Pyrolocutus posted:

I can't believe all the people not catching tuberculosis resulted in tuberculosis immunity debt.

https://twitter.com/TelGlobalHealth/status/1721929495647588403

euphronius posted:

if you don’t watch tv look up the new moderna tv commercials

they are dire

bedpan posted:

duckmasks. N95 duckmasks.

DickParasite posted:

icantfindaname posted:

Add the Night in the Woods guy to the spreadsheet

https://twitter.com/bombsfall/status/1721936535434518951

euphronius posted:

here is the moderna ad https://www.ispot.tv/ad/5yN5/spikevax-covid-19-you

I dare you to watch that and not conclude civilization is over

Jort Fortress posted:

an owls casket posted:

In less depressing news, it doesn't seem like my wife had Covid after all. 5 tests in a row were negative, she never developed a fever, and she's pretty much recovered from whatever it was. I never got it, thankfully. Wearing a mask at home and at work kind of sucked, but I'll take it over being debilitated for a few days, hands down.

call_of_qthulhu posted:

period flu is a thing, fwiw. it's not contagious and it sucks

Thoguh posted:

Naw it sucks I got my kid Moderna for her first shots and now we can’t get her boosted because nowhere Carrie’s the little kid Moderna shots.

quote:

Healthcare providers who administer the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine (2023-2024 Formula) to individuals ages 6 months through 11 years should ensure the correct volume of the vaccine (0.25 mL) is withdrawn from the vial and administered to the recipient. Discard vial and excess volume after extracting a single dose.

call_of_qthulhu posted:

period flu is a thing, fwiw. it's not contagious and it sucks

Gunshow Poophole posted:

"I feel more and more like one of those Japanese soldiers who weren't told the war was over"

NeonPunk posted:

Man, I already filled up my brain on everything related to viruses, I just don't want to do the same thing all over again with fungi this time. There's just limit to how much information I can hold in my mind

GATOS Y VATOS posted:

Some trans men can still get pregnant.

Woodsy Owl posted:

Oh gently caress, the Moderna 2023-2024 vials have more juice than is supposed to be administered so overworked folks may be dosing more than approved https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/clinical-considerations/interim-considerations-us.html#Interchangeability

Lol lmao

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

I know I belabor the point, but watching history aggressively be rewritten as we're living through it is wild.

shazbot posted:

NOBODY CARES

Insanite posted:

just got pre-k enrollment fliers from my city

10 months until no precautions i take matter wooooohooooooo

Why Am I So Tired posted:

Everything is so deeply stupid.

gently caress COREY PERRY posted:

Gunshow Poophole posted:

"I feel more and more like one of those Japanese soldiers who weren't told the war was over"

DickParasite posted:

https://www.who.int/news/item/10-11-2023-who-updates-guidelines-on-treatments-for-covid-19 posted:

WHO updates guidelines on treatments for COVID-19

WHO has updated its guidelines for COVID-19 therapeutics, with revised recommendations for patients with non-severe COVID-19. This is the 13th update to these guidelines.

Updated risk rates for hospital admission in patients with non-severe COVID-19
The guidance includes updated risk rates for hospital admission in patients with non-severe COVID-19.

The current COVID-19 virus variants tend to cause less severe disease while immunity levels are higher due to vaccination, leading to lower risks of severe illness and death for most patients.

This update includes new baseline risk estimates for hospital admission in patients with non-severe COVID-19. The new ‘moderate risk’ category now includes people previously considered to be high risk including older people and/or those with chronic conditions, disabilities, and comorbidities of chronic disease. The updated risk estimates will assist healthcare professionals to identify individuals at high, moderate or low risk of hospital admission, and to tailor treatment according to WHO guidelines:

High: People who are immunosuppressed remain at higher risk if they contract COVID-19, with an estimated hospitalization rate of 6%.
Moderate: People over 65 years old, those with conditions like obesity, diabetes and/or chronic conditions including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, kidney or liver disease, cancer, people with disabilities and those with comorbidities of chronic disease are at moderate risk, with an estimated hospitalization rate of 3%.
Low: Those who are not in the high or moderate risk categories are at low risk of hospitalization (0.5%). Most people are low risk.

Review of COVID-19 treatments for people with non-severe COVID-19
WHO continues to strongly recommend nirmatrelvir-ritonavir (also known by its brand name ‘Paxlovid’) for people at high-risk and moderate risk of hospitalization. The recommendations state that nirmatrelvir-ritonavir is considered the best choice for most eligible patients, given its therapeutic benefits, ease of administration and fewer concerns about potential harms. Nirmatrelvir-ritonavir was first recommended by WHO in April 2022.

