Also worth noting: The highest-risk occupations included health care and social workers, teachers, retail workers, transport workers, and security staff. These groups often remained in close contact with others throughout the pandemic.

Important study shows risk of long covid linked to irregular or limited use of respirators, using public transport to commute and close contact to coworkers (inability to socially distance) . #LongCOVID www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/wor...

NEW article by @theipaper.com (out tomorrow!) will highlight those who remain shielding for a 5th Christmas (~6 yrs) due to persistent high-risks. The government used the most vulnerable to justify closures, and then left them behind without ever "Learning to live with Covid".

Clinicians who actually saw the horrors of COVID (and didn’t get infected, because masks fucking work 🤷🏻‍♂️) are pretty pissed at this. Especially the @newyorker.com - I expect better 🤦🏻‍♂️

Could a group of you file a lawsuit and force him to have GISAID overseen by a board? It seems asinine to me that one person should have sole control over a data tool that so many scientists use. I understand that legal action is expensive, but if no one downloaded it all...

Researchers still muzzle themselves for they fear losing GISAID access. I know professional scientists who privately despise GISAID/Bogner but say nothing publicly because they fear the wrath of Bogner—an absurd state of affairs. 11/

Bogner wields absolute power at GISAID & has arbitrarily punished researchers, blocking their access or downgrading their accounts for criticizing GISAID, despite no violation of GISAID's rules. There is no recourse or appeal against his rulings because he's accountable to no one. 10/

I don't think anyone even knows for sure if Peter Bogner is his real name. GISAID's finances are opaque and controlled by a lifelong con man. I leave it to the reader to deduce the likelihood that all GISAID funding is being used for its intended purpose. 9/

Bogner has claimed to have a business degree from a school he never attended, falsely claimed to be a "World Cup skier", lied about being a former "Time Warner executive" (among other imaginary roles), and listed different birth dates for himself on official forms. 8/

Bogner dodged two court orders to pay a ~$1-million-dollar debt to the Swiss Bioinformatics Institute by skipping town, after which the institute gave up trying to get the money owed to them—a common theme in this story. 7/

For years, he pretended to be "Steven Meyers"—a persona Bogner invented—when communicating with scientists, manipulating them to suit his agenda. Bogner still denies this, despite the incontrovertible evidence. Blatant lying is an involuntary reflex for him. 6/

Later Bogner conned professional ski instructor Reider Wahl out of $10,000 and his share of the profits for a documentary Bogner convinced him to do, absconding with Wahl's money, never to be seen by him again. 5/

GISAID, the essential viral genetic database, is run by Peter Bogner, a guy who has served jail time for financial fraud, was sentenced to at least 8 years of probation, and seems never to have paid the $65,000 in restitution he was ordered to pay by a judge. 4/

For years scientists knew something was very, very wrong with GISAID, but the breakout story (from which much of this 🧵 is based) came 2 years ago in @science.org from @cohenjon.bsky.social & Martin Enserik. 3/ www.science.org/content/arti...

I use CovSpectrum & Nextstrain every day—& I'm not the only one. Every Covid thread I've ever posted has relied largely on CovSpectrum & Nextstrain for information & visuals. These vital resources have now been stolen from us by a world-class grifter. 2/ www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/to-f...

The most valuable viral research tools—@nextstrain & CovSpectrum—are being destroyed—not only blocked from new data but now forbidden from even sharing info from the PAST. Why? Because GISAID is run dictatorially by a con man, paranoid egomaniac, & liar named Peter Bogner. 1/

Overactive eEF2K signaling disrupts memory and induces apathy in mice, highlighting potential targets for neuropsychiatric and cognitive therapies. by Jester HM, Nicol N (...) Ma T et 12 al. in Mol Psychiatry #MedSky 👉 get more here 📖 read the article:

So far this year, more than 5.2 million COVID cases have been reported in the U.S., causing 365,302 hospitalizations and 22,658 deaths.

COVID cases remain at relatively low levels but are rising in nearly every state with consistent data, except Hawaii. Seasonal flu and RSV are also rising.

EUA: "Os casos de COVID-19 permanecem em níveis relativamente baixos, mas estão aumentando em quase todos os estados com dados consistentes, exceto no Havaí. A gripe sazonal e o VSR (Vírus Sincicial Respiratório) também estão em ascensão."

Weekly U.S. COVID update: - New cases: 73,742 est. - Admissions: 5,162 (+11%) - In hospital: 3,460 (+5%) - In ICU: 492 (+1%) - New deaths: 260 - Average: 292 (-1%)

Vender o sangue literalmente ou pela mais-valia, é mundial. Enquanto isso,cerca de 3 mil vampiros e alguns outros pertencentes ao 1% da humanidade que detém 99% da riqueza produzida no mundo, continua com as presas afiadas na jugular de 8 bilhões de escravos zumbis. A desigualdade tem que acabar!

Susan Monarez was fired after less than a month as Director of the CDC for holding the line on scientific integrity She is part of Nature's 10 - our list of people who shaped science in 2025 go.nature.com/4pJXoGh

Follow Mike Coston: @fla-medic.bsky.social afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/12/viru...

SARS-CoV-2 is so dangerous precisely because of its insidious nature. Its propensity to continually re-infect. The superficial similarity of the symptoms it causes to those of other common viruses. The unseen risk of sequelae. That wretched molecular shark tricks almost everyone.

Não desejo me aprisionar nesta e em nenhuma rede social. A veiculação de ideias não pode ser capturada para o fim da espoliação de trabalho invisível em prol das big techs. Desejo a todos um 2026 de liberdade decisória sobre o que, quando e se compartilhar. outraspalavras.net/outrasmidias...

"❄️Todos sabem que não existem dois flocos de neve iguais,um fato que se origina da maneira como os cristais se formam no céu." Como não temos neve,não sabia que os flocos são como os humanos:não tem um igual ao outro,nem quando são gêmeos. Gostei de saber que a Natureza é realmente ímpar e sábia.

2025: an annus horribilis for health in the USA - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Super impressed by this video by @jameshoffmann.bsky.social, not only for covering something I'd always wondered about, but explaining the science of it in a really fun and interesting way. I wish I could make videos this good about UBI.

Bom conselho!👇 "Sendo franco: se você faz algo para reduzir o risco de infecção pelo SARS-CoV-2 - está sendo inteligente.Devido à alta prevalência atual da gripe,o uso de máscaras volta a ser assunto na mídia.Ignore qualquer comentário negativo sobre o assunto.Bobagens políticas são irrelevantes."

The hypothesis that holding a science- and policy-based rant/therapy sesh with me, @jeremyfaust.bsky.social, and @drdemetre.bsky.social would be entertaining and useful held up to testing and has been validated. This Week in Public Hell was a success! Plus bonus 🐕 open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

Highly recommended read about the politicisation of science in the US and how this will help the resurgence of eugenic ideology and scientific racism. “For the first time, there is a political appointee in the NIH communications operations” www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/t...

"Meritocracy" in US college admissions is mainly a quota system for students from wealthy households. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This Week in PUBLIC HELL with @drdemetre.bsky.social @jeremyfaust.bsky.social and me. Today at 3 pm ET! 😈💉👩‍🍼❌🇺🇸🇩🇰🤡🤑🤯🤬👇🏻 open.substack.com/live-stream/...

“Não é preciso ter medo dos coordenadores de intimidade”. A diretora Jessica Palud falou ao Mulher no Cinema sobre como preparou as muitas cenas de nudez e sexo da série “The Seduction”, cujo episódio final chegou hoje ao catálogo da HBO Max.

Mais sobre a série "The Seduction":

“A better understanding of how cultures evolve—how info is transmitted & modified, how we make decisions, how culture interacts with biology & other species—is a pressing issue in an increasingly interdependent world where cultural activities are causing rapid, drastic social & environmental change”

This is seriously impressive.

Should the US adopt Denmark's vaccine schedule for children? @jakescottmd.bsky.social argues no in a piece that points out the risks such a move would pose for American kids. www.statnews.com/2025/12/19/d...

Last weekend #USDA announced that Wisconsin had detected #H5N1 #birdflu in a dairy cow herd. Today the agency revealed that genetic analysis of virus from the herd shows this event was the result of a new spillover from "wildlife." www.aphis.usda.gov/news/agency-...

the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024

Here's a link to the collection, if you're interested. There are also some really beautiful necklaces by a Ukrainian jewelry maker made from Russian shrapnel, although the pieces are a bit more expensive, as they're more intricate. article22.com/collections/...?

It was a big year for mathematics. youtu.be/hRpcWpAeWng

vanity fair photographer christopher anderson posts this story on his instagram, suggesting he intentionally posed stephen miller underneath a painting of native americans

me using my humanities education to analyze the background when christopher anderson asks me to pose against this wall

@elida-graziane.bsky.social os seus comentários no #JORNALDACULTURA são realmente brilhantes e suas observações merecem os nossos parabéns! 👏👏👏 É sempre um prazer e um motivo de muito orgulho para nós, mulheres, assistir o modo como argumenta e enfatiza suas opiniões! Bravo!! 👏👏👏