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Kevin Allen
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Dad. Terrible painter, former food microbiology professor (UBC) now living with ME incurred from an mTBI.
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mark-ungrin.bsky.social
🧵(1/n) Some unsolicited advice for the federal @ndp.ca, after several months of trying to get them to acknowledge the existence of the #longCOVID community. Please repost and maybe they'll pay attention.

@ndp.ca enough with the plastic Left™ machine politics, focus grouped BS, and message control.
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January 24, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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dcjohnson.bsky.social
Oil-bought politicians and media outlets tell you wind and solar are bad BECAUSE the electric they produce is almost free.
January 22, 2026 at 9:14 AM
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mark-ungrin.bsky.social
It'd be cool if we could get this trending on #medsky, and maybe get some more people inside the house to understand just how badly medical leadership has sold them out.

#scisky #standupforscience #oneofthetwo #covidisairborne #longCOVID
mark-ungrin.bsky.social Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · Jan 15
The large majority of COVID deaths are attributable to specific clear instances of negligence on the part of medical leaders, made directly against the advice of the world's top scientific experts, and on the basis of an understanding of science that was out of date by nearly a century.
January 15, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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boghuma.bsky.social
The come back of pertussis and Measles is only the beginning of the resurgence of preventable infectious diseases in the US. This has been one of the biggest public health failures of 2025 and the competition is tough.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/30/h...
The US has seen nearly 28,000 whooping cough cases this year. Here’s what you need to know | CNN
For the second year in a row, the US has surpassed 25,000 whooping cough cases — another sign of the risks of falling vaccination levels.
www.cnn.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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timzero4.bsky.social
A bacteriophage (or phage) is a virus that specifically infects and replicates inside bacteria, essentially "eating" them, which makes them the most abundant biological entities on Earth and crucial regulators of bacterial populations.

#science
#bacteriology
December 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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simpson-ian.bsky.social
We were told it wasn't airborne, it was and still is airborne.
moriartylab.bsky.social Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · Dec 22
Canadian COVID Forecast Dec 20, 2025 - Jan 2, 2026

CANADA

HIGH [no change]

About 1 of every 55 people is infected.

Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:

-Infections: 11.0 x higher
-Long COVID: 6.2 x higher
-Hospitalizations: 9.8 x higher
-Deaths: 9.1 x higher
This image describes the Canadian COVID Forecast for the fourteen-day period between Dec 20, 2025 - Jan 2, 2026, which is produced by COVID-19 Resources Canada. Canada’s COVID Forecast outlook is HIGH [no change] with a COVID INDEX SCORE of 10.0 About 1 of every 55 people is infected. Estimated infections this week: 521,500-682,700 What these numbers mean: MODERATE 1-5, HIGH 5-10, VERY HIGH 10-15, SEVERE >15 COMPARED TO THE LOWEST POINT IN THE COVID PANDEMIC IN CANADA How much higher are key indicators compared to the lowest point in the COVID pandemic in Canada? Waste water, infections: VERY HIGH; 11.0X higher Long COVID: HIGH; 6.2X higher Hospitalizations: HIGH; 9.8X higher Deaths: HIGH; 9.1X higher HOW TO HELP: EVERYONE: UPDATE vaccines every 6 months WEAR N95-type masks Who is HIGH RISK? People 60 and older, babies < 1 year, pregnant ALL AGES: immunocompromised OR medically at-risk OR no vaccine or infection in the last 6 months Recommendations are based on the COVID-19 Risk Index from the Peterborough ON Public Health Unit COVID-19 Resources Canada is a grassroots organization of volunteer scientists supporting Canadian COVID responses. Sources, data and methods for the COVID Index are available at www.Covid19Resources.ca
December 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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davidctomkins.bsky.social
This week, Professor James Hansen and colleagues published projections that the global temperature record could reach +1.7°C by 2027.
And if that number lands in your gut the way it landed in mine, good. It should.
#climatecrisis #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/two-yea...
Two Years to 1.7°C: the “Prediction Game” We Can’t Afford to Lose
Australia’s sweltering through another early-summer heatwave, and I’m trying to decide whether to write about the weather outside my window - or the bigger climate system we’re reengineering on this p...
www.lyrebirddreaming.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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davidjoffe64.bsky.social
A graph tells you everything you need to know. The top six have the least impetus for masking in health
December 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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chantzy.bsky.social
Seems fine, mild even?
Excerpt from 2025 study on Covid immune dysfunction Highlights • SARS-CoV-2 causes lasting immune dysregulation for over 20 months. • The impact of SARS-CoV-2 on lymphocytes was especially severe in patients with CVD. • Lymphocyte deficiency is related to long COVID pathogenesis. • Long-term immune dysregulation of long COVID demands tailored treatment.
December 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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castltrastondrs.bsky.social
& persistence #longCOVID symptoms, particularly in highrisk groups like older & those with #CVD
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🧨 The mechanisms underlying the persistent #lymphocyte subset alterations observed in this study
Persistent Attenuation of Lymphocyte Subsets After Mass SARS-CoV-2 Infection
Growing evidence suggests that lymphocyte subsets are declined in COVID-19 patients, but it is unclear if these alterations persist after widespread e…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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simpson-ian.bsky.social
In case you were wondering how far the "it's not airborne aerosol transmission" denial in healthcare would go.

