š How school eligibility influences the spread of infectious diseases medicalxpress.com/news/2024-11ā¦
> Researchers analyzed the natural age cutoff for kindergarten eligibility in California to compare COVID-19 rates between children old enough to start school and those who were not.
> The study's findings underscore the complexity of school-based transmission and highlight the effectiveness of school-based prevention measures.
Q&A: How school eligibility influences the spread of infectious diseases
A study in JAMA Network Open sheds light on how school attendance influences the spread of infectious diseases, using COVID-19 as a case study.University of Michigan School of Public Health (Medical Xpress)
I guess most people gonna gather and share air next week.
I'ts okay, I get it, whatever I guess.
but you guys, I always thought people knew this:
It's just like, stay safe please. like eat outdoors or something. I don't know, I'm sorry. Or when you get Covid, here are some resources about avoiding household transmission.
Covid's still a thing and stuff.
resources below:
itsairborne.com/your-guide-to-ā¦
Your guide to stopping COVID in your home - Itās Airborne
#COVIDisAirborne. Itās transmitted when an infectious person and susceptible person are sharing air. There are 3 main scenarios: As you inhale a higher dose (concentration, time, breathing rate)ā¦Joey Fox (Itās Airborne)
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š Brunch, Interrupted -- Americans elected Biden in the midst of crisis. Instead of understanding that, Democrats went back to brunch. thegauntlet.news/p/brunch-inteā¦
> A big part of the Democrats return to power in 2020 was COVID. Thatās not my opinion; that is what exit polls tell us about votersā decision to turn out for Joe Biden. The top two reasons Democrats had for turning out to the polls in November of 2020 were racial justice issues and the pandemic.
> Democrats never seemed to understand how reluctantly the public returned them to power. It wasnāt an, āoh, thank God, Joe Biden is here,ā vote. It was a āwe have to get this fucking guy [Donald Trump] out of hereā vote.
> The Democrats capitalized on the gore. When 220,000 had died, Biden announced that āno oneā who had overseen that kind of death should remain President. 800,000+ Americans have died of COVID during his Presidency, which he has yet to resign.
> Biden, Harris, and their spouses held a memorial at the reflecting pool for the 400,000 Americans who died of COVID under Trump the night before their Inauguration, only to never again mention Americans dying of COVID en masse again when they actually had the power to do something about it.
> My focus is COVID. I followed closely as, in the delusional world of the Biden liberal, getting COVID (a virus which damages the brain, heart, and immune system) twice a year became a totally okay and in fact laudable thing. I watched as wearing a mask went from being socially positive, to being socially ok, to being socially negative, as Bidenism reverted from anti-Trump to its true form; pro-capital. To protect capital, people need to accept this new condition of employment: more, repeated sickness, zero protections and ongoing risk of disability.
š CANADIAN Rapid Antigen Test SITUATION as of November 2024 docs.google.com/document/d/e/2ā¦
ht @nb_covid_info
@pandemicene @novid #CovidIsNotOver
Boosting this phenomenal resource on #covid19 #covid #LongCOVID that I return to time and time again. Thanks for keeping it updated as studies come out, @augieray!
mastodon.social/@augieray/1121ā¦
Augie Ray (@augieray@mastodon.social)
So, here is the spreadsheet. I defy someone who thinks COVID is just like the flu to spend just ten minutes perusing the findings of these 500+ studies. I don't like scaring people, but people should be more frightened.Mastodon
Some sales + resources for US-based #COVIDcautious #covidconscious #stillCOVIDing #covidaware #ZeroCovid folks #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #WearAMask #MasksWork #maskup @maskup @pandemicene @novid
Masks/mask related:
linktr.ee/buymasks - (at)buymasksUS on Instagram has a linktree for mask resources and more coupons. I will do my best to update the below, but please also utilize this as a resource (and follow them on IG if you're on there!)
maskbloc.org/ - Find your local mask bloc for free masks (and/or to donate to)!
behealthyusa.net/collections/cā¦ - 70% off POSH KF94s from BeHealthy with code POSH70 (many cute colors and designs for adults and kits though they expire in less than a year). They also have a bundle of 100 Blue 2D KF94 for $50, and the main BeHealthy site often has codes for 20-40% off retail priced masks too, they carry many korean KF94s.
