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Bety Rodriguez-Milla

@brodriguezmilla.bsky.social
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Software Engineer - Computational Scientist - Scientific Manager. Still coviding. Covid is airborne, wear an N95. We can’t have a healthy society if we take an individualistic approach to public health (and many other things).

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
One from the archives First Case of Human Infected with COVID-19 by a Cat Reported in Thailand “Given the scale of the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus's ability to jump between animal species... close contact between cats and humans, it is surprising that it has taken so long to confirm such a case”
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First Case of Human Infected with COVID-19 by a Cat Reported in Thailand
The first case of a human being infected with the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19·coronavirus) by a cat has been reported in Thailand. The international scientific journal Nature reported o
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The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There’s No Need To Worry About Hospitals Closed By This Covid Wave Because Everyone Is Immune To Covid Now
A happy doctor
Headline:
There’s No Need To Worry About Hospitals Closed By This Covid Wave Because Everyone Is Immune To Covid Now
Story by Lucas Parthenon and Melanie Omer

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It's hard to believe politicians are earnest about fixing healthcare when they keep adding to the pile of chronic morbidity: burning fossil fuels, worsening air pollution, fueling wildfires, letting airborne infections spread in healthcare & schools...
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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As a result, infection control policy in the UK, Canada, the US, the WHO and in turn much of the world rests on pseudoscience - and mistakes that senior MDs memorized in med school half a century ago, that were out of date even then. Don't put your trust in the people who got it wrong about COVID.
ctvnews.ca
‘Outdated’ health policies surrounding Covid still pose a danger today, says U of C researcher
University of Calgary professor Mark Ungrin has dedicated years of research highlighting what he believes is of significant concern to all Canadians’ health.
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Dear journalists, If you're looking to interview a doctor on Covid in 2026, a good probing question is whether they wear a respirator mask in their practice. If not, maybe time to source a new expert
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Alberta's most recent former environment minister now works for....an oil and gas company. Mais bien sur.
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The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Eight Things You Can Pretend Aren’t True About American Covid
A smiling sick woman
Headline:
The Eight Things You Can Pretend Aren’t True About American Covid
Story by Dysmal Outlok and Gawain Forpitube

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The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Is It Time To Stop Avoiding The Plague Like The Plague
A happy scientist
Headline:
Is It Time To Stop Avoiding The Plague Like The Plague
STory by Verity Verity Isayuntothee and Grant Mestrength

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The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If Chronic Illness Is Real, Why Don’t More Sexy People Have It?
A sexy man who clearly has no chronic illness
Headline:
If Chronic Illness Is Real, Why Don’t More Sexy People Have It?
Story by Boris Anchovy and Carla Fontana

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Love this. Boozary is a genuine hero.
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Likelihood that Mark Carney’s new, personally directed Industry AI Safety Council will recommend a similar ban for Canada: 0%. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/a...
arstechnica.com
AI glasses face their first major government crackdown
Norway wants time to write permanent rules for glasses that can record bystanders.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
People tell these kids their disease doesn’t exist, and possibly even worse, that no one is obligated to do anything to stop it from spreading.
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Jennifer Baumbusch @geronursing.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
1. Disabled women are not SKIPPING cancer screening. 2. Cancer screening is not ACCESSIBLE in most places for disabled women. 3. Hence, disabled women also have higher rates of untreated cancers.
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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
University of Oviedo followed 92 people with Long COVID for a year. Memory often improved, but attention and processing speed remained the most persistent cognitive problems, pointing to selective rather than complete recovery. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
Cognitive phenotypes and neuropsychological trajectories in post-COVID-19 syndrome: a 12-month follow-up study - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Cognitive phenotypes and neuropsychological trajectories in post-COVID-19 syndrome: a 12-month follow-up study
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Waiting for the WHO tweet “FACT: plague is not airborne; keep washing hands”. (Plague is airborne)
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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
These kids are superheroes. They shouldn’t have to be. Fund the science. Finish the job. ❤️ thesicktimes.org/2026/10/05/k...
thesicktimes.org
Kids with Long COVID co-created their own superhero comic book - The Sick Times
Long Covid Superheroes showcases the bravery of asking for help, resting, and being compassionate with yourself and others.
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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Meanwhile, confirming that we are now well into the Finding Out portion of the COVID era...
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WHO Reports Rise in NCDs and Mental Health Conditions Globally | Søren Brostrøm posted on the topic | LinkedIn
NEW WHO ESTIMATES: NCDs AND MENTAL HEALTH CONDITIONS CONTINUE TO RISE New estimates from WHO show major shifts in global health trends. While global life expectancy reached 73.3 years in 2023, on pa...
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Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @drgorfinkel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🚨 BIG COVID-19 NEWS Ontario is funding NOVOVAVAX this year! 💉Non-mRNA vaccine, protein-based 💉For 12 yrs of age & up 💉Limited availability in PHARMACIES ONLY Moderna & Pfizer's mRNA vaccines are still available. ​https://www.ontario.ca/page/covid-19-vaccines#section-2
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"COVID-19 Linked to Increased Risk of Six Allergic Conditions" COVID-19 infection was linked to an increased risk of 6 newly diagnosed allergic conditions: - Atopic dermatitis - Asthma - Food allergy - Rhinoconjunctivitis - Medication allergy - Urticaria Archive: archive.li/fUxiO
An article screenshot from the European Medical Journal (EMJ) website, featuring a large purple logo at the top. The bold main headline reads, "COVID-19 Linked to Increased Risk of Six Allergic Conditions." Below the headline, the publication date is listed as 4 Oct 2026, categorized under a green "Allergy & Immunology" tag.
The main body of the image features a photograph of a woman with dark curly hair sitting indoors and blowing her nose into a white tissue. She is wearing a light blue denim jacket, looking down with her eyes closed, and appears to be suffering from allergy or cold symptoms. The background is a softly blurred room with muted curtains and a green houseplant.
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Kathryn @kathrynas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The wild thing about writing academically re: health and societal harms of SARS2 isn’t how hard it is to find sources to back up the claim that this is some serious 💩 we are in. What’s difficult is sorting through how much has been written that we’re somehow still ignoring.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For profit healthcare should be abolished. Healthcare is a human right. Insurance companies have been allowed to determine who lives, who dies, who suffers and who goes bankrupt for far too long. www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
independent.co.uk
Patient died by suicide after insurance delayed medication: report
Kenney Blewett’s wife said her husband was hopeful the medication would work but said, ‘I wish we had the chance to find out’
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Uh oh, cat lovers. "Nearly all tested cat foods contain toxic plastic contaminants, the herbicide glyphosate and heavy metals such as lead, mercury and arsenic, according to a new investigation provided exclusively to CNN." "100 top-selling cat foods [were tested] for www.cnn.com/2026/10/02/h...
cnn.com
What’s in your cat’s food? New investigation finds lead and other toxins | CNN
Most types of cat foods contain lead, arsenic, cadmium and mercury as well as toxic chemicals from plastics and fertilizers, a new investigation found.
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The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Current Covid Wave Reaches The ‘Exciting Future Solutions For Rich People’ Stage
Some happy people in a hospital
headline:
Current Covid Wave Reaches The ‘Exciting Future Solutions For Rich People’ Stage
Story by Ollie Oop and Vyvyan Invid

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PacoOnPause @pacoonpause.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think it's weird how fixated a lot of you are on people who are covid conscious..
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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am rarely affected by discourse on social media, but the current wave of posts asserting that Long Covid is psychosomatic has angered me. To be very clear: if you're asserting that LC isn't a physical disease, you're ignorant of science. End of.
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Friends of WHN @friendsofwhn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New leaflet from @dagl.bsky.social
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
American Psychological Association: 'The hidden harms of medical gaslighting' 'These conditions, which include fibromyalgia, long COVID, endometriosis, chronic fatigue syndrome...put patients at high risk of experiencing “medical gaslighting"...' www.apa.org/monitor/2026...
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The "health freedom” movement is run by health authoritarians. They want to impose their anti-vaccine agenda on you, to threaten and intimidate scientists, and to let parents treat their children as disposable objects. This needs to be opposed, not appeased. My latest.
sciencebasedmedicine.org
“Health Freedom” Leaders are Health Authoritarians
"The centerpiece of the MAHA and health freedom agenda has been removal of mRNA shots."
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John Dupuis @dupuisj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Read the latest from the Covid-Is-Not-Over newsletter: Deadly betrayal of essential workers, Society forgetting children with Long Covid, Clean air eliminating Covid, and more johndupuis.substack.com/p/deadly-bet...
johndupuis.substack.com
Deadly betrayal of essential workers, Society forgetting children with Long Covid, Clean air eliminating Covid, and more
Bonus Covid is still bad for you
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october "pre-order The Struggle Is Always Worth It now!" krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
People w Long COVID are stigmatized & ignored throughout society. In prison, it's a situation of almost total silence. Despite very high COVID infection rates, there's no talk abt Long COVID cases. That's a result of the way prisons treat medical needs in general. thesicktimes.org/2026/09/29/i...
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I interviewed five people with Long COVID in prison. They are invisible in the system. - The Sick Times
While there are no data sources on Long COVID in prison, experts suspect rates of the disease may be higher there than in the general population. They face high reinfection risks and poor access to me...
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Jonathan Douglas PhD CPsych @jonathanconp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Colour me unsurprised
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Ryan Hisner @ryanhisner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Prediction market and sports gambling companies are the new tobacco companies. How long will we allow their depredations continue to destroy lives? Tobacco advertising was banned decades ago. Why are gambling ads permitted to stain every sports broadcast? It's sickening.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Has anyone checked in on the pundits who said none of this would ever happen because Carney didn't really want a pipeline and he knew that no private investor would pay for it or he assumed that Indigenous communities would block it?
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s terrifying being disabled and completely reliant on someone else for survival. Being unable to feed or clean yourself is unsettling. There isn’t help available. If your caregiver doesn’t show? You suffer. If they’re abusive? You suffer. The system does not protect us.
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Sphagnum Moss @mosssphagnum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Im hearing coughing & seeing symptomatic students show up in school. And a colleague borrowed my aranet4 whi ch showed high CO2 levels (& potentially infectious aerosols) even 5 mins after students left the class
A graph showing 2601ppm at 309pm
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Mr. Hands is making SuccuDeck 😈🃏 @mrhands31.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As a man, I've found the best way to put a toxic coworker, friend, whatever in their place is to say: I don't get it When someone makes a horrible tasteless joke, and you don't laugh but ask them to explain it, it instantly puts them on the back foot
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Prof. Denim: "COVID can fundamentally alter how your immune system works. It can turn it against you, exhaust it, or leave it unable to keep dormant viruses in check" Source: x.com/DenimFarmer/...
A screenshot of a social media post on X (formerly Twitter) by user Prof. Denim with the handle @DenimFarmer. The post is dated 6:56 PM · Sep 28, 2026 and shows 4,144 Views.
The main text of the post reads:
"COVID can fundamentally alter how your immune system works. It can turn it against you, exhaust it, or leave it unable to keep dormant viruses in check."
In the top left, the profile picture displays a circular, black-and-white portrait of a man smiling. To the right of the display name is a small icon of a microscope. In the top right corner of the post, there are standard platform icons, including a crossed-out circle and a three-dot menu icon.
