Anyone have recommendations for high quality air purifiers with a Hepa filter and Merv13+? I’ve tried different purifiers over the years and either they end up not having an actual Hepa filter, stop making replacement filters, or filter replacements are too expensive. I like my Levoit, but it turns out they aren’t actually Hepa filters. And my Renpho went from having $30-50 filter replacements to now $90 on Amazon. I can’t even buy them from Renpho anymore. #covid#COVID19#CovidIsNotOver
Do you know what killed more than 19,000 Americans in the last 3 months? Covid. About 9 an hour. Many many more than that have been hurt, often permanently.
That’s a lower number than previously, yet the risks remain.
Stay home when ill, wear masks in crowds and inside, stay up to date on your vaccinations and improve ventilation (ex: opening windows) to stay healthier.
I copied this obituary this morning from the LA Times, just a reminder to everyone that #covid is NOT over. #COVID19#maskup I am not related to this lady, but on this mother’s day please protect those you love. #covidisnotover#covidisairborne#science
Every crisis brings out the best and worst in people. Here's the worst: A part-time actor has been convicted of soliciting investors for a fake #COVID19 cure in March 2020. He claimed to have a patent-pending cure and investors eager to buy his company. (A cure? In March 2020? A fool and their money...) The man faces up to 20 years in federal prison on each of 11 counts of wire fraud.
#Pürner dreht völlig frei und seine Impfschwubel-Fans sind begeistert:
Für die Zielgruppe des verantwortungslosen #BSW Bhakdisten sind diejenigen, die eine Kochsalzlösung statt eines #Covid19-Impfstoffes injiziert haben, Helden und sollten das Bundesverdienstkreuz erhalten.
I for one am glad she's back...because that quote below is my life for the last five years; the world in microcosm:
"You admit you're scared. You admit you don't know what to do. You stop. You listen. You look for answers. You come up with a plan. You abandon your previous assumptions about reality. You adjust to the new reality in front of you." #climate#COVID#COVID19#CovidIsNotOver
I'll say "post-COVID infection," never "post-COVID pandemic."
I'll say "since COVID began," never "since COVID ended."
I'll say "after pandemic caution ended," never "after the pandemic ended."
I'll say "what we know AS OF NOW about COVID," because the story of #COVID19 won't be complete until we know what 5 or ten infections do or, for that matter, what a virus that can remain in the body causes ten years after a single infection.
We have much to learn. Many will learn the hard way.
STUDY finds that #COVID19 vaccine effectiveness (VE) was 78% and increased to 89% after boosting during the Delta-dominant study period, but VE of primary vaccination was significantly reduced in those aged 60+ and patients with malignancy, chronic cardiac disease or an immunocompromising condition.
STUDY of newborns exposed to #COVID19 before or after birth: Exposed kids had 3.81x risk of delayed personal-social skills and 3.58x increased risk of delayed social-emotional development, plus higher inpatient (38% vs. 21%) and outpatient (38% vs. 30%) appointments.
For the "#COVID19 is just the flu" crowd. STUDY of healthcare workers from 11/2022 through 5/2023 found that "COVID-19, influenza, and asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection accounted for 71.5%, 9.2%, and 6.0% of episodes of absenteeism, respectively." Also, "Full COVID-19 vaccination status conferred significant protection against COVID-19 and was associated with shorter periods of absence from work."
STUDY of kids one year after #COVID19 infection: 7.0 % (24/345) of first-positives and 7.5 % (27/360) of reinfected CYP (children and young people) experienced cognitive impairment.
STUDY of kids who reported no #COVID19 infection: 9.2% had anti-N antibody, and this rate rose in kids who had contact with individuals who were positive for COVID-19, particularly their mothers. What I found most interesting was that, in a 4-month follow-up during the 2022 holiday surge, 1 in 6 kids who were negative for anti-N antibodies reported an infection.
STUDY finds that older individuals can greatly reduce #LongCOVID risk by getting BOTH influenza and #COVID19 vaccines. "Those vaccinated with neither COVID-19 nor influenza vaccine had higher risk of long COVID (OR, 1.72; 95% CI, 1.26-2.35) compared to those vaccinated with both vaccines." (That means a 72% higher risk.)
"Über die Abwehr von #LongCovid als sozialpolitische Frage, die Moral der Pandemiepolitik, die Niederlage der instrumentellen Vernunft und die Aufgaben einer humanen Gegenrationalität."
Danke an Paul Schuberth für diesen Text!
(Der Text wäre eine Spende an Jungle_World wert + Teilen.)
"People who misunderstood airborne spread needlessly wore masks on outdoor walks and veered off sidewalks to avoid their neighbors."
people have closed face-to-face distance on me incredibly fast, and I was caught scrambling to put on a mask, when I could otherwise have already been wearing one
Long Covid can impact "everyone, regardless of age or the severity of one’s original symptoms.³ The largest group of people living with Long COVID is younger than one might think. According to the CDC, U.S. adults ages 35-49 had the highest rates of Long COVID symptoms . . . Plus, a recent study showed that by one’s third COVID-19 infection, patients have a 40% chance of developing long term symptoms"
Still testing positive after 10 days of testing and 17 days of feeling sick.
Fuck Covid. And Fuck Cancer.
Logged an incident report at work explaining how I got this infection from a maskless co-worker because I was forced to be onsite and they knew their partner had "a mystery cold" and could work from home whenever they want but chose to come in anyway.
#Airborne pathogens: controlling words won’t control transmission https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)00244-7/fulltext “Clear and accurate communication about how respiratory pathogens spread is of the utmost importance globally. Confusion on this topic abounds, especially in relation to #COVID19, but there is a simple explanation. Strong and consistent evidence for a predominantly airborne mode of transmission emerged early in the pandemic4 but was denied or downplayed by #WHO and national public health bodies for years”