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The Long-Term Immune Effects of COVID — A Warning We’ve Seen Before. - WHN
WHN Science Communications Cite By Spela Salamon, Andrew G. Ewing, Yaneer Bar-Yam, Deborah Lupton, Resia Pretorius, Arneaux Kruger World Health Network, New England Complex Systems Institute, Cambridge, MA When COVID-19 first emerged, we focused on the acute illness — the cough, the fever, the weeks at home or in the hospital — and the many deaths. But nearly six years in, the greatest danger for most people may not lie in the initial acute infection.
No Amount of Hand-Washing Can Make COVID-19 a Seasonal Virus
WHN Science Communications Cite Needless to say, words have meaning. The selection of words modulates the message understood by the receiver. With regard to COVID, terms such as “seasonal”, “like a cold”, and “like the flu” can be selected by writers to paint a portrait that lulls the reader into a false sense of security, drawing comparisons between a virus that has been around for less than five years to other viruses or conditions with respect to which the audience has grown familiar with.
Florida measles outbreak is a warning on how, and how not to, handle infectious disease | Opinion Original
Americans are paying the price for an irresponsible Florida state health official and a slow-to-act CDC amid a measles outbreak, where the ignoring of early warnings and the flouting of science-based guidance echoes what we see in the COVID-19 pandemic. This time, though, the virus is well known and has an incredibly effective vaccine. Yet most of the country seems to be in a watch-and-wait mode — all while we are stumbling into a looming disaster with measles.
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