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"Gee, it sure woulda been easy to wear a mask."
If you get COVID and ruin your holidays... If you get someone else sick and ruin theirs... If you are left with chronic fatigue or brain fog... If you damage your heart or brain... if you accelerate neurodegenerative disorders... if you reawaken cancer... If any of this occurs because you contract a #covid19 infection this holiday season, it will be too late to say "Gee, it sure woulda been easy to wear a mask."
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My spreadsheet of studies on the chronic impact of #COVID19 infections has now passed 2,800 studies. Recent studies find COVID is associated with:
- An increased risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality
- A higher prevalence of neuropsychiatric symptoms in adolescents
- An increase in community-acquired pneumonia in young people
- Persistent fatigue in children and young people up to 24 months after infection
- Pulmonary perfusion impairment for up to 12 months
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12VbMkvqUF9eSggJsdsFEjKs5x0ABxQJi5tvfzJIDd3U/edit?usp=sharing
Oh you HAVE to be kidding. Headline:
Why are so many kids calling in sick for school? [1]
summary says "CBC's Tara Carman breaks down what the data reveals"
interview:
of those that track illness, our analysis shows that compared to five years ago, absences for reported illness went up
So what does CBC investigate?
They ... ask one talking head about anxiety and don't considre any other options. Well maybe they'll quantify? Naw they'll literally say only:
anxiety definitely is a contributor to attendance
no kidding but where's the data that you promised to break down?
Look, I'm not saying that kids aren't avoiding school because of bullying.
But MAYBE CHECK SOME ACTUAL NUMBERS. Because there's a new disease, in the last five years, and now Long COVID is more prevalent than asthma in kids[2] and ignoring that in …
Oh you HAVE to be kidding. Headline:
Why are so many kids calling in sick for school? [1]
summary says "CBC's Tara Carman breaks down what the data reveals"
interview:
of those that track illness, our analysis shows that compared to five years ago, absences for reported illness went up
So what does CBC investigate?
They ... ask one talking head about anxiety and don't considre any other options. Well maybe they'll quantify? Naw they'll literally say only:
anxiety definitely is a contributor to attendance
no kidding but where's the data that you promised to break down?
Look, I'm not saying that kids aren't avoiding school because of bullying.
But MAYBE CHECK SOME ACTUAL NUMBERS. Because there's a new disease, in the last five years, and now Long COVID is more prevalent than asthma in kids[2] and ignoring that in a piece on calling in sick seems, bluntly, stupid?
[1] https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6988481
[2] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2834486
#BadJournalism #CBC #CDNPoli #Canada #COVID #COVID19 #LongCOVID
More useful info from @ducky 's weekly roundup https://covidbc.webfoot.com/2025/11/21/2025-11-21-general/ - some highlights of her highlights:
Sliced another way, of the people who had Long COVID:
46% had persistent Long COVID;
35% had moderate symptoms;
19% recovered.
a case study of
three people with Long COVID who got pemivibart infusions — not for Long COVID, but as an alternative to a COVID-19 vaccination (because they couldn’t get a vax for various reasons) — and improved dramatically
on nasal irrigation:
compared participants who did nasal irrigation with saline solution six times per day at the first sign of a respiratory infection with controls, over the course of six months. They found that participants who irrigated had ~20% fewer days of illness than those who did not
and a paper that
makes a strong case that bird flu is transmitted from farm to …
More useful info from @ducky 's weekly roundup https://covidbc.webfoot.com/2025/11/21/2025-11-21-general/ - some highlights of her highlights:
Sliced another way, of the people who had Long COVID:
46% had persistent Long COVID;
35% had moderate symptoms;
19% recovered.
a case study of
three people with Long COVID who got pemivibart infusions — not for Long COVID, but as an alternative to a COVID-19 vaccination (because they couldn’t get a vax for various reasons) — and improved dramatically
on nasal irrigation:
compared participants who did nasal irrigation with saline solution six times per day at the first sign of a respiratory infection with controls, over the course of six months. They found that participants who irrigated had ~20% fewer days of illness than those who did not
and a paper that
makes a strong case that bird flu is transmitted from farm to farm via airborne virus
among other interesting papers she summarized!
Hi, these are the weekly #washingtonstate #kingcounty (that is, #seattle and environs) #COVID #COVID19 #wastewater toots.
A quick reminder that this King County respiratory disease data comes from Washington State, not the federal government.
The West Point (WSPT) sewage treatment plant's 7-Day running average is the lowest[*] it's been since the state switched data providers in fall of 2024. And you know what that means: it's time to deploy some celebratory emoticons: 😍👯🎉The last data was calculated on 11/9.
[*] if you exclude the 0.0 "no data" placeholder values that pop up from time to time in this dataset.
WSPT is one of three King County(-ish) sewersheds in this dataset. You can find overviews, individual sewershed results, and a breakdown of variants for the state wastewater surveillance program, along with other metrics like case counts and hospitalizations …
Hi, these are the weekly #washingtonstate #kingcounty (that is, #seattle and environs) #COVID #COVID19 #wastewater toots.
A quick reminder that this King County respiratory disease data comes from Washington State, not the federal government.
