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Dame Sa

@damesa.bsky.social
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Long Covid sufferer since 2020. #FBLC Will mostly be banging on about #Covid and #LongCovid and criticising governments for their diabolical public health policies. #CleanAir petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70…

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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Pharmacy Times: 'New Research Sheds Light on Link Between Leukocyte Count and Long COVID Symptom Severity' New research findings, published in Menopause, shed light into the mechanisms behind the sustained COVID symptoms many patients experience in..long COVID www.pharmacytimes.com/view/new-res...
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New Research Sheds Light on Link Between Leukocyte Count and Long COVID Symptom Severity
In older postmenopausal women, leukocyte count was found to be an independent predictor of long COVID symptom severity, highlighting its potential for use as a novel symptom biomarker.
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✨ Soft Grit Spoonie ✨ @softgritspoonie.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
#chronicillness #chronicillnessmemes #chronicillnesscommunity #spoonie #spooniememes #spooniesky #medsky
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As a person living with chronic illness, I am so accustomed to being doubted, to being called a hypochondriac, that I have learned to distrust my own symptoms and to doubt myself too. I am now working to unlearn that doubt and trust myself first and foremost
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Being an asshole has consequences.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Cardiologists seeing more cases of POTS since the start of the COVID-19 Pandemic. "Dr Hong said the condition can be debilitating, with symptoms like dizziness, fainting, brain fog, shortness of breath and even gastrointestinal issues."
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Cardiologists seeing more cases of POTS since the start of the COVID-19 Pandemic
POTS is a condition that disrupts the body's ability to regulate blood flow while changing positions. Dr. Charles Hong says they have seen a sharp rise since COVID.
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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
March 10, 2025 - Five years ago today - On the Eve of the COVID-19 Pandemic, the World Had No Idea What Was Coming... (A graphic I saved from that day...) Today we have over 777 million cases and over 7 million deaths, and the COVID-19 pandemic is still not over.
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Canadian Covid Society @covidsociety.ca · 10/03/2025
It’s Long Covid Awareness Week, and we need governments to make long Covid a priority. So we’re asking YOU to send a letter to your federal and provincial/territorial representatives, urging them to fund long Covid awareness, research, and support. #ILCAD2025 #LongCovidAwarenessDay 1/2
Graphic of phone with email app open and letter advocating for long Covid funding and support. Text in circle reads: “Send a letter today!”
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Dame Sa @damesa.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
“Children are increasingly starting primary school struggling to talk” Well it can’t be lockdowns - many of the kids that started school last September weren’t even born! So can we start addressing the elephant in the room: Covid brain damage. #LongCovidKids www.independent.co.uk/news/educati...
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Children are starting primary school struggling to communicate, teachers have warned
Warnings over declining language skills come as early years organisations publish list of things a child should be able to do before they start reception
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
It's official: The lunatics are now running the asylum.
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
MPR News: Osterholm predicted a pandemic for years. Then the battle against COVID-19 became personal 'So many people simultaneously experiencing long COVID, Osterholm said..new effort being made to understand these immune system responses that are just out of whack" www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...
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Osterholm predicted a pandemic for years. Then the battle against COVID-19 became personal
Five years ago, news of a fast-spreading respiratory virus was making headlines in the United States. In Minnesota, public health expert Michael Osterholm was keeping close tabs.
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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Gift link 👇
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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Climate change.
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Dame Sa @damesa.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
‘They got COVID-19 five years ago, and they don’t know why they’re still sick' Gansler, an academic advisor at Michigan State University: “I struggled to find support in the medical community, and I had to do a lot of my own research." #LongCovid www.mlive.com/news/2025/03...
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They got COVID-19 five years ago, and they don’t know why they’re still sick
Two long-haulers share insights on managing post-COVID conditions, emphasizing gradual improvement and self-care strategies.
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Michigan Live: 'They got COVID-19 five years ago, and they don’t know why they’re still sick' Gansler, an academic advisor at Michigan State University: “I struggled to find support in the medical community, and I had to do a lot of my own research." www.mlive.com/news/2025/03...
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They got COVID-19 five years ago, and they don’t know why they’re still sick
Two long-haulers share insights on managing post-COVID conditions, emphasizing gradual improvement and self-care strategies.
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 08/03/2025
The demand for the measles vaccine is so high in Texas that they are now RUNNING OUT of them. I have always said it would come to this. Science will always exist. Politics will never usurp it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Texas cities run short of MMR vaccine as measles outbreak drives demand
Pharmacies are struggling with supplies as fatal outbreak expands and health secretary sows disinformation
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Infectious Diseases @infectiousdz.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
More Measles Maryland reports a new case linked to international travel—not connected to the Texas/New Mexico outbreak. Potential exposures: - Dulles International Airport (arrivals baggage claim) - Johns Hopkins Howard County Pediatric ER health.maryland.gov/newsroom/Pag...
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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Happy International Women's Day especially to the amazing women in the Long Covid and chronic illness community. A special thought for the patient advocates/researchers who are doing so much heavy lifting for LC recognition, sometimes with little help or recognition. Thanks 🌸
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
“Five years on from COVID, one survivor reflects on having to fight for his life” “He knows that he will live with the long-term health complications from COVID for the rest of his life” www.coastfm.co.uk/news/uk/five...
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Five years on from COVID, one survivor reflects on having to fight for his life
Mark Hammersley is a survivor. Standing in the Welsh sun, smiling broadly with an outreaching hand to welcome me, he looks the picture of good health. 
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John Dupuis @dupuisj.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Kids keep getting sicker as evidence for COVID immune damage builds by @juliadoubleday.bsky.social www.thegauntlet.news/p/kids-keep-...
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Kids keep getting sicker as evidence for COVID immune damage builds
As the press pushes "immunity debt" past the breaking point of believability, are parents ready to wake up to the illness crisis?
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Alastair McAlpine, MD @alastairmca30.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Please don’t have “measles parties.” Even for kids who fully recover, measles is a miserable experience. And a substantial number will have complications. Just get vaccinated instead.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
To the men who spent today mansplaining, harassing & talking down to me… thanks for showing us WHY we still need an International Women’s Day. If you’re coming into the posts of women sharing their experiences & advocating for equality just to demean and agitate… you’re 100% part of the problem.
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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Telling a disabled person who can’t work that they will be punished with if they don’t work… is like saying to an average non-disabled person they will have their pay withheld if they can’t run a 4 minute mile… Utterly meaningless and impossible to achieve.
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Dr. Genevieve Eastabrook, MD FRCSC (she/her) @placentadoc.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Kids keep getting sicker as evidence for COVID immune damage builds “As the press pushes "immunity debt" past the breaking point of believability, are parents ready to wake up to the illness crisis?”
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Kids keep getting sicker as evidence for COVID immune damage builds
As the press pushes "immunity debt" past the breaking point of believability, are parents ready to wake up to the illness crisis?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Fact-check: True
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Voices for Vaccines @voices4vaccines.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
"She would say that her brain felt as if a part of it was missing and asked me to check her skull for indentations." The lasting trauma of measles encephalitis. www.voicesforvaccines.org/measles-and-...
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Measles and My Sister
At the end of February 1960, my sister, a precocious, healthy child was halfway through the fourth grade in Rockland County when she contracted measles from one of her classmates who lived right down…
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Cathie from Canada🍁 @cathiecanada.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Cathie from Canada's blog: Yes, the Annexing Canada talk is serious now. Deadly serious. cathiefromcanada.blogspot.com/2025/03/yes-...
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Yes, the Annexing Canada talk is serious now. Deadly serious.
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Blog, blog against the dying of the light"
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SandyLee🍁 @leeram.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
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Climate, Ecology, War & More: Dr. Glen Barry BigEarthData.ai @bigearthdata.ai · 09/03/2025
Scientists Have Discovered Shocking Amounts of Microplastics in the Brain - And It Could Be Increasing Our Risk of Dementia ->SciTechDaily | #Microplastic #Science | More info from EcoSearch
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Scientists Have Discovered Shocking Amounts of Microplastics in the Brain - And It Could Be Increasing Our Risk of Dementia
The brain has higher concentrations of plastic particles compared to other organs, with increased levels found in dementia patients. In a comprehensive commentary published in Brain Medicine, researchers highlight alarming new evidence of microplastic accumulation in human brain tissue, offering...
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Disabled women are more likely to experience abuse than their non disabled peers We’re often trapped with caregivers who treat us badly & lack the support to leave Many disability benefits are cut if you marry, forcing dependence We need a universal basic income so we can have autonomy #IWD2025
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Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The Sunday edition of the virus update with the latest news and data of the day and my weekly look at Covid and other viruses in wastewater. Covid Is Not Over, As It Still Shows Up In Wastewater Everywhere! youtu.be/NnYytw_EDRo?... via @YouTube
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
There will be increasing US propaganda aimed at Canada. Media will be complicit in normalizing it. Secret fentanyl labs, porous border that threatens security, etc. Bet on it. And a lot of Americans will eat it up. This has been the American playbook for decades.
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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Tests confirm H5N1 in another Idaho dairy herd, plus cats and poultry from other states www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...
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Tests confirm H5N1 in another Idaho dairy herd, plus cats and poultry from other states
Detections in more pet cats were reported from Oregon, Washington, Colorado, and New Jersey.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Tesla’s German sales fell 76% in February to 1,429 cars, a steeper decline than the 60% drop in January.
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Tesla sales plunged 76% in February in Germany, Reuters reports
Tesla’s (TSLA) German sales fell 76% in February to 1,429 cars, a steeper decline than the 60% drop in January, Reuters reports. Earlier this week, data showed that Tesla also suffered major sales dec...
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Cutting disability benefits doesn't 'incentivise work'. But it does penalise and humiliate the disabled, and that's the real point.
