Prevention matters... New research confirms that young people who have been affected with COVID-19 twice, are twice as likely to develop Long-COVID... time.com/7322188/covi...

The Lancet @buonsenso.bsky.social The take-home message from this study is clear: long COVID is here to stay, even in children, and can be exacerbated by reinfections and sustained by high viral circulation. Governments, health-care systems, and #LongCovidKids www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Oxford BIOBANK + US FlatIron databases. Virus such as Covid and flu increase risk of cancer. New research suggests that respiratory viruses, including Covid-19 and influenza, can awaken dormant cancer cells and cause them to multiply and spread. www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/lif...

6. The great and tragic irony is that the more societies agree to ignore it, by prioritising a yearning for the status quo above all else, the more of a force multiplier our societies become for the virus. Societies have become the virus's greatest ally. /end

Let me be clear. As someone who has been professionally involved with the biodefense / biosecurity sector for nearly 20 years, and has worked on biological risk analysis for Covid-19 since early 2020, reducing one's risk of being infected is not health anxiety. It's just smart.

CO₂ levels are a proxy for ventilation. High CO₂ = insufficient ventilation; low CO₂ = ventilation working well. Monitor. Ventilate. Filter. Stay home when sick. More about our journey here: safeairschools.org/our-journey/

Rosie is exhausted after doing 4 back-to-back interviews yesterday. This is the reality of living with #longcovid and #ME/CFS

🏆 Winner (Ages 5–11): Clara M, Age 10 🎨 Poster Title: “Understand We Need Your Support” Her moving poster, “Understand We Need Your Support,” uses bold imagery and heartfelt messaging to highlight the importance of empathy and support for children living with Long Covid.

🏆 Winner (Ages 12–21): Caitlin Glasgow, Age 14 🎨 Poster Title: “How To Help Someone With Long Covid” We are proud to announce that Caitlin Glasgow, age 14, is the winner of the 12–21 age category in the Long Covid Kids Poster Design Competition 2025! 🎉

We advocate for universal air sensors in healthcare and education the technology exists to live stream the data as in Latvia. Let’s make our Air Quality visible without doing so we cannot make the changes necessary for health and comfort . #Cleantheair

"We urge practitioners to treat patient-generated data as a valuable resource. Without this shift, patients with contested illnesses like long Covid risk remaining stuck in a system where they have to be their own doctors." Dr Jayadeva www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...? #LongCovid #PatientAdvocacy

From the British Medical Journal this week: "A growing number of scientists believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may be subtly altering our immune systems. If correct, their hypothesis will change how we understand everything from RSV to shingles to sepsis." www.bmj.com/content/390/...

The clear benefit of Covid-19 vaccination demonstrated in this study illustrates exactly why limiting access to vaccination is a significant negative to productivity and the economy in general. www.news-medical.net/news/2025081...

It is #SevereMEDay Physios in any specialism may meet people (adults or children) with severe ME during a hospital admission. We can play a key role in education of other health professionals, to advocate for safe management and care @thecsp.bsky.social www.physiosforme.com/severe-me

1. I've said exactly this for quite some time. Expanding on Adrian's @sillyputty78.bsky.social point on X / Twitter here, Covid-19 has three distinct characteristics as a disease that enables it to be denied at a societal level.

📣 Oproep aan de politiek: passend en structureel beleid voor mensen met PAIS. Het is van groot belang dat er een duidelijke politieke keuze wordt gemaakt voor mensen met #PAIS. Wij roepen politieke partijen op om beleid voor PAIS mee te nemen in hun verkiezingsprogramma. 🧵

someone has to say this otherwise you keep failing all trials & biomarkers. nowadays #longcovid is (post-covid) #mecfs. full stop. all the rest are covid induced known complications (cardio events, diabetes, etc)

“#Publichealth researchers say strong evidence suggests preventing infection is key to preventing Long Covid, after they found more than a fifth of #children and young people were suffering ongoing symptoms following Covid-19.” www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

This is a mistake. The current political situation in the US means that migrant farm workers are very unlikely to engage with any arm of the federal government. It is a huge risk to deprioritise H5N1. www.cnn.com/2025/07/07/h...

www.independent.co.uk/news/health/... Yes, many humans HAVENT learned

Two days before the 2016 Brexit referendum, Daniel Hannan wrote about what life would be like in Britain on 24 June 2025. (The least accurate thing ever written about Brexit.) A week ago, he wrote in the Telegraph that Britain is turning into a third world country. He got paid for both articles.

I have seen 2 patients in clinic today whose (severe) Long Covid started with an infection in 2024. Both had experienced previous COVID infections. This really hasn’t gone away 😢

Akiko Iwasaki’s latest paper on #LongCOVID being a neuroimmune disease (not a respiratory disease as it was initially thought). Clear pathomechanisms proposed ⬇️

1. It's important to understand that there are no conspiracies regarding the general lack of mitigations against Covid-19. There is no utopia for the extremely wealthy / elites that is 'Davos safe'. 'Covid' is now much more a political term than a disease.

2. The reason there are no widespread mitigations against SARS-CoV-2 infection is due to (a) as a result of the initial lockdowns in 2020, 'Covid' is a toxic word for politicians - speaking about it is a vote killer, (b) generalised incompetence across public health bureaucracies

3...(c) social media promulgating antivaxx ideology. In short, a fear of losing popularity, a shocking lack of competence regarding the nature of the disease and its sequelae, and vast numbers of people being sucked into antivaxx and adjacent ideologies via social media. /end

Delighted to be speaking with BBB (brilliant @bendybrain.bsky.social ) Please share GPs, doctors, Educators #research #hEDS #GJH #Autism #ADHD #dyspraxia #Covid #Education ! @roysocmed.bsky.social Link for tickets / sponsorship + rsm.ac.uk/events/rheum... July 11th 2025 @sedsconnective.org

The unholy mess of #TakingThePIP bill is coming to the Commons today. It won't get people into work: PIP is not an out-of-work benefit, more than half of the 500,000+ PIP recipients who work will lose it. So will over a million who can't work due to health but will also lose care and other support.

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#DoctorsAsPatients “I think when you experience it yourself, only then do you realise how much impact it can have” Peter Hulshof Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0yw... #Doctors #Psychiatrist

Long covid is now the most common chronic health problem in children, even surpassing asthma.

Abnormal metabolic profiles in MISC and pediatric COVID: “Despite milder clinical respiratory symptoms, children’s metabolic disturbances mirrored those seen in severe adult COVID-19 patients, indicating a shared inflammatory response to SARS-CoV-2.” pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Air quality in classrooms: does anyone have tips about starting a conversation with their child's school about this? Thanks! Ook (vooral!) als je in Nederland woont. Mijn kinderen gaan naar een door de overheid gesubsidieerde internationale school.

‘Long COVID is common, affecting up to 10% to 20% of children with a history of COVID-19. With almost 6 million US children potentially affected, this is higher than the number of children with asthma, the most common chronic health problem in children.’  jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

🟦 LONGCOVID en ME/CVS 🟥 VERVOLGONDERZOEK SPIERAFWIJKINGEN 🔲 voorpublicatie van de groep van Rob Wüst ‘Skeletal muscle properties in long COVID and ME/CFS differ from those induced by bed rest’ 👉 medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

2. As such, a clear division cannot be made between infectious disease and chronic disease. National public health policies that focus on one at the expense of the other are fundamentally counterproductive, because said policies are based on this false dichotomy. /end

1. Although an observational study, this reinforces a point I have made many times on this platform: the huge blind spot in the longevity / healthspan space is the lack of attention paid to how pathogens can cause chronic illness years or decades after infection. www.scimex.org/newsfeed/col...

‚We urge clinicians and researchers to amend existing protocols and design future protocols to include children in clinical trial design in order to avoid unnecessary delays and harm for children with long COVID.‘ #LongCovid

Singapore has often been a bellwether for an increase in Covid-19 cases globally. As such, it is likely, but not certain, that a new global wave of infections will occur reasonably soon. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-o...

Please keep this going! Protect Disabled people who cannot work from planned cuts to benefits petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Why does “learning to live with covid” mean accepting repeat infections as inevitable? Why does it mean throwing the vulnerable to the wayside, unsafe healthcare & mass disability? That’s not “living with it”. That’s giving up We need to adapt. Clean air, paid time off, masks in healthcare.

The UK is: Letting children get sick before they reach working age. Letting workers get sick and not treating them. Letting NHS workers meant to treat them get sick. Then letting the PAs hired to replace sick NHS workers get sick. Not treating them. "Why aren't we back to pre-pandemic productivity?"

Quite disheartening to return from 10 days working with some of the most important and relevant #MECFS and #LongCOVID researchers in the world and to read this drivel being allowed through from @bmj_latest. Let's be unambiguous about this: BMJ has www.bmj.com/content/389/... 1/

Sending out een SOS 🛟! Ziek sinds 1989 en de laatste 5 jaar nauwelijks nog het huis uit geweest. Onzichtbaar thuis op de bank. En dan mag ik nog blij zijn dat ik in staat ben naar beneden te gaan dankzij een traplift. Daarom deze noodkreet op internationale #ME dag Help mij en alle #MillionsMissing

SOS van @anilvanderzee.bsky.social 🙏🏼 #MEcvs #PAIZ #LongCovid 5 minuten filmpje youtu.be/P4Y3L4TohTk?...

This is brilliant, 90 to 100 percent of the class started wearing masks after playing the game.

I cried reading this letter to @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social and @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social. Please, please fund the plan, people with ME/CFS have waited too long already. A huge thank you to Tessa Munt and the other 71 LibDem MPs for this much-appreciated and much-needed support.