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Public Health Education Platform since 2020.
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MaskTogetherAmerica @togetherwemask.bsky.social · Aug 17
The Layered Approach recognizes that certain strategies might not be accessible or feasible for everyone. More tools provide more options and protection.
—Check out the 14 strategies in our #LongCOVID Defense Guide on #MaskTogetherAmerica’s website: masktogetheramerica.org/layered-char...
Long COVID Defense Guidance The Swiss Cheese Layered Approach recognizes that certain strategies might not be accessible or feasible for everyone. More tools provide more options and protection.    Visual: The virus emoji represents SARS-CoV-2. A slice of Swiss Cheese represents a preventative measure A mouse represents a misinformation spreader There are 14 strategies in our Long COVID Defense Guide, depicted by 14 slices of Swiss Cheese, invaded by mice and viruses: 1.  Check Wastewater Viral Activity Levels in Your Community 2. Wear High-Quality Masks 3. Go Virtual 4. Increase Ventilation + Filtration — Move Events Outdoors with Precautions 5. Isolate + Test When Exposed 6. Isolate + Test When Symptoms Present  7. Stay Up to Date with Vaccines 8. If Infected — Seek Early Treatment and Care 9. Rest, Pause Exercise, Pace Yourself 10. Test Negative Twice 48 hours Apart Before Leaving Isolation 11. Self-Diagnosis for Long COVID 12. Seek Diagnosis and Care From Long COVID Clinics 13. Find Community Support 14. Take Precautions to Prevent Reinfection Read on our website: https://bit.ly/MTA_LCDefenseGuide
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Dr. Angelique Corthals @drcorthals.bsky.social CUNY prof., biomedical scientist, Doctors Without Borders consultant, Scientific Advisor of #MaskTogetherAmerica, helps us understand #LongCOVID based on what scientists have learned so far. Watch full recording: masktogetheramerica.org/blog/masktog...
November 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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“I wear a mask to protect myself and my family.” — Kevin Tarabocchia posed for the camera of @MsJulieSLam.bsky.social to support #MaskTogetherAmerica
Pandemic Documentary Project.
Kevin, wearing glasses, a POWECOM KN95, a blue T-shirt at the New York Comic Con, posed for Julie Lam’s pandemic documentary project.
November 23, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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🚨The #H5N5 infected patient died on Nov 21st.
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🚨The first reported human case of H5N5 #BirdFlu is a hospitalized patient in Grays Harbor County, WA, with symptoms including high fever, confusion, and difficulty breathing. @wadepthealth.bsky.social
doh.wa.gov/newsroom/h5n...
Press release from the Washington State Department of Health announced Nov. 14 that a resident hospitalized earlier this month is the first human to have the H5N5 strain of bird flu, which was previously reported to have been found in animals only. The DOH said the individual is an older adult and has a mixed backyard flock of domestic poultry that was exposed to wild birds.   https://doh.wa.gov/newsroom/h5n5-avian-influenza-confirmed-grays-harbor-county-resident   Graphics of protective equipment such as N95 mask, elastomeric respirator, safety goggles, gloves, coveralls, boots and waterproof apron were added to remind people to protect themselves in high exposure settings. The CDC recommends people who have contact with infected animals to wear PPE. https://www.instagram.com/p/DRQrXpmEW63/?igsh=N3llOTI5bXIzYmtt
November 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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“My partner is going through cancer treatment. Any infection can send him to the ER.”— Katherine, one of several organizers of @makeascenemn.bsky.social shares her insight on prevention with @msjulieslam.bsky.social #MaskTogetherAmerica
Katherine, wearing glasses, a white KN95, and a name tag, posed for Julie Lam’s camera, as shown in the reflection on the mirror behind Katherine.
November 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo got infected during their tour for Wicked for Good! COVID is spreading year round! Long COVID is disabling millions! Stop the spread!
⚠️Test before gathering
⚠️Stay home when sick!
