Sociologist (patient safety). Qualitative researcher. Addictions counsellor. Anti-racism, sexism, AGW, SARS-2. Let's hear all the silent voices.
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4 Oct 2024
An update of my review of the science about harms caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus
I've reduced the length and some details to make it more accessible/readable
The average adult Long-COVID rate across studies for one Omicron infection is one-in-seven approx.
tinyurl.com/2bxyf92p
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Public health communication is slowly turning against drinking, because "there is no safe level of alcohol consumption."
So how does drinking risk compare with SARS-CoV-2 infection risk?
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Women are more likely to experience Long-COVID, but is that because they are, or because they're more likely to be aware of symptoms and acknowledge illness?
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SARS-2 infection research in America during June-July 2022 found the infection rate during a BA.2/BA.4 surge was 24 times the official CDC case count.
"The degree of underestimation is likely increasing with time."
Probably a global pattern.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articleβ¦
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Many countries run expensive national health surveys with sophisticated statistical methods & face-to-face sampling. But basic errors devalue the data - especially pandemic data.
Politics-driven evidence is collected for reassurance and in support of inaction. We deserve better.
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Correction, the research quoted was during a BA.4/BA.5 surge.
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Dr Peter Beaver π΅πΈ retweeted
Mottled skin is typically a thing we talk about in hospice patients and is one of the signs that things are taking a bad turn
Apr 14
All the kids have mottled skin now. Three years ago, it was like 25%. Now it's like 5% that don't.
Source: I run a large swim program.
I can't unsee it and it breaks my heart.
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The SARS-2 virus can infect 32 organ tissue types in foetuses via amniotic fluid, damaging DNA & immunity.
Viruses were evident in 9.1% of foetal samples from infected mothers. Highly evident in 3.9%. Only 2 of 18 foetuses showed no signs of infection.
nature.com/articles/s41467-0β¦
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Pre-pandemic babies averaged six respiratory infections a year. Now the expectation has blown out to between six and eight colds for children aged less than six.
Maybe protect children from SARS-2 infection and subsequent immune dysregulation.
sciencedirect.com/science/arβ¦
Got this patient info sheet from the after hours clinic where my son went for an ear issue (not Covid, thankfully)
Apparently they are calling Covid a "common cold" now & normalizing kids being sick like 16 weeks of the year "without cause for concern" π³
ALT Patient Education: Viral Illness/ Common Cold The common cold is a group of symptoms caused by a number of different viruses, including severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes COVID-19. Children under six years average six to eight colds per year (up to one per month, September through April), with symptoms lasting an average of 14 days. This means that a child could be ill with intermittent cold symptoms for nearly half of the days in this time period, without cause for concern.
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When I tell the simple truths about SARS-2 it's too unbelievable, too hard, and too upsetting.
When I send my mom articles on Covid she says itβs not a credible source
When I send my mom scientific studies on Covid she says itβs too technical she canβt understand
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Dr Peter Beaver π΅πΈ retweeted
Mar 17
π§΅Today we found out the Health Ministry has been sitting on a survey that shows the large scale of Long Covid (& ME/CFS) in New Zealand.
Feeling emotionalπ‘
>400,000 Kiwi adults had had LC at some point by June 2025 - incl 185,000 w ongoing LC
Prevalence 4.3%
- 1 in 23 adults
ALT Image shows a crowd of abstract people with a subset cordoned off by a magnifying glass, representing the large group of Kiwis with Long Covid
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Aotearoa NZ has reported it's first population survey (n=9,253) of Long-COVID prevalence.
From July 2024 to June 2025, 11.9% of people aged 15 infected by SARS-CoV-2 have experienced symptoms of Long-COVID (lasting 3 months or more).
health.govt.nz/publications/β¦
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If we assume that 100% of NZ population have been infected now, and if we assume that children experience Long-COVID at about the same rate as adults, then as many as 635,000 people in Aotearoa may have experienced Long-COVID some time in the three years since February 2022.
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Researchers publishing about SARS-CoV-2 might treat the topic intellectually only, and not fully grasp the implications of airborne spread, and endless reinfection.
But they have probably figured out that it's a source of grants, income, and career progression.
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Dr Peter Beaver π΅πΈ retweeted
Don't think the populace in the imperial core understands how fast the cards will fall now.
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Psychoanalysis, brain retraining, whatever ... for Long-COVID. It's all just one more flavour of fanciful when you comprehend the biophysical mechanisms of viral persistence and reactivation, nerve and organ damage, immune dysregulation, harm to mitochondria, inflammation, etc.
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Medical professionals should have fought to prevent the mass circulation of a brain-destroying virus. Instead, they want to ignore and trivialise it, and lecture us all from the throne of ignorance.
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There is no society-wide brain degradation occurring because of ongoing mild Covid infections which will continue to the end of time. These accounts cause significant distress for a small but not irrelevant share of the population.
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The subvariant soup. 251 subvariants in global circulation. All competing to unlock your immune system and attack every organ & system in your body.
Isn't it time that we (collectively, via funded, organised public health infrastructure) fought back?
public.tableau.com/app/profiβ¦
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The theory of "immunity debt" was published as an opinion due to a hypothesis based upon an association.
Entire societies were convinced that infection is good through pure speculation.
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Dr Peter Beaver π΅πΈ retweeted
Debunking immunity debt:
"There is no statistical or published evidence to support this concept."
healthydebate.ca/2023/01/topβ¦
"A simple idea that sounded like science."
bmj.com/content/390/bmj.r173β¦
The increase in sickness is due to SARS2 driven immune dysregulation.
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