USA
"more than 1 million people have called out sick for the past 3 years. In June 2022, 7% of adult Americans had long Covid, which can affect productivity and ability to work, according to CDC.

Last time absentee number < a million = November 2019.

theguardian.com/world/2023/jan… Last year, the trend accelerated rather than returning to normal. In 2022, workers had the most sickness-related absences of the pandemic, and the highest number since record-keeping began in 1976.

COVID-19 vaccines have been added to the U.S. 2023 immunization schedules for adults and children, 

publications.aap.org/pediatrics/art… @chrischirp @dgurdasani1 @nishiurah @Dr2NisreenAlwan

A new study led by Christopher Gill and Lawrence Mwananyanda found that nearly 90 percent of deceased individuals at a Zambian morgue were infected with COVID-19, but only 10 percent tested positive while alive.
bu.edu/sph/news/artic…

Courtesy @hifa_org Gill says “... Rather than an ‘African paradox,’ the far simpler explanation is that COVID-19 has affected African countries just as the virus has everywhere else, but has gone undocumented.”
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Sweden
Karolinska pediatric hospital in chaos

But... In Sweden they never locked down, nor used masks... Where does this "immunity debt'" comes from?

= Immunity debt doesn't exist and there are other causes

www-dn-se.translate.goog/sverige/facken…

Oooooh, don't say "amoxicillin" 20min.ch/story/volle-sp…

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jm…

from "the big tobacco dirty tricks", by @wfpha
about disinformation strategies. see if that rings a bell. there's really nothing new under the sun.

wfpha.org/big-tobaccos-d…

mild
bloomberg.com/news/articles/… and their median age is 28 years. while median age in europe is 43 years.

guess what would have happened in europe with much lower vaccination rate.

south africa paid a terrible price to vaccine inequality.

There's been a doubling in the incidence of - and deaths from - blood clots in England since the start of the pandemic compared with the same periods in 2018 and 2019.

This study shows why:

bmj.com/content/377/bm… Catching Covid is associated with a x5 increase in the risk of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and a 33-fold increase in risk of a potentially fatal blood clot on the lung in the 30 days after becoming infected, data suggests.

Apparently @BAG_OFSP_UFSP swiss health authority hasn't even finalized a deal with @pfizer for Paxlovid yet 🤡

Official reply to formal request of info 👇

https://twitter.com/oli_polit/status/1516442289983438852

Of note the European union did that 4 months ago

I wonder why the F Switzerland still has no Paxlovid. It's not like swissmedic is not authorizing it to cover up a severe procurement disaster by bag leading to a major delay in availability, right?

Hepatitis cases in children in Italy too

https://twitter.com/Patriziapattys/status/1516878835366735873

According to experts of the Bambino Gesù pediatric hospital of the university of Rome, COVID-19 is the first suspect on the list for this mysterious hepatitis

Koch industries unsurprisingly keeps doing fossil fuel business with Russia,not giving a damn about atrocities

For the record, they always opposed any measures to control the pandemic

kansascity.com/opinion/reader… popular.info/p/as-koch-indu…

in 2020 some media would minimize covid19 telling you that everyone who died of it was older than 80.

now trying to normalize dying of it at "older than 50".

Brisbane Times: published by Nine entertainment, whose chairman is Peter Costello, right-wing liberal party 🤡🤡

https://twitter.com/brisbanetimes/status/1485776899326738435

@martinmckee @dgurdasani1 @chrischrip

Australian media normalizing a 50-something life expectancy

COVID-19 death toll

@TheEconomist estimates are now approaching the number of victims of World War I economist.com/graphic-detail…

thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/…