COVID-19 in Pregnancy Linked With Risk of Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Early Childhood jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @sammyanderer.bsky.social @jama.com More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

EXCLUSIVE: A slow-boiling feud between Vinay Prasad and his staff at the FDA is threatening the future of the center that regulates the nation’s vaccines, biological products, and blood supply. Read more here: www.statnews.com/2025/10/31/v...

“Children with reinfection had significantly higher risks for myocarditis, thrombophlebitis, thromboembolism, arrhythmias, fatigue, cognitive impairment, dysautonomia (including POTS), and abnormal liver enzymes. “ www.emjreviews.com/microbiology... #IDSky #COVID #longCOVID

My new research is out #LongCovid. The critical role of patient advocacy-research in disease recognition I look at the massive, painstaking process of knowledge building by the Covid patient community in the early pandemic, which led to recognition of LC as a multi-system disease entity

- every subsequent infection is a gamble with a child’s long-term health #LongCovid www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Mass General Brigham studied 18,124 births and found that children exposed to maternal COVID-19 in the womb had a 29% higher risk of neurodevelopmental diagnoses by age 3, especially if exposure happened in the third trimester or in male children. journals.lww.com/greenjournal...

This Physicist Says We Don't Take COVID Seriously Enough via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

2 things I forgot to mention in this lengthy thread: 1. We are hosting a webinar on 11/5 @ 2 eastern / 11 pacific where we will share more info & answer questions. Register here: scrippsresearch.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 2. The clinical trials . gov link is: clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT071...

Dr Oz: “I think we all agree that Covid has passed”. No we do not agree! Anyone who thinks Covid has passed has no business in charge of public health. It’s still here. It’s still killing and disabling. Get your booster if you can. Wear a mask (ideally an N95) and clean the air!

Excited that @statnews.com published our 1st Opinion on why ALL HCWs should be vaccinated against Covid--by me and Dr. Judith Feinberg. www.statnews.com/2025/10/30/c... #PublicHealth

Changes in nutrition and sanitation cannot account for the significant and long-term decreases in vaccine-preventable illnesses just after vaccines were introduced. But be sure to learn the facts, avoid falling for misinformation, & always talk to your doctor if you have questions or concerns. (1/2)

Only the Bluesky is the limit: ten tips for a trending Skytorial. -Note the comment that *Reposting* is a better way to spread your message than Liking, on a platform like this that doesn't have the algorithm of Threads or X which pushes Liked content to you. academic.oup.com/ckj/article/...

🌍 We, #LongCOVID orgs & advocates worldwide, release a collective declaration. 🔗https://longcovidriseup.eu/lc-declaration/ ✍️ Advocates living with Long COVID, orgs & researchers who agree with its principles: contact us to sign for fair representation, urgent action, research & prevention.

We’re thrilled to announce the Australian Academy of Science is among the first to join our inaugural Making the invisible visible campaign and are championing indoor air quality as a fundamental accessibility and inclusion issue - by making the air visible for everyone to see. @science.org.au

A woman from the FDA’s Center for Devices & Radiological Health explains how her entire department was gutted That means there’s no staff to alert you if your pacemaker is recalled If an implantable device in your body is toxic or broken This could have catastrophic health impacts & cost lives

NEW: The entire staff supporting ACIP was laid off, and most working groups haven't met in months. That means the US may not make routine vaccine recommendations for more than half of children in 2026, and it could halt new vaccines in the pipeline. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"The COVID-19 mRNA-based vaccines that saved 2.5 million lives globally during the pandemic could help spark the immune system to fight cancer. This is the surprising takeaway of a new study just published in the journal Nature." theconversation.com/covid-19-mrn...

⚠️SAFETY "There is good evidence that many schools can be made safer for Clinically Vulnerable children and those in Clinically Vulnerable families. In fact, for all children." Ventilation is uncontroversial! 2/

Long Covid accelerates aging and is often missed in the elderly (along with other age groups). #Medsky www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

The New England Journal of Medicine and the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy will be publishing regular public health alerts to replace the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which has been paused due to the federal government shutdown.

Proud to have co-authored this piece with amazing collaborators at the @thewhn.bsky.social. Let me know what you think. whn.global/whn-joins-in...

💥The shingles vaccine might be one of the most underrated health moves after 50.💥 New large study(174K pts): ▪️ 50% lower risk of vascular dementia ▪️ 27% fewer blood clots ▪️ 25% lower risk of heart attack or stroke ▪️ 21% lower risk of dying early #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #SciSky 🧪 #NurseSky #IDSky

Expected excess mortality due to COVID-19 in Canada is HIGH (9%, Forecast score 9).

About 2.7% 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 $99.5M.

