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ProPublica
3 months ago
We’ve reported extensively on how the FDA allowed foreign drugmakers to send generic medications to the U.S. from factories with filthy labs and contaminated equipment. This month, we’re digging deeper and could use your help. THREAD/
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Tara Moriarty
3 months ago
Canadian COVID Forecast: Sep 27 - Oct 10, 2025 SEVERE: none VERY HIGH: MB, NL, NS, SK HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, NB, North, ON, PEI, QC, MODERATE: none About 1 in 60 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
4 months ago
This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.
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Esther
4 months ago
My view is very different from the one presented by the press and I’m not a Doctor but have been a Covid advocate for 5 years. I have read thousands of studies and spoken to many long covid sufferers over that time. I don’t believe people are fully recovering. We need to think of there being two 🧵
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Chantzy
4 months ago
Excited for this community care club night. Masks mandatory, free KN95s at the door & HEPA filters "Taking creative risks not health risks" Let's go, Vancouver!
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NB COVID info
4 months ago
#Z94.4
The Canadian Aerosol Transmission Coalition put out a statement supporting CSA’s revisions to Z94.4. Over 1,700 individuals and organizations signed on to the statement - including unions representing over 3 million workers in 🇨🇦.
www.globenewswire.com/news-release...
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Protecting healthcare workers protects us all:
Canadian coalition gets overwhelming support backing stronger protections for healthcare workers in updated CSA respirator standard...
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/08/25/3138781/0/en/Protecting-healthcare-workers-protects-us-all.html
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Kelly
4 months ago
Everyone should read this article by
@nicktsergas.ca
and then they should mask back up. Too many people are living in fear and embracing a false sense of normal. They’re so busy trying to pretend Covid is over, that they’re ignoring mounting evidence that multiple infections cause serious harm
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Chantzy
4 months ago
New review in BMJ by
@nicktsergas.ca
: "Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2" "People who are unwilling to consider the possibility of immune damage are perhaps driven by a fear of what those answers might mean."
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
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World Health Network
5 months ago
Read our full response and get instructions to submit your comment here:
whn.global/whn-response...
#MaskUp
#PublicHealth
#COVID
#COVID19
#Healthcare
#HealthcareProfessionals
#Masking
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Support Universal respirator masks in healthcare
CSA Z94.4-25 is a draft national standard proposing science-based airborne protection measures, including universal respirator use in healthcare. While broadly welcomed, it has also drawn a petition i...
https://whn.global/whn-response-to-canadas-csa-z94-4-25-respirator-standard/
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Tara Moriarty
4 months ago
Canadian COVID Forecast Aug 16-Aug 29, 2025 CANADA MODERATE (no change) About 1 in every 121 people infected Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections ~5X higher -Long COVID ~5X higher -Hospitalizations ~5X higher -Deaths ~4X higher
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ProPublica
5 months ago
NEW: In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned. Today, we’re publishing a list of those exempted drugs.
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The FDA Let Substandard Factories Ship These Medications to the U.S.
ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013. Our list provides the names of the drugs or ingredients and their manufacturers, many of which are no longe...
https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-drugs-banned-foreign-factories-list?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=8-12
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NB COVID info
5 months ago
NO OTHER SECTOR other than healthcare led by
@ipaccanada.bsky.social
is trying to UNDERMINE a much-needed revision to a respiratory PPE standard. This is just so evil.
#Z94.4
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Nixa Sedes, MD
5 months ago
Cardiovascular risk factors management in older adults: a clinical consensus statement from the European Association of Preventive Cardiology of the ESC and the ESC Council for Cardiology Practice🔓
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Cardiovascular risk factors management in older adults: a clinical consensus statement from the European Association of Preventive Cardiology of the ESC and the ESC Council for Cardiology Practice
Abstract. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) currently ranks first in global mortality and morbidity and its prevalence increases with age. The most common risk
https://academic.oup.com/eurjpc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/eurjpc/zwaf175/8223446
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WIRED
5 months ago
“The world becomes like a torture chamber, and then nobody believes you.” Millions of people suffer debilitating reactions in the presence of certain scents and chemicals. One scientist has been struggling for decades to understand why—as she battles the condition herself.
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The Next Thing You Smell Could Ruin Your Life
Millions of people suffer debilitating reactions in the presence of certain scents and chemicals. One scientist has been struggling for decades to understand why—as she battles the condition herself.
https://wrd.cm/4m63ezq
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
6 months ago
As vaccinations continue to be undermined in the U.S., I’m wondering if we should be prepared to file lawsuits against schools that have a rate of vaccine exemptions that causes said school to fall below the herd immunity threshold. Schools will be the most likely places for outbreaks to explode.
