"WW C"- COVID-19, GLOBAL CASES SURPASS 676 MILLION...Here we go again 2025 are we ready for Trump to fuck this up again?
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what the fuck does that even mean? what about the fuckin unlawful mandates??
not for nothing but who didnt see this shit coming, fuckin midterms around the corner...
they waited tooo long to take away trumps ace's in his hand, nobody trusts them,
they KNOW if they get the president, house and the senate, they are going to go full retard,
with stripping more and more of our rights away..
they waited waaaaay too late the call that shit,
their plandemic was over the minute biden said my unvaccinated ass
was going to catch covid this summer, yet I didnt and he did...
there is NO way I can take anything coming from the democrats and
their sleepy leader again...!!
I heard the pandemic was over….
China Lifts Two-Week Lockdown in Chengdu, City of 21 Million
Government offices, public transport services, and companies were able to resume work in the city of 21 million people after COVID outbreak.
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China Lifts Two-Week Lockdown in Chengdu, City of 21 Million
Government offices, public transport services, and companies were able to resume work in the city of 21 million people after COVID outbreak.
China lifts weeks-long lockdown on southwest Chengdu
Government offices, public transport and companies resume work in the city of 21 million people after COVID outbreak.
He's going to fuck around and give the GOP their "illogical, but in their minds completely terrifying, bogeyman" excuse to vote Republican.
And yes, the same people that claimed the entire pandemic was a hoax, and that vaccines are the devil, and that people are idiot sheep for believing it, will vote Republican to "get this dangerous health crisis back under control". I'm hope they're not reading this, because to have accidentally created their branding quote for them.
He's proving the republicans right, that the democrats only cared about the pandemic so long as it was politically beneficial for them.
Now, the republican's refusal to fund efforts to combat the pandemic is a non-issue since the pandemic is "over". He's lost the ability to complain about it.
If/when things get worse again, and Republicans start resisting mitigation efforts, democrats will look silly trying to place the blame on republicans.
One Neurologist’s Quest to Solve Long COVID
Inside Igor Koralnik’s efforts to solve the mystery of COVID’s most puzzling complication.
www.chicagomag.com
Recent Study on How Vaccines Impact Long COVID
Long Covid is a range of new, returning, or ongoing symptoms after the infection of Covid-19, also known as post-acute sequelae of SARs CoV-2 infection(PASC), technically by name. Its symptoms vary, and it has no test for its diagnosis. After a month of infection, the symptoms appear as fatigue ...
www.pharmiweb.com
Northwestern Study: Brain Fog, Fatigue Persist for COVID-19 Long Haulers Months After Infection
A new Northwestern Medicine study of 52 long haulers, who were not hospitalized and only experienced mild symptoms like cough and sore throat, found that most continued to experience neurologic symptoms, fatigue and compromised quality of life up to 18 months after initial infection.
Most COVID-19 ‘Long Haulers’ Continue to Experience Symptoms 15 Months After Initial Infection - News Center
Most non-hospitalized COVID-19 “long-haulers” at the Northwestern Medicine Neuro COVID-19 Clinic continued to experience symptoms including brain fog, dizziness and fatigue 15 months after disease onset, according to a new study.
news.feinberg.northwestern.edu
Anyone get the second booster shot.
Folks want it back to normal so badly....
I got mine yesterday.
'COVID babies' talking less and later
On September 18, the Newark (NJ) Sunday Star-Ledger featured a three-page story, “’COVID babies’ are talking and later than they should”.
The personal focus of the story was a child in South Orange who was ‘barely speaking at age 18 months’. This is ‘part of an alarming trend in children born during or shortly before the coronavirus pandemic’. He entered therapy with Nancy Polow, a private practitioner, with at least weekly appointments, for 10 months, and Polow claims, should be completely caught up to age expectations within a few months. (Based on information about another child, insurance likely paid some, but hardly all, of the bill.)
Polow, a Millburn-based speech pathologist with more than 45 years of experence said:
Impact on the children
These children are talking later, have smaller vocabularies, and are talking less. Speech problems are also cropping up in preschoolers. The article suggests that a major cause was the lack of socialization—primarily, minimal interaction with adults other than their parent, but also with other children. Even interaction with parents was less, both because parents were dealing with the pandemic, with remote work, and with other pressures. Ironically, the fact that parents were staying home resulted in fewer moments for communication, as the toddlers no longer needed to say goodbye or respond to the parents returning. Also, children apparently spent even more time in front of TV screens than had been the case—the CDC recommends no screen time at all for children under age 2. Many of these children would already have been attending preschool or even kindergarten, but either missed them or received them via virtual learning, with varying success in delivery, in the child’s attention, and in parental reinforcement.
