It is THE metric, it has already dropped due to people dying (younger than they should have) during the acute phase.. But when people will realise it keeps dropping despite big wave of infection and death being over, it will remind us how the world was wrong to take Covid lightly

"Cruise ship confined spaces and HVAC systems facilitated 👉aerosol👈 transmission." We will accept apologies now from the Droplet Dogma gang. And @WHO. Soutce: Hantavirus outbreak on cruise ship: public health challenges. Biosafety and Health, Jun 2026,

Long-Term Outcomes of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children up to 4.5 Years After COVID-19 🚨IMPORTANT new study just dropped: MIS-C in kids is NOT a temporary illness!! 🚨It raises cardiovascular disease risk 14×, hypertension 9×, and gut/lung/brain problems for up to 4.5 years later(=LC) Earlier “kids recover fine” claims are now officially challenged! Study:👇 ➡️ A retrospective cohort study from New York’s Montefiore Health System examined 173 children under 21 with MIS-C versus 346 propensity score-matched controls without MIS-C, all following documented COVID-19 infection. ➡️Follow-up extended up to 4.5 years (March 2020–August 2024) using electronic health records, with MIS-C confirmed by ICD-10 code M35.81 plus CDC/WHO criteria. ➡️Results: 1. MIS-C patients faced markedly elevated risks compared to controls: - Cardiovascular disorders (aHR 13.88, 95% CI 4.69–41.07), - Hypertension (aHR 8.86), - Gastrointestinal disorders (aHR 9.48), - Respiratory disorders (aHR 3.46), and - Neurological disorders (aHR 2.02), - Shock and chronic kidney disease (CKD) occurred almost exclusively in the MIS-C group, 2. Kaplan-Meier analysis showed persistent cumulative incidence in the MIS-C cohort ranging from 6.8% (CKD) to 35.2% (respiratory disorders), with risks diverging and accumulating over years rather than resolving, 3. Preexisting hypertension strongly predicted cardiovascular, neurological, respiratory, and gastrointestinal outcomes, 4. Preexisting diabetes increased CKD risk 49-fold, 5. Older age modestly raised risks of shock and CKD. 6. Sensitivity analyses using stricter MIS-C definitions and alternative respiratory coding confirmed the main results. 7. No mention or data on vaccination and/or reinfection impact. ➡️The study directly challenges earlier reports portraying MIS-C as a transient, self-limited condition with minimal long-term sequelae. ‼️So, MIS-C is not a temporary inflammatory storm that children outgrow. It inflicts severe, lasting multisystem damage that multiplies the lifetime risk of serious cardiovascular disease, hypertension, gastrointestinal, respiratory, and neurological disorders by several-fold to more than ten-fold, while introducing rare but devastating conditions like shock and CKD that almost never occur in peers. ‼️Sadly enough risks continue to accumulate years later. ‼️Earlier short-term “excellent recovery” narratives are contradicted by this longer, rigorous evidence. ‼️Affected children now carry a heavy, potentially permanent burden of chronic illness that will require lifelong medical surveillance and coordinated care or face accelerated morbidity and reduced quality of life! ‼️Of course we need further confirmation, but this does fit the ongoing concerns within the LC science community! 😡So much for paediatric minimalizations! #AvoidSars2 #AvoidReinfections #ProtectChildren publications.aap.org/pediatr…

There are plenty of world-class L0ngC0vid experts far smarter than I am. But I bring something they don’t: I’m a CV surgeon and endovascular specialist. I’ve had hearts, lungs, arteries, and other organs literally in my hands. I’ve seen their insides, healthy and ravaged, with my own eyes. That gives me one brutal, irreplaceable edge: I can take the science and translate it straight into the living, bleeding reality of human anatomy. And what I see coming is ugly. You, personally and as a society, are in for one hell of a shock. Read this 🧵👇 If you keep minimising SARSCoV2, refuse to protect yourselves, and keep swallowing the lies of pseudo-experts chasing money or psychiatrists salivating over a fresh FND goldmine… you’re walking straight into disaster. Tell every last one of them to f.ck off! Then follow the hard, unfolding science.👇 Your organs don’t care about opinions. They only care about damage. And the damage is already stacking up, be it momentarily maybe still clinically "silent"! #AvoidSars2 #AvoidReinfections

We must be crystal clear about a few points. Long Covid is not a "poorly understood neuroimmune disorder" with no biomarkers. It is a widely studied biological medical condition. Pathology spanning basically all body systems is well documented, with damage in situ across organs

Ok. I've read "The Painful Truth About Long Covid" six times through, and I'm ready. Here are ten clues in the article that point to the writer's bad faith.

Hey @WIRED, how about interviewing neuroscientists who are actually studying the brains of people with #LongCovid? I'm available, and so are many others in the field. "When the brain gets stuck in a feedback loop of fight or flight" What does that even mean? #Pseudoscience

Long Covid Estimate Revised Up After Researchers Include People With Long Covid

Seriously? You’re still trying to blame lockdowns (which ended nearly 5 yrs ago) for the ongoing decline & loss of energy? Can I suggest you dig a little deeper, @JamesMelville. The clues are all around 🔎 If you’re still struggling to join the dots, this thread might help ⬇️

England is now just a tiny further rise away from losing Low Incidence of TB status. Remember: In 2022, there were people who said that Covid couldn't be causing immune dysfunction, because TB levels were static. LOOK AT THEM NOW.

This may be one of the more important long COVID papers in a while. A new study in Frontiers in Immunology suggests that COVID can trigger new-onset insulin resistance - and that this may drive abnormal NETosis in neutrophils months after infection🧵

BLOOMBERG (Jun 2024): “Yes. Everyone, Everywhere, Really Is Sick a Lot More Often.” At least 13 communicable diseases, from the common cold to measles and TB, are surging past their pre-pandemic levels in many regions, and often by significant margins. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Ach, schau an. Die hohen krankheitsbedingten Fehlzeiten seit 2022 sind gar nicht auf die Einführung der E-Krankschreibung zurückzuführen, sagt das @DIW_Berlin. Sondern auf einen sprunghaften Anstieg der Atemwegserkrankungen. Wer hätte das ahnen können? 1/4 diw.de/de/diw_01.c.1008121.d…

4) At the time of the pandemic @WHO et al. had some historical reasons to be confused As time goes, this is less and less tolerable x.com/jljcolorado/status/156…

'Prolonged Close Contact' is the new 'It's not airborne'.

Officials Mildly Positive About Progress Of Andes Hantavirus Spread

« Mildly positive »… we learnt nothing

4/ TESTING The WHO confirmed that the hantavirus tests can only detect the viral RNA in a SYMPTOMATIC patient, from the first day of symptoms. To clarify: this means someone infected will test NEGATIVE for the entire duration of the incubation period until onset of symptoms.

Officials Clarify That Mandatory Hantavirus Quarantine Will Be Voluntary

8 weeks of incubation… what if we follow science this time?

It’s also worth noting that the UK classify the Andes Virus (hantavirus) as an AIRBORNE High Consequence Infectious Disease (HCID). gov.uk/guidance/high-consequ…