CIDRAP Pediatric long-COVID levels hold steady in US, result in activity limitations – Stephanie Soucheray, MA February 4, 2025 Of note, among children currently experiencing long COVID, 80.0% (95% CI, 62.8% to 91.7%) had activity limitation of some sort that they did not have prior to contracting COVID-19.
CIDRAP Long-COVID study shows high rates of cognitive change Stephanie Soucheray, MA December 23, 2024 The high rates of sleep disturbances and cognitive changes, including brain fog and memory loss, were the most significant findings. Social support negatively correlated with psychological distress, with those who reported more social isolation during their long COVID illness having worse mental health outcomes.
More people will be missing school and work because of chronic illness. We all know that’s what’s going on, even if people don’t attribute it directly to covid, it’s a known cause of short staffing and school absenteeism.
NBC News – CDC is pulling back $11B in Covid funding sent to health departments across the U.S. “Now that the pandemic is over, the grants and cooperative agreements are no longer necessary,” federal health authorities wrote to funding recipients this week. March 25, 2025, 3:18 PM EDT By Brandy Zadrozny “The COVID-19 pandemic is over, and HHS will no longer waste billions of taxpayer dollars responding to a non-existent pandemic that Americans moved on from years ago,” HHS Director of Communications Andrew Nixon said in a statement. “HHS is prioritizing funding projects that will deliver on President Trump’s mandate to address our chronic disease epidemic and Make America Healthy Again.”
Of course the pandemic isn’t over, or people would’ve stopped getting sick with covid. And we know that people just keep getting sick with covid. Everyone knows it.
Vaccination could curb the risk of chronic illness from covid, but that’s being defunded so… expect more chronic illness in America.
My letter to reps:
Nowadays covid vaccine uptake is in the basement, so we’re probably going to have more people, including children getting complications and chronic illness. It’s also evident in the absenteeism at schools because of chronic illness in kids. Everyone knows everyone’s getting sick all the damn time and then having problems after covid. And now the CDC has pulled funding for public health. What do you expect will happen because of this? Covid is also the elephant in the room with job staffing issues as well. Everyone’s sick all the time, sick days, sick leave, or forced out of work because of major health problems after covid infections. Everyone knows this. And the government has just dropped the ball because apparently elected officials are scared of needles and a little piece of fabric placed over your nose and mouth so you listen to fringe kooks like RFKJr who tell you to ignore solving problems because it’s easier. Maybe get over your fear of needles and do what’s right for health in America.
Please feel free to copy or repurpose for your own letters to reps.
I’m not the only one who’s been warning that this is all about eugenics ideas fueling MAGA and it’s absolutely the case that these people claim to want to stop chronic disease but what they really want is, for example, to shame people for not signing up for some wellness guru profiteer’s sketchy program with some kind of shakes and supplement pills from who knows where, in place of science-based medicine from a cardiologist.