"Global Prevalence of Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) or Long COVID: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review
"We screened nearly 4,500 articles and synthesized information from 40 large studies including almost 1M individuals worldwide. 1/ medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
"The empirical findings suggest global prevalence of approximately 43%...around 100 million individuals currently experience or have previously experienced long-term health-related consequences of COVID-19.
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"Global estimated pooled PASC prevalence derived from the estimates presented in 29 studies was 0.43 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.35, 0.63), with a higher pooled prevalence estimate of 0.57 (95% CI: 0.45, 0.68), among those hospitalized during acute phase of infection.
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35 top physicians & scientists urge rapid change of course in corona policy. Warning of the force of the fourth wave "overshadowing" everything that has gone before they say federal and state governments must finally “fully meet their responsibility”.
Vaccines alone won’t end the Covid pandemic, says New Zealand former PM Helen Clark
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said one of the biggest challenges she’s faced in managing the Covid outbreak was to proactively respond to spikes in cases.
Covid-19 still spreading globally and a “vaccine-only” strategy won’t bring the pandemic to an end, former New Zealand PM Helen Clark said Thursday. “What I would say to the countries ... [that] have been successful with vaccine rollouts is: that won’t do it alone,”
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“You must be able to calibrate, bring back in or maintain public health measures relevant to the epidemiological state of the pandemic and your country at the time,” she added.
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"People don’t remember the world as it was a hundred years ago,” said Yaneer Bar-Yam. “To live in that world, a world where orphans are common, and children dying is common, and the destruction of society is ongoing because of disease, is very hard for people to imagine.”
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"Bar-Yam is an expert in complex systems who has consulted on everything from how Wall Street can better handle market uncertainty to how the Navy integrates new defense concepts. But his greatest impact may be in the area of epidemic disease.
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Airborne precautions for schools and workplaces, and the international coalition to implement them. We will livestream the production of a box in real-time as a livestream during the sessions.
Session will cover how the coordinated Covid disinformation network organizes, operates in mainstream media, interacts with policy makers and explain how this results in street level activity.