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Sidelined by
#longcovid
#mecfs
- here for the community, research, advocacy 🇩🇪 🇺🇸
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Cynthia Delmar 🇺🇸 ❤️ 🇨🇦
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I love that SUFS is doing this!
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Renegade Research
about 1 month ago
Our next Clinician's Roundtable: Sleep Dysfunction & Breathing Mechanics with Avram Gold, MD, Assoc. Prof. of Medicine Stony Brook Friday March 6, 2026, 12 pm ET (US) Please share with clinician, researcher, patients networks! Will be recorded 🧵 Registration link with more about Dr. Gold below:
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Libro.fm
about 2 months ago
Romantic date night idea: Make the switch together from Audible or Spotify to
Libro.fm
, where every audiobook purchase supports your indie bookstore 💓
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Dr. Christian Scharun
3 months ago
Wir zeichnen ganz bald die neue Staffel MAITHINK X für euch auf und wollen dieses Mal über das sehr wichtige Thema ME/CFS sprechen. Hier ein Aufruf, dem ihr gerne folgen könnt, wenn ihr das mögt. Oder markiert einfach Personen, von denen ihr wisst, dass sie etwas dazu zu sagen haben. Danke euch! 🙏
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Hey Jon Stewart
@weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social
I‘m
#oneofthetwo
still masking because a mild covid infection in 2022 has had devastating effects on my health. Hope to see you talk to a
#longcovid
#me/cfs
expert on your show soon.
3 months ago
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Putrino Lab
3 months ago
Respectfully Jon Stewart, you were wrong on the
@weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social
to mock people who mask. ICYMI: there are tens of millions of Americans who have been disabled by
#LongCOVID
and must do everything in their power to prevent further infections that make them vulnerable to further 1/
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Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik
3 months ago
#bestofblaetter
:
www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025...
Auch gut sechs Jahre nach Ausbruch der Coronapandemie werden an Long-Covid-Erkrankte noch immer stark benachteiligt – sie passen nicht ins Bild einer an Wettbewerb und Leistung orientierten Gesellschaft.
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Vulnerabilität als Politikum
Vor 70 Jahren lud Edward Steichen ins Museum of Modern Art ein. Der Direktor für Fotografie hatte mit seinem Team mehr als 500 Arbeiten ausgewählt und präsentierte diese unter dem Titel „The Family…
https://www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025/september/vulnerabilitaet-als-politikum
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Billy Hanlon
4 months ago
STAT News: 'I have long Covid. Don’t call my chronic disease a ‘journey’ By Peter Swenson, professor emeritus, Yale University 'Like an estimated 20 million Americans, I have an incurable post-acute infection syndrome that goes by the name of long Covid...'
www.statnews.com/2025/11/25/c...
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I have long Covid. Don’t call my chronic disease a ‘journey’
A “journey” is something you choose. No one chooses chronic illness.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/25/chronic-disease-journey-long-covid/
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Dt. Ges. für ME/CFS
5 months ago
📰 Die Zeitschrift Psychologie Heute hat einen Artikel zu ME/CFS veröffentlicht. Die Autorin Denise Schiwon ist selbst von
#MECFS
betroffen und arbeitete vor ihrer Erkrankung als Onlineredakteurin bei Psychologie Heute. (1/2) 👇
www.psychologie-heute.de/gesundheit/a...
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Leben mit ME/CFS – eine Betroffene erzählt: „Ich vermisse mich“
Nach Corona kam der Crash – Erfahrungsbericht ME/CFS: Eine von ME Betroffene erzählt aus ihrem Alltag mit Schmerz, Erschöpfung, Mutlosigkeit
https://www.psychologie-heute.de/gesundheit/artikel-detailansicht/44487-ich-vermisse-mich.html
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LangzeitC
5 months ago
Unglaublich guter, detailierter Text einer Autorin, die an
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erkrankt ist. Wer noch offene Fragen zu dem schweren Krankheitsbild hat, unter dem nun weltweit Millionen leiden, findet hier Antworten. Nach wie vor wird die Medikamentenforschung blockiert.
www.psychologie-heute.de/gesundheit/a...
