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Dame Sa

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Long Covid sufferer since 2020. #FBLC Will mostly be banging on about #Covid and #LongCovid and criticising governments for their diabolical public health policies. #CleanAir https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700304

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Dame Sa @damesa.bsky.social · Nov 14

I suffered organ damage & long-term health issues from Covid.

People be like:

IT’S VACCINES!
👉 I got Covid in March 2020.
Pre-vaccines.

👉 YOU WERE OLD OR SICK!
I was 39, fit & healthy.
(Not that it should matter.)

👉 IT’S RARE!
Over 100 million worldwide.
That we know about.
So far.

#LongCovid

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Dame Sa @damesa.bsky.social · Mar 11

‪“12 months after SARS-CoV-2 infection, around 7 % of children and young people report ‘brain fog’ i.e., cognitive impairment.”‬

‪#LongCovidKids‬

‪https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889159124003891‬

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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · Mar 10

Pharmacy Times: 'New Research Sheds Light on Link Between Leukocyte Count and Long COVID Symptom Severity'

New research findings, published in Menopause, shed light into the mechanisms behind the sustained COVID symptoms many patients experience in..long COVID

www.pharmacytimes.com/view/new-res...

New Research Sheds Light on Link Between Leukocyte Count and Long COVID Symptom Severity

In older postmenopausal women, leukocyte count was found to be an independent predictor of long COVID symptom severity, highlighting its potential for use as a novel symptom biomarker.

www.pharmacytimes.com

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✨ Soft Grit Spoonie ✨ @softgritspoonie.bsky.social · Mar 10

#chronicillness #chronicillnessmemes #chronicillnesscommunity #spoonie #spooniememes #spooniesky #medsky

Tweet by autoimmunestrg
As a person living with chronic illness, I am so accustomed to being doubted, to being called a hypochondriac, that I have learned to distrust my own symptoms and to doubt myself too. I am now working to unlearn that doubt and trust myself first and foremost

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Mar 10

Being an asshole has consequences.

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · Mar 11

Cardiologists seeing more cases of POTS since the start of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

"Dr Hong said the condition can be debilitating, with symptoms like dizziness, fainting, brain fog, shortness of breath and even gastrointestinal issues."

Cardiologists seeing more cases of POTS since the start of the COVID-19 Pandemic

POTS is a condition that disrupts the body's ability to regulate blood flow while changing positions. Dr. Charles Hong says they have seen a sharp rise since COVID.

www.wzzm13.com

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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · Mar 11

March 10, 2025 - Five years ago today - On the Eve of the COVID-19 Pandemic, the World Had No Idea What Was Coming...
(A graphic I saved from that day...)
Today we have over 777 million cases and over 7 million deaths, and the COVID-19 pandemic is still not over.

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Canadian Covid Society @cancovsoc.bsky.social · Mar 10

It’s Long Covid Awareness Week, and we need governments to make long Covid a priority. So we’re asking YOU to send a letter to your federal and provincial/territorial representatives, urging them to fund long Covid awareness, research, and support.
#ILCAD2025 #LongCovidAwarenessDay
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Graphic of phone with email app open and letter advocating for long Covid funding and support. Text in circle reads: “Send a letter today!”

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Dame Sa @damesa.bsky.social · Mar 11

“Children are increasingly starting primary school struggling to talk”

Well it can’t be lockdowns - many of the kids that started school last September weren’t even born!

So can we start addressing the elephant in the room: Covid brain damage.

#LongCovidKids

www.independent.co.uk/news/educati...

Children are starting primary school struggling to communicate, teachers have warned

Warnings over declining language skills come as early years organisations publish list of things a child should be able to do before they start reception

www.independent.co.uk

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · Mar 10

It's official: The lunatics are now running the asylum.

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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · Mar 10

MPR News: Osterholm predicted a pandemic for years. Then the battle against COVID-19 became personal

'So many people simultaneously experiencing long COVID, Osterholm said..new effort being made to understand these immune system responses that are just out of whack"

www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

Osterholm predicted a pandemic for years. Then the battle against COVID-19 became personal

Five years ago, news of a fast-spreading respiratory virus was making headlines in the United States. In Minnesota, public health expert Michael Osterholm was keeping close tabs.

www.mprnews.org

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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · Mar 10

Gift link 👇

mimiishere.bsky.social @mimiishere.bsky.social · Mar 10

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

30 Charts That Show How Covid Changed Everything in March 2020 (Gift Article)

It can be easy to forget, or look away from, the pain and disruption of the pandemic. The numbers will be there to remind us.

www.nytimes.com

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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · Mar 10

Climate change.

