• 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 275 people (0.4%) are actively infected with covid right now in the United States - as of today (May 21), available wastewater tracking data was last updated May 9.

• 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.

here's what the yearly trends look like:

here are infection rates by state:
(refreshingly low, but still higher than the first two years of the pandemic, if you look at the graph above)

  (if you'd like to check specific state numbers, 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 100 people (a wedding, perhaps?), there is currently a 1 in 3 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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