Resources
Quarantining in Shared Spaces -- how to keep others as safe as possible
After the huge spike in new cases this past week, including our dear Data Report, I thought to pull this article from my archives — it gives some excellent breakdowns on basic principles regarding aerosol science and how to leverage physics to minimize airborne transmission in shared spaces when one or more household members are Covid-positive.
[ The original document for the ventilation diagrams, plus other useful information, can be found here: https://cleanaircrew.org/someone-in-my-home-has-covid-how-do-we-isolate-safely/ ]
The article is in an Indian publication and therefore references dealing with heat mitigation — given that it’s December in North America, the opposite problem is more likely to be relevant. The UK government released guidance several years ago around how best to ventilate when temps are below freezing, this is one of many such write-ups: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/ventilation-to-reduce-the-spread-of-respiratory-infections-including-covid-19#:~:text=Consistent%20house%20temperatures%20at%20or,lead%20to%20fewer%20cold%20draughts.
Some added tips from the one time our household dealt with keeping infection contained (all of the following assume well-fitting >n95’s are being worn in all common spaces): …
Digital Download: Request for Covid Accommodation in Health Care Facilities
Everyone deserves safe access to health care, but we know many people are facing resistance to simple, reasonable requests for Covid accommodations like respirators and air filters cleaners.
So we’re making it easier for you to request accommodations from your primary care doctor, dentist, specialists, or other health care workers, with a fillable PDF form that clearly lays out your requested accommodations and your legal rights to them.
Download our Request for Accommodation in Health Care Facilities PDF today.
Sick with COVID? What To Do
You’re not alone. Most people recover from their initial infection. These recommendations will give you the best chance to recover and prevent others from being infected.
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The Long COVID Game
Research | Design | Play
Exploring how we understand ourselves, each other, and the worlds around us through games and play.
Sick with COVID? What To Do
This is a facilitator’s guide for The Long COVID Game, an instructional game on the increasing risks of contracting Long COVID with repeated infections.
Overview
This short (<5min) instructional game can help illustrate the risks of repeated COVID infections and the chance of acquiring Long COVID. It was designed for large groups, such as a classroom of students. The goal is to communicate the benefits of wearing a respirator, such as an N95, to reduce the number of COVID infections and thus the risk of contracting Long COVID.
COVID-19 and IBD
Crohn’s and Colitis Canada COVID-19 and IBD task force guidance statements
(Updated March 14, 2023)
Note from the COVID-19 and IBD Task Force:
The Crohn’s and Colitis Canada COVID-19 and IBD Task Force was formed in March 2020 when the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic was declared. The purpose of the Task Force was to:
- Assess the impact of COVID-19 on people living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD),
- Interpret the rapidly evolving evidence of risk, vaccination and treatment of COVID-19 in people with IBD, and
- Provide the IBD community with educational resources and guidance.
Participant flow diagram. Flow diagram outlining the creation of the analytic sample for this study (N = 435) and the grouping of Long COVID (n = 215) vs Without Long COVID (n = 220) within the sample. Percentages were computed by dividing each n by the number of individuals in the preceding box
Long COVID and recovery from Long COVID: quality of life impairments and subjective cognitive decline at a median of 2 years after initial infection
Published November 05, 2024
Recovery from SARS CoV-2 infection is expected within 3 months. Long COVID occurs after SARS-CoV-2 when symptoms are present for more than 3 months that are continuous, relapsing and remitting, or progressive. Better understanding of Long COVID illness trajectories could strengthen patient care and support.
Why Your Patient is Covid Cautious
Thread of all the Covid resources I’ve created. Links to PDFs located in my bio. Please feel free to use & share!
COVID-19: Longer-term symptoms among Canadian adults :
Factors associated with limitations in daily activities among adults in Canada with post COVID-19 condition, January 2020 to August 2022
Last updated: 2024-08-21
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by an infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has had a substantial impact on the health and well-being of Canadians. In addition to symptoms experienced during the acute phase of infection, some people continue to experience persistent, recurring, or new symptoms. These longer-term, wide-ranging symptoms, which can negatively impact daily activities, work and school, are commonly known as “post COVID-19 condition” (PCC) or “long COVID” when not resolved within three months of infection.
