US Weekly COVID update: May 18, 2026 🔸1 in 275 Actively Infectious 🔸178,000 Daily Infections 🔸1,250,000 Infections In The Past Week 🔸75,000,000 Infections in 2026 🔸63,000 to 250,000 Weekly Long COVID Cases 🔸300 to 500 Weekly Excess Deaths Source: pmc19.com/data/

If you don’t wear a mask, no amount of exercise in the world is gonna keep you healthy. Additionally if you get covid and start exercising before the 9 week period, you’re accelerating the damage to your body and therefore your death.

- The current Long COVID crisis reminds me of my early days as a new doctor confronting AIDS before the NIH and HHS made solving AIDS a research priority.

Ever think that all the denialisms are related? Covid and climate denialism certainly are! johndupuis.substack.com/p/demand-mas...

Demand masks in healthcare, Long Covid slice of life, Links between climate & Covid denialism, and more johndupuis.substack.com/p/demand-mas...

We’re hosting a Long Covid Forum in Chester, UK on 28th May 2026. This will be a space for people affected by Long Covid to come together and share experiences. More details soon. 📍 St Mary’s Creative Space, Chester 🕕 18:00–19:30 #LongCovid #LongCovidCommunity

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If you live near an ICE concentration camp, and you do not wear a mask in public, it is likely that you are part of a chain of transmission that ends up with COVID in the concentration camp. Wear a mask.

eyy hang out with me on zoom Friday while I show off some DIY air purifiers and chat about covid-safer event promotion!! chatty/casual space to ask whatever questions you may have about mitigating airborne infectious diseases like covid !! fan-club.neocities.org/skillshares to sign up! plz repost!

“And then they told us that it was mild! Like the cold or flu!” #CovidIsntOver

I have had three people in the last week email me to tell me they could sell me a magic spell to cure my cat’s cancer. One even said “a fraction of the cost of chemotherapy drugs.” Like I know we’ve lost the plot on science and reality in this country but that is some sick shit, man.

Today @thesicktimes.org: @maddidellplain.bsky.social dives into how people with Long COVID experience pregnancy. There's relatively limited research on this so far, but we can learn from ME and more studies are underway. thesicktimes.org/2026/03/24/i...

It's ignorance-based projection on top of a psychological need for complacency in the status quo to be morally best and correct. In trying to feign that leftist philosophies are somehow white supremacist, all they're doing is justifying the white supremacy that keeps them in positions of comfort.

we deserve to be depicted as real nuanced human beings with flaws and issues not a fucking mascot or shallow side characters I'm so done. especially if said character is BLACK. it's why queer/trans indie art is important.

I wish the crumbs of modern mainstream queer/trans rep wasn't so fucking squeaky clean or like, has corporate intervention. but especially clean or a lil angst, it's like throwing a bone at starving dogs. most queer folks I know are nuclear bomb unstable and had catastrophic shit happen to em

My new research is out "Overview and Pathophysiology of Long Covid" I provide an updated overview of key concepts, terminology and epidemiology of LC. I also offer an analysis of key mechanisms of pathology and multi-organ involvement in #LongCovid www.mdpi.com/2673-8112/6/...

Feb. 2026, NY Post: "Long COVID may be triggering Alzheimer’s-like changes in the brain: new study" 'Now, research from NYU Langone Health might explain why some patients experience incessant “brain fog” and memory issues long after a COVID infection' nypost.com/2026/02/10/h...

Y'all liberals laugh, but this is literally how y'all treated covid when Biden pulled a G.W. Bush-style "Mission accomplished" before wastewater shot up and stayed higher than the alpha and beta wave peaks for the next 4 years. Covid is still here, and you're just like Trump if you're not masking.

Many people in N.L. continue to struggle with Long Covid ntv.ca/news/many-pe...

Flo Mask 50% off sale! These are form-fitting, reusable N95 masks and MUCH cheaper long-run than single use masks. I've used this for years in hospitals, airports etc & can't recommend it enough! Comes w/ filter replacements. I have big cheeks w/ a tiny jaw, most masks don't fit me. This does!

Why does regular data collection and prompt distribution matter? Well, take a look at this: Halifax didn't get any COVID wastewater data for a month, and in that time the number went from among the lowest in a year to nearly the highest in a year. And now we haven't had updated info for four weeks.

Long COVID kills. There is no treatment for Long COVID, and the only way to prevent getting Long COVID is to not get COVID in the first place. Wear a mask, filter your air, ventilate your air, and avoid crowded indoor public spaces.  #LongCOVIDAwareness

"The COVID-19 pandemic at 6 years: Mass death, debilitation and media silence" "The bipartisan acceptance of mass infection demonstrates that the capitalist system is fundamentally incompatible with the basic requirements of human health and well-being." 1/ #CovidIsntOver #MedSky #StillCoviding

It's #LongCovid Awareness Month, so mask up and dive into @violetblue.bsky.social's latest Threat Model: #Covid newsletter-- read (always free, never paywalled)/share/support (join the Patreon or send Violet a tip): www.patreon.com/posts/152269... #MedSky #PublicHealth

Read the latest from the Covid-Is-Not-Over newsletter: Long Covid rewires your brain, Degrades your quality of work, Increases your healthcare costs, and more open.substack.com/pub/johndupu...

New resources just dropped 👇 🔎 Debunking Long COVID myths: shh-uk.org/debunking... 🏢 Workplace air quality guidance: shh-uk.org/som-guida... Facts matter. Clean air matters. Let’s protect everyone. #SafeAir4All #CleanAir #LongCovid #PublicHealth #HealthAndSafety #EvidenceBased

“I wear a mask because countless studies have detailed the damaging cumulative effects of COVID.”—Peace is holding their “Long COVID Story Short”, a zine they and mom Dimitrea created as an autobiographical example of the urgency of care and attention needed for Long Haulers.🧵

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Masking saves lives and you can look cute doing it!! 😷🩷 #covidconscious #covidcautious #art #disabledartist #madartist

This week at The Sick Times, @khaoticaa.bsky.social writes that #LongCOVID advocacy is incomplete without sex workers, and that destigmatizing Black queer sex workers will make the movement stronger. bit.ly/4qfFyv4

COVID-19 levels are increasing across most of the U.S. as of late December. But flu is overshadowing COVID-19 in healthcare system impacts and headlines. For both viruses, similar precautions (like high-quality masks and improving air quality) work to reduce your risk of infection. bit.ly/3LhxKd2

We need your help 🚨 Today is the last day to contribute to our end-of-year fundraiser, and we’re $16,000 short of our goal. No donation is too small. Can you help us continue to report on the Long COVID crisis? Donate here: the-sick-times.fundjournalism.org/donate/

New review highlights #SARS-CoV-2 evolution and longstanding #GenomicSurveillance in Germany, emphasising the need for adaptive #PublicHealth strategies for pandemic preparedness. 📄 https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-025-01093-1  👤 EVBC members: Max von Kleist, Thorsten Wolff

SARS-CoV-2 continue to surprise us with evolutionary jumps. In this pre-print, we describe the Identification and genomic characterisation of BA.3.2: a highly divergent BA.3-related SARS-CoV-2 lineage from southern Africa. A thread 🧵 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

I run a little archive of covid information. It's a one woman show, so it's a bit disorganized at the moment, but I update every day. If you're looking for the latest covid news and science and updates on emerging health threats like measles and H5N1, check it out! covidsafehotties.boards.net

I am so sick of wading through COVID research as someone trying to prevent spread. I am now tired of saying to comrades: "What would Alice Wong have wanted?" I am weary from even thinking about trying to approach medical providers about taking basic precautions. Please, step up & do better.

Most people still say “during covid” although there are more people infected with covid now than in 2020. 😭

Making holiday cookies :) Stay safe out there. #Covid #covidsafe #xmas #Cookies

Never forgiving society for stopping masking especially during flu season. We made this stupid razor throat disease shit it’s our fault. I mean I mask up 90% of the time but still.

As a chronically ill person, I still mask. For my own safety. Covid isn’t gone, and is still actively disabling people. I am disabled because of covid. Not only is masking super awesome and even fashionable, it protects you and your loved ones. So please, wear a mask <3

🚨 The Astounding Physics of N95 Masks Video (4mins, Aug 2021) 🚨 youtu.be/vBJpvdZXxcs?... H/t @picklemelissa.bsky.social aka @urbanmel on Twitter To bookmark, watch, and share widely 🎉

The Sick Times does extremely important work reporting on studies and news relevant to the #ME/CFS #pwME and #LongCovid communities. I have become a monthly supporter, and encourage you to do the same if you can.

For more than a year, Miranda DeNovo (@crookedneighbor.bsky.social) has been helping take care of community members with very severe Long COVID and ME. She writes that doctors who will engage with administrative work can be a lifeline against neglect. bit.ly/4a9ZI4u

Return to masking, You know someone with Long Covid and it’s not psychosomatic, Mutating bird flu, and more open.substack.com/pub/johndupu...

you must shake this idea that the destruction of our healthcare at the federal level isn’t going to hit you. ~it can’t happen to me~ doesn’t last long when it does; change your mindset. you’re no different than your neighbors, housed&unhoused—we are connected. mask up. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTHsoNSLbH...

Leslie Lee III, an educator, critic, and Long COVID advocate, died on November 10. “He was one of the few voices in leftist spaces that refused to buy into COVID denialism," Taylor Lorenz told @mileswgriffis.bsky.social. "He was such a strong voice..." bit.ly/44MICG4

Yeah... I have 3 globally recognized IT certs, and I can't get a callback on a job I applied for. And the few times I do, it never goes beyond the "quick chat" with the recruiter. I've been looking for work since 2021, before I even lost my last job to long COVID paired with role elimination.

But what do I know 🙃 #ColdAndFluSeason #COVIDisNotOver #LongCovid #LongFlu #RSV #AvianFlu #Tripledemic #WearAMask 😷