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Great article about the Covid pandemic that touches on all the things we aren’t supposed to talk about (like the real death toll and the long tail of chronic illness)

There was so much worth quoting - but I chose this stark figure out of Wales since I’m a clinically vulnerable patient who spends alot of time in the hospital.

In Wales - 70% of all people who require hospital treatment for Covid caught Covid IN hospital. 70%.

Once upon a time - hospital acquired infections were considered a massive failure of infection control. The goal was to keep them as close to zero as possible.

But as we rushed “back to normal” and worked to vanish the memory of COVID from our collective brains - we stopped protecting patients.

Hospitals stopped requiring masks. They didn’t clean the air. They discouraged staff from testing and allowed them to work while sick. They stopped testing patients.

The result? Patients being infected with hospital acquired Covid. Which has a 10% fatality rate.

These people didn’t choose to be patients. They didn’t want to be in the hospital. They couldn’t “just stay home”. They were sick and in need of care.

No one should have to choose between care and Covid.

Yet for so many people - that’s the choice they’re currently facing.

Disabled and high risk individuals have sacrificed so much over the last five years. Many of us are still shielding. Isolated from a world that refuses to even acknowledge we are still IN a pandemic.

It’s dreadfully unfair that we should have to give up so much only to be infected in the one place we’re unable to avoid. The place we should have an expectation of safety

Nate’s article looks at the reasons why we aren’t doing more to combat Covid (hint - capitalism) and reminds us of the importance of remembering we live in a society.

“You do you” doesn’t work. We’re all in this together whether we realize it or not. Whether we like it or not. Whether we’re disabled or not.

When we finally admit this to ourselves and start working together - we may actually be able to beat COVID once and for all.

donotpanic.news/p/five-years-o

¡Do Not Panic! · Five Years On: A Covid RetrospectiveBy Nate Bear

More than 50 people in seven U.S. states have had confirmed cases of a human bird flu variant, concerning health experts that another pandemic could be possible. This week, a child in California with no known contact with infected animals came down with the virus. CBSNews@flipboard.com medical contributor Dr. Céline Gounde explains why this is a worrying development and answers other questions about bird flu.

flip.it/6gvHiW

flip.itWhy the latest bird flu case has experts worried about a potential pandemicA new case of bird flu in a California child without known contact with infected animals is raising concerns about a potential pandemic. Dr. Céline Gounder explains what to know.

This is excellent. If you can't read it now, tuck it away for when you're ready for a look back and a look forward.

"What else do we forget about the pandemic? We forget how mesmerised we were as nature rebounded, how clean the air was in the absence of industrial scale human activity. We forget that carbon emissions fell at the sort of pace required to avoid cataclysmic climate change... We forget that there really was a sense of global solidarity."

donotpanic.news/p/five-years-o

¡Do Not Panic! · Five Years On: A Covid RetrospectiveBy Nate Bear

Ashish Jha, former White House COVID-19 response coordinator, says vaccine mandates drove up vaccination rates but sowed distrust.

Reflecting on pandemic policies, he says, "I’m no longer sure that was the right recommendation."

undark.org/2024/11/22/intervie

#COVID #pandemic #politics #COVID19 #pandemicresponse #ashishjha #whitehouse #president #biden #trump #vaccination #vaccines #healthcare #2020 #policy #shutdown

"Mr Hancock accepted that a bed in intensive care could not be found for every individual patient who needed it at the height of the pandemic." Some evidence for those who try to play down the severity of the #pandemic. #COVID19 #CovidInquiry

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce89k5

An NHS worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) including gloves, gown, mask and a face shield
BBC NewsMatt Hancock says NHS was 'hours' from PPE running out in CovidFormer health secretary tells inquiry some healthcare settings did run out - "and it was awful".

Working on Part Two of my Masks in Healthcare Series - and I’m soliciting feedback from patients and/or caregivers who’ve had difficulty getting healthcare workers to mask.

If you had pushback, reduction in care, were infected with Covid, experienced retaliation or accusations of “anxiety”… I want to hear from you!

You can DM me as well - and everything will be anonymous in the article unless explicitly stated otherwise.

"The peer-reviewed study, led by scientists and clinicians from Mass General Brigham, drew immediate skepticism from some long COVID researchers, who suggested their numbers were “unrealistically high.” But the study authors noted that the condition is notoriously difficult to diagnose and official counts also likely exclude populations who were hit hardest by the pandemic but face barriers in accessing healthcare."

archive.ph/2024.11.19-045056/h #COVID #pandemic #LongCOVID