Update on Covid providing information on positivity and hospital admissions for England and its regions. This post is best viewed using the browser or Substack app.
Great to have as ever. The explanation on Positivity vs Prevalence has been really useful. Had to explain this to friends recently - plenty of people unaware.
In response to your question about the AZ vaccine, you may want to look at a recent article in the New Statesman by iSage Professors Christina Pagel and Sheena Cruikshank. It's free to access and can be found at the following link:
Please would you do a piece on all the newly emegring 'old' diseases causing so much illness and death e.g measles, whooping cough, TB, EGAS etc. I would love your opinion on the relationship to Covid, there appears to be a lot of papers now suggesting that Covid does affect our immune systems (rather like measles and chicken pox do).
Also a piece on the morbidity and mortality from other diseases that are Covid related. e.g Heart disease and strokes and autoimmune diseases especially Diabetes type 1 types.
I really appreciate your reports, but just would love the wider view of what this ongoing pandemic is doing to us all long term, so we can prepare as best as possible.
We are truely into the 'you do you' phase of neo liberalism now and the informaion you share helps those of us not deemed 'worthy' enough for the vaccines to stay alive a bit longer.
Not my area of expertise so it's difficult to give an opinion on the relationship between Covid and the recently reported increase in the incidence of 'old' diseases.
No doubt there are likely to be many causes behind these increases. Some that come immediately to mind are lower levels of vaccination in children (measles and whooping cough), the increased number of people living in poor quality crowded temporary accommodation (TB), higher obesity levels (Diabetes) as well as many other risk factors.
I think it would take quite a bit of work to separate out theses impacts and attribute the cause to Covid. Having said that, as you say, there has been work that links Covid to an increased risk of auto-immune diseases as covered in this recent article:
Great to have as ever. The explanation on Positivity vs Prevalence has been really useful. Had to explain this to friends recently - plenty of people unaware.
There would appear to be not a lot going on.
Are there other diseases out there caused by covid ? Any insight into the levels of harm caused by the recently withdrawn AZ vaccine ?
William,
In response to your question about the AZ vaccine, you may want to look at a recent article in the New Statesman by iSage Professors Christina Pagel and Sheena Cruikshank. It's free to access and can be found at the following link:
https://www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/healthcare/public-health/2024/05/astrazeneca-covid-vaccine-jab-withdrawn-scepticism-coronavirus-pandemic
Bob
Thanks.
Please would you do a piece on all the newly emegring 'old' diseases causing so much illness and death e.g measles, whooping cough, TB, EGAS etc. I would love your opinion on the relationship to Covid, there appears to be a lot of papers now suggesting that Covid does affect our immune systems (rather like measles and chicken pox do).
Also a piece on the morbidity and mortality from other diseases that are Covid related. e.g Heart disease and strokes and autoimmune diseases especially Diabetes type 1 types.
I really appreciate your reports, but just would love the wider view of what this ongoing pandemic is doing to us all long term, so we can prepare as best as possible.
We are truely into the 'you do you' phase of neo liberalism now and the informaion you share helps those of us not deemed 'worthy' enough for the vaccines to stay alive a bit longer.
Thank you for all you do.
Not my area of expertise so it's difficult to give an opinion on the relationship between Covid and the recently reported increase in the incidence of 'old' diseases.
No doubt there are likely to be many causes behind these increases. Some that come immediately to mind are lower levels of vaccination in children (measles and whooping cough), the increased number of people living in poor quality crowded temporary accommodation (TB), higher obesity levels (Diabetes) as well as many other risk factors.
I think it would take quite a bit of work to separate out theses impacts and attribute the cause to Covid. Having said that, as you say, there has been work that links Covid to an increased risk of auto-immune diseases as covered in this recent article:
https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-linked-to-40-increase-in-autoimmune-disease-risk-in-huge-study
Bob