1,075 Americans were killed by C0VlD last week. It’s the 2nd week in a row with 1,000+ deaths and the 7th straight week with 500+.
BREAKING: U.S. Faces Unprecedented COVID-19 Surge with 1.2 Million New Cases Daily
Covid has never been over. As of August 26, 2024, the U.S. is grappling with an alarming surge in COVID-19 infections, with a record-breaking 1.2 million new cases reported each day.
1 in 41 people is currently infected.
This surge marks a dramatic escalation compared to previous years. The current wave is more intense than those experienced in Year 1, Year 2, and Year 4 of the pandemic.
“Scary covid” is making a comeback.
Texas Roadhouse Founder Kent Taylor Dies After Struggle With 'Post-COVID' Symptoms
Texas Roadhouse restaurant founder & CEO Kent Taylor died by #suicide last wk at 65 after what his family described as a "battle with post-#COVID19 related symptoms, including severe tinnitus." #LongCovid
New vaccines arrive this week as COVID wave wallops California. - Los…
August, 2024 LA Times:
"Each new infection also carries the risk of long COVID — in which symptoms, sometimes severe enough to be debilitating, can emerge, persist, resolve and reemerge over a period of weeks, months or years."
Cracking the mystery of long covid
Interview with Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly
New intranasal COVID-19 vaccine promises broad protection and accessibility
We will never get this vaccine.
"The [live-attenuated intranasal] vaccine offers potent protection against transmission, prevents reinfection and the spread of the virus, while also reducing the generation of new variants."
Perspective: I Thought I Was Protected but I Still Got Long Covid
“I was aware of Long COVID since I had persistent loss of taste and smell going back to my first infection, but I never really considered it to be Long COVID, as it did not have a major effect on my life. The third infection is really what tipped me into Long COVID. Since then, I've had intermittent chest pain, heart palpitations, various neurological issues (face numbness, buzzing in the feet), joint pain, anxiety, issues with my vision, fatigue, complete alcohol and caffeine intolerance. I alternate between good weeks and bad weeks,”
I tested positive for covid on August 12th.
I tested positive for covid on August 12th.
I'm still symptomatic (cough, recurring fevers). In addition, I have two new rashes, a very bloody UTI, kidney injury, and liver injury.
My POTS and EDS are worse.
This was my first covid. And I'm immunocompromised.
Biden administration’s $3.2 billion antiviral pandemic plan is fizzling out
From reporter Jason Mast: “3 yrs ago, the Biden Administration announced a $3.2B plan to build antivirals for Covid and whatever pandemic nature might throw at us next
Most of the plan was never enacted. And what was built — 9 antiviral centers — may soon be dismantled”
Meta CEO Says He Was ‘Pressured’ by Biden to Pull Covid Content
“Mark Zuckerberg alleged that Facebook was “pressured” by the US government to censor content related to Covid-19 during the global pandemic and that he regrets the company’s decision to accede to the demands.
‘In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire’,”
Possible impact of national responses to the COVID pandemic on medal tallies at the Paris 2024 Olympics
Sports Medicine physician John Orchard: “We’ve done an analysis to show that countries that reduced Covid more effectively won more Gold medals than expected at the Paris Olympics and vice versa”
The Changing Composition of Disability among America’s Workers
Disability in America since Covid:
Particularly noteworthy are The population reporting only a cognitive disability has grown by nearly 1 million—a 43% increase since 2019.
COVID virus evolves more rapidly in the central nervous system than in the lungs, study finds | UIC today
COVID virus evolves more rapidly in the CNS
New viral variants created in the brain & other parts of the nervous system could also travel back to the lungs, where they could become transmissible. That could spread new, dangerous variants of the virus.
Long Covid Knocked a Million Americans Off Their Career Paths
Long Covid Knocked a Million Americans Off Their Career Paths Years after infection, even answering email remains arduous for many
Stanford University will host a conference on pandemic planning featuring the usual (COVID-19) suspects
This week, Stanford University announced a conference on pandemic policy that features several of the usual suspects who spread misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Truly, Stanford has become the “respectable” academic face of efforts to undermine public health.
