt his intention to make good on his 2020 campaign to always have the backs of the #unions.
“Over generations, #autoworkers sacrificed so much to keep the #industry alive & strong, especially the #economic crisis & the #pandemic,” #Biden said. “#Workers deserve a #FairShare of the #benefits they helped create.”
He added that the #automakers “should go further to ensure record #corporate #profits mean record #contracts for the #UAW.”
As I'm reading through the (potentially triggering) statistics in this article, I'm struck by how much is relevant to me and my circle directly, and it's staggering to realize it all at once. #Pandemic #Covid #COVID19 #Trauma #GunViolence #MassShooting #MassShootings #OpioidCrisis #ClimateChange #NaturalDisasters #HurricaneHarvey #USPolitics https://newrepublic.com/article/175311/america-polarized-traumatized-trump-violence
1,141,782 Americans Dead From COVID 19
2023-September-15 Friday
1,504 Americans Dead Last Week
U.S. - 4.19% of the global population
Calculated 2023 Aug 07
U.S. - 16.38% of global pandemic deaths
#US #USA #America #Americans #COVID19 #Covid #Corona #CoronaVirus #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborn #Pandemic #PandemicIsNotOver #Mask #Masks #WearAMask #Death #Deaths #AmericanDeaths #Vaccine #Vaccines #montag #Friday #Saturday #Sunday #Monday #LongCovid #news #USNews #politics #USPolitics
The @goodlawproject has had a (partial) victory at the High Court, with a finding that the #PPE #VIPlane was allocating contracts on a 'flawed basis' rendering its operation illegal.
As the Court concludes the VIP team was better resourced than other areas of #health procurement, but the speed of its decisions rendered them problematic...
An in case you'd forgotten; the VIP Lane was the mechanism by which the #Tories funnelled #pandemic related contracts to their mates!
https://goodlawproject.org/update/high-court-vip-lane-ppe-unlawful/
#Florida "administration advises against Covid shots for Florida residents under 65" against CDC advice. #covid19 #pandemic #politics https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/desantis-administration-advises-no-covid-shots-under-65-rcna104912
Having people you care about doing #Covid #pandemic #FAFO is painful in two ways.
The FA hurts because they are fucking around going to concerts and restaurants and you're not part of their life in that way anymore.
The FO hurts because you really don't want to hear that they have heart issues, brain fog, lots of other infections, etc. There's no joy in being right when it means a person whose well-being is important to you gets harmed.
»All pandemics end.«
#CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #covid #covid19 #Pandemic #pandemics #smallpox @novid
New study: "A majority of #ECRs thought that there had been significant changes in the scholarly system, and a large minority thought that the pandemic was responsible. Most of them wanted a system that was more open in terms of #OpenAccess and #OpenData, with a third taking personal action to bring about change."
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/leap.1576
From Jessica Wildfire's OK, Doomer blog, "The World Has Already Ended:"
"That's not the worst part. It's not the collapse. It's not the death of our hopes and dreams. It's the fact that we're not allowed to grieve it and move on. Imagine trying to grieve the loss of a friend or a parent when half of everyone you know won't even admit they're dead. Imagine you're stuck in a real-life version of Weekend at Bernie's. That's what we're doing. It's the norms that force us to engage in acts of cultural necrophilia. It's having to pretend for our bosses, our coworkers, our friends, and our relatives. It's watching everyone we know screw a corpse."
More at https://www.okdoomer.io/the-world-has-already-ended/
#ClimateChange #ClimateCollapse #Ecocide #Covid19 #pandemic #CovidIsNotOver #Anthropecene #AnotherWorldIsPossible
To share with friends who moved from #Twitter to #Threads:
"#Meta acknowledged…to The Washington Post that Threads is intentionally blocking the search terms ["covid" and "long covid"] and said that other terms are being blocked, but the company declined to provide a list of them. A search by The Post discovered that the words…“coronavirus,” “vaccines” and “vaccination” are also among blocked words."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/11/threads-covid-coronavirus-searches-blocked/
(#paywalled)
@dancinyogi
So sorry to hear that.
Yes, bizarre. That is one word that describes our new world of #Pandemic and ClimateCatastrophe perfectly.
It shouldn't be like that.
The damage of each infection is cumulative, as yo know. And you never know, when something (finally) damages your immune system or an organ (Long Covid).
I usually use a Dearth Vader glance if s.o. even dares to make a move. Worked so far.
