Notices tagged with covid, page 7

Masking Fear - Wearing a #Mask -Alberta Views https://albertaviews.ca/masking-fear/ “most exasperating are the jokes and eyerolls from colleagues and family members, who seem to take my mask as a personal affront or insult. These friends and relations bug me—jokingly, but incessantly—to take it off, or tease me for what they perceive as my neurosis. I had one Senate colleague make fun of me for masking—only to tell me, in his next breath, that he was just getting over his fourth case of #COVID.”

New roundup! A chilling look at what #Covid is doing in US red states, unreal details about Canada's bird flu hospitalization, #LongCovid "treatments" to avoid, Masking Through Blackness now in print and digital, and much more.

Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-119131960

« Je co-fonde un média féministe collectif : voilà pourquoi le handicap sera central dès le départ », par s.e. smith
https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/11/10/im-co-founding-a-feminist-media-collective-heres-why-disability-will-be-all-over-it-from-the-start/
#JusticeHandie #feminisme

Extraits traduits ⬇️

« Le handicap doit être une question féministe centrale, surtout dans cette période où le #Covid menace toujours les communautés partout dans le monde tandis que les personnes qui font de la réduction des risques, avec le port du masque par exemple, font face à de l’hostilité et à du harcèlement – y compris de la part de personnes et d’organisations ‘de gauche’, les personnes ‘progressistes’ sur lesquelles elles pensaient pouvoir compter. …/…

@Leefromphilly Anything to decrease viral load such as Paxlovid and metformin is highly recommended to reduce risk of post covid sequelae. Metformin within 7 days reduces long covid and death by 53% over 6 months. It is cheaper than Paxlovid and has few side effects. Rest up and hope you recover well.
#CovidIsNotOver #COVID #CovidIsAirborne #MaskUp

http://archive.today/2025.01.02-172905/https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/metformin-may-reduce-long-covid-non-diabetic-population-2024a1000ja0?_gl=1*1s6dg00*_gcl_au*NzkwOTIxMDYzLjE3MzQ4MTIwMDQ.

@Infoseepage

#COVID seems NOT to easily infect via the eyes.

#Flu (#H5N1 #H3N3) is not so constrained. This is very much worth considering as we rapidly approach an H5N1 and/or H3N3 Flu pandemic.

Note as well that COVID does not easily transmit by contact. Flu does! So sanitation and proper sanitary hygiene return as important protections. These apply for H1N1 that is circulating now as well.

I got to spend the day at the #Texas Supreme Court to help Deceleration’s Greg Harman cover this unique religious liberty case brought in defense of some trees and birds that live in a San Antonio park. https://deceleration.news/texas-supreme-court-scrutinizes-san-antonios-bird-tree-removals-in-religious-liberty-debate/

#SanAntonio #politics #religion #COVID #animals #nature #law #USpol #news #BestOf2024 #SCOTEX

In my last major feature for @TexasObserver magazine, I got to know locals with Long #COVID and spoke with health experts to learn why we need to do more to support the victims of the ongoing pandemic. I'm honored I got to tell their stories here. https://www.texasobserver.org/long-covid-texas-clearing-the-air/

#Austin #health #science #Texas #politics #USpol #medicine #journalism #Bestof2024

Huge Covid vax milestone: The first next generation Covid vax has passed its European Medicines Agency review! 🎉 And an application to the US FDA is planned.

The Arcturus self-amplifying RNA vaccine is on track for EU authorization in 30 countries in the next few weeks: Happy New Year, Europeans!

All this & more in my latest monthly update @PLOS ... 1/2

https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2024/12/31/authorization-milestone-for-first-nextgen-covid-vaccine-in-europe-and-more-news-update-24/

#Vaccines #Covid #Covid19

I'm worried about vaccine production being affected by the H5N1 virus.

