Search results for tag #pandemic
Scientific American: COVID probably killed 150,000 more people in its first two years than official U.S. tolls show
We have severely undercounted the number of COVID deaths, scientists say (March 18, 2026)
Death toll at start of Covid-19 pandemic likely higher than US count, study says
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/18/covid-19-pandemic-death-toll
Contrary to prevailing belief, an evolutionary analysis finds no evidence that most viruses with epidemic or pandemic potential that jumped from animals to people were shaped by selection in a lab or prolonged evolution in an intermediate host—challenging claims that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was engineered in a lab.
#COVID #pandemic #virology https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/recent-pandemic-viruses-including-sar-cov-2-spread-directly-people-without-adaptation
A Dedication to the Victims of #Pandemic (Turbo Marmoratus VI), Hand-inscribed group of #shells, by Charwei Tsai.
#BuddhistArt #Buddhism
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A Dedication to the Victims of #Pandemic (Turbo Marmoratus VI), Hand-inscribed group of #shells, by Charwei Tsai.
#BuddhistArt #Buddhism
@DenisCOVIDinfoguy Ok but the paper they link does NOT say "up to 3 hours" for COVID-19, it says aerosolized COVID-19 is still highly infectious after 3 hours, when they stopped testing
SARS-CoV-2 remained viable in aerosols throughout the duration of our experiment (3 hours), with a reduction in infectious titer from 10
3.5
to 10
2.7
TCID50 per liter of air New England Journal of Medicine
in other words after 3 hours, every single liter of air contained HUNDREDS of particles that could infect.
And in the years since the 2020 study they cite, others have looked at longer time scales, and papers have found that in indoor air > 500 ppm CO2, enough infectious particles effectively persist indefinitely that cleaning the air is the only physically plausible approach: Nature
#COVID19 #COVID #SARSCoV2 #COVIDisAirborne #PublicHealth #pandemic #CovidIsNotOver
Canadian here so bear with me because I don’t fully understand US gun laws (nor do I understand their attachment TO guns).
What I do know is whenever there’s a mass shooting someone will bring up stricter gun control and the Right wing gun lovers shout “my freedom! You can’t take away my right to protect myself!”
Yet we are seeing a U.S. State attempt to criminalize the wearing of medical masks in all public spaces. Something that is quite literally “personal protective tool”. Why doesn’t our freedom to protect ourselves from infection as much as their freedom to carry a gun?
I can’t see any scenario where someone else would be harmed by an N95 - the same is NOT true for any gun. Yet one is being criminalized and the other isn’t.
I sincerely hope we start hearing more people speak out against criminalizing medical masks if for no other reason than the violation of freedom and bodily autonomy. You don’t have to care about Covid to understand that some people need to wear masks.
It is a very sad example of the state of the world when a person can walk into a pharmacy or grocery store with a gun - but not wearing a medical respirator DURING A PANDEMIC
#CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver #CovidCautious #sarscov2 #maskup #WearAMask #CleanAir #Pandemic #Disability #accessibility #DisabilityRights #N95s #Ableism #CommunityCare #Eugenics #MaskBans
Ooh I had a new #pandemic on my 2026 #BingoCard #nipah - is this it?
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Info graphic showing how nipah virus is transmitted
The #US has finalized its withdrawal from the #WorldHealthOrganization, one year after #Trump announced the US was ending its 78-yr-old commitment….
But it’s hardly a clean break.
The US owes >$130 million to the global #health agency, according to #WHO. And Trump admin officials acknowledge that they haven’t finished working out some issues, such as lost access to data from other countries that could give America an early warning of a new #pandemic.
#PublicHealth #law
https://apnews.com/article/world-health-organization-trump-b6e0be566c7db9aece0334e987d516f1
"What has ended is not the #pandemic, but any acknowledgement by the political and media establishment that #COVID19 remains a major threat. There is zero political commitment to even the meager combination of mitigation, surveillance and data-gathering. This was not and is not an oversight. It is a decision to conceal the ongoing harm that is affecting the entire global population."
Sadly on the radical left only the fucking socialists of the wsws continue to care.
The CDC has been lapsing on their updates.
