Given that BA.3.2 is massively overrepresented in youth, you'd expect its hospitalization rate to be much, much lower. The fact it's about equal to other variants could be an indication it tends to cause more severe acute illness than other variants. Note enough data to say anything w/confidence.
How would you react if you went to your Doctor after losing your health because of #LongCOVID and were told to do Yoga by Adrienne?
It's 2026. Are they doing this to 30% of their patients?
#medsky
#gaslit
Is this a systemic Semmelweis reflex?
There's a reason the people this has hit the hardest have been asking folks to wear masks and clean the air for years.
We've seen what's coming for a while now.
This is so overt that even Goebbels would be like, "don't you wanna like...tone down the messaging a bit bro?"
Stop saying chronically ill people are lucky to stay home all day. Being chronically ill is a full time job with so much over time and no benefits
Young adults with long COVID sometimes have problems getting a diagnosis and convincing healthcare providers that they have long COVID. Ariana Zwern is a young adult who got COVID in 2022 and found that most doctors weren't aware of long COVID.
#longcovidawareness
"On the basis of population-based, controlled studies, approximately 10 to 15 % of adults show long COVID symptoms following SARS-CoV-2 infection."
#LongCovid #EvidenceBasedResearch
#ItsNotOver 😷
A friend today described AI as "Dunning-Krueger in a box", which might be even better than "Mediocre White Male Talent Simulator".
AI is not the telephone or the internet. It's 1980s synthesizers, 1990s CGI, or 2000s autotune.
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
I saw a headline
which alarmingly noted:
“Urgent warning
of long Covid symptoms
as number of cases
rise in UK,”
but here, across the pond,
things are quite different,
yes, here we know
that the way to avoid
a rising number of cases
is to just stop counting them.
An image of a person holding a syringe and inserting the syringe into a COVID vaccine vial.
COVID vaccines are tied to less hospital care, long COVID, and economic burden.
A large study in Germany shows lower hospitalization, all-cause death rates, and health care costs in vaccinated people.
Read more: ow.ly/XG0E50YMTht
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CIDRAP Op-Ed: When you get what you wish for: How anti-vax advocacy is making Big Pharma bigger
The current vaccine policy discourages the development of new vaccines, creating more sickness, rising health care costs.
Full Op-Ed by Jess Steier: ow.ly/rPMx50YMGHg
📷: Clarissa Peterson / Flickr cc
I spent my first couple of years as a Senator, pre Covid, with a near-perpetual cold. I flew twice every week, and hosted a viral buffet. Now, I mask every flight, and so far - touch wood - I’ve gone all winter without a sniffle. People laugh and even yell at me sometimes. But my nose isn’t stuffy!
I am afraid to go to the hospital because I don't want to get SICKER.
It shouldn't have to be this way! Properly fitted n95 respirators are virtually perfect at blocking the transmission of Covid (and many other diseases).
sph.umd.edu/news/study-s...
BUT NO ONE WEARS THEM.
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I will not respond to the stupid.
Stupid is the mind killer.
I will not quote-skeet the stupid.
I will let the stupid flow over and through me.
And when it passes, only I will remain.
Selv USA er foran os i DK.
Jég tror ikke på, at det kommer. Ikke i Danmark ihvertfald.
Disse "nogen" er ikke interesserede i at bruge penge på at rense luften, så dét kommer næppe til at ske.
Det samme gælder i øvrigt lærernes/pædagogernes fagforeninger, deres medlemmer udsættes jo også for massiv smitte med luftbårne vira. Rensning af luften ville ikke fjerne al luftbåren smitte, da vira jo ikke bliver fjernet i dét øjeblik, de bliver åndet ud, men det ville dog nedsætte den markant.
Havde de ordentlige fagforeninger, ville disse kræve, at luften blev renset på hospitaler og andre relevante steder. Medlemmerne gider ikke gå med masker, men luftrensning har de vel næppe noget imod .
Hvilket jo ville være nødvendigt - ud fra den videnskabelige litteratur - hvis de ikke skulle smitte patienterne/selv blive smittet med de mange luftbårne patogener, herunder SARS-CoV-2, influenza og RSV, der konstant befinder sig på deres arbejdsplads.
Sundhedspersonale følger generelt bare retningslinjerne fra Sundhedsstyrelsen, og tror så, at den hellige grav er velforvaret. Og med hensyn til masker, er dét så også, hvad de helst VIL tro, eftersom de ikke gider gå med ffp2/ffp3 masker i hele deres arbejdstid
Lige præcis. Hvordan skal det dog ikke gå os, når vi ikke jævnligt ånder diverse vira ind.
De tror, at deres lærebøger har lært dem alt, der ér at vide 🤣 og at Sundhedsstyrelsens retningslinjer fortæller dem de ting, det ellers er nødvendigt at kende til 😆🙄
Ja, helt sikkert. Hvorfor de tror det, fatter jeg faktisk ikke. Det er mit klare indtryk, fra mit tidligere arbejde som sygeplejerske, at sundhedspersonale generelt ikke læser videnskabelig litteratur overhovedet. Ikke engang den videnskabelige litteratur i deres eget speciale.
De gider ikke have ffp2/ffp3 maske på, så derfor vil de ikke vide, at det er nødvendigt, hvis ikke de vil smittes/smitte patienterne.
😆
Ja, det må være irriterende 😆
Måske véd de ikke, at det er usandsynligt, at man skulle kunne smitte nogen (ihvertfald med en sygdom, der primært/udelukkende smitter via respirationsvejene) når man har ffp2/ffp3 maskpå? De tror måske, at man efterlader "corona"- vira på de ting, man rører ved, som så kan smitte dem? 🤣
