Tue, May 26, 2026 @ 6:30-7:30pm EDT, a Zoom Webinar: "Healthy Air at Home: What You Can Monitor, Filter, and Fix" Register and more info here ( www.thenetwork.to/event-detail... )

🧵 May is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) Awareness Month. You can help by liking and/or sharing this video. This 2017 TED talk features Jennifer Brea. youtu.be/Fb3yp4uJhq0 #MyalgicE #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis Day #1 1/

Happy May Day! Workers deserve to breathe clean air and be safe from deadly and disabling pathogens. Covid is a workers’ rights issue. Our unions need to advocate for: - Air filtration and ventilation - Live air quality monitoring - PPE - Testing - Paid sick days

Let’s help David reach his goal!

Excellent work by @cape-acep.bsky.social, demonstrating the value of the labour movement not just for workers, but for everyone else as well. A good hard kick at the "Don't Look Up" narrative being sold by the people who let #longCOVID run wild and are now trying to bury it (and their victims).

Donated ✅

"The pandemic continues to pose a risk to workers. Indoor air quality, ventilation, & infection prevention are fundamental workplace safety issues. Yet the federal public service has largely failed to implement consistent standards for air quality monitoring, filtration, or transparent reporting..."

“Canada is experiencing a mass disabling event driven in large part by the ongoing transmission of COVID-19 and other communicable diseases.” @ontarionurses.bsky.social @cfnu.bsky.social

“She actually asked me a couple of times, you know, am I going to die? She felt so unwell.” Isla is 10 and developed #MECFS after a COVID infection. She is 95% housebound and just wants to “have fun and do things with her friends”. From BBC Lifeline: Action for ME

Our new paper is here: Current status and future perspectives on the mechanistic and pathophysiological understanding of long COVID www.nature.com/articles/s43...

ICYMI: Last week, the Boston Globe published a profile of a 16 year old high school student who has long covid. The article supplied some useful info about the condition, though it said nothing whatsoever about prevention. Here are a few article details: 🧵1/6 www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/23/m...

Their air quality sucks too

#MedSky This is not ok 🤬

Just because you offer concrete opportunities for people to take action does not mean that they will take action.

#MedSky Any reason prevention of flu and COVID using respirators, HEPA filters, and sensible visitor management is not part of the discussion? Why aren’t we discussing this at *every level*?

This day feels extra performative to me as it’s 2026 and our hospitals still pretend Covid is spread via droplets + surfaces and no one seems to care

I’m a broken record. For. A. Reason. Post op pain management. Post op preventable COVID and flu infections. Post op nutrition. www.surgeons.org/-/media/Proj...

Just a few days left to be part of our ME/CFS Awareness Month storytelling campaign. “This is ME.” Share a short video or written reflection by April 30. Anonymous submissions welcome. Caregivers too. Submit → https://bit.ly/3Q4Vy5T #MECFSAwareness #ThisIsME

Berkeley's crowdfunder for Trial By Error has received 350 donations!! Thanks to all who have supported my work over the years. Here's the link for the current effort: crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/49720

I fully agree, and tbh I wish I’d understood masking before Covid hit. Also Covid is not the only reason we should be masking in healthcare!

2. Put simply, the NHS was stressed to the limit before the Covid-19 pandemic. When the pandemic began, it pushed it over the edge. The fact - and it is a fact - that SARS-CoV-2 infection often triggers new-onset chronic diseases and worsens pre-existing ones adds further...

1. A perfect storm of the social determinants of health (the NHS is in an appalling state in the UK, meaning people who can afford to are more likely to use private care) and the fact that the myriad sequelae of infection are simply not being recognised here. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

We all know how destabilizing the emergency room can be, especially for people w/ IACCIs like #MECFS & #LongCovid. Concerns around receiving adequate & empathetic care are so profound that many avoid seeking emergency care. That is a dangerous reality, & one we are determined to change.

So badly needed:

Park-Pagliuca Fund Donates $10 Million to PolyBio Long COVID Cure Initiative The funding will fast-track Long COVID diagnostics and treatments 🧵 www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

The article highlights several harsh realities that lead to family homelessness: 1. A family member died and they lost their housing 2. Rent is too expensive without two full-time incomes 3. A lack of supports for children with disabilities means parents can’t work Our systems are failing.

This family is our shelter system because their daughter has autism and the school system won’t provide her with a full time EA. So the kid can’t go to school and they both can’t work, so they cannot afford housing. For shame. ottawacitizen.com/news/raising...

In the 5 min it took me to write this thread I got 2 phone calls and a text from staffing asking me to work tonight because everyone is sick again. What we’re doing is not at all sustainable.

Seconded, and I'll add that imo we can’t talk about the destruction of our HC system w/o acknowledging that the virus everyone is ignoring (Covid) is causing acute hospitalizations *year round*, Long COVID + ME (for which there are 0 approved treatments), heart attacks, strokes, neuro sequelae, etc.

I basically never post any photos the same day I take them. Mostly because my illness, ME, won’t allow me to do that. But this image is from today. 1/3

Once again asking you to mask. Two friends got covid this week. Please wear a fucking mask. It's 2026 I'm tired of having to ask basic public health decency from you all.

“Acute COVID-19 is associated with altered CD8 T-cells indicative of impaired ability to control Epstein–Barr virus reactivation” (lmk if you’d like an explainer of this article) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Personally I’ll probably never walk through a hospital without an N95 on again, and I’m happy to be able to do so, but they really should be mandated in healthcare. We need to do much better for our patients ⬇️

Thank you library readers for borrowing DENISON AVENUE!❤️

“Even as anesthesiologist staffing slightly improves, wait lists for cancer and cardiac surgery do not. The government’s plan to sink another $525 million into private surgical facilities will not reach public hospitals and will only worsen these trends.” calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

Every time I see an article like this, Im reminded of all the people who pushed to re-open schools without any protections, who swore that children would not be impacted at all, and who also were happy risking the health and lives of teachers and school staff.

In the first month post-infection: Hospitalizations ~11× the pre-infection baseline In this same cohort of 1.3M people, there were 15,655 ICU admissions in the first month after their COVID diagnosis, versus 20,682 ICU admissions in the entire 12 months leading up to infection.

New in plos with colleagues from Pfizer vaccines and IQVIA journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

"Long COVID potentially affects nearly 6 million children in the US." 10–20% of children who contract COVID develop long COVID, which manifests differently than in adults. While vaccines lower risk, no single cure exists. Care is tailored to symptoms like fatigue, headaches, and brain fog.

The low wastewater is interesting to me because I know a lot of people who are visibly very sick right now (no one tests anymore so who knows what with; flu b maybe?) and my ICU is once again averaging 3-4 sick calls/shift (out of ~22 nurses - a big deal!)

Yes. I keep seeing that one of Carney's key advisors is Palantir 😬

Holy hell. This thread 😱

Ontario should be in the streets

This is shocking

Sending this to every asshole who asks why I will not go to hospital.

Reposting with Alt Text because this is such an important point. This won’t just disappear and we urgently need to do something about it (clean air, vaccines, N95s, treatments).

This afternoon I learned that The Ottawa Hospital (who is cutting 3% of its workforce) has been putting patients in a unit known as The Garage Surge Unit at the General Campus 🤬 ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...