The US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine have released a comprehensive report on long COVID - this one is often particularly useful when faced with attempts by public health leaders to erase the damage their poor choices have caused. nap.nationalacademies.org/read/27756/c... - ThreadSky

mark-ungrin.bsky.social • 101 days ago

The US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine have released a comprehensive report on long COVID - this one is often particularly useful when faced with attempts by public health leaders to erase the damage their poor choices have caused.
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/27756/chapter/2#9

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thatfriendismoi.bsky.social•100 days ago

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mark-ungrin.bsky.social•101 days ago

The entire report is valuable,but in particular Chapter 3 provides an overview of just how widespread and devastating long COVID can be, including impacts throughout the body.
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/27756/chapter/5#55.

grammalou.bsky.social•101 days ago

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mark-ungrin.bsky.social•101 days ago

I'll try hanging a bit of a branch off the main thread here breaking out more information from the NASEM long COVID report for those who need it. Annex Tables 3-1 through 3-13 go through selected long COVID impacts, and are organized by body system: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/27756/chapter/1#lot_at3-1

mark-ungrin.bsky.social•101 days ago

The Office of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada released a report in December 2022 highlighting that while COVID is transmitted via respiratory aerosols, that doesn't mean it's just a respiratory virus - it gets into (and damages) almost every tissue in the body.
https://science.gc.ca/site/science/en/office-chief-science-advisor/initiatives-covid-19/post-covid-19-condition-canada-what-we-know-what-we-dont-know-and-framework-action

mark-ungrin.bsky.social•101 days ago

A follow-up report was sparked by the unwillingness of public health leaders - deeply mired in conflicts of interest, around their responsibility for downplaying the significance of COVID and allowing it to spread out of control - to educate the public about long COVID.
https://science.gc.ca/site/science/en/office-chief-science-advisor/initiatives-covid-19/dealing-fallout-post-covid-condition-and-its-continued-impact-individuals-and-society

mark-ungrin.bsky.social•101 days ago

2023 data from Statistics Canada (early in the "let it rip" era) shows just how widespread long COVID is, with over half of those affected still experiencing it at the time data was collected - for nearly 80% of that group, that meant over 6 months.
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/231208/dq231208a-eng.htm

mark-ungrin.bsky.social•101 days ago

Analysts at Swiss Re (one of the largest reinsurers in the life insurance industry, with huge financial incentives to get this right) estimated that current COVID policies will see excess deaths of ~3% in the US and ~2.5% in the UK for at least the next decade.

https://www.swissre.com/press-release/Covid-19-may-lead-to-longest-period-of-peacetime-excess-mortality-says-new-Swiss-Re-report/eadc133c-01bd-49e8-9f3a-a3025a3380e6

mark-ungrin.bsky.social•101 days ago

Contrary to misinformation claiming public health leaders couldn't have known about long COVID when they decided to let COVID rip, it was a known risk from the start. The Public Health Agency of Canada even briefed CMOH across Canada on the risk in July 2020.

http://protectnb.ca/rti/SAC%20update%20and%20consultation%20on%20persistent%20COVID-19%20symptomatology%20post%20infection%20-%20July%2030,%202020.pdf

drdavidkeegan.bsky.social•99 days ago

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drdavidkeegan.bsky.social•99 days ago

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cyntiadkins.bsky.social•101 days ago

Thank you. A lot of people don’t know the long-term risks of COVID. We should all try to catch it as few times as possible!

maitai74.bsky.social•99 days ago

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saladedemaux.bsky.social•100 days ago

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genni-harlow.swifties.social•100 days ago

Many or most of us knew COVID was a bad a55 that iwas here to stay... like the seasonal Flu.
Watching to see what "Long Covid" is being spun into.
Not missing this for all the Tea in China.
So... what they got for us in their lil Covid bag?

mark-ungrin.bsky.social•100 days ago

Well, the Ontario Hospital Association (with its terrible track record on mitigations) seems to be laying the groundwork to blame long COVID impacts in healthcare on...immigrants.

I really do not see any sort of innocent explanation for this: https://bsky.app/profile/mark-ungrin.bsky.social/post/3lb6or4q3uc2c

karunas.bsky.social•100 days ago

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