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Don’t Inhale Virus
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My profile picture honors Dr Wu Lien-teh & his pioneering work in Malaysia in 1910 on masking to prevent pneumonic plague. The French doctor Gérald Mesny who came to replace Dr Wu thought he knew better, refused to mask & died.
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myrabatchelder.bsky.social
COVID is not over. If you want to protect against getting sick, get vaccinated, wear a mask, and take steps to improve air ventilation and filtration. #SwissCheeseModel #VaxPlus
December 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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mark-ungrin.bsky.social
NB this is not just a UK thing. Here's what UBC was teaching medical students up until mid 2024 (when they removed 👉the explanation only👈 after I let them know how badly out of date they were).

The apprenticeship model cannot process science that conflicts with received wisdom from senior docs.
mark-ungrin.bsky.social Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · Mar 17
You laugh, but these people live in a totally different world already. Everything is memorized special cases and they just don't get the concept of mechanism at all. This is what UBC (in Henry-land) has been teaching its med students for years 👉in their PPE training👈 - no wonder they're clueless:
Misinformation taught to medical students at UBC as part of their PPE training, reading: "Why aren't N95 respirators recommended for non-AGMPs involving COVID-19-suspected or -confirmed patients? Respiratory viruses, including COVID-19 viruses, are usually transported in large particle droplets (>5μm), which tend to fall rapidly to the ground, travelling only 1-3ft after being expelled into the air through sneezing, coughing, or exhaling (droplet transmission). These droplets can only infect others if they are loaded with infectious particles and if they contact another individual’s eyes, nose, or mouth. droplet transmission While N95 respirators can act as a physical barrier between the mouth and infectious droplets, they also filter the air of aerosolized infectious particles, a function which is not necessary for protection against droplet transmission. For this reason, N95 respirators offer no advantage over surgical/procedural masks for droplet transmission, and surgical/procedure masks with eye protection (face shield or goggles) are deemed sufficient when providing non-aerosolized care for a person suspected or confirmed with COVID-19."
November 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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mikehoney.bsky.social
Some encouraging news from Japan, where their wave of "clade K" looks quite short and sharp. Note they did pre-emptively return to masking in healthcare settings, well before the wave peaked.
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December 7, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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wendyorent.bsky.social
I don’t think all the people talking about shingles today appear to know about valacyclovir. It’s an antiviral. You must get on it within 72 hours. It’s a life-changing drug. People need to practice shingles awareness at any age, and even if they’re vaccinated. Breakthrough infections are a thing.
December 9, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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anderbergskan.bsky.social
Swedish #LongCovid patient org have just taken the "department of health" to court, for among many things, refusing to take in global science, to trying to give health care the wrong (it is all in your head) idea about Covid.
Patients won on some counts. Hopefully for the better.
December 9, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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thatingrid.bsky.social
I don't think I'll ever get over the moral injury of seeing cancer patients, their carers and almost all their health care professionals walking around with no masks.
December 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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tryangregory.bsky.social
And yes, there absolutely were people like this when there were calls to clean drinking water, develop safety standards for cars, remove asbestos, ban smoking, and every other public health measure ever.
December 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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mark-ungrin.bsky.social
How many times do we have to be right about what's going on before everyone recognizes the link with the huge conflicts of interest held by the public health and infection control leaders minimizing the impacts of airborne diseases like flu and COVID, and pretending nothing can be done about them?
December 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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toshiakima.bsky.social
Remember there is no reason for alarm. You can easily protect yourself with a well-fitted respirator. Back it up with air filtration and vaccination.
A doctor wearing an N95 respirator
December 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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dont-inhale-virus.bsky.social
Masking in a children's hospital reduced infections from 7.1 to 2.6 per 10,000 patient-days, with a regression back to 7.1 when the mask requirement was lifted: cambridge.org/core/journal...
Healthcare-associated respiratory viral infections after discontinuing universal masking | Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology | Cambridge Core
Healthcare-associated respiratory viral infections after discontinuing universal masking - Volume 45 Issue 2
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December 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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deonandan.bsky.social
-89% of American CHILDREN who DIED of the flu in 2024-25 were also UNVACCINATED

Given a flu vaccine uptake rate of 49.2% in eligible kids, this means... an unvaccinated child was about 7.8 times more likely to die from influenza than was a vaccinated child.