alliantbiotech.com/ - redimasks (adhesive n95s - good for MRIs) 50% off with code M4E50%
armbrustusa.com/ - HIYX13RN for 30% off (sign up for emails and texts for other semi-regular coupon codes, n95s, kn95s, they allow you to purchase single masks to sample as well).
bonafidemasks.com/ - TRUST25 for 25% off (kn95s).
bloxdirect.com/ - $.25/ea duckbill n95s (caveat- shipping is pricey).
protectly.co/ - \VitaCore CAN99 Black Respirators 10 packs are 20% off with code VitaCore. Protectly also offers mask samples for purchase (n99 and n100 excluded), and has a 10% code when signed up for sms alerts.
stauffersafety.com/ - They have both the normal 3m 9205 auras and the cloth elastic version auras (9210s). Free shipping over $50 too.
officedepot.com/a/products/700ā¦ - office depot has 3m auras and a 25% off code when signed up for text alerts (and free shipping over $50).
fittests4all.bigcartel.com/ - Home mask fitting kits (pre order).
sipmask.com/ - 20% off sip mask valve with code SIPMASKBLOC (subscribe and save excluded).
Air Purifiers:
officecrave.com/lorell-hepa-42ā¦ - Lorell 420 Air Purifier for $47.25 (reviewed here, same unit just taotronics branded: housefresh.com/taotronics-ap00ā¦)
bulksupply.com/lorell-hepa-420ā¦ - 4 pack of filters for the above $12.21(they also carry the air purifier for $52.64).
Tests/test related:
store.pharmalynk.com/products/ā¦ - $5.98/ea Flowflex sale
amazon.com/Flowflex-COVID-19-Hā¦ Flowflex rapid tests - 5 tests (but multiple swabs and vials in one box, heads up) for $32 (less if you setup subscribe and save).
target.com/p/flowflex-covid-19ā¦ - Flowflex 5 pack (also all in one box) for $35.
lifehacker.com/where-to-find-aā¦ Comparison of the NAAT tests on the market.
shop.aptitudemedical.com/ - Metrix NAAT tests (also available on Amazon).
shop.3eohealth.com/ - 3eo NAAT tests.
virus.sucks/pluslife_en/ - Info on Pluslife NAAT tests (email discount [at] virus dot sucks for discount codes).
ondemand.labcorp.com/covid-19-ā¦ - PCRs for $79 (either overnighted to you, which you overnight back, or in person in some locations). PCR testing at walgreens is $130, for comparison.
Covid Positive (Rapid, NAAT, or PCR) - What To Do:
peoplescdc.org/2023/01/10/whatā¦ - People's CDC guide (has a symptom tracker and isolation diary).
docs.google.com/document/d/1z7ā¦ - Clean Air Club's Guide (includes a symptom tracker).
pharmd.substack.com/p/i-have-cā¦ - Guide with some supplement recommendations that may prevent Long Covid, adult and children dosing suggestions.
Covid Positive (Rapid, NAAT or PCR) - Telehealth Options:
hidrb.com/covid - A Paxlovid telehealth option (that doesn't require video calls!) to get a paxlovid RX if you have a positive rapid, NAAT, or PCR test.
sesamecare.com/medication/paxlā¦ - Another Paxlovid telehealth but does require video appointment
plushcare.com/covid-medicationā¦ - Another Paxlovid telehealth option but does require video appointment
agelessrx.com/metformin/ - Metformin telehealth option (prescribed for antiaging, and best to do before you test positive as it's mailed out to you)
CO2 Monitors:
cleanaircrew.org/aranet4couponā¦ - Clean air crew constantly has an aranet coupon code (to buy from Naltic industries), if there isn't an aranet sale this is likely the cheapest way to get one.
smartairfilters.com/en/productā¦ -SmartAir CO2 monitor (under $70, comparison with Aranet here: breathesafeair.com/smartair-coā¦).
inkbird.com/products/wireless-ā¦ - Inkbird Iam-T1 (usually around or under $110, comparison with Aranet here: breathesafeair.com/inkbird-iamā¦).
a.co/d/d3QH6oW - Vitalight CO2 monitor (usually under $50, much shorter battery life - 8 hours at best, review here breathesafeair.com/vitalight-mā¦).
digikey.com/en/products/detailā¦ / mouser.com/new/sensirion/sensiā¦ - Sensirion scd4x. Also way cheaper than Aranet, needs to be plugged into a USB A port and only shows colors (green, yellow, red) but does show readings in app.
