Many COVID-19 survivors are likely to be at greater risk of developing mental illness, psychiatrists said on Monday, after a large study found 20% of those infected with the coronavirus are diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder within 90 days.
    • anthm17 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Pandemics have collapsed empires before.

      The hospital system is just starting to see the surge and it's already strained to the breaking point, probably past it in North Dakota (asymptomatic nurses coming back to work).

        • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          Miracle vaccine has been found, the results of the vaccine trails claim 90% efficiency in preventing covid infection (the FDA and Fauci were looking to approve anything with over 50% efficiency, just to give you an idea). The problem is the manufacturing and distribution of the vaccine, as well as once that's done getting antivaxx Q 12chan to take it. Don't expect to be able to get a vaccine until mid 2021 at the earliest

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      This is me going full doomer brain but the US was already hitting over 100 000 cases a day during the election. With that level of base infection, the elections and post celebration/chud rage could act as a massive super-spreader event across the whole country. Yeah folks, not good