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A sobering thread summarizing a Yale review of what we know about Long Covid after five years.

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Thread by @ZdenekVrozina on Thread Reader App
@ZdenekVrozina: A major new review from Yale (Moen, Baker, Iwasaki, 2025) offers the most comprehensive picture yet of what SARS-CoV-2 does to the nervous system. The conclusion is stark: Long COVID i...
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June 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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June 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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And here’s the incredibly thorough & very brave Burnaby Beacon article by Brishti Basu & Srushti Gangdev:
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Emails show Dr. Bonnie Henry knew of concerns over COVID-19 data and school exposures while publicly downplaying them
During what officials called a ‘daunting’ spike in school exposures, the provincial health officer maintained that spring break drove infections, not in-school
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June 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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So ok, here’s the deal. We’ve been skating on the fact that we had a massive summer wave last year, one of the biggest we’ve *ever* had. Since then, no new strain really took over, so people who got sick last year have been coasting on limited immunity to that strain.

That’s about to change.
“Experts have been closely watching the variant, which is now dominant in China and is on the rise in parts of Asia. Hong Kong authorities say that rates of COVID-19 in the city have climbed to the worst levels they have seen in at least a year…”
U.S. reports cases of new COVID variant NB.1.8.1 behind surge in China
Authorities in Hong Kong say COVID-19 levels are the worst in at least a year.
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May 23, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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If Violet Affleck, first year Yale student, is planning a career in medicine or public health, she is off to a flying start. Her essay in Yale Global Health Review is outstanding. Yes, her parents are celebrities, but she is forging her own path

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A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles
BY VIOLET AFFLECK I spent the January fires in Los Angeles arguing with my mother in a hotel room. She was shell-shocked, astonished at the scale of destruction in the neighborhood where she raised…
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May 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Very good article! Highly recommended.
March 26, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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This superb interview with David Putrino (@putrinolab.bsky.social) regarding the long term harm caused by COVID on the CBC Radio program Quirks & Quarks should be required listening for everyone, and I do mean *everyone*.

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March 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM