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Heres a quick primer for those unawares, courtesy Megan Molteni.
wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny…
"Marr is an aerosol scientist at Virginia Tech and one of the few in the world who also studies infectious diseases. To her, the new coronavirus looked as if it could hang in the air, infecting anyone who breathed in enough of it. For people indoors, that posed a considerable risk. But the WHO didn’t seem to have caught on. Just days before, the organization had tweeted “FACT: #COVID19 is NOT airborne.” That’s why Marr was skipping her usual morning workout to join 35 other aerosol scientists. They were trying to warn the WHO it was making a big mistake.
On the video call, tensions rose. At one point, Lidia Morawska, a revered atmospheric physicist who had arranged the meeting, tried to explain how far infectious particles of different sizes could potentially travel. One of the WHO experts abruptly cut her off, telling her she was wrong, Marr recalls. His rudeness shocked her. “You just don’t argue with Lidia about physics,” she says.
Morawska had spent more than two decades advising a different branch of the WHO on the impacts of air pollution. When it came to flecks of soot and ash belched out by smokestacks and tailpipes, the organization readily accepted the physics she was describing—that particles of many sizes can hang aloft, travel far, and be inhaled. Now, though, the WHO’s advisers seemed to be saying those same laws didn’t apply to virus-laced respiratory particles. To them, the word airborne only applied to particles smaller than 5 microns. Trapped in their group-specific jargon, the two camps on Zoom literally couldn’t understand one another."
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Friend at work just shared she's in her third month of symptoms after her last #COVID19 infection. She said, "I'd never even heard of Long COVID" until her doctor told her.
It makes me want to bang my head against a wall. How can so many people be so poorly informed and taking such needless risks? It's not as if LC isn't in the media. I just think people have their heads stuck in the sand. It's frightening.
YOUR MEEKNESS WILL KILL US ALL
you need to start being present to ALL FORMS OF VIOLENCE, ESPECIALLY ECONOMIC.
your acquiescence has killed over a million people of #covid19 alone, but every year it kills over 100K people of the #flu.
your REFUSAL to feeling a tad uncomfortable has made one of the biggest sociopaths on the planet, Bezos, the one guy DICTATING how the country’s supply chains work.
and then there is the keeping up with the Joneses mentality…
My spreadsheet of #COVID19 studies that uncover chronic damage to hearts, brains, and other organs has reached 1,200 in number.
2024-November-08 Friday
690 Americans Died Last Week From COVID 19
1,210,251 Americans Dead From COVID 19 In Total
#America #AmericanDeaths #Americans #Booster #Corona #CoronaVirus #Covid #COVID19 #CovidIsAirborn #CovidIsNotOver #Friday #LongCovid #Mask #Masks #Pandemic #PandemicIsNotOver #Politics #US #USA #USNews #USPolitics #Vaccine #Vaccines #WearAMask
Every time you get #COVID19, the risks of long COVID rise. A recent study found that risks of LC are "significantly reduced when vaccinated within 5 months before infection."
Thus far, just 15% of American adults have gotten the new vaccine. Last year, only around 25% got vaccinated. Many have not been vaccinated against COVID for 18-24 months.
Please get vaccinated, as recommended by the CDC (while the CDC is still recommending such things.)
Trump's election is a disaster for #COVID19 and public health.
Elon Musk wants mass Federal layoffs. Anti-vax RFK Jr will run public health. Florida's horrible surgeon general is on the shortlist to head HHS.
Vaxes could be banned. Public funding for vax research will vanish. As #BirdFlu rises, we'll be unprepared. Long COVID research will be decimated. Wastewater, testing, and hospital tracking will end. We'll get no new rules for safe air.
No data. No money. No care. Good luck, everyone.
Slowly--ever so slowly--the media (and then the rest of us) will wake up to the continued ongoing risks of #COVID19. Be one of the smart ones and take more care.
"The cancellations of Macbeth, with David Tennant in the lead role, has led to questions being raised around the ongoing ambivalence to the continuing public health threat of coronavirus (Covid-19) – not least in the arts."
thecanary.co/uk/news/2024/11/0…
Macbeth: David Tennant show cancellations show threat of Covid
The cancellation of David Tennant's Macbeth raises questions around the ongoing ambivalence to the continuing public health threat of Covid-19The Canary
As far as I know, I haven't had #COVID19 however I'm now having issues with my heart rate. Could be something else completely, but it does make you wonder.
Also, in the many admissions to emergency, not once have I been asked if I've had COVID. Not once.
I've sometimes had people who care about #COVID19 tell me they can't vote for Kamala because the administration has minimized COVID risks. They're right, the administration has done so, but this is the guy that Trump wants to put in charge of national health. If you think public health is disappointing now, just wait.
Our best bet for a new generation of vaccines, new rules for healthy air, and better public health is to #VoteBlue.