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Ben Rosen
6 months ago
1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar 2025: ohhh ok
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@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC
8 months ago
Such an informative
#LongCOVID
‘Questions and Answers’ presentation by Prof. Akiko Iwasaki,
@virusesimmunity.bsky.social
It’s so important to recognise the airborne nature of this dreadful disease and its implications, for us all, particularly those most vulnerable.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilIO...
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Long COVID 2025: Symptoms, diagnosis, post-COVID treatments and the latest long COVID research
YouTube video by American Medical Association (AMA)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilIOh4cZiNI
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Karen Langsam
6 months ago
🧵Not getting nearly enough attention. If confirmed true it should be front page news ⬇️
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Eric Topol
6 months ago
A very good explainer for this important advance
www.science.org/content/arti...
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New approach enables body to engineer its own cells to fight cancer or autoimmunity
Injections of mRNA may offer a simpler, cheaper way to build powerful CAR-T cells
https://www.science.org/content/article/new-approach-enables-body-engineer-its-own-cells-fight-cancer-or-autoimmunity?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_content=alert&utm_campaign=DailyLatestNews&et_rid=79504704&et_cid=5648803
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Jessica Ellis
7 months ago
Let’s talk a little bit about what you can do to avoid this wave. It’s looking like a huge one, and even ignoring the risk of death or permanent disability from long covid, do you really want to lose two or three sunny weeks to feeling like crap? Here’s some common sense risk reduction ideas:
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Nature
7 months ago
From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science
https://go.nature.com/4kIRR01
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Transparent peer review to be extended to all of Nature’s research papers
From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science.
https://go.nature.com/45qzAzW
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shauna
7 months ago
every day i think they can’t get any worse. every day i’m wrong.
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‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans
Trump order allows VA staff to decline providing healthcare to patients based on political affiliation or marital status
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/va-doctors-refuse-treat-patients
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Dr. Lucky Tran
7 months ago
Masks are under serious threat at being banned widely due to politicization. This would be a public health disaster. If you are only wearing a mask at protests, please consider also wearing them elsewhere. The more people mask, the more we normalize masks and protect them against bans.
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Alistair Kitchen
7 months ago
Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
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Tom Kindlon
7 months ago
"What Not to Say to People With Complex Chronic Illness" by
@miriametucker.bsky.social
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Image is a screenshot from June 2025 AMMES e-newsletter
#LongCovid
#MEcfs
#chronicillness
#POTS
#Spoonie
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Greg Sargent
7 months ago
If you strip away the egos and shitposting, the Trump-Musk feud is really an argument over how comprehensively to screw over poor and working people—over how best to make our society a meaner, crueler, less equal, more savage place. New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1962...
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The Real Reason for the Trump-Musk Feud is Uglier than You Think
Strip away the ego contest, and what you really see here is a competition about how screw over poor and working people more effectively.
https://newrepublic.com/article/196246/real-reason-trump-musk-feud-uglier
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Bateman Horne Center
7 months ago
What is PEM/PESE? It’s the worsening of symptoms after even small effort—physical, mental, or emotional. It’s real, and it’s misunderstood. Our 7-part series breaks it down:
https://bit.ly/3ZLi9WS
#MECFS #PEM #PESE #LongCOVID
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Kelly
7 months ago
I will never understand the objection to masks in healthcare. It’s where the sickest people are, and where the strongest & most treatment resistant bugs thrive. People can’t “just stay home” when they need healthcare, and no one should be forced to choose between care & covid
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Get Out The Mid Term Vote
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shauna
7 months ago
headline construction masterclass
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Kelly
7 months ago
It’s never too late to start masking again. It’s never too late to clean and ventilate the air. It’s never too late to push for paid time off, free testing & masks in healthcare. It’s never too late to say that no one is expendable. Everyone deserves protection & we can beat Covid together
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Kelly
7 months ago
It’s never too late to start masking again. If you’re worried about Covid or sick of being sick, a well fitted respirator is an excellent preventative tool. Look for a local mask bloc if you can’t afford one, and reach out for help. Most of us are happy to help you find the right mask
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Nate Bear
7 months ago
"The Palestinians are being starved while trapped in a killing cage. None of us should for one second think that political elites wouldn’t starve us in a killing cage too, should we ever be an obstacle to their land and resource-grabbing desires."
open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...
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They Will Starve You In A Killing Cage Too
Starvation is taking hold in Gaza.
https://open.substack.com/pub/donotpanic/p/they-will-starve-you-in-a-killing?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2915q
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Esther
7 months ago
Covid is airborne.
