There is no conclusive evidence that taking Acetaminophen during pregnancy harms children, but there is very strong evidence that getting COVID does.

Kimmel: "This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this."

There’s a historic indoor clean air high level event at the UN today. @drbronking.bsky.social is of course leading by example wearing a high quality mask while chairing the meeting 👏👏👏

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

I didn’t include the attacks in my original article: My best friend, Carol, inundated with misinformation, “died nine months after diagnosis…that was like a fast, horrible ride down a rollercoaster, with garbage advice being shouted at her along the way.” www.sleuthsayers.org/2019/06/how-...

As COVID-19 cases continue to increase, it's important to know accurate information about COVID-19 in order to protect yourself and others! Get the facts about common myths, and take steps to protect yourself and others.

A well done study by a group that I think are probably the major ipac thought leaders in Ontario demonstrates that clean indoor air in hospital rooms reduces sars-2 transmission. The tide really is turning. Kudos. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Do your own research... I did. Vaccine-preventable illnesses can cause serious, long-term harm and increase mortality, chronic conditions, and loss of independence. It’s a risk not worth taking. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

It’s that time of year again. Back to school for the kids. This ad should run during every NFL kickoff, every college football opener, every “Friday Night Lights.” Because school shootings are as American as football now.

If you're a reporter, please stop referring to RFK Jr and his cronies as "vaccine skeptics." They're not skeptical. Skepticism would be fine. Skeptics look at evidence and can be persuaded. These people are extremist anti-vaccine cranks, and that's how news organizations should describe them.

This is the information sharing and sense of urgency we need from public health and government! @doh.wa.gov @governorferguson.bsky.social @murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov @repemilyrandall.bsky.social

“Every infection is another round of damage. Another hit to your blood vessels. Another chance for the virus to set up shop in your organs. Another spin of the wheel…the one that gives you diabetes, or ruins your heart, or breaks your brain. You’re not building immunity. You’re accumulating injury”

CDC ordered staff this week not to release their experts’ assessment that found the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging. “The decision to vaccinate is a personal one,” a spokesperson said, echoing a line from a recent editorial RFK Jr. wrote

It’s not “post-pandemic.” It’s “post-pretending to care.”

We have policies/laws/regulations to ensure that our food and water are clean and safe. Why not for air, too? Typical amounts taken in per day: food = 4 lb water = 3 lb air = 30 lb

www.science.org/doi/full/10.... Mandating Indoor Air Quality in Public Buildings. Our paper in Science. 🧪 #healthpolicy

“I stopped wearing a mask for my mental health” COVID informed people: I wear a mask for my mental health as it’s mentally healthy to live according to my values (caring ab marginalized ppl) & COVID infection has been shown to exacerbate MH conditions, including depression, anxiety & ND conditions

🚨COVID is a workplace safety issue🚨 Since the premature, ubiquitous abdication of COVID mitigation measures governments at all levels and employers across Canada have conveniently but recklessly ignored workers’ enshrined right to refuse unsafe work.

The most important part of this article, to me, is the end. It challenges a false binary between “long COVID” and “everyone else.” Maybe it's a spectrum... 🧵 (1/5) www.bmj.com/content/390/...

🚨One of my favorite quote about the dangers of Covid, and it's by Prof. @amandakvalsvig.bsky.social (& al): "Evidence consistently shows that Long Covid is common, affects all ages, and frequently results in prolonged illness that can be disabling..." www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/lon...

"The staffers wrote that Kennedy, who helmed an anti-vaccine advocacy group [...], “is complicit in dismantling America’s public health infrastructure and endangering the nation’s health by repeatedly spreading inaccurate health information.”" edition.cnn.com/2025/08/20/h...

Outstanding article on covid’s impact on our immunity. We need to confront this emerging truth and stop this harm to all humanity. @nicktsergas.ca @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social @senpatrickbrazeau.bsky.social @jmeddings.bsky.social @snyderinstitute.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/390/...

American Academy of Pediatrics has released our annual update to our immunization recommendations to best help children and adolescents build immunity and stay healthy. Read our full policy statement to learn about AAP's updated immunization schedule. www.aap.org/en/news-room...

Big step for safer hospitals: the new CSA respirator standard would ensure everyone—staff, patients, even visitors—has access to protection. It ties together design, cleaning, and ventilation to cut airborne risks.

