Nature: 'Long-COVID research just got a big funding boost: will it find new treatments?' 'The German government has committed half a billion euros for research on long COVID and other post-infection syndromes.' By Michael Marshall www.nature.com/articles/d41...

1/ Actually #LongCOVID is globally prevalent after even "mild" COVID - "Long COVID is globally prevalent after a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection, highlighting a continuing health challenge": academic.oup.com/ofid/article...

A new study out earlier this week in Cell suggests the shingles vaccine may slow the progression of dementia. That’s after large-scale studies have shown it may also reduce the risk of developing dementia. This is a very cool science story! Here’s more about how they conducted these studies. +

My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

The federal vaccine committee has voted to end the recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B. This committee has zero credibility and the process for this vote was chaotic. Please instead follow guidance from expert organizations The American Academy of Pediatrics.

Oof. That's really really bad.

A medical professional working while they know they are sick with a highly contagious disease is an absolute failure by the individual. It is also a complete failure of the place they work for allowing this type of behavior.

#MedSky You might have kept your job… but if you didn’t wear a properly fitted respirator for every minute you were in the building while sick… You might have sparked outbreaks and killed patients. This is not ok.

UK: "Brits told to 'wear a mask' as flu spreads across country" Flu positive rate rose to 11.6% weekending Nov 25 (from 10.7%). Health chiefs said the highest positivity was in children aged 5–14. “We haven’t seen a virus like this for a while… these dynamics are unusual,” said Prof Nicola Lewis.

Here's the current pediatric vaccine schedule from the CDC. In case you want to save it or print it out, in case things change tomorrow. #ACIP www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp...

We are simply ratf**d. A dozen former FDA leaders today "warned that plans for a stricter approach to vaccine approvals risks undermining the nation’s ability to fight infectious diseases and could threaten the health of vulnerable Americans." Or all of us. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

You know things are bad when a dozen former FDA commissioners, from as far as 1990, pen a word criticizing Vinay Prasad’s memo on Covid vaccines. The decision to change vaccine policy was based on VAERS, an unreliable source of data. 🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/12/03/f...

It was a lot more than 23k

Stanford: 'Long COVID: Information for the Public' 12/4/25: This webinar will provide the public with up-to-date information on Long COVID, including prevention, treatment, research.. 'Joshua Roman, renowned cellist, will share lived experience with Long COVID' events.stanford.edu/event/long-c...

Such an informative #LongCOVID ‘Questions and Answers’ presentation by Prof. Akiko Iwasaki, @virusesimmunity.bsky.social It’s so important to recognise the airborne nature of this dreadful disease and its implications, for us all, particularly those most vulnerable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilIO...

What causes Long COVID? @virusesimmunity.bsky.social sets out 4 hypotheses that remain highly plausible, backed by many studies. The challenge now: the right trials, with the right drugs, for the right duration. #LongCOVID #Research #ClinicalTrials #PublicHealth 🔗 medicine.yale.edu/news-article...

ProPublica found more than two dozen cases of immigration agents using "less lethal" weapons in ways that appear to flout the government's own rules, including by aiming at someone’s head, spine or groin or deploying chemical agents near children. Read the full story: propub.li/44HU4Tp

96% of the highest-paid workers in the US have paid sick days. Just 38% of the lowest-paid workers get them — including the thousands of retail workers working this holiday weekend. Only in America do we call working people ‘essential’ but deny them paid sick leave.

Yale Medicine: Quick Question: Do We Know What Causes Long COVID? Iwasaki: "There’s been so much progress that’s been made in this area of Long COVID research...there are hypotheses that we’re testing..both at the basic science level and..through..clinical trials' medicine.yale.edu/news-article...

Thousands of comments on 3 recent articles reveal a sad, but necessary truth: The American people know Prasad, Makary, Hoeg, and Bhattacharya are untrustworthy, naked emperors. My latest. sciencebasedmedicine.org/nakedemperor...

