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COVID/Test-scores
Ever since 2019, there's been a drop off in college entrance scores. I know these tests are problematic, etc. But they are showing a dramatic decline likely due to cognitive decline in students
Source: https://nces.ed.gov…
Thoughts on alternatives to 'masking' as a verb ..
To me it conjures up images of baggy blues, and worse cloth masks, when I and likely others didn't know any better.
How about
* Resping?
* Respiratoring?
Any other suggestions?
#CovidIsNo…
Anyone else freaked out about this new study that confirms lowered immune cell counts aka Immune deficiency long term?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/all.16210
Yes, the participants were unvaccinated, however there are ot…
CDC (deliberately?) misunderstands airborne spread for H5N1.
Finally we get a definition of 'close' or 'direct' contact: They put them in the same enclosure; air was obviously not eliminated.
They're confusing transmissibility (R0) with m…
COVID and cognitive decline
So we have studies showing 3 pts of IQ decline for non-hospitalized cases and 2 pts for reinfections. (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2311330)
Putting aside the problems of using IQ as an objective …
Long Covid and othering
It's increasingly becoming clear that persistence is the norm with #COVID and that the distinction with #LongCovid sufferers and recovered may just be onset and severity of symptoms.
I'm now beginning to see the Lon…
US life expectancy goes up?
The CDC has published provisional figures for 2022 life expectancy, and it went up a bit, even though far below 2019 levels.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr031.pdf
Seems dubious to me as Canada had a 3rd…
@jmcrookston @fitterhappierAJ
Once you drain words like 'unprecedented' of their meaning as a layperson would use it, then I think the intent is to deceive or at the very least obfuscate what is happening.
Well, technically it's not 'unpr…
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