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#CovidResurgence
#SuperDemic
It is all over the world again- driven by new variants
China’s COVID-19 Wave: 'Doctor Deaths' Raise Concerns
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Why #SuperDemic
Despite being in the 6th year of the pandemic we continue to raise the same questions that we raised at the beginning @organicbotanic.bsky.social @elhopkins.bsky.social

5 years of #SuperDemic
It has been more than 5yrs into C-19 & we have realised how inadequately prepared we r to deal with infectious events of high magnitude & how we r least willing to make amends @elhopkins.bsky.social @organicbotanic.bsky.social @erininaustin.medsky.social

Been saying this for some time now
If there is no collective effort to discourage research that doesn’t address current needs & serves the interest of a privileged few, we will continue to live in the shadows of a #SuperDemic
@elhopkins.bsky.social
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Evolution of social contacts patterns in France over the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: results from the SocialCov survey - BMC Infectious Diseases Background Non-pharmaceutical measures such as lockdowns, curfews and place closures were implemented in France during 2020–2022 to reduce contacts in the population, to limit the spread of SARS-CoV-2...

Why us it a #SuperDemic
@organicbotanic.bsky.social @elhopkins.bsky.social @mark-ungrin.bsky.social
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Why call it a #SuperDemic
Nearly 3/4 of U.S. adults (72%) say the COVID-19 pandemic did more to drive the country apart than to bring it together @organicbotanic.bsky.social @erininaustin.medsky.social @elhopkins.bsky.social

Why #SuperDemic
Covid is not just a critical health event
but an event critical to civilisation as it significantly altered the course of human society by introducing major changes in technology, social structures, political systems, economics & cultural norms @elhopkins.bsky.social

Why #SuperDemic
Thinking is to humans what swimming is to fish
Covid-19 has blunted our thinking impacting our Social, economic & political decision making capacity @organicbotanic.bsky.social @elhopkins.bsky.social

Why #SuperDemic
Humans as a species have flourished on this planet not because of physical strength but because an ABILITY TO ADAPT & our ability to think has mainly contributed to adaptability
C-19 continues to rob us of this ability @organicbotanic.bsky.social @elhopkins.bsky.social

Why #SuperDemic
Millions dead & continue to die
Many more millions disabled & continue to be disabled
@organicbotanic.bsky.social @elhopkins.bsky.social @brownecfm.bsky.social

Why #SuperDemic
Nonscience dictates science
As political agendas, beliefs not tested by time, economic interest or personal ideology influence scientific research & decision-making leading to the suppression or prioritization of scientific findings @organicbotanic.bsky.social @elhopkins.bsky.social

Why I call it #SuperDemic
Theories that may be running contrary to each other as well to the biological understanding of transmission & disease
& then there is asymptomatic vs symptomatic, incident vs reported, comorbidity
It is much more complex @elhopkins.bsky.social @organicbotanic.bsky.social

Iron nutrition and COVID-19 among Nigerian healthcare workers AbstractBackground and objectives. The optimal iron hypothesis (OIH) posits that risk for infection is lowest at a mild level of iron deficiency. The exten

Why #SuperDemic
our level of understanding the event seems to ⬇️ & not ⬆️
SARS-CoV-2’s ability to establish infection is enhanced by access to iron
From hygiene to iron hypothesis, we seem to be coming a full circle @organicbotanic.bsky.social @elhopkins.bsky.social
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Prioritise vaccine boosters for vulnerable immunocompromised patients and prevent emergence of new Covid variants, say scientists

#SuperDemic
If u ask me- where would u keep the vaccines in the hierarchy of mitigation tools for Covid
I would not hesitate to keep them in the bottom half
I am not anti-vax, but precious little is being done by vaccine promoters to change my opinion on this www.cuh.nhs.uk/news/vaccine...

#EndocrineDisruptor
The most significant thing with a #SuperDemic is its surprisingly unthought of impacts on organs & organ systems among infected, making our science more of a guesswork & leaving us unprepared @organicbotanic.bsky.social @elhopkins.bsky.social @njbbari3.bsky.social

#SuperDemic
Does Covid act like any other #EndocrineDisruptor
Going by what I am observing around there is a high probability that- yes it does @elhopkins.bsky.social @njbbari3.bsky.social @organicbotanic.bsky.social
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#SuperDemic
Heart attacks in offices, at speech, while dancing- were this uncommon earlier or less noticed
The fact is that there is a definite upward trend in heart attacks among young post 2019 @elhopkins.bsky.social @organicbotanic.bsky.social @brownecfm.bsky.social
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COVID-19 'Day of Reflection' to be held to mark five years since pandemic A national ‘Day of Reflection’ will be held across the UK to mark five years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

#SuperDemic day
Dedicated to finding solutions to future events & to the events going on @organicbotanic.bsky.social @elhopkins.bsky.social
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Karnataka to form expert panel to study sudden deaths, Covid-19 links Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has directed the chief secretary to constitute a committee of experts and scientists to investigate the causes for such sudden deaths mostly due to cardiac events.

