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.

NEW from the PolyBio Symposium: UCSF is launching a combination trial for Long COVID, called COMBAT-LC. It will include Paxlovid (antiviral) and Pemgarda (monoclonal antibody). thesicktimes.org/2025/11/14/l...

This person was infected with COVID twice and recovered. A 3rd infection brought manageable long COVID symptoms, but they were still able to work. After a 4th infection a few months ago, they haven’t recovered at all — showing how repeated infections can cause severe, lasting damage.

So I try not to give too many gory details about life with long covid, but I also think it’s important to give a clear picture of what can happen to anyone. Over the last yearish, I’ve become allergic to more than 70 foods. Today I lost soy. I’m not how long I can keep eating at all.

After a few different prototypes, the Guardian, our most affordable air purifier, is finally ready. #IndoorAirQuality #CovidIsAirborne #AirPurifier 1/2

I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other. It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.

Rahm Emanuel covered up the murder of Laquan McDonald by Chicago police

Folks if you usually do end-of-year/holiday charity giving, consider moving it up to the beginning of November instead and hit up however many local food pantries you can afford to give to. (Check if you or a spouse/partner's employer does charity matching, too.)

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

I know two people who got long covid from infections during doctor appointments where they couldn't easily mask (an MRI and an ENT exam). this is a very real risk. And before anyone says anything - yes, there are MRI-safe respirators, most people don't know about them or have access to them.

If you are in a medical setting, where vulnerable people HAVE TO BE, you need to wear a mask- whether or not it is mandated, whether or not you are sick. More than half of Covid cases are spread ASYMPTOMATICALLY. Protect the most vulnerable, it’s everyone’s duty. Any medical appointment anywhere.

Meadowbridge Community Market is a free grocery store that provides food and health supplies to 200-300 families per week, and they continue to mitigate the spread of Covid as part of their holistic approach to community care. Join me in helping them buy their building! givebutter.com/buymcm

If you count yourself in the massive majority of people who pretty much don't want to hear about COVID anymore...please read this thread. I'm sorry. Please. I write this from my father's house, where I am watching Long COVID completely destroy the mind and body of a person I love beyond telling.

@jaydocovid.bsky.social as always brings incredible points up and always has the receipts - please check his 🧵 out about masking and the social stigma around Covid. People are so afraid to admit that they, like everyone else, are susceptible to severe #covid and #longcovid that they refuse to mask.

A heck of a good thread:

Dear liberals, If you identify as a leftist who believes in intersectional justice & fighting fascism, please wear a mask in public. It’s one small act of solidarity with the millions living with long Covid - and a reminder that caring for others includes protecting their health

To say people make a rational assessment of the threat environment around Covid… is just not true. Most people refuse to talk about or read anything about Covid. Long Covid has surpassed asthma as the most common childhood illness, and it’s rarely spoken of. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Medscape: 'ESC Aims to Tackle Cardiac Risks Associated With Long COVID' 'Researchers estimate up to 5% of all individuals infected with COVID, or approximately 5 million people globally, develop cardiac long COVID' www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

NEW: At a UN event today, advocate Violet Affleck gave a short speech on pediatric #LongCOVID. She also talked about how clean air and masking could help address the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and protect children from the disabling disease. thesicktimes.org/2025/09/23/v...

People don't disagree with me about Covid, they just refuse to talk about it. If Covid is no longer a problem why does it make everyone uncomfortable? It’s trauma and refusing to face that something that’s pervasive is also dangerous.

Migrants missing court due to COVID-19 outbreak at California detention center www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/border-...

Hey, so...Covid rates have gotten real high. Maybe change your behavior to fit this new risk profile? Stop eating indoors at restaurants, mask on mass transit, that kind of thing?

I said this months ago but I really need a BLUE STATE COMPACT IMMEDIATELY. Bring together all health depts, all education depts, etc... under one umbrella. Collectivize guidance, ensure that disabled students get what they need, etc... An emergency meeting of all Blue State Governors is overdue.

Univ. of Buffalo: “Chronic pain surged in U.S. adults after pandemic, UB study finds” “This is the highest prevalence of chronic pain ever recorded in the U.S” “We examined the role of long COVID and found that it explained about 13% of the increase” www.buffalo.edu/ubnow/storie...

This is a fascinating preprint which simultaneously (re)demonstrates that the immune system is a better detector of non-self than our current analytical techniques, while providing further support for the idea that long covid is due to persistence www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

"Analyses of cancer survivors databases reveal that SARS-CoV-2 infection substantially increases the risk of cancer-related mortality and lung metastasis compared with uninfected cancer survivors." Mice data show #COVID drives the proliferation of previously dormant cancer cells.