RNA-Seq analysis of human heart tissue reveals SARS-CoV-2 infection and inappropriate activation of the TNF-NF-κB pathway in cardiomyocytes
The negative impact of SARS-CoV-2 virus infection on cardiovascular disease (CVD) patients is well established. This research article explores the cellular pathways involved in underlying heart diseases after infection. The systemic inflammatory response to SARS-CoV-2 infection likely exacerbates this increased cardiovascular risk; however, whether the virus directly infects cardiomyocytes remains unknown due to limited multi-omics data. While public transcriptome data exists for COVID-19 infection in different cell types (including cardiomyocytes), infection times vary between studies. We used available RNA-seq data from human heart tissue to delineate SARS-CoV-2 infection and heart failure aetiology specific gene expression signatures. A total of fifty-four samples from four studies were analysed. Our aim was to investigate specific transcriptome changes occurring in cardiac tissue with SARS-CoV-2 infection compared to non-infected controls. Our data establish that SARS-CoV-2 infects cardiomyocytes by the TNF-NF-κB pathway, potentially triggering acute cardiovascular complications and increasing the long-term cardiovascular risk in COVID-19 patients.
15+ Care Plan Templates- PDF | Google Docs | MS Word | Pages | Samples, Examples
One important means of communicating and managing every activity and action of an ever-changing nursing workforce is a realistic and timely care plan. In attending to each patient’s needs, the medical staff needs an updated care plan that will be passed on to the nursing staff during the rotation of every shift and nursing round. Care plan templates can also help medical instructors in teaching documentation practices to medical students and interns.
My Covid Compilations Duplicated from Twitter
I used my now-retired Twitter account from 2020 to late 2023 to compile and organize studies, articles, and expert discussions pertinent to Covid-19. All compilations and links to other Covid and Long Covid resources are duplicated as an archive and ongoing Covid resource. (I quietly add new studies, articles, discussions, and videos to my files every week, but no longer update the original threads on Twitter.)
Just call me your pandemic librarian.
SARS-CoV-2 Resources the pandemic never ended ✱ it's never too late to start caring
Covid (SARS-Cov-2) is short for severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2. The virus is airborne and neuroinvasive. It causes vascular
disease and dysregulates immune systems. The pandemic is not over, the
virus never became milder, and the government has continually lied about
the threat. Because the virus is being allowed to spread freely, more
dangerous variants are constantly emerging. We are all in serious danger.
Click here for access to 11 additional downloads. The creator encourages you to post and share.
This is a extreamly helpful resource
Visit this site for free graphic downloads, free masks, and current information about Covid and Long Covid.
A template asking your healthcare team for COVID-19 protections
This template can be modified to find a COVID-19 safe medical facility that will accommodate your needs.
The following is not legal advice. It is simply an example of a letter that may be used to ask for accommodations.
The form is not a guarantee that the request will be granted.
Please consult a lawyer or legal clinic for advice about your particular situation.
Some clinics that may be able to assist you, include those listed on this site: bchrt.bc.ca/whocanhelp/index.htm
A fillable PDF version of the below can be accessed here.
What COVID-19 Does To The Body (Fourth Edition, March 2024) Over 130+ Studies On COVID-19 Effects & Prevention
Since our last edition in December, the CDC has now empowered employers to force workers sick & contagious with COVID-19 to work through an active viral infection, spreading pestilence to others. Along with an uptick in LongCOVID as a result of this past year’s pandemic mismanagement, we also have a growing body of research showing the many harms that even “mild” (not hospitalized) COVID-19 infections can leave on the human body. This round, the largest number of developments have come from understanding COVID-19’s effects on children, the brain, the immune system, and Long COVID – a disability afflicting millions of Americans, including kids.
We can fight this!
