A Concerned Scientist @BE@qoto.org
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I suggest not RTing things without comment that you won't defend.
I didn't say anything about COVID vs Long COVID, a distinction that doesn't have a definition as best I know. The articles also largely do not make that distinction. I can link dozens of others, too.
This new anti-dysregulation talking point is against the best science on the issue and I suspect you know that.
Just a sampling:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21505594.2021.1898790
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1931312820302365
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2020.01548/full
https://www.jci.org/articles/view/141772
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124720315795
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11882-020-00986-6
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025619621008880
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7674227/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10067-020-05529-y
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1521692622000561
https://myblog.drharsha.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/JClinSciRes9137-1566642_042106.pdf
https://www.jci.org/articles/view/140491?elqTrackId=fa6456b33c9b40498ba99e8a559e9888
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.25.21257820v1
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396421002930
My understanding is that it depends on the state you're in here in the US. Some check your eligibility and some are less diligent about it. I've read plenty of accounts of people, particularly in the NE, crossing state lines to get it.
I, too, have noticed the goal posts are on the move again amongst a certain class of minimizer.
Purposeful misinformation spread to people who can not think critically enough to understand the situation is the lowest hanging fruit for the people who manipulate "public sentiment" for their own gains.
It's worse than abdication because him and his children get to live in what's essentially a different world than the rest of us.
“We are now at a point where I believe if you’re up to date on your vaccines, you have access to treatments … there really should be no restrictions on people’s activities,” Jha said. “I’m pretty much living life the way I was living life in 2019.”
Put simply, it's been my concern since 2020 that it would just take more time for younger people to experience worse outcomes. I hope I'm wrong, but every year that goes by it looks less and less likely that I am.
fungal infections ❤️ COVID
Outside of my knowledge for sure, but there's been quite a few studies showing ongoing B-cell problems after COVID infections. It makes sense that we're just beginning to figure out the extent of the issues those can cause.
And I don't mean to insinuate that flu deaths after the acute phase shouldn't be counted. I think they should, if the flu is the burden that likely led to death, but it's important to point out how that's different than COVID.
I've honestly been waiting on someone more knowledgeable about this type of study to comment intelligently on it. I've read it, and I see severe limitations, not the least of which is that they seem to simply not define long COVID and then count anyone not seeking or not receiving further medical interventions at a year as cured. I'd love to hear your thoughts on it overall and what, exactly, can be teased out of their data.
I knew quite a few people in hospitals at the beginning of the pandemic and every single one of them said that they'd never seen a wave of flu anything like what they were seeing, despite the supposedly high number of flu deaths that the CDC reports.
It's worth mentioning that flu deaths are only estimated, and are, in fact, overestimated every year.
Not only that, but the CDC adds in deaths *after* the acute phase of the flu, which of course is not the same as COVID deaths.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/faq.htm
What it all adds up to is that COVID deaths are seriously undercounted(over 700 excess deaths per day in the US but only around half of those counted as COVID) and flu deaths are likely overcounted every year.
@DrCanuckMD@med-mastodon.com
Under 90% in our county, and dropping, as of late 2022. In a probably related aside, the only pediatrician in our small town has become vehemently anti-vax. Just glad my kids are old enough to have gotten everything they need for now.
@auscandoc @DrCanuckMD@med-mastodon.com
A bunch of right wingers never got the opportunity to invest in fluvoxamine. It's always a grift.
I totally understand. My in-laws are not totally grasping the whole thing. They say they mask everywhere, but do the same things that you're talking about.
I learned the other day that my father in law masks all the time at the store....except when he's checking out and talking to the nice checkout lady so she can see his smiling face. *sigh*
That's got to be so stressful. Seems like everyone's given up on avoiding COVID anymore.
"You do you" broke me just like it broke the societal contract. I, honestly, assumed that my experiences during the pandemic were unusual and therefore I was the edge case. Even realizing over time that I'm not, it's tacit approval by the governments of the world to be as selfish and self serving as you wish.
I assume at this point there's two likely outcomes. One, some sort of horribly tragic societal bottoming out is going to have to happen before things get better. Two, some scientific breakthrough(s) changes the reality on the ground enough that the scenario completely changes.
Personally, I'm just biding my time making sure myself and my family get infected as little as humanly possible until one of them happens.
And those blood vessels go....everywhere
In early 2020 as people were discussing SARS-CoV-2, not knowing much of anything about biology, personally, it seemed like a good idea to me to look into SARS-CoV-1. There wasn't a whole lot of info that I could find, but I didn't like what I learned.
It really is bizarre. I know I mentioned this story once on Mastodon somewhere before, but it fits here.
A few years back there was this know-it-all nurse at my kid's school. One day I get a call around mid-day that I need to come pick up my son because he wasn't feeling well. So I get there and she brings him out and in front of a bunch of other parents and teachers she proceeds to give me this sanctimonious lecture about how I clearly never should have let my kid go to school and how awful it was that I was letting him spread whatever had made him ill to everyone else.
Of course, he was showing no symptoms hours earlier. I never would have sent him in sick, but, anyway....
One of my his friend's moms remembered this interaction and a couple of months ago sends me a text that the same nurse called her and gave her a big lecture about how her kid had been out sick for a few days in a row and that wasn't acceptable. No matter what he needed to get into school and not miss anymore days. There's no testing requirement anymore, so it didn't matter what he had, just get him back in class.
A couple weeks later another parent shared almost the exact same story. They seem to be, literally, calling everyone who's out sick and telling them that not only is it OK to send their kid to school sick, but it's the right thing to do. Insanity.
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