Laura Miers

CBS: Dangerously low blood supply in U.S. forces some hospitals to postpone surgeries evening-news By Jon LaPook Updated on: July 6, 2021 / 6:54 PM EDT / CBS New

The guardian: US faces worst blood shortage in over a decade amid pandemic Blood centers across US have less than a day’s supply of some types, organization says, as Covid fuels decline in blood drives Maya Yang Thu 13 Jan 2022 06.00 EST Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare via Email

CBS 3 Philadelphia. American Red Cross declares national blood shortage due to low donor turnout September 11, 2023 / 11:50 AM EDT / CNN

USA Today: Red Cross: Blood shortage at emergency levels, medical care jeopardized Ken Alltucker USA TODAY

Red Cross: Blood shortage at emergency levels, medical care jeopardized American Red Cross and other blood organizations say donations are at historically low levels. The shortage stems from pandemic-era behavior changes.

“The American Red Cross announced Monday the organization faces a blood shortage so severe it cannot provide enough blood to some hospitals that need it for patients.”

Blood supplies are at historic lows. The shortage has been accelerating since 2021. www.usatoday.com/story/news/h...

I’m so sorry. I have heard people are taking longer to test positive with symptoms & staying sick longer, some are sick with multiple infections. Lots of GI complications & some experts speculate JN.1 may linger in the gut longer leading to more LongCovid. Wishing them full/speedy recoveries.

COVID and flu surge could strain hospitals as JN.1 variant grows, CDC warns "COVID-19 hospitalizations are rising quickly," the CDC said, and the new variant JN.1 is making up an increasing share of cases.

“Hospitals and emergency rooms could be forced to ration care by the end of this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned, saying recent trends in COVID-19 and influenza are now on track to again strain America's health care system.” www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-v...

Study: Regardless of variant, half of long-COVID patients fail to improve after 18 months The analysis included 806 patients who were infected with the wild-type strain, Alpha, Delta, or Omicron strain.

Regardless of variant, half of LongCovid patients fail to improve after 18 months.

🚨 “Omicron patients had lower quality of life…

At 1.5 years after infection, patients had no clinically meaningful decline in severity of LongCovid.” www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/stu...

“‘With travel & the holidays coming up, we know that it's gonna spread everywhere,’ Dr. Rajendram Rajnarayanan told Salon in a video call.

‘This has all the features of becoming a dominant lineage like EG.5 or XBB.1.16.6.’”

Has the winter COVID variant arrived? Here's why experts are closely monitoring the JN.1 strain JN.1 isn’t yet a cause for alarm, but that could change, serving as a reminder that COVID always has new tricks

“…BA.2.86 underwent a mutation very similar to the FLip mutation in a new strain called JN.1, making its ability to bind to our cells even stronger than most other Omicron variants still currently dominating as well as increasing transmissibility.” www.salon.com/2023/10/29/h...

The Sun: SIDE EFFECT Children infected with Covid at risk of blood vessel damage that can trigger clots, scientists warn Damaged blood vessels can lead to 'Covid toe' - a nasty side effect of the virus Isabel Shaw Published: 13:40, 25 Oct 2023

Three years after we learned about the Covid-related blood vessel damage in children, The Sun published an article today. www.thesun.co.uk/health/24519...

PBS: PBS: Jha has warned that without more money, vaccines will be harder to come by, tests will once again be scarce, and the therapeutics that are helping the country weather the current omicron-driven surge in cases without a commensurate increase in deaths could be sold overseas before Americans can access them. “I think we would see a lot of unnecessary loss of life if that were to happen,” Jha said this past week. “But we’re looking at all the scenarios and planning for all of them.”

May 2022: “Jha has warned that without more money…therapeutics could be sold overseas before Americans can access them. ‘I think we would see a lot of unnecessary loss of life if that were to happen.’” www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

Americans Don’t Get to Have the Best New COVID Drug A Japanese antiviral appears to shorten symptoms and protect against chronic disease. Also, it doesn’t taste like soapy grapefruit.

“Americans Don’t Get to Have the Best New COVID Drug

A Japanese antiviral appears to shorten symptoms and protect against chronic disease.” www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Evidence for Biological Age Acceleration and Telomere Shortening in COVID-19 Survivors The SARS-CoV-2 infection determines the COVID-19 syndrome characterized, in the worst cases, by severe respiratory distress, pulmonary and cardiac fibrosis, inflammatory cytokine release, and immunosu...

In 2021, we learned SARS-CoV-2 shortens telomeres & accelerates biological aging. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...

Why is endless mass infection still our only strategy?

January 2022: “13 out of 22 participants or 59% with cognitive symptoms met HIV associated neurocognitive disorder (HAND) criteria. As did 7 out of 10 (70%) of asymptomatic patients.” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

You and me both! I can definitely relate to that. I’m so sick, and so tired, but I can’t & won’t give up because I intend to see this through one way or another.

ENTIRELY by design. It was a masterful strategy for reinforcing the status quo.

“Multi-drug-resistant pathogens were found in 87% of cases…

All bacterial bloodstream infections were acquired within the hospital setting." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I am so sorry. I firmly believe the public was led to unmask and eat their own on purpose. We’re being trolled, & our corporate overlords are laughing all the way to the bank.

