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U.S. immunologist and COVID specialist Dr. David Putrino: “There is no such thing as a SARS-CoV-2 infection that does NOT have prolonged consequences.” thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/…

It's not a 'what if', it's a 'how to'. This stuff is simple and cheap. Instead of throwing tantrums about kids being off sick and stressing over teacher absences, school authorities could provide a healthier environment so people get sick less. Radical🙄 abc.net.au/news/2024-09-2…

We are in an uncontrolled pandemic that is creating a recognized disability and academics are busy writing think pieces about how there are too many disability accommodations.

“…widespread indifference to COVID is costing too many lives and adding unnecessary pressure to a health system already under strain” abc.net.au/news/2024-10-1…

Regulation in the insurance industry depends so heavily on consumers making official complains to authorities. Yet putting the onus on individual consumers to address systemic corporate problems is an ineffective and unjust way to police the industry. abc.net.au/news/2024-10-2…

Via WaPo: “I’ve been in practice 23 years and have never seen anything like this,” oncologist Kashyap Patel said. Asutosh Gor, another oncologist, agreed: “We were all shaken.” There was other weirdness, too: multiple patients contending w multiple types of cancer arising

WTAF? The most outrageous IPC failure in healthcare. 70% of Covid cases in Welsh hospitals are healthcare acquired. How does a system fail so catastrophically & not be held to account? Clean the air. Wear a mask/respirator. Test. Isolate. Stop infecting patients. #CovidIsAirborne

"Want to Limit Respiratory Virus Infections? Mask and Test in Hospitals" "When hospital staff began masking again, the rates of hospital-onset respiratory viral infections decreased by 33%" Study: jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… Source: archive.md/Zki7D

One of the single best things you can do for us on #InternationalDayofPeoplewithDisabilities is to wear a mask. Make public spaces safe for us again. Join us in demanding masks in healthcare. Refuse to leave us by the wayside.

No one could have foreseen this. thewest.com.au/business/healt…

Finally, a piece on how we can, and must, do more to protect students in higher education from the risks of post-COVID condition #LongCovid. A must read for all who study and work in universities. theconversation.com/we-can-and-mus… via The Conversation Canada

Universities need to start protecting students and staff from airborne infections. One good thing we should have learned from the ongoing Covid pandemic. theconversation.com/we-can-and-mus…

If you consider yourself an ally to disabled & marginalized individuals - but you’re no longer masking in public - we need you to start now. If a mask ban passes in NYC - it may not be long before we see them across the country. The best thing you can do for us is wear a mask.

"While vaccination decreases the severity of acute COVID infection, the sobering conclusion of our study is that vaccination prior to infection did not alter the subsequent neurologic manifestations of long COVID in our clinic population." academic.oup.com/braincomms/adv…

Can someone help?

Absolutely idiotic that 5 yrs into this pandemic there are not proper measures to make public spaces safe, no preventive medicines & no actual treatments for COVID & long covid What an absolute epic failure

I'm happy to be ending the year with a new article in Computer Law & Security Review. We offer a socio-legal analysis of "non-personal data" in behavioral insurance schemes and show how this regulatory distinction is meaningless in terms of real impacts at different scales.

Important study. We screwed up a generation. We can’t undo it. But we can strongly reduce/stop the transmission of SARS2 now and ensure that the brains (& other organs) of generation of people born from 2025 on won’t be screwed up.

Today FTC announced an action against General Motors for collecting and selling drivers’ precise geolocation data and driving behavior information from millions of vehicles—data that can be used to set insurance rates—without obtaining consent. ftc.gov/news-events/ne…

There is just so much research out there showing what a major burden of cardiovascular, neurocognitive and other disease COVID is causing - but many, even in the medical profession remain unaware of this.