Bitte teilen. #Streeck kann in Bonn noch verhindert werden.

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I've made a Covid conscious starter pack called "Salting the Vibes" - voices on advocacy and/or science 🧬

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It's a lonely feeling when you feel like you've lost years to being in survival mode. Especially when it used to be a communal thing, before everyone decided to ignore facts and embrace constant sickness. Now you watch the normalcy farce on social media and feel empty.

*Children with long COVID* recovered *within 2 years* and *repeated infection made it worse*. Read that as many times as you need to. This is NOT a happy news story.

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WHO press conference Feb 11/20. Dr Mike Ryan is shown leaning in to whisper to Dr Tedros G. indicating he should read the note Dr. Ryan has written on the paper in front of him. Immediately after this, Dr. Tedros lies and changes what he had JUST said (the truth that SARS CoV2 is airborne) and suddenly claims he only meant airborne in the "military language" meaning - an explanation which no one understands.

And 16 days later, Feb. 11/20, Dr. Ryan convinces Dr. Tedros G. to retract the truth that SARS2 is airborne, they share a laugh and the unrestrained worldwide massacre has never looked back. This, to me, is <the> turning point of this pandemic and has led directly to untold, ongoing devastation.

A few uncomfortable truths:

COVID is MORE “common” than the “common cold”

It circulates MORE than the flu, even during “flu season”

There’s no “COVID season” as COVID is present all year round

These are facts that ppl find hard to accept as it would mean they need to wear a mask in public spaces

In unadjusted analyses, the mean weekly ratio between hospital-onset and community-onset infections increased from 2.9% prior to Omicron dominance to 7.6% (95% CI, 6.0%-9.1%) during Omicron dominance. After universal masking and testing ended, it increased to 15.5% (95% CI, 13.6%-17.4%), then fell to 8.0% (95% CI, 5.0%-11.0%) following resumption of masking among health care workers. Under the adjusted Poisson model (Figure), cessation of universal masking and testing was associated with a 25% increase in hospital-onset respiratory viral infections compared with the preceding Omicron-dominant period (rate ratio [RR], 1.25; 95% CI, 1.02-1.53), and resumption of masking among staff was associated with a 33% decrease in hospital-onset respiratory viral infections (RR, 0.67; 95% CI, 0.52-0.85).

This paper is interesting for a few reasons. It shows that mask mandates in healthcare protect patients from infections, and removing mask mandates in healthcare harms patients.

A facility without a mask mandate is making a *deliberate choice* known to harm patients.
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Top three hematology pearls for pediatricians #medsky #hemesky

1. Serum iron level is useless
2. Thrombocytosis is reactive 99% of the time
3. Percentage values on WBC differential don’t matter, only absolute values

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Pandemic linked to 16% rise in babies born with heart defects The proportion of babies born with a congenital heart abnormality increased by 16 per cent after the first year of the pandemic, according to research at City St George's, University of London and pub...

Pandemic* linked to 16% rise in babies born with heart defects

*note that the authors controlled for maternal variables & compared to number of babies born with trisomy 21 to determine if the difference was due to healthcare disruption vs. COVID infection

www.news-medical.net/news/2024111...

Prof Brendan Crabb v @CrabbBrendan This one is personal for me this week. Our community's comfort with infection upon infection in kids, with little if any attempt at mitigation, is misguided. It's personally infuriating.

@brendancrabb.bsky.social on X

Regarding

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06...

Let’s say this loud and clear:

Exercise is not the goal, recovery is the goal so one can exercise.

Listen to this man - he’s a world leading expert on PEM/PENE
#ME #Longcovid

Deserves to be shared on Bluesky too. The funniest video of all time.

The Central Error of the Pandemic…

Is that of running pandemic management by laissez-faire socioeconomic principles.

If you grasp this, all the other errors fall into place as the inevitable consequence of following that line of thought. 🧵 1/x

Hi Dalia 👋🏻

Küchentisch-Gespräch mit Robert Habeck YouTube video by Christoph

Lieber Robert Habeck!

Ich bin etwas spät dran, aber dieses Thema ist zu wichtig, um es nicht (nochmal) anzusprechen.
Mein #Küchentisch -Video für Sie – Danke, dass Sie sich die Anliegen der Bürger*innen anhören!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAO1...

JD Vance says US could veto NATO if Europe tries to regulate Elon Musk’s platforms Republican vice presidential nominee says ‘Germans and other nations’ – not Russia – would ‘have to fund Ukraine’s reconstruction’

Und schon geht es los!

