I just want to live in a world where taking a few basic precautions to protect against potentially severe respiratory virus isn’t seen as political or extreme or fearful but is just part of the mundane, boring background noise that comes with living in a society.
— Aaron Hoyland (@aaronhoyland) August 16, 2022
A good rubric on COVID reinfection.
— Hiroshi Yasuda (保田浩志) (@Yash25571056) August 20, 2022
1. Long COVID
2. Your at risk for a severe case of COVID with every reinfection
3. With every COVID infection, your chances of organ damage is greater
4. Herd immunity isn't happening
5. You have no immunity with BA.5https://t.co/hP12zlG0iB
I’m still astonished at the fact that, despite the wealth of evidence showing the long-term health risks from even ‘mild’ cases of Covid, as a country we have just shrugged, accepted mass infection, and acted as if the still-cautious among us are the *odd* ones. It’s madness.
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) August 19, 2022
I've never understood this: if folks were tired of preventing COVID, why would they tolerate being sick with COVID, which is still worse than even the flu, potentially multiple times a year?
— Megan Ben Dor Ruthven (@_mbdr_) August 19, 2022
US Covid hospitalizations are at a plateau ~40,000, which is ~4-fold where we were in April this year.
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) August 18, 2022
Likewise, deaths are at ~500 each day, and confirmed cases still hover about 100,000 per day.
This is not what containing the virus looks like. pic.twitter.com/rh9ja8SKNK
NEW—the US federal govt is planning to end free coverage of #COVID19 vaccine shots in the coming months—instead plans to allow pharma companies to commercialize them to consumers. Though I expect insurance might still cover most/all the costs. https://t.co/3DyYIqJ0gC
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) August 18, 2022
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