The New Brunswick government has reopened an investigation into a mystery brain disease that seems to mostly affect people living in the Acadian Peninsula and Moncton areas.
My spreadsheet of the longer-term implications of #COVID19 infections has now reached 1,100 studies. Recent additions show COVID and Long COVID causes fatigue, heart arrhythmias, reduced white blood cell count, T-cell exhaustion, lower quality of life, cognitive impairment, insomnia, erectile dysfunction, and persistent liver damage.
Fortsetzung des Abwassermonitoring, insbesondere, aber nicht nur, für #sarscov2 #COVID19 - bitte hier unterschreiben, das ist eine der letzten Metriken, die wir überhaupt noch haben.
“People not masking is literally killing me… If I do die, this is what killed me, people not masking or believing Long COVID lowers your immunity…” Tinu Abayomi-Paul, writer, disability advocate, and person with Long COVID, dies at 52: thesicktimes.org/2024/10/04/ti… #LongCovid #Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #MaskUp #YallMasking
Long COVID can change your life--even if you've seemingly recovered. “People who have recovered from long COVID can suffer relapses or flare-ups from new viral infections — not just from COVID but from cold, flu, and other viral pathogens, researchers have found.”
The ONLY way to prevent Long COVID is to avoid your next infection with #COVID19.
Any #blind people have one of these? Are they accessible. The page says there’s a bluetooth module. Does that mean they have an app where you can get your results accessibly? How is the accessibility of the test kit itself, in terms of a blind person being able to use it without too much difficulty?
The Metrix® Test & Reader Starter bundle gives you everything you need to get started. The bundle includes 2 Metrix® COVID-19 Test Kits and 1 reusable Metrix® Reader.
It contains excellent explanations on the spread of COVID mutations/variants, why vaccination alone isn't the answer, why we should continue to mask and negative communications.
a friend and I were talking about COVID precautions and they just sent me this paper which appears to raise concerns about safety and efficacy of wearing masks for COVID - does anyone here know anything about this paper + what conclusions should be drawn from it? I feel like there's probably *something* wrong with it given it very much is the consensus in communities I'm in (that seem to pay lots of attention to the literature) that wearing masks is a good precaution to take against COVID, but I'm not sure how to respond. is there a good analysis of the paper somewhere or anything like that?
During the SARS-CoV-2-pandemic, face masks have become one of the most important ubiquitous factors affecting human breathing. It increases the resistance and dead space volume leading to a re-breathing of CO[2] .
Ich möchte auch einen umfassenden "gesellschaftlichen Aufarbeitungsprozess".
Warum wurden wir so inkonsequent geschützt? Warum wurde so konsequent aufgegeben? Warum wurde die Intensität der Forschung reduziert? Warum haben wir immernoch nichts gelernt für den Alltag? Warum kein Recht auf Schutz?
Ich bin wütend. Und ich vermute, keine dieser Fragen werden ernsthaft gestellt.
The UK government is planning to scrap millions of unused SARS-CoV-2 vaccine doses, which could have been used to vaccinate previously ineligible groups for free, after they closed the autumn booster campaign.
Meanwhile, pharmacies have just been authorised to offer Covid vaccines at a massive £45 a pop, thus excluding the poorest sections of the population.
And the new scheme starts on...yes you've guessed..April 1st.
Interesting STUDY on the risks of #COVID19 infection in a university setting in China.
The risk of infection of susceptible students per 45-min lesson was 1%. (That adds up fast with 15 classes/week for many students.) An occupancy rate of 50% reduced infection risk by 62%. Fresh air decreased risk by 81.1%. All students wearing N95 respirators reduced risks by 96%.
So, which of these mitigations are we doing to protect students? None. We are doing none of them.
"Oxygen extraction by the body’s tissues was compromised in patients who had symptoms of #exerciseIntolerance after #COVID"
"Patients are told that their symptoms are a result of deconditioning, or decline from lack of physical activity. Our findings contradict that hypothesis."
SARS-CoV-2 attacks the mitochondria in cells, depleting their energy.
"researchers found that the virus blocks specific genes that use oxygen to create ATP, forcing the body to deplete finite energy reserves in the body. Without an energy source, cells throughout the body begin to starve, with the cells powering the brain and the heart suffering the most.”
An international research team, including Jonathan C. Schisler, PhD, in the UNC School of Medicine, has found how SARS-CoV-2 causes widespread “energy outages” throughout major organs, and how these effects contribute to debilitating long COVID sympt…
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, who identified a chemical tweak to messenger RNA that laid the foundation for vaccines against #Covid19, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology/ Medicine.
As this photo shows, both scientists are wearing masks and NOT relying on the "vax and relax".
Are you a #sourdough baker? If so, I need your help! I'm researching sourdough baking during the COVID lockdowns for my MA and would love you to fill out my survey!
"Several people who attended the Epidemic Intelligence Service Conference have tested positive for COVID-19,” a CDC branch chief wrote in an email to staff on Friday.
Letters: Doctor Kelly Fearnley and an immunocompromised patient respond to Dr Jack Pickard’s letter calling for an end to the requirement for mask-wearing in all clinical areas
We'll never fully understand the political agenda that popularized the removal of mask-wearing. It's the least expensive yet most effective way to protect the public.
Mask wearing should never have ended when there is currently over 500 deaths a day.
"WHO backs mask wearing on long flights as new Omicron variant spreads"
Countries should consider recommending that passengers wear masks on long-haul flights, given the rapid spread of the latest Omicron subvariant of COVID-19...
Could reporters stop both-siding COVID and focus on why political leaders are failing us? Politicians aren’t reinstating mandates because masks remind us we are in a pandemic, and they are afraid that people will consume less if they see more people wearing masks. They are prioritizing corporate profits over public health.
:opensource: The #AllThingsOpen #opensource conference is this coming Tuesday & Wednesday in the US.
:covid19: They are taking some but not all of the necessary #COVID19 precautions from #PHPledge so I will be attending the free-of-charge virtual option, which you may want to do as well.
The stream covers some event content via their proprietary SaaS provider. You do have to register so your (real or fake) personal data can be monetized by sponsors.
The #pandemic is far from over. Cases are low but rising again. It takes many lines of defense to protect against #COVID19. The #SwissCheeseModel of virus pandemic defense.
⚠️ ☣️ a good reminder and warning to not presume you are no longer contagious with #COVID19 just because N days have passed, and/or because you no longer have symptoms. Be sure with a rapid antigen test.
Unsurprisingly, hearing tons of people who tested positive for #COVID on the way home from #FOSDEM.
