COVID-19 Pandemic (Coronavirus)

[HipHopStan]

2020 really was a whirlwind, wasn’t it? Between the pandemic, lockdowns, and everyone suddenly becoming an armchair epidemiologist, it felt like the world turned upside down overnight. Christ, what a shyt time to be alive.

 

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) (@covid19disease.bsky.social)

BREAKING: U.S. Sees 2.35 Million COVID-19 Cases in a Week as COVID-19 Transmission Surges to 33.1% Currently 1 in 142 Americans Infected.

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covid19disease.bsky.social
BREAKING: U.S. Sees 2.35 Million COVID-19 Cases in a Week as COVID-19 Transmission Surges to 33.1%

Currently 1 in 142 Americans Infected.

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covid19disease.bsky.social
The U.S. has reported 2.35 million new COVID-19 cases in a single week, with daily infections reaching 337,000, according to the PMC COVID-19 Forecasting Model. The latest data indicates that 1 in every 142 Americans is currently infected. Transmission has surpassed 33.1% of peak levels.

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covid19disease.bsky.social
Current COVID-19 Levels as of March 31, 2025

Percentage of Population Infectious: 0.7% (1 in 142)

New Daily Infections: 337,000

New Weekly Infections: 2,359,000

Estimated Weekly Long COVID Cases: 118,000 to 472,000

Estimated Weekly Excess Deaths: 800 to 1,400

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covid19disease.bsky.social
Monthly Forecast

Average Percentage of Population Infectious: 0.8% (1 in 120)

Average New Daily Infections: 397,233

New Infections in the Next Month: 11,917,000

Estimated Monthly Long COVID Cases: 596,000 to 2,383,000

Estimated Monthly Excess Deaths: 4,300 to 7,100

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covid19disease.bsky.social
Source:

pmc19.com/data/

6/14
dave-koch.bsky.social
Mask up!!

7/14
jadahparadox.bsky.social
Never stopped masking.

8/14
dave-koch.bsky.social
Smart!!

9/14
loganjameshamilton.bsky.social
Thank you for these updates.

10/14
uselessrn.bsky.social
No that's not true. Some guy just told me covid never really happened. It was all a scam to get everyone to practice safe habits like washing hands, social distancing, and wearing masks when sick.

11/14
jkaylit.bsky.social
And of course the medical agencies are not allowed to tell Americans about this.
Watch your borders carefully Canada and Mexico!

12/14
spillanemj.bsky.social
who’s doing this random sampling?

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twiph.bsky.social


14/14
paganlady.bsky.social
Maybe it will help mutate Avian flu.

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 (@tryangregory.bsky.social)

No one could have foreseen this. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/healthcare-workers-chronic-condition-miss-more-days-work-due-covid-flu-data-show

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tryangregory.bsky.social
No one could have foreseen this.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/hea...

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hiatushere.bsky.social
There's still plenty of covid but ER workers get subtly shamed for wearing N95s. Back to baggy blues.

This is a workplace where you're only one BMH or substance-altered or delirious patient away from a career-ending assault/injury.

At least cops get to charge people who assault them on the job.

3/4
pednpsy.bsky.social
If only healthcare IPAC read research…..

4/4
americanbookdragon.bsky.social
I know someone who had Covid-19, Whooping Cough, RSV, and Bronchitis all in a row for being a healthcare worker, and now her doctor treats her for “asthma.” I was just, “girl, you just have lung damage.”

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Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social)

Breaking: A coalition of state attorneys general have sued the Trump admin over its decision to cut $12 billion in federal funds that go toward COVID-19 initiatives and various public health projects across the country.

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kylegriffin1.bsky.social
Breaking: A coalition of state attorneys general have sued the Trump admin over its decision to cut $12 billion in federal funds that go toward COVID-19 initiatives and various public health projects across the country.

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kylegriffin1.bsky.social
apnews.com/live/donald-...

3/16
manzanarez55robin.bsky.social
Everyday this Trump Administration gets worse, just when you think it must have reached a limit.

4/16
opine.bsky.social
There is no limit or bottom

5/16
manzanarez55robin.bsky.social
It's not human.

6/16
opine.bsky.social
No it isn't.

