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1/3 of us - of all Americans - will have had a new COVID infection by the end of this wave.
That's a lot of damage.
For many of us, it will be a 2nd, 3rd, 4th infection.
The research on the serious damage from repeat infections is damning, & piles up weekly.
"cumulative risks & burdens of repeat infection increased according to the number of infections...Reducing overall burden of death & disease due to #SarsCoV2 will require strategies for reinfection prevention."
https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2023/12/27/every-covid-infection-increases-your-risk-of-long-covid-study-warns/
Every COVID Infection Increases Your Risk of Long COVID, Study Warns
Science Alert Vaccines ensure bouts of COVID are far less deadly than they were at the pandemic’s start, yet multiple studies now suggest even seemingly mild cases of the coronavirus have a c…The Transmission
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.
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 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