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#wear a mask#covid isnt over#like seriously please#long covid risk is cumulative#internal organ damage risk is cumulative#risk of death increases with each infection#covid#covid reinfection#dw#doctor who#doctor who spoilers#dw spoilers#dw memes#doctor who memes#screams in frustration#ncuti gatwa#covid is airborne#long covid#pandemic#ongoing pandemic#n95#let me save your lives#covid conscious#covid cautious#covid zero
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Long covid, and being afflicted with multiple covid
So a good friend of mine, an ED nurse, is sadly one of the outliers who is susceptible to covid and its variants.
He has had one infection of covid, which led to long covid, and now he's had pneumonia like symptoms, since diagnosed as another infection of covid.
(Screenshot below)
The medals are for the ambulance service, but nothing likely will be done (medals wise) for nurses or doctors.
The world isn't injust, it's indifferent.
Politics makes for injustice....
29 April 2024.
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anyways happy pride to all my high risk queers out there, to all my disabled queers for whom events aren't accessible to, to my immunocompromised folks who can't risk attending events where people aren't masked or taking covid precautions! happy pride to my fellow cripqueers that want to be out there fighting and celebrating with their friends and family and can't because it's not safe for them to do so– you're not alone and you deserve to celebrate too. we all do.
#s.txt#okay to rb by the way#ngl this is mostly for myself but it's also something i feel strongly about#especially given everything i've seen lately talking about weighing risk vs pleasure as if they're mutually exclusive#or that there aren't high risk queer folks that deserve to access queer joy as well#i would literally kill to be able to celebrate pride with my queer fam this year and i can't bc i can't afford a reinfection#and it makes me so sad#queer#pride month#covid mention#covid isn't over
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The danger is clear and present: COVID isn’t merely a respiratory illness; it’s a multi-dimensional threat impacting brain function, attacking almost all of the body’s organs, producing elevated risks of all kinds, and weakening our ability to fight off other diseases. Reinfections are thought to produce cumulative risks, and Long COVID is on the rise. Unfortunately, Long COVID is now being considered a long-term chronic illness — something many people will never fully recover from. Dr. Phillip Alvelda, a former program manager in DARPA’s Biological Technologies Office that pioneered the synthetic biology industry and the development of mRNA vaccine technology, is the founder of Medio Labs, a COVID diagnostic testing company. He has stepped forward as a strong critic of government COVID management, accusing health agencies of inadequacy and even deception. Alvelda is pushing for accountability and immediate action to tackle Long COVID and fend off future pandemics with stronger public health strategies. Contrary to public belief, he warns, COVID is not like the flu. New variants evolve much faster, making annual shots inadequate. He believes that if things continue as they are, with new COVID variants emerging and reinfections happening rapidly, the majority of Americans may eventually grapple with some form of Long COVID. Let’s repeat that: At the current rate of infection, most Americans may get Long COVID.
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LP: A recent JAMA study found that US adults with Long COVID are more prone to depression and anxiety – and they’re struggling to afford treatment. Given the virus’s impact on the brain, I guess the link to mental health issues isn’t surprising. PA: There are all kinds of weird things going on that could be related to COVID’s cognitive effects. I’ll give you an example. We’ve noticed since the start of the pandemic that accidents are increasing. A report published by TRIP, a transportation research nonprofit, found that traffic fatalities in California increased by 22% from 2019 to 2022. They also found the likelihood of being killed in a traffic crash increased by 28% over that period. Other data, like studies from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, came to similar conclusions, reporting that traffic fatalities hit a 16-year high across the country in 2021. The TRIP report also looked at traffic fatalities on a national level and found that traffic fatalities increased by 19%. LP: What role might COVID play? PA: Research points to the various ways COVID attacks the brain. Some people who have been infected have suffered motor control damage, and that could be a factor in car crashes. News is beginning to emerge about other ways COVID impacts driving. For example, in Ireland, a driver’s COVID-related brain fog was linked to a crash that killed an elderly couple. Damage from COVID could be affecting people who are flying our planes, too. We’ve had pilots that had to quit because they couldn’t control the airplanes anymore. We know that medical events among U.S. military pilots were shown to have risen over 1,700% from 2019 to 2022, which the Pentagon attributes to the virus.
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LP: You’ve criticized the track record of the CDC and the WHO – particularly their stubborn denial that COVID is airborne. PA: They knew the dangers of airborne transmission but refused to admit it for too long. They were warned repeatedly by scientists who studied aerosols. They instituted protections for themselves and for their kids against airborne transmission, but they didn’t tell the rest of us to do that.
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LP: How would you grade Biden on how he’s handled the pandemic? PA: I’d give him an F. In some ways, he fails worse than Trump because more people have actually died from COVID on his watch than on Trump’s, though blame has to be shared with Republican governors and legislators who picked ideological fights opposing things like responsible masking, testing, vaccination, and ventilation improvements for partisan reasons. Biden’s administration has continued to promote the false idea that the vaccine is all that is needed, perpetuating the notion that the pandemic is over and you don’t need to do anything about it. Biden stopped the funding for surveillance and he stopped the funding for renewing vaccine advancement research. Trump allowed 400,000 people to die unnecessarily. The Biden administration policies have allowed more than 800,000 to 900,000 and counting.
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LP: The situation with bird flu is certainly getting more concerning with the CDC confirming that a third person in the U.S. has tested positive after being exposed to infected cows. PA: Unfortunately, we’re repeating many of the same mistakes because we now know that the bird flu has made the jump to several species. The most important one now, of course, is the dairy cows. The dairy farmers have been refusing to let the government come in and inspect and test the cows. A team from Ohio State tested milk from a supermarket and found that 50% of the milk they tested was positive for bird flu viral particles.
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PA: There’s a serious risk now in allowing the virus to freely evolve within the cow population. Each cow acts as a breeding ground for countless genetic mutations, potentially leading to strains capable of jumping to other species. If any of those countless genetic experiments within each cow prove successful in developing a strain transmissible to humans, we could face another pandemic – only this one could have a 58% death rate. Did you see the movie “Contagion?” It was remarkably accurate in its apocalyptic nature. And that virus only had a 20% death rate. If the bird flu makes the jump to human-to-human transition with even half of its current lethality, that would be disastrous.
#sars cov 2#covid 19#h5n1#bird flu#articles#long covid is def a global issue not just for those in the us and most countries aren't doing much better#regardless of how much lower the mortality rate for h5n1 may or may not become if/when it becomes transmissible between humans#having bird flu infect a population the majority of whose immune system has been decimated by sars2#to the point where the average person seems to have a hard time fighting off the common cold etc...#(see the stats of whooping cough/pertussis and how they're off the CHARTS this yr in the uk and aus compared to previous yrs?#in qld average no of cases was 242 over prev 4 yrs - there have been /3783/ diagnosed as of june 9 this yr and that's just in one state.#there's a severe shortage of meds for kids in aus bc of the demand and some parents visit +10 pharmacies w/o any luck)#well.#let's just say that i miss the days when ph orgs etc adhered to the precautionary principle and were criticised for 'overreacting'#bc nothing overly terrible happened in the end (often thanks to their so-called 'overreaction')#now to simply acknowledge the reality of an obviously worsening situation is to be accused of 'fearmongering'#🤷♂️#also putting long covid and bird flu aside for a sec:#one of the wildest things that everyone seems to overlook that conor browne and others on twt have been saying for yrs#is that the effects of the covid pandemic extend far beyond the direct impacts of being infected by the virus itself#we know sars2 rips apart immune system+attacks organs. that in effect makes one more susceptible to other viruses/bacterial infections etc#that in turn creates increased demand for healthcare services for all kinds of carers and medications#modern medicine and technology allows us to provide often effective and necessary treatment for all kinds of ailments#but what if there's not enough to go around? what happens when the demand is so high that it can't be provided fast enough -- or at all?#(that's assuming you can even afford it)#what happens when doctors and nurses and other healthcare workers keep quitting due to burnout from increased patients and/or illness#because they themselves do not live in a separate reality and are not any more sheltered from the effects of constant infection/reinfection#of sars2 and increased susceptibility to other illnesses/diseases than the rest of the world?#this is the 'new normal' that's being cultivated (the effects of which are already blatantly obvious if you're paying attention)#and importantly: it. doesn't. have. to. be. this. way.
