Latest 🎯🧵 by Zdenek Vrozina on the impact of repeat Covid infections in kids... "... ignoring the chronic impacts of COVID in children carries population-level consequences. ... study of >465k kids shows: Reinfections double the risk of long COVID..." 🚨🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/19732...

In this chapter I discuss how these guys treat *theoretical* risks from the vaccine more seriously than *actual* harms from COVID. rumble.com/v6z2qce-no-o...

When you get a vaccine or a medical checkup, we expect the healthcare worker to wash their hands and wear gloves. We should think the same about wearing masks in medical settings. Viruses can spread pre-symptomatically; masks are another effective infection control measure.

Please understand your doctors and healthcare workers aren’t masking or talking about COVID because they’ve reviewed the science on it and determined it’s no longer a threat. They’re not doing so because they haven’t read the studies, or they’re ignoring them.

American Millennials Are Dying At An Alarming Rate, But It’s Only Alarming If You Know About It, And Anyway It’s Totally Not Caused By Covid Infections

COVID-19 spread remains high across the U.S. as our summer surge continues into early fall. As a new school year gets underway, young children remain vulnerable: emergency department visits for COVID-19 were higher for children under 12 than any other age group in late August. bit.ly/41y1HdG

Is it any wonder people have no idea what to think? It is airborne, no it's not, yes it is, but because that is hard to control we will now do nothing. It is mild now but be careful, no, be extra careful. Respirators aren't better but wear the best fitting mask you can, a respirator.

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

If you have small children who just returned to school, I offer my condolences on the illness that they immediately contracted. To keep it from infecting your entire household, crack a couple windows (on opposite walls, if possible), turn on an air purifier, and consider wearing a mask.

The start of a new school year (K-12 & college) also brings the start of seasonal increase in COVID cases. Local data is no longer tracked—here's Virginia state-wide charts to 23 Aug 2025. There's been a large increase in positive COVID tests since July 1 and a steady increase in ED visits.

Our medical establishment has been engaged is a successful and deliberate effort to have people only remember unwanted mitigation measures. They’ll be talking about masking toddlers for decades.

Why? Maybe because the pandemic isn't over, & we still aren't cleaning the air, & handing out free #N95s - on top of which, governments are restricting vaccines. Via @bhanlon15.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...

As one source after another of tracking data vanished we used to joke that at least we would always have the Walgreens Covid tracker and angry reviews of scented candles, alas we were wrong about the “always” part, though at least we still have angry reviews of scented candles.

Heart disease patients should get vaccinated against respiratory illnesses, including COVID-19, cardiology experts say. Anyone with heart disease is high-risk, regardless of age, since infections can trigger heart failure and raise the chance of heart attacks.

Do you know who still masks? Celebrities like Selena Gomez.

Waiting outside the laundromat while smiling w/ my eyes & repping #PriscillaKelly There’s a COVID surge right now (going to increase in the Fall as kids go back to school) Pls wear a mask in public to protect yourself, your family, friends & community Each reinfection increases risk of #LongCOVID

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I can’t believe that someone shot up the CDC. Where did anyone get the idea that violence was acceptable?

Live Science: 'Huge study of ME/CFS reveals genetic 'hotspots' linked to the debilitating syndrome' 'A large study of ME/CFS included more than 15,000 people and identified eight locations in the genome linked to the disease.' #DecodeME www.livescience.com/health/genet...

1/ "This review provides an in-depth investigation of the possible correlations between COVID-19 and cancer, prevalence of COVID-19 infection and its effects on the tumor microenvironment, metastatic processes, and cancer recurrence": www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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COVID is airborne and still with us, evidenced by hospitalisations and deaths data. Many feel in a better place than at the height of the pandemic, but protections still matter, such as ventilation, booster vaccines, and testing. Long COVID, maligned by some, continues to affect millions of lives.

Long COVID is rapidly evolving into a major chronic disease burden in the United States. This excellent report projects that by the end of 2025, approximately 13% of the adult population—will have experienced Long COVID. davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/the-projec...

Vaccines work www.news-medical.net/news/2025080...

Pandemic preparedness in the US has been leveled a crippling blow with the cancellation of multiple #BARDA contracts to help develop mRNA vaccines. No other vaccine platform produces vaccine so quickly; without mRNA, Americans will have a long wait for pandemic vax. www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...