While there have always been late talkers, either because of disabilities or neurological differences, or simply different personalities—my brother’s first full sentence at age 2 was “Kit, if you don’t eat your dinner, you won’t get dessert.”—this is different.
It also doesn’t seem that this (or at least most of it) is due to infection. First, the rate of infection in infants seems to have been very low, and second, the children who receive therapy seem to catch up to age-normal completely or almost completely.
On the other hand, practitioners acknowledged, this will exacerbate problems for those with autism or developmental or perceptual disabilities. Those who have not received therapy or other intervention will begin school with weaker communication abilities—not only speech but listening, reading, and spelling. Moreover, the large number of students entering school with COVID-related communication difficulties will make it more difficult to diagnose those with inherent disabilities.
Class, income, and access
While I am very happy for the children who have received the therapy, I am concerned about the impact on those with lower socioeconomic status. The parents clearly do not have the income, or in many cases, the insurance, even if it were covered to pay private practitioners. They often do not have the time to take off work to take the children for in-person therapy, and may lack technology for telehealth.
There are additional problems for non-English-speaking families (and, I would suspect, additional barriers with languages other than Spanish), and a distrust among many minority groups of the medical profession. (This isn’t mentioned, but I suspect undocumented immigrants were also anxious in interacting with the system on a long term basis.) In addition, many were concerned about home visits (or for that matter, office visits) for professionals to work with their unvaccinated children.
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On September 18, the Newark (NJ) Sunday Star-Ledger featured a three-page story, “’COVID babies’ are talking and later than they should”.
The personal focus of the story was a child in South Orange who was ‘barely speaking at age 18 months’. This is ‘part of an alarming trend in children born during or shortly before the coronavirus pandemic’. He entered therapy with Nancy Polow, a private practitioner, with at least weekly appointments, for 10 months, and Polow claims, should be completely caught up to age expectations within a few months. (Based on information about another child, insurance likely paid some, but hardly all, of the bill.)
Polow, a Millburn-based speech pathologist with more than 45 years of experence said:
The New Jersey state program, partly delivered as telehealth, was receiving over 100 extra referrals per month—in addition to private practitioners.
Impact on the children
These children are talking later, have smaller vocabularies, and are talking less. Speech problems are also cropping up in preschoolers. The article suggests that a major cause was the lack of socialization—primarily, minimal interaction with adults other than their parent, but also with other children. Even interaction with parents was less, both because parents were dealing with the pandemic, with remote work, and with other pressures. Ironically, the fact that parents were staying home resulted in fewer moments for communication, as the toddlers no longer needed to say goodbye or respond to the parents returning. Also, children apparently spent even more time in front of TV screens than had been the case—the CDC recommends no screen time at all for children under age 2. Many of these children would already have been attending preschool or even kindergarten, but either missed them or received them via virtual learning, with varying success in delivery, in the child’s attention, and in parental reinforcement.
While there have always been late talkers, either because of disabilities or neurological differences, or simply different personalities—my brother’s first full sentence at age 2 was “Kit, if you don’t eat your dinner, you won’t get dessert.”—this is different.
I don’t see that anyone looked at correlation with number of older siblings in the home.
It also doesn’t seem that this (or at least most of it) is due to infection. First, the rate of infection in infants seems to have been very low, and second, the children who receive therapy seem to catch up to age-normal completely or almost completely.
On the other hand, practitioners acknowledged, this will exacerbate problems for those with autism or developmental or perceptual disabilities. Those who have not received therapy or other intervention will begin school with weaker communication abilities—not only speech but listening, reading, and spelling. Moreover, the large number of students entering school with COVID-related communication difficulties will make it more difficult to diagnose those with inherent disabilities.
Class, income, and access
While I am very happy for the children who have received the therapy, I am concerned about the impact on those with lower socioeconomic status. The parents clearly do not have the income, or in many cases, the insurance, even if it were covered to pay private practitioners. They often do not have the time to take off work to take the children for in-person therapy, and may lack technology for telehealth.
There are additional problems for non-English-speaking families (and, I would suspect, additional barriers with languages other than Spanish), and a distrust among many minority groups of the medical profession. (This isn’t mentioned, but I suspect undocumented immigrants were also anxious in interacting with the system on a long term basis.) In addition, many were concerned about home visits (or for that matter, office visits) for professionals to work with their unvaccinated children.
