Thread by @TactNowInfo

🚨URGENT MESSAGE: We are caught in a vicious cycle of new COVID variants breaking through immunity walls, adapting to evade treatments and vaccines, and causing serious and long-term health issues, including autoimmune disorders, cancers, vascular, neurological, musculoskeletal,

and cognitive dysfunction. With each new variant, the virus is getting better at infecting and persisting in the human body, while our immune systems are struggling to keep up.

It is crucial to take the time to recover following an infection.

Do everything possible to avoid another infection of any other pathogens. The immune system recovery can take weeks in healthy people, and many months in those with weaker immune systems.

The lack of surveillance to quickly identify new variants is a serious problem. 3/

The XBB.1.5 variant spread around the world before it was even acknowledged. In the west, our governments are in complete denial, ignoring this obvious cycle of events. We need to take proactive measures like maintaining hospital readiness, warning citizens of the risks, 4/

Providing Clean Air for Kids by updating ventilation & Filtration in schools to meet the demand of the most contagious airborne virus of our time. We cannot afford to be complacent - the next variant could cause more long term damage & be even more deadly.
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Cognitive impairment in young adults with post COVID-19 syndrome April 19, 2023

"85% of the participants exhibit deficits in one neuropsychological test. The youngest patients were those who showed the most marked and heterogeneous cognitive impairment"

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Why would we end masks in hospitals, end the public health emergency, and close dashboards when we know the next variants are already spreading at a time we have less treatments, no updated vaccines and waning immunity?

We have another emerging variant that we are watching very closely. XBB.2.3, nicknamed, Acrux, named after the brightest star in the southern constellation of Crux. Acrux, the XBB.2.3 variant and its sub-variants are possibly behind the increasing hospitalizations in Singapore.

This continuous cycle of mutation and adaptation is concerning as each new variant becomes more adept at evading treatments and vaccines.

“If we lose Paxlovid, we could easily double the number of deaths,” Deborah Birx