7/16
gobuxgal.bsky.social
Shared on @maddowblog.msnbc.com :

23 state attorneys general sue Trump administration over decision to rescind billions in health funding

8/16
petallu.bsky.social
Trump has to have been sued the most in this country

9/16
whiskytangofox.bsky.social
Is CT one of them?

10/16
radiogirl1071.bsky.social
Glad legal action is taking place.

11/16
debscheetzam.bsky.social
So good.

12/16
jack1973.bsky.social
LFG

13/16
davidicouldbewrong.bsky.social
If this money was appropriated by congress I would question Trump’s authority. cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/03/it-i...

14/16
hansolo3239.bsky.social
diseases will come back as a result of this. I will be glad if I am proven wrong. But measles is already knocking at US doors.

15/16
thealextrifier.bsky.social
#RFKJrResignNOW vaccines.gov
Bluesky

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debsdemocracytour.bsky.social
Tell Florida and Wisconsin VotersMusk’s DOGE is firing 10K people who work for you in healthcare & medical research! We know we are far away but what if you get cancer? Diabetes? Lung disease? You are going to want a robust American medical research institution like National Institutes of Health.

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy (@thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social)

COVID-19 Found to Dramatically Increase Risk of Upper GI Bleeding and Death in Hospitalized Patients. "The death rate among COVID-positive patients with GI bleeding was over twice that of the non-COVID group - 12.8% versus 5.1%" Study: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/grp/4358786...

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COVID-19 Found to Dramatically Increase Risk of Upper GI Bleeding and Death in Hospitalized Patients.

"The death rate among COVID-positive patients with GI bleeding was over twice that of the non-COVID group - 12.8% versus 5.1%"

Study: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/...

https://www.thailandmedical.news/ne...i-bleeding-and-death-in-hospitalized-patients

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njbbari3.bsky.social
Very small numbers quoted in this article, but possibly an interesting signal. Needs further exploration… although avoiding the trouble altogether is the better option.

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lesley-appit.bsky.social
Nasty

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lauramjohnson.bsky.social
I have some questions... but not for public consumption. Would you accept a private discussion?

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[winb83]

This really came and went. I'm guessing I've had it since the first time I got it but I wouldn't know.

 

[Serious]

COVID-19 may increase heart attack and stroke risk for years

Even if they never became severely ill, people who had COVID-19 in 2020 may face double the risk of heart attack, stroke or death up to three years later, new research finds.

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 (@tryangregory.bsky.social)

No one could have foreseen this. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/healthcare-workers-chronic-condition-miss-more-days-work-due-covid-flu-data-show

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tryangregory.bsky.social
No one could have foreseen this.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/hea...

2/4
hiatushere.bsky.social
There's still plenty of covid but ER workers get subtly shamed for wearing N95s. Back to baggy blues.

This is a workplace where you're only one BMH or substance-altered or delirious patient away from a career-ending assault/injury.

At least cops get to charge people who assault them on the job.

3/4
pednpsy.bsky.social
If only healthcare IPAC read research…..

4/4
americanbookdragon.bsky.social
I know someone who had Covid-19, Whooping Cough, RSV, and Bronchitis all in a row for being a healthcare worker, and now her doctor treats her for “asthma.” I was just, “girl, you just have lung damage.”

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@wire28 why did they publish this on April 1st


Read the f king room. People will discredit anything Covid related

 

[mobbinfms]

This really came and went. I'm guessing I've had it since the first time I got it but I wouldn't know.

Covid came and went huh?

 

[DrHackenbush]

 

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Trump Turns Covid.gov Into a Lab Leak Theory Fan Page

The president will never take responsibility for his failures in 2020.

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Trump Turns Covid.gov Into a Lab Leak Theory Fan Page​

The president will never take responsibility for his failures in 2020.

By Matt Novak Published April 18, 2025 | Comments (64)

US President Donald Trump during a meeting with Giorgia Meloni, Italy's prime minister, not pictured, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, April 17, 2025. © Chris Kleponis/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The White House has changed covid.gov into a website for promoting the so-called lab leak theory for the origins of covid-19. Donald Trump, who was president during the first year of the covid pandemic in 2020, has long sought to claim the virus originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, in an effort to suggest it was a weapon intentionally unleashed onto the world. But the best science we have at the moment still suggests covid had natural origins.

