Notices tagged with covid

[thread] Jay Bhattacharya
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Bhattacharya

* prof. medicine, economics, health research policy at Stanford University
* opposed COVID-19 lockdowns, mask mandates
* quest. severity of SARS-CoV-2 virus
* Nov 2024 tapped by Trump to lead National Institutes of Health

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#USpol #JayBhattacharya #NIH #COVID #PublicHealth
#ConspiracyTheorists #disinformation
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #Project2025

New Goodreads pre-review for #Covid Safety Handbook, available this week: "The antidote to Covid-19 misinformation and the prescription for being as safe as possible from the virus and the havoc it brings." https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7028578668

Humbled 🙏 We're so proud, and hope you check it out.

Nominee for new FDA chief Makary: “He was a proponent of natural immunity, saying it was "at least" as effective or even better than immunity provided by vaccines, ignoring the risk of infections. He also argued the nation would reach herd immunity by April 2021.”

He, and everyone else were obviously wrong even before the words were said

#Covid #Covid19 #USpol #USpolitics

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/trump-picks-dr-marty-makary-johns-hopkins-surgeon-fda-chief-rcna180883

Headlines basically saying hey look Trump is appointing actual doctors to health leadership positions, so he can't be that bad right?

Have you seen the list? Covid deniers, anti-vaxx, anti-airborne, against community protections among a host of other mind twisting past comments and assertions

if H5N1 takes off, these are NOT the people you want in those positions

#USpol #USpolitics #Covid #Covid19 #Birdflu #H5N1

#Vacinação contra #COVID liberada no #Rio até 1/12 para pessoas com mais de 6 meses que foram vacinadas há mais de um ano.

Via @carloswt.bsky.social

https://prefeitura.rio/saude/saude-amplia-a-campanha-de-vacinacao-contra-a-variante-xbb-da-covid-19/

3-4 people from an official company event appear to have gotten COVID from the event but no one is testing because “that doesn’t really matter anymore.” There is no official announcement and any discussion of COVID or precautions has long since been deemed “offensive or provocative” to some of the staff.
This is a typical occurrence and will be repeated by many if not most organizations over the next 2 months.
#COVID #CovidIsNotOver #Holidays #CompanyEvents #Family

As per Japan's Health-Labor-Welfare Ministry weekly report COVID patients per medical facility (nationwide) for 11 - 17 Nov 2024 was 1.90 (=9406 cases) whilst the figure for influenza was 1.88 (=9309 cases)[1], but while media sound alarms about flu & mycoplasma, COVID has largely been ignored.
However, last week's increase of #COVID cases may be causing some ripples.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241122/p2g/00m/0na/038000c

Ref.1: https://toad.social/@minorusaba/113525621652641162
#CovidIsNotOver #Japan

Osterholm Update: In "Serious Challenges Ahead: RFK Jr and a New HHS," Dr. Osterholm and Chris Dall discuss the recent nomination of RFK Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services. They also discuss the latest COVID data, a global increase in measles cases, and a decline in STI incidence in the United States.
#medicine #InfectiousDisease #HHS #COVID #PublicHealth #CIDRAP https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/episode-171-serious-challenges-ahead-rfk-jr-and-new-hhs

You can still get free COVID tests from USPS. Take advantage while you can, I suspect this will go away by January. https://special.usps.com/testkits

#publichealth #healthcare #covid

I would like to remind everybody where viruses mutate.

I feel like Dr. Seuss when I say: Do they mutate in the air? Do they mutate everywhere? Do they mutate on the ground? Do they mutate all around?

No.

They mutate within living creatures.

The host.

You are a living creature.

You are a host.

When you contract #Covid, you are potentially a Petri dish for such mutations.

It mutates a lot. It's a virus. That's its job; to survive and infect hosts.

You, yes you, are potentially a vector for transmission of a mutated version of the virus every time you get it.

This is the piece that nobody cares to understand.

These new variants come from people who get infected and spread it. They don't magically come from Narnia or a different dimension or trees. They come from people.

You are people.

If you get sick, you are potentially cooking up a mutation of the virus that will then go on and harm another person. Maybe dozens. Maybe thousands.

Is that fucking simple, but nobody pays attention to this. Nobody cares.

Yes, the only ways to stop transmission of this current virus includes doing things that you don't like to do:

Wear a well-fitted #N95 or higher respirator in the presence of others.

