Medscape: 'The Long-COVID Crisis: No Cure, Little Attention'
'The International Long COVID Awareness Day on March 15 served as a reminder that long COVID is often unrecognized by physicians and remains understudied.'
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Photo of a sculpture resembling a light brown deer walking left, its antlers extend into branches and leaves, all against a grey background
Petal deer, 2012 by Ellen Jewett, sculptor known for her often surreal depictions of animals #WomensArt
New Scientist: 'Exercise advice for long covid may be doing more harm than good'
'Exercise has been touted as a tool for managing and treating long covid, but much of the evidence has neglected one of its most debilitating symptoms: post-exertional malaise'
www.newscientist.com/article/2523...
John Bond
“Window Gazing”
Gouache and Watercolor
Well, maybe preferable to the old world order anyway?
Painting featuring a young white woman sitting at at table laid with breakfast items like a teapot and plate with egg shells, the figure is smoking looks relaxed
After breakfast, c.1900 by Finnish painter Elin Danielson-Gambogi #womensart
'Study links long COVID in kids to worse grades and attention problems'
'A major U.S. cohort study suggests long COVID in children may reach far beyond lingering symptoms, affecting how they learn, focus, and connect with friends at school.'
www.news-medical.net/news/2026042...
Mark Grantham
(Candian painter b. 1966)
“Radiant street
(Falkland Street, Halifax)," 2019
Acrylic on canvas board
COVID is Not Over
In 2024-25 "there were an estimated 45K-64K COVID deaths and 390K-550K hospitalizations."
Getting vaccinated "lowers the risk of long COVID, 'and the more times you get a COVID infection, the higher your risk of ultimately developing long COVID'.”
www.latimes.com/california/s...
by artist JB Cornish
School Difficulties and Long COVID in Children and Adolescents — Harrison T. Reeder et al "These findings also provide evidence of a key disruption of functional status at critical points in the life course, which have profound implications both for the future health of this generation and for public policy."
From the US
School Difficulties and Long COVID in Children and Adolescents
www.academicpedsjnl.net/article/S187...
Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update
#LongCovid #LongCovidKids
A softly textured warm beige background with a fluffy black cat centered at the bottom. The cat has wide, round white eyes and delicate whiskers spreading outward, giving it a gentle, attentive expression. Above the cat, in simple white handwritten-style text, it reads: “I hope that no matter how busy things get, you don’t forget to rest, eat well, and be gentle with yourself.” The overall mood is calm, comforting, and caring.
But psychiatrists operate on a completely different level to other doctors. Biomedical doctors cannot give a diagnosis without performing some objective test, or showing that the patient has a clear and specific set of symptoms and signs that fit the diagnostic criteria.* The tests and diagnostic criteria have (at least most of the time) been validated through rigorous science. On the other hand, a psychiatrist can simply declare “these symptoms are psychosomatic”. It’s a judgement call. While I’m sure the psychiatrists can always give a justification, the justification is vague and subjective in a way that would never be accepted for a biomedical diagnosis. There is a vast amount of room for bias to creep in.
Extract from: "Liaison psychiatry: The hospital-based psychiatrists who can declare physical symptoms to be psychosomatic" by K. Johnstone (April 17)
mecfs.substack.com/p/liaison-ps...
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A four-panel comic featuring two fluffy black cats sitting side by side on a soft pink ground with a blue-purple sky. In the first panel, one cat asks, “What’s your favorite place?” In the second, the other cat replies, “I don’t think I have one.” In the third, it continues, “I think I have favorite beings. And places feel nicer when they’re there.” In the final panel, the first cat looks at the other with heart-shaped eyes, and the second cat says, “Just like this one!”
Happy Caturday 🐾🤍
#caturday #snackcat Again, Saturday, another one of my big eaters. This time ham and cheese, as the trope. Not that Shakespear is cheese, but adaptions surely can be. Enjoy and have a beautiful weekend.
Standing cat with arched back facing right created with vertical strips of wood with peeling paint, all against a light blue background
'Scaredy Cat' by Cornish artist Kirsty Elson who trawls the beaches of her home collecting driftwood as the raw materials for her artworks #WomensArt
Clinically confirmed cohort reveals antioxidant genetic polymorphisms as potential susceptibility factors for long COVID after mild or asymptomatic COVID-19 — Katsarou et al "SOD2 and EPHX1 variants are associated with Long COVID susceptibility."
From Greece
Clinically confirmed cohort reveals antioxidant genetic polymorphisms as potential susceptibility factors for long COVID after mild or asymptomatic COVID-19
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update
#LongCovid #COVID19 #PASC
From @onelife_livedwell on IG: The criteria took thirty years to catch up to what patients already knew. This means if you’ve ever walked into an appointment knowing something was wrong and walked out feeling unheard, you might just have been ahead of the science.💛 #mecfs #spoonie #patientled
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Yes, I noticed this morning as I was answering you, because I could. Glad that has been dealt with, too!
“Trial By Error: How Many Awful Papers Can Trudie Chalder Produce?” By David Tuller @davetuller1.bsky.social (16 April 2026)
virology.ws/2026/04/16/t...
A black fluffy cat with big expressive eyes looks at the viewer. In the first panel, the cat says, “I’ve noticed something quite special about you…” In the second panel, with even bigger eyes and holding a small heart, it continues, “You can become more of who you want to be, at your own pace.”
I had problems with Bluesky all day yesterday, it worked in the morning, but from just before noon (so around your early morning Eastern Time) until bedtime I could not logg in. Maybe they were doing maintainance on their servers?
Longitudinal study of genome-wide DNA methylation in individuals with and without post-acute symptoms following SARS-CoV-2 infection — Jon Bohlin et al "Using a longitudinal design with matched samples, collected before and after infection, we analyzed genome-wide DNA methylation in 297 adults." "We found no evidence of genome-wide DNA methylation differences associated with COVID-19 infection or persistent Long-COVID symptoms."
From Norway
Longitudinal study of genome-wide DNA methylation in individuals with and without post-acute symptoms following SARS-CoV-2 infection
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update
#LongCovid #PASC
New giveaway prize, Jocelina! Next round of the giveaway will be open soon, stay tuned! 😀
#warcraft #wow #worgen #giveaway #female #art #anthro #werewolf #vector
With that kind of eyes I am close to stand at attention...
NGC 602 and Beyond apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26041...
The clouds may look like an oyster, and the stars like pearls, but look beyond. Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy some 200 thousand light-years distant, lies 5 million year young star cluster NGC 602.
Stanislav Zhukovsky (1873-1944)
Summer Meadow in Pobojka, 1938.
Oil on board.