'COVID babies' talking less and later
[I wish this story were more coherent. Also, if anyone wants to add extra tags, please feel free. I’m not very good at tags or at selecting pictures/graphics.] On September 18, the Newark (NJ) Sunday Star-Ledger featured a three-page story, “’COVID...
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Republicans are absolute trash as far as I'm concerned, but it doesn't change the fact that Biden absolutely screws the pooch on several issues, this being one of them.
COVID app that detects virus in your voice 'more accurate than lateral flow tests'
Users will be required to give information about their medical history, smoking status and demographics and record some respiratory sounds, such as coughing and reading a short sentence.
A mobile phone app can detect COVID in people's voices with "potentially high precision" using artificial intelligence (AI), according to researchers.
An AI model was said to be 89% accurate and is cheap to use, which means it could be adopted in low-income countries where PCR tests are more expensive.
Results can be provided in less than a minute and are said to be a "significant improvement" on the accuracy of lateral flow tests, scientists said.
Infection normally impacts the upper respiratory tract and the vocal cords and so researchers decided to analyse changes in voices using an AI model to detect COVID.
Wafaa Aljbawi, a researcher at the Institute of Data Science at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, said: "These promising results suggest that simple voice recordings and fine-tuned AI algorithms can potentially achieve high precision in determining which patients have COVID-19 infection.
"Such tests can be provided at no cost and are simple to interpret. Moreover, they enable remote, virtual testing and have a turnaround time of less than a minute.
"They could be used, for example, at the entry points for large gatherings, enabling rapid screening of the population."
Data was used from the University of Cambridge's crowd-sourcing COVID19 Sounds app. This included 893 audio samples from 4,352 healthy and non-healthy people.
Users need to give information about their medical history, smoking status and demographics and record some respiratory sounds, such as coughing and reading a short sentence.
A voice analysis technique - called Mel-spectrogram - identified different voice features to "decompose the many properties of the participants' voices".
Ms Aljbawi added: "These results show a significant improvement in the accuracy of diagnosing COVID-19 compared to state-of-the-art tests such as the lateral flow test.
"The lateral flow test has a sensitivity of only 56%, but a higher specificity rate of 99.5%. This is important as it signifies that the lateral flow test is misclassifying infected people as COVID-19 negative more often than our test.
"In other words, with the AI LSTM model, we could miss 11 out of 100 cases who would go on to spread the infection, while the lateral flow test would miss 44 out of 100 cases."
The AI model is also being used for an app to predict exacerbations in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
The research is due to be presented to the European Respiratory Society International Congress in Barcelona on Monday.
news.sky.com
Users will be required to give information about their medical history, smoking status and demographics and record some respiratory sounds, such as coughing and reading a short sentence.
A mobile phone app can detect COVID in people's voices with "potentially high precision" using artificial intelligence (AI), according to researchers.
An AI model was said to be 89% accurate and is cheap to use, which means it could be adopted in low-income countries where PCR tests are more expensive.
Results can be provided in less than a minute and are said to be a "significant improvement" on the accuracy of lateral flow tests, scientists said.
Infection normally impacts the upper respiratory tract and the vocal cords and so researchers decided to analyse changes in voices using an AI model to detect COVID.
Wafaa Aljbawi, a researcher at the Institute of Data Science at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, said: "These promising results suggest that simple voice recordings and fine-tuned AI algorithms can potentially achieve high precision in determining which patients have COVID-19 infection.
"Such tests can be provided at no cost and are simple to interpret. Moreover, they enable remote, virtual testing and have a turnaround time of less than a minute.
"They could be used, for example, at the entry points for large gatherings, enabling rapid screening of the population."
Data was used from the University of Cambridge's crowd-sourcing COVID19 Sounds app. This included 893 audio samples from 4,352 healthy and non-healthy people.
Users need to give information about their medical history, smoking status and demographics and record some respiratory sounds, such as coughing and reading a short sentence.
A voice analysis technique - called Mel-spectrogram - identified different voice features to "decompose the many properties of the participants' voices".
Ms Aljbawi added: "These results show a significant improvement in the accuracy of diagnosing COVID-19 compared to state-of-the-art tests such as the lateral flow test.
"The lateral flow test has a sensitivity of only 56%, but a higher specificity rate of 99.5%. This is important as it signifies that the lateral flow test is misclassifying infected people as COVID-19 negative more often than our test.