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andrew @teachrprecarity.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
"suggest a potential link between mild-to-moderate SARS-CoV-2 infection and the initiation or acceleration of brain β-amyloid pathology, and hint at the possibility of an increased future incidence of Alzheimer’s disease subsequent to the COVID-19 pandemic." #covid19 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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SARS-CoV-2 affects Alzheimer’s disease - Nature Neuroscience
Nature Neuroscience - SARS-CoV-2 affects Alzheimer’s disease
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Sleepwalking into yet another pandemic. Alliances and treaties falling apart as superpowers go fully rogue. Landmines coming back. Everyone saying the world needs more nukes in it. Inaction on worsening climate change. Aiding and abetting genocide. This millennium sucks.
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Arturo Portnoy @portna.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
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AuDHDreadPirateRoberts 🇯🇲🇧🇧🪮♾️🕋 (Not quite a Bluesky elder) @audhdeepdive.blacksky.app · 09/03/2025
Don't Assume You're Safe from Measles, Even if You're Vaccinated www.the-sentinel-intelligence.com/p/dont-assum...
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Don't Assume You're Safe from Measles, Even if You're Vaccinated
A look at the science.
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Dom Evans @domevans.electricmarshmallow.com · 08/03/2025
Doctors are having to beg parents to care enough about their children to get them vaccinated and save their lives.
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Doctors push back as parents embrace Kennedy and vitamin A in Texas measles outbreak
Dr. Ana Montanez working overtime in Lubbock to contact vaccine-hesitant parents, explaining the grave risks posed by a disease that most American families have never seen, and one that can be prevented through immunization.
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Tatiana Prowell, MD @tmprowell.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Timeline cleanse. I wish this kind of #generosity were not necesssary. Healthcare is a human right. Still it is beautiful to see this. The community pays back a #Baltimore legend. ❤️‍🩹 #MedSky #OncSky #kcsm #crcsm #kindness #BlackMenInMedicine www.cbsnews.com/news/beloved...
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For decades, a doctor refused to charge patients who couldn't pay. When he couldn't pay, his patients came to his aid.
When Dr. Michael Zollicoffer was diagnosed with two types of cancer, his patients started a crowdfunding campaign that raised more than $100,000.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Five years on from the pandemic, the right’s fake Covid narrative has been turbo-charged into the mainstream (MT @profstevegriffin.bsky.social) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Five years on from the pandemic, the right’s fake Covid narrative has been turbo-charged into the mainstream | Laura Spinney
Before the next outbreak, we need a serious conversation about how to cope, but first, the more strident, misguided voices must be muted, says author Laura Spinney
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
ABC 7 New York: 'COVID Impact: 5 years later' 'Researchers don't have all the answers to that, Hsu said. But large numbers of people - many of them previously young, active and healthy - "are now effectively disabled because of long COVID."' abc7ny.com/post/covid-1...
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COVID Impact: 5 years later
We invite you to watch an Eyewitness News special, COVID Impact: 5 Years Later, this Wednesday at 5:30 p.m., as we examine how the virus has changed our lives and continues to impact us.
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Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Experts Warn Public to Prepare for Potential Bird Flu Pandemic www.drugtopics.com/view/experts...
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Experts Warn Public to Prepare for Potential Bird Flu Pandemic
Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations experts warned of the potential for bird flu to become a pandemic event if officials don’t prepare quickly.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️
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Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Multiple #UFC313 fights canceled due to illnesses hours prior to event – including Curtis Blaydes bout mmajunkie.usatoday.com/2025/03/ufc-...
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Multiple UFC 313 fights canceled due to illnesses hours prior to event – including Curtis Blaydes bout
UFC 313 has lost two fights just hours prior to the start of the event.
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
People *may* be starting to wake up to how covid damages immunity: The same guy who mockingly asked me a year ago, "So how long are you going to keep wearing that mask?" just said yesterday, "All the kids are sick all the time." He didn't say anything about my mask, but his eyes lingered on it.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Glad to see UK getting vocal. 🇨🇦🤝🇬🇧 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on why Canada matters: a nation in the global frontline | Editorial
Editorial: Donald Trump has deliberately picked a fight with its northern neighbour. This malign strategy must be stopped
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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 18/12/2022
3. “SARS-CoV-2 promotes microglial synapse elimination in human brain organoids,” Molecular Psychiatry, 2022. Key takeaway: Covid eats your brain. Don’t catch it. www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-…
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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 18/12/2022
2. “Long COVID after breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infection,” Nature Medicine, 2022 Key takeaway: Vaccines help, but not as much as everyone thinks. It’s better not to keep getting Covid. www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-…
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Long COVID after breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infection - Natu...
A new analysis using the US Department of Veterans Affair...
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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 18/12/2022
Everyone should know about these studies: 1. “Long-term neurologic outcomes of COVID-19,” Nature Medicine, 2022. Key takeaway: Anyone can get Long Covid. You don’t want it. www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-…
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Long-term neurologic outcomes of COVID-19 - Nature Medicine
Individuals with COVID-19 are at an increased risk for an...
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