#COVID19

Worker-terrorizing pizza guy gets another six months in prison for also being a lying Covid relief-fund abuser
https://www.universalhub.com/2025/worker-terrorizing-pizza-guy-gets-another-six-months-prison-also-being
#Stashs #Roslindale #Dorchester #Boston #crime #Covid19

#Brasil - BOLETIM #Covid19

Data: 01/04/2025, 18h, Segunda

N° de infectados: 39.244.086
N° de mortos: 715.735

Foram 1.006 #Casos e 10 #Mortes em 24h -

Doses aplicadas da vacina: 500.466.991

Via Coletivo em Defesa da Vida ‪@contagemcorona1.bsky.social‬ -

https://bsky.app/profile/contagemcorona1.bsky.social/post/3llrmkuionk23 -

Fonte: Sec de Saúde dos Estados -

Press release:
"Pregnancy may reduce long COVID risk"
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1078926

Long COVID after SARS-CoV-2 During Pregnancy in the United States
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-57849-9

I personally would find this more interesting if this related to the ME-CFS/similar subgroup rather than a mixed LC group

@longcovid
#LongCovid #PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19 #LC #Covidlonghaulers #PostCovidSyndrome #longhaulers #COVIDBrain #NeuroPASC

@covid19 #Coronavirus
#COVID19 #COVID #COVID_19 #COVIDー19 #SARSCoV2

No worse than the flu?

I've lost track of how many different ways this claim is false. But here's yet another:

Healthcare workers with chronic condition miss more days of work due to COVID than flu

67% vs 12% of absences due to COVID, flu

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/healthcare-workers-chronic-condition-miss-more-days-work-due-covid-flu-data-show

#covid #COVID19 #pandemic #flu #influenza #publichealth #workingclass

#COVID19 damages immune systems.

STUDY: In 12-month follow-up, Those with a positive COVID-19 test who were not admitted to hospital had (compared to COVID-negative controls):

- 17% higher rate of outpatient diagnosis of infectious illnesses, including bacterial, fungal, and viral infections;
- 46% higher rate of outpatient respiratory infections; and
- 41% higher rate of admission to hospital for infectious illnesses, including sepsis and respiratory infections

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(24)00831-4/fulltext?rss=yes

#FYI #US #USA #disease #diseases #AMA #AmericanMedicalAssociation #AndreaGarcia #ToddUnger #typhus #murinetyphus #measles #vaccine #covid19 #covid #longcovid #sarscov2 #influenza #flu

"How do you get typhus? Can you die from typhus? What age do you get the measles vaccine? Are people still getting COVID? When does flu season end 2025?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU-jMNALtDI

#covid #covid19 @auscovid19 @DenisCOVIDinfoguy @mike_honey_ @NjbBari3

Very good Australian discussion on COVID-19 with Dr Norman Swan, with Norman emphasising that COVID is airborne...

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/nightlife/lessons-from-covid---dr-norman-swan/105120000

"Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature" by Elizabeth Outka

Have you wondered too: why is covid barely visible in modern media? Why do I never pick up a book with someone wearing a mask, even though it's 2020 in the story? Why do I watch tv shows set in 2021 and they act like everything is fine? I have to dig deep for any text that dares to mention the unmentionable (ongoing) SARSCoV2 pandemic, and that really bothers me.

Turns out this is not a rare phenomenon. The same happened after Spanish Flu a full century ago. This book from 2019 digs into the why of it, and then goes on to analyze the presence of the 1918 pandemic in the very few books that did mention it.

The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 zooms in on 'why?'. Why was the flu silenced in literature? Why was it such a taboo? Even if you're not interested in reading the rest of this book, this part is worth it if you've been wondering the same. It has some interesting theories. Partly the war overshadowed the pandemic. But partly it's also a problem of a lack of language and narrative. War is easy to explain: us, the goodies, fight a 'them', the baddies, and someone wins. But a virus is invisible and not well-understood. The 'enemy' doesn't invade from the outside, but spreads throughout your loved ones, penetrates your body and blurs all the lines of who's what. There was a lot of guilt about participation and ignorance. On top of the grief, there's a societal view of sickness as weakness, and of caring and ill health with femininity, which didn't help. I won't recap all of the book here, but it was a fascinating read to see why the pandemic was hidden in media, and how so much can be applied to the current times too. Plus there were lots of archival pictures that I'd never seen before!

In part 2 several books from around that era are discussed and the role of the pandemic in the story is analyzed. I was afraid that it might be too academic for me, but it was quite readable. Most notably I've gotten a more negative view of Virginia Woolf. Although she was one of the few acknowledging sickness in her literature, she also minimized Spanish Flu in daily life, not wanting to engage with it. I was also surprised to see 'look to windward' appear, which I've only known as a quote on war through Bank's books. And wow, the amount of 'living dead' analogies that pop up, interesting stuff.

Part 3 goes into two major trends that became popular post-pandemic: spiritualism and zombie tales. Both are forms of the dead coming back, one for mourning and peace of mind, the other for an outlet for fear and anger. I got quite upset reading about seances where ghosts of flu victims return to earth to exonerate their families from guilt of infection, hmpf. Either way, I thought it was engrossing. In hindsight, it all makes sense, and it helps me understand the way people behave now.