Let's not forget asymptomatic transmission, something that terrifies them so much it's rarely ever mentioned.
catinthehat.bsky.social Cat in the Hat @catinthehat.bsky.social · Dec 5
NHS England: “It will not be possible to halt the spread of a new pandemic virus, and it would be a waste of public health resources and capacity to attempt to do so.”

This has got to be one of the most 🤯 things I’ve ever seen written down in an official document.
December 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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erictopol.bsky.social
New @pnas.org
"This work represents the most extensive study to
date regarding the effect of tattoo ink on the immune response and raises serious health concerns associated with the tattooing" including reduced response to Covid vaccination
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Tattoo ink induces inflammation in the draining lymph node and alters the immune response to vaccination | PNAS
Despite safety concerns regarding the toxicity of tattoo ink, no studies have reported the consequences of tattooing on the immune response. In thi...
www.pnas.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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erincandy.bsky.social
This is the best thing I’ve ever read about PEM. My wedding was amazing but I crashed for weeks and my baseline is lower now.
November 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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mark-ungrin.bsky.social
The walls are closing in on those responsible for the worst medical error in history. There's no denying it was a mistake when they let their egos reject the advice of people who knew better, there's no denying it killed an enormous number of people.

Current WHO ADG: www.spiegel.de/internationa...
DER SPIEGEL: But even the World Health Organization didn't take the spread via aerosols seriously and didn’t issue a warning about it until the autumn of 2020 … Farrar: Yes, you are right, that was a very big mistake. We could have prepared better if bigger decisions would have been made around aerosols, around face masks, around the best treatment options, personal protective equipment for nurses, doctors, about the capacity for intensive care units. That would have saved an enormous number of lives. On the video call, tensions rose. At one point, Lidia Morawska, a revered atmospheric physicist who had arranged the meeting, tried to explain how far infectious particles of different sizes could potentially travel. One of the WHO experts abruptly cut her off, telling her she was wrong, Marr recalls. His rudeness shocked her. “You just don’t argue with Lidia about physics,” she says. Morawska had spent more than two decades advising a different branch of the WHO on the impacts of air pollution. When it came to flecks of soot and ash belched out by smokestacks and tailpipes, the organization readily accepted the physics she was describing—that particles of many sizes can hang aloft, travel far, and be inhaled. Now, though, the WHO’s advisers seemed to be saying those same laws didn’t apply to virus-laced respiratory particles. To them, the word airborne only applied to particles smaller than 5 microns. Trapped in their group-specific jargon, the two camps on Zoom literally couldn’t understand one another. Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwup-that-helped-covid-kill/
November 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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davidjoffe64.bsky.social
🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠

Hard to fix a broken brain.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Interventions for Cognitive Symptoms in Long COVID
This randomized clinical trial investigates if evidence-based rehabilitation strategies improve cognitive symptoms in persons with long COVID.
jamanetwork.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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sabivm.bsky.social
And just like that, we lose our measles elimination status after 27 years. Three decades of work, gone.

