• masks keep you from getting sick! and keep others from getting sick! not only from covid but also the flu, colds, tuberculosis, measles, pertussis, airborne poop infections...

• approximately 1 in 57 people (1.7%) are actively infected with covid right now in the United States - as of today (Oct 20), available wastewater tracking data was October 10.

• the British Medical Journal calls covid "a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one"--the initial infection may be respiratory, but it leaves lasting damage in the brain, heart, and kidneys in addition to the lungs.

• every infection increases your risk of long covid. repeat infections make it worse.

• long covid is strongly associated with increased risk of cardiovascular problems, especially angina and heart attacks.

here's what the yearly trends look like:

here are current infection rates by state & county:

  (if you'd like to check specific state numbers, or numbers from other countries, go here and scroll about 3/4 of the way down the page)

• 40% (maybe more!) of infections are asymptomatic.
in one study, 97.5% of the patients who tested positive had no symptoms of covid.

• someone who is infected breathes out one virus dose every HALF HOUR (enough to infect one person). and they might not even know they're sick!

• in a room of 25 people (a classroom, perhaps?), there is currently a 1 in 4 chance someone is infected and contagious.

• every repeat infection does additional damage to your body.

• 1 in 4 people catch covid from someone who never showed symptoms.

• research suggests covid increases your risk of cancer. it also appears to have the power to reawaken cancer that was in remission ?????

• it seems to accelerate cognitive decline. (my breakdown of a related study on brain ageing here)


we can stop this! all you have to do is wear a mask around others.
i don't like it either, but it's the only way it's gonna get better.


(i also post updates on tiktok - study summaries & news)








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