CIDRAP: “Up to 60% of health care workers may have long COVID 4 years after infection” www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/60-...

A strategy I am recommending to people who don’t want to mask all the time is always in healthcare facilities and public transportation, AND if you see someone in a mask, put yours on. The first helps protect spaces high risk people may have no choice but to go, the second shows them support.

It’s #LongCOVIDAwarenessWeek, but Long COVID will still be around once it’s over. Visit our website and follow along to learn how to recognize the signs: doh.wa.gov/long-covid

This week marked the anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ve summarized our thoughts a bit below, but tl;dr: Unfortunately, COVID-19 is still with us, & although we may be tired of hearing about it, it’s extremely important to continue to take steps to protect ourselves & others.

In other words, we’re know you’re tired of hearing about COVID-19. We’re tired of hearing about it too. But ignoring it does not help it to go away, so please continue to take protect your health.

1/ "Creating #LongCOVID awareness might seem like an uphill battle, but research shows time is on the side of health justice advocates. It takes around 17 years for health findings to become mainstream practice": @teachrprecarity.bsky.social www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...

I'm a high school teacher who always has open windows and doors, 1 or 2 air purifiers running and I always mask. Your posts help me stay motivated to keep doing what's right! Thanks for what you do!

Bottom line from the last 6 years of COVID research : If you’ve got blood vessels, you’d be wise to avoid additional infections. Now is a great time to normalize wearing a respirator. Might feel awkward at first, but every person who does makes it easier for others to follow. Be a leader. 😷

Outside of this direct problem - it further prevents our ability to do 2x yearly updates to the Covid vaccines, which is strongly needed. One for the winter wave, one for the summer wave. You know, an appropriate utilization of the mRNA platform. Indirectly, this may even reduce flu vaccinations.

Personally not a fan of this combination Taco Bell and Pizza Hut model. Irrespective of efficacy - tying the variant selection of the flu with the Covid variant selection, to me seems like we will have an abysmally matched covid vaccine to circulating variants with a March selection for the winter

Today @thesicktimes.org: Elizabeth Yuko examines why people with Long COVID struggle to get appropriate mental health care. One big issue, she found, is that professional associations haven't offered guidance on the disease. thesicktimes.org/2026/02/24/s...

ELEMENTAL Masked Rave (Thu 2/26 @ Transmission DC, 9pm-2am) shotgun.live/events/dmv-m... Part 1

3 days away from our masked 😷 rave in DC, make sure to get your ticket or let friends in the DMV area know shotgun.live/events/dmv-m...

I'm almost 80 and I wear an N95 in public indoor spaces. I'm shunned by people regardless of their politics. I've sadly learned to trust no one (even people I know) to isolate when they're unwell. Covid is still here. Almost no one cares if they transmit disease and the elderly die.

I am a physician who will be wearing an N95 in all clinical encounters for the rest of my life because I don’t want to commit the harm of passing on a respiratory pathogen to a patient. This seems like a minimum duty, like handwashing, but I am unfortunately in a vanishingly small minority.

I’m going to say again, infecting your allies with a potentially debilitating and deadly illness is extremely foolish behavior in any kind of movement. You’re doing work for the other guys.

“HIV taught us how chronic viral infections can affect the body long after initial illness, and how important it is to involve patients in that research,” said @michaelpelusomd.bsky.social. “Applying those lessons to #LongCovid has helped us accelerate discovery” www.ucsf.edu/news/2026/01...

I’ve had to fill out the same questionnaire twice a year since 2017 to get my six-month continuous birth control prescription filled. Sometime since July they’ve added POTS to the common patient diagnoses checklist. #LongCOVID

New research finds that COVID viruses continue to be dangerous after they’re destroyed by your immune system. Some spike proteins survive, turning into shrapnel, continuing to target our immune cells.

And if you'd like some, a lovely designer we know created them so we could drop ship 1000 to Minneapolis and the other designs are free for you to download, print at home, or have bulk printed! drive.proton.me/urls/TKVTS18...

How sensitive are rapid tests for covid? For the omicron variant: 37.1% That's a significant drop from 81% sensitivity during delta. covid19-sciencetable.ca/sciencebrief... #CovidIsntOver #MedSky #IDSky

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Another person I know caught Covid in the hospital. They said they would have masked had they known it was a risk They didn’t know because everyone is pretending things are “back to normal” Meanwhile hospital acquired Covid disables & kills Respirators & clean air save lives

The execution of Alex Pretti is playing so badly because you can look at his actions and life story - his last act was helping, boy scout, athlete, health care worker to veterans - and compare those to the men who killed him and know which you would want to be your son, brother, father, uncle.

