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#CovidIsNotOver

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🔗 LDN Trial, Clinical trial for post-COVID fatigue reachbc.ca/project/533

Vancouver Island / Coast
Lower Mainland
Thompson - Okanagan
Kootenay
Cariboo
North Coast and Nechako
Northeast

16-69yo; not accepting healthy volunteers

recruiting until May 5, 2025

reachbc.caReach BCREACH BC brings together researchers and volunteers to make it easy to participate in research, improving the overall quality of life for British Columbians and people across the world.

New study shows that COVID may damage your immune system for a year post infection.

This is the problem with ignoring a pandemic in favour of a “you do you” approach.

There’s so much Covid that most people get it at least once per year. Their immune systems don’t have time to recover before they become infected again.

Disability advocates have been screaming about this for years. We beg people to mask up for their own protection and to make public spaces safer and more accessible for us.

We don’t yet know what the long term prognosis will be after 5, 10 or 15+ infections.

Wear a mask. Clean and ventilate the air. Do your part to minimize the spread.

cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/covid-

CIDRAPCOVID-19 may put patients at risk for other infections for at least 1 year

Friends and comrades, I will not be joining you today at any #April5 #protest

I will be at a wedding...IN A MASK.

As you should too at any protest. A good, high quality N95, not a flimsy surgical or fabric mask that has gaps and can't filter shit.

Stay safe out there. #LongCovid is no joke, peeps. It is hard to fight fascism when you cannot get off the couch.

Have a great day out there! Get charged up and energized! Solidarity to #AntiFascists everyhere!

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Infection status
Released Apr 4, 2025.
- As of period from Mar 24 - Mar 30, 2025 -

No. of patients per medical facility (nationwide) 2.92
Change from prev. week -0.31
[Source: Health-Labor-Welfare Ministry weekly report]
mhlw.go.jp/content/001471932.p
🔸Small decrease
Saga at 2.62, Tokyo at 1.93, Akita at 1.54, Hokkaido at 2.87, Okinawa at 1.41
Nagano at 4.78

(nationwide) 1.85
Change from prev. week -0.13
at 4.0
mhlw.go.jp/content/001471921.p

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Infection status
Released Mar 28, 2025.
- As of period from Mar 17 - Mar 23, 2025 -

No. of patients per medical facility (nationwide) 3.23
Change from prev. week -0.62
[Source: Health-Labor-Welfare Ministry weekly report]
mhlw.go.jp/content/001464404.p
🔸Small decrease
Saga at 4.33, Tokyo at 2.31, Akita at 2.5, Hokkaido at 3.38, Okinawa at 1.09
Ibaraki at 5.28

(nationwide) 1.98
Change from prev. week -0.25
at 5.02
mhlw.go.jp/content/001464464.p

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Wearing a mask is an act of refusal.

It is refusal to participate in a mass disabling event. It is refusal to leave behind disabled comrades. It is refusal to fall in line with the eugenicist logics at the heart of fascism. It is refusal to comply in advance with the mask bans.

Refuse fascism. Wear a mask.

Yeah, it's calling in that's a trend, not being sick over and over and over.. :facepalm:

Who could have predicted? Well for starters, everyone not trying to profit from forcing society to ignore a debilitating and ongoing pandemic

🔗 Europe has caught a work absenteeism bug, turning one of the continent’s biggest advantages into a multi-billion euro strain
fortune.com/europe/article/eur

Calling in sick from work is not just a one-off episode in Europe. It’s now become a widespread trend among employees, making the “sick man” monicker that’s chased European economies all too real.

:OpenAccess: archive.ph/Kfssu

Fortune · Europe has caught a work absenteeism bug, turning one of the continent’s biggest advantages into a multi-billion euro strainBy Prarthana Prakash

Wie gut ist das denn: Jahrelang modellieren ein paar Menschen #Corona-Infektionswellen, allerdings nur auf Social Media und eher hobbymäßig. Trotzdem sind ihre Zahlen von unschätzbarem Wert, vor allem für Team Vorsicht.

Drei von ihnen haben sich jetzt zusammengetan und ein Paper über ihre Ergebnisse veröffentlicht. 🤩

Zusammenfassung eines der Autoren bei Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/dpaessler.bsk

Direktlink zum Paper (6 Seiten, frei zugänglich): link.springer.com/article/10.1

Bluesky Social · Dirk Paessler (@dpaessler.bsky.social)Unser Paper "Modellierung der COVID-Infektionszahlen in Deutschland 2020–2024" ist online Zusammen mit @rv-enigma.bsky.social, @martin46er1.bsky.social, Stefan Neefischer und Prof. H. Dormann haben wir versucht, die tatsächliche Anzahl (inkl. Dunkelziffer) an COVID Infektionen in DE abzuschätzen

My #covidcautious hearties

Wisst Ihr was zu den Risiken der Sauna?

Ich finde nur Informationen Stand 2021.

Ich vermisse das, war aber nie ein Fan von 90 Grad (was wohl sicherer wäre), sondern von Dampfsauna und 60 Grad Saunen.

Anwesend wäre nur ich, aber wer vorher da war, kann ich nicht sagen. Außerhalb trüge ich weiter Maske.

Gott, ich vermisse diese kurzen Zeiten der Entspannung.

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