It’s not "normal" to pretend a disease doesn’t exist—or nothing can be done to reduce harm.
Leaving kids, communities, and ourselves exposed isn’t “moving on,” it’s neglect, coerced, morally repugnant, indifference.
If that upsets you, ask yourself: are you an arseolist?
Wondering if it will wind up the parent chat group enough to get me booted out if I put the article about long COVID and school grades in there... 👀
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/stu...
If you are receiving treatment cancer, wear a high quality respirator.
If you may be in contact with someone who is in treatment for cancer, wear a respirator.
If you don’t have access to the detailed medical history of the person next to you, wear a respirator.
If you’d like to avoid cancer…
www.latimes.com/doctors-scie...
Relationship between Covid-19 and breast cancer recurrence.
#CleantheAir
#ffp2/3
Open windows
Vaccinate
"Medical institutions must educate staff that Long COVID is a disabling condition affecting up to 40% of healthcare workers who contracted and continue to contract COVID-19 while working in hospitals that have failed to control the spread of the virus and other pathogens."
#LongCOVID
COVID-19 may increase lung cancer risk through inflammatory pathways in lungs
www.labmate-online.com/news/laborat...
BAD GRADES & POOR ATTENTION SPAN: School-aged children with long COVID had more than double the risk of decreased academic performance.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/stu...
Great Question, Winona.......
Frontal temporal dementia signs
How many people do you know have developed significant cognitive impairments after one or more #COVID infections?
My uncle, after a single infection during or after a surgery, while in hospital. The infection was asymptomatic and he also has #LongCOVID.
A 65-yo colleague infected 3x.
#dementia
Canada: Hospitalization rates for illnesses like COVID, flu have doubled since pre-pandemic, report finds.
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Screenshot of a 4/15/26 post from @ahandvanish on X.com: Study of neuro #LongCovid patients found pTau-181 (marker of Alzheimer's/brain injury) increased by 59% after COVID. Interestingly, levels increased more AFTER 1.5 years from infection (only 15% increased in the before-1.5 year time period). thelancet.com/journals/ebiom... 1/ Increased phosphorylated tau (pTau-181) is associated with neurologi... thelancet.com
But sure, let’s infect kids with a virus that does this over & over every year for their entire lifespans
www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...
"Post-COVID-19 condition (PCC) encompasses persistent symptoms including: - headache, - cognitive impairment, - fatigue, - sleep disturbances, - dysautonomia, - pain, and - psychiatric disorders.. cognitive, sleep and fatigue symptoms often persist for 12–24 months or longer..
🚨post by Hiroshi Yasuda (保田浩志) @Yash25571056:
"Post-COVID-19 condition (PCC) encompasses persistent symptoms including:
- headache,
- cognitive impairment,
- fatigue,
- sleep disturbances,
- dysautonomia,
- pain, and
- psychiatric disorders..."
🔗
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Immune dysregulation in prolonged Long-COVID: lymphocytes emerge as key mediators of persistent inflammation, exhaustion and cytotoxicity 🚨2 years after COVID, your immune systems still hasn’t recovered(Female/post severe C19/LC)! ➡️Very interesting and eye-opening study from Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre with exceptionally long follow-up and high-resolution( 1.5–2 years). #Leonardi_effect ➡️Study design: - Single-cell RNA-seq of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from female patients with severe acute COVID-19, sampled at acute phase, 3 months, and 1.5–2 years post-infection, - Compared Long-COVID (pulmonary/cardiovascular) vs. non-Long-COVID recoverees, - The all-female design was a deliberate choice to study a higher-risk group where Long-COVID effects were expected to be more pronounced, not an oversight,
🚨🧵by Dr. @harryspoelstra.bsky.social on XTwitter:
"Immune dysregulation in prolonged Long-COVID: lymphocytes emerge as key mediators of persistent inflammation, exhaustion and cytotoxicity
🚨2 years after COVID, your immune systems still hasn’t recovered..."
