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JoePajak, 20 days ago to random

⬆️COVID-19 latest: data trends upwards
Over 100,000 patients admitted to hospitals in England since 1 Jun 2023, who had COVID-19, plus those diagnosed in hospital with C19 in previous 24hrs.
Impact on the NHS, on waiting lists, on the economy?
🚨#LongCOVID
https://ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk

JoePajak, 20 days ago

Source: The @UKHSA data dashboard which shows public health data across England.
https://ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk

JoePajak, 20 days ago

Now is the time for the @UKHSA to review the eligibility criteria for people to get a COVID-19 spring booster, we are clearly starting to see a rise in COVID-19 cases and hospitalisations after a few weeks of low activity.

Credit detail via @theipaper.

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/surge-covid-cases-prompt-fears-mini-wave-3037684?ito=twitter_share_article-top

JoePajak, 24 days ago to random

Study confirms critical importance of ventilation & maintaining low CO2 concentrations [indoors] for mitigating disease transmission. As CO2 concentration increases, time respiratory viruses remain infectious in the air increases. @adamhfinn @ukhadds et al https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47777-5#Sec2

JoePajak, 24 days ago

'To be clear, the rapid early decay in infectivity of aerosolized #SARSCoV2 reported here, as well as previously, does not contradict the consensus opinion that airborne transmission prevails as the dominant mode of transmission.'
@adamhfinn @ukhadds et al

JoePajak, 1 month ago to random

So, @NHSEngland rolls out Covid boosters, but only to those meeting set criteria: those aged 75 years and over, those in care homes, and those aged 6 months and over with a weakened immune system.
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Meanwhile, the virus still claims over 100 lives a week.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/nhs-rolls-out-new-variant-32610069?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

JoePajak, 1 month ago

'People aged 75 years and older, residents in care homes for older people, and those aged 6 months and over with a weakened immune system will be offered a dose of COVID-19 vaccine this spring.'
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-vaccination-spring-booster-resources/a-guide-to-the-covid-19-spring-booster-2023#:~:text=vaccine%20this%20spring.-,Spring%202024%20booster%20eligibility,dose%20of%20COVID-19%20vaccine.

JoePajak, 1 month ago to random

'COVID-19 leaves an 𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 mark on the brain and its functioning...
'Research shows that even mild COVID-19 can lead to the equivalent of seven years of brain aging.' @zalaly
@sciam @ConversationUS

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-19-leaves-its-mark-on-the-brain-significant-drops-in-iq-scores-are/

JoePajak, 1 month ago

'COVID-19 leaves an 𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 mark on the brain and its functioning - and poses a serious risk to brain health, even in mild cases. These effects are now being revealed at the population level.' @zalaly
Via @people
Paper https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-19-leaves-its-mark-on-the-brain-significant-drops-in-iq-scores-are/

https://people.com/covid-linked-lower-iq-poor-memory-other-negative-impacts-brain-health-8619254?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=shareurlbuttons https://twitter.com/JoePajak/status/1773091697347510507

JoePajak, 2 months ago to random

👏'77 alumnae @Newnham_College, the iconic women's college at @Cambridge_Uni, recruited to intercept, decrypt and translate military messages during the war, have been revealed for the first time in a college exhibit and roll of honour'. @DonnaLFerguson
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/17/cambridge-newnham-college-alumnae-bletchley-park-codebreakers?CMP=share_btn_url

JoePajak, 2 months ago

👏Very special people, unsung heroes, 'intrepid female codebreakers who worked at @bletchleypark.' @DonnaLFerguson @guardian
'Skilled in the science and art of breaking codes and ciphers during World War Two.' @LSELibrary, @Newnham_College, @Cambridge_Uni
https://x.com/LSELibrary/status/1681658174808399875?s=20

JoePajak, 2 months ago to random

'For adults worldwide, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a more profound impact than any event seen in half a century, including conflicts and natural disasters.' Dr. Austin Schumacher @IHME_UW @UW @forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2024/03/12/covid-lowered-global-life-expectancy-more-than-previously-thought-new-study-suggests/

JoePajak, 2 months ago

'The COVID-19 pandemic will likely continue to impact estimates of demographic trends in future years due to reporting lags and the persistent effects of the pandemic.'
Dr. Austin Schumacher @IHME_UW @UW et al. Paper @TheLancet

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)00476-8/fulltext

JoePajak, 2 months ago to random

COVID is underreported, testing less common; but people are still being infected and infecting others [because of the lack of testing / health protections, e.g. vaccine, ventilation and face protection], being hospitalised, and worse. #LongCOVID @TribLIVE
https://triblive.com/local/regional/understanding-whats-driving-long-covid-is-still-largely-a-mystery-to-doctors/