#H5N1 #covid #vaccine #flu

For heaven's sake (& your #brain, #heart, & #nerves), wear a #mask. It's ok to be the only one @ the store donning, let's call it, a white badge of courage! Why?
"Cognitive decline often associated w/long #COVID appears to affect all age groups, but older adults are particularly vulnerable to long-term cognitive impairments due to age-related neurodegenerative changes & immunosenescence (Arbula et al., 2024; Di Benedetto et al., 2017; Serrano Del Pueblo et al., 2024)."

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cellular-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fncel.2024.1471192/full

If they are failing to contain #H5N1 under #JoeBiden, then I expect #BirdFlu will become an epidemic under #DonaldTrump (especially after his haphazard response to #COVID).

👉🏾 'We are screwed': Virologists warn about disease they say could become the next pandemic https://www.rawstory.com/bird-flu-2670690445/ 🔛 @RawStory

If #Trump bungles this, #America 🇺🇸 is screwed.

In hindsight, I am glad I renewed my #UnitedStates 🇺🇸 passport, as well as secured obtained second citizenship in #SierraLeone 🇸🇱.

Ever wonder about the basis for fear-mongering & conspiracy theories about mRNA vaccine? Wish you had a place to go when someone cites "proof"?

I've got you covered! In my latest post @PLOS, I buckle up for the waves of anti-vax claims likely to come at us in 2025 :

https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2024/12/28/getting-ready-for-more-mrna-vaccine-fear-mongering-a-compendium/

#Vaccines #Covid

I'm talking with a friend facing huge relationship issues because their partner has been showing significant (negative) personality changes. My friend is now wondering if this might be due to #covid.

1. I'm looking for links to studies on covid-driven personality changes. If you have some, please share.

2. If you've personal, direct experience dealing with (covid or other cause) major personality changes with a partner, do you have short term advice? ("Leave" is not an immediate option.)

New Pandemic Roundup from @violetblue, top stories listed below. But the main takeaway: after a protracted summer surge and following lull, the year-end surge is ramping up, so don't be caught off guard. Mask up and read/share/support:https://www.patreon.com/posts/118688752
#Covid #LongCovid #MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver

"Employees could not send out press releases, give interviews, hold vaccine events, give presentations or create social media posts encouraging the public to get the vaccines. They also could not put up signs at the department's clinics that COVID, flu or mpox vaccines were available on site."

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/12/20/nx-s1-5223440/louisiana-ban-public-health-promoting-covid-flu-mpox-vaccines-landry-rfk-jr-anti-vaccine

#PublicHealth #vaccines #immunizations #covid #flu #mpox #louisiana #USpol #government #transparency #accountability

@Sunny Yeah, we lost over a million Americans to #COVID. ☹️ 👉🏾 https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/coronavirus-deaths

😳 #H5N1 killed a cat 🐈 after the cat 🐈⬛ ate cat food contaminated by the virus 🦠‽

Maybe I am paranoid, but H5N1 is being significantly under reported in the #UnitedStates 🇺🇸.

👉🏾 Oregon house cat died after eating pet food that tested positive for #BirdFlu https://phys.org/news/2024-12-oregon-house-cat-died-pet.html

With #DonaldTrump is nominating #RobertKennedy to lead the Health & Human Services Department next year, it makes me wonder if #America 🇺🇸 could handle a bird flu epidemic when we barely handled #COVID.

“Here's our final Christmas Day forecast. If nobody is testing/isolating...

🔹1 in 8 chance of an exposure in a family gathering of 10 people
🔹1 in 3 chance of exposure in a restaurant near 30 people
🔹3 out of 4 chance on a plane of >100 people”- r/t Michael Hoerger

#press #COVID

So is anyone going to do anything about bird flu or are we going to collapse healthcare for good this time?

A family member was in the hospital for a surgery recently and it was exactly like when you went to a restaurant that doesn't have enough staff. Has the IV machine been beeping for 15 minutes? Hopefully it's not important. #COVID #AvianFlu #BirdFlu