Hello all. I’ve joined and not sure how to find everyone. I hope to reconnect w/ everyone that followed me & I followed on other site. Let me know you’re here. Let’s work together to save lives.
Economic burden of Long Covid in the UK estimated to be >$20 billion per year from real cohort data
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Plot of covid outcomes by age for A&E attendance, hospital admission, severe hospital admission and death. Apart from death, rates were highest for babies under 6 months.
THREAD: we urgently need to talk about babies & Covid - AGAIN.
A new paper has dropped looking at acute Covid-19 outcomes from Sep 2023-Apr 2024 by age for all England.
Except for deaths, babies under 6 mths old have HIGHEST risk of A&E, admission & SEVERE hospital admission across ALL ages 1/10
Petition to quickly add group chats to #bsky🙏.
Reason: They are very important for community building, to have a bit more private space to connect & discuss issues.
Pls like/reskeet (repost) if you agree or add your own reasons💛.
@pfrazee.com
"Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 9-22, 2024
SEVERE: CAN, AB, BC, MB, NB, North, NS, ON, PEI, QC, SK
VERY HIGH: NL
HIGH: none
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 31 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected."
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An advertisement for the polio vaccine which reads: "they all got vaccine except dad...don't take a chance...take your polio shots!" It depicts a photo of a family gathered around a father who is in an iron lung.
With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of vaccines. THREAD👇
Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7 #history #skystorians
"A source close to the model said that she died on the Greek island of Kos and that she had suffered from a blood brain hemorrhage as a result of long COVID." (Not officially confirmed as yet?)
wwd.com/fashion-news...
Don't listen to those with silken tongues saying that the pandemic is over, it's "only" like a cold or seasonal flu, people aren't badly affected & that it's mild now, that we have to live with it
They are covering up their failure to act and protect society
Wear a well fitting respirator 😷
The public need to realise that in a very large number of cases, the serious, chronic and often fatal health problems that patients are developing during and after recent COVID (re)infections are BECAUSE of those infections
It is VITAL to avoid these (re) infections
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"A spike in #COVID deaths has driven a decline in Australian life expectancy for the second year running"
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
I’m imagining this headline on abc news for 6 months when the government decided to open up before any air safety upgrades…
instead of “The Denmark Model” mild thing ad nauseam while thousands of Aussies were killed.
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Obviously enough people didn't read between the lines to see the unsaid "Make America Mordor" promise on the Trump ticket 😬
#Project2025
Huge new report out of Quebec
The risk of long COVID reaches 37% after three infections, according to the INSPQ
The Quebec health system is unable to help the growing number of people who have had persistent symptoms for months or even years
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/211...
I'm not asking healthcare professionals to watch TV or keep up with the news. I'm asking them to read the most influential medical periodical in the world? Don't psychologise #LongCovid patients.
#NeuroCovid
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Good morning! And thanks, this helped me to realise I missed a "j" from my handle when I set it up 🤣🤦♂️
Fixed!
Thanks, I shall pass on that you haven't expired due to a surfeit of kale 🙃
@christosargyrop.bsky.social Hi Christos, all ok I hope? What happened to your twitter account?
#COVIDpoems #HealthLore
Vaccinate to improve your fate
Heed the herd and harm your heart
Party hearty and invigorate the virus
Viral air brings despair
COVID takes from all it touches
Closing your mind means you shall lose it
Mask your face to maintain your health
Great piece in the Irish Examiner about clean air in schools
Clean air in schools should NOT be controversial
It is affordable, easily achievable and benefits kids in many ways
And again, this should NOT be controversial
No paywall so please read and share
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
“Long COVID is the biggest, most mispriced risk facing the United States. Based on the latest studies, it's entirely possible that as many as one-third of Americans could be struggling with Long COVID in just a few years.”
Petition as above showing 9230 signatures
📣We have 1wk to get 770+ signatures📣
How can you help?
💙 Sign (& confirm email)
💜 Ask friends, family, and even children to sign
💗 Find groups of like-minded on other social platforms and ask for help
Tomorrow 6-8pm in the other place #MasksInHealthcare
with
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Especially with the continuing risk of new COVID-19 variants, it is essential to maintain an “occupational hygiene plus” approach at work i.e. integrating vaccination with other control strategies. Relying only on vaccination programmes is asking for trouble.
However, when source and pathway control have been neglected or are insufficient, just as firefighters may have to rely on indispensable Respiratory Protective Equipment (RPE) for protection, so too Health Care Workers have to rely on RPE.
Clearly every effort should be made to mitigate risk, first through source control and then through pathway control such as by investment in ventilation / filtration.
During the COVID-19 pandemic "following public health guidance” often became a euphemism for ignoring occupational hygiene science and good practice, and for not complying with health and safety obligations towards employees.
There are indeed many contributory causes leading to death of workers from COVID-19, but there is only one necessary cause of COVID-19 mortality, namely exposure to an infectious dose of viable SARS-CoV-2 viruses!
There was a narrative of “underlying conditions” so deaths of workers seemed to be ascribed to factors specific to the victims; and not to the failure of the employer to provide an environment that eliminated or minimized exposure to known hazards.
Unfortunately the authorities fed false narratives to workers. Workers were worngly told that surgical masks were OK as 'Personal Protective Equipment'.
