#Covid19 hospital acquired infections still a major problem, yet precautions are not protecting vulnerable patients.
"We seem to ignore the people at the centre of this. We're dealing with people losing their lives. [The proposal] might benefit the system, but what harm are we causing to patients?"
#Covid19NZ #CovidIsNotOver #MaskUp #LongCovid #ChronicIllness
@auscovid19
Today is #MaskedMondays! Show that you are still #masking by posting your weekly #maskedselfie or other photo as a reply. #masked #mask #maskup #maskup #BringBackMasks #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #n95 #p100 #weareyeprotection #WearARespirator #wearamaskoutside #MaskMonday @covid19 @covid @covidisairborne @auscovid19 @longcovid
Too many catching Covid-19 in hospital, experts say - but precautions being rolled back https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/what-you-need-to-know/545120/too-many-catching-covid-19-in-hospital-experts-say-but-precautions-being-rolled-back
Increasing evidence that vaccination and boosters protect against long Covid.
Best is still not to catch Covid. Second best is recent vaccination before catching Covid.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.19.24317487v1.full.pdf
C'est quand même marrant toute cette célébration mémorielle des "cinq ans du covid" qui consiste essentiellement à faire le concours du plus grand déni de ce qui s'est passé et continue à se passer
This is why respirators need to be mandatory in hospitals.
Babies, people with certain disabilities & some health conditions need others to mask to protect them.
This hospital shouldn’t be “scrambling”. Make masks mandatory & protect patients and staff.
Clean & ventilate the air too!
Five years of Long Covid
Links:
NBC News
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/5-years-later-long-covid-still-medical-mystery-scientists-learned-rcna195608
US News and World Report:
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2025-03-10/covid-pandemic-vaccines-measles
Rolling Stone:
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/long-covid-five-years-1235296375/
https://www.s4me.info/threads/news-from-the-usa-united-states-of-america.20771/page-36#post-593840
From the latest Science for ME weekly update
@longcovid
#LongCovid #PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19 #LC #Covidlonghaulers #PostCovidSyndrome #longhaulers #COVIDBrain #NeuroPASC
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Dr. David Putrino: ”There's no such thing as a Covid infection without consequence."
An interview with Dr. Putrino as part of a longer program. This part starts at 19:30, or you can just scroll down to this segment of the show.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/mar-15-the-silent-long-term-effects-of-covid-and-more-1.7483146
It's amazing to watch various sick YouTubers try to explain away their second 'cold' of the year.. And it's only March
If you are 65+ and/or moderately to severely immunocompromised, CDC still recommends you get a second dose of the 2024-5 Covid booster 6 months after your first. That means we're coming up on the time for your "spring booster" if you got a booster in the fall.
Thought I'd throw that out there because Sideshow Bob will obviously make no effort to promote these life saving recommendations.
#covid
#CovidIsNotOver
This #LongCovidAwarenessDay I’m reflecting on how many people have been let down by governments, public health & medical establishments
How Covid has been downplayed, airborne spread ignored & vaxx and relax strategies pushed for the sake of capitalism
How many have Long Covid because of this?
Those of us who were disabled before the pandemic could see this wave of chronic illness coming - and many of us have been screaming from the top of our lungs the last 5 years.
Begging people not to take their health for granted & to wear a mask and protect themselves.
Warning them that there are no do-overs once you become chronically ill. Unfortunately very few people are listening - and many won’t understand the true devastation of #LongCovid until it directly impacts them. At which point it’ll be too late.
Despite seeing these waves of disability as an inevitable consequence of “let er rip” Covid strategy - one thing I did not see coming was how many people would willingly embrace not only ableism - but full on eugenics.
People in my own life who were previously kind & supportive have become cruel and angry. The masks have been ripped off. They don’t hesitate to tell me that they blame me for the restrictions placed on them in the early days of Covid.
That they will never again allow their freedoms to be infringed on in the name of protecting the vulnerable. One even went as far as to say “you’ve been sick for years - just die already.”
People who say these things don’t understand what disabled ppl understand all too well - your health is not a permanent state.
