Show and Tell: Coronavirus Edition 3/13/23

Thread:

1. The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and the global workforce:🧵

Well aware I'm preaching to the choir here, but a couple of short conversations with carers in my mother's nursing home today made me realise that this needs to be stated very clearly and simply.

— Conor Browne (@brownecfm) March 12, 2023

Oscars 2023

Glenn Close has tested positive for COVID-19 and won’t be presenting at the Oscars as planned.

Starting off swell 👌🏻

H/t ⁦@justaneighsayer⁩ https://t.co/qVVUUthmW6

— Jess (@MeetJess) March 12, 2023

"The virus continues to evolve and has not settled into a predictable nor seasonal pattern"

In other words, we remain in a pandemic. When covid settles into a pattern where we can more or less forecast the timing and amplitude of waves, then it will be endemic. We're not there. https://t.co/wOImy8JQcL

— Noha Aboelata, MD (@NohaAboelataMD) March 12, 2023

Studies show 58% of LongCovid patients meet the MECFS case definition. https://t.co/rNh3z4ZPDi

— Laura Miers (@LauraMiers) March 11, 2023

Even "only" a 1 in 20 chance of being affected for months (if not much longer) is still way too high to brush off if you ask me.
https://t.co/CcTNrkOmev

— T. Ryan Gregory (@TRyanGregory) March 10, 2023