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Influenza-Associated Pediatric Deaths ...
This report describes pediatric deaths during the 2024–25 influenza season.
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December 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Emerging and underrecognized viral triggers of autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic disease flares

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Emerging and underrecognized viral triggers of autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic disease flares - Nature Reviews Rheumatology
In this Review, the authors summarize the potential role of emerging viruses in autoimmune rheumatic diseases (AIRDs). They describe the association between viruses and AIRD flare ups, the putative me...
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December 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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solidevidence.bsky.social
Today, there is a person in Lincoln, NE that has had COVID for at least 4.5 years (probably in their GI tract) that almost certainly does not know they are infected.

We see the lineage every week. It would be easy to track them, at least from a technical perspective.

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December 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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dont-inhale-virus.bsky.social
Both are necessary.

N95s are excellent source control, reducing exhaled viral load 98%: www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...

Vaccination reduces severity and frequency of infection, but vaccinated & unvaccinated have comparable viral load, including asymptomatic: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Relative efficacy of masks and respirators as source control for viral aerosol shedding from people infected with SARS-CoV-2: a controlled human exhaled breath aerosol experimental study
These results suggest that N95 respirators could be the standard of care in nursing homes and healthcare settings when respiratory viral infections are prevalent in the community and healthcare-associ...
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December 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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maryfernando.bsky.social
What foods should you eat during flu season?

OMG!

Get your flu vaccine, wear a N95 in high risk situations and clean your air because food doesn’t protect you against a virus.

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apsphysiology.bsky.social American Physiological Society @apsphysiology.bsky.social · 4d
What foods should you be eating this cold and flu season? Experts say beef, bell peppers, broccoli, oranges, pears and fermented foods might help boost your immune system. Learn why from Newsweek: https://ow.ly/fw7r50XCNyV #ISpyPhysiology 🧪
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Person wrapped tightly in a beige comforter sitting on a white couch surrounded by crumpled tissues on a wooden floor.
December 6, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
This is a fucking nightmare and right now I am very, very angry with the people who put Trump back in office.

More and more kids are going to die from preventable diseases.

As I have said for months, RFK Jr. has more power to singlehandedly kill more Americans than any other cabinet secretary.
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Begins Process to Align U.S. Core Childhood Vaccine Recommendations with Best Practices from Peer, Developed Countries
ALIGNING THE CHILDHOOD VACCINE SCHEDULE WITH INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICES: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum to begin the
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December 6, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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petermorley.bsky.social
I got this my inbox from Medicare. I definitely don't want to take advice to "stay healthy" from a snake oil salesman.

This looks like a promo for a television show I'd NEVER watch!
From medicare.gov, Dr. Oz advice on how you can "stay healthy" .
December 2, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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luckytran.com
Not acknowledging World AIDS Day and engaging in COVID revisionism are straight from the eugenics playbook. One of the most effective ways of making people invisible is by erasing their history.
December 2, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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brownecfm.bsky.social
5 years 11 months ago, I become very concerned.

5 years 10 months ago, I wander my city, dazed, knowing what's going to happen soon.

5 years 9 months ago, I read an email that suggests anosmia is a symptom. I decide to do everything I can to not get infected. Still doing so.
health.bnonews.com BNO News (Health) @health.bnonews.com · 9d
6 years ago today: A man in Wuhan, China starts feeling ill, becoming the first confirmed case of COVID-19
December 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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mcboingboing.bsky.social
And note: the dr. is wearing an N95 mask, not a leaky surgical mask, which allows airborne virus to flow freely in and out, and the surgical mask's material does not protect against viruses.
3M Aura model 9210 has elastic straps (not the rubber ones that catch and pull your hair). Link in next post
nilikm.bsky.social Dr Nili Kaplan-Myrth, MD PhD @nilikm.bsky.social · 14d
Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
Positive Covid-19 result for a patient this morning - reasons abound to mask in health care
November 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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nilikm.bsky.social
Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
Positive Covid-19 result for a patient this morning - reasons abound to mask in health care
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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diane.dianeduane.com
There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening.

I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."

HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
jessdkant.bsky.social Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 14d
A third infant has died in Kentucky, KYDPH adds:

“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”

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Kentucky Public Health KENTUCKY HEALTH ALERT Increase in Pertussis in Kentucky Recommendations for Identification and Prevention November 21, 2025 Kentucky health officials are alerting providers that cases of pertussis ("whooping cough") have increased steadily across the Commonwealth in recent weeks. To date, 566 cases of pertussis have been reported in Kentucky in 2025, the highest number of cases in the Commonwealth since 2012. This follows a trend that was first announced in July 2024 when pertussis cases began increasing in Kentucky to levels not seen in over a decade. Health officials anticipate that pertussis will continue to increase during the winter months based on historic trends. Many U.S. states and other countries are also experiencing elevated levels of pertussis. Many of the recent cases have occurred in young infants, and health officials also recently confirmed the third pertussis-related death in a Kentucky infant within the last year. This follows two other infant deaths that were announced in June. These are Kentucky's first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy. Health officials urge all Kentuckians to remain up to date on recommended pertussis immunizations and emphasize the importance of maternal immunization during pregnancy, and for all infants beginning promptly at two months of age. Health officials also encourage providers to consider pertussis as a diagnosis in addition to circulating seasonal respiratory viruses such as influenza, RSV and COVID-19. A significant number of cases have also occurred in school-aged children, many of whom were up to date on pertussis vaccination. Immunity from vaccination or natural infection wanes over time so infections can occur in people who are fully vaccinated. However, the vaccine is known to reduce disease severity, and hospitalization among vaccinated individuals is rare. The Kentucky Dep… Kentucky Public Health regularly in Kentucky, however an increase beyond the expected background rate has been reported in recent weeks. Though pertussis vaccination (DTaP or Tdap) is available and widely implemented, B. pertussis continues to spread in the U.S. due to lack of vaccination or timely boosters, the lack of lifelong immunity from vaccination or natural infection and the long duration of infectiousness in untreated cases. Symptoms of pertussis usually begin with a runny or congested nose, a low-grade fever, and mild coughing; apnea/stopping breathing can also occur in infants. After one to two weeks, the cough can progress to rapid, violent (paroxysmal) coughing fits that can cause the "whooping" sound, vomiting or labored breathing. Young children are the most severely affected; most teens and adults will have mild symptoms. People with preexisting health conditions that may be worsened by whooping cough are at high risk for developing a severe infection. Testing for Pertussis: The preferred methods for pertussis testing include nasal pharyngeal (NP) swab or nasal wash via PCR testing or culture. PCR has optimal sensitivity during the first three weeks of cough, is widely available at commercial laboratories and has a fast turnaround time. Culture is considered the gold standard due to excellent specificity but may take longer to complete. Serology for antibodies to B. pertussis is available at many commercial laboratories, however, serologic assays are not generally recommended for primary diagnosis of pertussis due to variability and unknown clinical accuracy. The most promising serologic assays are those that measure IgG antibodies against pertussis toxin only and are collected two to eight weeks following cough onset. Prevention of Pertussis: Prevention of pertussis is primarily achieved through routine vaccination with DTaP (ages two months to six years) and Tdap (ages seven years and older), followed by appropriate booster doses. Vaccination of pr… Bordetella parapertussis B. parapertussis is a bacterium that is similar to B. pertussis and can cause pertussis-like illness but does not produce pertussis toxin. Symptoms of parapertussis are typically milder and infection may be asymptomatic. There is no vaccine for B. parapertussis and post-exposure prophylaxis is not recommended, however treatment recommendations for symptomatic patients are the same as those for B. pertussis. B. parapertussis is not reportable in Kentucky. Thank you for your attention to this alert and guidance. The KDPH pertussis website includes supplemental resources, including a pertussis quicksheet with additional information that providers may find useful. If you have questions regarding reporting, testing, or prevention of pertussis or other infectious diseases, please contact the Kentucky Immunization Branch at (502) 564-4478 or after hours by calling the KDPH Epidemiology on-call line at 888-9-REPORT (888-973-7678). Our Mission: To improve the health and safety of people in Kentucky through Prevention, Promotion, and Protection
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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vashetc.bsky.social
The idea that mitigating harm to each other was like being in jail or something. Bro u could still do a lot of shit. lol

Not to say there wasn’t downsides and economic impact. But pls be fr. We can just say stay at home orders or quarantine.
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough.

Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.

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Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern
A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Covid-19 has been linked to cardiovascular complications, but the long-term impacts, particularly for mild infections, are not well understood. A study in Nature Communications demonstrate an increased risk of cardiovascular disease after Covid-19, also among mild cases. #medsky #cardiosky 🧪
Covid-19 and cardiovascular disease in a total population-study of long-term effects, social factors and Covid-19-vaccination - Nature Communications
Covid-19 has been linked to cardiovascular complications, but the long-term impacts, particularly for mild infections, are not well understood. Here, the authors investigate the long-term impacts of Covid-19 on cardiovascular disease using data on the whole population of Sweden aged 40-75 years.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM