In the 13 months since the US ended the #COVID19 public health emergency on May 11, 2023, more Americans have been killed by COVID than died in the eight years of the Vietnam War (which was the US's fourth most deadly war following the Civil War, WW1 and WW2).
People have been sold the idea #COVID19 only affects those who are old, sick and weak. That's wrong.
STUDY: "In this population of healthy young adult US Marines with mostly either asymptomatic or mild acute COVID-19, one fourth reported physical, cognitive, or psychiatric long-term sequelae of infection. The Marines affected with PASC showed evidence of long-term decrease in functional performance."
Some #COVID19 concerned people: "I can't vote for Biden because he's been a terrible pandemic leader." I get it, but if you care about vaccines and public health, you'll keep Trump out of office.
What can Trump do about vaccines? More than you might think.
His new anti-vaccine persona could have far-reaching consequences if he’s elected to a second stint as president with far-reaching administrative powers.
Eveyr election. Every race. Every Democrat. #VoteBlue
I should point out that there are, in fact, places that have installed all of these: fresh air, filtering, and germicidal UV lights. Do you know where they are?
Where?
PA: The White House, Congress, Number 10 Downing, Parliament, the Reichstag, and WHO. All of our leaders have these protections and procedures in place.
But not our schoolchildren.
The school where former CDC director Rochelle Walensky’s children go, they have these upgrades. #COVID19
#COVID19 infections give short-lived immunity; boosters help. STUDY:
"Among the COVID-19 patients, anti-spike RBD level significantly increased the most at 14 days after infection and dropped significantly at day 90 and day 180. Giving a booster dose during 91–180 days after infection induced high level of anti-spike RBD through 180 days... (1/2)
The mortality of #COVID19 patients in the ten months after discharge is nearly as high as mortality during hospitalization. STUDY:
"The risk of death remains high even months after COVID-19 infection. Overall mortality of COVID-19 patients during 10 months after hospital discharge is nearly as high as that observed during hospital admission."
STUDY: #COVID19's "chronic or long-term effects are more detrimental than acute ones. All types of vaccines significantly reduced SARS-CoV-2 infection. But no vaccine was reported that provides lifetime protection against COVID-19; therefore, protective measures (nonpharmaceutical interventions), such as physical separation, mask use, telework, hand cleansing, isolation, and appropriate respiration significantly reduce the rate of SARS-CoV-2 transmission." https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.01636
STUDY: “Cancer survivors contracting a #COVID19 infection have substantially increased risks of lung metastatic progression and cancer-related death compared to cancer survivors who did not.” Study also notes influenza virus infection leads to “disseminated cancer cell proliferation within days of infection, and a greater than 100-fold expansion of carcinoma cells into metastatic lesions within two weeks.” (For the “COVID is just the flu” people!)
STUDY of Paxlovid in Long #COVID19 patients. “This randomized clinical trial including 155 participants with PASC symptoms found that a 15-day course of nirmatrelvir-ritonavir in a mostly vaccinated study cohort was generally safe, but did not show significant benefit in improving fatigue, brain fog, body aches, cardiovascular symptoms, shortness of breath, or gastrointestinal symptoms.”
I’m feeling generally a lot better than a couple of days ago, but proper brain work still feels beyond me (thanks #COVID19). Unfortunately I left @manyfold in a state where some big brain work was required to get a thing finished, which is making it really hard to get back into.
Only problem is that I’m not very good at resting my brain. Everything I think I might do involves it in some significant way.
“We are completely under-investigating this virus. The effects of repeatedly getting this throughout our lives is going to be much more significant than people are thinking.”
Doctors are growing concerned #COVID19 can increase risks of cancer. Of course, if you've been following my posts, you'd already know dozens of studies show COVID-19 can cause changes that COULD decrease our body's defenses against cancer. (1/2)
Just today, I got in a debate about Taylor Swift taking #COVID19 precautions while encouraging fans to pack into screaming, singing arenas. There are reports of thousands of fans getting such following two of her European shows. Some said it isn't her fault. They may be right, but here's a band on Twitter announcing they won't play live shows because of the risk to fans. (1/3)
Some months ago I noted Taylor Swift took precautions while on tour, such as avoiding fan interactions, so she could avoid #COVID19. Meanwhile, she's fine if fans crowd pack together screaming and singing in her audiences. I got a crap from Swifties. (BTW, I'm a fan, too.)
NEWS: Taylor Swift spreads Covid: thousand of fans fall ill after Madrid and Paris concerts
As predicted a month ago, COVID infections are starting to rise in the US. The rise is not great (yet) in most of the nation. (For instance, here in my home state of Wisconsin, we remain near our 12-month lows.) But, this is not the case everywhere--in fact, there are places with very high levels of infections based on wastewater metrics. (1/6)
Definition of utter insanity - Ontario will be cancelling funding of wastewater surveillance for ALL diseases - this as Covid is once again on the rise and H5N1 is lurking as a potential new pandemic
“ governments and policymakers “need to thoroughly investigate underlying causes of persistent excess mortality and evaluate their health crises policies.”
"In his first public testimony since stepping down from [U.S.] government office at the end of 2022, Dr. Anthony Fauci on Monday fended off a variety of attacks from Republican politicians at a fiery hearing called to discuss lessons learned during the pandemic."
NBC News reports: "Fauci has emerged as one of the people most vilified by supporters of former President Donald Trump, with many blaming him for the pandemic based on a wide array of false or misleading claims. Calls to prosecute Fauci for unspecified crimes have become common on the right."
Les enfants sont des dangers pour eux-mêmes et les autres : ils se
perdent ; ils propagent des maladies... Pour remédier au problème des enfants,
il faut les pucer et les géolocaliser !
Cette conférence démontre comment
un raisonnement juridique bien appliqué aboutit à cette conclusion inéluctable.
Democratic members of the #House select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic defended Dr. Anthony #Fauci ahead of Monday's hearing about the #US’ #COVID19#pandemic response, policies & transparency.
The representatives blasted #Republicans’ claims of Fauci’s involvement in starting [for real they had to say this] or covering up the pandemic as a “dangerous” & “cartoonish” narrative.