Now this is a thread everyone should read 👇
Thank you @elhopkins.bsky.social
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"Reinfection was associated with more than double the risk of a long COVID diagnosis (relative risk 2·08 [95% CI 1·68–2·59]). A wide range of related symptoms and conditions were also significantly more common after reinfection." 👇
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"long-term cardiac effects of COVID-19 in children"
"subclinical myocardial dysfunction despite normal conventional ECG findings"
"subtle but measurable impairment"
"SARS-CoV-2 may have persisting effects on cardiac function"
(Int'l Journal of Cardiology, Jan. 2026)
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"Because no proven curative treatments for Long COVID currently exist, reducing infections and reinfections remains the most effective way to protect children"
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"10–15% of kids develop long-term symptoms"
"reinfections double the likelihood of Long COVID and related complications "
"Symptoms can affect brain function, sleep, autonomic regulation"
"new-onset diabetes"
"Imaging studies show measurable reductions in brain volume"
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"Many of us were hoping that children would be less affected. [...] These hopes were dashed by a recent NIH study [...] which reported that “20% of kids (ages 6-11) and 14% of teens met researchers' threshold for long COVID.”
#ProtectChildrenFromCovid #CovidCausesBrainDamage 👇
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"Brain changes may be more pronounced in individuals with cognitive impairment, marked by blood-brain barrier (BBB) disruption, elevated brain injury markers & reduced gray matter volume, even 1 year after the infection."
(Nature Comm., Nov. 2005)
#CovidCausesBrainDamage #ProtectChildrenFromCovid
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😳 Thank you so much, @anderbergskan.bsky.social. Solidarity! to all of us who #weararespirator to #ProtectChildrenFromCovid
And immense gratitude to @juliadoubleday.bsky.social 😷
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"We’ve been serially infecting children with a virus that damages their brains. We know it does this. And we just…. keep doing it?" 👇
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"...continual COVID reinfection carries myriad risks that will impact their kids’ long-term health. You don’t give a child cholera so that future cholera infections will be milder; you clean the water source" 👇
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"Do we really think parents would be happy with this critically poor air quality if they were aware? Can you imagine the community level reduction of illness if schools alone reduced their levels of viral spread?" 👇
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"Every infection increases the risk for heart attacks, strokes and heart disease; for new-onset diabetes; for cognitive decline and dementia; for deregulating the immune system; and for reactivating viruses like Epstein-Barr or shingles." 👇
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"Because COVID destabilizes the immune system, researchers are now beginning to see a link between repeat COVID infections & rising cancer rates in young people. One study recently found that a COVID infection can accelerate or increase cancer risk, while another study..."
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ICYMI: Great explainer of a study on what SARS-CoV-2 does to our (and our kids') immune systems 👇
"Recent reports have shown that marked lymphopenia is observed in 83.2% of SARS-CoV-2 patients"
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"Long COVID impacts one in five children after an acute SARS-CoV-2 infection"
"Typical Long COVID symptoms include fatigue, brain fog, pain, and shortness of breath"
"Long COVID may impair school performance and have long-term health and development consequences"
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"What’s odd about the political climate surrounding forever COVID is that I really don’t see what the counterargument is against the idea that we should stop infecting children with a brain damaging virus"
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Great thread 👇
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"In her speech on Tuesday, Affleck called for increased masking and clean-air infrastructure. 'It is a neglect of the highest order to look children in the eyes and say, ‘We knew how to protect you and we didn’t do it,’' she said."
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Oh wow, not only does this article quote her, it also notes "According to the National Institutes of Health, SARS-CoV-2 can cause lasting damage to organs & tissues throughout the body, including the heart, brain, kidneys & blood vessels." 👇
Wake up already! We all need to #ProtectChildrenFromCovid
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"She concluded by declaring that filtered air is a 'human right' and should be available as freely as filtered water.
"'We can create clean air infrastructure that is so ubiquitous and so obviously necessary, tomorrow’s children don’t even know why we need it,' she said" 👇 #ProtectChildrenFromCovid
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"It is neglect of the highest order to look children in the eyes and say, ‘We knew how to protect you and we didn’t do it.’ We have access to a technology [points to her mask] to prevent airborne disease... and yet we refuse to use it."
— Violet Affleck in her UN speech 👇
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"Six years into forever-Covid, the evidence is unequivocal. Coronavirus is an airborne, disabling, neuroinvasive vascular disease that can damage children’s immunity, blood vessels and organs, increasing their risk of heart failure, diabetes and cognitive [...] disorders"
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Here, MRI scans showed kids' Covid brain volume differences were related to neuropsychiatric symptoms (headache, dizziness, attention & memory deficits) due to chronic, persistent neuroinflammation in the brain
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(Pediatric Neurology, Aug. 28, 2025)
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"And here’s the striking part - the authors explicitly point to parallels with HIV." -- Zdenek Vrozina, in the explainer below
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"These findings suggest that alteration in the microbiome may affect the development [...] of the immune system, highlighting the need for [...] immunomodulatory therapies to restore immune balance"
doi.org/10.3390/micr...
(Microorganisms, 12 August 2025)
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Explainer 🧵👇
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"Some people will decry the sheer volume of such studies saying it is improbable a single pathogen can cause such diverse damage. SARS-CoV-2 doesn’t care about probability or people’s expectations." 👇
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"There is no cure for long COVID, but researchers are working hard to find treatment."
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