COVID-19 Pandemic (Coronavirus)
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Long COVID is defined as an symptomatic condition. However, COVID-19 can also cause organ damage without symptoms.
New Paper:
Spectrum of COVID-19: From Asymptomatic Organ Damage to Long COVID Syndrome
#LongCovidAwarenessDay
https://whn.global/scientific/spectrum-of-covid-19-from-asymptomatic-organ-damage-to-long-covid-syndrome/…
Long COVID is defined as an symptomatic condition. However, COVID-19 can also cause organ damage without symptoms.
New Paper:
Spectrum of COVID-19: From Asymptomatic Organ Damage to Long COVID Syndrome
#LongCovidAwarenessDay
https://whn.global/scientific/spectrum-of-covid-19-from-asymptomatic-organ-damage-to-long-covid-syndrome/…
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I still wear my mask. On planes...at restaurants...I don't pull it off til I have food and I eat when they open up so it's not crowded ..and if I'm in a movie I'm masked up...museum masked up....I'm not catching that shytPeople are still getting Covid so yeah...
I really cant believe this shyt happened…
The initial lockdown….
Driving on the roads and not a single soul outside….,
The damn arrows they set up at ShopRite
I was living at that point across the street from a hospital and man the amount of ambulances going in and out the first few months
The initial lockdown….
Driving on the roads and not a single soul outside….,
The damn arrows they set up at ShopRite
I was living at that point across the street from a hospital and man the amount of ambulances going in and out the first few months
I really cant believe this shyt happened…
The initial lockdown….
Driving on the roads and not a single soul outside….,
The damn arrows they set up at ShopRite
I was living at that point across the street from a hospital and man the amount of ambulances going in and out the first few months
The trucks full of bodies the morges couldn't hold and the giant medical ship that got sent to NYC had me in legit tears.
Brazil's Bolsonaro indicted over alleged falsification of his own vaccination data
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been formally accused of falsifying his COVID-19 vaccination status, marking the first indictment for the embattled far-right leader, with more allegations potentially in store
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Brazil's Bolsonaro indicted over alleged falsification of his own vaccination data
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been formally accused of falsifying his COVID-19 vaccination status, marking the first indictment for the embattled far-right leader, with more allegations potentially in storeByMAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press
March 19, 2024, 9:28 AM
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SAO PAULO -- Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was formally accused Tuesday of falsifying his COVID-19 vaccination status, marking the first indictment for the embattled far-right leader, with more allegations potentially in store.
The federal police indictment released by the Supreme Court alleged that Bolsonaro and 16 others inserted false information into a public health database to make it appear as though the then-president, his 12-year-old daughter and several others in his circle had received the COVID-19 vaccine.
Police detective Fábio Alvarez Shor, who signed the indictment, said in his report that Bolsonaro and his aides changed their vaccination records in order to “issue their respective (vaccination) certificates and use them to cheat current health restrictions.”
“The investigation found several false insertions between November 2021 and December 2022, and also many actions of using fraudulent documents,” Shor added.
The detective said in the indictment that Bolsonaro’s aide-de-camp, Mauro Cid, told investigators the former president asked him to insert the false data into the system for both himself and his adolescent daughter. Cid also said he delivered the vaccination certificates to Bolsonaro personally.
During the pandemic, Bolsonaro was one of the few world leaders who railed against the vaccine. He openly flouted health restrictions and encouraged other Brazilians to follow his example. His administration ignored several offers from pharmaceutical company Pfizer to sell Brazil tens of millions of shots in 2020, and he openly criticized a move by Sao Paulo state’s governor to buy vaccines from Chinese company Sinovac when no other doses were available.
Brazil’s prosecutor-general’s office will have the final say on whether to use the indictment to file charges against Bolsonaro at the Supreme Court. The case stems from one of several investigations targeting Bolsonaro, who governed from 2019 to 2022.
Bolsonaro's lawyer, Fábio Wajngarten, called his client’s indictment “absurd” and said he did not have access to it.
“When he was president, he was completely exempted from showing any kind of certificate on his trips. This is political persecution and an attempt to void the enormous political capital that has only grown,” Wajngarten said.
The former president denied any wrongdoing during questioning in May 2023.
Police accuse Bolsonaro and his aides of tampering with the health ministry’s database shortly before he traveled to the U.S. in December 2022, two months after he lost his reelection bid to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Bolsonaro needed a certificate of vaccination to enter the U.S., where he remained for the final days of his term and the first months of Lula’s term. The former president has repeatedly said he has never taken a COVID-19 vaccine.
If convicted for falsifying health data, the 68-year-old politician could spend up to 12 years behind bars or as little as two years, according to legal analyst Zilan Costa. The maximum jail time for a charge of criminal association is four years, he said.