As of 2026 January 09
1,240,000 Americans have died from Covid-19
#AmericanDeaths #Americans #Booster #Corona #CoronaVirus #Covid #COVID19 #CovidIsAirborn #CovidIsNotOver #Friday #LongCovid #Mask #Masks #Pandemic #PandemicIsNotOver #US #USA #USNews #USPolitics #Vaccine #Vaccines #WearAMask
The CDC has been lapsing on their updates.
As of 2025 Dec 27
1,239,654 Americans have died from Covid-19
#AmericanDeaths #Americans #Booster #Corona #CoronaVirus #Covid #COVID19 #CovidIsAirborn #CovidIsNotOver #Friday #LongCovid #Mask #Masks #Pandemic #PandemicIsNotOver #US #USA #USNews #USPolitics #Vaccine #Vaccines #WearAMask
2025-December-26
The CDC has not updated their count of COVID 19 deaths
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2025-December-19 Friday
294 Americans Died Last Week From COVID 19
1,239,132 Americans Dead From COVID 19 In Total
#AmericanDeaths #Americans #Booster #Corona #CoronaVirus #Covid #COVID19 #CovidIsAirborn #CovidIsNotOver #Friday #LongCovid #Mask #Masks #Pandemic #PandemicIsNotOver #US #USA #USNews #USPolitics #Vaccine #Vaccines #WearAMask
#RandiRhodes just updated her Substack (glad to see she's okay) and reminded everyone that as #DisasterDon was accusing #Biden of leaving him "an absolute mess", financial magazine "The Economist" called our economy: "The envy of the world" in October 2024 just before the election for the speed & strength at which we recovered from the #pandemic... doing so well we were basically propping other major Western nations with our buying power.
And now, 10 months later…
https://www.economist.com/special-report/2024-10-19
Update. In the field of #economics, after the #pandemic, "men and women both experienced production increases [i.e. posted more working papers] with the exception of women between the age of 35 and 49, who experienced no production gains despite large increases for men in the same age group."
https://academic.oup.com/rfs/article/36/8/3348/6854998
2025-December-19 Friday
294 Americans Died Last Week From COVID 19
1,239,132 Americans Dead From COVID 19 In Total
#AmericanDeaths #Americans #Booster #Corona #CoronaVirus #Covid #COVID19 #CovidIsAirborn #CovidIsNotOver #Friday #LongCovid #Mask #Masks #Pandemic #PandemicIsNotOver #US #USA #USNews #USPolitics #Vaccine #Vaccines #WearAMask
The Conversation: Bird flu warnings are being ignored. I’ve seen this pattern before
Published: December 18, 2025 6:01am EST
https://theconversation.com/bird-flu-warnings-are-being-ignored-ive-seen-this-pattern-before-271765
#Unemployment rose to a 4-year high of 4.6% in November — the worst since the #pandemic — & the economy “added” 64,000 “#jobs”, new Bureau of #Labor Statistics [#BLS] data shows
#economy #affordability #CostOfLiving #recession #trumpcession #trump
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12/16/business/jobs-report-economy?smid=nytcore-ios-share
The 😵💫 things realtors & their buyers say when they arrive to show my apartment:
▪ oh yes, we were told to wear masks. But we didn't bring any.
▪ Is there something wrong with the air?
▪ It's ok, I'll just pull down my balaclava.
▪ are you sick? #srsly
#WTF. Total denial.
#pandemic #covidIsNotOver #longCovid
I hope I have enough masks to hand out to these buffons. 'Cause they don't enter without one. I value my brain too much.
PS: What does not kill you mutates & tries again. #covid19 😷
2025-December-12 Friday
After months, the CDC site has finally updated the count.
On 2025-September-26
1,235,651 Americans Dead From COVID 19 In Total
On 2025-December-06
1,238,872 Americans Dead From COVID 19 In Total
#AmericanDeaths #Americans #Booster #Corona #CoronaVirus #Covid #COVID19 #CovidIsAirborn #CovidIsNotOver #Friday #LongCovid #Mask #Masks #Pandemic #PandemicIsNotOver #US #USA #USNews #USPolitics #Vaccine #Vaccines #WearAMask
Some highlights from @ducky 's weekly roundup https://covidbc.webfoot.com/2025/12/05/2025-12-05-general/:
One study found
people with Long COVID had elevated levels of T-cells specific to SARS-CoV-2, chicken pox/shingles, and/or Epstein-Barr Virus.
in millions of
adults under 60 in France [...] They found that vaccinated people were 25% less likely to die than unvaccinated people during an average of 45 months of followup
In Sweden - take with salt as there could be other lifestyle / diet changes - the
incidence of diabetes in children rose 30% after the start of the pandemic, compared to the pre-pandemic
Evidence for Metformin's value piles up and up and up:
people who got metformin on Day 0 or Day 1 had about a 60% lower risk of Long COVID or death.
