I was finishing the edits today on my infectious disease chapter for my next book on pregnancy loss, and when pregnant you really don't want flu, covid, CMV... And it's not only increased risk of miscarriage it's preterm birth, IUGR, preeclampsia.

Had my students rip up and frankenstein their final essays into art and it was so fun. Here’s mine. 💕

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For any women out there who experienced/are experiencing (sending 💜) severe nausea/vomiting in pregnancy pls consider filling in this anonymised survey for a research project led by Dr Melanie Nana. She is the clinical academic making real change re. HG here in the uk forms.gle/u6GNNAhX5WqS...

A Missouri Representative has filed a bill to track pregnancies in the state. HB 807 will: "Maintain a central registry of each expectant mother who is at risk for seeking an abortion of her unborn child and make the same available to a prospective adoptive parent who has completed screenings."

every time I open my freezer I have to move the snowball my husband is keeping there to throw at someone in the spring because “revenge respects no season”

TL;DR Young students brain not working as expected after COVID-19 infections.

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They’ve finished blaming lockdowns. Now they are blaming you. (If you are a caregiver for a child.) www.theguardian.com/education/20...

This is the national threat to abortion access that I would be focusing on. The extremist judge in Texas who ruled to strip FDA approval from mifepristone (the first of two medications used for medication abortion) in 2023 just revived the case with new plaintiffs, and it's likely headed to SCOTUS.

I’m not saying this bill doesn’t matter because it does normalize abortion bans and spread abortion stigma + disinformation. However, it’s important for folks to know that this particular bill has been introduced by every Congress since 2011. Unnecessary panic and fear harms abortion seekers.

I’m A LOT more worried about the fact that Trump just released 23 anti-abortion terrorists and basically said that the DOJ will not enforce the FACE Act (which made violence against abortion clinics a federal crime) than I am about them removing a do-nothing website. Share ineedana.com instead

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It’s impossible not to be angry when people have been saying this was coming for years. We knew this was all coming. Why can’t we just do something about it for once? Why do we have to keep repeating the same warnings until it happens?

"The systemic neglect of menstruation and a restricted notion of evidence, which led to dismiss subjective symptoms, laypeople’s reports and mixed-methods research, contributed to eclipsing links between menstrual disorders and immunization...

I'm excited to see this paper, "Entangled evidence: epistemic injustice and systemic neglect in the assessment of menstrual disorders following COVID-19 vaccines" b/c it focuses on structural & epistemic issues, going beyond simple "women's health is understudied" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I'd also suggest listening to this episode of ACCESS, from 2020, to hear abortion providers and clinic escorts describe in their own words how terrifying this kind of violence can be, at the hands of a movement whose members have committed murder: www.apodcastaboutabortion.com/episodes/epi...

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I was interviewed by @msjpauly.bsky.social for @motherjones.com regarding that awful gamete size "sex" executive order. A bit of an explainer here of why the science is so bad, and why that's dangerous:

>run on making eggs less expensive >withdraw from the WHO and hobble the CDC as a bird flu pandemic brews across the country >eggs get more expensive

Studies note higher risk of long COVID in women, differences among minority kids Overall, 21% of women and 16% of men reported long COVID. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

This is so fascinating to me but I still wonder how it would be possible in humans as we shed our uterine lining, unlike most animals? Where would the embryo “go dormant”?

your number one threats for pregnancy criminalization: health care workers your loved ones, partners, and family

He looks like a Muppet who's going to do physical comedy with Rizzo

Vermont DCF accused of surveilling pregnant women and maintaining a “high-risk pregnancy calendar”—a standardless registry DCF uses to track people it deems unfit to parent effectively prior to the birth of their baby #reprosky www.acluvt.org/en/press-rel...

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Anti-abortion advocates are running ads to find & encourage men to betray and sue their partners. This makes me sick. wapo.st/40nfmD2

Not all ovaries respond the same way to stressors - nor are the relationships between ovarian hormones and biomarkers always the same between populations. Find out why in the latest paper out of the Clancy Lab, led by Dr. Merri Wilson: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪

We lost an entire final year of David Lynch’s creative work before he died as an emphysema patient during a wildfire event, all because disabled people at high risk for COVID have been shut out of society.

People would tell me “oh that happens to everyone” because everyone has occasions random moments of forgetting words Nobody would hear me when I said, no, this is DIFFERENT, this is NOT THAT

I almost had a calzone disaster when I started preheating the oven with my rising dough inside… catastrophe avoided 😮‍💨

If you’re ever wondering why wildfire smoke is so bad for you it’s because it includes things like “an entire bicycle”

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Anyone that is not concerned about what C19 is doing to human physiology at all ages… probably hasn’t grasped the basics. And that doesn’t mean the other viruses aren’t nasty too.

The GOP has released its list of 12 priority bills. Among them is a “protection” for infants “born alive” after abortion. It’s important to understand that what these laws (which exist in multiple states already) actually do is prohibit palliative care for very sick and dying newborns.

Um YEAH. Alot of people are making a FUCKLOAD of money off of people refusing to mask from COVID, off of yall not believing in science, etc.

From a survey of 2,081 confirmed Covid positive NYers, 80% had symptoms for at least 1 month. Half reported these symptoms were moderate to severe. 🧵

As news media outlets bend over backwards to pledge fidelity and kiss the rings of our incoming administration, more Americans are turning to the bound written word for guidance on the road ahead. I offer this as my own guidepost. My latest: https://buff.ly/403nxpc

Just seen people on Facebook saying they hope their vacation (somewhere with palm trees and beaches) helps cure their “Horrible Colds”. How many airports were they sharing that through? Who has to clean their hotel room? I doubt they’ve even thought about a mask in years.

I’m ovulating but my newborn nephew does NOT give me baby fever and that’s how I know I do not want to be pregnant 💀

In my view, younger children find it hard to express symptoms, so will likely be under diagnosed. ESP pre-verbal. So I’m not sure how accurate age as a risk factor is.

“What is the prevalence of long COVID in kids in Australia?” “Don’t know” “What are the risk factors for developing long COVID in kids?” “Don’t know” “Well how about you come back to me with advice about wearing masks and COVID when you know more…”

Incredibly the study called a prevalence of 1.7% of long C19 rare. For any other adverse event that would be either common, or very common.

Every. cycle. 😂🤭

Evidence says COVID-19 is bad. Eyeballs say COVID-19 is bad. I’m taking simple precautions.

In case you are wondering how C19/excess deaths are going irl in Bangladesh… Part of the extended family lives/lived in a shared apartment… and it is “emptying out” by *floors*. It’s devastating, and ongoing. 😭

My mother has dementia. So this is not surprising to me. Being ignored is an act of emotional & psychological violence. The impacts on the body-mind/nervous system reflect that in many ways. Esp with Alzheimer's now being understood as an autoimmune disease. We know who suffers most from that.

this is the stupidest fucking timeline

Hope you’ve resumed masking and serial testing if you feel ill.