At the end the book states that we're not ready for a new pandemic, although we could be, if only we'd look reality in the eyes and prepare well. Covid started and... here we are. Millions dead, many more millions chronically ill, ableism abound, covid still around and mutating. And probably more pandemics coming at us in the near future. Every day I feel stronger about not letting this truth go unsaid. It's uncomfortable, but more tragedies will occur if the majority of people keep avoiding unpleasant realities. Don't look away, don't underestimate yourself -you can bear it and do your part to keep the people around you safe and well.

As the book says: "Reading the letters and stories told by the survivors of the pandemic —and the literary representations that simultaneously revealed and hid these very stories— launch us into new narrative streams, allowing us to hear voices long ignored in part because the viral, dust-like form at the heart of the story was itself invisible and silent."

I'm adding this book under #PlagueBook and I've also gone back and tagged all previous books that talk about pandemics that I've reviewed with that too (in a tiny effort to not lose these works into silence once again). You can view them all here:

https://c.im/@reading_recluse/tagged/PlagueBook

Please stay safe and #WearAMask !

#AmReading #NonFiction #books #bookstodon #covid19 #covid #SARScov2 #MaskUp

Rates of #infection with other #pathogens after a positive #COVID19 test versus a negative test in #US #veterans (November, 2021, to December, 2023): a retrospective cohort study, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/04/rates-of-infection-with-other-pathogens.html

So I had a dream about something and I'm wondering if there is any chance there is any such thing in reality. This is kind of a shot in the dark, but is there any sort of list out there maybe of places that actually require a mask and basic minimum standards? Or at least of places that strongly encourage such things and don't allow anti-maskers to start fights? I realize there likely are few to no such places, and less likely to be a list, but I had to ask.

#WearAMask #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver

"· Children and adolescents face a significantly increased risk of Long COVID following reinfections with SARS-CoV-2
· Another study in Behavioral Sciences showed #LongCOVID also affects language proficiency in children.
· A small observational NIH study is recruiting to study if people with Long COVID have persistent SARS-C0V-2 remnants in their bodies."

https://thesicktimes.org/2025/04/01/research-updates-april-1/

#research #COVID19

■ El daño colateral de los aranceles de Trump pueden revivir uno de los miedos de la pandemia ■ El plan arancelario del presidente de EEUU tiene previsto disparar los impuestos que tiene que pagar las importaciones de  abeto desde Canadá, una materia clave en la producción de papel higiénico.
https://www.huffingtonpost.es/global/el-dano-colateral-aranceles-trump-revivir-miedos-pandemia.html?int=MASTODON_WORLD

#global #eeuu #donaldtrump #aranceles #covid19

The EU thrives on fear https://www.byteseu.com/885555/ #COVID19 #EmmanuelMacron #Europe #Russia #Ukraine #War

"23 state attorneys general sue Trump administration over decision to rescind billions in health funding"

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/23-state-attorneys-general-sue-trump-administration-over-decision-to-rescind-billions-in-health-funding

#USPol #Covid19 #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #Resist

"The History of ME deserves a late-night spotlight. That’s why we started the #JohnVsJonVsME campaign"

https://thesicktimes.org/2025/03/31/the-history-of-me-deserves-a-late-night-spotlight-thats-why-we-started-the-johnvsjonvsme-campaign/?mc_cid=8b14b5fbfd

This campaign was inspired by George Monbiot who called the history of mistreatment of people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) the “greatest medical scandal of the 21st century”

Note: Most patients in the USA get a diagnosis of ME/CFS, not ME. CDC info here:

https://www.cdc.gov/me-cfs/about/index.html

#MEcfs #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicIllness #COVID19 #LongCovid

Simulating a Sneeze

Sneezing and coughing can spread pathogens both through large droplets and through tiny, airborne aerosols. Understanding how the nasal cavity shapes the aerosol cloud a sneeze produces is critical to understanding and predicting how viruses could spread. Toward that end, researchers built a “sneeze simulator” based on the upper respiratory system’s geometry. With their simulator, the team mimicked violent exhalations both with the nostrils open and closed — to see how that changed the shape of the aerosol cloud produced.

The researchers found that closed nostrils produced a cloud that moved away along a 18 degree downward tilt, whereas an open-nostril cloud followed a 30-degree downward slope. That means having the nostrils open reduces the horizontal spread of a cloud while increasing its vertical spread. Depending on the background flow that will affect which parts of a cloud get spread to people nearby. (Image and research credit: N. Catalán et al.; via Physics World)

#aerosols #biology #coughing #COVID19 #diseaseTransmission #droplets #flowVisualization #fluidDynamics #physics #science #sneezing #turbulence

Okay, #Novavax and #Influenza vaccination at the same time yesterday is ... very noticeable today.

But assuming the summer wave mostly repeats like the last years, now is a good time!

Especially since Novavax expires soon and it's a good heterologous vaccination scheme to mix with the mRNA one in autumn.

(Vaccine protection wanes after 3-6 months. Get safer.)

#Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #VaccinesWork #MaskUp

#pandemia - Amarcord. Quattro anni fa le inchieste sul controllo "militare" dei dati sui vaccinati contro il #Covid19
#Vaccini: la #militarizzazione dei dati - Speciale Osservatorio Repressione https://www.osservatoriorepressione.info/vaccini-la-militarizzazione-dei-dati/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJYlx9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHTxiQwdU6VSFTjeH7Ng-OFXtvGV23m3xqG6Dw7CvPOh4C2lL6tPnlm_I2A_aem_0i0pYntOUaf_T5MGCzpsEg

#Theatre
#NYC
#COVID
#covid19
#maskban
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-news/2025/03/31/wake-up-and-smell-the-covid/