The 3rd annual Canadian Long COVID symposium wrapped up yesterday. It was a great meeting, and I got some nice news at the end! PDF of the poster is here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/e8wh6... MP3 of a 5-minute verbal overview is here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ej0lw...

Museum of Vancouver Long Covid exhibit launch #longcovidawareness

Today we launched the Living with Long COVID exhibition @museumofvan.bsky.social. In 2023 we conducted a study in which we heard from longhaulers that this invisible illness needs more awareness and attention. This exhibition was co-created with longhaulers to do just that. On view until March 2026

It was standing room only at today's Living with Long Covid exhibit at the @museumofvan.bsky.social! I was moved to tears by some of the personal stories on display. Such a great event

Canadian COVID Forecast: Sep 13 - Sep 26, 2025 Severe: NL, PEI, SK Very high: CAN, AB, BC, MB, NB, North, NS, ON High: QC Moderate: none About 1 in 81 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

Breakthrough study: COVID-19 reactivates dormant breast cancer, triggering deadly metastasis. Cancer survivors who got COVID had 4.5× higher cancer-related deaths and 1.4× greater breast cancer. MASK UP!! Protect yourself from Covid, which is airborne

It’s not too late to complete your submission for our #LongCOVID photovoice exhibit at the Museum of #Vancouver, debuting this fall! Open Canada-wide to any self-identified #longhauler 18+. Upload your photos by June 1 here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/YourPhotos

Droplet dogmatists deny that COVID is an airborne contagion for similar reasons why miasmatists once denied cholera is waterborne. If spread by droplets, then mitigation can be decentralised and passed on to “individual responsibility”.

Grateful to everyone who helped coordinate our Long COVID awareness event at #UWaterloo today and to the Faculty of Health Dean's Advisory Committee on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism for supporting us! It was so nice gathering with everyone on campus. www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/vi...

Some selfies from today’s Long COVID Awareness booth at #UWaterloo! Today we were joined by a representative from MaskBlocWR and CanadaMasq (who kindly donated CA-N95s for our Care Kits). 😷 Stay tuned for our walk at noon on Thursday! We’ll also livestream it on Instagram @care_coalition_uw

1. Perhaps the most damaging blowback from the response to Covid-19 in 2020 and 2021 is the mainstreaming of a public health ideology that is rooted in a dangerous combination of survivorship bias, nostalgia, and the naturalistic fallacy.

Trump’s CDC is cancelling $11 billion in COVID funding allocated to health departments and nonprofits, claiming the grants are no longer necessary because the pandemic is over. This is wrong. COVID is a continuing threat and millions have Long COVID. We still need to do more to mitigate its harms.

In <24 hours, Covid funding is DOGEd across HHS, CDC, NIH as if it and Long Covid didn't exist and there is no worry for future pandemics www.science.org/content/arti... www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... www.science.org/content/arti...

This is why I say the pandemic is just beginning (as a crisis of chronic disease). Instead of ending it with science-based intervention, we think emoting how “over it” we feel suffices.

Folks, very bad news for #LongCOVID. Deep breath. 29 awarded grants to do with COVID and Long COVID have been rescinded by NIH. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

"My friends and family don't believe that I'm sick because I look OK on the outside" ❤️‍🩹 So many heartbreaking stories from this weekend's International Long Covid Awareness Day event at the Vancouver Art Gallery

Demonstrations for International Long COVID Awareness Day have sparked around the globe. We reached out to international organizers for photos from their actions to document the demonstrations and highlight their demands. bit.ly/4im6qFk

This Long Covid Awareness Day, let's look at why people believe they don't know anyone with Long Covid. We are in the middle of a mass disabling event that most people refuse to acknowledge. When we face the truth & stop denying reality, we can save lives:

Incredibly drained after today, but it was fantastic being able to attend a local event for Long COVID Awareness Day! Thank you so much to the organizers at @longcovidcan-co.bsky.social & @cancovsoc.bsky.social 🩵💙 Pillowcases were laid out at Vancouver Art Gallery of longhauler stories. Emotional😭

Tomorrow is Long Covid Awareness day, and I'll be performing this poem for the LC Awareness even in downtown Vancouver, outside the Vancouver Art Gallery. Sometime just after 11am, March 15. It's not over. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GvR... #art #longcovid #contemporaryart #sciart

Great paper on Airborne Transmission Risk Assessment in a classroom, an office, a ward, an ICU. Findings: - FFP2 respirators cut the viral dose by a factor of 13. - An 8h exposure in a poorly ventilated office can equate to the risk of a 15 mn face-to-face. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Big Announcement! Share Your Story & Be Part of an Exhibit at the Museum of Vancouver! 📸 My team is excited to announce the Fall 2025 launch of “A Day in the Life of a Longhauler,” a Photovoice project and exhibit. Canadian longhaulers, submit by April 30: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/YourPhotos

I appreciate this response from Ed Yong on why he requests that people mask at his events. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

Every time I hear peers use language like "During COVID", "post-COVID", "During the pandemic", "back during COVID" -- I want to interrupt and say: "..you mean, now?" Language matters.

I reviewed @carlzimmer.com's new book Airborne. "His book is an enthralling historical exploration of the role of airborne microorganisms in disease, and examines why these pathogens have been overlooked for centuries." www.nature.com/articles/d41... /1

Flu hospitalization rates are higher so far this season than at the same point during each of the past FIFTEEN YEARS, at least Chart shows Influenza Hospitalization Surveillance Network (FluSurv-NET) cumulative hospitalization data; red line is current (2024-2025) season gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluvie...

'Stanford must end its complicity in COVID harms' 'As one of the many Stanford alumni who have had their lives turned upside down by contracting Long COVID, I’m very disappointed that Stanford is legitimizing the views of those who have openly downplayed..' stanforddaily.com/2025/02/13/s...

This is 100% the next step for a society that has collapsed any semblance of a social safety net and has broken down regulations, public health and any other measures that would lessen epigenetic contributors to disability. Sicken and debilitate people, then call them useless eaters and eliminate

When kids have ongoing symptoms after illness, moms often struggle to be heard. Advocacy matters—because no one knows your child better than you. Read one mother’s journey of fighting for answers. #PediatricLongCovid #LongCovidFamilies

Extremely well done. Should be mandatory reading. “Long COVID is an everyone problem because everyone has blood vessels, a gut microbiome, ACE-2 receptors, T cells, and a blood-brain barrier…it is devastating, and it is happening to people every day. And it can happen to you, after any infection.”

Honoured to be amongst such distinguished fellow researchers! May the recognition I receive also recognize the patients, caregivers, & care providers so deeply impacted by Long COVID. We’ll continue to highlight longhauler voices & raise awareness that LC can affect anyone in this ongoing pandemic.

Canadian COVID Forecast: Feb 1-14, 2025 SEVERE: ON VERY HIGH: CAN, AB, MB, North, QC HIGH: BC, NB, NL, NS, PEI, SK MODERATE: none About 1 in 42 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

DYK? Since July 2022, the lag between COVID-19 symptom onset and a positive PCR test is 4.5-6.5 days. You might test positive earlier than 5 days after symptom onset, but it can be up to one week. That's PCR--with RATs you're even less likely to test positive within the first 5 days of symptoms.

“CDC researchers were instructed to remove references to or mentions of a list of forbidden terms: “Gender, transgender, pregnant person, pregnant people, LGBT, transsexual, non-binary, nonbinary, assigned male at birth, assigned female at birth, biologically male, biologically female.””

This is horrific. Official report from Canadian public health group contains made-up science. #medsky #episky

Covid is not a cold or the flu. Never was or will be. Though it might just cause you to die from another infection, like flu or RSV. But let’s be clear. Covid kills far more people. Always did and will continue to… until we install precautions that protect us from all airborne pathogens.

I'm working on a story for @thesicktimes.bsky.social about how the Trump admin health communications "pause" will impact NIH RECOVER. Email or message me if you'd like to chat ([email protected], DM for my # on Signal). I am happy to keep people anonymous.

🧵 STATEMENT: WHO expresses deep concern on the implications of the immediate funding pause for #HIV programmes in low- and middle-income countries. These programmes provide access to life-saving HIV therapy to more than 30 million people worldwide. Read more bit.ly/42yxxIz 1/5

Read my latest personal essay- about zero approved Long COVID treatments in year five, doctors' appointments that go nowhere, and the light at the end of the tunnel (clinical trials) flickering and going dark: www.thegauntlet.news/p/into-darkn...

Dear friends, we're creating a FREE global directory of #LongCOVID practitioners to help everyone find credible help. If you know an excellent Physician, OT, Physio, Specialist, or someone who should be included please let us know! longcovidtheanswers.com/suggest/

Working with a great team to organize @keystonesymposia.bsky.social on "#LongCOVID and Other Post-Acute Infection Syndromes #PAIS" #KSLongCOVID26 @patientled.bsky.social @daltmann.bsky.social August 10-13, 2025 | Santa Fe Hope to see you there! keysym.us/KSLongCOVID26

The BMJ desk-rejected our paper on safety in remote consultations. It later won Research Paper of the Year Award. Now BMJ is publishing a ‘hot pick’ summary of our findings written by someone else. Ah well, so long as the word gets out I guess! @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Survey closes tomorrow! Last chance

Some actions to oppose Trump’s NIH freezes: ➡️ Contact your electeds and urge them speak up ➡️ Demand your electeds oppose the nominations of RFK as HHS head and Bhattacharya as NIH head ➡️ Sign a group letter opposing the nominations ➡️ Stage a protest outside your lab/work

Of course we can't even be given one day of peace to celebrate Lunar New Year...

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

The Trump admin has cancelled the panels that approve NIH grants, & is also banning scientists from communicating with the public, attending conferences, and hiring. NIH is the largest funder of biomedical research in the world. This will severely halt the development of many lifesaving treatments.

New: Trump officials have paused all external communications at health agencies like CDC, FDA, NIH. No health alerts and the famed MMWRs; no updates to key websites or social media posts. And no indication how long the pause will last. With @rachelroubein.bsky.social + Lena Sun.