There should be infinitely more interest in this medical mystery. How many doctors can even name the phenomenon described below? I’ll give a hint: it’s the hallmark of a disease that affects 1.3% of US adults, per CDC. (So docs should know about it!) #MedSky

This is why I mask indoors when sharing air with others, regularly test, use air purifiers, and get a COVID booster every six months, most recently on Monday. Saddens and infuriates me governments and organisations are letting us down despite all the evidence these protections are still needed.

despite its numerous faults, it seems like a lot of people are afraid of fully unplugging from spotify because they'll miss out on music discovery. that's a role that music journalism can and should be filling.

Breaking: Spain brings masks back. Mandatory in hospitals, primary care, and long-term care—for patients, visitors, and staff. Strong recommendation everywhere else. Public health moving where evidence points. Note: Really worth upgrading to respirators. euroweeklynews.com/2025/11/28/s...

The real question should be: During an #OngoingPandemic of an injurious, #AirborneVirus, did Unions, protect workers from #Reinfections of #COVID & from developing #LongCOVID, for which there still is no cure? Answer: No. They did not. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

I’m observing this a little from the other end- I am a mature (mid thirties) grad student. Some of my younger classmates are struggling, and sometimes *I* am struggling with things I used to do pretty seamlessly. Look, I am not making excuses, but a few things have changed between 2011 and now.

🫣EEEK! Our @biggive.bsky.social #ChristmasChallenge starts tomorrow, 2nd - 9th December. With your support we hope to reach more children and young people living with Long Covid in 2026 - `can you help us hit our campaign target of £17,500? Learn more: www.longcovidkids.org/christmas-ch...

Flu is spreading earlier than last year, with children heavily impacted. We call on the Minister for Education and the HSE to update public health advice to schools to account for airborne transmission of flu. Press release is available here: www.cleanairadvocacyireland.org/clean-air-bl...

In case anyone is wondering how things are going in healthcare, IPAC sent out a memo reminding staff—in my unmasked hospital—that handwashing is the best way to stay healthy this respiratory illness season and I just 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

chat are we cooked

The Doctor is right and correct

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I’m a better nurse for being on social media and a huge part of that is because of people with Long Covid, ME/CFS, PEM, and other chronic illnesses sharing their stories online

Important read especially because we likely all know someone with Long Covid

Honestly I feel safer at the hairdressers than the doctors. How did we get here? Healthcare is responsible for a lot of avoidable COVID death and injury.

Doing nothing is expensive. #LongCovid www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...

Poster recently published by NHS Scotland. Incorrect, dangerous guidance to the public about spread of diseases like flu, COVID-19 etc and how hand-washing is key to keeping themselves safe (would you believe!) Formal complaint lodged. See: tinyurl.com/52wbmye9

Ethnic frauds stir up so many terrible feelings in Indigenous folks, and I don't think the general public really understands this. The goal of the ongoing colonial project has been the erasure of Indigenous Peoples, meaning our identity and existence has been undermined from every direction.

I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve gone into work to find a patient I had just cared for now diagnosed with Flu, Covid, TB, etc. Masking in healthcare just makes sense! It’s hard to see a downside, actually. And no, I didn’t get sick with anything…because I’m always in an N95.

Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.

The Ottawa Police are getting an 8.7% budget hike ($31.5M) including $5.4M pulled from reserves. The issues we're facing demand mental health supports, housing, and community services, not more police. Tell Council to fund mental health, not more cops: www.horizonottawa.ca/no_police_hike

As global opinion shifts toward supporting Palestinian human rights, universities are at a crossroads. They can cling to a hollow idea of neutrality or acknowledge the reality in front of them: refusing to act is refusing to confront an unfolding genocide.

On CBC news they're talking about the rise of RSV season. Yes, they're recommending vaccines. That's great! No other suggestions to _help_ stop the spread of RSV. If it's airborne, which it appears to be, then, we should talk about that. Reference: publications.ersnet.org/content/erj/...

A lot of us are wearing N95s in public because there are still way too many hospitalizations happening and Long Covid is an enormous problem. We need clean indoor air; if I had my choice we’d start with schools and healthcare. Also get vaccinated 💉

Hospitalizations are expected to require 6.3% of Canada's staffed hospital beds for three weeks (CIHI: average duration of COVID hospitalizations: www.cihi.ca/en/covid-19-...).