If nirmatrelvir-ritonavir is not available to patients at high-risk of hospitalization, WHO suggests the use of molnupiravir or remdesivir instead.

WHO suggests against the use of molnupiravir and remdesivir for patients at moderate risk, judging the potential harms to outweigh the limited benefits in patients at moderate risk of hospital admission.

For people at low risk of hospitalization, WHO does not recommend any antiviral therapy. Symptoms like fever and pain can continue to be managed with analgesics like paracetamol.

WHO also recommends against use of a new antiviral (VV116) for patients, except in clinical trials.

The update also includes a strong recommendation against the use of ivermectin for patients with non-severe COVID-19 . WHO continues to advise that in patients with severe or critical COVID-19, ivermectin should only be used in clinical trials.

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/11/10/Update-COVID-Threat/ posted:

We Interrupt This Mood of Denial to Update COVID’s Threat
Recent studies on long COVID and more show why, beyond vaccines, masks and air filters remain vital.
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Although many Canadians act as though the pandemic has ended, the airborne virus that causes COVID-19 continues to evolve at an amazing pace with devastating consequences for both individuals and the public at large.

The pandemic may no longer be a major conflagration but it still kills about 140 Canadians a week while morphing into a steady viral blaze sustained by dirty air, waning immunity and overt political indifference.

What was once a giant wave of acute illness has become a series of often unpredictable wavelets driven by ever-changing variants that can cause chronic illness. Long COVID, a disabling health event that can affect multiple organs and destabilize the immune system, now affects millions and continues to claim new victims.
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Long COVID has taken a huge toll among health-care workers. Anywhere from six to 10 per cent of Quebec’s health-care workforce, for example, has been derailed by long COVID.

Seventy-one per cent of health-care workers impaired by long COVID reported that their state of health now interferes with their ability to function. Another 16 per cent said that they are often unable to work. Multiply this data across the country and then ask: How sustainable is this trend?
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Tara Moriarty, a University of Toronto infectious disease expert and co-founder of COVID 19 Resources Canada, recently tallied the imperfect data, and it is bracing. She calculates that about one in every 23 Canadians is now infected with COVID. We are not at the low point of the pandemic in Canada. To the contrary, compared with a previous time during the pandemic, infections are 25 times higher and the rate of long COVID is 19 times higher. Meanwhile the hospitalization rate is 13 times higher and deaths are 25 times higher.

In the middle of October, Moriarty calculated that COVID patients occupied about nine per cent of intensive care beds and 21 per cent of hospital beds across the country. (The average hospitalization rate during the pandemic has been seven per cent.) The estimated cost of this sustained viral assault is $274 million a week.
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Governments peddling denial
Most governments seem intent on diminishing or hiding these realities. They avoid any talk about the effectiveness of masking in public places or the value of improved ventilation and filtration in schools and workplaces. It’s a demonstrated fact that the virus travels through the air in tiny smoke-like aerosols that can infect people at much greater distances than six feet, but the natural responses to this reality are not encouraged by our leaders.

Alberta, for example, now pretends that COVID is just another mild respiratory disease and reports its doings along with influenza and RSV activity.
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A Canadian study also found steep increases in diabetes after COVID infections. University of British Columbia researchers examined a large population of British Columbians (more than 600,000) and discovered that people infected with COVID had a 17 to 22 per cent higher risk of developing diabetes within a year compared with uninfected people.

Concluded the researchers: “SARS-CoV-2 infection was associated with a higher risk of diabetes and may have contributed to a three per cent to five per cent excess burden of diabetes at a population level.”
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The research now confirms that infections can even leave some people more vulnerable to reinfection. A startling Canadian study published this year looked at 750 vaccinated elders at long-term care facilities where COVID deaths continue to be high. They found infection with Omicron in its first wave actually made these inmates more susceptible to reinfection in subsequent waves. Counterintuitively, these people were more prone to reinfection than patients who had never experienced COVID.

“Our current vaccine schedules are based on the assumption that having had an infection provides some level of protection to future infections, but our study shows that may not be true for all variants in all people,” noted Dawn Bowdish, an immunologist and one of the study’s authors.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/covid-inquiry-boris-johnson-rishi-sunak-b2443316.html posted:

Boris Johnson wanted to be injected with Covid live on TV, inquiry told
Covid inquiry also heard how Boris Johnson would rather ‘let the bodies pile high’ than order second lockdown