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"Oof, it's so painful!"
"Do you mean pain from Long Covid symptoms? Or painful grief from losing family and friends to Covid?"
"No, I mean attacks from folks who say I'm contributing to disability and death by doing nothing to stop the spread of Covid!"
I like this latest comic from @jensorensen (I like her work so much I support her on Patreon)
https://www.patreon.com/jensorensen/posts
We need to talk about #Covid & #LongCovid . As this comic points out, many people got the wrong message from the pandemic & this wasn't an accident. There was an organized effort to spread disinformation. It was profitable for individuals & social media companies.
Health #disinformation on #socialmedia needs to be fixed, because it's killing people.
Latest comic: What did we learn from Covid?
#covid #COVID19 #coronavirus #cartoon #health #healthcare #pandemic #comic
Hydroxychloroquine could have caused 17,000 deaths during #COVID, study finds
The anti-malaria drug was prescribed to some patients hospitalized with COVID-19 during the first wave of the pandemic, "despite the absence of evidence documenting its clinical benefits," now, researchers have estimated that some 16,990 people in 6 countries — France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Turkey and the U.S. — may have died as a result.
https://www.politico.eu/article/hydroxychloroquine-could-have-caused-17000-deaths-during-covid-study-finds/
Hydroxychloroquine could have caused 17,000 deaths during COVID, study finds
Former US President Donald Trump said: ‘What do you have to lose? Take it.’Mari Eccles (POLITICO)
Deaths from hydroxychloroquine used to treat #Covid have been calculated.
It's over 15,000.
This is what #SloppyThinking, #BadScience and #Trumpism does.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S075333222301853X
Great article, thanks for gifting! This is why I'm avoiding Covid like the plague. Who wants the rest of their shortened life to be like this?
"many, if not most, long-haulers experience postexertional malaise (P.E.M.), in which minor physical or mental exertion can trigger a loss of energy so profound that I’ve described it as the annihilation of possibility. An hourlong call could wreck someone for days."
'Tis the season to test for #COVID before family gatherings. So with the holidays upon us, a reminder that U.S. households are eligible for 4 free at-home tests from USPS. Sign up at https://special.usps.com/testkits
Keep loved ones safe & stay healthy this winter, my friends ❄️
And dont forget about Kizzmekia Corbett the #Immunologist who was on the #moderna team that only took like 2 months to make the formula
Kizzmekia "Kizzy" Shanta Corbett (born January 26, 1986)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kizzmekia_Corbett
The Economist used global excess deaths to arrive at the true death toll from the pandemic with a 95% confidence interval.
"Although the official number of deaths caused by #COVID19 is now 7m, our single best estimate is that the actual toll is 27.5m people. We find that there is a 95% chance that the true value lies between 17.8m and 30.8m additional deaths."
#Covid #SarsCov2 #GlobalExcessDeaths
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-estimates
Nobel Prize Awarded to #Covid Vaccine Pioneers Katalin Karikó & Drew Weissman
Their discovery “contributed to the unprecedented rate of vaccine development during one of the greatest threats to human health in modern times.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/health/nobel-prize-medicine.html?unlocked_article_code=iUAj0_yZAUTdlXConGyZDD1BKUUbjLWd72fXp2lwr7CZNjJviOfsU4pnDJvidOBNqf19B284AyDwoFajkEt3akPvAkBRJyHqx6OZcLesY0ogZYqZ0MZylqwae36mmITQxMZFKyrcQm7GsGWF6s_0vWJ2hyUietTxtX8l2gJiRd8nX_eb33dWigtlpN-8SB-tscHDQtTP6eAniNGvpawBfDxxWVconeKmqUfIlsVKOpBXwSp8M8LfI1LjJhkwmd8WEzFTMByCY8t_bgQ_2bF2ruDmJE5WKF3aQH-pnw-FXEto2IENzXsmQgBL3q71R6gA0x9AFTVXffaiQ5DLCJ0&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #science
Just got my COVID booster and everything hurts. But what hurts worse was the pharmacist telling me that she’s had to turn people away WHO WANTED THE SHOT because their insurance providers refuse to cover it (manufacturers are charging ~$120).
