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Yankees, dogs, died in the wool liberal Democrat
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Even after infection, vaccination still matters.
A new study found teens vaccinated before getting COVID were 36% less likely to develop Long COVID.
Study in Vaccine, summary via CIDRAP:
#PediatricLongCOVID
A new study found teens vaccinated before getting COVID were 36% less likely to develop Long COVID.
Study in Vaccine, summary via CIDRAP:
#PediatricLongCOVID
COVID vaccination cuts risk of long-term symptoms in teens by over a third, data suggest
cidrap.umn.edu
November 4, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Even after infection, vaccination still matters.
A new study found teens vaccinated before getting COVID were 36% less likely to develop Long COVID.
Study in Vaccine, summary via CIDRAP:
#PediatricLongCOVID
A new study found teens vaccinated before getting COVID were 36% less likely to develop Long COVID.
Study in Vaccine, summary via CIDRAP:
#PediatricLongCOVID
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The Sick Times: 'Metformin has been shown to reduce the risk of Long COVID. Why isn’t it more widely used?'
Written by Rachel Fairbank
thesicktimes.org/2025/10/28/m...
Written by Rachel Fairbank
thesicktimes.org/2025/10/28/m...
Metformin has been shown to reduce the risk of Long COVID. Why isn’t it more widely used? - The Sick Times
Recent studies add evidence to a prior phase 3 clinical trial, suggesting that taking the diabetes drug during acute COVID-19 reduces the risk of long-term symptoms.
thesicktimes.org
October 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The Sick Times: 'Metformin has been shown to reduce the risk of Long COVID. Why isn’t it more widely used?'
Written by Rachel Fairbank
thesicktimes.org/2025/10/28/m...
Written by Rachel Fairbank
thesicktimes.org/2025/10/28/m...
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Children and teens who had a Covid reinfection had a doubling of #LongCovid risk (PASC) and a significant increase in many other adverse outcomes (Figure) www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
September 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Children and teens who had a Covid reinfection had a doubling of #LongCovid risk (PASC) and a significant increase in many other adverse outcomes (Figure) www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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NEW: Long Covid risk for children doubles after a second infection, study finds www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/h...
Long Covid Risk for Children Doubles After a Second Infection, Study Finds
www.nytimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:39 PM
NEW: Long Covid risk for children doubles after a second infection, study finds www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/h...
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Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury revisit their classic story of a family going on a bear hunt (encountering many obstacles along the way) — and preview their new one, Oh Dear, Look What I Got!
Squelch squerch! Stumble trip! Tiptoe! — 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt'
Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury revisit their classic story of a family going on a bear hunt (encountering many obstacles along the way) — and preview their new one, Oh Dear, Look What I Got!
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August 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury revisit their classic story of a family going on a bear hunt (encountering many obstacles along the way) — and preview their new one, Oh Dear, Look What I Got!
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Cam Schlittler is the first Yankee rookie starting pitcher to be perfect thru 6 innings since Fritz Peterson on July 4, 1966.
August 21, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Cam Schlittler is the first Yankee rookie starting pitcher to be perfect thru 6 innings since Fritz Peterson on July 4, 1966.
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Gal Gadot’s powerful words remain timeless in the fight against antisemitism. 🇮🇱🤍
August 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Gal Gadot’s powerful words remain timeless in the fight against antisemitism. 🇮🇱🤍
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Arab League issues first condemnation of October 7 and urges Hamas to disarm
www.thejc.com/news/world/a...
www.thejc.com/news/world/a...
www.thejc.com
July 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Arab League issues first condemnation of October 7 and urges Hamas to disarm
www.thejc.com/news/world/a...
www.thejc.com/news/world/a...
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More evidence that viruses are bad. If you haven't been following @polybiorf.bsky.social you should. There are no good viruses. While infections for many may be "mild", the life long implications are huge. Want to live longer? Avoid viral infections. Many are airborne!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia - Nature
Using a natural experiment that avoids common bias concerns, this study finds that the live-attenuated shingles vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis within a follow-up period of...
www.nature.com
April 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
More evidence that viruses are bad. If you haven't been following @polybiorf.bsky.social you should. There are no good viruses. While infections for many may be "mild", the life long implications are huge. Want to live longer? Avoid viral infections. Many are airborne!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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USA: "As much as we want to put it behind us, COVID-19 isn’t going away. Cases are currently rising across the country in a summer surge."
"Omicron variants still account for all new infections in the U.S., with NB.1.8.1 responsible for 43% of cases as of the end of June."
Source: archive.md/GxdcE
"Omicron variants still account for all new infections in the U.S., with NB.1.8.1 responsible for 43% of cases as of the end of June."
Source: archive.md/GxdcE
July 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
USA: "As much as we want to put it behind us, COVID-19 isn’t going away. Cases are currently rising across the country in a summer surge."
"Omicron variants still account for all new infections in the U.S., with NB.1.8.1 responsible for 43% of cases as of the end of June."
Source: archive.md/GxdcE
"Omicron variants still account for all new infections in the U.S., with NB.1.8.1 responsible for 43% of cases as of the end of June."
Source: archive.md/GxdcE
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🚨 Calling all dog behavior & cognition researchers - ManyDogs Project is launching ManyDogs 2!
🔍🐕🦺We're studying overimitation: Do dogs copy irrelevant actions just b/c their favorite human does them?
Email [email protected] to collaborate globally and contribute to reproducible science!
🔍🐕🦺We're studying overimitation: Do dogs copy irrelevant actions just b/c their favorite human does them?
Email [email protected] to collaborate globally and contribute to reproducible science!
July 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
🚨 Calling all dog behavior & cognition researchers - ManyDogs Project is launching ManyDogs 2!
🔍🐕🦺We're studying overimitation: Do dogs copy irrelevant actions just b/c their favorite human does them?
Email [email protected] to collaborate globally and contribute to reproducible science!
🔍🐕🦺We're studying overimitation: Do dogs copy irrelevant actions just b/c their favorite human does them?
Email [email protected] to collaborate globally and contribute to reproducible science!
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Reminder that @longcovidfam.bsky.social is having a pediatric Long COVID Awareness week *this week*. Please see the link below to register!
longcovidfamilies.org/advocacy/ped...
longcovidfamilies.org/advocacy/ped...
Pediatric Long Covid Awareness Week 2025 - Long Covid Families
Kids Deserve Care Recognizing and Responding to Long COVID in Children Stay Informed Get Your T-shirt A Generation at Risk Six million children are living with Long COVID. Their symptoms disrupt memor...
longcovidfamilies.org
July 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Reminder that @longcovidfam.bsky.social is having a pediatric Long COVID Awareness week *this week*. Please see the link below to register!
longcovidfamilies.org/advocacy/ped...
longcovidfamilies.org/advocacy/ped...
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Just DO it. It is like pulling teeth dealing with some.
“If HCWs wear N95 respirators and surgical masks throughout [the treatment], the total infection risk can be reduced by 94.7 % and 53.9 %, respectively.”
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Transmission of respiratory infectious diseases based on real close contact behavior in an emergency room
The risk of transmission of respiratory infectious diseases in emergency rooms is high, posing a severe threat to the health of healthcare workers (HC…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Just DO it. It is like pulling teeth dealing with some.
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Ellen Furlong on training self-control in dogs: using a variety of inhibitory control tasks (cylinder, middle cup, A not B, V-detour) w pre-/post- tests, and a down stay training vs. control, found no effect of training. Yet trainers believe. Effect of training on owner?
#ABS2025 #CanineScience 🐶
#ABS2025 #CanineScience 🐶
July 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Ellen Furlong on training self-control in dogs: using a variety of inhibitory control tasks (cylinder, middle cup, A not B, V-detour) w pre-/post- tests, and a down stay training vs. control, found no effect of training. Yet trainers believe. Effect of training on owner?
#ABS2025 #CanineScience 🐶
#ABS2025 #CanineScience 🐶
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My paper on brain-behavior differences in premodern and modern breed dogs is officially published — and my dog Tamsin made the cover! 🐶 🧠 www.jneurosci.org/content/45/2...
July 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
My paper on brain-behavior differences in premodern and modern breed dogs is officially published — and my dog Tamsin made the cover! 🐶 🧠 www.jneurosci.org/content/45/2...
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Functional assessments of short-term spatial memory in the Dog Aging Project identify strong associations with age that are not moderated by body mass https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.30.662397v1
July 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Functional assessments of short-term spatial memory in the Dog Aging Project identify strong associations with age that are not moderated by body mass https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.30.662397v1
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I should also let you know that if you read papers in other languages, you will find that school closures are still happening due to COVID, flu and many other diseases. Only wild exceptionalism is driving our need to ignore what kids are going through due to illness…
June 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I should also let you know that if you read papers in other languages, you will find that school closures are still happening due to COVID, flu and many other diseases. Only wild exceptionalism is driving our need to ignore what kids are going through due to illness…
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It's a preprint, but this also suggests COVID damage may reactivate latent viruses. Given CMV is the same family as VZV, I wonder if this suggests increasing cases of shingles to come. Might be a good idea to get a shingles vaccine if you haven't.
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...
