Family Med, Oakland ❤️ Founding CEO @RootsEmpowers, HU med grad, weekly public health briefing. Community health, jail/reentry health, street med, mental health
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An infection mortality rate of 10% is staggering, and studies have shown it's much higher in certain areas of the hospital (e.g., oncology). Yet we're still doing a "you do you" approach to infection control in hospitals. Unacceptable. 2/
The Covid group had a higher incidence of overall post-infection conditions compared to the influenza group, including a difference in what each group was experiencing. The Covid group had more abnormal breathing, more abdominal issues, more fatigue, and more cognitive issues. 
The plan seems to be to force *more* people into a system that's already overstretched. To layer in the court system, which is already biased. To empower lay people to compel the court to force individuals into treatment for mental illness, substance use, even chronic alcoholism.
This lawsuit demands pulse ox manufacturers/distributors fix the devices, label them as to their flaws, or stop selling them in California. But even if we're successful, this doesn't extend beyond CA, and the FDA can continue approving faulty devices as they've done for decades.
Rampant transmission, cumulative burden of reinfection, increasing incidence of long covid...all highly concerning. And of course it's not *just* a respiratory pathogen. Continued viral mutation and ongoing unpredictability are likely why WHO still characterizes this a pandemic.
Unlike flu, with covid we can see:
Covid is now a leading cause of death in all age groups and the only infectious cause in most. Most children with severe outcomes have no underlying condition or common ones like asthma, obesity or being born premature. Of course, death isn't the only bad outcome we worry about.
"Across all states with available data, 74% of all people disenrolled had their coverage terminated for procedural reasons."