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Leben mit ME/CFS – eine Betroffene erzählt: „Ich vermisse mich“
Nach Corona kam der Crash – Erfahrungsbericht ME/CFS: Eine von ME Betroffene erzählt aus ihrem Alltag mit Schmerz, Erschöpfung, Mutlosigkeit
https://www.psychologie-heute.de/gesundheit/artikel-detailansicht/44487-ich-vermisse-mich.html
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David Tuller
5 months ago
For several years, I have spent my time busting terrible and even fraudulent research into ME, ME/CFS, Long COVID, etc. If this crowdfunding works out, I will do one more in the spring and then retire from Berkeley. If you'd like to support my work, here's how:
crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/47768
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David Tuller's Trial by Error Fall 2025
Help UC Berkeley raise $68,000 for the project: David Tuller's Trial by Error Fall 2025. Your gift will make a difference!
https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/47768
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Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik
7 months ago
An ME/CFS Erkrankte sind gleich auf doppelte Weise mit ihrer Verletzbarkeit konfrontiert: Sie werden verletzt durch die Erkrankung selbst, aber auch durch den gesellschaftlichen Umgang damit:
www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025...
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Vulnerabilität als Politikum
Vor 70 Jahren lud Edward Steichen ins Museum of Modern Art ein. Der Direktor für Fotografie hatte mit seinem Team mehr als 500 Arbeiten ausgewählt und präsentierte diese unter dem Titel „The Family…
https://www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025/september/vulnerabilitaet-als-politikum
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Libro.fm
7 months ago
When you find out about
Libro.fm
, an alternative to Amazon-owned Audible that’s 100% employee owned, a Certified B Corporation, and shares profits with 4,000+ independent bookshops 😍
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COVID-19 Longhauler Advocacy Project
about 1 year ago
To the millions we serve, A statement from our founder on the devastating closure of the HHS Office for
#LongCOVID
Research & Practice. Within, find an action network to easily write @SecKennedy @POTUS & Congress & a volunteer form.
longhauler-advocacy.org/so/ebPNEWBYA...
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A Statement from our Founder on the Closure of The Office for Long COVID Research and Practice
To the millions we serve, Today it is with great sorrow that I announce by direction of the Trump administration, The Office for Long COVID Research and Practice has been ordered closed. The Office fo...
https://longhauler-advocacy.org/so/ebPNEWBYA?languageTag=en
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Missy Hubbard
about 1 year ago
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Timothy Snyder
about 1 year ago
Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
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Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)
America hurt itself badly today.
https://snyder.substack.com/p/five-failures-in-the-oval-office
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Molly Jong-Fast
about 1 year ago
Here’s an opportunity to help some kids and get some cookies 🍪
digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/sixk34...
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KEIN BOCK AUF NAZIS
about 1 year ago
Bochum bleibt stabil.💪
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Megan Ranney MD MPH
about 1 year ago
🛟 That last-ditch chemo trial your family member was hoping to be in 🥙 The investigation of a food-borne illness outbreak in the next town over 🧠The study looking for preventable causes of Alzheimer’s 🧪The assurance that TAXPAYER-PAID-FOR studies & data collection see the light of day
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AltYellostoneNatPar
about 1 year ago
Musk's censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by about 95% since he bought it. So we moved over to blue sky. Help us build another great following right here where the skies are clear and the water is fine ;-) Please do Follow Retweet & repeat
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Joerg Lau
about 1 year ago
Der Weg in den autoritären Staat ist gesäumt mit Leuten, die Dir raten, es jetzt aber bitte nicht zu übertreiben.
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Franziska Davies
about 1 year ago
Bald jährt sich die 🇷🇺 Vollinvasion der Ukraine zum dritten Mal. Entgegen aller Voraussagen, ist die 🇺🇦 nicht gefallen. Trotz aller düsteren Prognosen dürfen wir nicht aufgeben. Ich habe zum zweiten Mal einen Fundraiser für Evakuierungsfahrzeuge für Kyiv Defenders gestartet: bitte teilen & spenden!
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Support Kyiv Defenders – Show Ukrainians that We Stand With Them Soon three years will have passed since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Against all odds, Ukraine is still standin...
https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/9cbIDnrgN6
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sibylle dahrendorf
about 1 year ago
🎥#Trailer
#ChronischKrank
#ChronischIgnoriert
Bitte reichlich streuen - Sendetermin 25.02.2025, um 22.35 Uhr, auf arte, ab 24.02.2025 in der arte Mediathek online abrufbar. "Der größte Skandal ist eigentlich die schiere Menge an Patienten"
youtu.be/s_TrZVuqi-k
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CHRONISCH KRANK - CHRONISCH IGNORIERT - TRAILER arte Doku
YouTube video by Sibylle Dahrendorf
https://youtu.be/s_TrZVuqi-k
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www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/s...
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I Love You. Please Find Someone Else. (Gift Article)
“In sickness and in health” may sound romantic — until you’re sidelined with a chronic illness.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/style/modern-love-long-covid-please-find-someone-else.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tU4.x_Or.tWUgB57fQdhD
about 1 year ago
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Martin Holland
about 1 year ago
Der Platz vor der Oper ist wieder voll,
#hannover
steht wieder auf. Gegen die
#afd
, gegen
#rechtsextremismus
und für die
#brandmauer
! ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼
#wirsindmehr
#noafd
#stopptdieafd
#merz
#union
#cdu
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Auswärtiges Amt
about 1 year ago
Heute vor 80 Jahren befreite die Rote Armee das Konzentrationslager
@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
Anlässlich des heutigen Tags des Gedenkens an die Opfer des Holocaust möchte Euch Außenministerin
@abaerbock.diplo.de
etwas vorlesen:
#WeRemember
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Anne Applebaum
about 1 year ago
Better link
protectdemocracy.org/how-to-prote...
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How You Can Protect Democracy
29 concrete actions you can take right now to protect democracy.
https://protectdemocracy.org/how-to-protect-democracy/
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María Richardson
about 1 year ago
Singing the song everyone with
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis
#MECFS
knows by heart: "Is this still
#PEM
? Or new med side-effects? Perhaps a new infection though I haven't left the house. (Or a secret 4th disaster.)"🎶
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Fabian Fritz
about 1 year ago
Wieder ratlos. Habe mich bei einer Studie zu Mangelerscheinungen bei Long-COVID angemeldet 👇 Ich ahne böses. I mean: ich hatte die Covid-Infektion 2023 und nicht in den 1990ern. Ist wie in der Reha, wo man mir eine schlechte Kindheit einreden wollte, weil ich ausm Osten komme 😂
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Oonagh Cousins
about 1 year ago
A big thank you to Theres Luthi for this highly insightful article about
#ME
and
#LongCovid
. It highlights the stigma & misattribution of psychological causes for ME, the harms of graded exercise therapy, and the far-reaching impact of this misunderstanding on those now living with Long Covid.
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Benjamin Wittes
about 1 year ago
A Ukrainian teenager, living on her own in New York City, has something to say to the Russia embassy staff.
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#ProjectWithMe: Nastia Panchenko
YouTube video by #DogShirtTV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzWqbjNAcGk
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Thank you to the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for donating €25,000 to ME/CFS research via
@weandme.bsky.social
, as part of their iconic New Year‘s concert, broadcast by over 90 TV channels worldwide.
#pwME
#pwLongCovid
www.heute.at/s/muti-dirig...
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Muti dirigiert Neujahrskonzert "zum letzten Mal"
Am 1. Jänner 2025 eröffnen die Wiener Philharmoniker und Riccardo Muti das Jubiläumsjahr zum 200. Geburtstag von Johann Strauß Sohn live im ORF.
https://www.heute.at/s/muti-dirigiert-neujahrskonzert-zum-letzten-mal-120080592
about 1 year ago
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Katja Diehl
over 1 year ago
1/x Danke für dieses Stück über täglichen misogynen Kackmist. Dass es
@ardenthistorian.bsky.social
und
@rebekkaendler.bsky.social
innerhalb von Stunden gelang, so viele Menschen hinter der Recherche einer klassischen "Karriere" eines sexistischen weißen cis-Mannes zu vereinen, gibt mir Zuversicht.
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sarah boothby
over 1 year ago
This is an excellent description of how
#MEKills
from malnutrition. The Warburg effect accounts for so many presenting symptoms in
#VerySevereME
. Thanks to David Putrino, Amy Proal and the Cohen Center at Mount Sinai for joining the dots and making them public.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7TC...
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Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Chronic Illness
YouTube video by CoRE at Mount Sinai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7TCGX7V9Eo
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Katharina 🦋🍋🍀
over 1 year ago
Todd Davenport's
#UniteToFight2024
Vortrag gibt es nun auch mit deutschen Untertiteln.
@sunsopeningband.bsky.social
Herzlichen Dank an Ruth Brannan
@flowerkraut.bsky.social
für die Übersetzung und
@annette121020.bsky.social
fürs Korrekturlesen! 🙏
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‚Inconvenience’ does not describe the appalling lack of medical care for this patient with severe ME by their NHS Trust.