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Shawneee @shawneee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You know what is also more prevalent in women? Autoimmune diseases... The fact that Long Covid hits women harder, will also just mean society gonna ignore it even longer, cause usually no one gives a fuck if women are unwell. Mask up! #feminism #longcovid #disease #covid #health
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Just 5 Infections Responsible For More Than 2 Million New Cancer Cases Annually" 🦠H. pylori 🦠Human papillomavirus (HPV) 🦠Hepatitis B virus (HBV) 🦠Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) 🦠Hepatitis C virus (HCV)
sciencealert.com
Just 5 Infections Responsible For More Than 2 Million New Cancer Cases Annually
Cancer may seem like an inevitable part of life, but there are so many factors that can help reduce your risk.
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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Doug Ford has a 31% approval rating, the lowest in Canada. Thirty one is still pretty high, to be honest. What will it take to get this deeply corrupt character out of office and out of our lives, Ontario? #OnPoli #DougFordIsCorrupt
An egg-shaped plastic toy from the 70s called a Weeble. It has blond hair, vacant eyes, and a derpy grin. It’s holding a lollipop instead of a Tim Horton’s egg sammich but in every other way resembles Canada’s least popular premier, Doug Ford.
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Wayside Scribbles @waysidescribbles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
– Calm down! We've reclassified them as “common fish”. #longcovid #ableism #satire
A black-and-white cartoon in a loose sketch style by @waysidescribbles. A person stands on the tip of a sinking sailboat surrounded by shark fins with raised arms, while another person sitting calmly in a motorboat nearby says: ‘CALM DOWN! WE'VE RECLASSIFIED THEM AS “COMMON FISH”’.
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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
a key reason why rape culture persists is because men do not fear reprisals from *other men*. they do not expect other men to care if they raped someone. they do not expect other men to treat them poorly. they believe that most men will doubt a victim's story and demand evidence.
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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A friend has Covid right now. They have lost their sense of smell and they're having cognitive problems. This hit me today, as it often does: we made, and continue to make, a huge collective mistake in allowing a virus that impacts the brain to transmit unmitigated globally.
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Kristin Meekes @kmeekes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The pandemic should have led to clean indoor air, treatments for long covid and related illnesses, next gen vaccines, normalization of masking, mandatory respiratory protection in healthcare, sick leave, and a paradigm shift around what infections do to people
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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In so many ways we’ve gone backwards… masks extremely stigmatized & sometimes outright banned, anti-vax sentiment up, 19th century pathogens thriving, public health defunded & derided, Medicaid defunded, hospitals/schools/airports more likely to disable or kill you, & ableism worse than ever
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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Traffic interferes with bird communication, territory defense, mate attraction and predator detection. Nature increasingly has to justify itself by providing a measurable human benefit.
theguardian.com
Mood-boosting benefits of birdsong drowned out by traffic noise, study finds
Even low levels of traffic noise can negate the benefits of listening to natural sounds, researchers say
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Dave Ghoul @daveghoul.com · 29/09/2026
This is pretty much me. I got Covid then health problems I had got worse *and* I developed new issues. Then my 2nd infection made all of that stuff worse *and* I developed more new issues. So yeah, Long Covid isn't just developing new health issues, it can also worsen existing issues.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It continues to amaze me, despite all the geopolitics and crises, that Global North countries still see themselves as "leaders" in global health, human rights, international law, and morals
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🇨🇦Ian - #RLessThanOne @simpson-ian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The maddening part. If this was to happen again today with another disease outbreak, they would do and say all of the same things.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Long COVID can cause persistent gut problems, including diarrhoea, abdominal pain, nausea, constipation and IBS. Around 22% report GI symptoms and 10% diarrhoea. Possible causes include immune activation, gut barrier disruption and microbiome changes, but more research is needed. #LongCOVID
cureus.com
Post-COVID Gastrointestinal Symptoms and Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction: A Focus on Persistent Diarrhea
Persistent gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms after SARS-CoV-2 infection include diarrhea, abdominal pain, dyspepsia, constipation, nausea, and other disorders of gut-brain interaction (DGBIs), but these ...
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