🔗
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🚨 BREAKING:
Mysterious Illness in Burundi 🇧🇮 Infects 35, Kills 5 Ebola, Marburg, Rift Valley Fever, Yellow Fever & CCHF Ruled Out, Cause Still Unknown
Symptoms include fever, vomiting, diarrhoea, blood in urine, fatigue abdominal pain severe cases include jaundice and anaemia.
Good news!
Hospital admissions for "respiratory" infections have more than doubled in Canada vs. pre-pandemic levels - with Covid driving ~40% of cases. ~57,700 admissions in 2024 alone
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/6f8ae90...
“Are Long COVID patients haunted by the Ondine’s Curse?”—Sharing an article: “How COVlD Quietly Rewires The Brain” By Jason Gale, published in The Journal of Advanced Practice Nursing. (Nursing Journals: American Society of Registered Nurses) https://www.asrn.org/journal-advanced-practice-nursing/3449-how-covid-quietly-rewires-the-brain.html Visual: an illustration of a brain 🧠 partially highlighted in green.
COVID can damage the brain stem & leads to "Ondine’s Curse" signs: failures in automatic breathing, dysautonomia, cognitive decline, even death. The brain doesn’t always bounce back. Protect your health. 😷 Jason Gale's report: www.asrn.org/journal-adva...
ANN: www.instagram.com/p/DXIdZTOEei...
An authority Headline: Authorities Frustrated By Awareness Of Long Covid Outside Of Designated Long Covid Awareness Day Story by Sam Likewise and Clark Cubicle Photo from Unsplash
Authorities Frustrated By Awareness Of Long Covid Outside Of Designated Long Covid Awareness Day
People Confident that No One They Know Has Brain Damage or Cognitive Issues from a Widely Circulating Virus Known to Cause Brain Damage and Cognitive Issues #COVID
Economist: Hospitals are stuck in a deadly doom loop They never recovered from covid-19 With a picture of an ER sign that says Emergency
You can say that again. Feels like you’re in a deadly doom loop every time you’re the only masked person at the hospital or a health facility. (By the way, they’re not going to recover from Covid-19 until they wake up and put on %*^$ing masks. It’s not rocket science.)
A reminder that any analysis of pandemic impacts on kids / education / economy that does not include a serious examination of the effects of #longCOVID is worthless, and one that does not even mention it should be assumed to be deliberately deceptive unless there's a good reason to think otherwise.
If my trusted & reasonable friend said, Hey did you know so-and-so damages your immune system and awakens dormant cancer cells, I think I’d go Wow etc., & then Google it later to confirm or not. Instead my friends seem to leave their bodies & apparently never again consider what I said. #COVID
My wakeup call was when my also-disabled friends replied "I know, but it feels pointless," and were dead from repeated covid infections and Long Covid related health issues ~6 months later. I no longer think it's possible to convince anyone to protect themselves or others, but I'd love to be wrong.
A new study predicts that Long Covid will cost OECD economies $135 billion a year, due to people leaving the workforce, lower productivity, and healthcare costs. COVID is not over.
The professor told me
that he recently learned
his continued mask wearing
has earned him a nickname,
apparently students call him:
“the man in the iron mask,”
and when I asked him
how that makes him feel,
he laughed and replied:
“what matters
is I don’t feel sick.”
In the business press
I read that “The pandemic
might be over,
but new research indicates
long Covid
is likely to reverberate
across OECD economies,
costing up to $135 billion
a year over the next decade,”
which really seems to suggest
that the pandemic
is not yet over.
An article in the news connecting the dots btw Covid, which it points out is a cardiovascular disease, and deaths of people in their prime.
If you read one article today, make it this one 👇
Buffy’s Nicholas Brendon’s death is the sixth of The WB stars since 2024
Brendon tragically joins a growing list of The WB stars dying young. But why is this happening post-pandemic?
www.thecanary.co/global/world...
Ran into old friend I'd heard has cancer.
She's refusing radiation and chemo because "it's all from the COVID vaccine", and that mistrust now extends to cancer meds.
I will NEVER forgive public health for downplaying COVID, leaving the goal wide open for all this garbage.