Post AdWt9CAnDvulBeAKPI by currentbias@open-source-eschaton.net
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(DIR) Post #AdWn0FCE1040EQBT04 by taylorlorenz@mastodon.social
2024-01-05T05:56:07Z
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"Now in its 5th year, SARS-CoV-2 has once again proved to be highly resilient. Yet we continue to make-believe that the pandemic is over, that infections have been transformed to common cold status, and that life has returned to normal. Sadly, none of this is true.” https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-01-04/covid-2024-flu-virus-vaccine
(DIR) Post #AdWn0FoViegk9A62fw by troed@masto.sangberg.se
2024-01-05T06:54:31Z
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@taylorlorenz ... but doesn't this very quote from the opinion post support the predicted "evolve into a common cold"?"There is, however, some good news about this big wave of infections. It has not resulted in the surge of hospital admissions seen with Omicron."
(DIR) Post #AdWn0IeLAvKswUMSjw by taylorlorenz@mastodon.social
2024-01-05T05:58:45Z
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“There is no getting over COVID until we recognize reality and double down on research that will allow us to block infections and virus spread, and achieve lasting, variant-proof immunity." https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-01-04/covid-2024-flu-virus-vaccine
(DIR) Post #AdWqg0PFh3w2O1slI8 by joeposaurus@chaos.social
2024-01-05T07:35:41Z
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@troed Also from the article:"The massive number of infections in the current wave will undoubtedly lead to more people suffering from long COVID. For a high proportion of people, especially those of advanced age, immunocompromised or with coexisting conditions, getting COVID is nothing close to a straightforward respiratory infection."
(DIR) Post #AdWt9CAnDvulBeAKPI by currentbias@open-source-eschaton.net
2024-01-05T08:03:21Z
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@troed @taylorlorenz there are many viruses that don't send people to the hospital and then act very much unlike a cold once inside the body
(DIR) Post #AdWtjiz4i7MfND6S6S by currentbias@open-source-eschaton.net
2024-01-05T08:09:58Z
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@troed @taylorlorenz if you only judge a virus by its acute outcomes, and not what it is capable of doing once inside the body, you are going to have a bad time
(DIR) Post #AdWuA86nv7DwpEJEvI by taylorlorenz@mastodon.social
2024-01-05T08:14:44Z
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@troed it’s in the opinion section but it’s a reported post by an expert, that’s an important thing to note. And no, we don’t have fewer deaths bc it’s evolving to be more “mild”, we simply have vaccines and paxlovid etc to blunt its most accuse effects. Even so we have unprecedented and horrific levels of death and rising hospitalizations. Not to mention long covid which is permanently disabling tens of millions and destroying lives, LC becomes more likely w each infection
(DIR) Post #AdX6hIwDsQRZPywfgW by sabik@rants.au
2024-01-05T10:35:10Z
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@troed @taylorlorenz Isn't surge of hospitalisations generally a couple of weeks later
(DIR) Post #AdXF6ZzCQfD1AFttpI by troed@masto.sangberg.se
2024-01-05T12:09:24Z
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@joeposaurus Sure - but one of the things we have learnt from Covid is how also the other respiratory viruses seem to lead to ME (Long Covid). We just understand it more thanks to having followed Covid "live".https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10278546/
(DIR) Post #AdXFaqTBhvsoyWML1U by troed@masto.sangberg.se
2024-01-05T12:14:53Z
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@taylorlorenz Absolutely, vaccines help this evolution to happer quicker than it would've if we would've just relied on immunity from infection. The evolution of Covid is currently testing the hypotheses we've had regarding how this works in the family of what we call "common colds". We don't know the outcome yet.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10066022/