Everyone will become disabled eventually - some earlier than others. Many who think they’re invulnerable are already vulnerable and don’t even know it
Yet rather than adapting behaviour and pushing for a new normal that makes the world safe for everyone - most temporarily abled people have instead doubled down on hateful eugenics talking points and want us to stay home forever (or worse - die). It needs to stop.
Covid is airborne and we all share the air. “You do you” individualism is quite literally killing people. We need to start caring about the air we share as this will lead to a healthier society for everyone.
Until then we need to mask up. It’s easy, incredibly effective & it might save someone’s life. At the very least you will know you didn’t contribute to another person’s suffering - and you will be drastically reducing your own odds of getting Long Covid. It’s worth it.
https://www.disabledginger.com/p/i-dont-know-anyone-with-long-covid
Today is international #LongCovid Awareness Day
Check this canadian interview with a Mount Sinai (NY) chronic disease specialist. Up to one in five people with COVID-19 develop LONG COVID, meaning three months after having the disease they still do not recover their full abilities.
The specialist affirms that each reinfection, even moderate, of COVID-19 subtracts between 2-6% of IQ.
LONG COVID is a disease that causes systemic damage, especially to the immune system, causing T-cell exhaustion and triggering latent diseases or exposing the body to new pathogens from which it would have been able to defend itself before. Worth a listen:
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/audio/9.6685208
#CovidLong #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne
#CovidIsntOver
#ImmuneSystem #ImmuneDysfunction
#autoimmune #TCell
#chronicillness
#ChronicIllnesses
It’s International Long Covid Awareness Day, and my latest article looks at the reasons why people believe they don’t know anyone with Long Covid.
We desperately need increased visibility into this debilitating chronic illness so that we can raise awareness and fund treatments, mitigations and cures.
Anyone can get Long Covid. It’s not limited to ‘only the vulnerable’ or those who had a severe initial infection.
This disease does not discriminate. Even people with asymptomatic initial infections have found themselves disabled by Long Covid.
It’s time we start processing the trauma of the pandemic and stop living in denial.
We are in the middle of a mass disabling event, and the longer it takes us to admit that, the more people will be harmed.
Let’s spread the word that the only way to avoid Long Covid is to avoid getting Covid in the first place.
Wear a mask. Stay home when sick. Clean and ventilate the air.
When we all agree to care about the air we share, we can begin to bring about real change.
https://www.disabledginger.com/p/i-dont-know-anyone-with-long-covid
14 new patios on Air Salon today, with options in Downtown, James Bay, Esquimalt, Vic West, and Sidney! Lots of great covered, heated seating.
Big big thanks to Ari for compiling all these from chats on the Covid Cautious Victoria discord.
That sucks. @augieray has a big database of articles and may be able to help.
"Does anyone remember reading articles/posts saying that #COVID would cause #Parkinson's and #cancer in the years after infection? B/c two years after my four bouts, it now appears I have both Parkinson's and cancer. Wish I could find just one such article now."
"Live blog: International demonstrations ignite for Long COVID Awareness Day"
"Demonstrations for International Long COVID Awareness Day have sparked around the globe. Whether raising awareness about the disease in public or from their homes, people with Long COVID and their allies have raised their voices to demand recognition, research, treatments, support, and prevention of COVID-19 …"
It’s another #COVID anniversary, which means various people are sincerely asking whether “we” are “prepared” for the “next” pandemic.
(You’re not really dealing with the existing pandemic, so I’m going to say no.) #COVIDIsNotOver
Interview with Dr. Putrino on the long term effects of COVID, and not only in people diagnosed with Long Covid.
“There is more and more literature emerging to show that beyond long COVID, there's also effects that SARS-CoV-2 infection is having on the bodies of the general public that manifest in a way that might be viewed as silent.”
“And the reality of that situation is that this is a virus that has a lot of very unique qualities that specifically cause immune damage to the host.”
“For the longest time in the field of immunology, there was the sort of adage that your immune system, you know, needs to be tested every now and again to stay strong. You got to keep it fighting. That's an old-fashioned idea, you know.”
https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/quirks-and-quarks/id151485804?i=1000699213418&r=2093
