I shouldn't laugh. This "mildly positive" person has a very high chance of dying. But Dr Mackay is right. When it comes to this disease, positive is positive. I suppose one can be "mildly pregnant", but the implication is that you're going to get a lot more pregnant in coming weeks.

If there is one word that I have learned to abhor since 2020, it's the word, 'mild'.

Doctors To Briefly Pause Reassurances About Covid To Issue Reassurances About Andes Hantavirus

Public Health Authorities Opt For ‘The Hard Way’ To Determine How Transmissible Andes Hantavirus Is

Risk factors for zoonotic pandemics include high intensity farming, encroaching on wildlife, climate change, human population density, and global travel. All are at levels unprecedented in human history and all are increasing. This makes the past less and less useful as a predictor of the future.

WHO Suggests Some Kind Of World Health Organisation To Address Emerging Global Health Threats Like Hantavirus

(1) Veo el lio que se ha montado con el hantavirus en el crucero y queria decir algunas cosas. La mas importante: **Esto NO va a ser una pandemia** Estoy de acuerdo con @mvankerkhove.bsky.social e incluso con Fernando Simon. Y creo que nadie me puede acusar de estar siempre de acuerdo con ellos.

It would be good if the experience of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic had resulted in an updated procedure for communicating about outbreaks. Brief thoughts on what still happens vs. what would be better for rebuilding trust in public health. 🧵

Precautionary Principle Stepping Down To Spend More Time With Family

1/3 Statement from the International #Hantavirus Society regarding #Andes virus

An open note to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (but in this moment particularly to pestilence and war): it’s not a race.

Panicking Everyone Not Required During Initial Inaction Period, Says WHO

Officials Clarify That Mandatory Hantavirus Quarantine Will Be Voluntary

Note that close contact behavior does not rule out transmission by inhalation of virus. Hantavirus load in exhaled respiratory particles may be low, or virus may not survive well, so extended exposure duration is required. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Listen: you must be mindful of the key difference between this moment and the start of the Covid pandemic, the key difference between this moment and the start of the Covid pandemic is that at the start of the Covid pandemic nobody was saying “I can’t do this again.”

Make Hate Weird Again.

Auch wenn es für die Politik verführerisch sein mag, auf Verharmloser zu hören um möglichst keine normale Versorgung von #MECFS stellen zu müssen - Kosten verursachen kranke Menschen auch mit falschen Diagnosen, mal ganz abgesehen von der Anstandsfrage, diese alleine zu lassen.

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Experts Confident World Is Ready For Next Pandemic, As Long As The Pandemic Pathogen Responds Well To Handwashing

Area Man Saddened To Learn He Was Not One Of The “Most People” In “Most People Won’t Be Disabled By It”

Long Covid Not Long Or Caused By Covid Says Wayne From Procurement

No, The Health Problem You’ve Just Developed Wasn’t Caused By The Covid Infection You Just Had.

The World Is Better Prepared For Future Pandemics Now We All Think You Should Just Try And Catch Everything

I rarely share anecdotes, making an exception here. I've spoken to too many people recently who have developed chronic health problems that are temporally correlated with a recent Covid infection but who weren't aware that Covid was likely the cause. No idea they had Long Covid.

It May Seem Like Your Daughter Is Getting Sicker But That Is The Sign That She’s Getting Healthier

It’s Just A Complete Mystery Why There Has Been A Drop In Healthy Life Expectancy. Oh, No, Wait, Is It Vapes. Yeah. That’s It. It’s Definitely Vapes For Sure.

“Are you still masking?” This is such an odd question given the ~half million studies (and growing) that support this lifestyle.

2. Put simply, the NHS was stressed to the limit before the Covid-19 pandemic. When the pandemic began, it pushed it over the edge. The fact - and it is a fact - that SARS-CoV-2 infection often triggers new-onset chronic diseases and worsens pre-existing ones adds further...

Covid Is A Bioweapon, Just A Cold, A Hoax, Overblown, No Worse Than Flu. But Also My Son Has Long Covid And It’s Really Bad

The Palantir pipeline also includes 4 members of the House of Lords, the ex head of MI6, 2 generals & a former chief adviser to the PM. 3/

I saw this yesterday. I love when words have multiple meanings.

People keep telling me that they were willing to take precautions during the pandemic, and so I keep replying that is also why I am still willing to take precautions now. * A compendium of the 319th week of plague poems… librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2026/04/24/p...

@joho.bsky.social Two of my favorite podcasts covered one of my most hated opinion editorials from the “COVID Collabrative” @everythingisph.bsky.social @sharpflower.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

"We are people living with long covid, and we are ill. We're fed up of seeing public money spent on projects that put sick people in danger. We want real treatments, not behavioural and cognitive therapies or meditation..."

They deliberately named themselves after an evil corrupting thing, literally a bad and obvious joke. Anyone saying "yes we should give tax payer money to them" is either egregiously stupid, staggeringly corrupt, or both.

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The idea that people who take significant Covid precautions must be introverts is offensive as hell. It’s ableist as hell. Performers, Organizers, the biggest extroverts in the world were forced to give up careers because other people wouldn’t mask. We do it because we still can’t afford COVID.

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Since When Did Feeling A Little Ill Become An Excuse For Not Working

'Long Covid has [..] become one of the fastest-growing diagnoses and one of the most economically disruptive chronic conditions in modern medicine. A study [...] estimated that as many as 400 million people worldwide are living with lasting consequences of a SARS-CoV-2 infection [..]' >

How Much Brain Do You Really Need

This is a well-documented pattern in medical research and reflects systemic gender bias in pain assessment and treatment.👇

"These findings are highly concerning. The accepted definition of a rare disease is one case in 2000 people. The NZHS Long Covid prevalence is more than a hundred times greater than this. Hence, Long Covid is a burden that needs its own health-service resources."

Claims and ideas which happen to favour the ruling class don't dominate public life by accident. They're paid for by oligarchs and corporations then promoted by media outlets other oligarchs and corporations own. Once they've been drummed into our ears enough, they're internalised as "common sense".

It’s Good To Get Sick Because You See It Stops You Getting Sick

Experts Very Confident That Disease That Makes Health Problems Worse Is Not Responsible For Worsening Health Problems

Health Officials Pleasantly Surprised By Public’s Willingness To Run With ‘Menopause Flu’ Narrative