If your insurance provider won't cover your booster (or if you don't have insurance) the CDC's Bridge Access Program can help! It covers no-cost COVID-19 vaccines until December 31, 2024, more info here: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/bridge/index.html
With the new #COVID vaccine approved, a reminder that we’re all indebted to the ancient & wondrous horseshoe crab.
Their blue blood contains Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL) which clumps at contact with bacterial toxins. They are caught for their blood to test sterility of medical equipment & injections.
Unfortunately the harvest is unsustainable & populations are in decline. An effective synthetic substitute has been around for 2 decades & we just need the biomedical industry to switch.
“We don’t stop hand washing because norovirus cases are down. We don’t stop wearing gloves because HIV cases are down. As a doctor, if you’re arguing that you should be able to expose patients to COVID because infection control annoys you, you should not be a doctor. Find a new career. I bet you’d love denying insurance claims. I bet you’d be a natural.”
This article is a banger.
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/hospitals-are-killing-patients-because
Via @harold
Hospitals are killing patients because they don't feel like doing infection control
We now know COVID is fully airborne. We also know how to control airborne disease. So why are vulnerable people still dying of hospital-acquired COVID?Julia Doubleday (The Gauntlet)
#Heatwaves are sending people to #airconditioned indoor spaces, where Covid transmits more easily compared with outside. Summer travel alsos plays a role, as people crowd into #airports and bring germs along with them crisscrossing world. #Covid19 hospitalizations as of July 15 are up 10.3% from previous week, according to #CDC. Emergency department visits are up 7% and test positivity rose to 6.3% from 5.8%.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-rates-rising-summer-780ab1d7
An Unwelcome Visitor Returns This Summer. Hint: It’s Covid.
Hearing about a smattering of Covid cases again? There’s a reasonSumathi Reddy (The Wall Street Journal)
A third of US deer have had COVID—and they infected humans at least 3 times
New study builds on data suggesting white-tailed deer could be a virus reservoir.Ars Technica
Learned about COVIDAwareTC yesterday from someone who got a bunch of free masks from them. If you're in #Minneapolis or #SaintPaul, you can too! #covid #maskup
Via Elizabeth Bik:
French researchers slam former hospital director for 'unauthorised' #Covid trial
French researchers slam former hospital director for 'unauthorised' Covid trial
French medical bodies on Sunday called on authorities to punish researcher Didier Raoult for "the largest 'unauthorised' clinical trial ever seen" into the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19.NEWS WIRES (France 24)
CDC opens probe after 35 test positive for covid following CDC conference
Attendees say many people did not mask, socially distance or take other precautions recommended earlier in the pandemic.Lena H. Sun (The Washington Post)
"The people who still live with #COVID are being ignored so that everyone else can live with ignoring it."
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/04/long-covid-symptoms-invisible-disability-chronic-illness/673773/
Content warning: Politics, Brave Browser, AI, ChatGPT, LGBTQ+ rights, COVID denialism
This paper outlines an approach ranging from population genetics to functional #genomics in which the researchers identified four important #alleles and their likely #regulatory function.
Title: "Regulatory dissection of the severe #COVID-19 risk locus introgressed by #Neanderthals" (Jagoda et al. 2023)
Link: https://elifesciences.org/articles/71235
Regulatory dissection of the severe COVID-19 risk locus introgressed by Neanderthals
Key functional variants, discovered using Massively Parallel Reporter Assay (MPRA) and reporter assays in the context of SARS-CoV-2 infection, support the importance of two critical chemokine receptor genes CCR1 and CCR5 in severe Covid-19 illness.Evelyn Jagoda (eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd)
https://www.covidsafedentists.ca/
#sarscov2 #covid #dentist
Content warning: COVID policy, Capitalists struggling with the ramifications of the pandemic