“What Bolsonaro will argue in this case is whether he did insert the data or enable others to do it, or not. And that is plain and simple: Either you have the evidence or you don't. It is a very serious crime with a very harsh sentence for those convicted,” Costa told The Associated Press.
Shor also said he is awaiting information from the U.S. Justice Department to “clarify whether those under investigation did make use of the false vaccination certificates upon their arrival and stay in American territory.”
If so, further charges could be leveled against Bolsonaro, Shor wrote without specifying in which country.
The indictment sheds new light on a Senate committee inquiry that ended in October 2021 with a recommendation for nine criminal charges against Bolsonaro alleging that he mismanaged the pandemic. Then prosecutor-general Augusto Aras, who was widely seen as a Bolsonaro ally, declined to move the case forward.
Brazilian media reported that Aras' successor, Paulo Gonet, was scheduled to meet lawmakers later Tuesday to discuss the possibility of filing charges.
Bolsonaro retains staunch allegiance among his political base, as shown by an outpouring of support last month, when an estimated 185,000 people clogged Sao Paulo's main boulevard to decry what they — and the former president — characterize as political persecution.
The indictment will not turn off his backers and will only confirm his detractors’ suspicions, said Carlos Melo, a political science professor at Insper University in Sao Paulo.
“It is definitely worse for him in courts,” Melo said. “He could be entering a trend of convictions, and then arrest.”
Brazil’s top electoral court has already ruled Bolsonaro ineligible to run for office until 2030, on the grounds that he abused his power during the 2022 campaign and cast unfounded doubts on the country’s electronic voting system.
Other investigations include one seeking to determine whether Bolsonaro tried to sneak two sets of expensive diamond jewelry into Brazil and prevent them from being incorporated into the presidency’s public collection. Another relates to his alleged involvement in the Jan. 8, 2023, uprising in the capital of Brasilia, soon after Lula took power. The uprising resembled the U.S. Capitol riot in Washington two years prior. He has denied wrongdoing in both cases.
Shor wrote that the indictment will be folded into the investigation of Jan. 8, which is being overseen by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. That justice authorized the unsealing of the indictment.
Florida COVID Deaths at Nearly 2,300 Already This Year
Only about 16 percent of Florida adults are up to date on their COVID-19 vaccines, compared to 23 percent nationally. Experts urge the elderly, who make up 91 percent of deaths in the state, to get vaccinated.
www.governing.com
Florida COVID Deaths at Nearly 2,300 Already This Year
Only about 16 percent of Florida adults are up to date on their COVID-19 vaccines, compared to 23 percent nationally. Experts urge the elderly, who make up 91 percent of deaths in the state, to get vaccinated.
April 12, 2024 •Caroline Catherman, Orlando Sentinel, TNS
Although COVID-19 cases are currently low, nearly 2,300 people have died in Florida this year from a virus that refuses to disappear fully.
That has health-care experts reminding Floridians again that it’s time for another booster shot of vaccines designed to prevent serious illness and death.
The biggest risk is for people ages 65 and up. They account for 91 percent of Florida’s COVID-19 deaths.
During initial vaccine rollouts, elderly people were highly vaccinated. Now only 43 percent of U.S. residents over 65 are up to date on their shots, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This has led experts to urge this group especially to get immunized.
It’s good to take advantage of relatively low COVID-19 transmission and get the shot now because vaccines take about two weeks to become fully effective, said Jill Roberts, associate professor at USF Health.
“There are less hospitalizations, less deaths, less everything right now,” Roberts said. “I suspect, though, at some point a new variant will come around and it will change all that.”
During the week of March 30, Florida recorded 652 new COVID-19 hospital admissions compared with 15,577 in a single week during the virus’ peak in August 2021.
The CDC recommends everyone 6 months and older get at least one dose of the current COVID vaccine. Children 6 months to 4 years old need multiple doses, and people immunocompromised or over 65 should get an additional booster after four months.
The newest vaccines were approved on Sept. 12, so anyone who got a COVID-19 shot before then is due for another one. The CDC reports about 16 percent of Florida adults are up-to-date on their COVID-19 vaccines, compared with 23 percent nationally.
Roberts said even if you don’t fall into a group at higher risk of death, COVID-19 can still have dramatic effects.
An independent analysis of CDC data found about one in 10 U.S. adults who have caught COVID-19 now report having long-term side effects,with symptoms ranging in severity that last well beyond the initial infection.
“I think long COVID, unfortunately, is going to be a bigger factor than what we had anticipated,” Roberts said. “The good news is it seems a majority of people are recovering.”
The available vaccinations available under emergency use authorization are from Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Novavax. All are at major pharmacy chains with locations searchable at vaccines.gov.
Dr. Robert Walker, Novavax’s chief medical officer, said that unlike Pfizer and Moderna’s shots, Novavax is protein-based.