The West Point (WSPT) sewage treatment plant's 7-Day running average is the lowest[*] it's been since the state switched data providers in fall of 2024. And you know what that means: it's time to deploy some celebratory emoticons: 😍👯🎉The last data was calculated on 11/9.
[*] if you exclude the 0.0 "no data" placeholder values that pop up from time to time in this dataset.
WSPT is one of three King County(-ish) sewersheds in this dataset. You can find overviews, individual sewershed results, and a breakdown of variants for the state wastewater surveillance program, along with other metrics like case counts and hospitalizations for Covid-19 and other respiratory illnesses, at https://doh.wa.gov/data-and-statistical-reports/diseases-and-chronic-conditions/communicable-disease-surveillance-data/respiratory-illness-data-dashboard#WasteWater. If you go to the page and click "learn more" in the statewide view tab, you can find out lots of details about how these data are calculated and how to interpret them. The dashboard gets updated every Wednesday (generally). The Department of Health is here on the fediweb, at @WADeptHealth
Edit to fix up an emoticon fail.
@rivm zweeg meer dan 3 jaar over duizenden internationale onderzoeken naar frequentie (5-30%), schade (aan vrijwel alle organen van het menselijk lichaam) & ernst (van hersenmist tot invaliditeit en 100% arbeidsongeschiktheid) van #LongCovid na herhaalde #COVID19 besmetting, maar verspreidde onlangs wél een beperkt, lokaal, "eigen" onderzoek dat er na 2023 nauwelijks meer nieuwe #LongCovid-patiënten meer bij zouden komen. Tijd voor een zeer kritische Open Brief https://whn.global/open-brief-aan-het-rivm-n-a-v-publicatie-prevalentie-long-covid/
long pauses, excessive use of filler words and difficulty finding what to say could signify deteriorating brain health. [1]
Um, those are two of the most commonly noticeable changes in people post-acute-COVID-19:
One group of [Long COVID] symptoms that can be particularly troubling are language and cognitive difficulties [2]
and
Trouble finding words is common in those with long Covid. Fine-grain investigations of cognitive problems in this post-acute infectious syndrome identify deficits in lexical retrieval.
Damnit.
[1] https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/how-speech-patterns-evolve-could-predict-cognitive-decline-canadian-research-team-suggests/
[2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10286899/
[3] https://www.bps.org.uk/research-digest/trouble-finding-words-common-those-long-covid
#aphasia #LongCovid #COVID #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #SARS2 #CovidIsNotOver #neuroscience #neurology #brain
The Emotional Recession as the COVID-19 pandemic triggered widespread disruptions to workplace wellbeing and employee engagement, intensifying risks of burnout and reduced retention.: global declines in emotional intelligence and its impact on organizational retention, burnout, and workforce resilience.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1701703/full?utm_source=mastodon
#pandemic #covid19 #psychology #eq #eqtrends
Washington State has a map up of no-cost vaccines available through their childhood and adult vaccine programs: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/d9883df272e44f20ae6a76279f5d6a0b. This is for #COVID #COVID19 , but other vaccines too. Call the provider to check on availability before you go down there.
Washington State has a universal childhood vaccine program, so these vaccines available to anyone under the age of 19. Details here: https://doh.wa.gov/public-health-provider-resources/public-health-system-resources-and-services/immunization/childhood-vaccine-program
For the adult vaccine program, you must be uninsured, and it is a limited while-we-have-supplies program. Read more about the adult program here: https://doh.wa.gov/public-health-provider-resources/public-health-system-resources-and-services/immunization/adult-vaccine-program
We’re five years into the pandemic, and the science is telling a very different story than “just a cold.” COVID affects blood vessels, organs, metabolism, and cognition — and the impacts compound with each infection. It’s the same pattern we saw with smoking: people felt fine… until the long-term consequences surfaced.
Full article here: https://whn.global/covid-isnt-a-cold-its-cigarettes-all-over-again/
#LongCOVID #COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth #InfectionPrevention #CleanAir
If anyone sees an analysis of https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0336015 please do share with the class
Public health announcement: Virus transmission is not a form of stranger danger.
If you know someone, or like someone, that doesn't make them "safe".
Safety and risk are a factor of infection status, which can be confirmed by up to date, accurate test results. New exposures necessitate new testing.
Viruses are viruses. This is a post about AIDS/HIV and safer sex. It is a also a post about COVID-19 and safer air.
Keep yourself and the people you share air and other fluids with safe.
#PublicHealth #CovidIsNotOver #PandemicIsNotOver #Covid #Covid19 #HIV #SaferSex #PSA
Public health announcement: Virus transmission is not a form of stranger danger.
If you know someone, or like someone, that doesn't make them "safe".
Safety and risk are a factor of infection status, which can be confirmed by up to date, accurate test results. New exposures necessitate new testing.
Viruses are viruses. This is a post about AIDS/HIV and safer sex. It is a also a post about COVID-19 and safer air.
Keep yourself and the people you share air and other fluids with safe.
#PublicHealth #CovidIsNotOver #PandemicIsNotOver #Covid #Covid19 #HIV #SaferSex #PSA