#SuperDemic
not bad as long as the processes are entirely Scientific @organicbotanic.bsky.social @elhopkins.bsky.social
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Pandemic Vs #SuperDemic
Term attempts to capture not just the biological impact of the infectious event but also its cascading effects on society at large with an emphasis on the long-term & wide-ranging consequences beyond just the immediate health crisis @organicbotanic.bsky.social

Did Covid-19 change the Moon’s temperature? We finally know what happened Researchers have now revisited the study to see if the sudden break in human activity on Earth led to the cooling down of the Moon in April and May of 2020.

Did Covid-19 change the Moon’s temperature?
The fact that we are even thinking of investigating this makes Covid a #SuperDemic & yet we refuse to accept the enormity of the event
When was the last time we thought like this @organicbotanic.bsky.social
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Differential protection against SARS-CoV-2 reinfection pre- and post-Omicron - Nature Two distinct patterns in the protective effect of natural infection against reinfection in the Omicron variant versus pre-Omicron eras show that SARS-CoV-2 immune protection is shaped by dynamic inter...

#SuperDemic
Let’s accept the fact that infection as a way of acquiring immunity is simply poor public health & if natural infection doesn’t offer long term immunity, chances r that vaccine won’t either @elhopkins.bsky.social @brownecfm.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Metapopulations, the Inflationary Effect, and Consequences for Public Health | The American Naturalist Abstract The metapopulation concept offers significant explanatory power in ecology and evolutionary biology. Metapopulations, a set of spatially distributed populations linked by dispersal, and their...

#SuperDemic & Metapopulations
What we missed in confronting COVID 19 was our inability to predict @elhopkins.bsky.social @erininaustin.medsky.social @organicbotanic.bsky.social
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Wondering if you should write a short piece to the BMJ perhaps to record your views on #SuperDemic ?

Why will we continue to fail to prevent #SuperDemic
Our politico-social construct is being destroyed & being made too techno-economy dependent to undermine the role of community in acting against a Crisis of this magnitude @organicbotanic.bsky.social @elhopkins.bsky.social @yaneerbaryam.bsky.social

Precisely the reason I have been using term #SuperDemic for Covid instead of a pandemic
There are concerted efforts from both business & politics to downplay its existence & downplaying looks easier with the word Pandemic @mark-ungrin.bsky.social @organicbotanic.bsky.social @elhopkins.bsky.social

COVID-19 death toll predictions show that triggering counterfactual thinking deteriorates judgmental performance - Communications Medicine Seifert and Somasundaram collect 6731 daily forecasts over 377 days to investigate the role of triggering counterfactual thinking when interpreting public information regarding the daily US death toll...

Important in a #SuperDemic but unfortunately neglected
Using debiasing strategies & neutral communication during health crises to mitigate the generation of upward counterfactuals, reduces the likelihood of systematic misperceptions & flawed decision-making. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

COVID-19's hidden heart danger: Virus raises risk of heart issues The virus was linked with the rapid growth of plaque in the coronary arteries which increases the chances of major cardiovascular events.

#SuperDemic
Extreme inflammatory Response:
Heart & Brain stroke, Dementia, Respiratory difficulty, endocrine disturbances, musculoskeletal dysfunction, Genitourinary weakness
You name a system & Covid impacts that @organicbotanic.bsky.social @elhopkins.bsky.social
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COVID-19 Infections Linked to Faulty Proteins in the Brain Researchers found that COVID-19 is linked to increased biomarkers associated with Alzheimer’s disease, particularly in those hospitalized or with risk factors like high blood pressure.

Why #SuperDemic
COVID-19 may drive changes which contribute to neurodegenerative disease may be due to the inflammation triggered by the disease, although how this inflammation might impact the brain & changes to amyloid is not yet fully clear
www.technologynetworks.com/immunology/n...

#SuperDemic
A event with the capacity of altering Human Habitation on this planet @organicbotanic.bsky.social