COVID-19 infections are a direct risk factor for many other issues driving mortality, and also have an indirect impact on health system capacity & functioning, and general population health. With the winding down of testing and reporting for COVID-19, Excess Deaths now give the clearest picture of the ongoing impact of the pandemic.
#Excess_Deaths #COVID19 #covidisnotover #Australia @auscovid19
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“People think, oh, I’ve gotten COVID, so that should give me some immunity. That’s actually wrong. It turns out that having COVID once gives you a little bit of immunity to that variant, but it doesn’t really give you much immunity at all to the next variant. So with new variants emerging every month, you only have about four to six weeks of immunity, effectively, from catching COVID.”
Excellent piece! Please read
ineteconomics.org/perspectives…
#Covid #Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #MaskUp
From Long COVID Odds to Lost IQ Points: Ongoing Threats You Don’t Know About
Stuck in a fog of misleading narratives, most of us don’t see the true extent of COVID's persisting—and intensifying—threats. INET’s Lynn Parramore talks to Dr.Institute for New Economic Thinking
this is a reminder as to why white people need to be accomplices: med-mastodon.com/@luckytran/11…
marginalized people have been screaming this shit for years but have (1) privileged white person say something and all of a sudden some shit is taken seriously
i appreciate what violet is doing (especially since her parents sure aren't doing the same thing as far as we can see) and it's important but i want us to remember that for every white person who is recognized for speaking up there are countless people of marginalized identities who've been saying the same thing, longer and have been ignored if not outright violently silenced
#Covid #LongCovid #CovidIsntOver #CovidIsAirborne #COVID19
Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (@luckytran@med-mastodon.com)
Thanks to Violet Affleck’s public comment, pretty much every media outlet of note in the world is now writing about masks and Long COVID… even the New York Times! https://www.nytimes.Med-Mastodon
No Mask Bans (Actions You Can Take)
Politicians across the US – from North Carolina, to New York State to Chicago – are pushing for mask bans. We all have a responsibility to fight this attack on our rights, our bodily autonomy, our privacy and our health. If you stopped masking, now is a good time to reengage with this practice in public spaces, and particularly in political gatherings. If you are organizing an event, please require and distribute high quality masks as visible expressions of solidarity.
#Covid #CovidIsntOver #CovidIsAirborne #Covid19 #LongCovid
No Mask Bans | People's CDC
Politicians across the US - from North Carolina, to New York State to Chicago – are pushing for mask bans. We all have a responsibility to fight this attack ...People's CDC (peoplescdc.org)
Stop Mask Bans. Defend our human right to mask protection.
actionnetwork.org/letters/stop…
#COVID #CovidIsntOver #CovidIsAirborne #Covid19
Stop Mask Bans. Defend our human right to mask protection.
Mask Bans won’t stop crime. Instead, mask bans will greatly harm our country’s infection control against contagious diseases! Mask Bans are disability injustice, discrimination and violation of human rights. Defend our right to mask protection.actionnetwork.org
HELP TINU
Asking again for help with the cost of surviving chemo & Long COVID.
2+ years after #COVID19, still sick, 5th type of chemo.
account.venmo.com/u/TinuWrites
"But if the plight of adults with long COVID remains poorly understood, the millions of children who have it worldwide are practically invisible, their suffering — and the formative years they're losing to this disease — obscured by the myths that COVID is "harmless" for kids and the pandemic is "over".
abc.net.au/news/2024-06-16/chi…
#LongCovid #Covid #Children #Covid19 #CovidIsntOver #CovidIsAirborne
Too many children with long COVID are suffering in silence. Their greatest challenge? The myth that the virus is 'harmless' for kids
They're losing their formative years to this debilitating disease. But for too many children with long COVID, finding help is a frustrating and traumatic process that leaves them feeling isolated and invisible.Hayley Gleeson (ABC News)
Safer In Person Gatherings Guide Update
peoplescdc.substack.com/p/safe…
#Covid #COVID19 #CovidIsntOver #CovidIsAirborne
Safer In Person Gatherings Guide Update
For Labor Day weekend and beyond, a concise guide to reduce the risk of spreading COVIDPeople's CDC
HELP A BLACK FAMILY SURVIVE
This woman's gofundme has been up for OVER A YEAR and is not even halfway to her goal. one of her kids posted on birdsite about how they're terrified that so soon after celebrating her birthday, they may have to plan for her funeral. donate and share.
gofundme.com/f/help-support-my…
Originally for this woman's recovery from Long Covid and payment for surgeries needed to help her breathe and move, most of the money is now going towards her daughter who is battling stage two breast cancer (the most aggressive type, which you can see in the updates).
#Disability #Covid #Covid19 #LongCovid #Cancer #MutualAid #BlackMutualAid #BlackMastodon
(US Specific) Home Test to Treat is a program that offers free tests and free treatment (if eligible) for COVID-19 and Flu at home 24/7. No insurance or appointments needed!