The covid.gov website was previously a government-run destination to find information about covid-19 testing, vaccines, and treatment options. The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has snapshots saved from what the site looked like as recently as April 10:

Screenshot: Internet Archive / Wayback Machine

But the Trump regime has turned what used to be a dry, informative, fact-based website into a hype page for Trump’s personal grievances against perceived political enemies. At some point in the past week, covid-19, started to redirect to the White House. And incredibly, it looks like this:

Screenshot: White House

The covid.gov URL redirects to the White House website and now features a list of “facts” that aren’t widely agreed upon by scientists who have studied the origins of covid-19.

Trump’s allies have long claimed that covid-19 was designed in a lab and was either intentionally or accidentally leaked. The CIA even changed its assessment of covid’s origins shortly after he took power again, suddenly claiming it may have been from a lab leak, though admitting “low confidence” in that assessment. But the most recent studies on the topic, looking at genomic data, still suggest natural origins from an animal market in Wuhan, China. And a study earlier this year found that most virologists and other scientists with relevant expertise still don’t think the lab leak theory is the best explanation for how covid-19 came into the world.

The new website presents highly contested claims as facts and prominently features several people like Anthony Fauci and Joe Biden, who were supposedly instrumental in covering up some big scandal. Disturbingly, the website also names several other people whom the White House suggests conspired to cover up the real origins of covid, including Dr. David Morens, a senior advisor to Fauci. It’s disturbing because President Trump has promised a campaign of retribution against his enemies and has already started to target individuals like cybersecurity expert Chris Krebs for telling the truth about the 2020 election. Trump has also targeted law firms that he’s extorting to get free services, and institutions like Harvard University to resegregate American life.

But at least Trump’s new website looks dumb as shyt. As one user on Bluesky pointed out, the graphic design of the site makes it look like Trump is the one who was doing the leaking. Another user compared the design to the Pixar lamp logo.

The cartoonish nature of Trump’s redesign would be shocking in any other timeline, but we happen to be living in the timeline where Trump was elected to be president. Twice, in fact. And that means we wake up to new absurdities like this every day.

The response to the covid-19 pandemic by the first Trump administration was arguably one of the worst among wealthy countries. The U.S. had 341 deaths per 100,000 residents, the second worst in the world after Peru, according to Johns Hopkins University data that runs through early 2023. So it makes sense that Trump, who rather famously will never admit when he’s done something wrong, would try to deflect blame.

It wasn’t Trump’s bungled response to testing early in the pandemic that allowed the virus to spread like wildfire. It wasn’t Trump’s inability to provide health care workers with enough PPE. It wasn’t his bald-faced lies told directly to the American people as a way to calm the markets. It was some shadowy forces in China who were just trying to hurt Americans.

The idea that covid-19 was designed in a lab is certainly something that could’ve happened. It’s just that there’s no strong evidence for that theory. And while there’s nothing wrong with exploring all possible reasons for something like a pandemic, people like Trump and his goons at the White House clearly have a motive for blaming anyone but themselves. This, after all, is a guy who suggested injecting bleach into the body to get rid of it. Trump needs there to be some other outside force that he can blame. Because compared to the rest of the world, Trump failed spectacularly to keep Americans safe.

 

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New Trump vaccine policy limits access to COVID shots

Federal health officials will no longer routinely approve annual COVID-19 shots for younger adults and children who are healthy.

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New Trump vaccine policy limits access to COVID shots​

By MATTHEW PERRONE and LAURAN NEERGAARD

Updated 3:28 PM EDT, May 20, 2025

▶ Follow live updates on President Donald Trump and his administration

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Tuesday it will limit approval for seasonal COVID-19 shots to seniors and others at high risk pending more data on everyone else — raising questions about whether some people who want a vaccine this fall will be able to get one.

Top officials for the Food and Drug Administration laid out new requirements for access to updated COVID shots, saying they’d continue to use a streamlined approach to make them available to adults 65 and older as well as children and younger adults with at least one high-risk health problem.

