Another day, another #ISO27001 audit. It's gone pretty well - the auditor finished the day's auditing a few hours early because all the evidence he needed was easy to find and with no discrepancies.

Even though it's a remote audit because #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask, which means I don't have to be performing all day, it's still rather tiring, especially with a 9am sharp start which I'm not used to!

RE: https://mstdn.party/@reeltubes/116241964716707509

If you know a Doctor or Nurse or other Health Care Worker, please share this medical education video with them.

Sometimes a HCW needs to hear it from another HCW, formatted as medical education.

This Australian Doctor's presentation is nothing surprising to any airborne aware folks - in other words, all the broad information has been verified across dozens or hundreds of studies, nothing fringe, everything important.

Key messages summarized at 38:00.

#COVID #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #publicHealth #healthCareWorkers #Doctor #Nursing

@craig_groeschel Adding a link to the “Don’t breathe it in” video here, just in case anyone has not seen it. #CovidIsNotOver

https://johnsnowproject.org/videos/

While our govt doesn't give a fig about (Long) Covid, the NZ Health survey has at least added questions about Covid and LC. With a bit of prompting and a new wave hitting the motu, they've finally published the results. The data relies on self-reporting as getting a formal diagnosis of LC is often not possible or complex.

Key findings:
- Nearly 4 out of 5 adults reported ever having COVID-19.
- About 1 in 11 of all adults reported ever having long COVID symptoms (11.9% of those who had Covid).
- Women (14.9%), Māori (15.5%), and disabled adults (22.8%) were more likely to report ever having long COVID symptoms.
- Approximately 185,000 adults were experiencing long COVID symptoms in 2024/25.

This is affecting a lot of people. With the damage and the risk of LC increasing with every infection, this number is only going to grow.
The really frustrating part is that it doesn't have to be this way. We have the knowledge how to limit transmission but hardly anything is being done.

https://www.health.govt.nz/publications/covid-19-and-long-covid-202425-new-zealand-health-survey#finding2

#NZpol
#CovidNZ
#CovidIsNotOver

Officially reading After Covid: The Health Impacts That Will Last Generations by Jason Gale. Will probably make a thread about it soon.

(sorry, I don't have a Bookwyrm account)

https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/53726/after-covid

#covid #covidisnotover #longcovid

So, Covid-cautious peeps: how do you handle it when the people in your orbit want sympathy for getting sick •again•.

I just had this go-round again today with one of my coworkers, & I'm afraid I didn't handle it very well. (Granted, there were other factors in play that impaired my restraint. But even so....)

#CovidIsNotOver #MaskUp