COVID-19 during pregnancy has significant risk to the fetus:
babies who were exposed to SARS-CoV-2 in the womb were 29% more likely to receive a neurodevelopmental diagnosis by 36 months after birth compared to babies who were not exposed
Re: waning and cross-effectiveness,
KP.2 and KP.3 strains were able to evade XBB.1.5 vaccines.
#SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #COVID #research #pandemic #CovidIsNotOver #publicHealth #LongCOVID
2025-December-05
No updates from the CDC yet.
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2025-September-26 Friday
294 Americans Died Last Week From COVID 19
1,235,651 Americans Dead From COVID 19 In Total
#AmericanDeaths #Americans #Booster #Corona #CoronaVirus #Covid #COVID19 #CovidIsAirborn #CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid #Mask #Masks #Pandemic #PandemicIsNotOver #US #USA #USPolitics #Vaccine #Vaccines
#birdflu #pandemic #covid #rfkjr #trump
Europe is preparing in case the bird flu mutates and jumps into humans and meanwhile we have Trump in charge again and RFK Jr in charge of the health of our country;
“European countries have been advised to be ready to boost hospital capacity, encourage mask-wearing and quarantine sick people under a new plan to prevent a bird flu pandemic.
The plan sets out how European governments should respond if H5N1 mutates to spread between people, and is designed to get critical measures in place before the virus can trigger a major outbreak.
The document was sent to health ministers on Thursday by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the agency responsible for shoring up Europe’s defences against infectious diseases.”
In case you missed the article in freaking Nature that found ⚠️ MOST kids develop fatigue after acute SARS-CoV-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-24868-x two weeks ago,
a longitudinal analysis of the Children and Young People with Long COVID
the rate of some lasting fatigue in kids is ALMOST TWO THIRDS
Among 943 SARS-CoV-2-positive participants, 581 (61.6%) met CFQ [Chalder Fatigue Scale] case-ness at least once during follow-up
with consistent, chronic, unresolving fatigue in more than 1 in 6 kids after infection!
15.9% meet case-ness at all follow-ups.
the rate got worse over time!
The proportion of CFQ cases increased from 35.0% at 3-months to 40.2% at 24-months post-infection;
1/ 🧵
#SARSCoV2 #COVID #COVID19 #pandemic #LongCOVID #publicHealth #health
But those #PublicHealth experts have also pointed to the number of lives saved by the shots & to the fact that the virus caused more than a million deaths among Americans. About 2,100 children have died of #Covid since the #pandemic began, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.
The findings of the new #FDA review have NOT been published in a peer-reviewed medical journal.
#Health #vaccines #science #medicine #policy #law #Trump #RFKJr #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #USpol
2025-November-28
No updates from the CDC yet.
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2025-September-26 Friday
294 Americans Died Last Week From COVID 19
1,235,651 Americans Dead From COVID 19 In Total
#AmericanDeaths #Americans #Booster #Corona #CoronaVirus #Covid #COVID19 #CovidIsAirborn #CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid #Mask #Masks #Pandemic #PandemicIsNotOver #US #USA #USPolitics #Vaccine #Vaccines
What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
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To combat bird flu spread, other countries have authorized poultry vaccines. The U.S. hasn’t, amid political and economic pushback. Without a vaccine, experts say the virus poses an escalating threat: “The minute it transmits to humans, it’s done.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/bird-flu-airborne-usda-pandemic?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#COVIDIsNotOver #COVIDIsAirborne #MaskUp #GetABooster #ventilation #pandemic
#COVID #COVID19 #pandemic #COVIDIsNotOver #MaskUp #WearAMask
#COVID #COVID19 #COVIDIsStillHere #COVIDIsNotOver #MaskUp #pandemic
#COVID #COVID19 #COVIDIsNotOver #COVIDIsAirborne #MaskUp #COVIDBooster #pandemic