“This is the biggest summer wave because people are under-vaccinated and have stopped taking other precautions like distancing or wearing masks. And the reasons why we’re not taking these important risk-reduction behaviours is because many of us believe that COVID is over, or, if not over, that it’s not a big deal…
…But long COVID is still a risk and as of mid-August, the Public Health Agency of Canada reported over four million COVID cases in Canada. It’s not ‘just the flu’ either, as with this summer surge, the World Health Organization also reports increases in hospitalizations and deaths”
Long COVID Clinical Evaluation, Research and Impact on Society: A Global Expert Consensus
Background: Long COVID is a complex, heterogeneous syndrome affecting at least one hundred million people globally.
She’s on day 4 of covid & says:
“I had a lot of errands to run. I didn’t wear a mask—when I have covid, I can’t breathe worth a flip as it is… it’s not like I’m in anybody’s face, breathing all over them. Bash me if you want, but I’m not wearing a mask when I’m sick like this.”
COVID patients breathe large amounts of virus early on
COVID patients exhale high numbers of virus during the first eight days after symptoms start, as high as 1,000 copies per minute, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study.
Nearly half of COVID-19 survivors in African countries report ongoing symptoms, with fatigue being the most common.
Up to 25% of patients experience mental health issues like PTSD and anxiety, which African health systems are unprepared to address.
translation/analysis thread on German Long Covid video which equates it with MECFS and calls ME “the most serious form of long covid.”
“currently it looks like an autoimmune disease where something has gone wrong with the vasculature, and both the mitochondrial dynamics and glycolytic metabolism are disturbed.
There are at least 500k patients in Germany.”
Can I introduce everyone to the psychological warfare being used on the public regarding COVID? Look at the key words we see the media and people now repeating.
This should concern everyone because it’s working. On both sides.
“We have lived through a Covid summer – and there is new cause for concern
With lives being turned upside down by sudden illness and a steady mortality rate related to the disease, Covid and its after-effects are still looming menacingly over us. Zoë Beaty talks to experts and those suffering to find out more”
New Covid Variant XEC Spreading Rapidly Across Continents
A new Covid variant is spreading rapidly and has caught the attention of the research world, 111 samples have already been reported from 15 countries, across three different continents.
August 28, 2024
Italy: COVID cases +11%, deaths +36% and positivity rate at 18.9% in the last week.
From 22 August to 28 August:
🔹Reported cases: 15,221 (+11%) 🔹Reinfections: n/a 🔹Deaths: 135 (+36%) 🔹Positivity rate: 18.9% (+2.7%)
“An even more contagious COVID strain is ‘just getting started’ amid California wave Doctors and scientists are keeping an eye on yet another coronavirus subvariant — XEC — that could surpass the latest hyperinfectious strain.”
“Why did the nurse complain about how hard it was to breathe in a mask before she even put it on? Maybe she wanted validation. Maybe she wanted a reaction. Maybe she wanted me to intervene and tell her it was okay if she didn't wear a mask. I gave her nothing. Sometimes, that's what someone needs.
Nothing.
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…It's easy to dismiss the deep yearning for ‘normal’ that compels hundreds of millions of people to disregard their own health and safety, to burn the future for the moments of joy they were promised. We all remember what it used to be like. We're just the ones coping better with its loss. For us, ‘normal’ was always more of an excursion anyway. The real normal was always a return to solitude, and maybe that's why we're handling the new reality better.”
