Duemila morti per #Covid nel 2024, allerta per l'Autunno

📌 l'Italia è uno dei Paesi che ha meno vaccinati in assoluto e solo il 12% dei soggetti fragili è stato immunizzato negli ultimi mesi

📌 L'ultimo monitoraggio del MinSalute-ISS, dal 18 al 24 luglio, indica che in questa settimana i contagi notificati sono passati da 8.942 a 13.672 (+52,9%), mentre il totale dei ricoverati il 24 luglio è 1.555 rispetto ai 1.226 del 17 luglio, con un incremento del +26,8%.

https://www.ansa.it/amp/canale_saluteebenessere/notizie/sanita/2024/07/27/duemila-morti-per-covid-nel-2024-allerta-per-lautunno_012785ad-5902-4bd8-a2cf-946fba80b9c5.html

#3maggio - Per il #WorldPressFreedomDay proponiamo un articolo di #IRLH sul rapporto tra #salute pubblica e diritto all'#informazione, con un confronto tra la risposta della #stampa alla #pandemia di #spagnola del 1918 e all'emergenza #Covid del 2020:

https://doi.org/10.13130/2464-8914/14891

#LibertàdiStampa

ofc they don't want to write any such thing, because then people might *think* about the fact that the head of the World Health Organization just emphasized that we are all still in the middle of the #COVID #pandemic.

And that in fact, copies of the #SARSCOV2 virus are now spread more widely, and infecting more people, than at any point during the pandemic except for the quadruple peak of winter 2021-22.

Please wear your #N95 & protect yourself & others. Reinfections cause worse damage.

I'm so sick of this. At the top of the page should be instructions that inform people of the supplies & the procedures they need to use to test for #COVID.

"If you have no symptoms: The FDA, which certifies these tests, has determined that the proper way to test, is to use 3 rapid response tests, waiting 48 hours between each test.

If you have symptoms: The FDA, which certifies these tests, has determined that they are only sufficient if you take two tests, waiting 48 hours between each test."

What's worse, even the folks who are testing for #COVID, don't know how to test properly.

Probably because the govt is making no effort to highlight this public safety information contained in guidelines from its own regulatory agencies.

The FDA regulates #RapidResponse #COVID tests. Due to rapidtest failures with the #Omicron lineage, corrected its guidelines in SUMMER 2022.

No symptoms? (common w/ #SarsCoV2) Need to test 3x, 48hrs apart (4 days)

Symptomatic? Need to test 2x, 48 hr apart.

This wave is already 25% above last winter's (which *was* the 2nd highest of the ongoing pandemic), & infection rate is still rising.

*lagging indicators* are also spiking acc to CDC:

#COVID hospitalizations: "up more than 20% week over week"

COVID-related deaths & ER visits: both up "roughly 13%"

#JN1 "skyrocketed" in Dec

“This is what happens [when] a new, hyper-mutated strain…picks up a critical added mutation, giving it huge growth advantage”- Dr. @erictopol
https://fortune.com/well/2024/01/05/us-reachest-second-highest-covid-peak-pirola-jn1-omicron-pi-rho/?s=09

Highly mutated COVID variant ‘Pirola’ JN.1 is fueling the pandemic’s second highest U.S. wave—and it’s still growing

COVID-related ER visits, hospitalizations, and deaths are also on the rise.

^{Erin Prater (Fortune)}

This winter's #SARSCOV2 surge is worsening faster than models had predicted.

1in 38 of the population you encounter in your daily life are now likely to be infected. Likely 1 in 26 infected by #NYE. Daily cases will be up 50% by then.

N95s are a must now if you are relying only on self-protection rather than have a community united to protect each other from #COVID, & we must consider who's been in the same room earlier that day, not just who is there simultaneously.

https://twitter.com/michael_hoerger/status/1731794087655653416

If you are relying on rapid response tests, please remember that the FDA changed its guidelines for the tests to be effective: with symptoms, 2 tests 48 hours apart are needed. For asymptomatic individuals, it must be increased to 3 tests, each 48 hours apart.

So to gather meaningful testing info, we need 4 days clear of new exposures before holiday gatherings. Good luck!

#COVID