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.
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Father 'forced' to take early retirement after 'debilitating' long Covid fatigue | ITV News
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Scotland ARHAI... "the clear inadequacy of the droplet/airborne dichotomy"
I think they just admitted all they wrote about pandemic transmission was wrong
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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So you’ve got Covid again? Here’s what to do about it
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.”
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.
COVID-19: Hospitalizations at highest level since winter
COVID-19: Hospitalizations at highest level since winter | Montreal Gazette
Respiratory Virus Dashboard
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.
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.”
Mask Bans Are Everyone’s Fight (08/22/24) by Death Panel
“In our latest, we discuss the mask ban passed in Nassau County last week and why mask bans threaten much more than just public health: they’re racist carceral expansions, they’re anti-trans, and target the pro-Palestine movement and the whole of the left”
These Are the Drag Artists and Organizers Fighting to Make Queer Spaces More COVID Safe
“Air purifier lending libraries, mask blocs, and mutual aid initiatives are just a few of the ways activists are making spaces where LGBTQ+ people gather more COVID-safe.”
Air purifier lending libraries, mask blocs, and mutual aid initiatives are just a few of the ways activists are making spaces where LGBTQ+ people gather more COVID-safe.
There’s a gaping hole in Canada’s COVID tracking
“Federal online trackers only show the hospitalizations and deaths from acute COVID infections. They exclude hospitalizations and deaths resulting from COVID’s longer-term harms at our own peril.”
1 in 3 say COVID-19 poses risk to their health: Survey
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.
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A study in Argentina found that 68% of the 2,030 health workers reported having #longcovid.
The highest risks were linked to severe initial symptoms, being a nurse, working multiple jobs, and working in emergency areas
There is more covid transmission today than during more than 90% of the rest of the pandemic. So yes, that is some serious .
1 - Class Complaint.pdf
Disability Rights New York has filed a class action lawsuit against Nassau County seeking a preliminary injunction and a temporary restraining order to stop enforcement of the mask ban in Nassau County.
BREAKING: Disability Rights New York has filed a class action lawsuit against Nassau County.
BREAKING: Disability Rights New York has filed a class action lawsuit against Nassau County.
They are seeking a preliminary injunction and a temporary restraining order to stop enforcement of the mask ban in Nassau County.
Link to lawsuit:
The planet the Democrats live on sounds nice
“With a million new COVID cases per day in the US, Democrats celebrate their ‘victory’ over COVID at their massive indoor superspreader event with zero mitigations”
With a million new COVID cases per day in the US, Democrats celebrate their "victory" over COVID at their massive indoor superspreader event with zero mitigations
New vector vaccine against COVID-19 provides long-term protection
So naturally we will never get it.
unlike limited and quickly waning efficacy of MRNA, “innovative vector vaccine developed at the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI) presents a compelling alternative. It elicits prolonged immune response in animal models, and maintains its efficacy over extended time.”
COVID vaccine efficacy against severe illness just under 50%, per early estimates from 2023 | CIDRAP
COVID vaccine efficacy against severe illness just under 50%, per early estimates from 2023