STUDY notes that the severity of an infectious disease depends on the level of the infectious dose: The higher the dose, the more serious the infection outcomes. "The dose of exposure is determined by human behavior, environmental conditions and mitigation strategies, such as indoor versus outdoor exposure, indoor crowding, indoor air ventilation and physical distancing." Even if you get #COVID19, being cautious (masks, lower crowds, shorter times, better air) matter!
Through incompetence, negligence, and willful malice, Trump and the GOP have killed more Americans with COVID than were lost in America's ten most costly wars—COMBINED. KILLING AMERICANS IS WHAT THE GOP DOES BEST. #TrumpKills#GOPKills#GOP#COVID19#VoteBlueIfYouWantToLive
Das der Abwärtstrend nicht ewig weitergehen konnte war ja klar, leider entfernen wir uns jetzt wieder vom niedrigen Niveau - die nächste Welle nimmt seit einigen Wochen Fahrt auf, unsere temporäre Immunität lässt offenbar mal wieder nach:
"Unfortunately, the newest widely circulating pathogen in the human population uses a broadly expressed ACE2 receptor to infect cells, meaning it can damage almost any part of the body."
"They want your ignorance and incur no cost if you are harmed by being repeatedly infected by COVID-19 or any other pathogen that might be surging in its wake."
Many #COVID19 cautious are posting endlessly about H5N1. I am not going to follow them down the rabbit hole. Avian flu may or may not become a human-to-human pandemic, but...
I continue to believe we're ignoring the immediate and real risk we face with COVID
We don't help mental health by constantly promoting POTENTIAL risks
If it becomes a pandemic, we'll know
If morons want to drink unpasteurized milk and risk death, blindness and illness, I am powerless to stop them, anyway.
I already spend around a dozen hours a week tracking #COVID19 studies and sharing the very real risks we are ignoring. I don't need to become a "doomer," chasing after every possible Monkeypox, Avian flu, and mystery illness report. Instead of focusing on all the risks that may not be real or immediate, I'd urge us to pay more attention to the fact COVID is still mutating, reinfections are dangerous, COVID damages brains, hearts and other organs, and Long COVID is a growing risk in 2024.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is doing a study on the impact from covid on people's health.
They need folk who have had and have NOT had covid for a survey.
"COVID-19 has infected more than 600 million people and has resulted in greater than 6 million deaths globally. Research scientists from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health want to better understand how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted people’s health.
We are interested in hearing from people who have experienced COVID-19 illness and those who have not. Everyone’s experience is important for us to understand."
What I'd like to know is why did SkyNews (Australia) choose to go with the headline: "AstraZeneca withdrawn worldwide over side effects" #covid19#antivaxxer#antivax#scicomm
Irony alert: Florida, where leaders think it's great to get #COVID19 to build up your immunity, is taking emergency actions to prevent cattle from being imported with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza. Apparently, it's healthy for humans to get infections but not for cows. 🙄 #HPAI#H5N1
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.