Notices by Dr Joe Pajak (joepajak@mstdn.science)

'The costs associated with working days lost due to Long COVID could potentially cost the UK economy up to £20billion a year.' Senior author, Professor, @ManuellGomes @UCL_IEHC @CSJMagazine @uclnews
#CovidIsNotOver #COVID #COVID19
Nota bene: @wesstreeting
https://www.clinicalservicesjournal.com/story/46597/long-covid-could-cost-the-economy-billions-every-year

'Luke Durant has discovered the largest known prime number:
M1⃣3⃣6⃣2⃣7⃣9⃣8⃣4⃣1⃣
It's over 41 million digits long!
A 'Mersenne' prime, after 17th century French monk and mathematician Marin Mersenne.' @NewSparkes @NewScientist @Margherita_B_ @SmithsonianMag
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452686-amateur-sleuth-finds-largest-known-prime-number-with-41-million-digits/

'While all agencies & experts now admit to COVID’s airborne spread, little has been done to make indoor spaces safer for us all, and the clinically vulnerable in particular, for whom shops, workplaces, restaurants, & even clinical settings are now high-risk areas.'💯Desmond Whyms

https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/commentisfree/2024/apr/28/learn-lessons-covid-before-another-deadly-disease-strikes-observer-letters

'Adding 'brain fog' to the staggering list of longer term problems caused by COVID must make us question what we’re allowing to happen to those being exposed to multiple infections with this virus, including our children.'💯@SGriffin_Lab @kathsci2601 @mnt
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/what-have-we-learned-about-brain-fog-in-long-covid-so-far?utm_source=Sailthru%20Email&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=MNT%20Daily%20News&utm_content=2024-02-26&apid=38228910&rvid=1607e08b06a36da99553e53d58fb3788ee38d6d683c382437c98043f24db1fb6

Why are 'UK Ministers phasing out most of the funding to tackle COVID-19 just at the point when hospital admissions from the virus appear to be starting to rise again'? @BylineTimes
🏥New data expected to reveal the extent of the rise in hospitalisations.
https://bylinetimes.com/2024/01/03/government-phases-out-covid-funding-as-hospital-admissions-rise/

Meanwhile, in an act of 'shortsightedness personified', the Government’s autumn COVID vaccination programme was aimed only at the elderly and vulnerable (of which nearly a third haven't had the vaccination). @karamballes @davidhencke @BylineTimes
https://bylinetimes.com/2024/01/03/government-phases-out-covid-funding-as-hospital-admissions-rise/

𝑰𝙩’𝙨 𝙤𝒗𝙚𝒓 𝒑𝙡𝒆𝙗𝒔 = 𝒕𝙝𝒆 𝒃𝙧𝒐𝙖𝒅 𝒄𝙤𝒏𝙩𝒆𝙭𝒕 𝒇𝙤𝒓 𝒎𝙚𝒅𝙞𝒂 𝒔𝙞𝒍𝙚𝒏𝙘𝒆 𝒐𝙣 𝙘𝒐𝙫𝒊𝙙.
𝑰𝙩’𝙨 𝙤𝒗𝙚𝒓, 𝙩𝒉𝙚𝒚 𝒉𝙚𝒍𝙥𝒆𝙙 𝙢𝒂𝙠𝒆 𝒊𝙩 𝙤𝒗𝙚𝒓.
𝑰𝒇 𝒔𝙤𝒎𝙚𝒕𝙝𝒊𝙣𝒈’𝒔 𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙧, 𝒊𝙩 𝙘𝒂𝙣’𝙩 𝙗𝒆 𝒏𝙚𝒘𝙨.
@nateb_panic
https://www.okdoomer.io/covid-silence-and-how-the-media-works/?ref=ok-doomer-newsletter