Get your free tests while you still can: Off & on since January 2022, the US Postal Service has been taking orders for free #Covid tests. Right now, you can still place an order for 4 free tests. Here's how to get yours⬇️https://t.co/UKaghySl3j
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) February 19, 2024
Unpaywalled gift link:
Here’s how to get free Paxlovid as many times as you need it https://t.co/kcTBlnuG1Y
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) February 14, 2024
Last night's update: 218,000 new cases, 1,800 new deaths https://t.co/dFaeSYyN1d
— BNO News (@BNOFeed) February 19, 2024
So far this year, more than 2 million cases of COVID-19 have been reported in the U.S., causing 158,000 hospitalizations and 16,000 deaths.
— BNO News (@BNOFeed) February 19, 2024
Should be ‘free to access’:
Concerns among medically vulnerable people are growing as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention prepares to drop its long-standing recommendation that those with covid isolate for five days. https://t.co/Y1572pXlym
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) February 17, 2024
‘Awareness immunity’ is following its natural progression. After four years, the human community may still be vulnerable — especially particular individuals or community pockets — but, barring (Murphy forbid) another massive surge, there’s considerably less news being produced for aggregation:
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an FDA expert just testified that covid vaccines have saved at least 3.2 million lives in the US and at least 14 million lives around the world pic.twitter.com/Jj4RiDXMsh
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 15, 2024
China: Risk of Omicron reinfection quantified
"The rate of reinfection for the Omicron variants was 1.28%, 1.96%, and 5.92% at 2–3 months, 4–5 months, and 7–9 months after the primary infection, respectively."https://t.co/88YprDIpvH
— CoronaHeadsUp (@CoronaHeadsUp) February 17, 2024
Indians hit by long-term lung damage after Covid
A significant proportion of Indians who recovered from Covid had lung function impairment and lingering symptoms for months.https://t.co/0hGxQkQXpq
— CoronaHeadsUp (@CoronaHeadsUp) February 19, 2024
New Zealand: Covid cases on the rise
6,312 new cases of Covid-19 reported over the week to Sunday, and 14 further deaths attributed to the virus.
RNZ News https://t.co/BxgpRC5tMU
— CoronaHeadsUp (@CoronaHeadsUp) February 20, 2024
Russia, St Petersburg: 557 new cases of Covid-19 in one day, with 2 deaths,
There are 1,335 sick people in hospital, 115 people in intensive care and 22 patients are on ventilators.https://t.co/DV9XG3SZCo
— CoronaHeadsUp (@CoronaHeadsUp) February 20, 2024
Russia: Covid increased by more than 6% last week
"The incidence rate of the new coronavirus infection over the past week per 100k population was 18.8, a 6.2% increase from the prior week"
106 people died from Covid over the past week.
Interfax reporthttps://t.co/pau3juGmxp
— CoronaHeadsUp (@CoronaHeadsUp) February 14, 2024
UK: Healthcare workers protest totally inadequate protections against Covid-19 and other airborne pathogens
'We need clean air in our hospitals, now!' https://t.co/fPp9ZJG8X3
— CoronaHeadsUp (@CoronaHeadsUp) February 19, 2024
Brazil: Pharmacies and laboratories register greater demand for Covid tests after Carnival
"Experts had already warned of a likely increase in infections during the festive period."
— CoronaHeadsUp (@CoronaHeadsUp) February 18, 2024
Canadian COVID Forecast: Feb 17-Mar 2, 2024
SEVERE: AB, BC, MB, NB, NL, NS, PEI, SK
VERY HIGH: CAN, North, ON, QC
HIGH: none
ELEVATED: none
MODERATE: none
LOW: noneAbout 1 in 47 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected. pic.twitter.com/3bgD0JfTuK
— Tara Moriarty (@MoriartyLab) February 18, 2024
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Evidence is mounting that #LongCovid is essentially a brain disease — caused by acute inflammation of the brain in reaction to viral infection. Since the brain controls the body, illness may manifest in dozens of ways.https://t.co/y5k1x324rp
&https://t.co/0fpG3UtOjY
MORE— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) February 18, 2024
Scientists still aren't sure how neurological symptoms arise in #Covid infection: Is it because #SARSCoV2 infects the brain? Or are the symptoms from inflammation? A German study now has evidence supporting the latter theory https://t.co/LFjuepBG3S
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) February 18, 2024
6.4% US adults reported ever having experienced #LongCovid @CDCMMWR https://t.co/pUZE1mZ6ap
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) February 15, 2024
On #LongCovid, good brief summaryhttps://t.co/Z8OB1BZ5k9
Vaccination not only reduces the incidence, but its severity @melheightman
and spot on perspective by @zalaly pic.twitter.com/KvrDZ7CFkF— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) February 15, 2024
How risky are repeat #Covid infections? Four years into the pandemic, many people have had Covid more than once—but the health consequences of repeat infections are not yet clear https://t.co/dRqilvhyoK
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) February 17, 2024
Large study – over 99 million people – finds confirmation of known rare risks and potential very rare additional risks. Study confirms that serious harms from #COVID19 vaccines are very rare. https://t.co/JkGiWfZ9m6
— (((Dorit Reiss))) (@doritmi) February 20, 2024
CDC: Covid patients are 4.3 times more likely to develop chronic fatigue
"Those who had tested positive were 68% at risk of fatigue and were 4.3 times more likely to develop chronic fatigue in the follow-up period."
ABC Newshttps://t.co/Q56aduBSXk
— CoronaHeadsUp (@CoronaHeadsUp) February 16, 2024
NY Times: Could Long Covid Be the Senate’s Bipartisan Cause?
Senator Roger Marshall: “Desperate times call for desperate measures,”
NYTimes reporthttps://t.co/0XurvsMizN
— CoronaHeadsUp (@CoronaHeadsUp) February 20, 2024
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US: Levels of Covid in wastewater
Here we go again.
Biobot Analytics https://t.co/l72x8NjK1U pic.twitter.com/ZVokyDpO7t
— CoronaHeadsUp (@CoronaHeadsUp) February 20, 2024
This is exactly the opposite of what we'd see if the "only liberal women in the Northeast get long Covid, because it's all in their heads" cliche were correct. Instead, places where more people had caught Covid by the end of 2021 had much higher rates of long Covid in 2022.
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) February 16, 2024
Florida: Nearly 100,000 COVID-19 cases in 2024
How many cases have gone untested and unrecorded, though?https://t.co/YBofxOVVTs
— CoronaHeadsUp (@CoronaHeadsUp) February 17, 2024
US: More than 300,000 Coloradans affected by Long Covid
One in seven Coloradans who got Covid-19 have dealt with Long Covid.
Nearly half of people who experienced Long Covid had to take time off work or school to deal with their symptoms. https://t.co/HtM5h0jChS pic.twitter.com/OzSHsmWTWJ
— CoronaHeadsUp (@CoronaHeadsUp) February 20, 2024
Remembering this incredible moment in Fox News history.
This graphic apepared on February 27, 2020, as part of a segment in which Hannity blasted "the left" for whipping up fear about an ultimately benign virus in order to damage Trump politically. pic.twitter.com/QzntL5mi0N
— Berny Belvedere (@bernybelvedere) February 19, 2024
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