⚠️Wear N95 masks #MaskTogetherAmerica

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Ariana Grande reveals she has COVID right before 'Wicked: For Good' opens in theaters
Ariana Grande reveals she has tested positive for COVID, hours before opening night of 'Wicked: For Good.' The actress will be missing several scheduled appearances with costar Cynthia Erivo.
ew.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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“It’s hard enough when you are an adult having Long COVID, it’s so much harder to watch it in your kids.”—Ann Wallace, Ph.D., NIH RECOVER patient rep shares her stories for #LongCOVID awareness. Watch full presentation: masktogetheramerica.org/blog/masktog...
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November 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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🚨The first reported human case of H5N5 #BirdFlu is a hospitalized patient in Grays Harbor County, WA, with symptoms including high fever, confusion, and difficulty breathing. @wadepthealth.bsky.social
doh.wa.gov/newsroom/h5n...
Press release from the Washington State Department of Health announced Nov. 14 that a resident hospitalized earlier this month is the first human to have the H5N5 strain of bird flu, which was previously reported to have been found in animals only. The DOH said the individual is an older adult and has a mixed backyard flock of domestic poultry that was exposed to wild birds.   https://doh.wa.gov/newsroom/h5n5-avian-influenza-confirmed-grays-harbor-county-resident   Graphics of protective equipment such as N95 mask, elastomeric respirator, safety goggles, gloves, coveralls, boots and waterproof apron were added to remind people to protect themselves in high exposure settings. The CDC recommends people who have contact with infected animals to wear PPE. https://www.instagram.com/p/DRQrXpmEW63/?igsh=N3llOTI5bXIzYmtt
November 20, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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“Imagine your body never gets a break — that’s what #LongCOVID is.” — @AdamVanBavel.bsky.social shared his lived experience during #MaskTogetherAmerica LC Defense Series I on Nov 7, 2025.  Watch the full recording on Youtube and Facebook. masktogetheramerica.org/blog/masktog...
November 19, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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November 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Join us to honor Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social our beloved #MaskTogetherAmerica #KeepMasksinHealthcare community leader who died of an infection at 51 on Nov 14, 2025. R.I.P. Alice. We will carry on as your light shines above us. We won’t give up. www.facebook.com/masktogether...
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Join us to honor Alice Wong @disability_visibility — a fierce luminary in disability justice and recipient of the 2024 MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant”, who served the National Council on...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Kathleen Downes needs help getting out of bed, bathing, and cooking as someone with quadriplegic multiple sclerosis. “I live with my parents, because the state only authorizes care for 35 hours a week.” Now, the government may remove minimum wage and overtime protections for home health workers.
Trump’s Department of Labor Is Trying to Slash Protections for Home Health Workers
Families and workers are waiting to hear whether a rule killing minimum wage and overtime protections will take effect.
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October 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Solenn Tanguy @solenntango.bsky.social @winslowsp.bsky.social shared her lived experience during MaskTogetherAmerica Long COVID Defense Series I, held on Nov 7, 2025. 

Watch the full presentation including 5 Q&A sessions:
👉https://youtu.be/wVRUOBTLR3o
👉https://www.facebook.com/reel/822540570588552
November 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Rest In Power, Leslie Lee III.
Your last words still resonate. The fight goes on. #LongCOVID
A grey elephant in the dark. “Please start taking COVID seriously before more people have to suffer and die.” Leslie Lee III, 9th nov. 2025
November 15, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Taking action to fight erasure of #LongCOVID. Defend health justice for long-haulers. Watch MaskTogetherAmerica Long COVID Defense Series I:
@drcorthals.bsky.social
@solenntango.bsky.social @winslowsp.bsky.social
@adamvanbavel.bsky.social
Ann Wallace
@ancirabecky.bsky.social
(Also on Facebook)
MaskTogetherAmerica Long COVID Defense Series I
YouTube video by MaskTogetherAmerica
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November 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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“Protect myself and others, especially people who are immune compromised.”—Behind the KN95 respirator is Alex Lajas @queenofthering.bsky.social in Pro Wrestling media #MaskTogetherAmerica founder @MsJulieSLam.bsky.social met Lajas when she was tabling for Illustrator Lauren Moran at #NYCC2025. 🔥😷
Alex Lajas, wearing a black KN95 respirator, black T-shirt with graphic and text that says, “Mutant Threat,” tabling for Lauren Moran at New York Comic Con, posed for the pandemic photographic documentary project Julie Lam created for MaskTogetherAmerica.
