The covid deniers have won, but they also have to live in the world they created. archive.ph/nHebN

Cool. We are now the country that builds concentration camps.

At least try to hide it, and add in one white holiday.

'You Have Compared The CDC's Work To Nazi Death Camps'. Raphael Warnock Grills HHS Nominee RFK Jr.

Senator Todd Young 'Covid is not over. If confirmed, will you collaborate with healthcare providers, researchers, and affected communities to better mitigate and understand #LongCovid?' RFJ Jr - "Yes"

I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going

Some learnings about our immune system from Covid @nature.com —importance of T cells (not just neutralizing antibodies) —key role of interferons, the first line of defense —hybrid immunity —underpinnings of Long Covid www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Still more deadly than flu or RSV jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Someone who gets it! “The NIH communications pause feels like a part of a bigger shift and attack on sciences because there is a suspicion about our work or who is selected to do this when it is in fact very competitive and benefits society as a whole.” archive.ph/G78xY#select...

"Can he do that? Oh, YES he can! Call your senator or congressmen!" Live look at a crash course in check and balances. 👇

This week Trump has cut off nearly all foreign aid for the next 30-90 days, gagged all of HHS, cut off research funding at the NIH. Why do Americans think he's not going to cut off their benefits? The only departments he cares about are Homeland Security, and DOJ.

Fun watching Americans fail an open book test on US government.

If Trump had pulled out of WHO prior to 2020, we would not have had access to the genetic sequence of SARS-CoV-2. Instead of developing the world's first mRNA vaccines, we would have been behind the rest of the world.

I think if you are still complaining about Biden at this point you are missing the point that the Nazis are in charge right now and fully intend to go after scientists and academics.

The #1 question I receive is where can I find a doctor to help me with my disability application. We have multiple crises happening at the same time. #LongCovid www.reddit.com/r/covidlongh...

'Look the flu will kill more people than Covid this winter.' As if that's a huge win. Hello! Tone deaf person! The goal is to stop people from dying of the flu, and Covid. Wear a mask, clean the air.

Politicians - We need building codes for fire prevention. If your house burns, your neighbor's house will too. Waiting for them to figure this out about infectious disease.

This is why I don't believe people anymore when they say they have never heard of #LongCovid😑 www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/4-1...

SARS-CoV-2 is not a textbook virus. Antibodies are suppose to wane over time after an infection is fully cleared. Here, the group with #LongCovid continues to have an antibody response up to 1000 days laters, while in the control it wanes, suggesting viral persistence. 1/2

Prevention is undervalued. Listening to the news lament that we need to spend more money on public safety, when we have gutted public health. We only know we have a problem when it's burning down your house.

From 2018, Al-Aly's group. "The toll of diabetes attributable to PM2.5 pollution is substantial; long-term exposure to PM2.5 contributed to about 3.2 million cases of diabetes in 2016, representing 14% of total incident diabetes globally"😷 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Marc Veldhoen on wild fires. If you burn it now, it won't burn tomorrow. Children should expose themselves to smoke to build resistence. No need to mask, the wind will blow away the smoke. It will rain eventually. 🙃

Justice Sotomayor 😷

Something to think about. We are making the assumption that Covid reactivated latent viruses, but the possibility is there that EBV or HSV-1 was already reactivated, and changing the immune response to SARS-CoV-2 #LongCovid www.frontiersin.org/journals/vir...

Love to have public health politicized to the point of people killing themselves for freedom

If you really want to see what cognitive dissonance looks like, just look at LA right now. You have some people wearing N100s, but most are wearing nothing at all. The government and the news is telling them they need to wear at least an N95 outside.

Why don't we see more #LongCovid researchers wearing a mask? ‘It's cognitive dissonance, it's quite taxing, and requires a lot of discipline. Remember that doctors, cardiologists, and pulmonologists used to smoke in the hospitals.’ Dr Al-Aly

'It's a trauma response, we are dealing with the pandemic by ignoring it, and saying it doesn't exist anymore. We are going to live in a make believe world where the pandemic does not exist. It's cognitive dissonance.' Dr Al-Aly

I think I saw it mentioned elsewhere (maybe an interview with @binitakane.bsky.social) that she was seeing long covid patients who had a head trauma in the previous year.

'Repeated infections (along with a possible decrease in viral load clearance) can cause an increase in the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 genome in the body and thus may lead to the development of #LongCovid. This mechanism appears similar to causal factors in ME/CFS.'

'New research suggests that blows to the head can reactivate viruses sleeping inside the brain, leading to inflammation and dementia. Cells that had been infected with HSV-1, showed reactivation of the virus.' www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Vaccination prior to Covid-19 infection does not significantly reduce neurological symptoms seen in #LongCovid. academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...

The #LongCovid bill has stalled in congress a year later. I said it last year, and I'll say it again, this bill will never leave the subcommittee without a republican signature. It needs bipartisan support, and for that, the amount needs to be much smaller.

Hell has frozen over.

Norovirus can spread by aerosolized fecal matter. So think about toothbrushes. 😬

A study in Nature Cities on access to running water in large US cities since 1970 finds that the 2008 financial crisis worsened household ‘plumbing poverty’ in many cities. This generally squeezed lower-income households into more precarious living situations. 🧪

Nice discussion of ECM-mitochondrial communication here. Could mitochondrial dysfunction be at the root of ECM abnormalities frequently observed in ME/CFS? (I tend to think so.) #poorlittlebeans #mitochondriaNOThypochondria www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

Data show 7% rate of long COVID in college students | CIDRAP www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/dat... #Covid #LongCovid #College #University

Chinese pet owners are using the Covid drug, LAGEVRIO, (molnupiravir) to treat a feline coronavirus at a cost of $236 a bottle. FIP is a persistent reservior in the gut. www.deccanherald.com/world/chines...

How tattoo ink induces inflammation and impairs the response to a Covid vaccine www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What makes ME/CFS and other Post Acute Infection Syndromes so tricky they likely have a 1-2 hit model. Where you have a smoldering infection, and a second challenge comes along which could be a high stress event is the trigger when the symptoms really begin. David Putrino

When SARS-CoV-2 specific T cells are activated for too long, they lose their ability to fight, and become exhausted. Latent viruses can reactivate as the immune system becomes more dysregulated. David Putrino @putrinolab.bsky.social

Thinking back on all the times I've been sick, I was only given an antiviral once. Tamiflu for influenza. The rest of the time, it's like 'oh well it's a virus, what can you do.' I guess it shouldn't be a shock how we got into this mess.

I've always thought that it wasn't actually Covid that was causing all these new autoimmune diseases people were experiencing after infection. That it was actually all the latent viruses that were reactivating that were causing it. Here's new evidence. 👇

Maybe in a thousand years Covid will finally be the flu, but right now it's causing enormous suffering. Can we just live in the present, and not 3025? #LongCovid

SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, shares 79.5% of it's genome with SARS. Would you willingly reinfect yourself to SARS? 😷 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

'Oh I had Norovirus last week. Oh I had it last week too.' Totally normal conversation now. 🫠🫠

If you are experiencing severe vomiting right now as I did over the weekend, it's probably Norovirus. We have no treatments. We also don't have a vaccine because you would have to get everyone vaccinated every 90 days to reach herd immunity.

More evidence of increased new-onset cardiovascular disease up to 3.5 years after infection, even in mild cases. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The media loves to tell us Americans are really unhealthy. They are overweight, don't exercise, and don't sleep enough. Now the media says this same population is healthy enough to be repeatedly assaulted from a virus that has killed millions.