Parents, physicians and researchers can join the Children’s Long Covid Network Facebook group to connect and share information: www.facebook.com/groups/99369...
Disclosure: The founder of the Children’s Long Covid Network is a member of our Long Covid Committee.
#LongCovid #pediatriclongcovid
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Graphic with a computer screen showing the change.org petition titled “Demand Federal Action on Biomedical Care for Children Living with Long COVID” The French translation of this title is immediately below. Below the titles is the Children’s Long Covid Network (CLCN) logo. This includes a graphic of a highly stylized hand, palm up, in a dark teal colour. In the hand are three figures in a coral pink colour. Beside this graphic is the organization’s name and tagline, which reads: “Children’s Long Covid Network Their strength. Their journey. Our responsibility.” The French translation of this text is directly below. The computer screen sits on a background featuring a navy and teal gradient. There are blue-toned dots scattered across the background.
Last fall, the Children’s Long Covid Network launched a petition calling on the federal government to take action for children living with Long Covid. Learn more, and add your name to those calling for action: chng.it/7ZSzLXnp5n
#LongCovid #ILCAD2026 #LongCovidAwareness #pediatriclongcovid
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Sanofi will be making Novavax available in Canada this fall — but it’s up to the provinces or territories to order this vaccine. Send an email to your health minister and your local representative to tell them why Novavax access is essential for many people: covidsociety.ca/news/nuvaxov...
“The Human Cost of Failing to Name COVID ‘Airborne’”
Excellent article worth sharing again and again!
@dickzoutman.bsky.social @jvipondmd.bsky.social
@smbilodeau.bsky.social
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Advocates for people suffering from long COVID-19 host an installation of 300 cots in front of the Washington Monument to represent the millions of people suffering from post-infectious disease, in May, 2023.
The long and costly shadow of COVID-19 www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-long-cov... ⦸
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The long and costly shadow of COVID-19 continues to haunt us. The pandemic will have an impact on our economic and personal health for years to come, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/0fc7a92... via @theglobeandmail.com
I can’t share the recording of my @escmid.bsky.social talk here directly, but I’ve used Google Notebooks LM to make a podcast version of it
Hope you enjoy it.
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“These results support the sustained implementation of national vaccination recommendations and provide evidence to guide policy decisions in Germany and other countries with similar healthcare systems.”
COVID is still spreading.
COVID is bad for you.
Don’t get COVID.
Get vaccinated.
Wear an N95 in indoor public spaces.
Clean the air we all breathe.
Screenshot of a Mirror news article titled “Urgent warning of long Covid symptoms as number of cases rise in UK.” Subheading explains long COVID occurs when symptoms last more than 12 weeks and can be debilitating. Article by Bradley Jolly, dated 21 April 2026. Main image shows a middle-aged woman outdoors holding her chest, appearing short of breath. Caption notes it is a file image representing breathlessness.
UK: Urgent warning of long Covid symptoms as number of cases rise in UK.
Over 2 million people in the UK are living with long COVID, the “forgotten epidemic,” with symptoms lasting over 12 weeks.
"Long Covid is not a problem that has gone away, as some people like to think."
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Absolutely! There are also a few others I would mention, such as Colin Furness, who seems to have faded from view now, and Peter Juni, head of the late, lamented Ontario Science Advisory Table that was extinguished by the Ford government.
He, along with you and Dr Fisman, kept me going through the worst of the pandemic, with your info, evidence, and science- based posts.
Oh you're coming for Caulfield? Nuh-uh.
Let's not forget Bhattacharya and friends lobbied Trump for widespread mass infection BEFORE there were any lockdowns. And yet:
-immunity from infection wanes in months
-mass infection creates new variants
-fatalities were much higher than he predicted
Dunlevy: Martha Wainwright feels the Carney effect as PM catches her show montrealgazette.com/entertainmen...
Scrub nurse kept walking in and out of theatre unmasked (as is everyone else here) coughing his lungs up.
I eventually couldn't stand it any more and asked him to put a mask on.
He'll be upset with me for the rest of the day.
#healthcare deteriorates every day
Be careful out there
We all share responsibly for the health of the public.
Image of a young student in grade school with their head propped in their hand, appearing to have fallen asleep in class. A teacher is standing next to the student, appearing to nudge the student to wake up.
Study links long COVID in kids to worse grades, attention span, and social life.
School-aged children with long COVID had more than double the risk of decreased academic performance than those without the condition. 📝
Read more: ow.ly/uLlh50YLc1t
Covid vaccine in stock for the spring
Monday reminder to get your spring Covid-19 vaccine. Available from your family physician or pharmacy. Seniors, Indigenous populations, LTC or other congregated living, and anyone who is immunocompromised should get their booster (six months since last dose), and first doses for infants 6m+
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A really important critique of the flawed @AnnalsofIM masks vs respirators trial. Good on
@bmj_latest for publishing it
www.bmj.com/content/393/...
“…it was observed that the occurrence of cardiac arrhythmias in the early post-COVID-19 period among non-hospitalized patients without prior CVD does not depend on COVID-19 severity.”
Published April 16, 2026
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
COVID-19 may increase lung cancer risk through inflammatory pathways in lungs
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How to Be an Effective Anti-Vaxxer
3 STEPS:
1/ Lie about vaccine SAFETY
2/ Lie about vaccine EFFICACY
3/ Suppress studies proving vaccines are safe & effective
Anyone can do Steps 1 & 2, but RFK Jr. does Step 3
...leaving kids paying the price
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Finally #LongCOVID enters the conversation, & #Lockdowns EXIT 👈 sorry about this typo (courtesy of autocorrect), which quite changed the meaning of this post.
But you get the gist, "lockdowns" (protections) were not injurious.
Whereas, Long COVID (still zero cure), is a mass disabling event -
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"Yet, five years into this pandemic, we are still not fully acting like it’s true. Public health guidance has been quietly scaled back -
Via @dupuisj.bsky.social
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I’m sure that patients stuck in hospital hallways without beds, waiting dangerously long for surgeries, are relieved that our Premier has a private jet.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
WELL NOW, would you look at that?
A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.
How algorithms fuel polarisation joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news-and...
"Misleading information & the emergence of conflictual echo chambers and platforms - where people are exposed to toxic, negative & ideologically segregated information - divide society into opposing camps."