LMThe Bird Site has become more vulnerable to disinformation and misinformation.
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Eric Feigl-Ding (@[email protected])
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
But besides the weakening of the Bird against Information Operations, thereās been pressure against journalism as a whole.
Robson Fletcher (@[email protected])
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:
"All told, long Covid is a $3.7 trillion drag on the U.S. economy ā about 17% of our nationās pre-pandemic economic output"
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Raj Rajnarayanan :verified: (@[email protected])
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!
COVID and reproductive health
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Wes Ely MD :verified: (@[email protected])
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 ponderā¦ https://bit.ly/3VIEaBc
COVID and the liver.
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Empathy1st (@[email protected])
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
COVID may reveal new challenges over winter as people face down a "soup" of variants.
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https://universeodon.com/@EricCarroll@zeroes.ca/109436340288451546
Eric's Risk Assessment (@[email protected])
A "soup" of #COVID variants could make for a challenging winter surge unlike anything we've seen before, experts say "We haven't had one like this before. This is different," @[email protected] an evolutionary and genome biologist at the University of Guelph in Canada, told Salon. "You hear cloud or swarm or cluster or #variants soup. All these things at once that are all immune-escaping." https://www.salon.com/2022/10/24/variant-soup-why-this-winters-wave-may-be-different-than-any-previous-phase/ #SARS2 #COVID19 #variants #Risk
COVID numbers are rising over winter, as expected. Please stay safe this season.
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Aaron Derfel :mastodon: (@[email protected])
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.
Cameron MacLeod (@[email protected])
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 aprĆØs le dĆ©but de la pandĆ©mie, de @thetyee. Source and/et citations (anglais): https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/12/21/Ten-Downplayed-COVID-Facts/ #COVID #COVIDisAirborne #science #medicine #PublicHealth
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Irene Tosetti, MD, MBA MPH (@[email protected])
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/
More on the issue of COVID and immune dysregulation.
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Jeff Gilchrist (@[email protected])
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/
COVID requires that we confront its challenges with the best information and logic we can bring forward.
From the start of COVID, China always takes the position that the communist party is and always will be right. Anything that contradicts that original position gets purged. Dr Ai Fen and Dr Li Wenliang, and others tried to share information in 2019 and 2020. They were shunned for their efforts to save lives.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/china-covid-global-concern-testing-requirements-1.6699690
No one country is perfect. Canada's performance will have to be shaped and re-shaped as the pandemic unfolds.
A system of disease control must roll out with a notion that some players do not see timely communication of pandemic related information as a shared interest.
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Over a million Americans died of COVID and counting.
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MadHatterMommy (@[email protected])
I worry about people that follow me after reading my posts.
"Imprinting is often presented as a problem, but itās a fundamental part of immune memory that delivers a lightning-fast response to a viral invader, without having to start from scratch. 'To me,' says Victora, 'it means that the immune system is quite smart at covering its bases.'"
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Eric Topol (@[email protected])
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
Albertans should take note that Healthcare Professionals require support which is presently not provided for by AB GOV. These are educated, intelligent individuals and they will move to areas or jurisdictions that will properly value them.
While hindsight is 20/20, it seems that the UCP spent most of its energy abusing people on social media, and implementing very short sighted budget cuts on various portfolios, including health and fire. Anyone deciding to take positions here in AB would research AB GOV before proceeding.
The UCP has damaged Albertaās reputation, and potentially hindered ABās ability to attract talent for healthcare and other fields for generations. There will be experience and learning gaps in our healthcare system for years - if not decades.
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https://mas.to/@robsonfletcher/110424764981729328
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DZRN3GH3f_zFS80pgdQbr7RzE46-_I99XmLcPNSfipk/edit
Robson Fletcher (@[email protected])
'"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
Albertans are slowly coming alive to an underlying message about their healthcare system. As it turns out, Alberta has to create spaces to attract talent. Albertan politicians do not yet want the public to connect the dots that their misinformation, rhetoric, and bad press may actually cause real harm to Albertans.
Albertans work hard to recruit healthcare staff, and they are clearly sabotaged by their own AB GOV.
