Sawyer 🌪️

completely sick of everything to do with winter

How COVID reshaped public health understanding of disease spread by air How COVID reshaped our understanding of invisible air particles and the spread of disease

"After the war they tried to persuade public health officials to take the threat of airborne infection seriously. But infectious disease experts, fighting against outbreaks and preparing for emergence of new diseases mostly ignored them, even when it meant accepting basic mistakes about physics."

If you see someone wearing a mask & you have the urge to tell them they should stop masking, just don't.

Not only have masks been shown to dramatically reduce risk of covid and therefore long-covid, but it doesn't hurt you one bit.

Or, if it DOES hurt/anger you to see a mask-wearer, go seek help.

NEW - Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove during #SARSCov2 WHO Live Q&A on December, 12th, 2024.

"The world wants to forget this pathogen that is still with us, and people want to put #Covid in the past as if it's over, like it didn't happen, and that is very detrimental."

🧪🦠 🛟 #IDSky #MedSky

A mask (an ffp2+/n95+ mask) worn properly will help stop you catching Covid, flu, rsv, measles, norovirus, whatever virus is the airborne flavour of the month.

It's amazing how many people think catching any of those is a good idea.

@who.int Director-General's remarks at a media briefing on 10 December 2024:

"We cannot talk about COVID in the past tense. It’s still with us, it still causes acute disease and Long COVID, and it still kills.

The world might want to forget about COVID-19, but we cannot afford to."

5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV Researchers are announcing that a 53-year-old man in Germany has been cured of HIV.

5th person to be cured of HIV

“Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.”

My family and I have been really lucky.

We haven't had Covid, Flu, RSV, Noro, Pneumonia, Strep A, Tonsillitis, Appendicitis, Ear/Eye/Throat/Chest Infections, Gastroenteritis, Urinary Tract Infections, Sinusitis, Bronchitis, Sepsis, Whooping Cough, or Bronchiolitis in five years.

Tanzania shares a border with Congo. This doesn’t looks good.

Another family on my Facebook feed says two of their siblings in the household have walking pneumonia.

California reported its first #H5N1 #birdflu infected dairy herds on Aug. 30. Today, less than 3 months later, the state's infected herd count topped 400. The vast majority of these herds are still in quarantine for the infection. How is this not affecting availability of/pricing of milk?

I've made a Covid conscious starter pack called "Salting the Vibes" - voices on advocacy and/or science 🧬

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The picture shows an image of a manuscript pointing how airborne and foodborne transmission combined can accelerate viral spreading to more people. Plus, we have limited technologies exist to detect viral presence in food.

Just reminding you, if you think #COVID was bad, that's because you never imagined a pandemic with a virus that is AIR- and FOOD-borne at the same time, like #H5N1.

Ok. Choice made.
This is going to be my primary site for posting...

The bad place will get the assorted highlights because I think it's essential to keep informing people there.

But at the end of every thread I'm going to say that I'm here more.

The layers of trauma that come with having a #disability is not just about physical limitations.

The emotional burden of losing autonomy over your own body, financial instability, and having to justify your existence to a hierarchy that seems determined to break you down.

Thank you, you were correct ☺️

BREAKING: U.S. COVID Surge Continues with Over 4.9 Million Cases, 348,034 Hospitalizations, and 38,563 Deaths; Rising Cases in 20 States.

Yes for sure :) I was eating mashed potatoes yesterday and everytime I swallow liquid or food, I can feel it. So maybe it’s just a scratch, but I hope it’s not lodged into my tissue.

Yeah I’m wondering if it’s just a scratch I am feeling… I hope so!

I could try that! I did swallow some marshmallows.

Oh I did, so many sodas 😞😞 I threw up a few times too. Still nothing. I drank warm liquids too.

Persistent increase of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events in COVID-19 patients: a 3-year population-based analysis AbstractAims. We evaluated the incidence and relative risk of major post-acute cardiovascular consequences of SARS-CoV-2 infection in a large real-world po

🩺 Three years after COVID infection, adults had an increased risk of all major adverse cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events including heart attack, stroke, heart failure, atrial fibrillation and myopericarditis with an odds ratio of 1.73. buff.ly/3yuEM7y

🛟🧪😷 #EpiSky #IDsky

If I learned anything from having #LongCovid, is to take shit seriously.

I am not taking chances with #h5n1, so if that means taking early precautions until we figure out how this plays out, I'm going to do it.

They’re already starting this bullsh*t
#h5n1 #chronicillness

Viral #SarsCov2 RNA was distributed across 10 different types of solid tissues, including liver, kidney, stomach, intestine, brain, blood vessel, lung, breast, skin, and thyroid

The persistence of SARS-CoV-2 in tissues and its association with long COVID symptoms: a cross-sectional cohort study in China Our findings suggest that residual SARS-CoV-2 can persist in patients who have recovered from mild COVID-19 and that there is a significant association between viral persistence and long COVID symptom...

“Our findings suggest that residual #SARSCoV2 can persist in patients who have recovered from mild #COVID19 and that there is a significant association between viral persistence and #LongCovid symptoms.” 🧪🩺

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I still have #SarsCov2 s1 spike protein in my blood after my one and ONLY Covid-19 infection in 2020.

I’ve never been vaccinated.
I’ve never been reinfected.
#longcovid #chronicillness
🩺🧪

How many years will we have to wait?

We need help for #LongCovid NOW.

This isn’t fair ❤️‍🩹💔