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Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈♿️
9 months ago
Have you EVER visited or used Scarleteen over the past 26 years? You might recognize the taglines “Sex ed for the real world” or “queer sex ed for all since 1998. If yes, are you 18 or older?
tinyurl.com/ScarleteenSu...
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The Lancet
7 months ago
🌱 Investing in adolescents benefits them today, helps them as adults & supports the next generation. But adolescent health is at a tipping point. Action is needed now, says new Lancet Commission. Read here 👉
hubs.li/Q03l_6fx0
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Still COVIDing Canada
8 months ago
📣 Save our early warning system for viruses! ✉️ Use the online tool to send emails. Click and send — it’s easy to go through the list and send 24 emails to the mayor and municipal councillors.
stillcoviding.ca/en/take-acti...
#Ottawa
#COVID
#CovidIsNotOver
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Nature Reviews Endocrinology
8 months ago
New content online: Individualized and innovative gender healthcare for transgender and nonbinary youth
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Individualized and innovative gender healthcare for transgender and nonbinary youth
Nature Reviews Endocrinology, Published online: 07 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41574-025-01113-zTransgender and nonbinary youth are increasingly seeking out gender-affirming medical treatment. This Perspective discusses standard and novel therapies for individualized care of transgender and nonbinary youth as well as the ethical principles guiding the provision of innovative therapies in gender-affirming medical interventions.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41574-025-01113-z?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nrendo
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Canadian Covid Society
8 months ago
You wouldn’t stand for post-surgical complications caused by negligence, so why should you accept a post-surgery Covid infection?
#HealthCareNotHealthCareless
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)
8 months ago
Just a reminder for those in the back of the classroom that showed up late. the gender critical movement and anti-trans beliefs are all Nazi ideology anyone who believes the gender critical propaganda or anti-trans propaganda is involved with Nazi ideology. Full stop.
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Mark Ungrin
8 months ago
Normalize discussion of the COVID integrity debt that the next generation of public health and infection control professionals will spend their entire careers struggling to pay off.
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Julia Doubleday
8 months ago
Remote work empowers workers, is more accessible, is beneficial for the environment, and frees up urban space for housing. Right-wingers like Elon Musk want to re-assert control over workers, and they’re using pandemic culture wars to do it. My latest:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/remote-wor...
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Remote Work Empowers Workers. Conservatives are using Pandemic Culture Wars to Target it
The Trump Administration's flimsy justifications for ending remote work for federal workers are based in grievance politics
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/remote-work-empowers-workers-conservatives
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Effie Seiberg
8 months ago
Wrote a political satire bc sometimes all you can do is laugh. Here it is: **When Trump Definitely Totally Won the Space Alien Invasion** On Mon morning around 3am Eastern Time, the space aliens showed up in their bright hovering ships and began transmitting a message in their own language. 1/17
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Kelly
8 months ago
"I don't know anyone with Long Covid" "It's a liberal disease" "It's the vaccine" We've all heard the excuses. The truth is more than 400 million people are suffering from Long Covid, and the stigma and denial associated with the condition makes it hard for people to realize they have it:
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I Don't Know Anyone With Long Covid
Yes. You do. It might even be you. Let's take a look at why people don't realize, or can't admit, that they're dealing with Long Covid.
https://www.disabledginger.com/p/i-dont-know-anyone-with-long-covid
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Kelly
8 months ago
Texas and New York are both pushing mask bans. What can you do? Call or email your elected officials. Don’t live there? Call the tourism board & tell them you won’t visit any State that criminalizes masks. You can also wear a mask. It’s never too late. More masking makes them harder to ban.
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@gloria🕊️🟧
8 months ago
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Alison Twycross RN PhD
8 months ago
💨 COVID, flu, RSV — all airborne. 🏢 Most UK workplaces don’t legally have to protect workers from inhaling them. 🖊️ Sign the petition to change that:
petition.parliament....
#SafeAir4All
#WorkplaceSafety
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Plague Poems
8 months ago
They will tell you that this virus is a dangerous bioweapon that escaped from a laboratory, but if they see you taking any steps to protect yourself from this virus they will tell you that this virus is really just a cold.
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Kelly
8 months ago
Masks belong in healthcare. Doctors have a duty to do no harm, and when they refuse to mask they’re putting patients lives at risk. When you’re the patient, it’s terrifying. You feel abandoned. De-valued. Like your life doesn’t matter. No one should have to choose between care and Covid:
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A Plea to Maskless Healthcare Workers from Vulnerable Patients
If you see a mask - wear a mask. Better yet - wear a mask all the time and show us you understand that we're still IN a pandemic. We are depending on you to keep us safe - please don't betray that.
https://www.disabledginger.com/p/a-plea-to-maskless-healthcare-workers
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