Tag: covid-19

A recent study found that older adults are spending less time in public due to hostility against people in masks.  “The study comes amid what the U.S. Surgeon General recently called an ‘epidemic of loneliness’ in which older adults – especially those who are immune compromised or have disabilities –

Avian flu has jumped to cows and a person, which is a little bit bigger deal than just avoiding soft boiled eggs.  H5N1 was contracted by someone in Texas who was in contact with dairy cattle. His only symptom is eye inflammation, and he’s doing fine on Tamiflu. He was

A look back to four years ago:   From Craig Spencer, MD MPH,  Four years ago today, I walked into the apocalypse.Crossing the line in the ER felt like entering a whole other world.Frenetic alarms.Patients strewn about, struggling to breathe.Too few staff. Too many deaths.Covid was everything.It had completely taken over

 I lost an hour of my morning to cognitive tests – just for fun (and a baseline). AARP has a battery of tests you can take. They’re free, but you have to register. They save them and can be retaken monthly to monitor any changes. I’ve been part of a

 A good rain metaphor from tern: Some people just can’t wrap their heads around the multiple dangers caused by covid infection.  Speaking to a colleague yesterday, I tried to describe it like the effects of rain. If your roof is solid, and there’s a light rain shower, your house can

Anecdotal information – what we see around us – is far, far less accurate when measuring risks than scientific studies; unfortunately, it’s far more persuasive. We need to heed the science.  I don’t actually know anyone who died of lung cancer from smoking. In fact, my grandmother smoked like a

Barry Hunt spent a lot of time in hospitals with a knee injury, but managed to never catch Covid because he knows how to avoid it.  It’s possible for all of us to avoid it!! He wrote this thread in December 2021, but it’s still very applicable. This is all from

Chuck created a slideshow guide of coping with mask wearing:

A study from May 2021 is still thought by some to be the most disturbing Covid paper out there. The study, (published in April 2022) looked at how SARS-CoV-2 causes brain inflammation and induces Lewy body formation in macaques. Their conclusion: “We observed Lewy bodies in brains of all rhesus macaques.” That’s right up

Olivia Belknap made some great fact sheets that can be shared with health care providers who question your mask or try to claim you have an anxiety disorder. More at her linktree site here. 

Cineplex is getting heat for mask and CO2 issues. From LandBack It says, “All guests are asked to lower medical masks and hoods while having their tickets scanned.” Why would Cineplex need people to remove masks and hoods when scanning their tickets?? Tickets can be given to other people so

More evidence that schools drive transmission of a virus that has long term effects on multiple organ systems, including the brain.   This is entirely from Dr. Malgorzata Gasperowicz: “If someone looking at this graph dares to claim that in-person schools don’t substantially contribute to SARS2 spread and ‘simply just reflect