Join the Canadian Covid Society in our mission to save lives
Our Mission
At the Canadian Covid Society, we strive to protect the health and safety of people in Canada against the harms of COVID-19 and long Covid, through education, engaging and empowering the public and organizations with scientific knowledge.
"What's Up With COVID and How to Protect Yourself: 2024 Edition" © 2024 by Hazel Newlevant is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
Download a printable PDF of this zine here! Print on 4 sheets of paper, double-sided, short-edge binding. Fold it in half, then staple in the middle. Regular PDF here.
SARS-CoV-2 infection and persistence in the human body and brain at autopsy
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is known to cause multi-organ dysfunction1,2,3 during acute infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), with some patients experiencing prolonged symptoms, termed post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2. However, the burden of infection outside the respiratory tract and time to viral clearance are not well characterized, particularly in the brain. Here we carried out complete autopsies on 44 patients who died with COVID-19, with extensive sampling of the central nervous system in 11 of these patients, to map and quantify the distribution, replication and cell-type specificity of SARS-CoV-2 across the human body,
A lot of people would benefit from reading this excellent presentation, not just therapists
A lot of the information presented today may be new for you, and some of it might be upsetting or stressful
You may experience feelings of anger, fear, anxiety, sadness, defensiveness
Notice what’s coming up for you and acknowledge it without judgement
Notice how your nervous system is responding, and do what you need to do to regulate so you can stay engaged
The goal is not to do anything differently right now – just to stay open and listen
Resources to help schools keep students and staff safe
The COVID Safety for Schools Course is a high-quality video-based course for Australian schools. It explains the realities of COVID in clear, easy-to-understand language and provides practical advice on how to minimise the risk of COVID spreading at schools, based on the latest science.
The course has been created with the involvement of leading scientific and medical experts in fields relevant to COVID-19.
The course is available online, self-paced and completely free.
A literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus.
LitCovid is a curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus. It is the most comprehensive resource on the subject, providing central access to 29074 (and growing) relevant articles in PubMed. The articles are updated daily and are further categorized by different research topics and geographic locations for improved access.
What To Do If You Get COVID
Practical tips to protect yourself from the long tail of risk
That moment you’ve been dreading has arrived (perhaps not for the first time). You or someone in your household woke up with a sore throat maybe, or a nagging cough, and you did the swab. Double red line. Dammit.
What to do now? “Pax and relax”? Sit it out and hope for the best? Go about your normal business (as an increasingly alarming number of “experts” seem to be advising)? Is it really all down to a matter of good luck, good genes and good health? Not really. The available science says that there are differences in outcomes for people based on the choices they make after they get COVID, provided they move quickly.
In this post, we will share with you the things that we would do in that situation.
Outpatient treatment of COVID-19 and incidence of post-COVID-19 condition over 10 months (COVID-OUT): a multicentre, randomised, quadruple-blind, parallel-group, phase 3 trial
Post-COVID-19 condition (also known as long COVID) is an emerging chronic illness potentially affecting millions of people. We aimed to evaluate whether outpatient COVID-19 treatment with metformin, ivermectin, or fluvoxamine soon after SARS-CoV-2 infection could reduce the risk of long COVID.
Common diabetes drug shown to prevent long COVID
A 14-day course of metformin, a common drug used to manage type 2 diabetes, prevents long COVID, according to a new study in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
The promising results come from the COVID-OUT study, which looked at three readily available drugs: ivermectin, fluvoxamine, and metformin, for both COVID treatment and long-COVID prevention. All three drugs had shown antiviral properties in vivo against SARS-CoV-2, and all had been promising medical treatments for the virus, as they are cheap and safe.
Now, more than 2 years after the outpatients trial began, metformin is the only medical intervention in the study shown to prevent long COVID.
Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 viral loads in stool samples and nasopharyngeal swabs from COVID-19 patients in the UAE
Overall, in this study, 42% of participants that tested positive for the virus in nasopharyngeal swabs also tested positive in stools highlighting the high rate of viral shedding in stools among COVID-19 patients and demonstrating that wastewater-based epidemiology could provide estimates of infectious cases in the population. Based on the results reported in this study, wastewater-based surveillance has the advantage of monitoring virus shedding over time from symptomatic, asymptomatic, pre-symptomatic, and post-symptomatic individuals. This approach can present valuable information on the prevalence of the virus in the community and the early detection of outbreaks. Previously, studies investigating SARS-CoV-2 detection in stool samples were qualitative and involved hospitalized and severe cases. In this study, we explored the quantitative pattern of viral shedding in mild cases and highlighted the disparity between viral shedding in stools and nasopharyngeal swabs.
Viral load in stools and nasopharyngeal swabs of unvaccinated and vaccinated (at least 1 dose) participants.
What SARS-CoV-2 Does to the Body (3rd Edition, December 2023)
The Ever-Expanding Biological Minefield
With the JN.1 variant heading into 2024, with poor booster uptake and little to no masking, many Americans will be bringing home a deadly and disabling virus from their holiday celebrations and discovering their new status as a disabled person in the following months. Following up with our previous editions of this archive, from July 2023 and November 2022, this compilation of medical research on just how SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 harm the human body is more important now than ever.
How To Talk To Your Loved Ones About Covid
So, you love someone who has stopped taking Covid precautions (or never took them to begin with)
What are you going to do now? If you’re here, you’re concerned about keeping your community safe. But how? What do those conversations actually look like? This guide is a template for navigating these emotionally-charged and difficult conversations. It attempts to put you on a good path for teaching others what you know while encouraging mask wearing, doing what you can to protect your community, including yourself.
We are speaking across a huge divide.
Everyone who has stopped masking is living in a different version of reality than we are. In their minds, Covid is over. Or milder, or a problem for the sick. All around, restaurants are open. The bars are open. The mall is open. False ‘normalcy’ is everywhere.
What to Do When I Have Covid
Part of responsible citizenship during a pandemic involves avoiding becoming infected (and likely spreading infection) as much as possible. It also involves having a plan in place in case we do get infected. Just like we’re more likely to survive a fire or an earthquake if we’ve planned ahead for it (including gathering supplies, educating ourselves on risks and common mistakes, and developing protocols for ourselves and our families), we’re more likely to have a mild experience with Covid if we plan ahead.
This document is meant to get you thinking about what your Covid+ plan might look like.
Eyeglasses and risk of COVID-19 transmission - analysis of the Virus Watch Community Cohort study
Highlights
- Eyeglasses are associated with a protective effect against COVID-19
- The protective effect was reduced if wearing glasses interfered with mask-wearing
- There was no protective effect for those who wore contact lens
- Still a protective association after adjusting for age, sex, occupation and income
Infectivity of exhaled SARS-CoV-2 aerosols is sufficient to transmit covid-19 within minutes
Six aerosol samples from three individuals were culturable, of which five were successfully quantified using TCID50. The source strength of the three individuals was highest during singing, when they exhaled 4, 36, or 127 TCID50/s, respectively.
COVID (SARS2) THANKS YOU!
Covid & The Immune System
“No, we are *not* going to sling around misinformation like “immunity debt” this winter. Here are 40 sources on what covid does to your immune system”
What SARS-CoV-2 Does to the Body (2nd Edition, July 2023)
Published by the Pandemic Accountability Index, July 7, 2023
Last November, we posted a compilation of over a hundred studies and articles on how the SARS-CoV-2 virus can harm the body. It’s been a little over six months since then, and a lot more research has been published since then. So, it’s long overdue to revisit our understanding of why it’s just so important to prevent infections from a deadly & disabling virus that has ended and upended the lives of millions around the world – in Europe alone; the WHO is saying that over 36 million are suffering from Long COVID disability, an umbrella term for numerous medical complications.
Those who have insisted that SARS-CoV-2 is relatively harmless or “mild” or insisted that COVID-19 is “just a cold/flu” should be forced to contend with the ever-growing mountain of scientific research that has emerged as new discoveries continue to be researched to this day.
We Own it to Each Other to Create Safe and Accessible Spaces
Safer In-Person Gatherings is what we should all want. The Peoples CDC has published this guide that offers strategies for safer in-person gatherings.
COVID-19 is airborne and in our efforts to be together, we do not want to leave behind those who cannot access indoor and in-person spaces during this pandemic.
You can view the slideshow by clicking on the image. If you would like to download the Safer Gatherings PDF to share click here to download
@PeteUK7 hosted this space with Dr. Rae Duncan and Dr. Claire Taylor.
Anyone who’s been keeping up with the UK Covid Inquiry will know that woeful decisions & incapable people led us into this terrible situation. If OTOH you want to hear real professionals tell you the TRUTH about Covid & the present-day risks to you & your family.
Listen Here if you do not have a Twiter account.
EXPERT OPINION ON THERAPEUTIC TARGETS 2023, VOL. 27, NOS. 4–5, 263–267
Virus-induced senescence: A therapeutic target to mitigate severe progression of SARS-COV-2
The SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in a severe global public health catastrophe, with COVID-19 being the 3rd largest cause of death in the U.S.A, ranked only behind heart disease and cancer. There were also significant economic costs with the measures put in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19. COVID-19 is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, first identified in Wuhan, China, in late 2019. New strains have emerged throughout the pandemic that differ in transmission efficiency, virulence, and vaccine susceptibility, thus complicating the spread of the pandemic.
Physiology International
Beyond the acute illness: Exploring long COVID and its impact on multiple organ systems
The emergence of COVID-19, caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, has significantly impacted human health on a global scale. Since the first reported case in December 2019, the virus has spread rapidly across the globe, infecting millions of individuals and leading to widespread morbidity and mortality.
Although COVID-19 primarily affects the respiratory system, emerging evidence indicates that it may also harm other organs, including the cardiovascular, neurological, gastrointestinal, dermatological, and renal systems, resulting in chronic complications in some people. These post-COVID-19 complications are known as long COVID or post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC).
The COVID Inquiry Podcast , BBC Radio 4
Listen to all 10 episodes of the COVID Inquiry Podcast presented by the BBC.
What is the UK Covid-19 Inquiry?
The UK Covid-19 Inquiry has been set up to examine the UK’s response to and impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and learn lessons for the future.
SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure in UK Biobank
There is strong evidence of brain-related abnormalities in COVID-19. However, it remains unknown whether the impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection can be detected in milder cases and whether this can reveal possible mechanisms contributing to brain pathology. Here, we investigated brain changes in 785 participants of UK Biobank (aged 51–81 years) who were imaged twice using magnetic resonance imaging, including 401 cases who tested positive for infection with SARS-CoV-2 between their two scans—with 141 days on average separating their diagnosis and the second scan—as well as 384 controls.
Open-Access Case Law Database
Among the unprecedented challenges posed by the COVID-19 crisis, countless legal issues are at the forefront. The Covid-19 Litigation Project aims to provide an overview on a worldwide scale of the case law resulting from challenges against government measures to fight the pandemic.
The Most Important Lesson of the COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID Patients Exhale High Levels of Virus the First Eight Days
COVID patients exhale high numbers of virus during the first eight days after symptoms start, as high as 1,000 copies per minute, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. It is the first longitudinal, direct measure of the number of SARS-CoV-2 viral copies exhaled per minute over the course of the infection — from the first sign of symptoms until 20 days after. On day eight, exhaled levels of virus drop steeply, down to near the limit of detection —an average of two copies exhaled per minute
COVID-19 and Bone Health
Current evidence and reports indicate a direct relationship between SARS-CoV-2 infection and bone health, with SARS-CoV-2 having a significant negative effect on bone health. In this review, we analyzed the impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection on bone health and assessed the impact of COVID-19 on the diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis.
