"Dutch long Covid expertise centers to stay open another year" Expertise centers in the Netherlands for long COVID will remain open for another year using €8.5 million in leftover funds. An estimated 450,000 residents suffer from the condition, with up to 100,000 severely limited in daily life.

holy moly @hausofdecline.bsky.social in @inthesetimes.com ???

This is a *fantastic* video that explains exactly WTF is going on with Taylor Farms and how tracing works TLDR: - they are responsible - the false positive was only on one of several samples - it’s difficult to test parasites - there may still be other sources - Taylor Farms is being shady AF

Publishing industry? Not so fussed. Think they saw I once wrote some books about cats and decided, "This will be shit." Book lovers on Bluesky? Quite a few of them seem to quite like it. Blackwell's, amazingly, will send it with FREE international delivery: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Jimothy flash?

There is no other outlet that duplicates the work of The Sick Times. If you have the capacity they deserve the support.

🚨: People with Long COVID continue to be exploited by select groups of researchers. McMaster University is questioning the *proven consensus* that Long COVID is biological by funding a known scam/grift. The program is heavily denounced by experts.

"When healthy people become ill, they expect to call a doctor, receive treatment, and recover. When people with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) become sicker, they often rely on other sick people for care, in the absence of systemic support." thesicktimes.org/2026/07/20/a...

MULDER [slapping down plane tix]: Hope you packed your rain coat, Scully. SCULLY: Seattle? Mulder it's the weekend, what- MULDER [handing her a file] Confirmed sightings, Scully. This is big SCULLY [eyes wide]: My God Mulder, what am I looking at here? MULDER: The locals are calling it.. JIMOTHY

Coco: "Sometimes people show you a part of themselves you wish you’d never seen. It’s difficult or impossible to go back. For many Covid realists, this has happened with the majority of people on earth, all at once." Source: x.com/cocomarvgrow...

Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?

This reply nails it. 🎯 Source: x.com/LadyChuan/st...

– You see, if so many were indeed housebound, you’d expect to see them everywhere! #longcovid #ableism #satire

A new name doesn't change the virus. It's still SARS-CoV-2, and it's still dangerous. Source: x.com/keetmuise/st...

"Brain PET scans reveal neuron loss in long COVID" PET imaging research indicates long COVID is linked to injury in brain dopamine neurons, causing a 16-20% reduction. This correlates with symptoms like apathy, slowed movement and memory decline. Existing dopamine treatments could be reused to help

"UK children will be one of unhealthiest generations in decades, doctors say" "Children in the UK will grow up to be one of the unhealthiest generations in decades, with child health outcomes having declined or stalled completely across all areas" Source: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

COVID can hide and keep replicating in your heart.🫀 RECOVER autopsy data on 74 deaths found replicating SARS-CoV-2 virus inside heart muscle cells in 11 cases. 82% of those people had Long COVID heart symptoms while alive. buff.ly/oKxIQO7 #Medsky #Cardiosky 😷🧪

USA: "COVID Is Rising Again in the Bay Area For Summer 2026" "To put it another way: Any “summer cold” you hear people complaining about over the coming week could once again be COVID-19." Source: www.kqed.org/news/1209132...

National COVID-19 Risk Table (U.S.) dated July 20, 2026 Chances Anyone is Infectious: 🔸1 in 243 people infectious (0.4%) 🔹1 person: 0.4% 🔹10 people: 4.0% 🔹20 people: 7.9% 🔹50 people: 18.7% 🔹100 people: 33.8% 🔹300 people: 71.0%

Rabbits are the ultimate hippies. They don't want to hurt anybody. They just want to eat their greens and have lots of unfaithful sex.

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

nyc giving out free KN95s at these public libraries (for the wildfire smoke on its way, but like, let’s do this all the time) www.nyc.gov/site/em/abou...

In the seventh month of the second year of the second term, the heat will become unbearable, the skies will turn red, and bowels will loosen across the land.

Something I wish I'd done differently at the beginning of the pandemic? I should have been louder. Almost every day, somebody tells me that we were "closed for a few years". No. We worked daily. We also protected our preemie while waiting for the under-5 vaccine approval in **2022**.

Please avoid all salads, including word.

Warming my cucumbers to 160 degrees and googling “diarrhea near me” as I salute the flag of my great nation

As I prepare for surgery in a couple of days I wanted to dash off a quick 'actionable analysis' post that's our tag line here at Shouldn't Need to be a (Public Health) Lawyer.... Here's how to protect yourself from Cyclosporiasis, the explosive diarrhea parasite taking the country by storm

I hope people make the connection between the cyclosporiasis outbreak and our government’s approach to Covid (then and now.) If you adopt survival of the fittest as your public health ideal, prepare to face a lot of tests designed to hurt you. Sooner or later, you will no longer be the fittest.

"Our findings provide compelling evidence that long COVID involves the loss of dopamine-releasing neurons," says Dr. Jeffrey Meyer, senior scientist at the Brain Health Imaging Center, Canada Research Chair medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07...

USA: The NB.1.8.1 "Nimbus" subvariant is now dominant in the US, causing about 43% of COVID cases as of late June 2026. At the same time, multiple states in the South and West are experiencing an uptick in transmission, reporting "high" or "very high" viral levels in community wastewater.

"it's also just not possible to do so little without help" If you aren't familiar with ME/CFS (and maybe even if you are), please read this thread! It might be pretty enlightening for you.

Thinking of putting two labels on my next book. 1. WRITTEN BY A HUMAN. 2. NOT FOR FUCKWITS.

👇This terrible situation is exactly why so many people (and most disability groups) oppose the the assisted dying bill in UK being pushed through at same time that disability and healthcare support are being cut and/or privatised. This is the inevitable way it will be abused!

"I was discharged from the rehab facility with a SARS-CoV-2 infection I’d caught there...not long after, I lost my job of four years working in homeless services..[and] became trapped in my inaccessible home, no longer able to walk or climb stairs." thesicktimes.org/2026/06/26/i...

Naveed Azkhat, 39, felt himself becoming crushed under the weight of an unseen authority that wants him to jump through nonsensical hoops just to exist, but on closer examination realised he had just been asked to fill out some forms for the assessors.

it is truly perverse working in an industry in which some of the most respected outlets insist the illness many of their own colleagues have is not real

Patients, clinicians and researchers have called out media outlets for years for hiring writers with little to no experience in #LongCovid using pseudoscience to push harmful pet biases and misinfo (even when presented with expert research debunking their claims) Must read ⬇️

Central and SE #Texas have been on fire w/COVID for 21 days. Levels are extremely high in College Station, followed by near Houston, then Waco. The CDC defines Texas as "very low" because 52% of wastewater sites are very low. That misses the public health opportunity.

A parent’s story of Long COVID. "A Seattle family shares the challenges of parenting a child with Long COVID, from symptoms and school struggles to daily life adjustments." #LongCOVID Source: archive.md/9TS5N

"And to my children, I leave to you.." *licks finger and flips through DSM-5*

Here is what happens when you type world cup sick into google trends. Oh look it goes to the highest search interest ever.

COVID Alert❗️Biobot released their 1st COVlD report in a month, and it shows levels rising in the US after the prolonged national relative "lull" in transmission. biobot.io/risk-reports...

Isaac Chotiner: can you list some examples of systemic oppression green creatures face? Kermit the Frog: I’m sorry? Isaac Chotiner: well you do mention the difficulty quite a lot

"I’m comfortably asocial — a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I’m not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.” - Octavia E. Butler #HappyBirthday

Im epileptic. I live with brain fog, and cognitive issues. Reading, thinking and writing are things I value/consciously develop as a disabled teacher and writer, and I will never agree that we should be chunking down books even further. Disabled readers don't need to be pandered to like this.

The rise in “wellness” culture is directly related to the denial of pandemic reality.

Bluesky is the home of people who are only interested in everything.

I generally don’t mention ME, the disease that disabled the fuck out of me & has turned every day into an extreme feat of survival, to most doctors I see. They were taught to not believe in it or that it could be as severe as it is, so telling the truth makes them think you’re a liar.

Daphne, a nurse in Berlin, developed Long COVID in 2022. Instead of getting support, she faced medical gaslighting, racism, and intense pressure to work in a profit-driven German health system that ignores chronic illness. Source: archive.md/TywRW