#pwME
#pwLC
#longcovid
#severeME
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Bedbound Scarborough woman facing 40-week wait to see specialist
Deborah Seymour says she has
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86w32en1evo
over 1 year ago
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Mark Faghy
over 1 year ago
The words you choose and how you use them matter. We try hard to get it right and our PPIE reps have provided such valuable insight into all of our patient facing and study training materials. No doubt we will get it wrong sometimes but we will always correct ourselves if that is the case.
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Harry Eccles
over 1 year ago
Repost if BlueSky is now your primary social media site.
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The Guardian
over 1 year ago
‘I was in denial about it’: actor Matt McGorry on having long Covid
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‘I was in denial about it’: actor Matt McGorry on having long Covid
Orange Is the New Black and How to Get Away With Murder star speaks about the disease and another way of looking at health On 28 October, Matt McGorry posted a video to Instagram. “This is definitely the most vulnerable thing I’ve ever shared, and is a…
https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-interactive/2024/dec/02/matt-mcgorry-long-covid?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Putrino Lab
over 1 year ago
I’ve been seeing some classic Monday morning quarterbacking as the necessity of
#COVID19
lockdowns are being discussed once again. As usual, we’re seeing a lot of hyperbolic statements and attempts to create conversations around comparative suffering which is always just a 1/
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Hannah Ritchie
over 1 year ago
It's only right that my first post here is sharing Scotland's map of named ice gritters. You can follow where they all are in real-time. Some favourites this year: Sir David Attenbrrrrrr Stone Cold Steve Frostin Lord Coldemort You're a blizzard, Harry
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
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Putrino Lab
over 1 year ago
Feels like a good time for a thread about all things exercise for people living with infection (and exposure)-associated complex chronic illnesses (IACCs) such as
#MECFS
,
#LongCOVID
and chronic
#Lyme
/tick- and vector-borne illness. Let’s start with a trip down memory lane. 1/
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Niall Harbison
over 1 year ago
I post a lot of good news about dogs on Twitter but A lot of people asking to also post here now. Struggle to find the time but if I get over 20k followers here I'll find a way to post daily. 🎤 Mic check. Is this thing on?
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Ben Canham
over 1 year ago
Hi I'm Ben I have autism and I’m new to
#BlueSky
. I didn’t want leave X but values and political views left me no choice. I’d like to rebuild my 50k community on here. Can you please help and kindly repost this so I can meet new friends and find old ones? Thank you! 💙
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Julie Rehmeyer
over 2 years ago
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/...
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Ed Yong
over 2 years ago
I wrote an op-ed for the NYT about what reporting on long COVID has meant to me—how I approached it, the impact it had, and how it taught me to be a better journalist. This piece is sort of a manifesto for a journalism grounded in compassion, rigor, and care.
www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/o...
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Opinion | Reporting on Long Covid Taught Me to Be a Better Journalist
Covering long Covid solidified my view that science is not the objective, neutral force that it is often caricatured to be.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/opinion/long-covid-reporting-lessons.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FE0.S-VX.KZ_h7BgOL3m2&smid=url-share
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The John Snow Project
over 2 years ago
Who wants a black 3M Aura? More would benefit from excellent protection if this respirator was available in black. We've written to the CEO of 3M and provided a template letter for you to do the same. Please repost if you want to make safety stylish.
johnsnowproject.org/insights/ope...
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An Open Letter to the CEO of 3M
We think more people would benefit from excellent protection if the popular 3M Aura respirator was available in black, so we've written to the CEO of 3M and provided a template for you to do the same.
https://johnsnowproject.org/insights/open-letter-to-3m-ceo/
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Marcus CJ H. 📯
over 2 years ago
Nach 1,5 Jahren Long Covid, etlichen Arztbesuchen und viel Ratlosigkeit habe ich versucht, meinen Zustand und meine Erfahrungen mit Menschen und Ärzten zusammenzufassen Das ganze Video findet Ihr hier:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=enTr...
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(M) ein Wort zu Long Covid
Anlässlich steigender Fallzahlen, neuer Varianten und dem nahenden Herbst möchte ich einen Einblick geben in mein Leben mit LongCovid seit meiner ersten und ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enTrQmkoP2c
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OmegaMom (she/her)
over 2 years ago
Long Covid folks: What researchers, journalists, experts on Covid and/or Long Covid are already here on BlueSky? If I wanted to follow such, who would you suggest? I’m thinking of, like, a science-y, research-y Covid feed. (Please re-post for more visibility!)
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