Hope I'll never have to use two fingers, LOL.
I'm re-reading Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year. I'd forgotten there's a section on how, during such crises, people become prone to irrational beliefs and charlatans promoting, for want of a better expression, 'conspiracy theories' and anti-scientific ideas, and how these obsessional beliefs engender paranoia and the threat of group violence against 'non believers'. Maybe it's just something that (some) humans do in such times...
#Pandemic #conspiracytheory
Doing some background #research on how the #pandemic shutdowns affected businesses (which ones survived, thrived, died) and why.
I scanned this McKinsey report (05.01.2020) and realized how we took an opportunity to improve nearly everything in how we do #business - including normalizing remote work and empowering more decision makers - and as soon as life got back to (relative) normal, the CEOs mostly ditched it all in favor of returning to their comfort zones.
WashingtonPost: "Threads blocks searches related to covid and vaccines amid uptick" #pandemic #covid19 #vaccines #threads #FB #zuckerberg https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/11/threads-covid-coronavirus-searches-blocked/
NCHS estimates of #LongCovid—based on Household Pulse Survey—provide for volatile projections.
Census Bureau released most recent data mid-August—next update anticipated Sept 20.
As more and more folk experience Long Covid, fewer and fewer staff our hospitals.
#ThisIsOurPolio #CountLongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #MassDisablingEvent
[This is first toot of a weekly thread, updated daily, providing various dataviz of ongoing #pandemic.]
Last week: https://mastodon.social/@beadsland/111009001962660318
I see a sudden trend for purple lights on the ceiling of the newly-revamped parts of the White House. The press reports these as mood lighting when they really look very much like far UV.
Unless attendees revel in a nightclub toilet ambiance, I can't imagine the need for purple lights for any other reason than eliminating airborne viruses and bacteria.
But perhaps it's just ugly and weird.
Actor Will Keenan attacked and had his left eye blinded for wearing an N95 mask. #pandemic #crime #mask 😡 https://boingboing.net/2023/09/11/actor-will-keenan-assaulted-for-wearing-an-n95-mask-in-public.html
1. viral clearance has never been demonstrated with SARS-CoV-2
2. evidence of asymptomatic persistence has been demonstrated both in vivo and post-mortem
3. persistence is the rule, not the exception
4. reservoirs enable a subclinical form of long covid, which progresses toward a clinical form through various mechanisms, including the exhaustion of T cells and the reseeding of reservoirs upon reinfection
https://blog.open-source-eschaton.net/the-myth-of-sars-cov-2-clearance
CBC: Health-care workers at a hospital on Vancouver Island are sounding the alarm about the fast spread of COVID-19 at the facility in the last few weeks, after public health officials said they would not declare it an outbreak because of "negative connotations." #BC #Canada #covid19 #pandemic https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid-vancouver-island-no-outbreak-1.6959369
STAT: Covid hospitalizations on the rise (paywall) "Humana, which mostly provides health insurance to those 65 and older and who are therefore more vulnerable to the worst effects of Covid, expected more Covid cases and hospitalizations this year. But it didn’t expect the uptick to come during the waning summer months." #covid19 #pandemic #hospitalization #surge https://www.statnews.com/2023/09/06/covid-hospitalizations-humana/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon_organic
@arstechnica ☝️ It may not take any single scary subvariant to actually be a scary proposal.
Every infection — the #antivaxxers 'did their own research', so good on 'em 🤷🏻♂️ — attacks/lowers our defences and *reactivates* the prevalent #HSV and #EpsteinBarr viruses which appear to be behind lot of the #longcovid cases... we're approaching 100 million cases of long covid globally by the end of the year.
The best way to lower the risk of (long) covid to yourself and those you care about is by staying current on vaccinations and, yes, using a mask.
And thanks #CCP for *demanding* that in early 2020 flight had to be allowed to leave the #PRC and create this #pandemic it covered up.
Today (9/7) is the last day for comments on expanding #wastewater surveillance of #COVID19 and other infectious diseases. Right now there are only FIVE comments.
Please, please comment - This is the only way we can monitor #disease threats in this podunk mess of a nation. #Covid #pandemic will not be the last and we need tools.
#CDC comment form: https://www.regulations.gov/document/CDC-2023-0055-0001
More info: https://peoplescdc.substack.com/p/we-must-expand-covid-wastewater-collection
It's part of ableism to act as if "only the weak" become disabled.
