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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, don’t confuse COVID w/ tuberculosis. But do consider that part of TB‘s comeback could be related 2 widespread immune system harm from repeated COVID infections. TB is considered an AIDS-defining illness since it often occurs w/ advanced HIV, wherein the immune system is significantly weakened.

Do not confuse common Covid symptom with deadly Victorian disease, experts warn

Cases of TB are on the rise in the UK 🏥

www.scotsman.com

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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 1d

“If our findings translate to humans, this could impact millions of children worldwide, and their families, with major implications for public health…“

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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 1d

”[The study] found that the virus altered molecules in RNA in the fathers' sperm, some of which are "involved in the regulation of genes that are known to be important in brain development… These findings suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic could have long-lasting effects on future generations…”

COVID's Surprising Effect on Sperm May Impact Future Generations

COVID-19 infection causes changes to sperm in mice that may increase anxiety in their offspring, a study released Saturday said, suggesting the pandemic's possibly long-lasting effects on future gener...

www.sciencealert.com

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Ron Chusid @rchusid.bsky.social · 2d

Part of California reinstates mask mandates in healthcare facilities.
#Medsky
www.newsweek.com/mask-mandate...

Mask mandate returns to parts of California

The order in Sonoma County is designed to protect the "most vulnerable populations" in health care facilities during fall and winter.

www.newsweek.com

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VirusSucks.com @virussucks.com · 2d

Children are sicker than ever, struggling in school, experiencing developmental delays, and suffering from immune system dysregulation. #LongCovid is now the number 1 chronic illness in children.

Many peer-reviewed science and legions of experts have called for clean air in public schools.

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VirusSucks.com @virussucks.com · 2d

Long COVID is Now the Number One Chronic Illness in Children

Repeatedly mass infecting kids with COVID is not a public health strategy. It's a fast pass to declining population health.

www.thegauntlet.news/p/long-covid...

Long COVID is Now the Number One Chronic Illness in Children

Repeatedly mass infecting kids with COVID is not a public health strategy. It's a fast pass to declining population health

www.thegauntlet.news

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Don’t Look Up 75 @dontlookup75.bsky.social · 2d

Posting this resource again. If anyone knows of a scientific study that supports society’s behavior toward Covid, please share. Everything I’ve seen points to necessary caution. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/cor...

LitCovid

LitCovid is a curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Sean Mullen, Ph.D. @drseanmullen.bsky.social · 2d

But that wasn’t the point. The point is when measles cases are detected they shut down schools, hospitals and other facilities. They contact trace. They treat it seriously. And measles can wipe immune memory & do lots of horrible shit. But SARS-2 is worse & likely transmits as easily or more so.

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Sean Mullen, Ph.D. @drseanmullen.bsky.social · 2d

Equivalent? None. All viruses carry risk, but nothing works as fast and extends as far as SARS-CoV-2 except some other BSL-3 viruses and higher, BUT we don’t just let them rip through society. We contain them.

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The Haunted Bookshop @bookshopghost.bsky.social · 2d

Another reason we mask: so we don't miss work.

I've been sick once in five years.

(It was OG Omicron, and it laid me out for almost a month. I'm not interested in repeating that.)

Before 2020, I used to miss a day at least twice each year due to respiratory infections. I'm fine with ending that.

Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 3d

US research:

"COVID-19 may have created a new year-round baseline for work absences...similar to influenza season conditions before the pandemic"

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

"Policymakers should consider...policies & actions that mitigate the spread of #COVID19"

#LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver

Key Points
Question Following the COVID-19 pandemic, has SARS-CoV-2 circulation been associated with health-related absences from work and labor force exits?

Findings In this nationally representative cohort study of approximately 158.4 million workers, rates of health-related work absences remained elevated after the pandemic and were associated with circulating SARS-CoV-2 and subsequent decreases in labor force participation by absence-affected workers.

Meaning These findings suggest that COVID-19 may have created a new year-round baseline for work absences that is similar to influenza season conditions before the pandemic; policymakers should consider expanding interventions and data collection efforts to address the negative impacts of COVID-19 on the labor force.

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Don’t Look Up 75 @dontlookup75.bsky.social · 2d

Posting this resource again. If anyone knows of a scientific study that supports society’s behavior toward Covid, please share. Everything I’ve seen points to necessary caution. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/cor...

LitCovid

LitCovid is a curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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PH 🕊️🌱😷 @ph-ph-ph.bsky.social · 2d

‘Even mild cases of COVID-19 can lead to lasting changes in heart rate variability and autonomic function.’

Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 2d

More Bad JuJu for kids and Cøvid.

Cardiovascular health is something we should explore. Dyslipidaemia and endothelial injury aren't isolated to adults!

journals.lww.com/hhmi/fulltex...

journals.lww.com

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Andrea Is Sick of Long Covid @andreastudiescovid.bsky.social · 2d

There was never any reason to believe they would be. While it's true that kids aren't just small adults, it's also true that a human body is a human body, and anything COVID can do to adults, we have to consider it can potentially do to kids. Kids aren't unicorns impervious to biological processes.

Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 2d

More Bad JuJu for kids and Cøvid.

Cardiovascular health is something we should explore. Dyslipidaemia and endothelial injury aren't isolated to adults!

journals.lww.com/hhmi/fulltex...

journals.lww.com

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Moxie Meow @moxiemeow.bsky.social · 2d

Handwashing does BASICALLY NOTHING to prevent covid.

It's airborne. It's spread by breathing in aerosolized water (saliva) particles bearing the SARS-CoV-2 virus, exhaled/coughed/sneezed out by people with Covid.

Masks help with that. Handwashing does not.
bsky.app/profile/elho...

Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 2d

Another article that fails to talk about COViD being predominantly airborne and just focuses on handwashing only. Also again, no mention of #PostInfectionRisk. This is not a normal situation to be failing to prevent airborne infections.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Common cold, flu, Covid: Why is Britain so sick right now?

Why coughs and colds seem to be taking hold currently - and what you can do to protect yourself.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 3d

Study: Neuroimaging findings in children with COVID-19 infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Published: 27 February 2024

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Neuroimaging findings in children with COVID-19 infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Neuroimaging findings in children with COVID-19 infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis

www.nature.com

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 3d

"Abnormal Brain Scans In Children With COVID-19 Revealed In Data From 96 Studies"

"The research underscores how much more we have to learn about what the virus can do to the brain."

Published: February 28, 2024

Source: archive.md/yWzIs

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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · Aug 22

“Immunologists tell me that the average person’s immune system looks different than it did in 2019. That we’re walking around with more inflammation, and with immune systems that don’t work quite as well as they did in the beforetimes (on average).” #COVID

T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · Aug 22

Immunity debt is bullshit. Immunity theft may very well be a significant issue.

canadahealthwatch.ca/newsletter/2...

Plan for a world of post-COVID immune effects

These changes are small, but across tens of millions of people, they add up.

canadahealthwatch.ca

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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 3d

Untreated HIV can take on average around 10 years to progress to AIDS. This means HIV was unknowingly circulating throughout the ‘70s (and likely before). Going by this rough timeline, we won’t know what damage a single COVID infection, let alone several, does long term until around 2030.

Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 3d

The first reports of what would eventually be called AIDS and its causative agent identified as HIV were published in the MMWR in 1981 alerting health care and public health systems across the country. A tremendous loss for public health.

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Tania J. Spencer @taniaspencer.bsky.social · 4d

Courtesy of @1goodtern.bsky.social, via X -

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · 7d

"The pandemic of Covid-19 is over" is a lie.

"Covid-19 is no worse than a cold" is a lie.

"Repeated infections of Covid-19 build immunity" is a lie.

"Covid-19 is not harmful to children" is a lie.

"Because of Covid vaccines, we no longer have to worry about Covid-19" is a lie.

#COVID19

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The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · Aug 22

American Millennials Are Dying At An Alarming Rate, But It’s Only Alarming If You Know About It, And Anyway It’s Totally Not Caused By Covid Infections

Millennials millennialling
Headline:
American Millennials Are Dying At An Alarming Rate, But It’s Only Alarming If You Know About It, And Anyway It’s Totally Not Caused By Covid Infections
Story by Port Chasuban and Silica Weverley

Photo from Adobe

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Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · 5d

2 more Minnesota turkey flocks hit by avian flu.
www.wattagnet.com/poultry-meat...

2 more Minnesota turkey flocks hit by avian flu

The two latest occurrences are in Becker and Kandiyohi counties.

www.wattagnet.com

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Sue Poncin @poncin-sue.bsky.social · 5d

“Over a 3-year follow-up, individuals with C19 infection had significantly higher risks of developing HPV-related cancers compared to those without:
67% increase cervical cancer
131% vaginal cancer
98% vulvar cancer
92% anal cancer
78% in oropharyngeal cancer.”

Still think it’s ’just a cold’?

Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 5d

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40813533/ 🧐

SARS-CoV-2 infection heightens the risk of developing HPV-related carcinoma in situ and cancer - PubMed

SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with elevated risks of HPV-related carcinoma in situ and cancer, irrespective of age or race. The findings underscore the importance of understanding the interplay b...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 7d

Scientists who study Long Covid at a conference. All are wearing N95 masks. source:
x.com/AnciraBecky/...

Becky A Robertson
@AnciraBecky
Scientists who study Long Covid pictured last week wearing N95 respirators.

photo

people sitting in a conference center ballroom with golden chandeliers overhead. they are at long, slender tables draped in black cloth that many are using for laptops or to take notes on paper.

all of the scientists are wearing face masks.

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 7d

A study of 500,000 medical records linked viruses with Alzheimer's again and again

"Those who were hospitalized with pneumonia after catching the flu seemed to be more susceptible to Alzheimer's disease, dementia, Parkinson's disease, and ALS"

www.sciencealert.com/a-study-of-5...

A Study of 500,000 Medical Records Linked Viruses With Alzheimer's Again And Again

A study of around 500,000 medical records published in 2023 suggested that severe viral infections like encephalitis and pneumonia increase the risk of neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and ...

www.sciencealert.com

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