…The irony is the latest round of CDC relaxations comes at the same time as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released guidance that an individual should have 3 negative rapid home tests over 5 days before one can be assured that you are not spreading the virus. A study from Yale University found that routine testing of participants immediately before an event decreased spread by more than 40%, and research from Harvard and the Boston Public Health Commission has reported that schools that abandoned masking requirements had an increase in COVID-19. This increase accounted for 30% of the COVID-19 cases in the school districts.
All these changes are all happening in the backdrop of a flood of studies detailing the dangers of long COVID-19. The Netherlands recently released a controlled study which found 1 in 8 patients developed long COVID-19. The Brookings Institute estimates that 2.4% of the United States’ workforce is not working due to long COVID-19. Similar data has been produced in the United Kingdom where according to the United Kingdom’s “Office for National Statistics cited by Saunders, 1.9% of the adult UK population—1.2 million people—report that their activity is limited ‘to an extent’ or ‘a lot’ by long COVID-19,” and that long COVID-19 is a main driver in the UK’s work forces shrinking by 440,000 workers.
Long COVID-19 also does not spare children, and 80% of children in the United States have had SARS-CoV-2. The CDC recently released a study finding that children can develop long COVID-19, and those afflicted have higher rates of serious illness, including myocarditis and cardiomyopathy (1.99 times more likely), thromboembolism (1.87 to 2.01 times more likely), Type 1 Diabetes (1.23 times more likely) and acute and unspecified kidney failure (1.32 times more likely)…
Source: Viewpoint: We Cannot Afford to Surrender to COVID-19 Now





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