JoePajak

JoePajak, 2 months ago to random

🇮🇹🚆'@ItaloTreno has introduced an innovative filtering system on its trains based on the brand new HEPA Filters with EN1822-1 certification, with fiberglass to screen passengers from the spread of bacteria, allergens and VIRUSES.' ⬇️
🚂🦠And in Britain? https://www.italotreno.it/en/the-train/hepa-filters

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 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 to random

‘The pandemic continues to have a large, visible health impact. It is a leading cause of serious illness and death, mainly in older populations and those with existing long-term health conditions.’
Prof Michael Baker et al @otago @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

‘@WHO refers to COVID-19 as a ‘continuing’ pandemic. And @sciam noted, it ‘has been the elephant in every room - sometimes confronted and sometimes ignored but always present’. Prof Michael Baker et al @otago @ConversationEDU
COVID is still circulating.
🌬️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

'Adding 'brain fog' to the staggering list of longer term problems caused by COVID must make us question what we’re allowing to happen to those being exposed to multiple infections with this virus, including our children.'💯@SGriffin_Lab @kathsci2601 @mnt
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/what-have-we-learned-about-brain-fog-in-long-covid-so-far?utm_source=Sailthru%20Email&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=MNT%20Daily%20News&utm_content=2024-02-26&apid=38228910&rvid=1607e08b06a36da99553e53d58fb3788ee38d6d683c382437c98043f24db1fb6

JoePajak, 2 months ago to random

Some key findings highlighted by @Mahan_Ghafari:
➡️Persistent Infections are much more common than we thought, and are associated with higher odds of #LongCOVID.
➡️Reinfections with genetically similar viruses are rare.
Paper @Nature. Research @PSIOxford
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07029-4?WT.ec_id=NATURE-202402&sap-outbound-id=BFE81FC5CD252C5F463184751D1617082C83C646

JoePajak, 2 months ago to random

#Breathtaking
Was sending elderly patients into care homes, without Covid status ascertained, a form of genocide?
Were decisions made the wrong ones?
Was the way that public messaging was handled by the government wrong? @covidinquiryuk @southwalesargus
https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/24143771.royal-gwent-hospital-doctor-care-home-discharges-pandemic/?ref=twtrec

JoePajak, 2 months ago to random

#Breathtaking in words...
honest
authentic
traumatic
harrowing
unprotected
'cannon fodder'
‘It is real. It has happened somewhere to somebody. This is what it was truly like. What you are witnessing is true.’ @doctor_oxford
@Alibaabra @NurseStandard @RCNI
https://rcni.com/nursing-standard/newsroom/news/breathtaking-tv-covid-drama-too-real-to-watch-for-some-nurses-204291

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, 3 months ago to random

#Breathtaking: Since 5 Dec 2023, the number of hospital beds occupied by people suffering from Covid hasn't been less than 2,500.
🏥11-weeks where the number of people occupying hospital beds infected with this airborne virus averaged around 3,532.
No wonder the NHS is exhausted!

JoePajak, 3 months ago to random

Study highlights ‘continuing importance of community based genomic surveillance to: monitor emergence and spread of new variants, and gain a fundamental understanding of their evolution & clinical implications.’ @Mahan_Ghafari @katrina_lythgoe @PSIOxford
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-02-21-study-reveals-high-number-persistent-covid-19-infections-general-population

JoePajak, 3 months ago to random

Known pre-Covid that, 'the exhaled air of an infected human is one of the prime sources of disease viruses, and, that exhaled air comes from respiratory events such as the coughing, sneezing, breathing and talking.' Dr Qingyan Chen et al @PurdueME @NLM_NIH
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20028433/

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 to random

In 1939, warning signs clearly visible across Europe, lack of political courage, and naivety, allowed Hitler and Stalin to move forces to Poland, then beyond.
What happened next is history.
*History repeating itself - for now, in Ukraine. @LondonLovesBiz
https://londonlovesbusiness.com/russia-threatens-to-nuke-london-if-they-dont-win-in-ukraine/

JoePajak, 3 months ago to random

#Breathtaking observations by @doctor_oxford,

[They] 'lied over and over again when they claimed that the NHS was not overwhelmed. We were rationing care; they owe every single one of the 1.3 million members of staff at the NHS a massive apology'. @metrouk.bsky.social

https://metro.co.uk/2024/02/19/real-doctor-behind-itv-covid-drama-breathtaking-full-rage-20234651/?ito=article.desktop.share.top.twitter

JoePajak, 3 months ago to random

This research 'suggests that patients with COVID-19 may have an increased risk of developing respiratory diseases, and the risk increases with the severity of infection and reinfection.'
Research team: Hao Chen et al.
HT: @sciencedirect @eclinicalmed
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(24)00079-8/fulltext