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”
“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’,”
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 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 Years after infection, even answering email remains arduous for many
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.
Scotland ARHAI... "the clear inadequacy of the droplet/airborne dichotomy"
I think they just admitted all they wrote about pandemic transmission was wrong
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
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
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.
“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.
Yet nobody who comes to visit me masks or tests or even asks me what precaution they should take.”
Understatement: “…getting multiple Covid infections increases the chance of short- and long-term effects on the body, including the heart and lungs. So, even if we can’t totally eliminate our risk of catching it, it’s still worth trying to dodge Covid as best we can.”
August 22, 2024
“BREAKING: California's COVID-19 rates have surged to 14.7 percent, and wastewater viral loads have reached unprecedented and alarming record levels.”
The DNC just gaslit the entire country. There won’t be another segment on tv more detached from reality than this exchange on the Pandemic.
“4 years ago, this would’ve been a superspreader event. It feels really good to breathe air and see everyone’s smiling faces.”
New poll: 13% mask “all the time”
A new poll found 32% of Americans believe COVID is a “large or moderate” risk to their health but only 13% said they mask all the time, while 21% had taken an at-home test in the past week.
