I’ve been sick for 11 days with COVID. Day 1-6 was fever, razor blade sore throat, fatigue etc… Symptoms improved after that but I still have fatigue, a nasty cough and congestion plus hoarse voice. Has anyone been sick this long?

I'm 9 days in and I think I will recover within a week. I still have some symptoms but I hope they will be gone in the coming week.

Hey all ive had long covid for 4.5 years.

since my reinfection, my bladder is giving me constant urgency.

I have lost my sense of taste due to having covid. Will I ever get it back

When I had COVID last year, I completely lost my sense of taste and smell. I literally couldn't taste or smell ANYTHING! It took about six months to start coming back!

I hope my heart doesn't do the add 20-60+bpm thing it did last time which had just finally started to subside a few months ago

First time with Covid-? Day 11 still testing positive and feeling worse

I was infected with Corona a month and a half ago. Its symptoms were severe: fever, fatigue, heartburn, excessive sleep, and loss of smell and taste. It lasted for more than two weeks. Recently, I have been feeling extremely exhausted, lack of sleep, and my depression and anxiety have worsened to an uncontrollable level. I feel tired and exhausted like I have never felt before in my life. In fact, it has reached the point of thinking about resigning from work.

Yes I was saying last week that libs were getting to me and I was wondering if people still get long covid in 2025. Granted research is always well behind the fact, but I'm sure that people are still getting long term symptoms.

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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 outbreaks spread unchecked through U.S. poultry farms. Health experts warn it could lead to a new pandemic.

High-ranking federal officials have suggested that bird flu virus should be left to "rip" through poultry farms across the U.S. — but experts warn that this hands-off approach could hasten the beginning of a new pandemic

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of Health and Human Services, and Brooke Rollins, secretary of Agriculture, have floated the notion that instead of culling birds infected with the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus, farmers should let it spread through flocks. The idea is that by doing this, farmers can "identify the birds, and preserve the birds, that are immune to it," Kennedy told Fox News on March 11.

Now, a perspective piece authored by a group of virologists, veterinarians and health security experts argues that the plan would not only be ineffective, but could also increase the risk of the virus spilling over into humans and sparking a new pandemic. The researchers published their arguments July 3 in the journal Science.

"Essentially, the longer you allow a virus that has shown to be effective in infecting multiple hosts survive in an environment, the greater the chance you give it to spread, to mutate, and to try its luck at adaptation," perspective first-author Erin Sorrell, a virologist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told Live Science. "Worse case scenario, the virus adapts and expands its host range to become transmissible in humans … Now we have a pandemic." Bird flu in the U.S.

H5N1 is a subtype of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), a type of bird flu that can cause severe disease and death in poultry and other birds. Since the virus began spreading widely among U.S. birds in January 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported that more than 174 million birds across all 50 states have been infected with the disease. The virus’s transmission among wild aquatic birds, commercial poultry and backyard, hobbyist flocks, has led to massive culls in farms and sent egg prices skyrocketing.

The virus typically transmits among wild birds and poultry, but it's known to have also infected more than 48 mammal species, including foxes, skunks, raccoons, seals and polar bears. It has also spread to dairy cattle, causing outbreaks in more than 1,000 herds across 17 U.S. states, according to current estimates.

Isolated human cases have been reported amid the ongoing outbreak in animals, primarily among farm workers, according to the CDC, although the agency states that the current health risk to the general public remains low. This is because, while the disease can spread among different animals, it currently can't be passed from human to human. Federal plans

Rollins recently issued updates about the U.S. government's plan to combat the infection's spread and lower egg prices. The five-pronged strategy denotes $500 million to improve farm biosecurity, $400 million in financial aid to farmers and $100 million for vaccine research. The government is also exploring ways to slash regulations and increase temporary import options for eggs.

Current regulations state that when infections are detected among commercial poultry, farmers must cull the affected flocks to contain the disease's spread, for which they are financially compensated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Yet suggestions made by officials for more radical ways to manage bird flu have left experts concerned. In May, Kennedy and Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator for the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, voiced their support for the owners of a Canadian ostrich farm whose 398 birds faced a cull following confirmed cases of H5N1 bird flu in December 2024 and January this year.

"We believe significant scientific knowledge may be garnered from following the ostriches in a controlled environment," Kennedy wrote in a letter posted to the social platform X and addressed to the head of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, which had ordered the cull. Kennedy suggested that the ostriches may have already acquired some "downstream immunity" to the virus, and Oz offered to relocate the birds to his Florida ranch for further study.

Sorrel told Live Science that these statements imply "there is still an expectation that those in the Trump administration, at least on the human health side, believe this approach has merit."

But Sorrel and her report collaborators disagree.

Allowing widespread infection of commercial flocks would kill billions of birds, drive poultry and egg prices up, as well as destabilize local economies and global trade through import restrictions imposed on U.S. products, the authors wrote. Simultaneously, it could also foster reservoirs of H5N1, increasing the virus' odds of making the leap to humans — and gaining the ability for human-to-human infection.

"Rapid culling of [H5N1] positive flocks is central to containment of the virus on a farm," Sorrel said. "Poultry infected with H5 shed a tremendous amount of virus. If effective controls designed to mitigate the quantity of viral shedding and known transmission pathways are removed, the exposure risk for other animals and humans on site and on neighboring farms will increase, and the opportunity for H5 to evolve to be a more effective poultry pathogen increases."

Kennedy's proposal is also very unlikely to work the way he's claimed it would — the birds that provide eggs and meat on farms are descendants of separate breeding populations and do not breed themselves. So even if there were a population of resilient birds that survived H5N1 infection, that doesn't mean they're passing on their genetic traits to a subsequent generation.

What's more, the mortality rate of H5N1 is extremely high among common poultry, reaching 100% in domestic chickens. What experts propose

Instead of letting bird flu tear through farms, the scientists propose that government agencies should enhance surveillance of the virus' spread, along with improving data sharing and outbreak response measures shared between poultry producers, industry members and veterinarians. The USDA should not work alone on these measures, Sorrel said, as "interdisciplinary teams need to have the authority and means by which to activate at the state and federal levels."

Other experts agree with the team's suggestions, although they highlighted areas that need further discussion. Dr. Rocio Crespo, a poultry veterinarian at the North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine, told Live Science that further details on potential vaccine strategies and biosecurity at farms should be explored.

But the USDA is now facing billions of dollars in federal funding cuts, and Crespo says that providing economic support to farmers facing outbreaks — alongside making investments to understand bird flu evolution, preventive measures and control methods — could become increasingly difficult.

"The current policies on poultry farms are effective at preventing spread to other farms," Crespo told Live Science. "However, the USDA's approach does not consider spill over and influences from other crop or animal agricultural activities."

"It appears we are continuing with the same strategies without sufficient improvement," she added. "Greater transparency and collaboration is crucial."

“He had been admitted after a fall with an injured arm, however he quickly contracted Covid which developed into pneumonia. He passed away peacefully with friends at his bedside,” the statement said.

It's probably bad for a mod to be posting this. To be fair, I'm still 100% doing covid precautions, including N95 masking and boosters. I'm still actively very covid conscious.

I'm aware that there hasn't been much new research on long covid numbers after 2024, or at least nothing that I can find. Trump taking over the presidency hasn't helped. I'm very much a sciency kind of person, and I could always pinpoint a study as to why I'm still masking and being extra cautious.

Obviously caring about the vulnerable is still a very good reason to keep being cautious.

A lot of libs have been saying that "well we're all immune from multiple infections, so long covid is over". Clearly the opinions of libs should be discarded, and their thoughts are anecdotal af, but still I would appreciate some facts to keep me cautious through this difficult time.

BTW CDC pulse survey data still shows that around 10% of US adults have long covid.

It is difficult to pin down exactly how common long COVID really is among those aged under 18 as "prevalence varies between studies due to different clinical definitions, follow-up period and survey methods used," Dr. Akiko Iwasaki, director of the Center for Infection and Immunity at the Yale School of Medicine, told Newsweek.

However, she added that "the most robust studies" collectively suggest the number of children who get infected with COVID and then develop long COVID "is higher than the prevalence of asthma in children in the U.S."

Also discussing the study, Dr. Lauren Grossman, a professor of medicine at Stanford University, told Newsweek: "The number of children under 18 with asthma ranges from 4.9 million to 6 million depending on the source so it's not an incorrect statement to say that there are more or at least the same number of children with asthma as there are with long COVID."

Many children are also going "unrecognized and unsupported," Dr. Rachel Gross, a professor in the department of pediatrics at NYU Langone Health, told Newsweek

And now we have the CDC vaccine panel replaced with grifters across the board.

Don't be surprised if we follow other countries in the rukes basrd international community and start encouraging medically assisted suicide. Probably to be expected seeing how rabidly capitalists invested in AI on the promise that a bunch of jobs would be made obsolete.

The author's CW is for SV.

Only about 1/3^rd^ of the article is about COVID, but this comm seemed more appropriate than a general one like /c/chapotraphouse.

[R]esearchers interviewed physicians who administer euthanising drugs in Canada to glean insights about their state of mind and reaction to what is assumed to be traumatising work.

The results were disturbing.

Some described feeling ‘an adrenaline rush’ at the moment of death, others said that watching someone die was ‘liberating.’ Some said they laugh together when discussing how to force euthanasia on reluctant patients and their families. One person said administering the lethal drugs causes for them ‘an urgent and pressing need for sex.’

Any teachers here? Would 10-20% of your class having long term trouble with memory or focusing be disruptive to the learning process? With really young children, how could you even tell something changed for the worse after a viral infection?

Long COVID is common, affecting up to 10% to 20% of children with a history of COVID-19. With almost 6 million US children potentially affected, this is higher than the number of children with asthma, the most common chronic health problem in children.

Don't worry, AI can do the work for them.

Any teachers here? Would 10-20% of your class having long term trouble with memory or focusing be disruptive to the learning process? With really young children, how could you even tell something changed for the worse after a viral infection?

Long COVID is common, affecting up to 10% to 20% of children with a history of COVID-19. With almost 6 million US children potentially affected, this is higher than the number of children with asthma, the most common chronic health problem in children.

Don't worry, AI can do the work for them.

It's kinda cool how covid fucked and continues to fuck everything up and we are not dealing with it at all. I think it was a bad idea to infect everyone in the world with a virus that damages every major organ in our bodies, but trying to mitigate the damage is annoying and expensive so

Along with a baffling rise in post-pandemic mortality rates that has insurers stymied, the number of Americans claiming disabilities has skyrocketed since 2020, adding another puzzling factor that could impact corporate bottom lines.

After rising slowly and steadily since the turn of the century and hovering between 25 million and 27 million, the number of disabled among the U.S. population rose nearly 35 percent in the last four years, to an all-time high of 38,844,000 at the end of November, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Reasons behind the stunning increase vary, but many seem connected to the COVID-19 pandemic. A sizable number of COVID-19 survivors claim long-term health issues, the so-called Long COVID, which includes symptoms like chronic fatigue, respiratory problems, and neurological impairments. The CDC estimates that 15 million Americans may have Long COVID symptoms as of 2024, with some experiencing debilitating conditions.

The CDC and World Health Organization have recognized Long COVID as a contributing factor to rising disability rates. Moreover, the COVID-19 virus has shown to worsen pre-existing chronic conditions, like diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and autoimmune disorders, also leading to increased disability rates.