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“The burden of disease and disability from Long COVID, when you measure it, is on par with the burden of cancer and heart disease. Even if people emerge unscathed after having the first infection they can still get long covid after reinfection. Not enough people know this fact. The best way to prevent Long COVID is to prevent COVID in the first place. There is no Long COVID without COVID.”
World-renowned COVID-19 researcher Dr Ziyad Al-Aly, January 2024, Testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions
#long covid#HELPLongCovid#Dr Ziyad Al-Aly#burden of disability#reinfection#chronically ill#chronic illness#invisible illness#disability#chronic pain
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I’ve decided the taste of paxlovid is the taste of 🔥🔥VIRUS DYING🔥🔥 which means THIS IS THE BLOOD OF MY ENEMIES UPON MY TONGUE AS THEY FALL BEFORE MY DEFENSES
(It's so yucky I have to romanticize it somehow)
#I made it almost four years without getting reinfected and I am taking this personally#covid isn't over#covid#tw covid#tw meds mention#paxlovid#chronic illness#fibromyalgia#me/cfs#disability#gastroparesis#migraine#postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome#chronic fatigue#chronic pain#pots#long covid#wear a mask#mask up#pandemic
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You’ll be starting to see more and more posts normalizing the symptoms of long covid/covid damage (as isolated things completely separate from covid of course, wouldn’t want to start confronting that!!🙄) and I just want to reiterate to y’all that it is NOT normal to experience brain fog, memory problems, and/or chronic fatigue in your 20s/30s. Don’t fall for propaganda that normalizes a deadly and mass disabling disease, don’t be a willing participant in eugenics and pls speak out and mask up!!
#Covid#health#2024#‘haha I’ll prob have early onset dementia at this rate’ YEAH YOU PROBABLY WILL IF YOU KEEP GETTING REINFECTED!!!#chapell roan#roan likely has covid and I’m gonna be honest it’s lowkey karma for hosting that many superspreaders while claiming to care abt the queer#community
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Biden declares covid “over”
Studies begin to show that covid causes long term multi system damage including cognitive decline
Biden gets covid multiple times
Biden starts to decline cognitively
Dems start asking biden to drop from the race
Biden refuses
Biden gets covid again
#the lack of putting 2 and 2 together is throwing me bad#a lot of ppl are attributing it to age but I think that’s just one factor in the grand scheme#not only does he have covid but he’s not even trying to mask or isolate#he’s spreading it everywhere he goes with absolutely zero regard for anyone around him#constant reinfections at his age….hes not gonna make it#covid#long covid#covid isn't over#covid is airborne#covid conscious#wear a mask#mask up#fuck biden
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Using health data from almost 213,000 Americans who experienced reinfections, researchers have found that severe infections from the virus that causes COVID-19 tend to foreshadow similar severity of infection the next time a person contracts the disease. Additionally, scientists discovered that long COVID was more likely to occur after a first infection compared to a reinfection.The study, funded by the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) Initiative, is published in Communications Medicine.
The analysis used data from electronic health records of 3.1 million Americans who are part of the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C). Researchers focused on 212,984 people who reported a reinfection. Those individuals were originally infected between March 1, 2020-Dec. 31, 2022, and experienced a second infection by March 2023. Most participants (203,735) had COVID-19 twice, but a small number (478) had it three times or more. COVID-19 vaccines, though not available during the entire study period, correlated with a protective effect.
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Because I keep seeing people mention how it's important to get COVID vaccination because it lessens the severity of infections, a reminder: it also prevents infections. Not 100% of them. But vaccination makes you less likely to get infected, particularly with the strain you were vaccinated for. So, when you get the newest COVID vaccination, it's really good at preventing infection with the XBB.1.5 Omicron subvariant, and almost as good at preventing infection with closely related strains. It becomes less effective at prevention the more a strain differs from XBB.1.5, but can still reduce the rate of infection, and it's still good at lessening the severity of disease.
So, if you get vaccinated, you are less likely to get infected with COVID-19. That's prevention!