After Marty Makary claimed with no evidence that COVID19 vaccines had killed children, Defend Public Health published this report on the topic. Now Prasad is making the same claims. He and Hoeg owe their careers to undermining COVID vaccines. These are not “unbiased” people. I don’t trust them.

Prasad wasn’t just antivaxx. He was actively pro infection. sciencebasedmedicine.org/healthy/

And COVID showed that MAHA and MAHA doctors have a very high tolerance for kids dying from vaccine preventable diseases. This is pocket change to them. They just don’t care.

Distinct brain alterations and neurodegenerative processes in cognitive impairment associated with post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today I had a doctor's appt. The staff doing check in were both coughing. Only one of them was masked. The nurse doing initial checks of vitals, no mask, also coughing. My doctor, no mask. The people in the waiting room all had masks and kept distance from each other.

Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.

A baby died of whooping cough in Kentucky… it’s the third child death from the disease in the past 12 months. Measles and whooping cough are highly preventable with vaccination. Sadly none of the children or their mothers were vaccinated. One more example of the harm being wrought by RFK Jr

1/ "There was sufficient information available by October 2020 for decision-makers to understand that Long Covid was a significant policy and health issue to be tackled”. Yet those warnings were dismissed as anecdotal": www.longcovid.org/impact/news/...

“Have they given up? Are they just deciding to build up herd immunity by watching us die? The government has given up, hasn’t it? They are throwing us into the slaughterhouse.” It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes: observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

But also the school-absences story is just...seriously WTF is wrong with these people? Are they so terrified of criticism from pseudoscientific loons that they just won't discuss COVID? So out of touch that they don't know this stuff? Just phoning it in? 🤷 www.nationalacademies.org/read/27756/c...

Powerful piece by @drrachelclarke.com on the COVID inquiry. Those who say it’s easy to be wise in hindsight are being utterly disingenuous. Many of us spoke out at the time, and it’s in the public record. @independentsage.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Calling Long COVID a “shadow” and claiming the acute phase has “faded” is misleading. COVID hasn’t faded, it still causes waves of ongoing transmission, repeat infections, hospital pressure, Long COVID and deaths. It’s not a shadow; it’s still shining a light on an ongoing crisis. archive.md/9Tcay

💨Quote: @ukcovid-19inquiry.bsky.social 'is considering airborne transmission (and methods used to combat it) in the context of healthcare in Module 3: Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on healthcare systems in the four nations of the UK'. 🤷It's STILL airborne! covid19.public-inquiry.uk/reports/modu...

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I don’t see Reeves talking about how much it’s costing by failing to prevent long COVID.

The truth lies here, only we are in a time of post truth and particularly on COVID. Over 250k now have lost their lives. How many would still be here had we the proper guidance for covid is airborne. Yet again fobbed off with the lockdown narrative.

I chose the subtitle very carefully. It was dangerous that doctors embraced the antivaccine movement. Now, here we are.

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

(📢) What Trump did today was not a SHOULD impeach, it was a MUST impeach. He said anyone who challenges his authority—an authority he doesn’t have—to give illegal orders to the military must be executed. That is a prima facie case for impeachment. Articles should be drawn up.

BREAKING: The UK’s response to Covid was “too little, too late”, a damning official report on the handling of the pandemic has concluded, saying the introduction of a lockdown even a week earlier than happened could have saved more than 20,000 lives.

A legacy of shame for everyone who enabled this.

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This is a terrible failure by hospital administration and leadership. And similar things happen all over the world

New episode with @wendyorent.bsky.social about the chaos & incompetence at the FDA, basically reading @lizzylawrence.bsky.social articles out loud. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

COVID-19 has not disappeared. It continues to spread, disable, and disrupt lives - yet national strategies still appear to fail to acknowledge its persistence or the need for stronger infection prevention... open.substack.com/pub/joepajak...

Great news as Prof Lidia Morawska who has done fantastic work on particulate matter and raised awareness of the fact that covid 19 can be spread via airborne route has just won a prize in recognition of her achievements

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Respect Alice Wong’s call here: “When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”