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≈5.1% of the population currently has long COVID
(hexbear.net)
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Jessica Wildfire's COVID bookmark list
COVID-safe dentists: (thanks sovietknuckles)
New wastewater tracking (replacing biobot): https://data.wastewaterscan.org/tracker
I'm curious to see if we reach the point of negative population growth just from Covid. Surely all these repeat infections are gonna reach some sort of threshold for mass death. Of course, I'm sure avian flu would love be tagged in for the challenge.
edit: At 140 million births a year, it seems unlikely under covid. We'll probably just drip obscenely high excess morbidity until something like Avian Flu comes along.
Can COVID affect fertility as well? I know early on it was a concern that was raised but I haven't kept up.
Research indicates COVID damages erectile tissue and may impact testicular function, leading to erectile dysfunction and lower testosterone
COVID can stop my PP from getting hard?
this is the one line that might actually get traction for something to change
COVID is a vascular disease. It damages blood vessels and in some cases causes abnormal clotting.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7556303/