#covid 19#COVID-19#I am really sick of well-intended post saying that the vaccine 'doesn't prevent infections but makes them less severe'#it prevents infections AND makes breakthrough infections less severe#like almost every other vaccine#I really wish accurate information about vaccination and immunology was a basic part of every public school health curriculum#except that a lot of teachers don't understand this stuff either so oh well#my other bugaboo is people thinking that the immune system requires regular exposure to pathogens to keep it strong#um no#the immune system is not like a muscle#muscles grow strong through periodic stress#that is not the case for the immune system and many pathogens in fact weaken the immune system#like measles for example can wipe your immune memory so that you can get reinfected by pathogens you were previously immune to
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The threat of SARS-CoV-2 reinfections.
A severe COVID-19 case tended to foreshadow a similarly severe infection the second time, underscoring the importance of preventing infection, National Institutes of Health (NIH) study.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/study-suggests-reinfections-virus-causes-covid-19-likely-have-similar-severity-original-infection
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So Ferry got a SUPER positive Covid result and mine was inconclusive but I'm also already showing symptoms about a day behind hers
We both got hit HARD with it waaaay back at the start and I still have Long Covid, so this'll be... good good fun...........
#blah blah#covid#medical stuff#I'm especially pissed because we have been SO careful about masking and sanitizing constantly#haven't been reinfected in 3 years#and then an outside source brought it in the house. great cool thanks
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brief survey
*common symptoms include:
physiological - lingering chest pain, shortness of breath, lingering cough, heart palpitations, abnormal heart rate
neurological - brain fog, general cognitive decline, fatigue, language/word retrieval issues, short term and long term memory issues, abnormal executive dysfunction, difficulty concentrating, exacerbation of pre-existing depression or anxiety
**if you first contracted covid before vaccines were available, you can count it as unvaccinated
#poll#polls#covid#long covid#inspired by my realization that i can pinpoint exactly when i first got covid#because despite having a photographic memory i literally do not remember anything between early april and late august 2020#-wait thats more or less the exact 6 month timeframe of early long covid symptoms#the lung issues at least are mostly-gone but recent reinfection hit hard with language/cognition symptom resurgence#i think reinfection was around may 2023#...and guess what that's getting close to 16 months#so i'm guessing this round is an 18 month reinfection#i noticed there seems to be a lot of anecdotes of doctors refusing/being unable to treat long covid#im curious if the frequency of this sort of thing has increased after 2020 in particular?#since pretty much every healthcare professional got hit by early unmitigated/pre-vaccine L/alpha covid strains#and probably dealt with subsequent reinfection if working in high exposure risk environments like urgent/emergency med#anecdotally i have noticed that the med field people less practically/physically involved in treatment (vaccine researchers vs physicians)#seem to be less 'off' in general? idk#i feel like it's just not emphasized enough how much of a risk it is that everyone involved in treating & studying covid#probably has or had long covid at some point
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Avoid COVID Reinfections
"But there is also growing evidence that in some people, getting COVID-19 the first time may compromise the immune response in a way that makes the body less likely to respond effectively the next time it sees the virus. That could leave certain organs and body systems, such as the brain, weaker for months after infection—and subsequent ones."
“Each time you get hit, it does impact your body, so let’s try not to get it too many times,” says Smith."
"Data also continue to show that even vaccinated people can get Long COVID—although the risk may be lower—since the protection provided by vaccines wanes over time, just as it does from infections. Vaccines are therefore a strong but not absolute barrier to the virus."
"In the meantime, Smith says it’s important for people to understand that they still need to do everything they can to avoid getting COVID-19. That means staying up to date with vaccinations and taking some basic precautions, such as wearing high-quality masks indoors when cases are high, especially in crowded places and on public transportation"
#covid19#long covid#reinfections#airborne#the reason measles is so dangerous is that it wipes out all previous immunity to diseases#don't just stand there in the boxing ring of life#and let COVID bash your head in over and over#fight back#and fight for those of us not in position to fight back or run away
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it is supremely weird having a doctor in the family who is very pro-science, pro-vax, and progressive but who I constantly have to correct about common covid myths
#I feel like I'm going crazy sometimes#esp when said family member debates me#like I get it we all wanna pretend covid is gone now#but it isn't and it is continuing to kill and disable people#and reinfections do NOT build immunity it actually makes everything worse#hhhhhh anyway
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