Naomi Wu reviews the Vitalight and Sensirion in this video here: youtu.be/Fo2cZiRyokk
Vitalight Mini CO2 Detector Review - An Affordable Alternative?
One product has taken this goal to heart. The Vitalight Mini CO2 Detector (also called the Vitalight CO2 Monitor) is an affordable carbon dioxide monitor thatEthan Brooke (Breathe Safe Air)
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The laissez faire way of handling sarscov2 infection and transmission described in this abomination of an article is everything that's wrong with how we've been told to deal with the ongoing pandemic. Complete negligence by the authorities ergo complete negligence by individuals
š Tim Dowling: two of my sons are home ā and have brought Covid with them theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2ā¦
Tim Dowling: two of my sons are home ā and have brought Covid with them
Sitting at my kitchen table, waiting to be fed and watered, enjoying the pets, no housework. I wouldnāt mind being ill myselfTim Dowling (The Guardian)
A couple of responses to Tim Dowling's article
š theguardian.com/world/2024/novā¦
Covid is no laughing matter when it continues to hurt so many
Letters: Dr Elke Hausmann and Sue Hewison respond to Tim Dowlingās column about his sons testing positiveGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
š āWe need Psychologistsā¦ but please donāt psychologise Long Covidā bps.org.uk/psychologist/we-neeā¦
āWe need Psychologistsā¦ but please donāt psychologise Long Covidā
Dr Aspa Paltoglou hears from physician Dr David Joffe about whatās needed from our discipline; from Janina Bradshaw about what Psychotherapists can do; and from occupational therapist Kirsty Stanley.The British Psychological Society
š Air Quality Monitor with Raspberry Pi 5, PMS7003, and Viam hackster.io/JoyceJetson/air-quā¦
> Connect a particulate matter sensor to a Raspberry Pi to trigger a DIY air filtration system
#CleanAir #IAQ #CovidIsAirborne
Air Quality Monitor with Raspberry Pi 5, PMS7003, and Viam
Connect a particulate matter sensor to a Raspberry Pi to trigger a DIY air filtration system.Hackster.io
more particles in a room do not increase Covid risk. More people do. Particles are not a good proxy for people. CO2 is. Better use a CO2 sensor.
That is not to say that particles do not matter. They do. They should be filtered out. They just donāt matter in the context of Covid.
@hhf strictly speaking, the bioaerosols that carry sarscov2 virions are indeed particles -- albeit generally considered to be smaller than 2.5 microns -- and it is by filtering out these smaller particles with crboxes, hepa filters, and respirators that their concentration in a room and thus transmission events can be reduced. CO2 is merely a proxy, though beyond the acidity of the air it plays no direct role in the transmission of pathogens.
But I do understand the point you intended to make and for someone uninitiated in fluid dynamics and IAQ it's important to understand that a pm2.5 sensor doesn't identify the presence of airborne pathogens. The article itself doesn't invoke sarscov2 either, but swapping in a CO2 sensor is exactly what I had in mind in this context š
š Many deaths attributed to natural causes during the COVID-19 pandemic may have instead been due to the virus nia.nih.gov/news/many-deaths-aā¦
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š Understanding Cumulative Risk -- The health implications of repeated COVID infections longshadowofcovid.substack.comā¦
"Two years ago, one of us (A.C.) made a prediction in Fortune Magazine that a few years of ālearning to live withā COVID (i.e., pretending it doesnāt exist) would lead to a billion cases of Long COVID. A recent estimate pegs the total incidence so far at 400 million cases of Long COVID. Long COVID is well on its way to becoming the worldās most common disease."
What's this? You mean viruses *don't* always mutate into weaker versions of themselves? This is totally new information to me! š
š The symptoms of 'stronger' Covid XEC variant and what to look out for birminghammail.co.uk/news/healā¦
#WCHP
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A new recombinant, XEK is designated. XEK is recombinant of KP.2.3 and XEC. https://github.com/cov-lineages/pango-designation/issues/2774 Here is a brief figure on how XEK is formed.zeroes.ca
> Marburg virus disease (MVD), a haemorrhagic fever, has been confirmed in a few patients in health facilities in [Rwanda]. Investigations are being carried out to determine the origin of the infection. Enhanced preventive measures are being implemented in all health facilities. Contact tracing is underway, and cases have been isolated for treatment.
