Today, there is a person in Lincoln, NE that has had COVID for at least 4.5 years (probably in their GI tract) that almost certainly does not know they are infected. We see the lineage every week. It would be easy to track them, at least from a technical perspective. 2/

Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vaccines could help, but the USDA hasn’t approved them.

Virus activity has been heating up in Canada the last few weeks, with more to come. The good news is that we actually have incredibly effective tools to protect ourselves and others. Layered approach works, more people using it works better.

Very excited that Blueprint Biosecurity is funding studies that will evaluate the real-world effectiveness of far-UVC light as a pandemic countermeasure! We're looking at infectious flu virus in respiratory particles with and without far-UVC. blueprintbiosecurity.org/building-the...

Six-week study of 67 students in four classes, 1047 saliva samples -> "Prolonged exposure in shared, poorly ventilated spaces, which potentially includes several infectious sources, drives respiratory virus transmission more than close contact." www.nature.com/articles/s41... HT: Emily Martin

The RECOVER Initiative has collected over 1.4 million biosamples from nearly 30,000 people to help uncover how Long COVID affects the body and guide future diagnostics and treatments. recovercovid.org/news/over-14...

Sounds like the effort to permanently hand control of preventative health guidance in Canada to this group is being railroaded through, aiming to have it locked in by April 2026, before the public has time to react and start fighting back. Spread the word, talk to politicians, journalists, etc.

Nothing's certain, but if forced to hazard a guess, I'd predict this pattern will hold, with BA.3.2 eventually taking over from the currently dominant JN.1* descendants. 3/3

The thing that is also frustrating, outside of the situation detailed below, is that ppl act like those of us who still mask are having some kind of grandiose “virtue signaling” tantrum….🙄 The reason why we wear respirator masks is bc ppl behave like this regularly & it’s disgusting & dangerous.

Very cool of my coworker to show up with COVID because the HOSPITAL I work for doesn't have any restrictions for employees with COVID anymore. And even cooler than my other coworker thinks her bee pollen hand spray will do the trick 👉👉

Completely reasonable that your doctor or healthcare worker can give you COVID while your under their care at a hospital, right? The idea it’s just a cold sure is one expensive delusion.

Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

Yogi Vemana University analyzed 1,845 samples and found that COVID-19 accelerates immune-related epigenetic aging, especially in older and female patients. Non-Europeans showed even greater signs of aging in key immune-related clocks like PCPhenoAge. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A friend with a new baby asked guests to mask in order to hold her baby. A relative refused to mask & broke down in tears about her "restrictions" As a reminder, babies <6 months have the 2nd highest hospitalization rate from Covid after adults 75+ & are too young to be vaxxed

Public health: "We must do something about all this disinformation out there" Also public health: "Here's a bar of soap to handwash your way out of COVID"

NEW: A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other neurodevelopmental diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.

Love this graphic from @nousaerons.bsky.social. This is why I mask in public. Breathing dirty air is no different from drinking dirty toilet water. There's no shortages of airborne transmissible diseases. Even the ones we have vaccines for can cause breakthrough infxns (e.g. TB, Covid, Measles)

An exceptional reason to mask and test! There are now combo flu/covid tests and while they aren’t perfect, having everyone take one before meeting for Thanksgiving could save people from at best a week of misery and at worst disability or death. A no brainer.

It’s my birthday, but it’s also unfortunately the third anniversary of the day I got the Covid infection that disabled me. This year has been the hardest with the disease. I encourage you to be careful this holiday season, wear a mask and test, do not get or give Covid to anyone.

What should we expect this flu season? Here’s a forecast from a wastewater perspective (because sh*t don’t lie) 1/

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

Chronic viral infections are not innocuous. There is much evidence suggesting persistent viral reservoirs are much more common than recognized & that they cause some proportion of Long Covid. We need to take them seriously—including Cryptics. 15/end bsky.app/profile/ryan...

Fascinating 🧵. The grotesquely mutated spike of this NJ Cryptic binds ACE2 very tightly. It raises a broader question: Can cryptic wastewater-like lineages transmit? YES We knew it happened once. Now we know it's happened at least twice. The results in both cases were not pretty. 1/15

This is super exciting - mRNA vaccine against EBV enters early stage phase 2 trial in 180 people with a recent MS diagnosis. The virus is known to play a significant role in its development www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

Looks like their plan to boost productivity by ushering everyone back to the office in an ongoing pandemic didn't play out as expected ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

I know not everything is about the pandemic but I do think a recent, resounding message that other people don’t matter and no one owes you anything has not been a good thing for us as humans beings.

🚨 ANSWERED: Can COVID-19 Be Prevented? A compilation of over 40 studies on how to best prevent COVID-19, from respirators to vaccines to other interventions. 👇 READ, SUBSCRIBE, SHARE WIDELY: www.panaccindex.info/p/answered-c...

“Actual scientists…have…produced a mountain of evidence that the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 & other airborne viruses can be prevented. This compilation of research serves to dispel the obscene myth that “infection is inevitable,” & that the suffering repeated infections…cause cannot be prevented.”

Excellent public health messaging from New York City!! Be the happy peace sign waving emoji instead of the sick and sniffling emoji. How can you do that? Wear a mask! Ideally a respirator like an N95. It’ll help keep you and your community safe.

Some people will try anything except wearing a mask

The irony. Designed and proven using entirely mechanistic method and observational data, with a healthy side order of biochemistry. And fielded for decades with huge successes, without a single randomized trial as proof. & today, groups of MDs work tirelessly to prove N95 don’t work vs viruses.

I’ll never get over my partner showing up to a medical appointment in his custom power wheelchair and an IV bag attached to his port, asking a medical provider to wear an N95 because Covid disabled him, and the medical provider refusing. It happens regularly, yet still the gall shocks me every time.

Alice Wong died of an infection 💔 Thinking of all the healthcare workers over time who failed to protect her www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...

Just heard about this huge (49 state) long covid trial using tirzepetide (aka zepbound) one of the newer glp meds. It’s run by researchers at scripps, funded by the eric & wendy schmidt foundation. It looks like it is still enrolling, fully remote participation: longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/?ut...

“Leslie Lee rightly criticized the inconsistency of people who mourned Lynch’s passing while, in their own lives, failed to take simple protective steps — like wearing a respirator — that could have helped keep people like Lynch stay safe and alive.” Powerful writing about our friend.

“She explained how much Covid could hurt her & how vulnerable it felt to be unable to wear a mask to protect herself. She was a perfect example of why other people need to wear masks even if they don’t personally think Covid will hurt them” If you want to honour Alice Wong’s memory, please mask up

@leslieleeiii.bsky.social was one of my favourite voices on Covid & I'm devastated to hear about his passing. A brilliant writer and ally. Incredible loss for our community 💔

So 💔 & angry… that Alice is gone, Teen Vogue is gone, community care is all but gone, but dangerous infectious diseases are still being given red carpet treatment. The disability, Long Covid, & ME communities keep losing people, & it doesn’t have to be this way. We can do better. We must.

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...

Minimizing COVID-19 is maximizing social harm One of the best articles I've read all year because it centers social justice and equity. Published today Gift link 🎁 www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...

Weird because I could have sworn the NYT told us we shouldn't worry about these viruses and should just get back to brunch

It’s been obvious now for years for Covid-19, but this adds to the evidence for other viral infections.

There are large public health minimizer accounts on here who were held accountable on X and fled to BlueSky in part to escape COVID news & reality

If you've ever thought there needs to be a chronicle of how we got here with the collapse of public health and an unflinching account of who's responsible, here it is 100x. Not just RFK Jr., but everyone who enabled those like him.

The sequel to We Want Them Infected is done! COVID killed 1.2 million Americans while vaccines saved millions. Yet, disinformation superspreaders were empowered, where they are taking a wrecking ball to science & medicine. How did that happen?🧵 sciencebasedmedicine.org/everyone-els...

Nothing says 'collective denial' like a pile of free COVID tests up for grabs that no one is claiming 🫠 (Spotted in Vancouver today)

Here are 50 reasons someone might be masking in 2025. None of them have to do with anxiety or criminal behavior, and not all of them about COVID. Use them in your accommodations requests or when advocating to protect the right to wear masks/prevent mask bans. open.substack.com/pub/misfitme...

I keep seeing long threads where people do complex math to justify unmasking, calculating their own risk of illness 🧮 But almost never, "Hey what's the risk to the person beside me at the pharmacy?" We’ve individualized public health to death

In our short existence, The Corsi-Rosenthal Foundation has issued 58 grants providing healthier indoor air to 30,000 ppl. The Foundation aims to substantially increase these benefits to under-resourced schools over the next several months. Please consider helping us: givebutter.com/buildabox2025

If you are going to make public spaces unsafe for high risk people and refuse to take precautions, you’re either advocating that we all die without safe access to society or that our new, isolated existence is subsidized with your taxes. Which is it.