That means that while Pfizer and Moderna vaccines use mRNA created in a lab that teaches people’s cells how to make copies of a spike protein that fights COVID-19, Novavax’s vaccine delivers the spike protein from the virus that causes COVID-19 to teach people’s cells how to fight it.
Novavax’s shot also contains an adjuvant that helps the immune system produce antibodies.
The hope is that Novavax’s shot can appeal to people skeptical of mRNA technology, Walker said, though he added that both mRNA and non-mRNA shots have ample safety data.
“From a public health perspective, we all understand the need for people to be able to exercise choice and their own decision-making,” Walker said. “When you have more options, you have better uptake, and better uptake equals a more highly protected population, which is what we’re all hoping to achieve.”
The CDC does not recommend one brand over another as all have been judged safe and effective.
However, Novavax is a more traditional vaccine technology that has been around for over 30 years and has been used in other widely used immunizations against flu, HPV and hepatitis B. The shot does not contain the live virus that causes COVID-19 and can’t spread it.
Major health organizations worldwide and most scientists continue to endorse the safety and efficacy of mRNA vaccines. Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo has expressed skepticism and called for more research.
Ladapo first advised against COVID-19 mRNA vaccines for healthy kids, then men ages 18-39, and later recommended against them for those under 65. He then called to end their use entirely in January, referring to them as “the antichrist” on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast.
Neither the Florida Department of Health nor Ladapo responded immediately about whether they would recommend Novavax’s non-mRNA vaccine. The health department has not updated its COVID-19 vaccine information on its website since April 2023.
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four years ago today, Trump told ABC that he wasn't prepared for the covid pandemic because "I have a lot of things going on."
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during that same ABC interview Trump made a case that lives should be sacrificed to reopen the economy during a pandemic
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ABC: Do you believe the reality is that lives will be lost to reopen the economy?
TRUMP: "It's possible there will be some, because you won't be locked into an apartment or a house or whatever it is. But at the same time, we're going to practice social distancing."
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four years ago today, Trump told ABC that he wasn't prepared for the covid pandemic because "I have a lot of things going on."
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during that same ABC interview Trump made a case that lives should be sacrificed to reopen the economy during a pandemic
3/3
ABC: Do you believe the reality is that lives will be lost to reopen the economy?
TRUMP: "It's possible there will be some, because you won't be locked into an apartment or a house or whatever it is. But at the same time, we're going to practice social distancing."
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You can send your kids to school sick. You can go to work sick, even if you work at a hospital. But don't you dare show up sick at the Emmys.
[Quoted tweet]
Covid protocols at the Emmys in 2024. Protecting the rich and famous, one of the few places covid is still acknowledged a thing.
Hollywood Health > Public Health.
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Apologies everyone. We can find Covid protocols from previous years, including 2022, the year everyone was told not to care about mild Covid infections, but we don't have definitive proof it continued into 2024.
https://www.iemmys.tv/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/2022-Covid-Protocol.pdf
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And we can't prove definitively that these organizations realized we were finding their protocols on the web, and therefore decided to be more discrete. Oh that would be conspiracy talk. Can't have that.
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P.S. The person who posted this tweet has shared updates indicating that these do, in fact, reflect current guidelines. Anyway, the main point here is that the elites have been taking precautions (however flawed) while urging the rest of us to accept mass infection.
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You know for a fact that they're not implementing any Covid protections this year, or that they simply aren't broadcasting it this year? Citing last year's Emmys as evidence of healthcare inequity is not misinformation.
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You can send your kids to school sick. You can go to work sick, even if you work at a hospital. But don't you dare show up sick at the Emmys.
[Quoted tweet]
Covid protocols at the Emmys in 2024. Protecting the rich and famous, one of the few places covid is still acknowledged a thing.
Hollywood Health > Public Health.
2/5
Apologies everyone. We can find Covid protocols from previous years, including 2022, the year everyone was told not to care about mild Covid infections, but we don't have definitive proof it continued into 2024.
https://www.iemmys.tv/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/2022-Covid-Protocol.pdf
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And we can't prove definitively that these organizations realized we were finding their protocols on the web, and therefore decided to be more discrete. Oh that would be conspiracy talk. Can't have that.
4/5
P.S. The person who posted this tweet has shared updates indicating that these do, in fact, reflect current guidelines. Anyway, the main point here is that the elites have been taking precautions (however flawed) while urging the rest of us to accept mass infection.
5/5
You know for a fact that they're not implementing any Covid protections this year, or that they simply aren't broadcasting it this year? Citing last year's Emmys as evidence of healthcare inequity is not misinformation.
To post tweets in this format, more info here: https://www.thecoli.com/threads/tips-and-tricks-for-posting-the-coli-megathread.984734/post-52211196
Evidence for high-grade face masks was weak, Covid inquiry told - BBC News
UKHSA's Prof Susan Hopkins said respirator masks may have worked no better than thin surgical masks.
www.bbc.com