This week, Stanford University announced a conference on pandemic policy that features several of the usual suspects who spread misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Truly, Stanford has become the “respectable” academic face of efforts to undermine public health.
Long COVID Is Taking Big Toll on U.S. Workforce
Long COVID Is Taking Big Toll on U.S. Workforce
About 14% of working-age people with Long COVID symptoms hadn’t returned to their jobs within three months of their initial infection, researchers found.
Father 'forced' to take early retirement after 'debilitating' long Covid fatigue | ITV News
BBC Sheffield Interview with Fran Haddock - YouTube
Interview with @franhaddock_ who has Severe ME and Long COVID on BBC Sheffield (6 mins)
Interview is about being 98% bedbound and the new report on the prevalence of Long COVID and the inequalities it has highlighted. Also mentions #MECFS
“How long are you going to wear a mask?”
Excellent essay on wearing masks and why it is important:
“How long are you going to wear a mask?”
“We didn’t mask before Covid so we aren’t going to now!”
These are two of the most common refrains covid aware people hear. They suggest that the pandemic is over & that precautions no longer make sense.
They’re wrong 🧵 /1
A few points about the data underpinning the research this article is about.
Long COVID: It’s Going to Get Worse Before It Gets Better
More than one in six people in some parts of Greater Manchester have Long Covid
More that 1 in 6 have Long Covid in Greater Manchester.
More than one in six patients in some parts of Greater Manchester have Long Covid - with the north west's figures the highest in the country, data has revealed
It’s very apparent that Covid has affected your ability to process information. So here it goes..
Accurate, concise summary of the pandemic so far.
The red line in the model represents current infection rates, which starkly contrasts with the lower rates observed during the early pandemic phase, illustrated by the purple line.
U.S. COVID-19 Infection Risk 10.7 Times Higher Than in 2020
📢 Recent PMC Model analyses reveal that Americans are now 10.7 times more likely to contract COVID-19 compared to August 22, 2020, highlighting a significant increase in infection rates.
Opinion: I loved my teaching career. COVID normalization stole it fro…
“The COVID-19 pandemic took that from me. Actually, that’s not quite right. It was the perceived “end” of the pandemic that really ruined my teaching career. I am immunocompromised and rely on medication to manage an autoimmune disease. This means vaccine protection from the virus is probably less effective for me than for most people. Also, my particular illness – Crohn’s, an inflammatory bowel disease – has been shown to put me at significantly greater risk than most for long COVID: a potentially chronic condition that can be very debilitating. And despite how it may seem, COVID circulates widely much of the year: We are still in a pandemic.”
The COVID-19 pandemic took that from me. Actually, that’s not quite right. It was the perceived “end” of the pandemic that really ruined my teaching career.
I am immunocompromised and rely on medication to manage an autoimmune disease. This means vaccine protection from the virus is probably less effective for me than for most people. Also, my particular illness – Crohn’s, an inflammatory bowel disease – has been shown to put me at significantly greater risk than most for long COVID: a potentially chronic condition that can be very debilitating. And despite how it may seem, COVID circulates widely much of the year: We are still in a pandemic.
Covid disabled me, took away my entire life. Reinfection made me a lot sicker, twice. Experts warn about reinfection and covid isn't gone.
“Covid disabled me, took away my entire life. Reinfection made me a lot sicker, twice. Experts warn about reinfection and covid isn't gone.
Yet nobody who comes to visit me masks or tests or even asks me what precaution they should take.”
The covid vaccines don’t work overnight, and they don’t work after 3 months, this narrow sweet spot doesn’t add up to a pandemic response
The data shows you are 10 times more likely to be infected by C0VlD right now than August 23, 2020.
The data shows you are 10 times more likely to be infected by C0VlD right now than August 23, 2020.
A Virtuoso Cellist’s Painstaking Path From Long Covid Back to the Stage
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