I cannot reiterate enough with the frequency and gravity it deserves that every reinfection increases the cumulative risk of Long COVlD.
Our PMC survey data (n>2,000) suggest it is rare to avoid LC after 5+ known infections. I'll talk more about that again Sunday night in Becky's Space.
Sars-cov-2 and the late pandemic surge in invasive group A streptococcal disease
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
PMC COVID Update, Dec 22, 2025 (U.S.)
All indicators are that million of Americans are about to get COVID-19 "surprise" holiday infections.
pmc19.com/data
What did we learn about #COVID in 2020? A thread on studies from the first year 👇
skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
by bsky.app/profile/itsm...
Summary:
💨 , asymptomatic transmission, starts at the 👃
😷 🛑 cases
💩 Systemic ☠️ disease, not limited to the 🫁
One of the reasons why I go so hard on science misinformation/disinformation, is that as a working scientist it is frustrating to see your research misreported to push an agenda.
For example, consider this piece of right-wing propaganda from The Telegraph that was just published
“A large…study over 465,000 U.S. pediatric patients found that a second SARS-CoV-2 infection more than doubles the risk of Long COVID in children and adolescents as compared to the first COVID infection… Long COVID [has surpassed] asthma as the most common chronic disease in children.”
We’re all dealing with the Tylenol ridiculousness, but we can’t forget Florida is the first state to lose their vaccine requirements…
youtube.com/shorts/Yn4cl...
Tired of being gaslit about your Covid precautions in healthcare facilities or #LongCovid? This 1-page letter has key studies on brain, heart & immune damage—perfect for printing & handing to your doctor. Download:
uofi.app.box.com/s/9llu70jkrf...
#PatientAdvocacy #ChronicIllness #MedicalGaslighting
After 6 years of infections, reinfections, and lack of thorough data, only 5 million worldwide seems like an undercount.
tfn.scot/news/long-co...
Not just eugenics, but they deliberately dont care about l0ng c0v1d patients.
/People suffering with long Covid in Scotland are being pushed into poverty, a landmark new report has found./
"A growing number of scientists believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may instead be subtly altering our immune systems. If correct, their hypothesis will change how we understand everything from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) to shingles to sepsis."
Here’s the link to the article the other link didn’t seem to work.
www.sciencenordic.com/denmark-epid...
It’s been said #Covid19 is “just a cold”, a metaphor used to influence your behaviors & Deny what Cov19 Actually Is. Cov19 is a serious vascular dx & harms the Entire body.This article explains metaphors in relation to Cov19 sciencenordic.com/denmark-epidem…www.notesforfriends.com/p/covid-isnt...eb
COVID Isn’t a Cold. It’s Cigarettes All Over Again The Damage Is Everywhere – That Is the Definition of Long COVID Look, we’ve been here before. My grandpa smoked two packs a day for most of my memory of him. Everyone did. Doctors literally prescribed cigarettes for stress. They said it was good for you. Made you look cool. Helped you lose weight. Whatever. He felt fine until he didn’t. That’s exactly what’s happening with COVID right now, and nobody wants to hear it. People are catching this thing two, three times a year and acting like it’s nothing. Just a cold. Just the sniffles. Meanwhile, their blood vessels are getting shredded. Their organs are taking hits. Their brains are leaking.... More at the link in the main post
🚨🧵 by @david.notesforfriends.com about Covid's damage & a cigarette metaphor:
"Your Body Is Keeping Score
Here’s the thing nobody gets: COVID doesn’t give a shit about your positive thinking. It’s not checking your Instagram to see..."
Full🎯thread here:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19645...
Research summary thread!!
A COVID research paper found that the histamine 1 receptor (HRH1) is highly involved in enhancing COVID infection.
They also found that most H1 blockers (antihistamines, like Claritin) reduced COVID after exposure!
1/8
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Mandating Indoor Air Quality in Public Buildings.
Our paper in Science.
🧪 #healthpolicy
Today @thesicktimes.org: Community health worker Zaina Fairey shares advice on getting others to care about COVID-19.
"It would be easy to turn my back on those people and give up on community organizations that minimize COVID-19. But that’s not me, and that’s not what being in community means."
Critical thread here. Congress has stepped up but they need to do more—they need to check the Executive Branch from running roughshod over their constitutional power of appropriation. They need to stop America from stagnating in the intellectual backwaters of a dictatorship
This is a fascinating preprint which simultaneously (re)demonstrates that the immune system is a better detector of non-self than our current analytical techniques, while providing further support for the idea that long covid is due to persistence
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
It would probably be a good idea to also post this video would on Twitter
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHx7...
A really important short film to watch that unpicks so much we have been told about covid.
“The COVID pandemic began with a myth – that children are spared its ill effects. In contrast, many children were sick with COVID, and we now have a new chronic illness emerging,” Kleinman said
www.rutgers.edu/news/study-s...
#ChildHealth #LongCovidKids #LongCovid #PaediatricLongCovid
TL;DR a mild case is a 3 point IQ drop, lingering symptoms? That's 6 points. Hospitalized? 9 points.
theconversation.com/mounting-res...
Schrier to RFK Jr: You gave Cassidy the answer he needed to hear in order to get his confirmation vote, then as soon as you were secretary you turned around & fired all 17 members. You lied. I also want to be clear that I will lay all responsibility for every vaccine-preventable death at your feet.
Since there is talk about bringing back ASBESTOS (this is somehow true), I thought it would be useful to describe just some what happens to you when you breath this stuff into your lungs.
In short, it’s terrible.
A 🧵
Based on wastewater it looks like XFG has already overtaken NB.1.8.1 in the US.
lungfish-science.github.io/wastewater-d...
The Elephant 🐘 in the room is C0️⃣v!d.
The Trojan Horse 🐎 is
Long C0️⃣v!d.
Stuck in the middle with masking…
Psychologist @drseanmullen.bsky.social is 'playing the long game in a short-sighted age'.
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
Covid19 is a trojan horse & takes whatever it can from you.
Don’t minimize Covid because it doesn’t minimize you.
Protect yourself, with a well fitting N95 respirator or KN95 mask, & clean the air
📌 Correct Link 📌
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🔥 Good 🧵
The ‘Other Person’ could be you someday. No one is immune to disease or disability.
Stop Othering!
Read to the end.
