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COVID-19 smell loss is caused by a subacute wave of mature olfactory neuron disappearance that continues even after the virus is gone.
This damage, coupled with delayed and impaired tissue regeneration, likely explains long-haul smell dysfunction. (2/2)🏁
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This damage, coupled with delayed and impaired tissue regeneration, likely explains long-haul smell dysfunction. (2/2)🏁
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 16, 2026 at 4:09 PM
COVID-19 smell loss is caused by a subacute wave of mature olfactory neuron disappearance that continues even after the virus is gone.
This damage, coupled with delayed and impaired tissue regeneration, likely explains long-haul smell dysfunction. (2/2)🏁
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This damage, coupled with delayed and impaired tissue regeneration, likely explains long-haul smell dysfunction. (2/2)🏁
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Another vehicle opened. Back was full of license plates, gear, various fed patches.
January 15, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Another vehicle opened. Back was full of license plates, gear, various fed patches.
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Study: Increase in Fall-Related Fatalities in the Home Following the COVID-19 Pandemic Onset.
Published: October 2025
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Published: October 2025
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Increase in Fall‐Related Fatalities in the Home Following the COVID‐19 Pandemic Onset
Background Falls are a leading cause of injury and death in older adults (age ≥ 65 years). The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States (US) marked a transition into a period of greater s...
agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 8, 2026 at 7:33 AM
Study: Increase in Fall-Related Fatalities in the Home Following the COVID-19 Pandemic Onset.
Published: October 2025
agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Published: October 2025
agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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For a deeper dive into this, here's a giant long thread on it I did a while back.
The original paper is *bad*, but read down to what we got when we asked @springernature.com to have it retracted.
🤯
There's an asterisk next to everything in ARIC now because...how much more like this is there?
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The original paper is *bad*, but read down to what we got when we asked @springernature.com to have it retracted.
🤯
There's an asterisk next to everything in ARIC now because...how much more like this is there?
🤷
Another example of the junk clinical studies celebrated in Evidence Based Medicine because of methodology alone. Beloved "gold standard" of opinion launderers and cherry pickers, often designed with little or no mechanistic understanding or subject-matter expertise.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Respiratory consequences of N95-type Mask usage in pregnant healthcare workers—a controlled clinical study - Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control
Background Outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases have led to guidelines recommending the routine use of N95 respirators for healthcare workers, many of whom are women of childbearing age. The resp...
link.springer.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM
For a deeper dive into this, here's a giant long thread on it I did a while back.
The original paper is *bad*, but read down to what we got when we asked @springernature.com to have it retracted.
🤯
There's an asterisk next to everything in ARIC now because...how much more like this is there?
🤷
The original paper is *bad*, but read down to what we got when we asked @springernature.com to have it retracted.
🤯
There's an asterisk next to everything in ARIC now because...how much more like this is there?
🤷