Food and Drug Administration commissioner Martin Markary speaks during an event with President Donald Trump to sign executive orders and proclamations in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, May 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

But the FDA framework, published Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, urges companies to conduct large, lengthy studies before tweaked vaccines can be approved for healthier people. In the paper and a subsequent online webcast, the FDA’s top vaccine official said still, more than 100 million Americans still should qualify for what he termed a booster under the new guidance.

Dr. Vinay Prasad described the new approach as a “compromise” that will allow vaccinations in high-risk groups while generating new data about whether they still benefit healthier people.

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“For many Americans we simply do not know the answer as to whether or not they should be getting the seventh or eighth or ninth or tenth COVID-19 booster,” said Prasad, who joined the FDA earlier this month. He previously spent more than a decade in academia, frequently criticizing the FDA’s handling of drug and vaccine approvals.

It’s unclear what the upcoming changes mean for people who may still want a fall COVID-19 shot but don’t clearly fit into one of the categories.

“Is the pharmacist going to determine if you’re in a high-risk group?” asked Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccine expert at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “The only thing that can come of this will make vaccines less insurable and less available.”

The nation’s leading pediatrics group said FDA’s approach will limit options for parents and their children.

“If the vaccine were no longer available or covered by insurance, it will take the choice away from families who wish to protect their children from COVID-19, especially among families already facing barriers to care,” said Dr. Sean O’Leary of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows more than 47,000 Americans died from COVID-related causes last year. The virus was the underlying cause for two-thirds of those and it was a contributing factor for the rest. Among them were 231 children whose deaths were deemed COVID-related, 134 of them where the virus was the direct cause -- numbers similar to yearly pediatric deaths from the flu.

The new FDA approach is the culmination of a series of recent steps under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. scrutinizing the use of COVID shots and raising major questions about the broader availability of vaccines. It was released two days ahead of the first meeting of FDA’s outside vaccine experts under the Trump administration.

Last week the FDA granted full approval of Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine but with major restrictions on who can get it — and Tuesday’s guidance mirrors those restrictions. The approval came after Trump appointees overruled FDA scientists’ earlier plans to approve the shot without restrictions.

A vial of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine rests on a table at an inoculation station in Jackson, Miss., on July 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Pfizer and Moderna, makers of the most commonly used COVID shots, each said they would continue to work with the agency.

For years, federal health officials have told most Americans to expect annual updates to COVID-19 vaccines, similar to the annual flu shot. Just like with flu vaccines, until now the FDA has approved updated COVID shots so long as they show as much immune protection as the previous year’s version.

But FDA’s new guidance appears to be the end of that approach, according to Prasad and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, who co-authored the journal paper and joined the FDA webcast.

Prasad and Makary criticized the U.S.’s “one-size-fits-all,” contrasting it with some European countries that recommend boosters based on age, risk and other factors.

Prasad said the FDA will ask all manufacturers to do a new clinical trial in healthy people ages 50 to 64, randomly assigning them to get a vaccine or a placebo and tracking outcomes with special attention to severe disease, hospitalization or death. He said such a study might need to be repeated if there’s a large virus mutation rather than the past year’s incremental evolution. Companies are also free to test their vaccines for approval in younger adults and children, Prasad said, adding “this is a free country.”

Since becoming the nation’s top health official in February, Kennedy has filled the FDA and other health agencies with outspoken critics of the government’s handling of COVID shots, particularly their recommendation for young, healthy people. Under federal procedures, the FDA releases new guidance in draft form and allows the public to comment before finalizing its plans. The publication of Tuesday’s policy in a medical journal is highly unusual and could run afoul of federal procedures, according to FDA experts.

Health experts say there are legitimate questions about how much everyone still benefits from yearly COVID vaccination or whether they should be recommended only for people at increased risk.

In June, an influential panel of advisers to the CDC is set to debate which vaccines should be recommended to which groups.

The FDA’s announcement appears to usurp that advisory panel’s job, Offit said. He added that CDC studies have made clear that booster doses do offer protection against mild to moderate illness for four to six months after the shot even in healthy people.

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[winb83]

Covid came and went huh?

Almost nobody I’ve encountered in everyday life talks about COVID anymore. Hard to believe it shut the world down and now to so many it’s an afterthought.

I don’t even see people wearing mask anymore.

 

[Diunx]

People are still taking that shot?

 

[Hey_zeus]

The Immune compromised still masked up and getting shots.