JoePajak, 2 months ago

Emerging theme from immunological studies of #LongCOVID is of an excessive & uncontrolled inflammatory reaction, involving innate & adaptive immune cells - that fails to resolve.
Data appear to point to long-lived reservoir of #SARSCoV2 the likely culprit.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1044532324000113

JoePajak, 2 months ago to random

Any mention by UK government that:
🕯️'𝐒𝐮𝐧 𝟑 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 '𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧' 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝟒 𝐲𝐫𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐔𝐊'𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐂𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐃-𝟏𝟗 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡.'
Credit to @yorkpress for reminding its readers.
#Breathtaking @covidinquiryuk

JoePajak, 2 months ago

We remember too
'COVID memorial acknowledges it's not over'. @vicky_allan
'We are still living with it, Alec Finlay, @Dailies54153708, the artist behind Scotland's COVID memorial reflects on his work ahead of this year's Day of Reflection'. @heraldscotland
https://www.heraldscotland.com/business_hq/24147715.remember-covid-memorial-acknowledges-not/

JoePajak, 2 months ago to random

‘COVID-19 has an important, largely unmeasured burden of disease as the cause of #LongCOVID, which may become its biggest health impact. A growing number of studies are describing an estimated incidence of 5% to 15% of all infections.’ @ConversationEDU
🌬️ https://theconversation.com/a-pandemic-that-wont-go-away-as-covid-enters-its-5th-year-nz-needs-a-realistic-strategy-224047

JoePajak, 2 months ago

‘A study of almost 200,000 Scottish adults, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43661-w, reported that, after adjustment for factors that might confuse the results, #LongCOVID prevalence following an infection was 6.5% at 12 months, & 10.4% at 18 months.’ @ConversationEDU
🌬️ https://theconversation.com/a-pandemic-that-wont-go-away-as-covid-enters-its-5th-year-nz-needs-a-realistic-strategy-224047

JoePajak, 2 months ago to random

#Breathtaking is an 'authentic representation of what it was like to be involved in those first, uncertain stages of the pandemic. There are scenes here which will resonate exactly with the experiences of any of us who worked the frontlines'. @DrRodDacombe
https://www.politics.co.uk/comment/2024/02/23/dont-look-away-itvs-breathtaking-exposes-the-real-covid-scandal/?text=Don

JoePajak, 2 months ago

Don't look away! @Politics_co_uk: 'In stark contrast to other attempts to dramatise the Covid response, in #Breathtaking there is no ridiculous jingoism, no attempt to mask the reality of what happened. We see the chaos as it truly unfolded'. @DrRodDacombe
https://www.politics.co.uk/comment/2024/02/23/dont-look-away-itvs-breathtaking-exposes-the-real-covid-scandal/?text=Don

JoePajak, 2 months ago

In bearing witness to the events - 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙚𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙙𝙤𝙤𝙧𝙨, 𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙣𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙢𝙖𝙨𝙠𝙨 - to a public largely shielded from the reality at the frontlines, #Breathtaking performs a truly valuable service. @Politics_co_uk
https://www.politics.co.uk/comment/2024/02/23/dont-look-away-itvs-breathtaking-exposes-the-real-covid-scandal/?text=Don

JoePajak, 3 months ago to random

Back to today, '#airborne transmission of pathogens has been vastly underappreciated, mostly because of insufficient understanding about airborne behaviour of #aerosols, and because of the misattribution of anecdotal observations'. @linseymarr et al. @NCBI
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8721651/

JoePajak, 3 months ago

#Breathtaking! Covid campaigning & advocacy groups supporting the protest on 19 Feb 24: @covidactionuk @DoctorsInUnite @covidpledge @cv_cev @hazardscampaign @CentreGreater @LongCovidSOS @CovidJusticeUK @longcovid @long_covid @LongCovidKids @LCD4A @waltz_tales #ItsAirborne https://x.com/DoctorsInUnite/status/1759641667773030869?s=20

JoePajak, 3 months ago

#ItisAirborne & #Breathtaking
'Airborne transmission of pathogens has been vastly underappreciated, mostly because of insufficient understanding about airborne behaviour of aerosols, & because of misattribution of anecdotal observations'. @linseymarr et al
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8721651/

JoePajak, 3 months ago

'Several respiratory pathogens are known to spread through small respiratory aerosols, which can float & travel in air flows, infecting people who inhale them at short and long distances from the infected person.'
@kprather88 @jljcolorado @linseymarr et al
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8721651/