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It’s safe to stop reading any article at the point they say something like this: > Year 4 of a pandemic
by p51-remorse 2y ago
It’s safe to stop reading any article at the point they say something like this:
> Year 4 of a pandemic
- throwaway346434 2y agoAh, facts and accurate terminology are pesky. I wonder if the author of the article: - Is a doctor - With a PhD ontop of the medical degree - Who works in an ER setting - and is able to specifically know and understand what the word pandemic means ... In the context of a blog post about ER throughput. Let me just check for a second and, oh look at that: the author is all of those four points. COVID infected huge numbers of people, and variants of it continue to reinfect. Long term problems exist in a significant number of people - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00846-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00846-2 COVID has not magically vanished: https://www.idsociety.org/covid-19-real-time-learning-network/diagnostics/covid-19-variant-update/#/+/0/publishedDate_na_dt/desc/ https://www.idsociety.org/covid-19-real-time-learning-networ... It is very much still a pandemic, if for some reason you do not believe that. Otherwise I have to assume you are rejecting the entire article because you do agree it's still a pandemic, but for some reason can't picture why long term effects of COVID may have a relationship to hospital presentations and complexity of cases.
- fifteen1506 2y agoThe pandemic is a lie. It's actually a neoliberal disease worsened by a new virus. /s
- LorenPechtel 2y agoBeing in denial of the problem doesn't make it go away. 2023 provisional data puts Covid at #10 at 50k/yr and this is undoubtedly an undercount as patients that die of a deadly clot due to Covid are likely to not be counted as Covid deaths.