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COVID Chronicles @covidchronicles.bsky.social · 8h

"No Amount of Hand-Washing Can Make COVID-19 a Seasonal Virus"
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"The left image shows that SARS-CoV-2 propagated to most organs, whereas the right image shows that influenza was mostly confined to the liver and lungs"

Source to original in Alt txt.

Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1931312824004384

HA = hemagglutinin, the influenza H1N1 surface protein approximately equivalent to the sars-cov2 spike protein.

Bottom line: Covid is a multi-system disease not only a respiratory disease. That's why Long COVID can be so varied causing at least 200 possible symptoms.

Every time you get COVID, you run the risk of developing Long COVID. It isn't a binary condition, it is multi-systemic injury. That happens every time you catch it to some degree.

We don't know why it cripples some people, only that it does. Vaccines help prevent Long COVID, but not nearly as much as repeat infections increase the risk of it.

There is no cure for Long COVID.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

N95s can prevent more than just Covid!

They stop colds, flus and other airborne illness.

They’re also highly effective against pollen, pollution, wildfire smoke and environmental triggers.

Many maskers haven’t been sick in years.

Respirators are pretty amazing.

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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 1d

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 2d

I'm in a pit of Baseball Despair today and trying to find the positives, and I have to say: there are SO many people I know - friends, family, acquaintances - who had never watched baseball before this year and are now in love with it because of the 2025 Blue Jays. They were something special.

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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 3d

Behold, THIS is how you motivate your troops.
#WorldSeries #MLB #GoJays but also:
#GeneralStrike #Antifa #NoKings
#ElbowsUp

Crisis Management @crisismgmt.bsky.social · 3d

Watching the World Series, one thing is clear: North American pro sports REALLY need to up their chanting game. It's not just pathetic, it's downright irritating.

Meanwhile, in Hamburg… (FC St. Pauli)

#MLB #NBA #NHL #NFL #MLS #BlueJays #Dodgers

(We need to up our window soundproofing too 😳)

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COVID Chronicles @covidchronicles.bsky.social · 3d

This is the best summary you’ll ever read.

Print it.
Repeat it.
Make it go viral.

There is no effective treatment for Long COVID. No good explanation for it, either. And there is but one single way to prevent it:

Don’t.
Catch.
COVID.

Andrea Is Sick of Long Covid @andreastudiescovid.bsky.social · 3d

It's not as if treatment is being withheld from us. There IS no long COVID treatment. The only way not to get long COVID is not to get COVID. Wearing a respirator is your best defense against COVID, better than vaccines which only protect you from severe illness and death from acute infections.

Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 4d

Australia: Nurse among patients calling for better access to long COVID treatment

Former ICU nurse Julie Mirtschen, 43, from Port Macquarie, developed long COVID after back-to-back flu and COVID infections in March 2020.

Researchers say she’s among up to 870,000 Australians living with long COVID.

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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 4d

Saying a single year exceeding 1.5°C warming doesn't mean the Paris Agreement has failed provides as much reassurance as the captain of the Titanic telling passengers that there is an important difference between 'sinking' and 'sunk'.

www.technosphere.earth/derailment-w...

Derailment warning as world faces threats to its ability to act on climate change

We may have seriously underestimated the risks of climate change. This includes derailment risks. This does not mean we are doomed, and it certainly does not mean there is no point in trying to turn o...

www.technosphere.earth

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Your Average Shrink MD @averageshrinkqc.bsky.social · 4d

"Pleurire" : mon nouveau mot depuis 2-3j.

Comme quand @cdubesante.bsky.social confond cardiologues et chirurgiens cardiaques, et qu'on réalise que c'est cette incompétence-là qui nous est imposée par la force, sans aucune intention de reculer.

a man in a pink shirt is crying while sitting down .

ALT: a man in a pink shirt is crying while sitting down .

media.tenor.com

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HoopsHype @hoopshypeofficial.bsky.social · 4d

Cities outside the U.S. that have produced the most NBA players

Toronto: 18
Melbourne: 13
Belgrade: 12
Montreal: 11
Paris: 11

No other foreign city reaches double digits.

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Dan Devine @yourmandevine.bsky.social · 4d

Just saw a kid trick-or-treating as Austin Reaves in Ditmas Park, the movement is real

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COVID Chronicles @covidchronicles.bsky.social · 5d

This is the only take that matters. It’s not about making COVID a boogey man. It’s about clawing our way towards a broader truth. It’s about keeping one another safe from preventable outcomes.

Viruses are not bacteria. There’s no such thing as a benign viral infection. We need #CleanAir. Now.

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COVID Chronicles @covidchronicles.bsky.social · 5d

The difference is humility.

Dogmatic minimizers who tear-down peer-reviewed studies by while offering no explanation for either Long COVID or the spike in Strep A, strokes, MIs since 2020 says a lot:

We don't know; they don't care.

Keep on keeping on. We'll get there.

Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 7d

I mean. I don’t really know either… but it doesn’t look good so far… and reasonable extrapolation from current data makes me think it’s going to result in long term health impacts quite *commonly*.

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COVID Chronicles @covidchronicles.bsky.social · 5d

The difference is humility.

Dogmatic immunologists who tear-down peer-reviewed studies by while offering no explanation for either Long COVID or the spike in Strep A, strokes, MIs since 2020 says a lot:

We don't know; they don't care.