November 12, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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“I embraced my duckbill N95 identity at school and I credit my N95s, along with vaccinations and air purifiers, with helping me stay healthy!” —Norah Mason teaches special education in a 500-plus person elementary school.
Interviewed by @msjulieslam.bsky.social
Norah Mason is wearing a duckbill N95, glasses and a green T-shirt that has an illustration of a rubber ducky and white and yellow text that says, “This is my Halloween Costume. I’m a Rubber Duck.”
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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A @mgbresearch.bsky.social study suggests that maternal exposure to SARS-CoV-2 in utero was associated with greater odds of a neurodevelopmental diagnosis by age 3 with elevated risk among male offspring and after third-trimester infection.
@greenjrnl.bsky.social :  journals.lww.com/greenjournal...
Sharing a study in Green Journal: “Neurodevelopmental Outcomes of 3-Year-Old Children Exposed to Maternal Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Infection in Utero” by Shook, Lydia L. MD; Castro, Victor MS; Ibanez-Pintor, Laura MD; Perlis, Roy H. MD, MSc; Edlow, Andrea G. MD, MSc @greenjrnl: https://bit.ly/GJ_MaternalC19_Brain Study author Dr. Andrea Edlow told CNN, “These findings highlight that COVID-19, like many other infections in pregnancy, may pose risks not only to the mother, but to fetal brain development.” [https://cnn.it/4ov9S3G ]
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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One of the rare masked people at the airport, and probably the only one on the flight to #ASTMH meeting. I can’t understand people. #MaskUp Protect others as well as yourself
Me in an Envo mask
November 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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I just listened to the segment with @adamvanbavel.bsky.social and I'm nearly crying at how hard it is for him and other #LongCOVID patients. Their issues have exposed a lot of long-standing problems with the US healthcare system that we are not still not dealing with. Nobody deserves this.
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🔥 No, Dr. Oz, COVID-19 hasn’t passed us. #LongCOVID is a global crisis. Join Long COVID Defense forum: Nov 7, 2025, 5:00 to 8:30pm EST featuring:
@drcorthals.bsky.social
@solenntango.bsky.social
@adamvanbavel.bsky.social
Ann Wallace
@ancirabecky.bsky.social
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Visual: At the Long COVID March in 2023 at the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, wearing their masks together, MaskTogetherAmerica founder Julie Lam, Dr. Marjorie Roberts, Dr. Angelique Corthals and Dr. Robi Tamargo, held up the Long COVID banner with a message from MaskTogetherAmerica that demands the U.S. Government to invest in “Mitigation + Patient Care + Awareness + Research Funding” to Support Long Haulers.    Headline: “COVID-19 hasn’t passed!” Long COVID Defense Series I November 7, 5:00pm - 8:30pm EST Five Q&A sessions on Long COVID akers: Solenn Tanguy: 5:00 - 5:40pm Dr. Angelique Corthals 5:45 - 6:30pm Adam Van Bavel: 6:35 -7:05 pm Ann Wallace: 7:10 - 7:40pm Becky Ancira Robertson: 7:40pm - 8:10pm   Title: Long COVID Defense Series I November 7, 5:00pm - 8:30pm EST Support Long Haulers | MaskTogetherAmerica Please register to join: https://bit.ly/Join_LCDefenseS1 Read on our website: https://masktogetheramerica.org/blog/masktogetheramerica-long-covid-defense-series-i-featuring-5-virtual-q-a-sessions  
November 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Hey all, happy Friday! @togetherwemask.bsky.social is hosting a Long COVID Defense Forum TODAY at 2pm PT / 5 pm ET with some terrific guests including Solenn Tanguy, Dr. Angelique Corthals, Adam Van Bavel, Ann Wallace, and Becky Ancira Robertson. We're excited to hear from all of them!