About 2.5% of people in Canada are infected and/or experiencing life activity-limiting long COVID this week. The estimated cost of hospitalizations from this week's infections in Canada is $92.7M.

Infections in Canada this week are expected to result in 4,200 hospitalizations, 725 deaths (people who die at least 1 year earlier than they would without COVID) and 23,000 new long COVID cases serious enough to limit daily life activities.

This blog post is a very accurate characterisation of the experience of living with #PostExertionalMalaise #PEM. Recommended reading for healthcare professionals who want to understand #MECFS and #LongCovid. You generally only see these patients when they're at their best — not in the aftermath.

The real problem with pretendians is the way discussions around them are driven by mainstream colonial narratives about Indigeneity. Non-indigenous folks believe themselves experts on Indigenous identity and end up muddying the waters even more. Seeing this discussed by non-Indigenous folks is...

Please sign and share! I learned that I have extremely dense breasts via Ontario’s changed mammogram rules (self referral 40+) and I have an appt coming up to advocate for additional screening for myself…which was not offered and was suggested is not needed ☹️

Hey yo it’s frickin ILLNESSES because schools have not made their air safe to breathe during an ongoing airborne pandemic

But also the school-absences story is just...seriously WTF is wrong with these people? Are they so terrified of criticism from pseudoscientific loons that they just won't discuss COVID? So out of touch that they don't know this stuff? Just phoning it in? 🤷 www.nationalacademies.org/read/27756/c...

This is obvious and axiomatic. Yet why doesn’t everyone recognize and acknowledge it??

as a historian let me show you how to identify a failed society www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/202...

Everything wrong with the last almost 6 years right there.

🧵 Thread: The Economic Cost of Long Covid – new 2025 study in Nature 1/ A new paper has modelled the economic burden of Long Covid in the U.S. and globally. Spoiler: it’s massive. Here’s a breakdown. 👇

MSF denounces yet more bloodshed in #Gaza. Our teams continue to treat critically wounded Palestinians caused by Israeli airstrikes and quadcopters on Nov. 19, which have left dozens dead and scores more injured. Read the full update: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/msf-teams-tr...

Chomsky had deeper ties with Epstein than previously known, documents reveal

Friendly reminder; anyone not treating climate collapse as an immediate threat of unimaginable scale and violence should be ignored, fired and/or voted out. The creeps and duds who occupy our government, corp news media and boardrooms need to go FAST.

I’d like to call attention to the fact that there are still *many* hospitals without even a surgical mask mandate this winter, for ex all of The Ottawa Hospital

As I've said before, the distinction drawn between acute infectious diseases and chronic diseases is, in many cases, artificial. This is the huge flaw in MAHA: infections can and often do cause chronic disease; vaccines can thus prevent some chronic diseases. stanmed.stanford.edu/infections-l...

The ppl calling the shots in 2020 were destructively ignorant. if you're listening to the same groups tell you that masking is no longer needed, you might want to check your sources. I understand public backlash to precautions given how inconsistant they've been. but we can do better for each other

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#Ontario #wastewater graph updated with November 9 data - London, Toronto updated: wwater.ca/Ontario - Also updated: AB, BC, MB, NB, SK, YT wwater.ca Source: health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/

“There is no monitoring or real plan to control any airborne diseases in healthcare settings and it’s costing the UK taxpayer billions and making hospitals the best place to go to catch COVID‑19, or flu, or potentially even TB, Scarlet Fever or Measles” Same situation in Canada 🚨

Get your flu shot. But wear an N95. 👉f it doesn't get inside you, it can't make you sick.👈 Especially with bird flu waiting in the wings (hah!) and no real preparations in place for it, now's the time to get a sample pack of different N95s and find a comfortable one that fits you well.

From the UK’s governmental COVID inquiry. Pay attention Canada. Please spread this message and hold Canadian decision makers and communicators accountable too. @ipaccanada.bsky.social @govnb.bsky.social

"The information that could have stopped the pandemic in 2020, that Dr. Morawska was desperately trying to teach WHO infection control leaders in 2020, was known for 👉84 years👈 " And THIS, friends, is why the discourse with IPC & CMOHs is increasingly no longer civil. F**k them all. #WeHaveReceipts

So, without much ado, we've kind of lost the first major city to climate change. (Tehran, metropolitan area 15 million people.)

It is NOT NORMAL to get reinfected over and over with a new virus. Can we please get some GD clean air in public places and for the love of god can we normalize masking already!!!! Just WTAF everyone