During Covid is RIGHT FUCKING NOW since I’ve had it for a week and it’s not getting any better. (Fully vaxxed, thanks, or I’d probably be in the hospital).
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During Covid is RIGHT FUCKING NOW since I’ve had it for a week and it’s not getting any better. (Fully vaxxed, thanks, or I’d probably be in the hospital).
@ukhsa.bsky.social Covid is not over!
Why Catching Covid Endlessly Is Better Than Not Catching It Enough, And Two Other Things We Tell Ourselves To Feel Better When We’re Sick Yet Again
The rabies virus invades the central nervous system and is almost always fatal once symptoms start. Early symptoms, which can begin about a week or up to a year after exposure, may resemble the flu with symptoms progressing quickly followed by death within weeks. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
People like to think they’re the exception but here’s what the research (and lived experience) says: Each COVID reinfection increases your risk of #LongCOVID Even “mild” cases can cause LongCOVID symptoms “Young, healthy & athletic” people have had severe LongCOVID & some have become bed bound
Well I would argue it was the lack of clear messaging on: 1. The Covid vaccine being primarily designed to reduce severity of infection. 2. The continued lack of messaging on the seriousness of Post infection risks. 3. Reminding folks there is asymptomatic covid- ending testing 🧵
Canada: Average number of sick days taken by public servants growing post-COVID, new data shows Average sick days in Canada’s public service rose from: 5.9 in 2020–21 (remote work peak) 8.1 in 2021–22 8.8 in 2022–23 9.2 in 2023–24 Source: archive.md/tEKpm
Too late...
If masking and/or talking about the realities of COVID irritates people in your circles, please hear this: you are not responsible for other people’s discomfort with reality.
Governor Jared Polis says on a reddit AMA that Colorado will fix it so that people can access COVID vaccines without a prescription within the next few days.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
Just tried watching Ezra Klein’s latest NYT podcast episode on how the U.S. got to this point where vaccines are so politicized. It’s pretty clear that Klein and his guests—David Wallace Wells and Rachael Bedard—really do not understand why/how the political right turned on vaccines.
These are facts: 1. Each infection increases risk of Long COVID 2. The only way to prevent Long COVID is to not get COVID 3. There's no treatment for Long COVID 4. A single infection can render you homebound/bedbound 5. There is no infrastructure to support you if you become disabled Please mask.
Let the calm-mongering begin. “Covid now is not what Covid was in 2020,” Dr. Behar said. “It’s sort of hard to get that into people’s psyches because everybody’s panicked about getting Covid.” Everybody who? 🤣
2020 vibes. fox4kc.com/news/covid-1...
My dear friend was visiting from the US. I mentioned how many people I know in our area with Covid this summer and she gasped. "You have Covid here still? I can't believe you still have Covid!" I checked her city wastewater report. They definitely still have Covid. They just don't know it. 😬
tldr: Endolethium (inner lining of blood vessel) damage, blood clots, heart attacks, stroke, heart muscle damage, palpitations, high heart rate, myocarditis, high blood pressure, diabetes are all possible after any Covid infection.
COVID-19 isn't over and is no joke!
SARS-CoV-2 drives chronic inflammation and fibrosis that stiffens musculoskeletal tissues, weakening their biomechanical integrity. This increases injury risk post-COVID, demanding cautious, tissue-aware rehab protocols. davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/the-post-v...
SARS-CoV-2, primarily known as a respiratory illness, also significantly impacts muscles, bones, and connective tissues through direct viral invasion and the body's inflammatory response. This dual assault leads to widespread musculoskeletal damage. gemini.google.com/share/124d68...
Long COVID-19: A 4-Year prospective cohort study of risk factors, recovery, and quality of life. In a 4-year follow-up of 816 COVID patients, 29% developed long COVID per WHO criteria. This finding matches higher global prevalence estimates and highlights the enduring burden of post-COVID illness.
Saudi Arabia 816 patients followed for 4 years 29% developed long COVID Most common were fatigue and brain fog Risks were higher in women and people with diabetes Recovery was slower with reinfection or hospitalization bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Medicare will begin denying claims utilizing A.I. companies that get paid depending on how many claims they reject * Medicare For All
Findings from a Chinese study showed that chemotherapy, while essential in shrinking tumors, may paradoxically accelerate cancer spread by awakening dormant cells.
US COVID-19 levels continue to climb gradually www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/us-...
Shout out to the homies masking with me for 6 years of this ongoing pandemic and caring about the lives of others and themselves in these fascist times 😷❤️ Don't let the nihilists and the isms of excuses to give in to apathy defeat your humanity and actions based on empathy, fight, and science.
COVID and other illnesses on the rise in Mobile, Alabama WKRG.com www.wkrg.com/mobile-count...
The systemic energy failure caused by mitochondrial damage explains why COVID-19 affects the entire body. This damage persists in PASC (Long COVID), leading to chronic, debilitating symptoms in the body's most energy-demanding organs. gemini.google.com/share/e0aac9...
Researchers can now detect signals of mitochondrial damage in the blood. These biomarkers are crucial for diagnosing PASC, predicting its risk, and tracking the effectiveness of treatments. gemini.google.com/share/e0aac9...
For the full report, go here. davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/mitochondr...
SARS-CoV-2 launches a strategic assault on mitochondria—disabling immune defenses, hijacking energy systems, and converting them into viral replication hubs. This flowchart maps the virus’s coordinated takeover of our cellular power plants. gemini.google.com/share/e0aac9...
SARS-CoV-2 disables MAVS signaling and OXPHOS, triggering a bioenergetic collapse that forces cells into inefficient glycolysis. This mitochondrial failure may underlie ME/CFS-like symptoms seen in many with Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC). gemini.google.com/share/e0aac9...
Countless numbers of children are carrying the permanent damage of Covid-19 within their bodies, after being repeatedly infected due to the deliberate negligence of adults who are utterly failing in their moral obligation to keep children safe from harm. #COVID19 #children
Ashish Jha championed the CDC ending isolation guidelines for COVID-19, empowering employers to force workers to increase their risk of Long COVID disability. He also thinks kids shouldn't be vaccinated against COVID-19. Ashish Jha played a major role in making RFK Jr.'s agenda possible.
Flere og flere børn i Norge og Sverige rammes af hukommelsessvigt. "Memory problems increase among Nordic children" nordictimes.com/health/memor...
I’ve got news for you. The foundations of public health cracked in 2020 when they mostly flubbed completely the response to sars2. Using ascientific approaches and telling outright untruths (sterilizing vaccine anyone), plus the ‘unsure if masks work’ bs. That completely undercut PH credibility.
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🧵(1/3) NSW respiratory surveillance reports: Week ending 23 August 2025 🔸COVID positivity rate: 3.9% (+0.2%) 🔸Number of laboratories reporting COVID: 3 out of 4 🔹COVID: 1,516 (+3.1%) 🔹Influenza: 6,728 (-9.1%) 🔹RSV: 1,497 (-5.4%) @NSWHealth Source: health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/c...
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
USA: Novavax's Nuvaxovid™ 2025-2026 Formula COVID-19 Vaccine Approved in the U.S. "Both clinical and preclinical data from Nuvaxovid confirm that the JN.1 strain vaccination induces immunity across currently circulating JN.1 lineage strains, including NB.1.8.1, LP.8.1, XFG, XFC, LF.7 and XEC"
Yikes! The CDC has quietly scaled back its FoodNet surveillance, now only tracking salmonella and STEC. Monitoring for Listeria, Campylobacter, Vibrio and other pathogens has stopped- even after last year’s deadly Listeria outbreak. buff.ly/OyTTIOA h/t @boghuma.bsky.social #medsky #IDsky 🛟🧪
Update on the clinical landscape. Anecdote alert. Now seeing (adult) patients that are so sick all the time due to viruses that they can’t cope. Ending up in ED with exhaustion. Also starting to see a cohort of young adults getting bacterial infections annually.
In some guidelines, annual pneumonia is an indication for immunodeficiency screening. We are going to be very busy…
USA: COVID rising fast in California, fueled by new ‘Stratus’ variant tied to Omicron. COVID test positivity is rising: L.A. County hit 12.6% for the week ending Aug. 16 (up from 7.6% a month ago), while Orange County reached 14.4% (up from 8.1%). Source: archive.md/Ow1a4
“Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome is when someone dies suddenly and unexpectedly from a cardiac arrest, but it is not clear what the cause of that arrest was." Earlier in the article: “Wharton had COVID-19 at the time of her death.” Maybe COVID was the cause?
How does COVID-19 cause dysautonomia? Research points to several overlapping mechanisms that damage or disrupt the autonomic nervous system. gemini.google.com/share/09f70d...
The masses are currently living in a fantasy. A fantasy in which Covid-19 does not pose an extreme danger to every human being. A fantasy in which repeated infections of Covid-19 do not cause irreparable harm. A fantasy in which everything is "normal." A fantasy that cannot be sustained. #COVID19
I am absolutely shocked at how sick they got. Early 40s, not terribly overweight, diabetes. Had a booster last year. This a harsh reminder that this thing will keep sniping people when they least suspect.
It's infuriating that we could've eliminated COVID but just didn't.
Aug 26, 1965 - “Climatic Change appears to be underway” – the commencement speech that should have rocked the world Carl Borgmann at University of Tennessee; "CO2... traps heat from the sun, and climatic change results – not overnight, but slowly and surely” allouryesterdays.info/2025/08/25/c...
1/ Just because you have a PhD in health or science doesn’t mean you know shit about health or science. 🧵
Thank you. An excellent thread!
13/ If you dismiss long COVID as anxiety, you’re not a scientist—you’re a gaslighter with a degree.
10/ Science isn’t about titles. It’s about evidence. And the evidence is clear: COVID isn’t done with us—just because you’re done with COVID.
8/ If you claim COVID is like the flu, yet can’t explain endothelial dysfunction or microclots, you’ve confused vibes with science.
7/ If you push “herd immunity” through infection, you’ve missed the first principle of epidemiology: prevention always costs less than repair.
5/ If you talk about “personal choice” but ignore community transmission, you’ve abandoned public health for politics.
4/ If you shrug at airborne spread but teach “disease prevention,” you’ve confused education with indoctrination.
3/ If you think “mild” means “safe,” you don’t understand immunology. Every infection = immune injury. Repeated infections = compounding damage.
What’s the easiest, fastest way to tell whether your doctor follows the science on COVID? See if they’re wearing an N95. Because if they truly understood & acknowledged how dangerous COVID is & how airborne pathogens spread, they’d be protecting themselves—and their patients. #MasksInHealthcare
I daydream of a world where world leaders follow the COVID science and not opinions or feelings. If globally all agreed to continued universal masking in all healthcare settings and public transport (planes, buses, trains), COVID risk might actually become manageable (not just ignored like today).
“It’s been more than 5 years since COVID-19 closed campuses & upended daily life, & school districts have mostly moved on from the types of safety protocols that were implemented during the height of the pandemic.” Why? As more & more scientific studies can confirm, it didn’t stop being dangerous.
My latest post: "Bill Maher is Wrong: Kids Did Die from COVID" medium.com/p/bill-maher...
Could repeat COVID infections, in a world where COVID is dismissed as a cold, or at worse, a flu, have anything to do with this? medicine.washu.edu/news/repeat-...
As seen during the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19, most people are inclined to choose convenience over survival, thereby ensuring their own doom.
Uncontrolled Covid-19 will prove to be the biological undoing of the human species. Rampant contagion, repeated infections, faulty immunity, and continual illness are steadily breaking down our collective well-being, resulting in a burden of harm that cannot be endured in the long term. #COVID19
Every COVID infection is like a punchcard towards Long COVID/disability. And if you already have LC, it gets worse. You can act like there is a “pee end” of the pool, or you can take mitigations against a debilitating virus that crosses the blood brain barrier.
"Many are asking me not to write Covid and call it a flu. But I had been hospitalized with bilateral Covid pneumonia before, on oxygen. I feared for my life and this wasn't seasonal flu" Italy's singer Stash on testing positive for Covid now www.adnkronos.com/spettacoli/s...
July 2025 ‘study confirms far higher risk of blood clots from COVID than from vaccines’ so why aren’t the press saying this?? www.hdruk.ac.uk/news/new-stu...
This comprehensive report on maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection highlights minimal neurodevelopmental risk from mild cases, while severe illness may cause developmental delays. Vaccination is crucial for protecting fetal brain development. gemini.google.com/share/cb31f6...
Your risk of #LongCOVID increases with each reinfection So your risk goes up ⬆️ exponentially every time you enter a public space without wearing a mask Respirator masks (KN95 or better) are preferable as opposed to surgical masks
"Immunologists tell me that the average person’s immune system looks different than it did in 2019. That we’re walking around with more inflammation, and with immune systems that don’t work quite as well as they did in the beforetimes (on average)." Source: canadahealthwatch.ca/newsletter/2...
As COVID's long term consequences are revealed to the public, by brute force, what credibility will be left for all those physicians who minimized COVID and encouraged their patients to become infected again and again? It will be a crisis for the profession of epic proportions.
COVID-19 accelerates vascular ageing, especially in women, with effects seen even in mild cases. Arterial stiffness may improve over time and is lower in vaccinated women. Stiffness tests could help identify long-term cardiovascular risk in survivors. academic.oup.com/eurheartj/ad...
COVID-19 continues to cause hospitalizations and deaths in children and remains a leading cause of serious respiratory illness. theconversation.com/pediatrician...
Every infection of Covid-19 is life-threatening. Every infection of Covid-19 has the potential to cause serious illness and early mortality. Every infection of Covid-19 degrades immunity, making further infections more likely. Every infection of Covid-19 results in lasting damage. #COVID19
gets it. www.infectioncontroltoday.com/view/how-mis...
This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
COVID-19 cases in Japan increase for the ninth straight week | The Asahi Shimbun Asia & Japan Watch www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
Important perspective! If even mild COVID-19 accelerates plaque progression, integrating infection history into cardiovascular risk assessment could be crucial. Time to explore targeted prevention strategies for millions of post-COVID patients.
COVID-19 Infection and Coronary Plaque Progression: An Early Warning of a Potential Public Health Crisis Jonathan R. Weir-McCall , Jack S. Bell Author Affiliations Published Online:Feb 4 2025 (only mild infections included in this study) pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/...
COVID minimalists keep waiting to see their next infection literally blow their brains out, or something as ridiculously violent and cinematic as that. That's not how it goes, dear zombies... This is not Netflix. It's slower, insidious, chronic, and prematurely life ending. 😷
It was immunity theft we should have been concerned about. 🚨 ‘Plan for a world of Post-Covid immune effects’ an important read canadahealthwatch.ca/newsletter/2...
3. As I have often stated, the moment I realised anosmia was a symptom of SARS-CoV-2 infection was the moment I decided to take significant precautions to avoid infection. Nothing should be surprising in these findings. It was obvious to me from 2020.
1. 'Overall, our findings raise compelling questions about the potential role of SARS-CoV-2 infection in accelerating or triggering neurodegenerative diseases linked to protein amyloidosis'. An example of such a disease is Parkinson's Disease (PD). pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Read the latest from the Covid-Is-Not-Over newsletter: Immunity debt debunked, Covid at Alligator Alcatraz, Silent legacy of DNA damage, and more open.substack.com/pub/johndupu...
Trying to convince people that it’s NOT OK to infect healthy people? 👉Read @BMJ.com article by Nick Tsergas to find evidence that COVID impairs the immune system! doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... Annotation: 🤟😷 www.instagram.com/share/BATF3n...
Patients living with "long Covid" faced "dismissal" and "medical gaslighting" from medical professionals, research has found.
"Argentina is facing an invisible Long COVID crisis, marked by a lack of clinics, minimal media attention, no disability insurance to help people with the disease cope with their inability to work.." New from Delfi Marchese in @thesicktimes.org thesicktimes.org/2025/08/22/t...
1 covid infection can shave years off your life.
It’s COVID & yes, you should start masking again You don’t have a “mystery illness.” It’s COVID. It’s not “the normal pains of turning 30.” It’s Long COVID. This generation isn’t just “more poorly behaved.” COVID is literally damaging kids’ brains. The pandemic didn’t “end.” ...continues in ALT
The SARS-CoV-2 induced immune dysregulation leading to macrophage foam cells and fibrosis, and how this could be suppressed www.nature.com/articles/s41...
popularresistance.org/data-centers...
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📊 WWSCAN Weekly Data: Respiratory weekly update: SARS-CoV-2 is in the ‘High’ category. All other respiratory viruses we monitor (RSV, Influenza A, Influenza B, HMPV and EV-D68) are in the ‘Low’ category nationwide. 🛟😷🧪
BREAKING: The Supreme Court, on a 5-4 vote with Justice Barrett as the deciding vote, allows the Trump administration to cancel NIH grants as part of the administration’s attack on “DEI” while litigation proceeds. Five justices write. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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"I don’t know how to convince everyone that we can’t give up. So many people consider COVID to be endemic, or accept that everyone will eventually become infected, thinking nothing more can be done... but I know a better world is possible and we will move forward together."
"Among other changes announced by Gabbard, the restructuring eliminates the Foreign Malign Influence Center, which monitors foreign efforts to influence the US public." ODNI Fact Sheet here: www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/d... www.bbc.com/news/article...
And if you don’t believe Jessica, here’s a handy compilation of peer-reviewed medical research! www.panaccindex.info/p/what-covid...
On the outside looking in 