Long Covid has overtaken childhood Asthma in the US. There must be a similar picture globally in countries like the US who have pushed the natural immunity narrative. It’s not mild, there is at present no cure. Children have a chronic wet dry cough. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

"Brazil’s Supreme Court orders house arrest for ex-President Jair Bolsonaro" What a beautiful day! One mass murderer down, who is next?

‘We might die because you won’t wear a mask’: A plea to health-care workers. "Yes, it’s time to mask again. We need to do better. We know how to do better. We can save so many lives and preserve the dignity of patients in the process." #Maskup😷 #COVIDisNotOVER Source: archive.md/dQMtX

Read an excerpt from @violetblue.bsky.social’s The COVID Safety Handbook: bit.ly/3WeXiJY

In a world where we rely on each other for support, taking small steps to protect those around us can make a big difference. Masking to prevent airborne infections is more than just an individual choice—it's a way to care for our community.

Call to arms for the #MECFS and #LongCovid communities to back up pages you may want in the future. We’ve lost history already.

My feeds are full of "we are all we have" and if you truly believe that, I need you to get serious about who you abandoned bc democrats told you that the pandemic was over. Wearing a mask is one of the most immediate material actions you can take to protect yourself and your communities—do it.

I don't know how as a Democratic political strategist you don't see large groups of heroic humans all around the world gathering in solidarity to protest against a despicable, harrowing genocide, students in encampments all around the country for days & think "oh that's just a small side issue"

Deep down, this result cannot have surprised anyone. Trump represents the billionaires, who own almost all the ways in which people receive their information. From Musk to Zuckerberg, Bezos to Murdoch, this was class solidarity in action.

These issues jeopardize healthcare worker and patient safety by ignoring airborne COVID-19 risks in hospitals. WHN calls for urgent reform and accountability. Read/download the full complaint here: whn.global/whn-files-su... #HealthcareSafety #SafetyMeasures #InfectionPrevention #PublicHealth #COVID

"But we can't afford to take action on the climate, it costs too much and is bad for business." Catarroja, Valencia.

Huge new report out of Quebec The risk of long COVID reaches 37% after three infections, according to the INSPQ The Quebec health system is unable to help the growing number of people who have had persistent symptoms for months or even years ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/211...

Normalize virus reports like weather reports. We appreciate weather reports even if they bring us bad news, as they help us plan ahead and avoid accidents. We need to stop being in denial about airborne viruses spreading. Sharing data helps us prepare and makes our lives easier.

As has been a trend throughout this pandemic, our government ending the national emergency and public health emergency declarations was premature. Magical thinking driven by economic concerns has been the defining feature of America’s COVID response.

The deal seems to be that people can largely live like in pre-pandemic times as long as we accept getting miserably ill maybe twice a year (especially during family holidays), accept heightened risks of long-term health problems, and let old/vulnerable folks die. Doesn’t seem like a good deal to me.

I keep seeing fellow disabled folks imply it’s wrong or ableist for folks to be want to avoid being disabled by long COVID, it’s the most bizarre take I can imagine. Long COVID put my fibromyalgia in a permanent flare & seriously reduced my quality of life. Everyone should avoid getting it.

The impact of Long Covid on healthcare resources, utilization, and costs among ~53,000 diagnosed individuals cf ~265,000 matched controls medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Statcan/Kuang et al, 2023: #Canada: Of people who have experienced 1, 2, & 3 bouts of #COVID19, 14.6%, 25.4%, & 37.9% report symptoms >3mo.. 49.7% with symptoms >3mo. report no improvement over time. Only 5.7% were diagnosed with #longCOVID. www.reddit.com/r/COVIDZero/...

Wow. This essay on Long Covid, by a patient who is a specialist in data visualization, is brilliant and powerful. Hats off the author. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

If you are a pig you get customizable Sequivity from Merck Animal Health for your coronavirus/flu health needs. If you are a human you get a fraction of that, at a much higher cost and so much out of cycle to be irrelevant by the time you get it.

'This finding is consistent with our hypothesis that COVID-19 is an important contributing factor for the 2022 surge of severe pediatric RSV diseases, likely through its lasting damage to the immune and respiratory systems of young children' and no protections in schools

Please do this! It's great the government is going to send people free COVID tests again. But we also need them to send people free N95 masks.

PSA: the CDC has a program that pays for your COVID vaccine if your insurer won't. The guy at CVS told me that my insurer had not added the new vaccine to its formulary yet, so I'd need to pay $190. I told him about this program, showed him the website, and paid nothing. 🤗