Tyler K. Stroud @stroudarian.bsky.social · Mar 8

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Dame Sa @damesa.bsky.social · Mar 10

‘They got COVID-19 five years ago, and they don’t know why they’re still sick'

Gansler, an academic advisor at Michigan State University: “I struggled to find support in the medical community, and I had to do a lot of my own research."

#LongCovid

www.mlive.com/news/2025/03...

They got COVID-19 five years ago, and they don’t know why they’re still sick

Two long-haulers share insights on managing post-COVID conditions, emphasizing gradual improvement and self-care strategies.

www.mlive.com

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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · Mar 10

Michigan Live: 'They got COVID-19 five years ago, and they don’t know why they’re still sick'

Gansler, an academic advisor at Michigan State University: “I struggled to find support in the medical community, and I had to do a lot of my own research."

www.mlive.com/news/2025/03...

They got COVID-19 five years ago, and they don’t know why they’re still sick

Two long-haulers share insights on managing post-COVID conditions, emphasizing gradual improvement and self-care strategies.

www.mlive.com

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · Mar 8

The demand for the measles vaccine is so high in Texas that they are now RUNNING OUT of them. I have always said it would come to this. Science will always exist. Politics will never usurp it.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Texas cities run short of MMR vaccine as measles outbreak drives demand

Pharmacies are struggling with supplies as fatal outbreak expands and health secretary sows disinformation

www.theguardian.com

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Infectious Diseases @infectiousdz.bsky.social · Mar 9

More Measles

Maryland reports a new case linked to international travel—not connected to the Texas/New Mexico outbreak.

Potential exposures:
- Dulles International Airport (arrivals baggage claim)
- Johns Hopkins Howard County Pediatric ER

health.maryland.gov/newsroom/Pag...

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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · Mar 9

Happy International Women's Day especially to the amazing women in the Long Covid and chronic illness community. A special thought for the patient advocates/researchers who are doing so much heavy lifting for LC recognition, sometimes with little help or recognition. Thanks 🌸

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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · Mar 9

“Five years on from COVID, one survivor reflects on having to fight for his life”

“He knows that he will live with the long-term health complications from COVID for the rest of his life”

www.coastfm.co.uk/news/uk/five...

Five years on from COVID, one survivor reflects on having to fight for his life

Mark Hammersley is a survivor. Standing in the Welsh sun, smiling broadly with an outreaching hand to welcome me, he looks the picture of good health. 

www.coastfm.co.uk

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John Dupuis @dupuisj.bsky.social · Mar 8

Kids keep getting sicker as evidence for COVID immune damage builds by @juliadoubleday.bsky.social www.thegauntlet.news/p/kids-keep-...

Kids keep getting sicker as evidence for COVID immune damage builds

As the press pushes "immunity debt" past the breaking point of believability, are parents ready to wake up to the illness crisis?

www.thegauntlet.news

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Alastair McAlpine, MD @alastairmca30.bsky.social · Mar 8

Please don’t have “measles parties.”

Even for kids who fully recover, measles is a miserable experience.

And a substantial number will have complications.

Just get vaccinated instead.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · Mar 9

To the men who spent today mansplaining, harassing & talking down to me… thanks for showing us WHY we still need an International Women’s Day.

If you’re coming into the posts of women sharing their experiences & advocating for equality just to demean and agitate… you’re 100% part of the problem.

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · Mar 9

Telling a disabled person who can’t work that they will be punished with if they don’t work… is like saying to an average non-disabled person they will have their pay withheld if they can’t run a 4 minute mile…

Utterly meaningless and impossible to achieve.

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Dr. Genevieve Eastabrook, MD FRCSC (she/her) @placentadoc.bsky.social · Mar 9

Kids keep getting sicker as evidence for COVID immune damage builds

“As the press pushes "immunity debt" past the breaking point of believability, are parents ready to wake up to the illness crisis?”

Kids keep getting sicker as evidence for COVID immune damage builds

As the press pushes "immunity debt" past the breaking point of believability, are parents ready to wake up to the illness crisis?

www.thegauntlet.news

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Mar 9

Fact-check: True

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Voices for Vaccines @voices4vaccines.bsky.social · Mar 9

"She would say that her brain felt as if a part of it was missing and asked me to check her skull for indentations."

The lasting trauma of measles encephalitis. www.voicesforvaccines.org/measles-and-...

Measles and My Sister

At the end of February 1960, my sister, a precocious, healthy child was halfway through the fourth grade in Rockland County when she contracted measles from one of her classmates who lived right down…

www.voicesforvaccines.org

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