[edit, 2023: uuuhhh this link is prob seriously outdated now]
Thorough roundup of #covid19 info from the Internet Book of Critical Care; audience is medical professionals but has good info on virus biology, transmission, treatment, therapies, and pitfalls. https://emcrit.org/ibcc/covid19/
I. DO. NOT. HAVE. COVID. LAURIE DOES. OKAY? Thank you for caring, but sheesh! Read the post! Read the thread!
👉🏼Via Laurie Garrett:👈🏼
I have just tested + for #COVID19 -- my 1st time. I wear masks, but hardly anybody else does. Went to 6 pharmacies in search of #Paxlovid ...only one has the drug, but declined insurance & demanded $1600.38 for 5-day supply. Outrageous.
wife tested positive for covid. It's bad. Online Doc refused to prescribe #Paxlovid citing she's <50yrs. Said LongCovid isn't real and pretty much gaslit the thing.
PCP offices are closed.
CVS w/o prescription requires labwork that we don't have handy.
In today's remarkable right-wing self-own, crazy, COVID-minimizing, MAGA Laura Loomer admits to having Long #COVID19 without realizing it.
Tweet: Food doesn’t have much taste these days. It’s tough to find something that does. @LauraLoomer reply: It’s not just you. I don’t know what it is but food tastes very weird these days. It started to happen around COVID. Things don’t have much flavor anymore.
If you paid for funeral expenses for someone who died in the US, and their death certificate mentions COVID as a cause, you may be eligible for up to US$9,000 in funeral expense assistance from the US federal government.
If you follow me, you know I take #COVID19 seriously. People tell me they cannot vote for Biden because of his COVID policies. Although I agree with the sentiment, I vehemently disagree with the decision. Even if you set aside Trump's evident desire to be above the law and ignore the Constitution (and you shouldn't), if you want vaccine research, Long COVID action and safe air laws in the future, help Democrats win. The anti-vax, COVID-denying, anti-science GOP would only cause more death. (1/2)
The Economist used global excess deaths to arrive at the true death toll from the pandemic with a 95% confidence interval.
"Although the official number of deaths caused by #COVID19 is now 7m, our single best estimate is that the actual toll is 27.5m people. We find that there is a 95% chance that the true value lies between 17.8m and 30.8m additional deaths."
Die #RKI#WasteWaterSurveillance#Abwasser Überwachung für ganz Deutschland hat als untersten Schätzwert jetzt ca Faktor 2 des bisherigen Rekords, als oberen Faktor 4.
Wir laufen ja auch nur auf die Zeit mit den ganzen Weihnachtsfeiern in Beruf und Familie zu.
It's frustrating to be "the #COVID19 guy" when everyone should be COVID-aware. I had a friend ask if we could get together for the holidays on December 16. I said sure, if they could be safe for the week beforehand and wouldn't mind socializing at our home. He declined. 😢
This is not the life I expected in my 60s. I expected concerts, professional public speaking, and fun events. But I refuse to risk my life or the lives of people I love. I'll make the best of what this world sensibly allows.
What does a world look like where we let #COVID19 rip through the population repeatedly on an annual basis? Where people allow themselves to be infected time and again with a disease that causes chronic damage to our bodies? We don't know, but this is precisely what it COULD look like 🧵 :
I continue to track the studies showing all the ways repeated #COVID19 infections harm brains, immune systems and other organs. Now, if that was the case, surely we'd see signs of it, right?
The insurance industry wants to fight the "baffling" rise in mortality the last several years. There's a concern the insurance industry is in for troubles if it continues. It thinks better screening will help (and it will), but maybe it'd be less baffled if it stopped saying things like “Even after #COVID19 started to wane, it feels like there's problems with mortality" and started worrying more about about repeated infections and chronic COVID damage.
COVID is still rising in the US, but it appears to be doing so at a slower rate. It is very uneven across the nation, however. I predicted six weeks ago this surge would be worst in the South due to heat and time indoors in air conditioning. Currently, the 10 counties with the highest COVID hospital admission rate are in Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Texas, and Louisiana. The next ten are almost all in the Plains and Texas. https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/these-are-the-top-covid-hot-spots-in-the-u-s?src=usn_tw
I got COVID-19 back in mid-February for the first time. I'm feeling a lot better, but I have strange lingering symptoms. It's April 7th. Tired and loss of focus by 2pm, and ever since I got infected, I've been smelling weird odors and having similar aftertastes. Not consistent at all. Has anyone else experienced these symptoms? #COVID#COVID19#LongCOVID@longcovid
“We fundamentally do not know the extent of the long-term damage continual reinfection with #COVID19 will cause to children, and the data we have so far are upsetting. What are we willing to risk? Are we OK with more children contracting diabetes? Are we OK with many more children developing highly disabling orthostatic intolerance? How about chronic fatigue, cognitive impairment, sleep disorders and heart problems?”
I truly believe the Northern hemisphere is in for a rude #COVID19 awakening this fall and winter. COVID continues to mutate, immunity is fading, new booster uptake will be minimal, repeated infections will have weakened many people's immune systems, and everyone wants to pretend COVID is gone.
As I slowly recover from my first infection, I can't imagine why people would want to risk multiple infections. I'll do my best to make this my ONLY infection.
“However, the updated #COVID19 booster is not intended for everyone. It’s for people in high-risk groups – those who are age 75 or older, pregnant or immunocompromised, said Offit, who serves on the FDA’s expert panel that reviewed the vaccine companies’ data... The general public should not expect to need to receive the latest COVID booster, Offit said.”