A Sharp Rise in Autoimmune Encephalitis in the COVID-19 Era: A Case Series Background: Autoimmune encephalitis was very rare prior to the current pandemic. A sharp rise in cases has been observed from March to August of 2022 in Los Angeles. Such an increase, especially...

“Autoimmune encephalitis was very rare prior to the current pandemic. A sharp rise in cases has been observed from March to August of 2022 in Los Angeles.” www.cureus.com/articles/130...

Covid infection increases risk of mental health disorders, study finds Researchers note need to follow patients after recovery for any emerging disorders

“Having Covid puts people at a significantly increased chance of developing new mental health conditions, potentially adding to existing crises of suicide & overdoses, according to new research looking at millions of health records in the US over a year.” www.theguardian.com/world/2022/f...

“The Washington University research could be used to prevent spikes in addiction and suicide…” — We would need to acknowledge it’s happening first…

'Much, much bigger problem than expected': St. Louis research warns of looming mental health crisis ... The lead researcher said this data could be used to "nip it in the bud" and to "prevent it from becoming and much, much more serious problem down the road."

This was published in February 2022, & the public still has NO idea.

“Their research found patients who had COVID-19 were 60% more likely to suffer from mental health problems than those who were not infected. When hospitalized, the likelihood jumped to 86%.” www.ksdk.com/article/news...

CHOP Researchers Find Elevated Biomarker Related to Blood Vessel Damage in All Children with SARS-Co... CHOP researchers found the elevated biomarker in all children who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, whether they were symptomatic for COVID-19 or not.

Here’s a link to the original CHOP study from 2020. www.chop.edu/news/chop-re...

Long COVID Is Disabling Kids. Why We Ignore It | The Tyee And what it will cost us.

2023: “We may have disastrously underestimated one of the most serious sequelae: infection of the brain and nervous system. And we may have missed the neurological damage done to children and young adults who seem to have recovered from COVID-19.” thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Blood clots, heart problems, kidney failure: COVID creates a higher risk for rare pediatric problems... Kids who've had COVID are also more likely to develop type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune condition that destroys the body's ability to make insulin, researchers found.

August 2022: “Children and teens who’ve had COVID are at greater risk for blood clots, heart problems, kidney failure, and Type 1 diabetes.” fortune.com/2022/08/04/c...

Heart failure in children: Another rare COVID-19 complication. Here's what to look for. Since the beginning of the pandemic, a small subset of kids infected with COVID-19 have developed heart failure. Doctors share symptoms to look for.

2021: “This summer, doctors in New York reported a 2-month-old boy diagnosed with COVID-19 later suffered from heart failure, signaling yet another COVID-19 complication for kids.” www.usatoday.com/story/news/h...

Virtually all children infected with COVID-19 show signs of blood vessel damage, study shows Making matters worse, this sign of cardiovascular damage is being seen in asymptomatic children as well as kids experiencing symptoms.

2020: “A troubling study by researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia reports a ‘high proportion’ of children infected with SARS-CoV-2 show elevated levels of a biomarker tied to blood vessel damage.”

Then we infected & reinfected all the kids. 🥰 studyfinds.org/children-wit...

Update October 2023: Test positivity data are no longer reported by NY state department of health. Total new positive are reported. These reports include total PCR lab confirmed results and total antigen test combined. A new tab has been added to the sidebar if a variant of concern has been detected in any county in the past 4-6 weeks & where it was found. Welcome to the dashboard for the NYS wastewater surveillance network. The NYS wastewater surveillance network is a collaboration between Syracuse University, SUNY-ESF, university at Buffalo—SUNY, Stony Brook University, upstate medical university, NYS Department of health, and NYS department of environmental conservation. The website is where all the wastewater surveillance data collects by participating counties is reported. You can view data in the interactive map and graphs below for all our current and past participants. Additional info is available in the information tab on the left of the sidebar.

Test positivity data are no longer reported by the New York State of Health.

NY coronavirus.org Methodological notes: “New admissions & total hospitalization data come from the Health Electronic Records Data System (HERDS). Hospitals are required to complete this survey Monday-Friday and data reflects information reported by hospitals through the survey each day. These data include NYS resident and non resident hospitalizations. As of 10/13/23 HERDS no longer collects information on Covid patients admitted to the ICU while hospitalized. Historical COVID ICU totals are available via the Open Data hospitalization file. Healthcare facilities pause Covid data submission through certain holidays. Therefore the new Covid hospital admissions chart will show no data for those days”

As of October 13, 2023, New York State HERDS will no longer report positivity or Covid patients in the ICU. coronavirus.health.ny.gov/daily-hospit...

While everyone has heard “Most recover! 🌈” for the last 2 years. It’s simply not true.

No New York Trump trial on Monday due to COVID: AG The Donald Trump fraud trial won't happen on Monday because there is a "COVID issue," according to New York Attorney General Letitia James' office.While details are unclear about the specific issue, i...

“The Donald Trump fraud trial won't happen on Monday because there is a ‘COVID issue,’ according to New York Attorney General Letitia James' office.” www.rawstory.com/trump-fraud-...

I haven’t applied because I worry about that. I stayed home with kids for over a decade because childcare has cost more than college since I’ve had kids. I intended to rejoin the workforce when my youngest started school in 2020. I never made it back because I was disabled by Covid instead. 😑