Ventilate and clean indoor air.

Monitor CO2.

Avoid potential super-spreader events.

Don't go out when you're possibly sick without wearing a good mask.

Don't assume you don't have the virus if you think or know you've been exposed. (Asymptomatic transmission is at least half of transmission these days.)

Don't be a petri dish. Please. Just don't.

#CovidIsNotOver #MaskUp #Ventilate

'The costs associated with working days lost due to Long COVID could potentially cost the UK economy up to £20billion a year.' Senior author, Professor, @ManuellGomes @UCL_IEHC @CSJMagazine @uclnews
#CovidIsNotOver #COVID #COVID19
Nota bene: @wesstreeting
https://www.clinicalservicesjournal.com/story/46597/long-covid-could-cost-the-economy-billions-every-year

Lots going on in today's Pandemic Roundup from @violetblue so I am once again cheaping out with a screenshot in lieu of a hand-crafted summary.

Read (always free! No paywall!)/share (spread this link far & wide!)/support (join the Patreon today!):
https://www.patreon.com/posts/115966923
#Covid #LongCovid #MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver

So I have a high schooler home with #covid. I am trying to figure out what sort of protocol to follow before sending him back to school. Spoiler: YOLO

Public school system says “don’t ask us, we do what the Virginia department of health says.” VDH says “don’t ask us, go look at the CDC.” CDC says “you should wash your hands.”

School goes to great pains to say that no one will be forced to wear a mask, no matter how contagious they are nor how protective it is. But no one will be prevented from wearing a #mask either.

Don’t feel sick? Good enough for us. Testing schmesting. Mask schmask.

#CovidIsNotOver

New: the week's #Covid news and new resources in one easy, free digest. US faces "quindemic," babies under 6 have highest hospitalizations, David Tennant's Macbeth cancellations, new black masks, and more.

Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-115966923

#publichealth #LongCovid #journalism #prevention

Current state of play in re molecular tests for #Covid #CovidIsNotOver
https://lifehacker.com/where-to-find-a-pcr-covid-test-and-why-you-need-one-1850779459

This week my department at the VA, many of whose employees work remotely, will be meeting in person, as we do several times per year.
I won't be there, because they refuse to take any #COVID precautions. I got COVID for the first time earlier this year from the last in-person group meeting, and I'm not going to risk that again.
I angsted over whether this will hurt my career. My boss insists it won't. I'm not sure I believe him, but I believe him enough to stay home.
#CovidIsNotOver

PUBLIC PRIVATE PILFERSHIP does anyone think #trump is smart enough to know that #muskrat does bad things for ppl and planet? ie. starts and pumps financial scams, fuels false hope in #technofixes that cannot work, is for population growth (read growth in modern slavery), and is a darling of the corporate media because of it.... even RT (#russiatoday) fawns over 'the microchipped'.

trump must know, and is likely playing along because hes got no choice. Trump has been a puppet at the end of the day, and is very malleable to the interests of the corporates, the #blackrock types.... he literally used his personal(?) financial adviser #larryFink to determine monetary policy during #covid, resulting in printing record breaking amounts of cash that went to the corporates, who bought back their stocks. Its what started the #inflation (theft) that we still suffer with today. I personally knew people who were on #facebook who were warning about the policy in 2020 and they were deemed SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY and effectively REMOVED from the #falsebook platform. All they were doing was warning of the inflation/theft that would follow.

Trump is very partial to corporate fascists dressed as "libertarians" like #peterThiel, again, not even the RT will draw attention to thiel's #Palantir and the #PaypalMafia, who are helping to destroy all aspects of the internet that could liberate us from repression.

Despite trump's supportive rhetoric of muskrat, i doubt he'll put the #muskrochipped in govt because a) trump knows muskrat is unpopular despite the corporate media fawning over him, b) muskrat can probably do more harm to ppl outside of govt with that trashy ex-bird platform, and c) did i mention the thing is MICROCHIPPED, trump probably doesn't want bugged hardware in his cabinet.

#publicprivatepilfership #fascism #corporatism #theinternet

Democrats won in 2020 by being the pro-science candidate which promised to deal with Covid. Then they broke their promises, spread misinformation & allowed Covid to spread out of control. Instead of modeling good public health, Democrats lost this as an issue, allowing Trump's brand of anti-science to win.
#COVID

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