The Oldest Man posted:

Blankets famously block the plague

Long Covid course is ‘exploiting people’, says ex-GB rower posted:

In secret recordings by the BBC, coaches can be heard telling patients that almost anyone can recover from long Covid by changing their thoughts, language and actions.

Over three days on Zoom, the course taught the ritual that forms the basis of the programme. Every time you experience a symptom or negative thought, you say the word "stop", make a choice to avoid these symptoms and then do a positive visualisation of a time you felt well.

You do this while walking around a piece of paper printed with symbols - a ritual the BBC was told to do as many as 50 times a day.

Prof Danny Altmann, a leading long Covid researcher, says such behavioural approaches disregard the "mass" of underlying damage in patients that can be measured in tests.

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In some cases the Lightning Process has encouraged participants to increase their activity levels without medical supervision, against official advice - which could make some more unwell, according to NHS guidelines.

Lightning Process founder, Dr Phil Parker, who's not a medical doctor but has a PhD in psychology of health, told us his course was "not a mindset or positive thinking approach," but one that uses "the brain to influence physiological changes", backed by peer-reviewed evidence.

The coach on the course we attended said "thoughts about your symptoms, your worry about whether it's ever going to go - that's what keeps the neurology going."

"Being in those kind of thoughts is what's maintaining your symptoms," the coach said. "They're not caused by a physical thing any more."

Skinnymansbeerbelly posted:

Pingui posted:

Someone hasn't heard about the science of The Secret...

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/long-covid-codes-health-record-may-dramatically-underestimate-its-prevalence posted:

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"If we assume a crude 10% of SARS-CoV-2 infections result in long COVID, as elsewhere, and with approximately 20 million recorded infections in England the number of recorded long COVID cases in primary care is an order of magnitude below the estimated incidence of long COVID in England given the number of SARS-CoV-2 infections," the researchers wrote, meaning the true prevalence is 10 times higher.
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"Our findings agree with previous work, that there are serious limitations with simply using EHR records as a measure of long COVID, and alternative approaches may be preferable," the investigators concluded. "However, our analysis highlights that these other methods may be limited as well, especially if they depend on a recorded positive SARS-CoV-2 test result, since we found systematic differences between those with long COVID recorded, with and without a positive test result."

The authors said that validation of outcome measures is needed to better capture long-COVID cases. "National survey data suggests that many people in the UK suffer with long COVID, but relatively few cases are recorded in primary care," they concluded. "We have shown that using EHR diagnostic or referral codes unfortunately has major limitations in identifying and ascertaining true cases and timing that severely limit its utility in shedding light on causal pathways to prevent or treat Long COVID."

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(24)00217-7/fulltext#%20 posted:

Clinical coding of long COVID in primary care 2020–2023 in a cohort of 19 million adults: an OpenSAFELY analysis

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The number of students and teachers who miss at least 18 days of the school year has grown at an alarming rate since the COVID-19 pandemic but is becoming more problematic thanks to a ripple effect that disrupts the classroom culture across the country.

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That can be blamed on the nation’s relationship with education becoming “optional,” Katie Rosanbalm, a psychologist and associate research professor with the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University, told The New York Times.

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“It’s going to take all-hands-on-deck and paying attention (to the issue) week in and week out to get back to the routines that weren’t atypical just five years ago,” Malkus said.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

Much like the media keeps making up excuses for why people aren't buying poo poo that avoids acknowledging that people are broke, we're going to get this poo poo where they come up with any explanation for truancy that isn't "people are sick all the time."

Skinnymansbeerbelly posted:

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You do this while walking around a piece of paper printed with symbols - a ritual the BBC was told to do as many as 50 times a day.

mawarannahr posted:

I do this 50 times a day already and it helps a lot with everything in general.

Pyrolocutus posted:

https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/education/4668183-students-missing-school-can-have-a-snowball-effect/

AhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Between illness, transportation issues, and a student’s aversion to the school environment, Attendance Now experts found absenteeism can still be linked to common excuses in most instances, along with the ongoing skepticism among parents that schools are safe.

NeonPunk posted:

The UK is really crashing super hard after Brexit. Heck, I saw the other day that they're now hiring nuclear engineers at a lower salary than a McDonald's manager would make in the USA.

Make sense that they're falling back on woo-woo because it's the only thing they got left

Shiroc posted:

everyone at my job is sick

Jort Fortress posted:

One nugget of truth contained within:

Can't imagine why parents might be skeptical that schools are safe!

Lacrosse posted:

https://twitter.com/EnemyInAState/status/1792267811701637626

Lacrosse posted:

https://twitter.com/EnemyInAState/status/1792267811701637626

Shiroc posted:

everyone at my job is sick

Lacrosse posted:

https://twitter.com/EnemyInAState/status/1792267811701637626

Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:

Time is a flat circle https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...ce44f6357&ei=21

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

We've got a bird flu outbreak in Australia but it's H7N7 (which we've had here for a while already) and not the H5N1 strain which is tearing up the rest of the globe. We've had to cull hundreds of thousands of chickens anyway.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2024-05-22/avian-influenza-bird-flu-detected-at-victorian-poultry-farm/103877560

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A case of avian influenza A (H5N1) infection, also known as “bird flu”, has been reported in Victoria. This is the first human case of H5N1 avian influenza in Australia. The case occurred in a child, who acquired the infection in India and was unwell in March 2024. The avian influenza virus was detected through further testing of positive influenza samples that takes place to detect novel or concerning flu virus strains, as part of Victoria’s enhanced surveillance system. Contact tracing has not identified any further cases of avian influenza connected to this case.

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The Victorian health department on Wednesday reported that a child who had recently returned to Australia from India had tested positive to the H5N1 virus. The child, who arrived in Australia in March, experienced a “severe infection” but has since made a full recovery and contact tracing has not identified any further cases of avian influenza.

The virus was detected through the state’s disease surveillance system, in which positive influenza cases are subject to further testing to identify novel or concerning flu virus strains.

It removes Australia’s status as the only continent not to have a confirmed case of H5N1 in a bird or mammal. The H5N1 strain has yet to be detected in birds in Australia.

Livo posted:

Sorry Snowglobe, just a few hours after the H7N7 outbreak was reported, a case of the lovely H5N1 strain was discovered in an Australian child returning home from overseas. Hurray?

https://www.health.vic.gov.au/healt...ontent=Bird_Flu

First human H5N1 case reported in Australia as another highly pathogenic strain of bird flu detected on Victorian farm

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Only one case has been reported in a human in an apparent transfer of the virus from another mammal: a man in Texas who had been in contact with dairy cows. The World Health Organization has said the spread of the virus to dairy cattle is an “enormous concern” but the director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, this month said the virus had so far shown no signs of adapting to human-to-human transmission and public health risk remained low.

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The number of people under 40 being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in the UK has risen 39% in six years, fuelled by soaring obesity levels and cheap junk food.

blunt posted:

Yeah it's definitely just the food that's changed since 2018 🤔🤔🤔

blunt posted:

https://x.com/guardiannews/status/1793058745012142219

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The number of people under 40 being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in the UK has risen 39% in six years, fuelled by soaring obesity levels and cheap junk food.

Yeah it's definitely just the food that's changed since 2018 🤔🤔🤔

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Diagnoses are rising at a significantly faster pace than among over-40s, for whom the increase was 25% in six years.

blunt posted:

https://x.com/guardiannews/status/1793058745012142219

Yeah it's definitely just the food that's changed since 2018 🤔🤔🤔