COVID Bookmark Dump

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  1. Free says:

    Given that my tenant died of COVID last week, I’m far from convinced that the pandemic is “done.” Even the World Health Organization says the pandemic isn’t over, even though the emergency nature of it is. And leaving aside the people dying of it, about 10% of people who have gotten COVID have ended up with long COVID. Even among the vaccinated, and even among those who got omicron rather than the original strain, the percentage was 3.5%. By contrast, only one in 200 polio infections leads to paralysis, yet no one argued that polio was “done” before there was a vaccine.

    Unfortunately, the concept that the pandemic is done is leading people to go out in public (including to work) with COVID, to skip vaccinations, to avoid masks, and generally to make sure that COVID remains so prevalent that those most at risk are faced with a choice between a life-threatening illness and complete social isolation.

    [Citations omitted because your blog thinks my comment is spam if I include them.]

  2. Vicki says:

    COVID is not over. There is still a lot in the population, confirmed by testing wastewater.

    According to the People’s CDC (started after the Federal Government ordered the CDC to stand down) COVID in wastewater report

    “According to data last updated 9/27/2024, the CDC’s national wastewater map shows 34 states and territories (including the District of Columbia) with “High” or “Very High” wastewater levels.

    There is no data for Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, or North Dakota. South Dakota, Mississippi, Rhode Island, and Virginia are indicated as having limited coverage, which means that data in these states represent less than 5% of the population. ”

    Thanks for the links

  3. Lee says:

    I’ll qualify and say that the pandemic, the part where people were lined up outside hospitals dying of a poorly understood, highly infectious, untreatable, unvaccinatable disease has ended. Now it’s endemic like automobile accidents, AIDS, breast cancer, and obesity. Definitely dangerous but manageable. It’s in the ~1000 deaths/week (50k/year) range instead of the ~20,000 deaths/week (a devastating 1 million/year) range according to charts like this.

    Free, I very much welcome you post links, just remove the first “h” from your “http” link to fool my spam filter. I’ll manually fix it. (my simple “http” filter blocks some 160 spams a day, which keeps commenting possible on my blog!)

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