Carlo Gubitosa :nonviolenza:
boosted
📈🧬 For the first time in #history, #US life expectancy has reached 79 years.
Beyond recovering from the #pandemic, researchers say we are seeing a significant drop in deaths from heart disease and drug overdoses as medical treatments and public #health efforts continue to improve.
👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/us-life-expectancy-broke-records-in-2024-and-could-still-be-climbing
Tanguy Fardet
boosted
"“Pandemics aren’t just biological events, they’re social events. By linking biological evidence from the bodies to the archaeological setting, we can see how disease affected real people within their social and environmental context.
“This helps us understand #pandemics in history as lived human health events, not just outbreaks recorded in text.” https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/31/plague-of-justinian-pandemic
"“Pandemics aren’t just biological events, they’re social events. By linking biological evidence from the bodies to the archaeological setting, we can see how disease affected real people within their social and environmental context.
“This helps us understand #pandemics in history as lived human health events, not just outbreaks recorded in text.” https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/31/plague-of-justinian-pandemic
Relatively major culture-maker Boing Boing is running the headline:
COVID pandemic enters seventh year with no end in sight
and the article is not ableist, not bullshit, not denying reality. Nice!
https://boingboing.net/2026/01/16/covid-pandemic-enters-seventh-year-with-no-end-in-sight.html
#BoingBoing #COVID #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne
#Pandemic is over
It's … actually #endemic is local … so it's #PanEndemic
I wish my country could have stayed in our bubble
Bondi massacre killed 16
But the #SafelyReopen massacre killed over 20,000
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
and 2 others
boosted
"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.
"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.
It finally hit me too. I haven't been sick in two years, but now it is my turn. This thing triggered a killer migraine and fever through the night, and now I just feel like shit, too tired to do anything, throat's wrecked, brain fog, and chills like it's freezing indoors. Everything hurts.
Take care of yourself out there.
"Cases will continue to rise until the influenza season peaks, likely in late December or early January. Most people will recover from influenza on their own. People with severe symptoms or other medical conditions should seek medical care."
hypebot
boosted
2 media
ProPublica
boosted
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
2 media
tools for commensality 🧿
boosted
NCHS estimates of #LongCovid—based on Household Pulse Survey.
Census never published data for October and December of 2024, after posting that they were "transitioning" to longitudinal data collection. To be clear, that was under the prior administration.
On the other hand, Census has updated historical population estimates. (As of May this year, population for January 2024 was estimated at 332 million. In June that estimate jumped to 338½ million.) Chart below represents these updated Census population estimates.
Hospital capacity data collection and reporting was ended under prior administration. Only Federal Reserve disability data continues to update.
#ThisIsOurPolio #CountLongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #MassDisablingEvent
[This is first toot of periodically refreshed thread, providing various dataviz of ongoing #pandemic.]
Last period:
https://hcommons.social/@beadsland/114838338710485782
![Chart: Estimates of Long Covid: Extrapolated to Entire U.S. Population
Data: Census Bureau, Nat'l Cntr for Health Stats, Dept of Health & Human Svcs, Bureau of Labor Stats (via FRED), CDC
[ beadsland on Ko-fi ]
Line chart, from Apr 2022 to date, of:
• Ever Experienced Long Covid for 3+ Months (61M as of Sep '24)
• Reported Staffed Hospital Beds (2.1K per Million) [Was 2.3K Apr '22]
• Population 16+ With a Disability — Labor Stats (35.1M) [Apr '22: 32.7M]
• Now Living with LC (18.1M)
• Current Activity Limitations from LC (15M)
• Significant Limitations (4.4M)
Caption (in part):
Household Pulse Survey (HPS)…an Internet questionnaire…by…Census Bureau…includes questions regarding “any symptoms lasting 3 months or longer that you did not have prior to having coronavirus or COVID-19.” [Note] that the list of long-term symptoms, provided for this question, may not reflect all sequelae of covid infection, e.g., systemic organ damage or increased susceptibility to subsequent infections and other adverse health outcomes.
NCHS uses HPS responses to estimate incidence of [LC] in adult population. With [retraction & new studies] now assume U.S. under 18 population (22% of total) meet criteria for [LC] at same rate as adults.
Census…was due to relaunch Household Pulse Survey (HPS) as Household Trends and Outlook Pulse Survey (HTOPS)…January 2025….had been no relaunch as of [Jan 20].…now is word of a general moratorium on…executive branch agencies communicating with the public…."](https://spaces.hcommons.social/media_attachments/files/115/590/745/390/060/689/original/ddcd4845190e4843.png)
NCHS estimates of #LongCovid—based on Household Pulse Survey.
Census never published data for October and December of 2024, after posting that they were "transitioning" to longitudinal data collection. To be clear, that was under the prior administration.
On the other hand, Census has updated historical population estimates. (As of May this year, population for January 2024 was estimated at 332 million. In June that estimate jumped to 338½ million.) Chart below represents these updated Census population estimates.
Hospital capacity data collection and reporting was ended under prior administration. Only Federal Reserve disability data continues to update.
#ThisIsOurPolio #CountLongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #MassDisablingEvent
[This is first toot of periodically refreshed thread, providing various dataviz of ongoing #pandemic.]
Last period:
https://hcommons.social/@beadsland/114838338710485782
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
Billy Smith
boosted
they didn't drop mask mandates and end extended unemployment benefits because the pandemic was over.
they wanted us “back to normal” so that we would stop using collective power to demand justice, and lose the safety nets that had enabled more organized activism than we'd seen in our lifetimes.
if/when you stopped wearing a mask and taking other daily COVID precautions, you were used as a tool in the capitalist hierarchy of oppression.
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they didn't drop mask mandates and end extended unemployment benefits because the pandemic was over.
they wanted us “back to normal” so that we would stop using collective power to demand justice, and lose the safety nets that had enabled more organized activism than we'd seen in our lifetimes.
if/when you stopped wearing a mask and taking other daily COVID precautions, you were used as a tool in the capitalist hierarchy of oppression.
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bhaugen
boosted
A reminder that the #Covid #pandemic isn't over. Thousands are still infected & hospitalized every year. Deaths aren't the only possibility - millions are facing long-term disability from " #LongCovid", including #children. #Vaccines, #cleanair filtration, #respirator masks, & more help keep us safe.
#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JoeBiden #Biden #Democracy #USA #Musk #Fascism #Fascist