š rbc.gov.rw/enhanced-preventiveā¦
First cases in the country. In multiple healthcare facilities, so.. community spread? They definitely threw in some droplet dogma to calm the herd.
Enhanced Preventive Measures Implemented for Viral Fever - Rwanda Biomedical Centre
Marburg virus disease (MVD), a haemorrhagic fever, has been confirmed in a few patients in health facilities in the country. Investigations are being carried out to determine the origin of the infection.RBC (Rwanda Biomedical Centre)
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in reply to trendless • • •Debbie Belair
in reply to trendless • • •Susan Kaye Quinn š±(she/her)
in reply to trendless • • •I *wish* people not showing up to keep Trump out in 2024 was because they were mad at Dems for pretending COVID was over. Truth: Dems gave the people what they wanted. The American people absolutely demanded that COVID be over so thatās what Dems gave them.
And in 2024, Americans wanted fascism. Or couldnāt be arsed to show up to stop it. Or just were too sexist to vote for a woman.
You want better leaders? Be better people. (Iām American)
@pandemicene
Subjacent Banana
in reply to Susan Kaye Quinn š±(she/her) • • •@susankayequinn That is completely bullshit circular reasoning.
The American People were TOLD Covid was over so they then wanted it to be over. They were TOLD Vaccines worked so they wanted vaccines to work. They were TOLD cases had evaporated so they wanted cases to evaporate. They were TOLD it was now just a flu so they wanted it to now just be a flu.
Do you not know how much money was poured into McKinsey to figure out how to sell that? Do people need to be sold something that hard that they "absolutely demand"?
You're blaming the victim for wanting reality to be like the thugs claim it is.
Susan Kaye Quinn š±(she/her)
in reply to Subjacent Banana • • •Y'all are in Canada, right? You can believe whatever you like, but I watched it here in America& it was devastating how many of my friends just wanted it to be over, who pretended it was over, who got fucking PISSED when you said it wasn't & that's just on the left (forget the nutjobs on the right who couldn't handle any of it). I watched *smart* people make the excuses LONG before Dems finally gave them what they wanted: official sanction to say it's over
Schools are superspreaders
in reply to Susan Kaye Quinn š±(she/her) • • •Susan Kaye Quinn š±(she/her)
in reply to Schools are superspreaders • • •@pixplz Again, believe what you want. I watched it happen &was paying a whole lot of attention. It's a lot easier/more fun to blame Dems than your neighbors. IDK if y'all have noticed but a whole lot of Americans just voted for Trump as well.
Put Biden in the pillory if it brings you joy but it doesn't change that people were rushing to rip masks off as soon as they could.
At this point, not sure why it matters. We'll be even worse during the next one.
@subjacentish @trendless @pandemicene
Schools are superspreaders
in reply to Susan Kaye Quinn š±(she/her) • • •Schools are superspreaders
in reply to Schools are superspreaders • • •Susan Kaye Quinn š±(she/her)
in reply to Schools are superspreaders • • •@pixplz
I'm sorry you've been harmed by this, truly. I get why you want someone to blame.
I don't know what you're going to do re:holding elected officials accountable from here tbh. The Trump administration won't have any of that.
Not sure what joy and toddlers has to do with anything, but you are right I shouldn't engage with people on the internet about this. I've done tons of advocacy & electoral politics & yet here we are.
@subjacentish @trendless @pandemicene
Schools are superspreaders
in reply to Susan Kaye Quinn š±(she/her) • • •Another concerned scientist
in reply to Schools are superspreaders • • •Maybe at that time, but two years later? It is clear that hybrid immunity is not long lasting and that there is more unexplained illness than before. Why do people not do "their own research" and ignore the scientific literature?
Another concerned scientist
in reply to Subjacent Banana • • •I have a sense that people believe these things, because they want them to be true. I don't know how else to explain that people are so resistant to information from the peer reviewed literature on long term health consequences of repeated Covid and the effectiveness of masks. This is even among people who read the scientific literature for a living.
Douglas In Victoria
in reply to Subjacent Banana • • •This. Holy crap, this.
Gatekeeper..
in reply to trendless • • •We were shut down. But people watched the food lines and counted the dead while trying to find something to wipe their buts with.
This time Repubs out played us with a bigger microphone.