All you need to know about long Covid - a big study compared outcomes 1 month to 1 year later in folks who had Covid with a matched group who didn’t.
The broadest measure of serious outcomes, hospitalizations, was EXACTLY the same in the groups.
Because long Covid IS NOT REAL…
Except for people who were sick enough to be hospitalized with Covid, especially those who required intensive care. Those people may have a long recovery.
But people with less serious Covid have basically no long-term damage. Even the authors ~admitted it:
How to lie under oath, a masterclass from Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the voice of Science itself
Part 1: Ralph Baric? Who dat? I barely even ever done heard of Ralph Baric, suh...
Part 2: Ralph Baric? Know Ralph Baric? Why never, detective, our paths may done crossed at sometime or other, at one of the many revivals I have the pleasure of attending -
But I don't know him, detective, most certainly not...
Part 3: A meetin', officuh? You're telling me me and Ralph Baric had a meetin'? At my own offices?
At the verrrah start of the tragic Covid epidemia?
As I live and breathe, it does so look like that. I cannot argue with you, for you represent the law in its majesty...
1/ And @maiasz continues her heroic quest (with @nytimes help) to get US opioid prescriptions back to 2009 levels. In Maia’s fantasy land, deserving patients are being deprived of painkillers. Back in reality, the US is STILL a world leader in opioid dosing…
2/ Note that decades ago, all countries had the same and very low levels of prescription opioid use. Some still do. The pain “crisis” is fiction; aside from palliative, post-surgical care, and VERY short-term acute pain use, all opioids do is get people addicted to opioids…
3/ Further, opioid prescriptions correlate VERY highly with all opioid deaths; this is both because once people get addicted, some inevitably migrate to more dangerous drugs, fentanyl, and because normalizing medical opioid use normalizes ALL opioid use…
1/ Am I the only one who thinks that Hamas has grossly, horrendously outplayed Israel? Hamas can dribble out hostages for a month, keeping the ceasefire going as it rearms - and publicizes civilian casualties, raising international pressure on Israel not to restart the attack...
2/ But the pressure won't only be international. Time will slowly corrode Israel's fury over the Oct. 7 attacks (impossible but true) and certainty that it must destroy Hamas completely; it will tell itself that slowly chasing down Hamas's leaders is an acceptable compromise.
3/ Further, the pause all by itself lets Israeli critics question the invasion's casualties - if the attack was so necessary, why was Israel so willing to stop it without having achieved any of its goals? Not one top commander has been killed, and Hamas still rules Gaza...
1/ Back to flu jabs: In 1980, before the public health complex went nuts pushing vaccines for respiratory viruses, the US gave out 12.4MM jabs.
And had 19,000 flu deaths.
From 2016-2019 (before Covid), the US gave out about 160MM shots a year.
And averaged 35,000 flu deaths...
2/ This does NOT mean flu shots cause flu deaths; the US has aged since 1980, and age is a huge driver of flu risk (though not as much as Covid risk), and flu deaths move randomly year-to-year.
But if the shots worked AT ALL, you would expect SOME drop in deaths over time...
3/ But we have seen no decline. Because flu shots don't work. At all. Good epidemiology (including a massive and irrefutable study from Britain in 2020) makes clear: flu shots are a MARKER for health, not a driver of health. But they aren't very risky, so no one cares...
It is not clear they work at all, much less better than inactivated virus vaccines, at stopping infection OR severe disease in the long run. But China's experience (even assuming 1-2 million Chinese died in the Omicron wave) suggests they don't...
3/ What we do know for sure: their side effects are FAR worse than inactivated virus jabs in the short run and that they appear to carry long-run risks (IgG4 class switching, most notably) that the traditional vaccines do not.
On the plus side, they cost about 10 times as much!