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@msmacrophage.bsky.social was absolutely fantastic on this episode 👏🏻

50% of my partner's lab is either acutely sick or dealing with prolonged effects of a prior illness. We all know the culprit.

.3x.167x.217= about 1.1%, per surge, 3-4 times a year. Yet profs are told nothing about how to protect or support them. Nothing. Even if it’s “just” 1%/year, the cost—in quality of life, education, financial losses—is staggering. #unconscionablehealth-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/pos...) 2/2

About 10% of my #cdnpse students told me they were sick with COVID in Sept. I don’t ask for this info, so likely more. Half of cases are asymptomatic. So, it’s reasonable to guess 1/4-1/3 had COVID in Sept. Re StatsCan, 16.7% will get Long COVID & 21.7% of those will feel negative effects often. 1/2

Meta-analysis from 2022 found that about *half* of covid cases in mid-aged population are asymptomatic (doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000003791). If you're not masking in public (work, grocery, etc) bc you feel fine despite super high covid rates all summer and into fall, please consider the science 🫠

RIP Kris Kristofferson

I continue to believe that the poor overall quality of research produced by honest actors is a much, much bigger and insidious problem than outright academic fraud. And that includes poor quality research done to advance narratives about fraud.

Combine two bands: Men Without Doors AC/KC and the Sunshine Band

Towards the end of his testimony, Prof Fong makes the heartfelt case that to understand the Covid impact on the NHS you have to go *beyond* data - "there is more to know than you can count". His testimony was *so important* /END youtu.be/34CJl6r6QVA

Prof Kevin Fong at the Covid Inquiry on the importance of lived experience on the front line

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