"...the updated booster is not intended for everyone. It’s for people in high-risk groups – those who are age 75 or older, pregnant or immunocompromised, said Offit, who serves on the FDA’s expert panel that reviewed the vaccine companies’ data."
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/your-fall-guide-to-covid-rsv-and-flu-vaccines
‟Rapid initiation of nasal saline irrigation to reduce severity in high-risk COVID+ outpatients: a randomized clinical trial compared to a national dataset observational arm”
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.16.21262044v3 #pandemic #covid #morbidity #hospitalization #WearAMask
‟Conclusion: SARS-CoV-2+ participants initiating nasal irrigation were over 8 times less likely to be hospitalized than the national rate.”
NCHS estimates of #LongCovid—based on Household Pulse Survey—provide for volatile projections.
Census Bureau released most recent data mid-August—next update anticipated Sept 20.
As more and more folk experience Long Covid, fewer and fewer staff our hospitals.
#ThisIsOurPolio #CountLongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #MassDisablingEvent
[This is first toot of a weekly thread, updated daily, providing various dataviz of ongoing #pandemic.]
Last week: https://mastodon.social/@beadsland/110969468590219518
"Blood Clues to Long-COVID Brain Fog Discovered"
https://neurosciencenews.com/brainfog-covid-blood-23859/ #pandemic #covid #wearamask #longcovid @morgfair
"Researchers have discovered two blood biomarkers that could predict cognitive deficits, including 'brain fog,' up to a year after a COVID-19 diagnosis. The study analyzed data from over 1,800 hospitalized patients and identified high levels of fibrinogen and d-dimer, proteins linked to blood coagulation, as being highly correlated with cognitive issues."
Secret Pandemic? Even More People Could Have Long COVID Than Doctors Think, Study Finds
by Richard Burkard, August 29, 2023
"As coronavirus shows signs of expanding across the U.S., Knewz.com is learning about new research indicating long COVID may affect more people than first thought.
A Northwestern University study suggests at least 4 million U.S. residents of people have symptoms of COVID-19 even if they were never diagnosed with the virus.
The journal Neurology, Neuroimmunology and Neuroinflammation notes the study sample is small, with 29 patients. But it shows similar symptoms among people with a “post-viral syndrome” and people diagnosed with “long COVID.”
The researchers defined long COVID as a person with symptoms lasting longer than six weeks. The Centers for Disease Control estimates 19% of U.S. adults who developed the virus fit that title.
The study shows 41% of people with the post-viral syndrome had been exposed to coronavirus. But they don’t have the virus now, so they’re not allowed to enter 70% of all long COVID clinics."
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I'm interested in the creative ways people approached pandemic work/events at first, particularly as seen on YouTube videos, but including TV/TikTok, etc.
I want to learn of more creative things I may have missed so let me know what your favorites were.
Mine was probably S1 of Staged, which I feel was a truly brilliant way to work within necessary public health strictures.
What were your favorites?
"Fur animals like minks and foxes are carnivorous mammals that ordinarily hunt in solitude. Caging them together in cramped quarters not only facilitates epidemics, it’s especially cruel."
Public opinion is turning against fur farms, and their role as a vector for #zoonosis and zoonotic #pandemic is becoming more and more clear. But politicians around the world and in both major US parties would rather massacre wild birds, and put humans at risk, than simply ban fur farms.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/31/opinion/bird-flu-h5n1.html
Obviously there are other factors: decrease in acute cases, inept official messaging, etc. But the need to fit in can feel overwhelming for people
I'm lucky not to feel this pressure much (always had a non-conformist streak) and these days am usually the only masked person in a crowd, e.g. at a large, packed theatre recently. Meanwhile, Covid keeps spreading, causing suffering, and disabling people
I've been wondering what (if anything) the Asch conformity experiments might tell us about Covid-era mask-wearing
A few people have told me they decided to stop wearing masks, even in busy indoor spaces, not based on assessing the risk to themselves or others but because they felt stupid or weird being such an outlier
Summary of those experiments on @wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments
#Covid #Covid19 #pandemic #masking #psychology #CovidIsNotOver
#introduction
After several decades working in Pathology & 25 years at my current workplace, it is time for a change. Working in healthcare through the #pandemic was frankly exhausting & demoralising. So I'm planning my escape, & will spend the next couple of years doing some courses & volunteering in ecological/environmental surveying
#Ecology #Habitat #Surveying #Invertebrates
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