Remember: if anyone says, 'we need to live with Covid' but doesn't also talk about vaccines, therapeutics, and mitigations, they're not actually saying we need to live with it, they're saying, 'I want to ignore it'.

Joining an increasing number of people publicly demanding RFK’s removal as HHS Sec: Dr. Bill Foege, a literal (6’6”) & figurative giant of public health. He served as a CDC director under Carter & Reagan, & is credited with designing the ring vaccination strategy that enabled smallpox eradication.

🚨 A short but so very 🎯🧵 by @brownecfm.bsky.social on the three distinct properties #Covid has that "enables it to be denied at a societal level..." 🚨🧵 to read, bookmark, and share: threadreaderapp.com/thread/19544...

Not when 1/3 of respiratory transmitted diseases (RTDS) in hospitals are hospital acquired RTDs like Flu, RSV, Covid

On preventing viral #URIs and #Covid: #Mask. Increase #humidity. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Derrick Kardos died of complications of #LongCovid on July 18th. Let his words sink in.

Important paper by members of the European Academy of Neurology. "Healthcare systems should be aware of, and be prepared for a potential increase in the incidence of neurodegenerative diseases in the upcoming years." What has been the state of surveillance and awareness so far? #NeuroCovid

Winslow Santé Publique’s Guidance for Media Coverage of COVID-19 aims to help journalists report on COVID without neglecting its chronic form or risk spreading misinformation. #MaskTogetherAmerica supports the work in a feature. www.instagram.com/p/DNBqLV0vgJ... www.facebook.com/share/p/15kY...

Canada is on the verge of adopting a national standard requiring N95s in healthcare—and your voice can help make it happen.

@governorferguson.bsky.social @murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov @repemilyrandall.bsky.social @doh.wa.gov @wadems.org We must urgently fund treatment and prevent re/infections - continuing to sicken and disable our workforce is not sustainable.

We see officials saying #COVID cases are rising but healthy kids don’t need to worry. This study found reinfection doubles the risk of Long COVID in kids. Sincerely, families who believed you when you said our kids weren’t at risk — and now they’re disabled.

Latest #Coronavirus Tidbits ID & politics free newsletter is out, drjudystone.com/coronavirus-... w bits abt incr in #Covid; #ME and rapamycin, #HIV, #UVC, #Vello, #Masks, #LongCovid and #SDOH, RFK's War on Seniors (and disabled) fr @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social, @ellecordova.bsky.social, more

Guidance for taking Covid tests that should have been provided with the Covid tests.

🎯🎯🎯🧵[email protected] on Twitter: Full thread here: threadreaderapp.com/thread/19518...

Can we please get mandatory masking back on cancer wards and healthcare settings now? We know COVID can be oncogenic. We know it’s a much higher risk to those who are immune compromised. Yet healthcare workers won’t mask around cancer patients & many have died. Mask up!

SARS-2 being a risk for the brain development of a fetus during pregnancy needs to be explained to potential and current birth parents.

International support welcome, too. With US OSHA being sidelined, this standard from Canadian Standards Association could fill a major international leadership gap. Airborne disease needs airborne workplace safety. Including in healthcare! DEADLINE: Aug 19.

Standing up for the smallest of minorities is important because when you accept the premise that one group are expendable because small or ‘insignificant’, you have accepted the idea of the expendability of human life in general, and the enemy will use your acquiescence to pick off yet more.

I took my 14yo to the pulmonologist yesterday because over a year after her covid infection, her lung function never returned to normal. She's now on a longterm steroid treatment despite potential side effects. She also go a cardiology referal. Doc said long covid is messing tons of kids up.

This comes up a lot when I talk with other epidemiologists. The detention centers are perfect launchpads for disease outbreaks. Republicans won’t care because they don’t see the migrants as human. But they should remember that infectious disease won’t stop at the walls of the detention center.

You can’t claim to care about #immunocompromised people unless you wear a mask in public spaces Immunocompromised people deserve to exist safely in public spaces

The CDC has not provided a SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance update for 6 weeks. That is unacceptable

Exemptions from childhood vaccines for school entry reached record highs for the 2024-2025 school year, with a corresponding drop in vaccine coverage. This is a disaster, and we can see it in the measles outbreak. Every state must end exemptions unless in the case of a medical contraindication.

In examining this list of people fighting *against* protections for infectious diseases, it is worth thinking about the liability (and resulting COIs) that each might be expected hold once it becomes widely recognized that respirators are a reasonable step to protect against aerosol-borne diseases.