"Panasiuk said the town of High Prairie has partnered with the surrounding Big Lakes County on an attraction and retention committee"
"positions are unsafe and could be targeted for political gain."
"Former CEO and president Dr. Verna Yiu's package was the highest among 23 executives, directors, managers or advisers who were paid a total of $3.62 million in severance"
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āāHe's not just tired,ā she said. āIt is flat out, we can't wake him up.ā
Long COVID symptoms include severe fatigue, malaise, headaches and other neurological symptoms like brain fog, as well as nausea, decreased appetite, weight loss, joint pain and loss of smell and taste. Symptoms emerge in the three months after infection and last anywhere from a couple of months to years.ā
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"We had one young man that was set to go to college on a track and field scholarship ā but because of this infection, that totally disappeared,"
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"A surge in COVID-19 cases across countries in the Northern Hemisphere is causing concern for global health authorities, given that these regions usually witness a peak in respiratory illnesses during the winter months.ā
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https://globalnews.ca/news/9919665/covid-infections-northern-hemisphere/
"Historically, AI/AN communities have faced challenges in accessing quality healthcare due to geographic remoteness, limited healthcare infrastructure, socioeconomic constraints, historical trauma, and discriminatory policies," the study authors wrote. "These barriers have been exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic, further intensifying health disparities, and hindering timely diagnosis, treatment, and management of the disease."
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https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/native-americans-outsized-risk-severe-covid-19-death
"Some thought the virus would settle into a strictly seasonal pattern. It hasnāt.ā
"We found that those who had battled the BA.1-2 variant of Omicron in early 2022 had a 30-fold higher risk of contracting the BA.5 variant later in the year. That was exactly the opposite of what we, or anyone, would have predicted.ā
"We know the protective value of multiple COVID vaccines does not accumulate like money in a bank account. Itās the recency of our boosters that will determine our degree of protection.ā
āā¦ hybrid immunity does not always protect older adults from future COVID-19 infection, suggesting that some assumptions about COVID-19 infection risk may need to be revisitedā
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https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/09/04/COVID-Continues-Surprise-Us-Stay-Safer/
"A new, rapidly spreading coronavirus variant has sounded alarm bells for public health experts in the United States amid a rise in cases across the country.
Doctors warned that the BA.2.86 variant ā unofficially called āPirolaā ā may be cause for concern as it is a newly-designated, highly-mutated variant of Omicron which triggered a surge in cases in a number of countries including the US.ā
"A separate mini-wave of Covid cases is being fueled by the newest dominant variant EG.5, or āErisā. It has caused hospitalisations to increase by 39 per cent since the end of July.ā
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/covid-variant-pirola-ba-286-symptoms-latest-b2404287.html
Covid and the heart in today's NYT Science Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/07/well/live/covids-heart-health.html?searchResultPosition=1
https://mstdn.social/@erictopol/111052833148485836
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Alberta's new COVID stats page can be confusing. Here are the key numbers ā and what they mean:
#alberta #ableg #covid #covid19 #canada #cdnpoli
https://mas.to/@robsonfletcher/111461760385907870
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Alberta's new COVID stats page can be confusing. Here are the key numbers ā and what they mean | CBC News
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.
Alberta's COVID death toll up by 17 since last week, with 190 more hospitalizations:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-covid-weekly-data-summary-dec-16-2023-1.7067271
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"The documents, obtained through an access to information request, consist of dozens of pages of communications between officials at Alberta Health, the government ministry, and Alberta Health Services, the provincial health authority. They show that, in addition to ordering AHS to remove references to specific vaccines, the government instructed the health authority to limit information on vaccine benefits and efficacy.ā
"Back in January, Canada's national vaccine advisory body set the stage for another round of spring vaccinations. In a statement, the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) stated that starting in spring 2024, individuals at an increased risk of severe COVID may get an extra dose of the latest XBB.1.5-based vaccines, which better protect against circulating virus variants.
That means:
-Adults aged 65 and up.
-Adult residents of long-term care homes and other congregate living settings for seniors.
-Anyone six months of age or older who is moderately to severely immunocompromised.ā
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/spring-covid-vaccine-1.7156121
