Anyone who speaks of “accountability” about this time, yet doesn’t mention long covid, and how only looking at the short term consequences of uncontrolled spread harmed our kids and economy long term- is guilty of ignorance at best, and of being highly disingenuous at worst. 🤷🏽♂️
Reminder: Long COVID's disability & suffering will be the pandemic's most devastating long-term global legacy. Neither GBD supporters nor critics anticipated its scale or included it in their policy calculus -and “let er rip” strategies prioritizing widespread exposure clearly worsen the toll. Millions affected, with real costs in lives and productivity (on top of 20 million direct deaths globally, which we should never forget or minimize). https://t.co/I48h2XxxfS
Quarantining during a public health threat is not a punishment.
It’s not a violation of your freedoms.
It’s part of being in a society.
You do not have the right to spread a dangerous and deadly disease to others.
Robust public health measures save lives.
The table below shows the incubation period for the infected individuals.
OVER HALF (19/34 = 56%) had incubation periods of over 3 weeks.
This is crucial information for the cruise ship outbreak as some passengers may have been infected but won’t develop symptoms for some time.
@NBCNews Covid is oncogenic with studies to prove it. That’s what happens when you let it spread unchecked for years. I beg you to do the minimum amount of effort in your reporting.
@RevivalCare@MeetJess Doctors and nurses have been completely negligent in their obligation to learn about SARS-CoV-2, how it's transmitted, and how to prevent spread. They've been key players in the sociological production of the "end" of the pandemic. Most people will follow their lead.
Officials at @WHO have quietly deleted tweets saying Covid is “not airborne” over the years.
On the one hand, that’s a good thing because Covid definitively *is* airborne…
…but it’s frustrating that there’s no public apology or acknowledgement of the years of misinformation.
After 6 years, @mvankerkhove has quietly deleted her tweet stating #COVID19 was “NOT airborne” (22/3/2020).
No explanation. No rectification. No public erratum.
Transparency and accountability are essential for trust in public health. You don’t learn lessons by erasing them.
"I would rather w**k with a razor".
Pretty clear response from bloke in Wales when asked if he would consider voting Reform...
The man from Reform (who took it in good spirits tbf) is Zak Weaver, a former Tory staffer who defected in February.
love telling absolute strangers my favourite magnolia facts: not only did magnolias exist alongside dinosaurs, they existed BEFORE BEES! they used to be pollinated by beetles because bees simply did not exist yet!!!
📢Big update on Novavax / Nuvaxovid availability for the UK!
As reported by @ThePharmaLetter, @SanofiUK will be supplying 600k doses of Nuvaxovid for the UK’s spring 2026 vaccination program. This will be the first availability in the UK since early 2024.
Covid-19 is not just a respiratory infection. Cardiovascular symptoms are seen in acute and long covid.
Katharine Lang reports on what we’ve learnt since the onset of the pandemic
https://t.co/UU0Zcjvu2r
T***p embodies, in his heavy flaccid sagging body & sagging clown-face, the dark side of America. it is surprising that anyone was surprised by the racist caricature. his followers are like creatures that have leapt out from beneath rocks, gleeful & gloating. even if his policies don't help them in the slightest, or indeed hurt them, they seem thrilled that his reptile-brain so accurately reflects their own. it is not surprising that an intelligent educated gracious attractive person like Obama is offensive to them.
@Fleur_Ru11@CoronaHeadsUp Ohhh you've got that wrong 😅 you mean the more people refused to mask and permitted immune system degradation on the regular, the more their bodies couldn't fight off flus and colds etc
covid never stopped happening. governments and billionaire-owned media just pummeled everyone into believing it did because it was a threat to capital accumulation. anyway.