Long COVID Defense Series I Friday, November 7, from 5:00 to 8:30 pm EST Speakers: Solenn Tanguy, 5:00 PM EST Dr. Angelique Corthals, 5:45 PM EST Adam Van Bavel, 6:35 PM EST Ann Wallace, 7:10 PM EST Becky Ancira Robertson, 7:40 PM EST Registration required: bit.ly/Join_LCDefenseS1
November 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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It's tonight, see you all soon.
MaskTogetherAmerica Long COVID Defense Series I featuring 5 virtual Q&A sessions | Mask Together America —Please register!
masktogetheramerica.org/blog/masktog...
#LongHaulers #LongCOVID #CovidIsNotOver
November 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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We might be small as a group, but we have courage here! We stand with the marginalized community suffering from #LongCOVID. We are determined to help the general public learn about the long term outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 infections. Please register: masktogetheramerica.org/blog/masktog...
November 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
togetherwemask.bsky.social
🔥 No, Dr. Oz, COVID-19 hasn’t passed us. #LongCOVID is a global crisis. Join Long COVID Defense forum: Nov 7, 2025, 5:00 to 8:30pm EST featuring:
@drcorthals.bsky.social
@solenntango.bsky.social
@adamvanbavel.bsky.social
Ann Wallace
@ancirabecky.bsky.social
masktogetheramerica.org/blog/masktog...
Visual: At the Long COVID March in 2023 at the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, wearing their masks together, MaskTogetherAmerica founder Julie Lam, Dr. Marjorie Roberts, Dr. Angelique Corthals and Dr. Robi Tamargo, held up the Long COVID banner with a message from MaskTogetherAmerica that demands the U.S. Government to invest in “Mitigation + Patient Care + Awareness + Research Funding” to Support Long Haulers.    Headline: “COVID-19 hasn’t passed!” Long COVID Defense Series I November 7, 5:00pm - 8:30pm EST Five Q&A sessions on Long COVID akers: Solenn Tanguy: 5:00 - 5:40pm Dr. Angelique Corthals 5:45 - 6:30pm Adam Van Bavel: 6:35 -7:05 pm Ann Wallace: 7:10 - 7:40pm Becky Ancira Robertson: 7:40pm - 8:10pm   Title: Long COVID Defense Series I November 7, 5:00pm - 8:30pm EST Support Long Haulers | MaskTogetherAmerica Please register to join: https://bit.ly/Join_LCDefenseS1 Read on our website: https://masktogetheramerica.org/blog/masktogetheramerica-long-covid-defense-series-i-featuring-5-virtual-q-a-sessions  
November 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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COVID-19 is spreading again — how serious is it and what are the symptoms?
Limited COVID-19 surveillance data are hampering vaccination and health strategies, researchers say.
By Katie Kavanagh
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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COVID-19 is spreading again — how serious is it and what are the symptoms?
Limited COVID-19 surveillance data are hampering vaccination and health strategies, researchers say.
www.nature.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Not alone masking against COVID and the flu on the MTA bus in NYC. The driver and some passengers are keeping me company. ✌️😷 @nychealthy.bsky.social
@togetherwemask.bsky.social
@mta.info
Julie, founder of MaskTogetherAmerica, wearing a flomask, riding the bus. Her CO2 monitor shows 1898ppm, far exceeded the acceptable indoor air quality level set by the CDC.
November 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM