Thus far, recorded Covid-19 deaths worldwide are at 6.86 million. This is likely an underestimate, given the underreporting of fatalities in countries, such as China. More importantly, based on excess mortality calculations there’s mounting evidence that the Covid-19 pandemic has taken a massive toll on global life expectancy. Not since the famine in China in 1959, have we seen such a sharp decline in life expectancy worldwide....In sum, the Covid-19 pandemic has led to global increases in mortality and declines in period life expectancy that are without precedent in modern times. Historically, countries have generally recovered within two years from mortality shocks, such as the 1918-20 influenza pandemic and the two world wars. And so, we can expect many countries to soon return to pre-Covid-19-pandemic life expectancy. However, each country’s ability to bounce back differs, and some, like the U.S., will likely have more trouble than others because of underlying health trends that had been in place before the pandemic.
“Global life expectancy has dropped two years in a row for the first time since 1959, and if it drops again in 2022 this will be historically unprecedented in modern history.” pic.twitter.com/jFEX68wahI
— Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran) March 4, 2023
2) Life expectancy of Canada 🇨🇦 vs US 🇺🇸 during the early pandemic. One failed miserably in 2020 and 2021 pic.twitter.com/AviNyvirke
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) March 9, 2023
... long COVID is a substantial and ongoing crisis—one that affects millions of people. However inconvenient that fact might be to the current “mission accomplished” rhetoric, the accumulated evidence, alongside the experience of long haulers, makes it clear that the coronavirus is still exacting a heavy societal toll.As it stands, 11 percent of adults who’ve had COVID are currently experiencing symptoms that have lasted for at least three months, according to data collected by the Census Bureau and the CDC through the national Household Pulse Survey. That equates to more than 15 million long-haulers, or 6 percent of the U.S. adult population.
...long COVID is a huge impediment to the normalization of COVID. It’s an insistent indicator that the pandemic is not actually over; that policies allowing the coronavirus to spread freely still carry a cost; that improvements such as better indoor ventilation are still wanting; that the public emergency may have been lifted but an emergency still exists; and that millions cannot return to pre-pandemic life. “Everyone wants to say goodbye to COVID,” Duggal told me, “and if long COVID keeps existing and people keep talking about it, COVID doesn’t go away.” The people who still live with COVID are being ignored so that everyone else can live with ignoring it.
WHO statement on long Covid/“post Covid condition”
— Sue J (@SMpwrgr) April 27, 2023
“An estimated one in 10 infections results in post Covid condition suggesting that hundreds of millions of people will need longer term care”
Hundreds of millions 😟
Not one in 10 people
One in 10 infections 😳 pic.twitter.com/amMK0MR6G3
This #WorldImmunizationWeek, the global community is aiming to catch up to vaccinate millions of #Children and keep them safe from preventable diseases. Don't wait, vaccinate! #VaccinesWork #BigCatchUp #IPABigCatchUpCampaign @IPAWorldorg pic.twitter.com/VMXEZTQF5H
— Naveen Thacker (@naveenthacker) April 27, 2023
Finally, here's something I'll bet you didn't know -- on April 26, 1954, the first Salk polio vaccine trials began.As we begin #WorldImmunizationWeek I’m worried about the globalization of US antivaccine activism that now goes beyond Covid immunization to all childhood vaccinations. As I point out in @NatRevImmunol the global vaccine ecosystem is at risk https://t.co/fQJ2PWLJZ3
— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez) April 24, 2023
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Before the pandemic, vaccine rejection was pretty much confined to small communities of religious zealots and lefty New Agers duped by a bogus study linking vaccines to autism (think RFK Jr and Jenny McCarthy). Now, vaccine rejection is mainstream conservative dogma, even though the covid vaccines were approved by the Trump administration. Amazing how quickly the Fox News Cinematic Universe and social media engagement algorithms can shift public opinion.
What I do not understand is WHY they have made such an emotional investments in either denying that Covid exists or asserting that the vaccines aren't safe, or both. Its very sad really.
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