#ongoing pandemic

[jeraliey]

It's still not just a cold.

"This study showing that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus directly infects coronary artery plaques, producing inflammatory substances, really joins the dots and helps our understanding on why we're seeing so much heart disease in COVID patients," Peter Hotez, MD, professor of molecular virology and microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, told Medscape.

Oh, also?

CDC predicts respiratory disease season will be similar to last year

"The CDC said it expects a similar number of respiratory disease cases this year as last year, with 15 to 25 new weekly hospitalizations per 100,000 people."

"As of Friday, nearly 12 million people have gotten the new Covid-19 vaccine since they were authorized last month, according to HHS. That’s millions more than the week prior, but still less than 4% of the US population."

No one is protecting themselves. And no one else will protect you.

Even if you're not worried for yourself....don't be one of the people that carries it to someone else. We're all responsible for the most vulnerable people in our society. (That could be you, by the way.....)

WEAR. YOUR. MASK.

#covid19 #wear a mask #fuck covid #ongoing pandemic

[theprogressivesadist]

just a reminder that we're all still in an ongoing pandemic

#fuck this timeline #covid 19 #covid #ongoing pandemic

[crytidsprinkles]

Louis, Claudia and Lestat say no pandemic and virus associated disease erasure, denial or lies, and not on International Long Covid Awareness Day of all days.

#Interview with the vampire #Interview with the vampire series #Interview with the vampire AMC #AMC #AMC+ #Ongoing pandemic #SARS-CoV-2 pandemic #SARS-CoV-2 #Louis De Pointe Du Lac #Claudia #Lestat De Lioncourt #GIF: interviewgifs #Coloring: me #International long covid awareness day #Long covid awareness #Covid is not over #Alt text in image

[pandemichub]

For the sake of guidance, I hope people will follow the highest precautions possible. The worst of SARS-CoV-2 is not limited to 2020, despite what is stated by politicians, media outlets and other public figures and professionals to whom it applies.

I want to inform readers the CDC has officially ended the 5 day isolation period for SARS-CoV-2 and this does not suddenly mean it is not contagious or that our protocols should be lapsed or relaxed. Spread is more rampant than ever. So please do not let this announcement and decision give a false sense of security.

Piece by the incredible Lucky Tran.

Note, please do not use the Washington Post as a source for quality coverage of the ongoing pandemic.

As others have said, if SARS-CoV-2 cannot be eradicated (I still hold out hope and think it imperative in fact), it means adjusting and adapting, not ignoring it, treating this virus and disease as harmless or of little harm and create hostile untenable conditions and daily situations for any efforts of prevention and control of it.

Of what I've read over the course of 4 years, SARS-CoV-2 continues to mutate, kill and disable. This cannot last and will end in an ever escalating disaster if we continue to allow it. - Admin and mod

Additional: Immunity rates are a concern as are vaccination rates. The boast of vaccines administered does not often enough include a breakdown based on how many in the series per person (e.g. 1 dose, primary series, x number of boosters and how recently).

Vaccine rates vary by country, but in regard to the U.S. rates have been on a decline, thus compromising effectiveness on a population level.

#Updates #News #Admin #Moderator #Public health #SARS-CoV-2 #Covid-19 #Covid 19 #SARS CoV 2 #SARS 2 #Pandemic #Ongoing pandemic #Lucky Tran

[stayoutofitnick]

#Covid #covid isn’t over #covid-19 #ongoing pandemic #vaccines

[njbellydancingbysoraya]

Please continue #stayingsafe as we’re n the midst of a very bad #CovidSummerSurge2023.

This powerful image is courtesy of #CovidDataReport out of #Philadelphia. He does an amazingly intelligent job of presenting real science, honest facts minus any political or financially driven governmental nonsense. No time for ignorance, #CovidDeniers or #Covidminimalists. His channel on You Tube is the real deal with no BS.

Check out his excellent channel at:

#covid19 #covid pandemic #ongoing pandemic #covid isnt over #mask up #Covid Data Report #Trust Science #Summer COVID Surge 2023 #the pandemic is not over #No Gaslighting #Youtube

[wild-neko]

disabled people: we are still dying, can you please just wear a mask to the grocery store and doctor’s offices so we can live

conservatives: no, die or stay inside all day, no one cares

leftists: no 🏳️‍🌈✨💖

#wear a mask #covid #sars cov 2 #disability rights #eugenics #disability pride month #lgbt #it really is like this :') #queer #pandemic #ableism #disabled queer #auspol #me not ever being able to share the same air with anyone ever really does something to your mental health #trying not to die in the ongoing pandemic #wear a fucking mask #we would actually like to access third spaces too #we just lost 100 years of disease prevention bc govt propaganda worked a little too well and gave every single medical person brain rot #they went from 'do no harm' to 'actually i think you should quit complaining and allow me to kill you with airborn aids' #which is happening EVERYWHERE BTW and it made it to the media that an aust hospital COVERED IT UP like this is what we're dealing with #this is what modern day eugenics looks like and no one gives a shit #Ableism #HAPPY NEW YEAR #pride #LGBTQIA #activism #acab

[medtalksblog]

#CME Medical Courses #Other benefits of CME courses #Ongoing Pandemic

[pipzeroes]

I like fun unreality mass pretenses, like Goncharov, and not those unfun unreality mass pretenses, like pretending COVID is over and/or "mild".

#goncharov #goncharov (1973) #goncharov 1973 #unreality #COVID #COVID is airborne #COVID is NOT over #COVID is ongoing #COVID floats like smoke #pandemic #mask up

[jeraliey]

Oh, look, everyone's talking about how they're getting COVID and they're so surprised about it. Again.

It's almost like we're still in an uncontrolled pandemic, and no one is doing their part to control it.

It's kind of interesting, though, in a ghoulish way, to notice the threshold of circulating virus that causes people to start talking about it again. My rough, non-scientific, kluged-together estimate of where it happens is right about here, at the straight horizontal black line that I added myself:

(Chart is from the CDC Wastewater tracking site, straight horizontal black line added by me.)

Also notice that when people start wearing masks again because COVID has passed the Notice Threshold, there's often a sharp dropoff. Until people just decide they're done and stop again. Whereupon the levels recover.

Anyway, please get your updated vaccine (which is active against the primary circulating variants), please keep masking up, and don't stop masking until we're actually done with the pandemic (instead of mass-delusion-pretend-done) and please make sure the people you care about do the same. There were apparently at least 4,000 COVID deaths in the US in the month of October, and that's almost certainly a gross underestimate given the tenacity of the mass delusion everyone is reinforcing.

Every single person can influence the spread of this disease by their own personal behaviors. This is only continuing because we are all collectively choosing to continue it.

Thanksgiving cometh.

#covid19 #ongoing pandemic #wear a mask #get vaccinated #covid #covid isn't over #public health #thanksgiving

[theprogressivesadist]

#just a reminder #ongoing pandemic #once again for everyone in the back #we're also still in the midst of an ongoing pandemic

[crytidsprinkles]

I will forever love Interview with a vampire for acknowledging so openly, sickness and the global pandemic as well as pandemics past, and in the year 2022. So much media ignores it entirely. And now, in 2024 it's a great comfort for me amidst all this mass abandonment, murder, death and illness.

#Interview with a vampire #Series #AMC #Anne Rice #Pandemic #Ongoing pandemic #SARS-CoV-2 #Covid is not over

[pandemichub]

ID: Person with long brown hair in white cowl neck white knit sweater holding coffee cup with Greek style design. Video is captioned.

New crucial information from David Putrino of the Putrino Laboratory, and the Mount Sinai long covid clinic. Leading expert, and facility on the front of this disease.

Take aways:

Vaccination as of 2024, according to this information does not prevent long covid.

I'd like to include other sources state vaccines reduce long covid by percentages, though no higher than 68.7%. It is important to also factor the dwindling and low rates of vaccination as of 2024 (17%), and highly mutagenic, immune evasive and contagious nature of SARS-CoV-2.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(23)00414-9

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations_vacc-people-booster-percent-pop5, (completed primary series + updated bivalent booster)

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-variants-bar?time=earliest

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-023-00878-2 "Like most RNA viruses, coronaviruses evolve rapidly"

The point being, while it is encouraged to get vaccinated, vaccination alone is not sufficient to robustly protect individuals or the general population from infection or development of virus associated disease/long covid.

Literature and resources on the full inventory of mitigation methods, please read my pinned post or search for the December 2023 update.

Many long covid sufferers, especially now, have multiple vaccinations, are median age 38, had mild feeling or even asymptomatic infection and were not hospitalized.

Note: mild infection does not mean harmless, and segments and statements from Mount Sinai and Dr. David Putrino illustrate why.

Furthermore, while it is my personal opinion mild and asymptomatic infection is quite likely a sign of immune evasion, there is some other evidence and real world examples that may support my hypothesis. - Admin/mod

You can listen to the whole interview here: https://www.bayarealyme.org/blog/long-covid-what-we-have-learned-about-chronic-illness-from-the-front-lines/

#SARS-CoV-2 #SARS CoV 2 #covid-19 #covid 19 #covid #long covid #Ongoing pandemic #pandemic #public health #news #February 2024 #Month of February #February #David Putrino #Putrino Lab #Mount Sinai #Long covid clinic

[affixjoy]

Just another exhausted covid rant since shouting into this void helps (?) for some reason.

I’m fairly confident in my analysis of the situation: covid is dangerous long term to brain and heart health. There’s so many studies saying this. It’s bad for adults, it’s bad for kids. My personal experience of having had it once backs this up—it could be unrelated but I’ve had memory issues and blood pressure/heart stuff going on since I had it in April. Covid is more than the initial symptoms and it’s bad.

But everyone I know is living in their happy little 2019 realities and asking me why I won’t send the kid to daycare, why I won’t take him to indoor storytimes, why do I still bother masking at the grocery store. Meanwhile they’ve had 3+ known covid infections and a slew of new medical issues they don’t even think to connect to that. Meanwhile their kids have been sick nonstop since November.

There’s a lot of times lately where I feel my resolve slipping. It’s hard and lonely being the only one who cares. And I don’t even mind so much for ME. I’ve been a chronically ill fat queer lady for most of my life, visibly not fitting in is nothing new to me. I can mask and set my boundaries without a lot of stress. But the pressure for the kid to have a “normal” childhood is enormous. As we get closer to school age it’s going to get harder and harder to restrict him to mostly outdoor activities, and I feel strongly that he should go to public school. I keep hoping there will be a tipping point before then and things will improve, but it’s looking pretty bleak.

By the miracles of vaccines and masks and air filtration he’s had zero known covid infections (even when I had it!) and I keep telling myself that the older he is when it inevitably happens the better. If I can reduce his number of infections by even one there’s a greater chance of him avoiding long covid damage.

All of this is worth it, but damn it’s hard, and I’m not sure how long I can keep it up.

#covid isn't over #covid 19 #covid #toddlers #raising a kid in an ongoing airborne pandemic is hard #and now I have to worry about measles??? #wear a mask and clean the air

[playingplayer2]

I love living with a a violent abusive narc it's so much fun! Especially in a fucking pandemic!!! It's super duper fun! I love unstable housing!!

I love toxic family it's so fun. So great. Love it so much. Yes please threaten to kick us out some more when we are the only reason you've been able to keep the house, it's my favourite!

🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

#covid isn't over #covid is airborne #toxic family #is this when i start a go fund me so we can move? #like genuinely he's teying to fucking kill us #quite literally zero exaggerating he has tried & continues to #ongoing pandemic #fucking housing crisis #what the fuck am i supposed to do

[crimeronan]

spent a few hours at the farmer's market yesterday where local places have small samples of different strains of fruit and veggies to try. anyway we got a little box of plums that are so damn good it's unbelievable. just inhaled three in the kitchen and they don't even make a mess bc they just fall off the pit & melt in ur mouth. also got some of the sweetest peaches i've ever tasted & huge pears & a bunch of veggies n potatoes n corn for cooking this week. spoke with different vendors about their handcrafted beer and their rare peonies, watched little kids run around, got hot stroopwafels made to order n fresh squeezed lemonade that was wildly overpriced but very tasty. and now i'm like. i think i'm not a bitch anymore actually.

#i need to be in crowds of strangers regularly or i go insane. so you can imagine what ongoing pandemic with chronic illness has done to me #this fruit is SO GOOD. ok gotta run errands now. #autoimmune tag #since thats doubling as an illness recovery tag now