Europa sollte den Spieß so schnell wie möglich herumdrehen.

Vaccine Volume 43, Part 2, 1 January 2025, 126497 Effect of COVID-19 vaccination on the risk of developing post- COVID conditions: The VENUS study

Deutlich geringeres Risiko von #LongCovid bei Impfung innerhalb von 5 Monaten vor der Infektion

Neue Daten aus der VENUS-Studie (Vaccine Effectiveness, Networking, and Universal Safety) in Japan zeigen, dass das Risiko, an Long COVID zu erkranken, …

#COVID19 #ImpfenSchuetzt

AOK-Report: Neuer Rekord bei Krankheitsfällen im Jahr 2024 Die Fehlzeiten von Beschäftigten steuern laut der AOK in diesem Jahr auf einen neuen Rekord zu. Treiber sind vor allem Atemwegserkrankungen.

Wir leben nun in einer permanenten Corona-Welle.
Prognose: Die Reaktion der Rechten wird sein, die Lohnfortzahlung im Krankheitsfall anzugreifen.

Kind mit Atemschutzmaske hält in der rechten Hand einen Teddybären. Mit der linken Hand wehrt hat Kind zwei wütende Coronaviren ab. Auf dem linken Arm klebt ein Impfpflaster.

Zur Information:

Bei der Suche nach eine Praxis, in der Corona-Impfungen durchgeführt werden, helfen wir Euch gern weiter.

Bitte schreibt eine Mail an:
👉 Impfung@bildungabersicher.net

und gebt im Betreff das jeweilige Bundesland an.

Es gibt keine Immunität,
ob durch Infektion oder Impfung oder beides, die hohen Virusdosen stand hält.
Die Konsequenz MUSS eine Verbesserung der Luftqualität in gemeinschaftlich genutzten Räumen sein.
#Reinfektionskarussel #Liftfilter #Raumluftqualität #CovidIsAirborne

Opinion: Sick of your kids being sick? Clean air in schools may be the answer It’s time to take a closer look at air filters in classrooms to prevent illnesses and absences, write Julia Corey and Orla Hegarty

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...

Na, mal wieder für eure #Schutzmaßnahmen eine "Angststörung" unterstellt bekommen? Zu meinem Job gehört es übrigens, diese zu diagnostizieren & zu behandeln. Ein wichtiges Merkmal: Die Reaktion kann als nicht dem Auslöser angemessen eingeordnet werden.

Thread by @RaffyFlynnArt on Thread Reader App @RaffyFlynnArt: 100 things that Covid can do. SC2 can hang in the air for over 12 hrs in aerosols. The size of a SARS-CoV-2 particle ranges from 0.07 μm to 0.09 μm. An aerosol particle the...

100 things Covid can do.
With publication links.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/17111...

The other piece is that when we actually look at the use of the word endemic—both currently and historically—there is an implicit and sometimes explicit part of the definition of that term that means a disease is endemic when the people who are bearing the burden of infection and disease are people who we don’t really care about.

Aly and Heim: Compromise was looked upon as a mark of intellectual laziness, while patently criminal acts were spuriously dignified as historical necessity, 'the price one pays for progress'. The size and qualitative composition of the population were to be continuously monitored and regulated through government programmes of birth control (and birth promotion), resettlement and extermination.

It’s time to spell it out loud and clear. “Endemic” is a racist, classist, ableist and ageist word that means some people are worth less than others. It is part of “the price one pays for progress” that the expendable must be thrown under the wheel. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

An empty office Headline: What Is This Covid Everyone Was Mentioning? And Where Is Everyone? Story by Baguette Wolverhampton and Loris Walkover Photo: https://unsplash.com/photos/b1g-aFHJA2M

What Is This Covid Everyone Was Mentioning?
And Where Is Everyone?

We don’t have the tools.
We *had* the tools and we shit all over them.
There’s still reason for hope.
Here’s how a memory from a shitty summer job at a hardware store helped me find it.
#CovidIsNotOver #WeHadTheTools

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Spannende Abschätzung der Infektiosität

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The Costs of Long-COVID:
Im IGÖ-Prüfanregung an den Rechnungshof unter 2b: drive.google.com/file/d/1WVLF...

"People are too tired to mask" is a BS excuse for inaction.

You can require masks. You can distribute free N95 masks. You can educate people that COVID is airborne.

Unless you are doing all of these things, you have no right to say "people are tired." The fault is yours.