Yet another new study that's found that ABA therapy is linked to worse mental health outcomes. The number of hours of "therapy" did not make a difference--any exposure to ABA is traumatic. You can't fix conversion therapy. LGBT conversion therapy has similar results in studies.
#autism #ABA #trauma
1. While a precise estimate of long COVID prevalence is still emerging, current research suggests that up to 10-30% of people who contracted COVID-19 exhibit symptoms corresponding to long COVID in the weeks and months following acute infection. Across OECD countries at a minimum, this would represent upwards of 39 million people who had or are currently living with long COVID. Sustainable investment in long COVID research is crucial to inform health and social care resource allocation. As the evidence base grows, developing standardised measures of symptoms and functional impact to support a more precise definition that enables the disaggregation of levels of long COVID severity could be useful to better understand the condition, assess its impact, and to tailor care and support. 3. Long COVID can severely limit people’s ability to undertake basic activities of daily life and can dramatically hamper quality of life. More than 7 million quality-adjusted life years may be lost annually across OECD countries due to the condition. Studies from across a range of OECD countries suggest that one sixth to more than one-third of people may have persistent cognitive symptoms, often lasting more than 12 weeks, after a COVID-19 infection. 4. Even conservative estimates of long COVID prevalence would indicate that long COVID may be reducing the workforce by nearly 3 million workers across OECD countries, amounting to an economic cost of at least $141 billion USD from lost wages alone. Moreover, even among those who were able to return to the labour force, a significant proportion reported needing to reduce the number of hours they worked, compared to before their infection.
5. The economic and social welfare costs of long COVID are dramatic: Even excluding the direct costs of health care, long COVID is likely costing OECD countries as much as $864 billion $1.04 trillion USD per year due to reductions in quality of life and labour force participation. The limitations in activities experienced by long COVID patients, including dropping out or reducing their participation in the labour force, as well as direct medical care costs, can have dramatic implications on their financial well-being. Costs to health and social protection systems may also be high over time. 6. Long COVID could further exacerbate inequalities: The COVID-19 pandemic brought attention to longstanding socioeconomic and demographic inequalities in health. Evidence from some countries suggests that certain groups – including populations with lower education attainment, and those living in more deprived areas – may be at risk of developing long COVID, and of experiencing more severe symptoms. 7. Patients have played a critical role in bringing attention and action to long COVID: Throughout the pandemic, countries deprioritized many key aspects of person-centred care in exchange for rapidly implementing policies intended to contain the virus. While the need for rapid action was clear, the lack of patient voice in the process was notable. In contrast, patients and patient groups have been at the forefront of advocating for both a recognition of long COVID as a legitimate condition, in articulating their care and support needs, and in spearheading research into the condition. In many cases, countries have responded by actively working together with patient groups to disseminate information and develop patient-centred support services.
From populists on the right, but also from establishment figures desperate to bury their responsibility, there's an ongoing push to bury the harms of COVID.
Long COVID alone costs 7M life-years (QALYs) and on the order of a trillion dollars a year in the OECD.
www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issue...
Another example of the junk clinical studies celebrated in Evidence Based Medicine because of methodology alone. Beloved "gold standard" of opinion launderers and cherry pickers, often designed with little or no mechanistic understanding or subject-matter expertise.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
SARS-CoV-2 interferes with p53 signalilng.
That may not mean much to non-specialists, but as a PhD in that area, it's the biggest possible red flag, and the flag is also on fire.
We don't yet know how bad it'll be, but with public health asleep at the wheel (as usual), there's no real upper limit.
“You still wearing a mask? Bro, it’s 2025.”
Me: “You still huffing a vasculopathic, neuroinvasive biohazard?”
Phillip: The final point from my conservative friends at the table. Since when are conservatives cheerleading for tax increases?
Since when is it okay for one man to decide that every person in the United States has to pay a higher tax, and he never has to go through congress to do it?
WATCH as a Republican in Texas BURNS his voter registration card over extreme gerrymandering.
No, because most actual Satanists are all about the tenets of the Satanic Temple. If people want to spread hate while calling themselves Christians, they are still identifying as Christian. Satanists are not the problem & should not be scapegoated by the truly evil people who claim to follow Christ
No need, NAR evangelicals have been doing that since Falwell and Bakker. It's the backbone of "prosperity gospel" parroted by everyone from Joel Osteen to Kris Vallotton. We're cooked.
🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon & adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸
Several studies reported the detection of M. tuberculosis and M. africanum in milk. Despite international efforts to control tuberculosis, this study highlights the risk of zoonotic transmission of M. bovis via unpasteurised milk and dairy products using raw milk.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35091379/
Did you know more people in the US died of Covid than of breast cancer in 2024? I’m a breast oncologist and think both conditions deserve public attention/ funding for prevention and treatment. COVID-47,522 Breast cancer-42,780
@tmprowell.bsky.social
#medsky
It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.
By admitting Tr*mp has a serious illness, this regime, led by The Heritage Foundation (Project 2025), has now set the stage for Tr*mp's impending death.
Just 3 months ago, the White House physician stated that Tr*mp was in perfect health. 1/7
Cheating on your spouse with a consenting adult comes with consequences.
Unlike cheating on your spouse with one of Jeffrey Epstein's trafficked minors.
🚨🔥Trump/Epstein Cover-Up🔥🚨
Everybody please RESPOST this and every other story, meme, phot, and rant. Keep this story at the top of the news!
mdavis19881.substack.com/p/epstein-vi...
This is another one of those things I would do if I were actively trying to destroy the country.
Climate change is 100% real and happening. Denying it as policy just means we’re going to be hit harder. The human and economic losses will be staggering.
While the rest of the world adapts, we refuse.
NEW: Story from @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and me based on interviews with families of the men returned to Venezuela tonight after Trump disappeared them to El Salvador in March.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
We voted at the highest percentage and have been the most targeted
And the collective response is we have to HOPE they get the electoral votes they want for them to do something
That’s not inspiring it’s abusive
Just to get back to where we were as of January 2025, we will need Manhattan Projects across multiple agencies. This particular loss will produce exponentially increasing human injury and economic damage to the U.S. as the ability to investigate and to regulate falls apart.
This map shows how much sea surface temperature deviates from the normal average, ie, anomaly (SSTA). This kills coral reefs and travels up the food chain to us. It also increases severe weather, further threatening food supply. We are in so much trouble.
www.ospo.noaa.gov/products/oce...
When you're done watching the episode, here's the full explainer of #MAGAMurderBill healthcare policies which go into effect BEFORE the midterms (as well as the ones which happen afterwards):
acasignups.net/25/07/08/hea...
Can there be a more important book right now in the history of medicine about the ethical challenges and choices in health history? By @drkyliesmith.bsky.social and @cethompson.bsky.social
#MECFS is such a punishing & invisible illness which has nothing to do with fatigue. It’s a neuro-immuno-MEtabolic systemic dysfunction. It takes so much fortitude, endurance and courage to survive 24/7 on the edge of an abyss. We #PwME are reverse marathoners.
In this video, Dr Chris Armstrong, Director of the OMF Melbourne #ME/CFS Collaboration, presents a detailed overview of a key area of investigation: how people with ME/CFS may rely more heavily on amino acids to produce energy — especially when the usual energy sources youtube.com/watch?v=GjeF...
I still don’t fully understand how Gen X turned out like this politically. I’ve seen a lot of theories but none that really explain the whole package.
Any other timeline and this creep would already be indicted.
No one could possibly predict that Trump's wild abuse of the presidential pardon power was not going to get the front page Hunter Biden treatment
