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Your ultimate guide to staying covid-safe.

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Just so you know

Covid is airborne: it is in the exhaled breath of infected people. 2/3 of covid spread comes from pre-symptomatic people or asymptomatic infected people — they show no symptoms. It’s estimated that 30% of all covid cases are asymptomatic. Rapid tests miss 90% of asymptomatic cases.

Vaccination and treatment like Paxlovid are your last lines of defense. Covid-19 is not just a respiratory infection, it is a multi-organ disease; a serious vascular, neurological, immune-system-damaging, sometimes brain-damaging, and randomly disabling disease (CDC: 1 in 5; PHAC: 50%).

It typically shows up with respiratory, flu-like, or viral meningitis symptoms. Post-infection immunity has shortened to 28 days. Anyone infected is at high risk for serious heart problems: it spares no one. After covid infection risk of deadly blood clots is elevated for one year.

Long covid will result from multiple reinfections, as well as any severity of infection. Each reinfection does cumulative and worsening damage and increases long covid risk. There is no treatment for long covid; there is no cure for long covid; there is no prevention for long covid. Everyone of every age and health status can get long covid. Here is what long covid looks like.

There’s no good news coming out of studies on how repeated infections might impact the population in the future. The AMA wants people to know that getting reinfected is “akin to playing Russian roulette.”

See also: How to Talk to Your Loved Ones About Covid