These threads read like a sampling of population-wide immune system dysfunction. This is not normal, especially for this time of year, and it wasn’t the case pre-2020. Feels like around 2022 flu was normalized like it’s just a cold; now pneumonia might be next. #Covid

Infectious disease minimizers own this. Public health officials who consistently downplayed COVID own this. Media who plarformed minimizers own this.

Run the Maths... You can only contract Influenza A if a given strain - once Cövid is readily available for repeated infections 3-4 times/year

As it's the weekend, let's take a moment to enjoy and celebrate what for the entire country is an unalloyed good-news story!

“Under anti-vaccine Health Secretary RFK Jr., scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been blocked from publishing a scientifically vetted study finding significant health benefits from this season’s COVID-19 vaccines”

🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠 My fascination with REM Behaviour Disorder remains undiminished doi.org/10.1128/msph...

"Even individuals who did not become seriously ill with COVID-19 may have developed a weakened immune system that could lead to serious illnesses in the future." www.news-medical.net/news/2026031...

🚨🧵by Zdenek Vrozina on XTwitter: "This Long COVID study feels scary for a reason - it hits an immune axis immunologists already know from HIV, HBV, sepsis, and cancer. That makes the result more biologically plausible, not less🧵" 20-tweet 🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/20327...

3 vital letters: MMR The viral infection has been detected in at least 34 people across 11 U.S. states. It can cause: -Orchitis and male infertility. -Oophoritis or mastitis, inflammation of ovaries and breasts -Meningitis -Deafness www.scientificamerican.com/article/mump....

🚨🧵by @norngroup.bsky.social on XTwitter: "Multiple lines of evidence are converging on the idea that viruses you picked up decades ago might quietly be driving age-related diseases. We've known for a few years that EBV raises MS risk 32-fold..." Full 🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/20285...

🚨🧵by Zdenek Vrozina on XTwitter: "Two recent studies suggest that Long COVID may involve long-term neurobiological remodeling - even after mild infection. One examined the brain under cognitive load. The other looked at it at rest. Together, they..." 17-tweet 🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/20288...

COVID’s origins: what we do and don’t know Researchers summarize key insights from the world’s first comprehensive investigation into how a pandemic started. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A virus that causes vascular damage is not mild and children need protection. We all do. @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Abnormal PET/MR scan findings in symptomatic Long Covid could been linked to the development of cardiac and pulmonary diseases identified at follow up years post infection #LongCovid www.dicardiology.com/content/abno...

UK loses WHO status as measles-free after rise in deaths and fall in jab uptake

Not good to see the rise in p-tau181, a marker of brain inflammation tied to increased risk of Alzheimer's disease, in a prospective cohort (mean age 56 years) with #LongCovid and neurological symptoms www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...

I would argue that all covid deaths up until this point could have been prevented. That figure is over 250k. The single most important fact is covid is airborne!

If long COVID leads to Alzheimer's And 3% of Brits have long COVID Surely a good public health policy right now would be to protect more people from getting covid, developing long COVID, and in turn Alzheimer's?

#DuvetKnowItsChristmas My poor son and daughter-in-law have been relegated to the study this year because the room they normally sleep in is full (literally) of my other daughter-in-law-to-be’s wedding dress hanging up and I don’t dare touch it!

“While some argue that COVID-19 could act as a compounding factor in [people susceptible to Parkinson’s], others suggest the possibility of Parkinsonian features emerging as a consequence of viral infection.”

The Lib Dem group leader, @antonyhook.bsky.social accused Reform of “wanting to spend public money on a political apparatchik to tell them what to do. KCC is in a worsening financial state under Reform with the projected overspend now at £46m and rising” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Immunological sin: how a person’s earliest flu infections dictate life-long immunity www.nature.com/articles/d41...

25% reduction in all cause mortality over 4 years for those vaccinated against covid, huge study. Wow, this almost suggests covid is implicated in an unbelievable number of deaths. And that vaccinated people should wear respirators if they want to remain abled. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mrn...

Read the study and think about population level implications, remembering that the vast majority of people have been infected multiple times. What are the possible long-term neurological sequelae? What are the implications for societies now? news.griffith.edu.au/2025/12/16/c...

Generative AI. Eats its young.

Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more... 🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍

"The virus can lead to brain swelling, which can cause lasting damage, including blindness, deafness and intellectual disabilities..." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...

The shape of things to come? Excellent analysis of what happens when Reform take the reins. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

2. Watching the current scrambling response of many healthcare systems to H3N2 K, combined with the firmly embedded political and ideological resistance to masking, I can assure you all that if H5N1 goes human to human with a high CFR, we're in deep trouble as a species. /end

YES YES YES thank you @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 🙏 😩AT LAST someone rasiing the alarm about what Europe's plummeting brith rates really mean!! "In reality, without immigration there will be no Europe, no civilisation and no one left to argue about it."⚠️ It's. that. simple.

What Steve said. There has never been a study in which high-quality, well-fitting masks were actually WORN that did not show a significant impact on disease transmission. Many mask studies failed to take account of post-allocation confounders (non-adherence + non-mask people choosing to mask).

So, to those who say "masks don't work", cite the flawed Cochrane report, insist upon an unfeasible RCT, accuse folks of panic, and undermine public health on social and mainstream media during a flu/RSV epidemic... 1. Seasonal viruses may be "normal", but they do immense harm.

The lingering shadow of epidemics: post-acute sequelae across history www.cell.com/trends/immun...

#Medsky🧪 #IDsky #immunosky #Publichealth This study found that the accelerated #epigenetic aging in #COVID patients is primarily driven by immune dysregulation rather than the body's intrinsic aging processes.

“Children of COVID-infected mothers were diagnosed with neurodevelopmental conditions by age 3 at nearly twice the rate of those born to moms who did not get COVID, the study found. Boys were also more likely to be diagnosed than girls.” www.post-gazette.com/news/health/...

🔴230,000 Deaths and the ‘Calculated Silence’ of the Medical Establishment About the COVID Inquiry The Covid Inquiry Report is a devastating critique of the medical establishment which led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century, argues Anthony Costello

Little reminder of Farage's pro Putin tendencies.... Hopefully some media outlets may take up @eddavey.libdems.org.uk 's suggestions to probe Mr Farage a bit more on this. Is Farage saying he chose to support the wishes of a hostile foreign govt for free? 😲 #ReleaseTheRussiaReport

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Before I see one more post saying we shouldn’t have had a lockdown and behaved like Sweden, a reminder how that worked out. www.latimes.com/business/sto...

My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation. Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.

There's a very very very simple reason why nothing Labour do ever moves the needle on the parlous state of the UK economy. They have deliberately and repeatedly chosen to ignore the elephant filling every nook and cranny of the room. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...