My sons' music teacher contacted me to say that his return from his vacation was delayed by a Covid infection. He explained the timeline from first-symptom to first-negative-test, proactively affirmed that he'd be masking and running the air purifier I gave him, and gave the option to delay resumption of lessons.
I HELLA HEART THIS. Basic human decency. Common courtesy. Simple communication. It doesn't have to be difficult.
I’m highlighting this part since it may be easily missed:
“The White House has yet to sign off on the guidance that the agency is expected to release in April for public feedback, officials said. One agency official said the timing could “move around a bit” until the guidance is finalized.”
They need to hear a ton of pushback from as many of us as possible.
Worldwide, there were more than 11,000 reported deaths from COVID between mid-December 2023 and mid-January 2024, and more than half of those deaths occurred in the U.S.
I think it’s important that we continue to talk about it. We understand you don’t want to hear about it. I don’t want to talk about it. But we need to because there’s more we can do. We cannot prevent all infections. We cannot prevent all deaths. But there’s a hell of a lot more that we can do to really keep people safe and save them from losing a loved one.
This level of death in the US amounts to one plane crash that kills all passengers aboard every single day. How many people would be flying in airplanes if this were our reality? What do you suppose would be the public response if a plane fell out of the sky every day across the country?
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"Factors predictive of poor PA [physical activity] recovery were higher pre-diagnosis PA, shortness of breath and fatigue during acute illness, and fatigue chronically”
CPET performed in a well matched cohort with and without acute Covid. "Patients with #COVID19 peculiarly showed a high degree of VE inefficiency as signaled by a marked increase in VE/VCO2 slope"
NIH Director Monica Bertagnolli ( @NIHDirector ) comments last week at the NIH ACD (Advisory Committee to the Director) Meeting on Long COVID & RECOVER