Mental health disorders also surge

Along with those ailments is the surging levels of anxiety, depression, and other mental health disorders, from pandemic-related isolation, loss of loved ones, financial hardships, and economic uncertainties. Many mental health conditions are classified as disabilities under U.S. law when they significantly impair daily functioning.

A Beijing resident, infected for nearly 10 days, experienced fever, sore throat, blood-streaked phlegm, nosebleeds, and extreme fatigue, calling this wave “terrifying.” - epoch times source

poster source origin on twitter

apologies, i took as fact due to it originating from the covid conscious folk - there is low confidence in reputability of these claims due to source of reported symptoms being from an anti china faction.

Just imagine if this happened to someone not posh, I don't want to imagine how they'd get by.

People in the comments of the YouTube video, ffs stopped "wishing her a speedy recovery" and wear a mask so this doesn't happen to more people.

There’s a good chance many of us will be unable to get the vaccine this year.

Their bottom line: Going forward, Covid-19 vaccines will only be recommended for people over 65 or with at least one chronic condition. If manufacturers want to offer updated vaccines to younger adults, they must run a new placebo-controlled trial after a variant arrives. Their rationale is that, given higher levels of population immunity, the original trials are no longer relevant. Vinay followed up by saying, “This is a restoration of trust. It’s bringing us back to evidence.”

We have to be strong and remember we’re in this together. Continue to organize. Demand that your orgs adopt disease mitigation practices in absence of these lifesaving vaccines. Educate others. Protect our young, old, and disabled comrades. A better world is possible.

My current general rules for masking are

1. If I am outdoors in a sparse environment, I do not require myself to wear a mask, but should still try to keep a >6' distance between myself and others. If I am already wearing a mask, whether and when I take it off is up to comfort.
2. If I am indoors but alone in the room, a mask is recommended, as aerosols may still be lingering in the air; but if I figure enough time has passed, and masking is uncomfortable, I'll allow myself to take it off.
3. If I am outdoors in a crowd, or indoors with any number of people (with exemptions for a few specific people), I must wear a mask.

But when it comes to the "sparse" environment vs "crowd" rule... How many grains in a heap, right? I've tried looking into this myself, but the information I find is vague and contradictory, which leads me to feel conflicted in situations where it might be a heap but it's hard to determine.

Source: https://x.com/1goodtern/status/1918723932179358017

XCancel: https://xcancel.com/1goodtern/status/1918723932179358017

Oh hey, look. It's mass immune dysregulation, one of my biggest nightmares.

PLEASE, MASK!

1. It doesn't exist anymore
2. It does exist, but it's just another flu-like virus
3. It's much worse than the flu, but it only affected other people so far, so it won't affect me

ample evidence exists to prove all 3 wrong

oh yea, the exotic chud response which they've conveniently memoryholed:
4) covid is fake and never existed

I want to say that this warning is just a liability thing and it's really probably fine, I probably am getting the right amount of oxygen even if it is a little uncomfortable — but my workplace just gave me some new tasks that involve cutting and lifting decently heavy objects, so I want to make sure that it isn't like genuinely dangerous to wear a mask while I'm doing these things.

All the resources I've found on COVID consciousness through this comm are in English and aimed at people living in Seppoland (USA). Especially now that the Norwegian Institute of Public Health reported about a month ago that "fatality has returned to pre-pandemic levels for all age groups", I'm worried that people in Norway will just brush off COVID consciousness as a "Yankee thing" with no place in this country. What to do?

Alle resursene jeg har funnet gjennom denne gruppen er på engelsk og egentlig for folk som bor i Seppeland (USA). Spesielt nå at FHI sa for én måned siden at "dødeligheten er tilbake til nivået før pandemien for alle aldersgrupper", frykter jeg at folk i Norge vil rett og slett si at koronabevissthet er bare en "USA-greie" som har ingen plass her til lands. Hva skal jeg gjøre?