Tavo @tavoglc@social.cleverlibre.org

When a #pandemic ends it becomes #endemic. The risks are lower for those who are not immunocompromised. I think it’s too soon for @WHO to declare the global pandemic over. There are still a lot of variants out there. And people will engage in even riskier behavior and try to go back to normal. Normal wasn’t working. Will we learn our less from this pandemic as we have from previous ones? I’m not optimistic. #COVID19 #SARSCoV2

https://press.coop/@TheAtlantic/110318510205011189

In March 2020, Dr. Michael Osterholm wrote there would likely be 800,00 American deaths from Covid in the next 18 months. That's almost exactly what happened. An oracle.
Our conversation, including the story of his recent (1st) bout of Covid:
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/straight-talk-with-michael-osterholm

Just another day that ends in Y in #houston #texas (Deer Park) @TexasObserver

An easy graphic to illustrate how and when masks (respirators) are most effective.

#Covid #COVID19 #masks #respirators #WearAMask #MaskUp #BringBackMasks

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic still having a major impact across the UK - latest data in chart below.
Good news from @ONS
: the new COVID-19 and Respiratory Infections Survey (#CRIS) aims to help understand & manage COVID-19 & other respiratory infections in the long term.

Air pollution spikes linked to irregular heartbeats, study finds.

Study of 200,000 Chinese hospital admissions finds acute exposure to air pollution raises risk of heart arrhythmias.

#climate #climatecrisis
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/01/air-pollution-spikes-linked-to-irregular-heartbeats-study-finds

If you want to onboard friends and family to the Fediverse, https://jointhefediverse.net is an amazing tool.

Made by @stefan, this site explains -- in easy-to-understand words -- what the Fediverse is, how it works, and what to try.

This is a must for everyone who wants to tell the world about the Fediverse!

@fediversenews

#IDMastodon #Viralimmunology evidence that delayed immune clearance of #SarsCoV2 antigen or greater amount or duration of viral antigen burden in the upper respiratory tract during acute #COVID19 with at least two long COVID symptoms - brain fog and muscle pain – at 90+ days from acute COVID-19 onset are specifically associated with #LongCovid
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1147549/full?utm_source=S-TWT&utm_medium=SNET&utm_campaign=ECO_FIMMU_XXXXXXXX_auto-dlvrit

Can we talk about #Capitalism ?

Is the profit incentive, to focus on "innovation" that is copy "righted", the right or wrong way to sustain the planet's life support systems?

#science #sustainabilty #ecology #climate #SystemsThinking #psychology #consumerism

#bcpoli #AdrianDix #WearARespirator #COVID #MasksWork #n95 #CleanAir #BringBackMasks #CovidIsNotOver #DoNoHarmBC

📣 Academic Journals are Broken, Let’s Build a Better Scientific Record

Open symposium
12:00 May 2

Featuring:
The papermill problem @deevybee

The impossibility of correcting the scientific record @jamesheathers

Publishers make immoral profits from taxpayer funding @brembs

The end of standard peer review @neuralreckoning

Preprints and community publishing @chrisdc77

How research assessment is already changing @lizziegadd

https://metascience.info/virtual_symposia/academic-journals-are-broken-lets-build-a-better-scientific-record/

#MetaScience #MolotovsForElsevier

We're in the process of planning a clinical trial to test our #LongCovid hypothesis. However, trials are expensive.

But if every person who saw our paper thus far would donate a dollar or euro, it would be enough to fully fund the trial.

Will you help us by making a donation? 🙏

Link to GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-help-fund-research-into-long-covid

In the late 1880s, when steam ships were replacing sailing cargo ships, one of the last roles for the sailing ships was to carry coal around the world to supply ports where steamships wanted to go. A clean technology was essential to enable the growth of a dirty technology. And even today, fossil fuels aren’t magically just everywhere. A gigantic *** 40% *** of global shipping is just moving fossil fuels. So eliminating fossil fuel also drastically cuts global shipping emissions. #climate #ships

I have interviewed many hundreds of scientists for the BBC, Fully Charged and others over many years, and I can tell you that however nice, capable and well-intentioned they are, the ones working for companies ALWAYS have their boss and the company’s investors at the back of their minds. It’s never the same sort of conversation. So what happens when we, the public, need expertise and realise that we don’t have access to it any more, even though we paid for it to develop? #climate #OpenAccess

An online, easy-to-use indoor "max CO2" target concentration calculator.

Use it with a real-time carbon dioxide meter to evaluate ventilation rates for #COVID19 in your indoor environment.

Because #CovidIsNotOver

https://forhealth.org/tools/co2-calculator/

Denouncing the #plagiarism of our 2018 TSE article using #TorturedPhrases.

Our "statistically significant" results become "factually momentous". "Very low coverage" turns to "incredibly near to the ground coverage".

https://cs.mcgill.ca/~martin/tse2018-plag/

#SeResearchers

Snapchat is very popular among teenagers. Now it comes with a chatbot that claims to be your friend!

If you tell it you're a teenager and you're going to throw a party, it tells you how to mask the smells of alcohol and dope. If you tell it you have to write an essay for school, it writes one for you. If you tell it your parents want to delete Snapchat from your phone, it'll suggest moving the app to a device they don't know about.

That, at least, is the experience of this Washington Post reporter, Geoffrey Fowler:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/14/snapchat-myai/