When The People Who Keep You Well Are Making You Sick
Obtaining Health Care Safely in the Pandemicene
First, a caveat: this piece is long. There aren’t a lot of profound truths in the following paragraphs, but there is a lot of nitty-gritty advice along the lines of “If they do X, you say Y.” It’s gotta be granular, this time, because the devil is in the details. But as with any advice, some individual suggestions may or may not work for you. You may find some ideas helpful and others not, or find them helpful some of the time, but not always.
Accessing health care can be a very fraught enterprise, for a lot of reasons. Many people (including women, BIPOC, LGBTQ folks, people whose first language is not English, folks with disabilities or chronic illness, and those who are uninsured) are especially likely to find navigating the healthcare industry challenging because so many providers hold implicit biases that make it hard for patients to be heard and respected.
A next-generation intranasal trivalent MMS vaccine induces durable and broad protection against SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern
There is an urgent need to develop a mucosal SARS-CoV-2 vaccine that can induce broad, durable protection. MMR has been one of the safest and most successful vaccines in human history. By expressing the six-proline-stabilized prefusion spikes from three diverse SARS-CoV-2 strains in the MeV, MuV-JL1, and MuV-JL2 vaccine strains from MMR, we generated a MMS trivalent vaccine candidate. Intranasally delivered MMS induced strong SARS-CoV-2-specific neutralizing antibody, mucosal IgA, and systemic and lung resident T cell immune responses that provide broad protection against challenge with each of these three strains. Therefore, MMS is a highly promising next-generation vaccine candidate against COVID-19. Furthermore, any of the three component vaccine viruses can be quickly modified when a new important SARS-CoV-2 variant appears.
From the World Health Network
COVID-19 is airborne, and COVID particles can hang in the air for hours. It is still possible to stay safe at indoor gatherings.
For more information on proper ventilation, see our ventilation guidelines. For information on staying safe in everyday life, see our guidelines for individuals.
Welcome to Covid Safe Network
By clicking “Read More” below you will find links to businesses and schools that take Covid precautions to protect their customers and staff. You will also find links to studies and news stories that demonstrate the severity of Covid-19.
COVID SAFETY 101 (2023)
Covid (SARS-Cov-2) is short for severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2. The virus is airborne and neuroinvasive. It causes vascular
disease and dysregulates immune systems.
The pandemic is not over, the virus never became milder, and the government has continually lied about the threat.
Covid Lists
A curated list of 337 bookmarks (and growing) about all things COVID-19. This is a great first stop if you are looking for information ranging from Research to consumer products.
List of 2250 COVID-19 Studies
This extensive list of research studies and articles was curated by Zotero. Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research. Information dates back to December 2019 before the world knew we were heading into a pandemic.
COVID-19 epidemiology update: Current situation
Summary of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths, cases following vaccination, testing and variants of concern across Canada and over time. Older versions of this report are available on the archived reports page.
Comparative study showed that children faced a 78% higher risk of new-onset conditions after they had COVID-19
We compared 1656 exposed and 1656 unexposed children from 1 February 2020 to 30 November 2021. The overall excess risk for new-onset conditions after COVID-19 was 78% higher in the exposed than unexposed children. We found significantly higher risks for some new conditions in exposed children, including mental health issues (aHR 1.8, 95% CI 1.1–3.0) and neurological problems (aHR 2.4, 95% CI 1.4–4.1).
Conclusion
Exposed children had a 78% higher risk of developing new conditions of interest after COVID-19 than unexposed children.
By Ruth Ann Crystal MD
Updated Weekly
Dr. Ruth’s SubStack publishes updates on COVID news and more weekly. If you subscribe for free, you can receive her weekly updates by E-mail. Information is about COVID-19 in the US.
Use of Electronic Clinical Data to Track Incidence and Mortality for SARS-CoV-2–Associated Sepsis
FREE COVID Safety Resource List
Your ultimate guide to staying covid-safe
@violetblue.bsky.social has compiled a very extensive and informative list of questions, answers and links about COVID. She constantly updates this list making it a good bookmark to return to. Thank you Violet.
Share it with anyone who needs it.
No one is safe until all of us are safe.