www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
Statement from the Public Health Agency of Canada on Canada's Measles Elimination Status From: Public Health Agency of Canada November 10, 2025 The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has notified the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) that Canada no longer holds measles elimination status.
November 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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erictopol.bsky.social
The dysregulated immune system in #LongCovid with #MECFS. with sex-specific changes, increased inflammation (as seen by cells, chemokines and cytokines), and disrupted hormone levels www.cell.com/cell-reports...
November 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
I think about this post every day 🧪
Screenshot of a Tweet pointing out that academic spam is actually in its own way kind of encouraging.
November 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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davidjoffe64.bsky.social
For those up the back who are yet to fully understand the implications of Cøvid related immune dysregulation

Here's a clue

The #Leonardi_Effect is alive and very busy‼️

www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
Frontiers | Transcriptome analysis of classical blood cells reveals downregulation of pro-inflammatory genes in the classical monocytes of long COVID patients
IntroductionDespite extensive research, the pathogenesis and predispositions underlying long COVID (long-term coronavirus disease 2019) remain poorly underst...
www.frontiersin.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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datareport.bsky.social
18 poultry farms in B.C. dealing with avian flu outbreaks.
cfjctoday.com/2025/11/06/1...
18 poultry farms in B.C. dealing with avian flu outbreaks
There are now 18 poultry farms in B.C. that are dealing with outbreaks of avian flu, including one in the City...
cfjctoday.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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erictopol.bsky.social
The collateral benefits of the Covid pandemic response was a marked decrease in airborne and aerosol-transmitted infections via masking and non-pharmaceutical interventions
@science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Collateral effects of COVID-19 pandemic control on the US infectious disease landscape
Using data from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) disease surveillance systems, we sought to quantify the indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the possibilit...
www.science.org
October 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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davidjoffe64.bsky.social
This is the most important paper to demonstrate the endless capacity of COVID to stuff your immune system.

The #Leonardi_Effect is real 🙏🏻

www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...
Frontiers | Distinct characteristics of T cell receptor repertoire associated with the SARS-CoV-2 reinfection
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by SARS-CoV-2, represents one of the most profound global public health challenges in modern history. While T cell immunity is ...
www.frontiersin.org
October 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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solidevidence.bsky.social
Help me out, I’ve got another wastewater virus mystery.

This one really blows my mind.
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October 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social
"COVID-19 continued to cause about the same number of monthly work absences year-round as occurred during peak influenza months, a team that includes Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) researchers has found."

Source: archive.li/z10Zl
A news article from Medical Xpress dated October 20, 2025, titled “Post-pandemic COVID-19 linked with high numbers of workforce absences and exits.” The word “Post” is crossed out and replaced in red text with “Ongoing.” Below the headline, an image shows a woman in a blue sweater holding a tissue to her nose, appearing sick.
October 21, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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"Understanding concussion in #myalgicencephalomyelitis / #chronicfatiguesyndrome: Findings from 2023 National Health Interview study"

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Individuals with #MECFS had 4.89 times greater odds of reporting concussion &...2.86 times greater odds of having fallen
ABSTRACT Background Although myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) symptoms (dysautonomia, dizziness, balance impairments) may theoretically contribute to an association with concussion, the nature of this association has not been determined. This study explored the association between ME/CFS and concussion, as well as risk factors for concussion, history of recent falls, and feelings of being dizzy or off balance. Method 2023 National Health Interview Survey data were utilized. United States adults (unweighted N = 29,373) responded to items regarding sociodemographic factors, ME/CFS status, and history of concussion, falls, and feeling off balance or dizzy. Logistic regression analyses assessed the association between ME/CFS and concussion, falls, and feeling dizziness or balance problems within the past year, adjusting for sociodemographic factors. Results Individuals with ME/CFS had 4.89 times greater odds of reporting concussion in the past year compared to individuals without ME/CFS. Individuals with ME/CFS also had 2.86 times greater odds of having fallen within the past year and 5.88 times greater odds of reporting feeling dizzy or off balance in the past year. Conclusions ME/CFS status may be associated with concussion status. Healthcare practitioners should improve concussion screening and referrals for reducing concussion risk among individuals with ME/CFS.
October 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM