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Alexander Thompson retweeted
New study of 74,000 participants found:
-those infected with COVID had more other infections (including bacterial, influenza & mycoplasma infections)
-COVID reinfections had milder acute-phase symptoms but led to higher rate & severity of #LongCovid
thelancet.com/journals/lanwp… 1/
Alexander Thompson retweeted
Universal masking and social distancing at the start of the pandemic were so effective that they eliminated a strain of flu, and now annual flu vaccines have been redesigned because that strain no longer needs to be included in the shot. Amazing.
ALT This year’s flu shot will be missing a strain of influenza it’s protected against for more than a decade. That’s because there have been no confirmed flu cases caused by the Influenza B/Yamagata lineage since spring 2020. And the Food and Drug Administration decided this year that the strain now poses little to no threat to human health. Scientists have concluded that widespread physical distancing and masking practiced during the early days of COVID-19 appear to have pushed B/Yamagata into oblivion. This surprised many who study influenza, as it would be the first documented instance of a virus going extinct due to changes in human behavior, said Dr. Rebecca Wurtz, an infectious disease physician and epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.
Alexander Thompson retweeted
“The American Medical Association’s top journal, JAMA, in August published a key new study and editorial about pediatric #LongCovid. The editorial cites several robust analyses and concludes that.. LC symptoms appear to occur after about 10-20% of pediatric infections.”
ALT Screenshot of an article headline in the outlet Scientific American reading “Long Covid is harming too many kids.. pediatric long Covid is more common than many thought, and we keep letting kids be in infected with new variants” Date: October 18, 2024
Alexander Thompson retweeted
Masks work.
That's it. that's the tweet.
theconversation.com/masks-wo…
Alexander Thompson retweeted
Anyone else still masking up in crowded closed places like airplanes?
Anyone? 😶🌫️
Alexander Thompson retweeted
The Feds are ending a lot of key reporting for monitoring COVID-19 in the United States. Congress voted to end the emergency declaration of COVID-19 and reporting for hospitals and other key agencies stopped May 1.
What we DO KNOW is:
22,222 Americans have died from COVID-19 this year
2,571 of them were from Florida (11.6% of deaths; Florida is only 6.4% of the US population)
Florida had 149,444 first-time infections so far this year.
That means that roughly 1 in 50 people who test positive for COVID for the first time are still dying from the disease.
Florida has the highest rate of COVID-19 deaths in the country BY FAR.
covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra…
Alexander Thompson retweeted
Employers must be able to build disability inclusion into their cultures and talent practices. Here's why. s.hbr.org/3UzDWNR
Important to acknowledge the ongoing death count. I wish that there was also better real-time monitoring of how many have been disabled by COVID, too. That would give a better sense of the entire toll this disease continues to take.
Alexander Thompson retweeted
1,202 Americans were killed by C0VlD last week according to the official state-reported totals. It is the 29th straight week with more than 1,000 deaths.
The repeated lie that C0VlD is over and mild has killed nearly 25,000 Americans just in 2024.
Alexander Thompson retweeted
Better extremely late and after resisting it for years than never.
NEW: World Health Organization now acknowledges #CovidIsAirborne & presents a model to quantify risk in public, residential, & #publichealth settings. Hope our govts, schools, hospitals,
& #MedTwitter read & improve indoor air quality. /1
#COVID19
iris.who.int/bitstream/handl…
Alexander Thompson retweeted
“This is the biggest cohort of pediatric amputees in history,” a reconstructive surgeon who specializes in pediatric trauma said, of the record number of children who have been injured in the war in Gaza. nyer.cm/BUjT0b5
Alexander Thompson retweeted
The Israeli government has been holding Palestinian human rights lawyer Diala Ayesh hostage for 2 months.
She was kidnapped on 17 January 2024. Her crime: she was a lawyer defending the rights of other Palestinians hostages, known as "administrative detainees" by Israel.
Ayesh is one of at least 3,484 Palestinians taken hostage by the state of Israel. I use the word hostage because Diala Ayesh was not told why she was taken. She has not been charged w/anything. Her imprisonment is renewable, indefinitely. And she was taken, like many other Palestinians, to be used as a bargaining chip in hostage negotiations.
If you are calling for the release of the hostages, but only the Israeli hostages, not the Palestinian hostages, you are contributing to the dehumanization of the Palestinian people. #BringThemHome
source of the count of hostages taken by Israel: middleeastmonitor.com/202403…
Alexander Thompson retweeted
Spoke to @scifri about #LongCovid, including biological mechanisms, the false narrative that rates of Long Covid are going down, and other topics, alongside the amazing @VirusesImmunity!
Listen here:
sciencefriday.com/segments/4…
Alexander Thompson retweeted
Research shows that even mild COVID-19 can lead to the equivalent of seven years of brain aging trib.al/VgBXZvr
Alexander Thompson retweeted
After 2 months of silence, The Economist finally updated their tracker of excess deaths attributable to the #Covid_19 pandemic. Their cumulative total now stands at 28.5 million, and there were >700,000 excess deaths over the past 3 months. #COVIDisNotOver 1/
