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/

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.

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.

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 🧵

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!

#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...

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

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/...

Read our full response and get instructions to submit your comment here: whn.global/whn-response... #MaskUp #PublicHealth #COVID #COVID19 #Healthcare #HealthcareProfessionals #Masking

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

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.

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

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🔓 academic.oup.com/eurjpc/advan...

“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.

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.

1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar 2025: ohhh ok

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...

🧵Not getting nearly enough attention. If confirmed true it should be front page news ⬇️

A very good explainer for this important advance www.science.org/content/arti...

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:

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

every day i think they can’t get any worse. every day i’m wrong.

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.

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

"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

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...

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 @openmedf.bsky.social

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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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

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

"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...

Covid is airborne.

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...

🌱 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

📣 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

New content online: Individualized and innovative gender healthcare for transgender and nonbinary youth

You wouldn’t stand for post-surgical complications caused by negligence, so why should you accept a post-surgery Covid infection? #HealthCareNotHealthCareless 1/2

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.

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.

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...

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

"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:

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.

💨 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

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.

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: