Frogsters 🌻

In search for democracy & Sweden's moral compass, still looking #MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver

[Frogsters 🌻 @frogsters]

Everyone should watch this.

https://t.co/X7WvH5dZvu

[Frogsters 🌻 @frogsters]

@1goodtern Just like in Sweden in the pandemic management circus. No data no problem
Varsågod

[Data Report @CovidDataReport]

This is not good and more of a reason to get the new Covid booster.

Covid sufferers 'never been this sick' as they detail symptoms amid XEC strain https://t.co/fb9Jt0sJDN

[Joe Oliver @joeolivermd]

It's insane that we don't do this.

[Jess @MeetJess]

China's Wuhan lab accused of Covid leak develops intranasal vaccine to protect against all forms of coronavirus https://t.co/JJMB0Y25X5

[Jon Douglas @atranscendedman]

Systematic review of nasal irrigation & spray’s impact on COVID-19 shows saline solutions significantly reduce SARS-CoV-2 viral load.

In 9 of 10 studies, saline led to faster virus clearance compared to controls.

PVP-I results were mixed.

https://t.co/RjUhguUW4G

[Dr. Alice 💕 @calirunnerdoc]

Can confirm anecdotally that West Coast transmission very high. Have heard of several cases involving outdoor transmission. Please do not rely on outdoor air alone to protect you from this variant. Agree with Dr Aboelata’s suggestions below- if you are ill, PLEASE test & isolate.

[tern @1goodtern]

John Cunningham Virus is one of those viruses that is an absolute nothing most of the time, many people carry it unnoticed, but then suddenly for some people.... *wham*: total shitstorm.

[tern @1goodtern]

Oh, and seriously, I hope the effects aren't going to be more significant than what I'm thinking. 😬

[tern @1goodtern]

“We are completely under-investigating Covid,” said Douglas C. Wallace, a University of Pennsylvania geneticist and evolutionary biologist. “The effects of repeatedly getting this throughout our lives is going to be much more significant than people are thinking.”

🚨YEAH. AND OVER-CATCHING IT.🚨

[Chris Hadfield @Cmdr_Hadfield]

The brave man who took this iconic photo, one of the first 3 humans to ever leave Earth orbit and travel to the Moon, died yesterday. Bill Anders, I salute you.

[Keith @keetmuise]

I have a little foot. It causes me lots of pain, and for the last week it’s been injured. I needed an X-Ray, so I called the Xray Department at the hospital in my town, to see if the X-Ray tech would mind wearing a mask for the time it took to adjust my foot for the X-Rays.

[Smittskydd @Smittskydd]

– Riktigt otäckt att se effekterna av lättade restriktionerna

Svensk specialistläkare recenserar pandemiskildringen.

"Sanningen är att de flesta aldrig ens nådde [till IVA], på grund av resursbrist, och att de flesta var alldeles för sköra att ens orka med en respirator"

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[Laura Miers @LauraMiers]

@Saffiya_Khan1 July 2023: “Yet we may have disastrously underestimated one of the most serious sequelae: infection of the brain and nervous system. And we may have missed the neurological damage done to children and young adults who seem to have recovered from COVID-19.” https://t.co/crtiBjwaut

[Danielle Beckman @DaniBeckman]

COVID-19 will never be like the Flu. Never.
At least not for the brain.
I would love to be wrong; please prove me wrong with evidence and real science!

It is quite simple. #SARSCoV2 can access the brain using several different mechanisms that Influenza cannot.
A: Viral infection of peripheral nerves (like olfactory bulb)
B: Damage of infected endothelial cells
C: Hijacking immune cells
D: Viral opening of tight junctions

Some studies show that some flu strains can use one or other mechanisms, and brain invasion can happen, but it is a weaker and rarer event. The same is true for other viruses.

I have spent hundreds of hours in the microscope looking at the worst viruses can do to the brain, including the Zika virus, HIV, Flu, and others. I've never seen the type of damage SARS-CoV-2 leaves behind after infection with other viruses.

I cannot comment on what happens in other organs, but #LongCovid can be caused by brain damage. It exists and is real.

[Scientific American @sciam]

Research shows that even mild COVID-19 can lead to the equivalent of seven years of brain aging https://t.co/zRqiMQfFnd

[David Steadson #NAFO 🇦🇺🇸🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺🌍 @DavidSteadson]

Thank you, Andrew. 🙏

[Jess @MeetJess]

"I would argue that COVID-19 is not a disease of the lungs at all,"
"It seems most likely that it is what we call a vascular and neurologic infection, affecting both nerve endings and our cardiovascular system." https://t.co/l5NZmJD2zH

[Rikard Hellqvist @r_hellqvist]

Kristian Borg överläkare och professor på KI och Danderyds sjukhus berättar @Nyhetsmorgon att mild Covid-19 har orsakat bestående kognitiv nedsättning. Det är obehagligt, förvånande och oroande, säger han.

#postcovid
#svpol
#folkhälsomyndigheten

[tern @1goodtern]

"The Risks of Even Mild COVID-19: 1 in 4 Showing Cognitive Deficits After Mild Case, Brazilian Study Finds"
This is a hell of an article.
I see lots of the effects of this, probably most in schools, not from the kids but the teachers.
One of the reasons you may miss it is that 1 in 4 is not everyone.
I know that sounds obvious, but genuinely 'most people are mostly ok'.
But that 1 in 4 are genuinely struggling.