Random thoughts:
* Covid isn’t over even if people are acting as if it is.
* I don’t think its fear-mongering/living in fear to pay attention to what is being reported by scientists, medical professionals and others.
* I have a pet peeve with people who say “My Covid was mild” which I hear as “I don’t know how to process information in the digital age.”
For example, research is showing that Covid persists in causing damage after the initial infection “ends”:
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Occasionally a new bit of SARS-CoV-2 research just smashes through the door.
This is one of them.
It's jaw dropping.
It's about Covid persisting after the initial infection and the ongoing damage that causes.
?????https://t.co/Oxt2jY9rGd pic.twitter.com/RF2VqeBEfN— tern (@1goodtern) January 19, 2023
Cognitive impairment after Covid is impacting the workforce:
https://twitter.com/jcjackson68/status/1617183062097362944
And many people (including myself!) talk about their “brain fog” after having had Covid but the reality is this is a name that softens the effect. The real name for what is happening/has happened to people is “brain damage”:
https://twitter.com/pqpolitics/status/1617069251340406786
There is still no effective treatment for Long Covid and less than 10% of survivors are recovering after two years, no matter what type of treatment is attempted:
Study looking at #LongCovid 2 years after infection:
Despite exercise, respiratory & olfactory rehab, cognition/speech therapy & psychological support, the main symptoms (fatigue, neurocognition, muscle) did not resolve.
Only 9% of patients recovered. 1/https://t.co/hPBbx1dnYm pic.twitter.com/BxeKGOI9AG
— Hannah Davis (@ahandvanish) January 21, 2023
“Black hairy tongue” is perhaps the strangest Covid side effect I’ve heard of:
In multiple COVID patients in southern USA.
AIDS-Like Syndrome???
Answer: Most likely. pic.twitter.com/9G6pBq3CrJ— Dr. Paul Cottrell (@dr_cottrell) January 21, 2023
Fifty papers have said that, unlike HIV which can take 8-10 years to cause immune-dysfunction, Covid can cause immune dysfunction even during the initial infection:
With HIV, the immune deficiency (AIDS) doesn't become significant for 8-10 years. With COVID infections, studies show some immune dysfunction can start even during the initial acute infection.
Attached is a thread written in Nov pointing to 25 papers. By now there are about 50. https://t.co/8LHAOUPUfT
— Yaneer Bar-Yam (@yaneerbaryam) January 22, 2023
And finally, a new study shows the places where (and how) you are most likely to catch Covid. (Of course, I’ll never know for sure but I’m 97% sure I caught mine at work during a crowded special event where I stupidly chose not to mask consistently because I was running around doing a lot of physical effort *and* having a lot of conversations with people – including one person who happily shared she had Covid at the event!) 😮
