5 years since the pandemic started, long COVID patients are still hoping for a cure
"We've seen so much long COVID in just the last year or two."
Covid History
A spring break that didn't end: 5 years later, COVID's impact still felt in Brevard schools
5 years of COVID-19 underscore value of coordinated efforts to manage disease – while CDC, NIH and WHO face threats to their ability to respond to a crisis
How denial of airborne COVID transmission broke the world - Healthy Debate
“Failure to reasonably presume, then later accept the airborne spread of COVID and operationalize the appropriate structural mitigations is at the source of every major shortcoming in our response to the pandemic, and every major form of physical, mental, economic and social harm it has brought about. It doomed our public health, social and economic responses, ensuring they would not be fully effective, appropriately targeted and minimally disruptive, ultimately leading to many divisions in society we see today.”
Failure to reasonably presume, then later accept the airborne spread of COVID and operationalize the appropriate structural mitigations is at the source of every major shortcoming in our response to the pandemic, and every major form of physical, mental, economic and social harm it has brought about. It doomed our public health, social and economic responses, ensuring they would not be fully effective, appropriately targeted and minimally disruptive, ultimately leading to many divisions in society we see today.
COVID-19 Impact: How the virus changed our lives 5 years later
I don’t think it’s widely appreciated yet just how much COVID disinformation is an assault on democracy. COVID conspiracy theories were the best recruitment tool for the far right in decades. They’ve left us damaged—undermined faith in our governing institutions, science, and modern medicine.— Walker Bragman (@walkerbragman.bsky.social) 2025-03-08T16:32:33.464Z
“I don’t think it’s widely appreciated yet just how much COVID disinformation is an assault on democracy.
COVID conspiracy theories were the best recruitment tool for the far right in decades.
They’ve left us damaged—undermined faith in our governing institutions, science, and modern medicine.”
It was known (and publicized) in 2020-21 that COVID causes organ damage (lungs, brain, heart, etc.). But that was shushed up in 2022 with the Biden administration’s rush return to “normal” for the sake of the economy. Now 5 years in come the “Emerging evidence is beginning to show…” articles.— #9 Dream (@gayfabfourfan.bsky.social) 2025-03-10T16:33:36.180Z
“It was known (and publicized) in 2020-21 that COVID causes organ damage (lungs, brain, heart, etc.). But that was shushed up in 2022 with the Biden administration’s rush return to “normal” for the sake of the economy. Now 5 years in come the “Emerging evidence is beginning to show…” articles.”
Pandemic Deemed 'Over' by 59%, yet Future Health Crisis Feared
40% of Americans say life will never get back to “normal.”
11% say they have Long Covid.
21% say they are very (3%) or somewhat (18%) worried about getting Covid.
58%, are worried that there will be another global pandemic in their lifetime, including 16% who are “very worried” and 42% “somewhat worried.”
5% say they “always” or “very often” wear a mask outside their home, and 13% do so “sometimes.” 28% “rarely” wear a mask, and 54% “never” do.
COVID Impact: 5 years later
ABC 7 New York: COVID Impact: 5 years later
“Researchers don't have all the answers to that, Hsu said. But large numbers of people - many of them previously young, active and healthy - ‘are now effectively disabled because of long COVID.’”
Opinion | How Covid Remade America
“the world does not seem now more buoyant or full of hope, but abrasive and rapacious and shaped nearly everywhere by a barely suppressed rage. We have still not reckoned with all we have lost.”
Covid rules should have been same across UK, Simon Hart says
“Rules to try to limit the spread of Covid during the pandemic should have been the same across the UK, a former cabinet minister has said. Simon Hart has claimed ‘politics in the decision-making’ led to different restrictions on things like wearing face masks in Wales and England after being agreed by their respective governments. ‘I just didn't feel that decisions were being made purely on the basis of disease control and risk management,’ said the former Welsh secretary and MP.”
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Right you lovely people. It's time to talk about the Third Bump again.