Risk factors for cytomegalovirus reactivation and disease in critically-ill COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients, concomitantly admitted to intensive care
Background Critically-ill patients are at increased risk for cytomegalovirus (CMV) reactivation, associated with adverse clinical outcomes. Given the surge in intensive care unit (ICU) admissions duri...
www.researchsquare.com
June 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
It's a preprint, but this also suggests COVID damage may reactivate latent viruses. Given CMV is the same family as VZV, I wonder if this suggests increasing cases of shingles to come. Might be a good idea to get a shingles vaccine if you haven't.
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...
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JAMA Pediatrics published a patient info page about Long COVID in children… “Long COVID is common, affecting up to 10 to 20 per cent of children with a history of COVID-19. … this is higher than the number of children with asthma…”
TY @blakemurdoch.bsky.social !
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
TY @blakemurdoch.bsky.social !
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Opinion: UCP's COVID vaccine cuts put children at serious risk
A policy of ending pediatric COVID vaccination will disable, hospitalize and even kill Albertan children, leaving blood on Smith’s hands.
edmontonjournal.com
June 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
JAMA Pediatrics published a patient info page about Long COVID in children… “Long COVID is common, affecting up to 10 to 20 per cent of children with a history of COVID-19. … this is higher than the number of children with asthma…”
TY @blakemurdoch.bsky.social !
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
TY @blakemurdoch.bsky.social !
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
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How did it get to this place where now toddlers have long covid. Absolute nonsense that it didn’t harm children and now that we know it does, still nothing is being done.
How did it get to this place where now toddlers have long covid. Absolute nonsense that it didn’t harm children and now that we know it does, still nothing is being done.
Study Reveals Symptoms Of Long COVID In Young Kids – Here's What To Look Out For
The authors say it’s proof a “one-size-fits-all” approach doesn’t work with this condition.
www.iflscience.com
June 14, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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How did it get to this place where now toddlers have long covid. Absolute nonsense that it didn’t harm children and now that we know it does, still nothing is being done.
How did it get to this place where now toddlers have long covid. Absolute nonsense that it didn’t harm children and now that we know it does, still nothing is being done.
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Children exposed to COVID in utero had developmental delays at age 24 months:
🧠36% cognitive delays
🗣️64% communication delays
🏃57% had motor delays
🧪 Specific developmental delays were related to specific inflammation cytokines found in their cord blood at birth. buff.ly/AQSfBm9
#Medsky #Pedsky 🛟😷
🧠36% cognitive delays
🗣️64% communication delays
🏃57% had motor delays
🧪 Specific developmental delays were related to specific inflammation cytokines found in their cord blood at birth. buff.ly/AQSfBm9
#Medsky #Pedsky 🛟😷
June 13, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Children exposed to COVID in utero had developmental delays at age 24 months:
🧠36% cognitive delays
🗣️64% communication delays
🏃57% had motor delays
🧪 Specific developmental delays were related to specific inflammation cytokines found in their cord blood at birth. buff.ly/AQSfBm9
#Medsky #Pedsky 🛟😷
🧠36% cognitive delays
🗣️64% communication delays
🏃57% had motor delays
🧪 Specific developmental delays were related to specific inflammation cytokines found in their cord blood at birth. buff.ly/AQSfBm9
#Medsky #Pedsky 🛟😷
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I told you we’d be back
June 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I told you we’d be back
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Yes yes yes
AMA Calls for Senate Investigation of RFK Jr.
'We do not want to be on the wrong side of history,' one delegate said
www.medpagetoday.com
June 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Yes yes yes
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Aaron Judge now has 43 career multi-HR games, 4 more than any other player in his first 1,200 games
This is Judge’s 1,057th game
This is Judge’s 1,057th game
June 9, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Aaron Judge now has 43 career multi-HR games, 4 more than any other player in his first 1,200 games
This is Judge’s 1,057th game
This is Judge’s 1,057th game
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Here's a post on how to create a custom masking sound for a sound-phobic dog, particularly one who is afraid of thunder or fireworks. So many products sold to supposedly help such dogs are bogus. This is simple, non-sexy biophysics.
eileenanddogs.com/blog/2025/06...
eileenanddogs.com/blog/2025/06...
Make a Custom Recording for Your Thunder-Phobic Dog - eileenanddogs
There are lots of options for masking scary sounds in your dog's environment. Here's one you may not have thought of.
eileenanddogs.com
June 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Here's a post on how to create a custom masking sound for a sound-phobic dog, particularly one who is afraid of thunder or fireworks. So many products sold to supposedly help such dogs are bogus. This is simple, non-sexy biophysics.
eileenanddogs.com/blog/2025/06...
eileenanddogs.com/blog/2025/06...