🇮🇹Italy: 998 new cases and 31 new deaths from 29 Feb to 6 Mar
🔹New cases: 998 (-9.5%)
🔹Reinfections: n/a
🔹Deaths: 31 (-20.5%)
🔹Positivity rate: 0.8% (unchanged)
🔸Hospitalised: 1,090 (-5.5%)
🔸ICU: 31 (-31.0%)
🇮🇹Italy: 998 new cases and 31 new deaths from 29 Feb to 6 Mar
🔹New cases: 998 (-9.5%)
🔹Reinfections: n/a
🔹Deaths: 31 (-20.5%)
🔹Positivity rate: 0.8% (unchanged)
🔸Hospitalised: 1,090 (-5.5%)
🔸ICU: 31 (-31.0%)
Virus Lingers in Blood Years After Infection | neurosciencenews.com
"SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19, can remain in the human body long after the initial infection has subsided, with fragments found in blood for up to 14 months and in tissues for over 2 years"
#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 @auscovid19
Source: https://neurosciencenews.com/long-covid-blood-25724/
Qantas fined $250,000, convicted for standing down a worker concerned about COVID-19 at beginning of pandemic | abc.net.au
Long COVID can destroy your ability to exercise. Now we know why | National Geographic
"As a new study shows, the answer lies in some long COVID sufferers’ muscle damage and their bodies’ ability to make energy."
#LongCOVID #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19
Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/post-exertional-malaise-me-cfs-exercise-energy
"People around the world have high levels of trust in scientists, and most want researchers to get more involved in policymaking, finds a global survey with more than 70,000 participants."
By T. Ryan Gregory @TRyanGregory
Dear media,
Please stop normalizing viral, bacterial, and fungal infections.
Please stop normalizing working or attending school while sick.
Please stop normalizing people dropping out of the workforce.
Please stop normalizing the exclusion of disabled people.
Please stop normalizing persistent coughs.
Please stop normalizing "brain fog" and chronic fatigue.
Please stop normalizing overloaded hospitals.
Please stop normalizing increased risk of heart attacks, strokes, and diabetes.
Please stop normalizing declining life expectancy
#COVIDisNotOver #COVIDisAirborne @auscovid19
Source: https://twitter.com/TRyanGregory/status/1755576152813457441
New Report Raises Concerns About Long Covid in Children.
"A large analysis published Wednesday in the journal Pediatrics underscores the toll long COVID can take on children, in some cases leading to neurological, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular and behavioral symptoms in the months after an acute infection."
#LongCOVIDchildren #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/07/well/live/long-covid-children.html
"We've had so many stories about athletes and healthy young people either dropping dead, or having a cardiac arrest, or developing long COVID and becoming debilitated, so if you don't think you're vulnerable COVID might make you vulnerable" - Professor Raina MacIntyre
#COVID19 #LongCOVID #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19
Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-05/nsw-multiple-covid-19-infections-health-immunology/103417278
Victoria: Ballarat’s Mayor Des Hudson has tested positive for COVID-19.
“There’s still COVID running throughout our community and I drew two lines on the RAT test when I did a test yesterday.”
"COVID-19 is an all-weather spreader"
Here’s why COVID-19 isn’t seasonal so far. By Tina Hesman Saey
"Human immunity and behavior may be more important than weather for driving seasonality"
#COVID19 #allweatherspreader #COVIDisAirborne @auscovid19
Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/why-covid-not-seasonal
🇬🇧UK: "Hundreds of doctors are planning to sue the NHS over claims inadequate PPE on the frontline has left them with long COVID, disabled, and in financial ruin."
WHO officials warn sharply of the ongoing dangers of the COVID-19 pandemic | WSWS.ORG
In two extraordinary press briefings last week, WHO officials made clear the ongoing dangers of the pandemic, while hypocritically admonishing the global population for no longer taking precautions, ignoring their own culpability in this process.
Almost 10,000 deaths from COVID-19 were reported to the WHO in December and there was a 42% increase in hospitalizations and 62% increase in ICU admissions compared to November. However, the trends [on mortality] are based on data from less than 50 countries, mostly in Europe and the Americas. It’s certain that there are also increases in other countries that are not being reported.
However, Van Kerkhove cautioned that this represents less than a quarter of all countries reporting data, and half of official deaths were just from the US, meaning there is a massive undercounting simply from lack of reporting. She stated bluntly, “We are missing deaths from countries around the world. Just because those countries aren’t reporting deaths doesn’t mean they aren’t happening.”
#COVIDisNotOver #COVIDisAIRBONE @auscovid19
Source: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/01/15/covi-j15.html
🇷🇺 Russia: A mysterious virus is spreading in Russia: Putin denies the queues of "ambulance"
🇮🇪Ireland: "Emergency departments see 80% rise in patients with flu or Covid, HSE figures show."
🔹There are currently 30 outbreaks of COVID in hospitals and 24 in nursing homes.
By AJ Leonardi, MBBS, PhD @fitterhappierAJ
"To all the people unhappy about being sick right now: it didn't have to be this way"
SARS1 went away and its R0 was about 3.
SARS2 had an R0 below 3 when it first came out. Now it's around 10.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32730205/
Twitter/X source: https://twitter.com/fitterhappierAJ/status/1740121354236727552
Every COVID Infection Increases Your Risk of Long COVID, Study Warns.
"Vaccines ensure bouts of COVID are far less deadly than they were at the pandemic's start, yet multiple studies now suggest even seemingly mild cases of the coronavirus have a cost. With every single infection, our risk of long COVID increases."
"Each subsequent COVID infection will increase your risk of developing chronic health issues like diabetes, kidney disease, organ failure and even mental health problems"
"This dispels the myth that repeated brushes with the virus are mild and you don't have to worry about it. It is akin to playing Russian roulette."
#COVID19 #LongCOVID @auscovid19
Source: https://www.sciencealert.com/every-covid-infection-increases-your-risk-of-long-covid-study-warns
🇩🇪Germany: Wastewater samples confirm massive corona wave in Germany – higher than ever.
"Since measurements began in 2022, such high levels have never been found in wastewater"
"1 in 12, which is around 7.1 million people based on the total population"
#COVID19 #Germany #Wastewater @auscovid19
Source: https://www.merkur.de/welt/bestaetigen-corona-faelle-nehmen-rasant-zu-abwasserproben-92724053.html
🇺🇸US: "Rift over when to use N95s puts health workers at risk again"
"More than 3,600 health workers died of COVID-19, occupational safety experts warn that those on the front lines may once again be at risk"
"Scientifically, there were clear indications that the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 spread through the air... Health workers are exposed for 8, 10, 12 hours a day."
🇨🇦 "Canada has the worst record for COVID-19 deaths in long-term care homes compared with other wealthy countries, according to a new report released on Tuesday by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)."
"The study found that the proportion of deaths in nursing homes represented 69% of Canada's overall COVID-19 deaths, which is significantly higher than the international average of 41%"
#COVID19 #Canada #NursingHomes @auscovid19
Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/canada-record-covid-19-deaths-wealthy-countries-cihi-1.5968749
🇫🇷France: Wastewater samples are showing a 24% rise in the presence of the COVID virus.
"The new COVID variants of Pirola, and its sub-strain JN.1, could cause cases to rise further over the festive period, the authority warns."
Sharing info on COVID since the start of the pandemic#PandemicIsNotOver💻 IT Systems Administrator 💪 GYMaHOLIC (COVID forced me to invest in a home gym)
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