Strap in, this isn't good news. Just to give you a quick recap: Before the pandemic started, annual rates of sickness, new onset disability, and death were pretty constant here…”
Covid-19 in NZ: Five years - and five big unanswered questions
The New York Times is calling scientists and researchers "alarmists" after ignoring half a million publications on the harms of SARS-Cov-2 and Long Covid. pic.twitter.com/cSRMwCk1P7— Dr. Michael DACM🇱🇧🇵🇸 (@internetuserf12) February 27, 2025
“The New York Times is calling scientists and researchers ‘alarmists’ after ignoring half a million publications on the harms of SARS-Cov-2 and Long Covid.”
New paper examines why COVID-19 mortality was higher in the U.S. than in some East Asian countries
“The U.S. suffered 5 to 7 times more deaths due to COVID per 100,000 people than did Taiwan, South Korea & Japan. Why did so many more Americans die from the virus than people in these East Asian countries?”
How Influencer Leftists Failed On Covid
“Covid was the biggest transfer of power from bosses to workers in 75 years. Billionaires were so angry at this they demanded governments inflict pain on the economy to punish arrogant workers. Yet so little left wing analysis of the last 5 years makes this point. It’s amazing. “
So many Americans died from COVID, it boosted Social Security to the tune of $205 billion
“New research finds Social Security will pay out $205 billion less in future benefits owing to COVID-related premature deaths.”
New research finds Social Security will pay out $205 billion less in future benefits owing to COVID-related premature deaths.
Thread by @NateB_Panic on Thread Reader App
“Yes this is how most people remember it, left to right. Governments were also doing direct cash transfers to citizens, homeless people were found shelter, evictions were banned and debts were frozen. We should ask why the latter didn't become the cultural story”
Yes this is how most people remember it, left to right. Governments were also doing direct cash transfers to citizens, homeless people were found shelter, evictions were banned and debts were frozen. We should ask why the latter didn't become the cultural story
Excess natural-cause mortality in US counties and its association with reported COVID-19 deaths | PNAS
“Official COVID-19 mortality statistics have not fully captured deaths attributable to SARS-CoV-2 infection in the United States. While some excess deaths were likely related to pandemic health care interruptions and socioeconomic disruptions, temporal correlations between reported COVID-19 deaths and excess deaths reported to non-COVID-19 natural causes suggest that many of those excess deaths were unrecognized COVID-19 deaths.”
Official COVID-19 mortality statistics have not fully captured deaths attributable to SARS-CoV-2 infection in the United States. While some excess deaths were likely related to pandemic health care interruptions and socioeconomic disruptions, temporal correlations between reported COVID-19 deaths and excess deaths reported to non-COVID-19 natural causes suggest that many of those excess deaths were unrecognized COVID-19 deaths.
COVID-19 case fatality rate and infection fatality rate from 2020 to 2023: Nationwide analysis in Austria
‘SILENCE=DEATH’: Long COVID-suffering performers protest outside BAFTAs
““In just 4 years, Covid has killed more people than AIDS did in 40—both have devastated the arts.
Governments and workplaces once built the infrastructure to protect us, but now they’ve torn it all down. The world needs art more than ever to remind us of our shared humanity.”
Thread by @LazarusLong13 on Thread Reader App
Latest Pew Poll.
Or an exercise on "How well did Biden disappear C0V1D?"
Latest Pew Poll.
Or an exercise on "How well did Biden disappear C0V1D?"
10 More Times Jay Bhattacharya, Trump's Pick for NIH Director, was Dead Wrong About COVID-19
Why the COVID Deniers Won
The Northeast US Is EXPLODING once again for Covid in wastewater.
‘We really never came back to each other’: Five years after COVID, we’re more divided than ever - The Boston Globe
“After a brief moment when Americans came together to battle a virus, the pandemic accelerated divisions of all kinds.”
After a brief moment when Americans came together to battle a virus, the pandemic accelerated divisions of all kinds.
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