"In other words, with the AI LSTM model, we could miss 11 out of 100 cases who would go on to spread the infection, while the lateral flow test would miss 44 out of 100 cases."
The AI model is also being used for an app to predict exacerbations in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
The research is due to be presented to the European Respiratory Society International Congress in Barcelona on Monday.
COVID app that detects virus in your voice 'more accurate than lateral flow tests'
Users will be required to give information about their medical history, smoking status and demographics and record some respiratory sounds, such as coughing and reading a short sentence.
Biden Declaring Pandemic ‘Over’ Has Experts Reeling
“That comment to me, that’s going to be the killer. People are just not going to get vaccinated,” said Oved Amitay, CEO of The Solve ME/CFS Initiative.
Joe Biden Declares COVID-19 Pandemic Is ‘Over’
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This shit ain't over, Old Man Joe telling lies.
Bivalent COVID-19 vaccine boosters roll out across B.C.
Rollout of the bivalent vaccine that fights infection from COVID-19’s original strain and Omicron variants is now underway in most of B.C., and the push is on for everyone five and older to get their fall boosters – despite some vaccine fatigue.
The pandemic is over. If people don’t want to get vaccinated there is nothing anyone can do. At this point you are choosing to die
It’s over. If people don’t want to get vaccinated that is on them
1. A year and a half ago, you started a thread declaring that we had reached herd immunity. This was around the same time that the CDC was telling people that it was okay to take off their masks. Then we saw Delta, Omicron, and BA.5. As long as this virus is running wild all around the world, it's not a question of if we see a new variant, but when.
2. There's a big difference between being vaccinated and having all the boosters you're eligible for. We have millions of non antivaxers who have their primary series and think that that's all they need. The majority of vaccinated people that are dying are unboosted. Declaring the pandemic over will pretty much guarantee that people only vaccinated with the primary series won't bother with a booster.
3. There are millions of Colin Powells out there. Immunocompromised people who get every shot that they are eligible for and are still incredibly vulnerable. With no masking, no testing, poor ventilation, no social distancing, etc. We are literally taking a "fuck em" approach by just pretending that we can go back to 2019.
4. Long covid is messing people up and taking them out of the workforce. Simply declaring that the pandemic is over in a let 'er rip fashion will make this problem much worse.
5. The stress and strain placed on our health care workers and health care system affects everyone. We've already seen cases where people died because they had a non covid medical emergency and the closest hospital to them was filled up with covid patients. If HCW are walking off the job when they are already in high demand in certain areas, that'll affect everyone regardless of vaccination status.
1. With vaccinations and new drugs, you are not seeing a hospital or dying from Covid.
2. That’s on them. What else needs to be said about getting all your booster shots? At this point people will or they won’t
3. That would not change if Covid never existed. There are far worse illnesses they could catch th would have above an 80% death rate
4. long Covid is almost exclusively in none vaccinated people
5. we can’t force idiots to get vaccinated
1. Dude, who's going to pay for those vaccines and drugs once the funding runs out???
"The U.S. government expects its supply of COVID-19 vaccines and antiviral treatments to run out over the next year and is preparing for them to be sold via the commercial market, the Department of Health and Human Services said on Tuesday."
U.S. plans to move COVID vaccines, treatments to private markets in 2023
The U.S. government expects its supply of COVID-19 vaccines and antiviral treatments to run out over the next year and is preparing for them to be sold via the commercial market, the Department of Health and Human Services said on Tuesday.
2. It's literally the government's job to not take that approach. It is not true that people either will or won't. They have to be educated about the difference between only having the primary series and receiving the boosters. The low booster rates are the result of the white house not communicating to people that they will be fucked when we have a surge after the holidays, and they'll have to pay out of pocket just to see if they're infected.
3. None of the other diseases out there are like covid. There are measures that can be taken to protect vulnerable people. Declaring the pandemic over guarantees that none of those measures will be taken.
4.
"She fears many vaccinated people think they’re in the clear and can’t get Long COVID, because the Administration has sung the shots’ praises so much. “We’re just drowning in this sea of misinformation that is not only causing people to poorly think about their own risk, but also putting other people at risk,” Davis says."
Advocates Want the Government to Do More About Long COVID
They say it's "the greatest mass-disabling event in human history"
5. Firstly, a vaccine mandate literally does just that. Secondly, there are non vaccine measures that can be taken to protect people.