Keep on keeping on. We'll get there.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 7d

I mean. I don’t really know either… but it doesn’t look good so far… and reasonable extrapolation from current data makes me think it’s going to result in long term health impacts quite *commonly*.

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COVID Chronicles @covidchronicles.bsky.social · 5d

The deterioration of scientific rigour continues, unabated.

"Journalists have uncovered a handful of preprint academic studies with hidden prompts instructing A.I. reviewers to give positive responses"

#MedSky #PeerReview #AI

Some Researchers Are Hiding Secret Messages in Their Papers, but They're Not Meant for Humans

Journalists have uncovered a handful of preprint academic studies with hidden prompts instructing A.I. reviewers to give positive responses

www.smithsonianmag.com

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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 5d

TREY! YA SAVAGE!!!
Some people really do live up to their name. #GoJays!

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 5d

Trey Yesavage's pitch count by inning

11
16
20
15
15
12
12
total 101
5-1 Toronto through 7

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La M.E.U.F. 🇨🇦 @lameuf.bsky.social · 5d

Le signe du cygne… c’est parlant! 😉

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Your Average Shrink MD @averageshrinkqc.bsky.social · 5d

* "Chant du cygne"... évidemment. Trop d'énervement pendant que j'écris...

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Your Average Shrink MD @averageshrinkqc.bsky.social · 6d

Ça leur p-è-t-e à la face...

Depuis la COVID Legault charge la barque contre les MD. Des dizaines de personnes mourraient par jour, les MD étaient au bat (avec tout le personnel de soin) et Legault disait que les MD n'en faisaient pas assez.

Qu'ils mangent leur 💩 maintenant! 🤬

Sébastien Poulin @sebpoule.bsky.social · 6d

Loi 2

« Elle-même médecin, la fille de Lionel Carmant pourrait quitter le Québec »

Et voilà! Quand même ton PÈRE ministre n’est pas capable d’expliquer les bienfaits de la Loi 2 et/ou de te convaincre.

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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 6d

Translation:
Doug Ford says he’s ready to ‘roll out the red carpet’ for disgruntled Quebec doctors
Doug Ford prêt à «dérouler le tapis rouge» pour les médecins du Québec www.ledroit.com/actualites/2... via @ledroit.com @tuthanhha.bsky.social

Doug Ford prêt à «dérouler le tapis rouge» pour les médecins du Québec

«Appelez le 1-800-DOUG», a lancé le premier ministre de l’Ontario, Doug Ford, en s’adressant aux médecins du Québec qui envisagent de déplacer leur pratique dans sa province.

www.ledroit.com

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Simon Spichak @spichaksimon.bsky.social · 7d

I might send them something later this week. This fits with the whole way that Long COVID is being underfunded. Recent guidelines also soft endorsed exercise/CBT. If brain retraining is propped up as a solution, then you can justify not funding innovative research.

thesicktimes.org/2025/07/08/e...

Experts call new Canadian Long COVID guidelines “contradictory” and “deeply concerning” - The Sick Times

Guidelines recommend exercise and therapy as treatments, following attempted influence from Paul Garner.

thesicktimes.org

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Andrew Dobbie @a-dobbie11.bsky.social · 7d

I interact with thousands of people with Long COVID daily and not one has fully recovered. The truth is Long COVID is a rollercoaster of symptoms changing day-to-day/week-to-week.
At times I feel good, but recovered? No.

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COVID Chronicles @covidchronicles.bsky.social · 7d

Am I surprised the CBC platformed a former colleague to promote her book in a feel-good fluff piece with no scientific input? No

Or that said colleague is convinced that brain retraining is what healed her? Also no

Because when it comes to Long COVID, there is still far too much we don't know

COVID Chronicles @covidchronicles.bsky.social · 8d

Snake-oil cures are a problem even in regards to something as well understood as cancer—as this 2024 study illustrates—so just imagine the market for something as nebulous as Long COVID. Gill Deacon's experience does not evidence make.

#SaveTheCBC — in this case, from itself. #CdnPoli #MedSky (2/2)

Selling Misleading “Cancer Cure” Books on Amazon: Systematic Search on Amazon.com and Thematic Analysis

Background: While the evidence base on web-based cancer misinformation continues to develop, relatively little is known about the extent of such information on the world’s largest e-commerce website, ...

www.jmir.org

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COVID Chronicles @covidchronicles.bsky.social · 7d

BTW, I wrote to the CBC ombudsman to complain about the damage this piece will incur in a population already being gaslit by incredulous family, employers and uninformed primary care providers. I encourage anyone reading this to do the same: [email protected]

#LongCOVID #BrainRetraining

COVID Chronicles @covidchronicles.bsky.social · 8d

And her alleged cure was a three day workshop on Brain Retraining Therapy. This is a CBC fluff piece to help a former employee promote her book. No Long COVID expert was consulted to discuss phenotypes and the problem with her assessment. It's misinformation repackaged as feel-good anecdote. (1/2)

How former CBC host Gill Deacon emerged from long COVID

Gill Deacon was a familiar voice to CBC Radio listeners in Toronto, but that all came crashing down when she started suffering mysterious and debilitating symptoms. The former Here & Now host opens up...

www.cbc.ca

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COVID Chronicles @covidchronicles.bsky.social · 7d

Excellent point. I included that angle in my citation-stacked letter to the ombudsman.

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