🪩 New masked rave 😷 in the DMV area just dropped: Thu 2/26 9pm-2am at Transmission DC ELEMENTAL: DJ sets, drag performances, vendors, and more Tickets: shotgun.live/en/events/dm...

Taekwondoin Tina Sugandh and her black belt kids, who always compete in their masks, warn about #LongCOVID— why they support #MaskTogetherAmerica and @publichealthaction.bsky.social. “This is for all that say you can't compete to your fullest potential at athletic events with a mask on.”

In 2026, let’s convince Mamdani to do like Sadiq Khan and invest in clean air for NYC schools! NY is currently in an ALL-TIME HIGH flu season. 70% of households getting COVID start with kids, usually in school. Air purifiers can drastically cut transmission! www.london.gov.uk/mayor-invest...

Because caregiving & sick leave disproportionately fall on mothers, especially single mothers, making schools & daycares safer through clean air & normalized masking is an essential part of any serious gender equity agenda

On day 8 of our Administration, @governor.ny.gov and I announced the beginning of universal childcare in NYC. No longer will New Yorkers be forced to choose between starting a family and continuing to live in the city they love. This only happened because of you.

Prison guards are flocking to ICE jobs and frankly this makes sense. Those of us who have been anti-prison organizers for decades have been saying that fascism already existed within prisons/jails. Our best teachers for how to survive fascism are incarcerated people.

The size of the winter COVlD wave has been revised upward as post-holiday data come in. We estimate 1 in 55 people in the U.S. are actively infectious. 🔥WV: 1 in 14 🔥IN: 1 in 15 🔥MI & OH: 1 in 21 🔥MO: 1 in 22 🔥CT: 1 in 24 🔥KS: 1 in 25 🔥MA & IL: 1 in 27 Quick 🧵 1/4

This is a great ad displaying the importance of the right kind of mask. Cloth face coverings don’t protect you from shit.

Your reminder that what happened to Renee Nicole Good is something that happens regularly in America. This is not new, but it is an expanded version of militarized people targeting Black people in particular. From ICE detention to murder with impunity, we've been doing it. Now it's broadened.

In a study following 23 million people age 18-59 (pretty young) for 4 years…despite the fact that the ones who got the COVID vaccine were overall older and sicker at baseline, they not only had 74% lower risk of dying from COVID than the unvaccinated but 25% lower risk of dying from any other cause!

Some HEPA units that filter classroom air are loud, but SO necessary to clean the air to help prevent airborne pathogen spread. We turned this issue into a class project building PC fan #CRboxes to help filter the air in our classrooms. Students need to learn how to measure air quality & clean it🙌

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

It's not gonna hurt you. #covidconscious #maskup @jaydocovid.bsky.social @winslowsp.bsky.social @hoolier.bsky.social

"COVID alters brain structure long after infection, new Qld study finds" "Queensland researchers have discovered coronavirus significantly alters the brain long after recovery, with MRI scans revealing lasting changes even in people without ongoing symptoms." Source: archive.md/JURHA

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918

This is a post from 5 months ago, when I saw BA.3.2.1 in Raj’s tracker for California. I show this simply to point out that from all of the great experts tracking Covid variants out there - it is quite easy to monitor and predict emerging lineages. VRBPAC simply refuses to listen to the experts

Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. The USDA didn’t test the theory after a disastrous Midwestern outbreak. Here’s how we did. By @natlash.bsky.social

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

Another enormous loss occurred in the #LongCOVID community last month. Rest in peace Leslie Lee III 🕊️ thesicktimes.org/2025/12/04/l...

Real world experiment conducted in Swiss school. "Prolonged exposure in shared, poorly ventilated spaces, which potentially includes several infectious sources, drives respiratory virus transmission more than close contact." --> WE NEED CLEAN AIR www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Phases of Covid Infection - Part 1 youtu.be/rLOJm8dNbvU

Haven’t gotten to watch fully yet but looks like a great series from @patbiosteamist.bsky.social on Phases of Covid infection:

Engagement on our updates re: ICE kidnappings/fed siege of Los Angeles is significantly lower on Bluesky compared to Twitter. Do ppl on here not care about LA anymore? Are feeds being taken over by liberal commentators? What's going on? Community members on the ground can't do it all. We need help.

ICE has been raiding my neighborhood and surrounding ones for the last couple of weeks now. They commandeered my local church (against the pastor's will) for a staging site and raided supermarkets, parks, Goodwills, bus stops, you name it. The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.

💔 Alice Wong’s last words: “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.” We can never thank Alice enough for fighting all the good fights and especially all the hard fights. We all learned so much from your brilliance, your courage, and your indefatigable leadership. We will never forget you.