Cheat sheet for doctors and nurses and to leave in waiting rooms
About COVID-19 Resources Canada
COVID-19 Resources Canada is an online national platform where we can join efforts to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.
We collect videos, infographics and written explainers developed for non-scientists, plus resources with more scientific detail. Feel free to learn from them yourself, or to share them with those around you.
Follow this direct link to the Canadian Hazard COVID-19 Index which is regularly updated with data for Canada and for individual provinces.
Other Site Links
So why are we ignoring it?
We think they should know the truth.
COVID Impacts: Home
While there have been many epidemics and pandemics throughout history, there has never been one that so rapidly and completely altered the dynamics of life on this planet as COVID-19. This LibGuide is an attempt to identify and highlight the monumental impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic has had and will continue to have on the world.
Advocacy group working to connect COVID-19 advocates at the local, state, and national levels and taking action to prevent COVID-19 spread and save lives.
COVID-Conscious Therapist Directory
Find mental health support that’s sensitive to the realities of living through COVID-19.
COVID-conscious mental health services should be accessible to everyone.
Covid is in the air
To inform and bring together elements allowing everyone to act in the context of an airborne virus epidemic.
The goal? Reduce epidemic circulation and allow everyone to reintegrate social life into correct safety conditions. We want to inform you of the airborne nature of the COVID-19 virus, and its consequences for everyone, act to ensure that essential places are accessible to as many people as possible and protect in particular the most vulnerable, and our children.
COVID Safety Shop
A COVID FAQ with 300 Sources
Jessica Wildfire, August 23, 2023
Earlier this year, politicians and news outlets tried once again to convince the public that the pandemic was over and that Covid had turned into the flu. They were wrong. Over the coming weeks and months, we’re going to find out just how wrong they were.
Highly mutated forms of Covid are showing up all over the world. Some Covid minimizers are backtracking while others are doubling and tripling down on the same old lies.
Life, Health & the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic
We live in the dual catastrophe of a viral pandemic, and a pandemic of misinformation. The latter
makes the former strangely invisible. Harms caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus are routinely minimized
to the point that many people believe the infection is ‘mild’ and our world is ‘post-pandemic.’
In here I raise the alarms…
Written by …
Peter Beaver is a sociologist and qualitative researcher with a PhD in patient safety. He would like a future for all of us that does not include preventable illness and uncontrolled pandemics. You can find
him on Twitter: @PeterJBeaver
Inside Medicine COVID-19 Metrics Dashboard
A COVID-19 dashboard that shows the daily metrics of Hospital Capacity, ICU Capacity, New Hospitalizations, Deaths, Wastewater Percentile and Tests for the US.
Follow Benjamin Renton on tableau public to see additional metrics on a wide range of COVID-19 stats.
Professional support for
survivors & the bereaved
Please be aware that a COVID infection can quickly turn into sepsis, which, in turn, can quickly turn deadly. Know the signs.
Impact of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Prevention Measures on Non-SARS-CoV-2 Hospital-Onset Respiratory Viral Infections: An Incidence Trend Analysis From 2015–2023
We reviewed hospital-onset respiratory viral infections, 2015–2023, in one hospital to determine whether Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission prevention measures prevented non-SARS-CoV-2 respiratory viral infections. Masking, employee symptom attestations, and screening patients and visitors for symptoms were associated with a 44%–53% reduction in hospital-onset influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), accounting for changes in community incidence.
COVID-19 is spread by aerosols (airborne): an evidence review
There are still many who argue strongly against the role of aerosols in the transmission of COVID-19. In general, I think these arguments clash with science and have significant logical inconsistencies. Before getting to the evidence that COVID-19 is spread by aerosols, let’s dispel a few widely held misconceptions.
We had COVID come into our home. How we stopped it from spreading
Author: Joey Fox, P. Eng, M.A.Sc @joeyfox85
We stopped COVID in our home! My wife felt sick early last week and then tested positive (RAT). Everyone in our family is now negative. My kids and I never got it. We didn’t resort to extreme measures like isolation or kids wearing N95s all day. This is how we did it.
