Popular Post TallGuyJohninBKK Posted February 11 Popular Post Share Posted February 11 (edited) “We’re still in a pandemic,” says a lead COVID official with the World Health Organization Throughout the past four years, Maria Van Kerkhove, now interim director of the WHO’s Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness and Prevention, has helped lead the agency’s response to COVID. Scientific American spoke with Van Kerkhove about entering the fifth year of a pandemic that many want to ignore despite its permanent impact on lives around the world. How would you describe the overall state of COVID at this point in the pandemic? COVID’s not in the news every day, but it’s still a global health risk. If we look at wastewater estimates, the actual circulation [of SARS-CoV-2] is somewhere between two and 20 times higher than what’s actually being reported by countries. The virus is rampant. We’re still in a pandemic. There’s a lot of complacency at the individual level, and more concerning to me is that at the government level. Lack of access to lifesaving tools such as diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines is still a problem. Demand for vaccination is very low around the world. The misinformation and disinformation that’s out there is hampering the ability to mount an effective response. So we feel there’s a lot more work to do... (more) https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rampant-covid-poses-new-challenges-in-the-fifth-year-of-the-pandemic/ Edited February 11 by TallGuyJohninBKK 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KhunLA Posted February 11 Popular Post Share Posted February 11 (edited) What booster company do you have stock in ... ,,, or all of them Edited February 11 by KhunLA 2 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post TallGuyJohninBKK Posted February 11 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 11 "All of the COVID interventions have been politicized and with huge amounts of misinformation and disinformation that spreads faster than viruses. And misinformation, disinformation and politicization kill." --Maria Van Kerkhove, interim director of the WHO’s Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness and Prevention https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rampant-covid-poses-new-challenges-in-the-fifth-year-of-the-pandemic/ 2 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JoseThailand Posted February 11 Popular Post Share Posted February 11 When I hear the word "covid" I wanna puke. Enough is enough! 1 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TallGuyJohninBKK Posted February 11 Author Share Posted February 11 (edited) 9 minutes ago, JoseThailand said: When I hear the word "covid" I wanna puke. Enough is enough! And yet here you are voluntarily choosing to read news articles in the forum's COVID subforum... Hmmm... Edited February 11 by TallGuyJohninBKK 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayboy Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 3 minutes ago, JoseThailand said: When I hear the word "covid" I wanna puke. Enough is enough! You may have finished with Covid.But has it finished with you? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BangkokHank Posted February 11 Popular Post Share Posted February 11 4 minutes ago, jayboy said: You may have finished with Covid.But has it finished with you? Yes. I'm not "vaccinated", so I have nothing to fear. 2 1 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TallGuyJohninBKK Posted February 11 Author Share Posted February 11 "Worldwide, there were more than 11,000 reported deaths from COVID between mid-December 2023 and mid-January 2024, and more than half of those deaths occurred in the U.S. In that same time frame, nearly one million cases were reported to the World Health Organization globally (although reduced testing and reporting means this is likely a vast undercount)." And those numbers above are not real worldwide totals, but instead as the WHO has cautioned, tallies from just a few dozen countries (including the U.S.) that are still regularly tracking and publicly reporting that kind of data. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rampant-covid-poses-new-challenges-in-the-fifth-year-of-the-pandemic/ "Overall, the updated Covid-19 vaccines provided 54% protection against symptomatic infection among immunocompetent adults who were recently vaccinated compared with those who did not receive an updated vaccine, according to the report published Thursday by the CDC." https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/01/health/updated-covid-vaccine-effectiveness-jn1/index.html 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post zhounan Posted February 11 Popular Post Share Posted February 11 Maintain the fear high. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post rattlesnake Posted February 11 Popular Post Share Posted February 11 Some people really need to get help. 2 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KhunLA Posted February 12 Popular Post Share Posted February 12 (edited) 10 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said: "All of the COVID interventions have been politicized and with huge amounts of misinformation and disinformation that spreads faster than viruses. And misinformation, disinformation and politicization kill." --Maria Van Kerkhove, interim director of the WHO’s Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness and Prevention https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rampant-covid-poses-new-challenges-in-the-fifth-year-of-the-pandemic/ So true, as a couple quotes come to mind ... ... safe & effective ... if you get vaccinated, you won't get covid ... if you get vaccinated, you won't spread covid ... masks work stopping infection Everyone if free to believe what they want .. IMHO Edited February 12 by KhunLA 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post impulse Posted February 12 Popular Post Share Posted February 12 (edited) 11 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said: "Worldwide, there were more than 11,000 reported deaths from COVID between mid-December 2023 and mid-January 2024, and more than half of those deaths occurred in the U.S. In that same time frame, nearly one million cases were reported to the World Health Organization globally (although reduced testing and reporting means this is likely a vast undercount)." 4% of the world's population and 50% of the deaths. Why would anyone listen to the CDC's guidance? Edit: Let me propose an answer to my own question there... Could it be because it's the most lucrative market for Big Pharma? Edited February 12 by impulse 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoseThailand Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 On 2/11/2024 at 10:02 PM, TallGuyJohninBKK said: And yet here you are voluntarily choosing to read news articles in the forum's COVID subforum... Hmmm... No, it just popped up in the news feed 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post rabas Posted February 14 Popular Post Share Posted February 14 On 2/11/2024 at 9:59 PM, JoseThailand said: When I hear the word "covid" I wanna puke. Enough is enough! ... Similarly, those who had had COVID-19 were 54% more likely to experience digestive symptoms such as constipation, diarrhea, bloating, vomiting ... COVID-19 infections raise risk of long-term gastrointestinal If your symptoms are from COVID, a simple vaccination may have prevented them. Stop spreading fear of vaccinations and masks.... 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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