💀overtime nihilist💀

infectious disease response and doom metal 🤘🏻

[💀overtime nihilist💀 @accomplishexile]

Wear an N95 in public spaces. 3M Aura 9025+ works great IME. Never been one to shout anything from the rooftops, but here we fuckin are. Your lives are infinitely more precious than those of the people in power who are effortlessly afforded all protections. We need you.

[Lazarus Long @LazarusLong13]

The Canada BC teenager is in a hospital that barely uses surgical masks, under Bonnie Henry who screwed up SARS1, then C0V1D.

She thinks aerosols only come in cans.

⚠️ Trigger ⚠️

I am going to lay out the worst case for you. Going to get dark.

[Lazarus Long @LazarusLong13]

1918. You recognize that year. The year of the Spanish Flu Pandemic.

1914. Is the number of citations that the study that claims H5N1 WILL TURN INTO A PANDEMIC - when it mutates to prefer the receptors in our upper airways.

Debunk 🧵.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Many young US Marines with mild Covid prospectively followed ~1 year developed #LongCovid sequelae https://t.co/uipc5MmC48

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

New report of a nasal vaccine booster provides strong, durable #SARSCoV2 cross-variant protection—preventing infection— compared with shots in non-human primates
https://t.co/nOV0afzw85
@NatImmunol

[Ziyad Al-Aly, MD @zalaly]

400 million reasons to care about #LongCovid

ICYMI: our review on #LongCovid in @NatureMedicine

Long Covid has affected at least 400 million people worldwide at a cost of $1 trillion per year.

#LongCovid is a defining health crisis of our time!

https://t.co/r5BliDA045

[Ziyad Al-Aly, MD @zalaly]

🧵1/ A Significant surge in the number of people with a disability in the U.S.

The @stlouisfed just released an analysis using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), revealing some concerning trends. Here’s what they found:

#Disability #DisabilityJustice #LongCovid

[Mike Honey @Mike_Honey_]

Recombinant variant XEC is continuing to spread, and looks a likely next challenger against the now-dominant DeFLuQE variants (KP.3.1.1 and descendants).
🧵

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

TODAY: Covid is spreading more now than in any previous back-to-school season.

Families are being thrown to the wolves by #LaissezFairePublicHealth.

We need surveillance testing, science-driven isolation policies, guidance for universal high-quality well-fitting masks, air purifiers to reach ASHRAE Standard 241, & updated vaccines yesterday.

In absence of those policy-based precautions, families must fend for themselves. The only options/tips are non-universal masking (less effective for kids than adults), getting a vaccine next month, and reducing in-home spread. Dr. Malley is spot on. Reduces family risk, but still very bleak long-term, considering 2 waves annually.

This is why my family homeschools, aside from a recent summer camp with universal high-quality masking and ASHRAE Standard air cleaning.

Full article: https://t.co/MVISPDXvN4

Graph here from pg. 3 of the PMC Report: https://t.co/xmDnq5NN8N

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

The JAMA Pediatrics study that concluded the incidence of #LongCOVID in kids was "strikingly low" has now been retracted.

The study was riddled with gross statistical mistakes. The authors apologize to readers.
https://t.co/A2u0hBi2MY

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

An open-access, in depth review for how #SARSCoV2 can induce platelet activation, endothelial dysfunction, pro-inflammatory effects, and promote progression of atherosclerosis #LongCovid https://t.co/zexgOps7yR h/t @CatchTheBaby @JACCJournals @vchidambaram91

[Ziyad Al-Aly, MD @zalaly]

📢Our review "Long COVID science, research and policy" is out in @NatureMedicine

By @zalaly @ahandvanish @LisaAMcCorkell @leticiasaurus @swulfie @VirusesImmunity @EricTopol

A thread
https://t.co/Cvlmbo14lK

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

The new significant wave. It's hard to believe the we're well into our 5th year of this virus and not taking the requisite steps to gain control.
Including updates on the new boosters and #LongCovid.
In Ground Truths (link found in my profile)

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

This new review on #LongCovid @TheLancet is outstanding
https://t.co/cLy6yx86i4
by @trishgreenhalgh @sivanmanoj @DrAPerlowski and Janko Nikolich

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

JAMA-NO Today: Masking is a new indicator of healthcare quality.

>80% of top #cancer centers have strict masking policies during #Covid waves.

#KeepMasksInHealthcare #YallMasking #SaltingTheVibes

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

1/
PMC COVID-19 Tracker, Dec 18, 2023

We are headed into potentially the 2nd largest COVID surge all-time in the U.S.

If #wastewater levels follow historic trends, we will reach 2 million infections/day at peak surge with 4.2% of the population actively infectious on Jan 10.

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

Covid mitigation is actually extremely popular *IF* people are aware we are in a Covid #surge.

>95% of our participants wore a free N95 during the BA.1 surge.

Link to free access of the publication (Moran et al, pub #105):
https://t.co/9EHJk9D9cl
4/7

[🔻Rio Slade 🔻 @RioSlade]

Lawmakers are considering loosening restrictions to become a pilot

https://t.co/QGmaoG8Qvq

[💀overtime nihilist💀 @accomplishexile]

Make no mistake: rolling back state public school immunization and screening requirements is a bellwether event. Protect yourselves, protect everyone you love.

[💀overtime nihilist💀 @accomplishexile]

I fucking hate that this is where we are, but i implore you all: protect yourselves anyway you can, especially if you have children. We are on our own.

[💀overtime nihilist💀 @accomplishexile]

It’s a weird time to be studying what I’m studying. I remember being a classics undergrad student and being absolutely floored by the prospect of having to contribute new and meaningful scholarship to the field in order to graduate.

[💀overtime nihilist💀 @accomplishexile]

There’s a reason we routinely vaccinate against these illnesses. They are extremely fucking contagious. Measles has a 90% secondary attack rate—that means that 9 of 10 people exposed get sick.

[💀overtime nihilist💀 @accomplishexile]

and you know what? 2019 saw the largest measles case rate within the United States since 1992.

[💀overtime nihilist💀 @accomplishexile]

CSU immunization policy has been in place for 21 years, prior to the current revisions. Why on earth would we rollback measures that have saved countless lives? Why now? Following the so called tripledemic of last fall, why now?