Bad newsāit seems @Twitter just updated its misleading info policy that #COVID19 misinformation will no longer be enforced. The 11k accounts that were suspended under the old policy will soon be restored. Twitter's data shows 11,000 accounts were suspended under the #COVID misinformation policyā with almost 100,000 pieces of content were removed since 2020. https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/covid-19 Subscribe to my Journal: https://drericding.substack.com/subscribe
Attached: 1 image The number of journalists in Canada ā and especially Alberta ā continues to shrink. New census data shows only about 10,500 working across the country last year. In Alberta? Only about 750. On a per-capita basis, the number of Alta. journalists has been cut in half since 2001:
Attached: 1 image Wastewater data from @[email protected] SARSCoV2 content in waster water is surging in the USA-South region USA-Northeast, Midwest and West regions are already at a high plateau!
Attached: 1 image 1/š§µHuman Reproduction and COVID Face it, this virus invades all facets of our lives ā even making babies. The ACE2 receptor is in testicles, ovary, uterus, vagina and placenta Pregnancy is affected, sperm counts are reduced, impotence occurs. A bit of data to ponder⦠https://bit.ly/3VIEaBc
New Ultrasound Study Shows Increased Liver Stiffness 10 Months After COVID-19 Infection: āOur study is part of emerging evidence that COVID-19 infection may lead to liver injury that lasts well after the acute illness." https://www.diagnosticimaging.com/view/new-ultrasound-study-shows-increased-liver-stiffness-10-months-after-covid-19-infection h/t @MeetJess
1) BREAKING: Hospitalizations for and with #COVID have risen for 10 days in a row in Quebec, climbing by 33 to 1,979, the Health Ministry reported Thursday. That's the highest tally in nearly six weeks. Yet of late, government officials have been silent about this resurgence.
Attached: 1 image Strong review of the things we know about COVID, three years into the pandemic, from @thetyee. Un examen approfondi de ce que l'on sait sur COVID, trois ans après le début de la pandémie, de @thetyee. Source and/et citations (anglais): https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/12/21/Ten-Downplayed-COVID-Facts/ #COVID #COVIDisAirborne #science #medicine #PublicHealth
Cardiac surgeon from one of Canada's leading children hospitals speaks out and describes what is going on. Including the likely immune dysfunction after covid. https://globalnews.ca/news/9349552/kids-bc-doctor-respiratory-illness-deaths/
You know the situation is not good when even the WHO is now warning about immune dysregulation, vascular harm and neurological issues ( https://twitter.com/Sandyboots2020/status/1608402400817336322 ). 21/
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Heart attacks and strokes are doubled late (>30 d) after Covid, And vaccination helps reduce these cardiovascular outcomes. A review of the full data set https://erictopol.substack.com/p/heart-attacks-and-strokes-late-after
'"Truthfully, we are having patients die in the waiting room again," said ER physician Dr. Sean Fair. "And this is not something that happened in Calgary for many years, by and large." Alberta Health Services did not respond directly to questions about waiting room deaths. CBC News reached out to the health authority with a number of questions regarding the doctors' concerns but did not receive specific answers to any of them.' https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-doctors-warn-emergency-rooms-collapsing-1.6852938 #yyc #calgary #alberta #ableg #cdnpoli
Alberta's new respiratory virus dashboard provides weekly data on the spread of COVID-19 in the province, but making sense of the numbers can be a challenge ā and it's particularly difficult to figure out how many people have died.
From "Kids keep getting sicker as evidence for COVID immune damage builds ", by Julia Doubleday:
"The data doesnāt lie, and a Bloomberg News analysis showed that:Games uniquely incorporate emotional and social factors that influence how we take in information ā making them surprisingly useful communication tools in a world in denial about the ongoing threats of COVID-19 and Long COVID. Whether through the cathartic storytelling in indie designersā interactive theater projects or learning opportunities woven into popular video games, playing games can help people make informed decisions amid the Long COVID crisis.
The objective of this study is to describe the prevalence of inflammatory cardiopulmonary findings in a prospective cohort of long coronavirus disease (LC) patients. Methods: Subjects with a history of coronavirus disease 2019 infection, persistent cardiopulmonary symptoms 9ā12 mo after initial infection, and a clinical assessment compatible with LC underwent cardiopulmonary 18F-FDG PET/MRI, dual-energy CT (DECT) of the lungs, and plasma protein analysis (subgroup). A control group that included subjects with a history of acute severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection but without cardiopulmonary symptoms at recruitment was also characterized. Results: Ninety-eight patients (median age, 48.5 y; 47% men) were enrolled. The most common LC symptom was shortness of breath (80%), and 27% of participants were hospitalized. Of the subjects, 90% presented abnormalities in DECT, with 67% and 59% of participants demonstrating pulmonary infiltrates and abnormal perfusion, respectively. PET/MRI was abnormal for 57% of subjects: 24% showed cardiac involvement suggestive of myocarditis, 22% presented uptake reminiscent of pericarditis, 11% showed periannular uptake, and 30% showed vascular uptake (aortic or pulmonary). There was no myocardial, pericardial, periannular, or pulmonary uptake on the PET/MRI scans of the control group ( n = 9). Analysis of plasma protein concentrations showed significant differences between the LC and the control groups. Lastly, the plasma protein profile was significantly different among LC patients with abnormal and normal PET/MRI. Conclusion: In LC subjects evaluated up to a year after coronavirus disease 2019 infection, our results indicate a high prevalence of abnormalities on PET/MRI and DECT, as well as significant differences in the peripheral biomarker profile, which might warrant further monitoring to exclude the development of complications such as pulmonary hypertension and valvular disease.