Covid-19 roughly doubled the risk of vascular dementia in adults 50+ and for those with pre-existing mental illness the risk rose ~5x. A similar signal appears after other viral infections - a reminder that viruses aren’t "mild" when it comes to brain health 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The Big Cities Health Coalition, which serves over 60 million or 1 in 5 people in the US, has issued a statement condemning the federal government's moves to limit vaccine access and spread disinformation. The cities are working together to ensure people get vaccinated.

Q - May I ask you about your views of ventilation in schools as a way to potentially deal with future pandemics & generally ventilation being a good thing for children's health and wellbeing? A- “improving ventilation in schools would be a good thing-clearly highly desirable” #CleanAir

The vaccine against Shingles helps protect against dementia, results of a natural experiment, adding to prior evidence "implications are profound" New @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... nature.com/articles/s41...

#COVID mRNA vaccines may be able to train immune system to attack cancer cells, boost survival The vaccines appeared to sensitize tumors to the cancer drugs immune checkpoint inhibitors, the researchers say. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

*The uninvited guest* (sound on this time!) Third week of observing scary things under the microscope: watching #SARSCoV2🟣 positive cells arrive in the brain. Note it's still inside a blood vessel and being checked by astrocytes🟢and microglia🔵. What happens next? 😨 #FluorescenceFriday

“When you have a disability people can’t see, you don’t get the same level of empathy. It feels like the world has moved on.” It’s shameful how society is gaslighting people who are experiencing chronic illness and ignoring an ongoing public health crisis.

Since we can’t rely on the HHS, CDC, or FDA to say it, I will: MAKE SURE YOU ARE VACCINATED AGAINST MEASLES. GET YOUR MMR. Measles cases have reached their HIGHEST point since the disease WAS ELIMINATED from the United States in 2000. We are at the tipping point for the return of ENDEMIC measles.

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more. Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Policy Win: Health Canada Releases New IAQ Guidance ospe.on.ca/advocacy/pol...

Study finds no correlation between Covid vaccines in the first trimester and birth defects. This is consistent with other studies showing that the Covid vaccine is safe and effective for pregnant women. #Medsky jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

In new study led by @bdadonaite.bsky.social, we measure how spike mutations affect function & antigenicity of spike of KP.3.1.1 strain of SARS-CoV-2. Sheds light on how key neutralizing epitopes are changing & importance of RBD up/down motion. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

"These findings suggest that COVID-19 may have created a new year-round baseline for work absences that is similar to influenza season conditions before the pandemic" jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Il est plus que temps de changer les narratifs afin que le progrès soit enfin possible. En 2025, où sont les normes de la qualité de l’air intérieur, les vaccins de deuxième génération pour tous, les traitements pour le Covid long, le port de masque obligatoire dans les milieux de la santé, etc.?

+West Virginia Pharmacists in West Virginia can now give COVID-19 vaccines without prescriptions -- and state recommendations based on those of medical societies for everyone over 6 months. www.herald-dispatch.com/_zapp/pharma...

Healthy indoor air is a proven prescription for public health that can help fortify our buildings and enhance people’s health, protecting against respiratory diseases and illnesses, cardiovascular disease and cognitive decline. resources.wellcertified.com/press-releas...

AIR-BORNE: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe 'The air teems with invisible life. This last biological frontier remains so mysterious that it took over two years for scientists to finally agree that the COVID pandemic was caused by an airborne virus.' @carlzimmer.com bsky.app/profile/carl...

“Workers continued to see elevated health-related absences linked to COVID-19… [which] has likely raised the value to workers of paid-leave policies & existing social safety net programs. Measures to reduce COVID-19 transmission in the workplace may also mitigate these new exposure risks”

I just updated our cryptic lineage dashboard if anyone is interested. Viewer warning: this site contains a ton of actual data that really long persistent COVID infections are still occurring. 1/ dholab.github.io/public_viz/0...

I am pleased that we are following CALIFORNIA department of public health vaccination guidelines. Note: COVID vaccine will be given to 'all those who choose protection'. As an ICU physician, I advise you to CHOOSE PROTECTION. I've seen too many bad cases.

Annual COVID Vaccines Protect People against Severe Disease, Even with Prior Immunity "The new research also “calls into question the idea that younger individuals and those without risk factors don’t need the vaccine,” Viswanathan says."

COVID-19 data are limited this week due to the government shutdown, but we are not entirely without information on how the disease is spreading. Many independent dashboards as well as state and local sites continue to offer info. (1/3) thesicktimes.org/2025/10/07/n...

RFK Jr A clear and present danger to America’s health www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Good news! Scientists created a super protein that blocks all #Covid variants tested — even SARS-1. It locks onto the virus’s spike in 3 spots at once, jamming infection before it starts. www.nature.com/articles/s42... #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #SciSky #IDSky #NurseSky #EMSky #PedsSky