this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2024
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I think it would be nice if we could all work together to expand this community a bit and we can do this by suggesting what you would like to see in the sidebar and any resources we can compile together to add to it.

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[–] Melina@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I will work on the sidebar when I get home - thank you for all the resources, more is always appreciated 😊

Or if any other mods want to start working on it that’s helpful too

[–] Walk_On@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only thing I could think to add would be a link to the Death Panel podcast since they've been good about covering COVID from the beginning.

[–] Melina@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

That would be useful as well

Thank you

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Here's some sites that I check from time to time. Some are directly covid related, some are to get a feel of Covid 's impact

US centric stuff

edit: I think that's it for now. If I think of anything else, I'll add it.

[–] Melina@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Happy to help. rat-salute-2

[–] whatnots@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

i don't have much else to contribute but what y'all already added is already a big improvement rat-salute

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Forgot about this one! US based.

https://www.test2treat.org/s/?language=en_US

Home Test to Treat is a program that offers free tests and free treatment (if eligible) for COVID-19 and Flu at home 24/7. No insurance or appointments needed!

This program is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to better understand how technologies such as at-home tests and telemedicine can improve healthcare access for individuals across the country. Findings will be used to inform future public health programs for the American people. Any data shared with researchers will be limited to what is necessary to evaluate the program and will not include information which can identify you.

[–] Melina@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is really helpful thanks

US: Bridge access program - for finding free places that have free vaccines if you don't have insurance. The US privatized the pandemic last year, which means it can be an expensive clusterfuck trying to get the latest vaccine or any covid treatment. The place I got my last vaccine at didn't know this program existed.

[–] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

air filtration is great but I feel like it's much less important than getting people to wear masks

Yeah, if everyone wore an n95 in public for a while we would get rid of a bunch of diseases. Its frustrating.

Air filtration is just another layer of protection. If you are at home with someone sick, it helps prevent transmission. Or if you have a shared workplace, you can run one and be reasonably safe if you are alone and need to eat lunch or whatever. It's not going to help if someone is close range and coughing in your face, but it does help keep the virus from accumulating or staying in the air.

In hospital wards where they ran HEPA filters, they pretty much eliminated transmission, but I assume that was on top of mask protocols in place.

[–] Southloop@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Anything to help in tracking progress/communicate info on vaccines, long COVID treatments or prophylactic developments would really help in keeping hopes up.

Some immediate family has (thankfully non-life-threatening) brain lesions from LC and trying to find good info and manage the sources you do find trying to understand when you might one day be able to leave your cave to rejoin civilization can feel like watching the bombers go out, if you catch me drift.

Found this site which has a lot of info on cleaning the air, specifically for covid. So a lot of resources on UV-light, ventilation, and air filtration.

https://itsairborne.com/

Also, if you want to check co2 levels in places you live or work, to test air quality, the Vitalight mini-co2 detector is very useful and inexpensive compared to what is normally recommended. I just got one to test air quality at work. It's basically 30-40 dollars compared to other models which are sometimes hundreds of dollars each.