Some good news—official data released today shows US solar generation continues to grow rapidly and is on track to set new record highs. In March, solar output was up 35% compared to the same time last year!

Akiko Iwasaki and Harlan Krumholz call for Long COVID and chronic disease research funding in the WSJ: “Advancing this research is one of the most effective ways to improve the lives of the tens of millions of Americans with chronic diseases.” www.wsj.com/opinion/how-...

This is full of really useful information about #LongCOVID. Congrats, @patientled.bsky.social ! rehabcovidnetwork.med.utoronto.ca/news/patient...

Just sent off bloods for another LC diagnostic study - if you're in Melbourne, Perth or Brissie and haven't participated yet please sign up! They do home visits for housebound folks

In Italy, muscle biopsies from 8 COVID-19 survivors revealed a distinct myopathy marked by damaged blood vessel linings, not seen in steroid-related muscle disease, suggesting long COVID muscle weakness stems from vascular injury, not direct viral attack. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In the next year or so, I'm hoping that we'll have the results for - Nanoneedle validation study - Several pilot / case studies for mAbs in Long Covid - Early signals from one or more of the JAK-STAT trials (Abrocitinib, Upadacitinib)

Chan Soon-Shiong Foundation will expand PolyBio’s long COVID research with new funding. Support targets SARS-CoV-2 persistence in tissue and its potential role in cancer development. Thank you, @DrPatSoonShiong polybio.org/chan-soon-sh...

goddd the number of things that turn out to be caused (at least partly) by infectious, vaccinatable diseases. apparently some dementia is actually "long chickenpox"? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

But I've been following politics and organizing long enough to know that the Left has a real tendency toward "thing 1 didn't work, everything sucks and is worthless" and all I can tell you is that the Right does not believe that and their success is largely due to their absolute asshole persistence.

Dr. Soon-Shiong: “…is this what I call long COVID, virus persisting?..the group at UCSF has now definitively proven…does that COVID virus suppress the natural killer cell?…it becomes what-you-call-energic? That's now been published. The natural killer cell has gone to sleep."

h/t to Greg Morrow for this-- They cured symptomatic rabies in mice. RABIES. www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

🚨THANK YOU #LONGCOVID PATIENT COMMUNITY 🚨 Because of you, NIH RECOVER grant terminations being reversed & restored! This win was only possible due to YOUR advocacy & support from our Hill bipartisan champions! THANK YOU to every person who called, emailed & took action! #NoLongCOVIDCuts

NIH, which began this week terminating projects studying long COVID, has reinstated the grants, after pressure from Sen. Todd Young's (R-IN) office, an HHS source tells me. Young had secured a commitment from RFK Jr that he'd continue funding long COVID research. Story by @thesicktimes.bsky.social

NEW: The NIH appears to be reversing course on its decision to abruptly cancel a spate of grants for #longCOVID research earlier this week. @cenmag.bsky.social #chemsky #biosky cen.acs.org/policy/resea...

🚨 BREAKING: Long COVID research grants rescinded earlier this week have been restored, according to researchers & patient reps. Advocates organized quickly yesterday in response to the news, helping reverse the decision. Exclusive in @thesicktimes.bsky.social thesicktimes.org/2025/03/28/u...

Thank you Senator Todd Young (R-IN), Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), @kaine.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov for your help here! Bipartisan coordinated efforts like this are crucial to support constituents and the world community👏👏👏 Appreciate your leadership!!! #LongCovid #NoLongCOVIDCuts

Fight back against all their nonsense. Sometimes it works.

The elimination of: grants to study #LongCovid, the Office of LC, & Advisory Committee on LC — have sent a chilling signal. We encourage folks to take the following action led by our partners: 1. Call your reps: win.newmode.net/longcovidcam... 2. Email your reps: actionnetwork.org/letters/long...

DOGE cuts can and do get reversed but ONLY if there is LOUD and IMMEDIATE pushback E.g. FDA medical devices reviewers reinstated a week after being let go - it's possible and it needs to happen for LC Call your reps make sure they hear from us!!

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Scripps Research Institute have developed a groundbreaking UNIVERSAL coronavirus vaccine that triggers STONG immune responses AND shows promise in neutralizing MULTIPLE coronaviruses, including those responsible for causing COVID-19, MERS, AND even the “common cold.” 🧪🧵⬇️

The administration has canceled 45 RECOVER #LongCOVID grants. These grants examined pathology, & were vital to understanding infection-associated chronic illness as a whole. Half of those with #LongCOVID at 6 mo. meet criteria for #MECFS. 🧪 cen.acs.org/policy/resea...

US friends please call your reps 😭🙏 the only hope for saving these grants 🕯 bsky.app/profile/lcca...

#pwLC #pwME #NEISVoid please share with family and friends too! 👇

#MEAction plans to announce our #MillionsMissing campaign next week in which we will rally our community to fight back against these research cuts. TAKE ACTION now by calling your Congressional reps to tell them to STOP the CUTS! See the Long COVID Campaigns toolkit: bit.ly/427IHlE

🚨BREAKING: NIH RECOVER #LongCOVID GRANT CUTS HAVE STARTED🚨 The next 2⃣ DAYS critical to tell Congress #NoLongCOVIDCuts to clinical trials & clinic funding. Can you make just 3⃣ calls & send 3⃣emails today? ☎️Call Congress Tool bit.ly/NoLongCOVIDC... 📨Email Congress Tool bit.ly/NoLongCOVIDC...

Update on Long COVID research funding: Per researcher and advocate @themegascope.bsky.social, funding for at least 45 different RECOVER studies have been terminated. RECOVER is a $1.7 billion program that serves as the single largest federal funding mechanism for long COVID research.

Please make calls to save Long Covid funding! As @ezra.zone has pointed out, it’s not just a few years of research being lost, it’s a generation of researchers who will move on to other issues that have funding… ie less hope this gets solved in our lifetimes 💔 win.newmode.net/longcovidcam...

Beerse, Belgium. In cell and hamster models, researchers found that JNJ-9676, a small molecule targeting the SARS-CoV-2 membrane protein, blocks virus assembly and sharply reduces viral load, offering a new antiviral strategy. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Leuven researchers screened 350,000 compounds and found CIM-834, a small molecule that blocks coronavirus assembly by locking the M protein in its inactive form. In mice and hamsters, it stopped SARS-CoV-2 replication and even prevented transmission. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A paper in Nature Communications reports PET/CT-based in vivo imaging to track SARS-CoV-2 biodistribution in a COVID-19 non-human primate model using a radiolabeled human antibody revealing persistent detection in the lung and brain three months after infection. #medsky 🧪

🚨 🚨 🚨 Really important action for #LongCOVID community and allies! Call or email your federal legislators to let them know #NoLongCOVIDcuts! This condition impacts millions of Americans, many of whom are severely disabled with NO treatments!

Americans - long covid patients across the world are counting on you, please write and call! 💖 bit.ly/NoLongCOVIDC...

Another action to support #LongCovid. This one includes a phone call kit. #NoLongCovidCuts!

The next 3⃣ DAYS are critical to ensuring #NoLongCOVIDCuts to U.S. government #LongCOVID clinical trials & clinic funding. Can you make just3⃣ calls & send3⃣ emails to Congress today? ☎️Call Congress Tool☎️ bit.ly/NoLongCOVIDC... 📨 Email Congress Tool📨 bit.ly/NoLongCOVIDC...

📣 #LongCOVID Community: With recent news, we're now hearing NIH RECOVER-TLC research & AHRQ Long COVID clinic funding could also be at risk. So LCC is launching a rapid-response campaign NOW to make it easier to call Congress & ask for #NoLongCOVIDCuts 1/x bit.ly/NoLongCOVIDCutsCall

🚨 Long Covid funding is at risk! 🚨 Nobody is safe,Long Covid doesn’t discriminate.It could happen to you or someone you love. Please take 2 minutes to call your rep.& demand they keep Long Covid research funded. 📞 Call now: win.newmode.net/longcovidcam... #LongCovid #NoLongCovidCuts

In <24 hours, Covid funding is DOGEd across HHS, CDC, NIH as if it and Long Covid didn't exist and there is no worry for future pandemics www.science.org/content/arti... www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... www.science.org/content/arti...

I'm only a couple of pages into Abundance but it's already making me emotional - my whole life we talked about how people last century would predict a future where we only had to work 10 hours a week, or sought to eradicate child poverty - always as things people tried in a bygone era

The clouds change and so I still get a taste of wonder. In my little box in the sky

5 years. The only thing more traumatic than losing your life to a pandemic is being judged, mocked, & abandoned for it. If I look a little dead behind the eyes, that’s because I am 😵‍💫 #LongCovidAwarenessDay #5YearsLongCovid #HalfADecadeOfNeglect #LongCovidAwarenessDay2025

Netherlands, 151 participants. A 24-week trial found that daily vitamins K2/D3 reduced Long COVID symptoms, fungal translocation, and inflammation compared to standard care. www.croiconference.org/abstract/644...

. @meresearchuk.bsky.social : NK cells are immune cells that destroy infected/diseased cells i.e. possess cytotoxicity (ability to kill other cells).A study found - the most consistent immune finding in #MECFS research is reduced NK cell cytotoxicity,suggesting immune dysfunction bit.ly/3F4cLqy #cfs

From Brazil: Involvement of oxidative stress in post-acute sequelae of COVID-19: clinical implications www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... "findings suggest that individuals with PASC pronounced [oxidative stress], which potentially exacerbates disease complications." #LongCovid #PASC

What do we owe each other? The answer is probably something like this

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️

New York Times: “30 Charts That Show How Everything Changed…in March 2020” “The number of people reporting a disability soared. Many Americans struggled with long Covid and reported cognitive issues like “brain fog” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I'm hoping that as we get further from 2020 and less people are having immediate, visceral reactions to thinking about the pandemic, it'll get easier again to talk about it, Long Covid, and preparing for the next one

TSLA almost back down to where it was pre-election

One silver lining of DOGE is that everyone is getting a crash course on the public service and what it actually does

"[STIMULATE-ICP] has completed successfully, with results expected towards late April or early May." STIMULATE-ICP trialled rivaroxaban, colchicine, and famotidine/loratadine www.theguardian.com/society/2025...