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Dr Aspa Paltoglou

@ed-in-palestine.bsky.social
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Academic psychologist, sustainable employability champion, covid informed, anti-AI. Link to the Research Topic: www.frontiersin.org/research-topics…

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 18h
But don't worry. Self-regulation will be fine.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The threats to our resilience are the same as the threats to our democracy: corporate lobbyists shaping policy, with dire consequences for our ability to withstand crises. Burnham seems to want to change this. But is he aware of scale of the task? My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Stockpile food – and wash your hands: is that really how to prepare for environmental catastrophe? | George Monbiot
The UK state is dumping its responsibilities on our doorsteps, while green-lighting policies that lead us closer to crisis, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 22h
We have reached an unthinkable milestone: three years of genocide.
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n_ootpinguwalda @nootpinguwalda.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
For everyone who thinks they’re getting off scot-free with covid: READ THIS. I have some bad news for you…
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Safe Air Schools UK @safeairschoolsuk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hampshire children are testing positive for COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 spreads primarily through respiratory particles in air ✅ Keep unwell children away from school ✅ Ventilate. Monitor CO₂ to know ventilation is good. Below 800ppm is good ✅ Use HEPA filtration where needed 1/3
School children climbing stairs
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Discover Magazine: 'Long COVID Fatigue May Be Linked to Reduced Blood Flow in the Brain' 'Learn how brain scans during an attention test revealed blood flow differences in patients with lasting fatigue years after mild COVID.' www.discovermagazine.com/long-covid-f...
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Long COVID Fatigue May Be Linked to Reduced Blood Flow in the Brain
Learn how brain scans during an attention test revealed blood flow differences in patients with lasting fatigue years after mild COVID.
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Ryan Hisner @ryanhisner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I wonder if this is due to Japan's more successful avoidance of pre-Omicron infection—emphasizing ventilation, masking, & avoiding crowded indoor spaces, which undoubtedly saved countless lives—making their infection history more similar to that of young children (which BA.3.2 is known to prey on).
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The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 20h
This week's #LongCOVID research updates from @mileswgriffis.bsky.social: thesicktimes.org/2026/10/06/r...
Helicobacter pylori infection seen medical imaging. The bacteria appears dark brown in clumps in an endoscopic gastric biopsy image. The text reads, “The Sick Times. Long COVID research updates. As many as 2.3 million new cases of cancer were triggered by infections worldwide in 2024. One in 10 adults stated that COVID-19 worsened a pre-existing health condition long term. A recent commentary argues that Long COVID is an occupational disease for teachers.”🤒 As many as 2.3 million new cases of cancer were triggered by infections worldwide in 2024, according to new research in The Lancet Oncology. French researchers analyzed a large database of cancer incidence from 2024, looking at specific diagnoses that were attributable to infections. They assessed twelve infections including HIV and found that the bacteria H. pylori, human papillomavirus (HPV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), and Epstein–Barr virus (EBV)  had the largest number of cases attributable to them. The researchers concluded that some of these infections, like HPV and HBV, are preventable with vaccines, and that more research for EBV vaccines is needed. EBV has also been linked to multiple sclerosis and Lupus. The study did not assess SARS-CoV-2.
🦠 One in 10 adults stated that COVID-19 worsened a pre-existing health condition long term, according to a new preprint. Researchers conducted a study between 2023 and 2025 that included 2,227 adults from four sites around the U.S. who took three surveys over the course of a year after having COVID-19. “Respondents in our study shared struggles with stress and social isolation as they live with chronic conditions and the risk of reinfection or newly worsening condition,” the authors wrote.
👩🏽‍🏫 A recent commentary in NEW SOLUTIONS argues that Long COVID is an occupational disease for teachers. The article states this profession has a high risk of Long COVID and COVID-19 and recommends policies including air cleaning and ventilation to benefit both teachers and students, as well as disability supports compliant with the American with Disabilities Act. “Making these proposed investments in future research and practice to promote teachers’ occupational health could help support and replenish the teacher workforce,” the authors concluded.
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The Psychologist @psychmag.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
‘I am being asked to choose between the daughter I want to be and the psychologist I want to become…’ Fran Barrett with reflections on caring, accessibility and the path to Clinical Psychology. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
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‘I am being asked to choose between the daughter I want to be and the psychologist I want to become’ | BPS
Fran Barrett with reflections on caring, accessibility and the path to Clinical Psychology.
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Michael Olesen @molesen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I went to two pharmacies over the weekend to get a COVID vaccine. Both were out. The employee health nurse here messaged me on Teams this morning that they just received them. I was the first to get one at corporate. This has me over 20 doses and now officially with superpowers.
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Immigrant-owned small businesses are essential to urban renewal and rural resilience. We should celebrate immigrant entrepreneurs, who help our cities and towns thrive. #notothenine #Alberta #cdnpol #referendumb #abpoli @fcm.ca @ouralbertadvantage.bsky.social
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Don't destroy the diverse —and delicious— Alberta.
YouTube video by Senator Paula Simons
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Andrea Is Sick of Long Covid @andreastudiescovid.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is what an elected official who cares about disabled people looks like. ❤️
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The Psychologist @psychmag.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
My letter to… a 15-year-old struggling with online interactions. From Ian Dando, @bpsofficial.bsky.social member and doctoral researcher at the University of Westminster. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
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My letter to… a 15-year-old struggling with online interactions | BPS
From Ian Dando, British Psychological Society member and doctoral researcher at the University of Westminster.
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Alberta ISN’T having an immigration crisis. Here is a short snippy serving of actual facts, designed to be shared. . #Alberta #abpoli #ableg #Canada #notothenine #immigration
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Don't be bamboozled by the immigration crisis—immigration in Alberta is slowing down
YouTube video by Senator Paula Simons
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/10/2026
This picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon.
Margaret Hamilton with printed computer code in 1969. Credit: NASA/Alamy
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MaskTogetherAmerica @togetherwemask.bsky.social · 22h
“Heroes who wear masks: I’m looking for you!” - @msjulieslam.bsky.social #MaskTogetherAmerica at 2026 @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social “I wear a mask because I don’t want to get COVID.”— CS (Nott the Brave) said it for all of us. A mask protects you from all the pathogens spreading in the air! #IAmNYCC
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Dr Aspa Paltoglou @ed-in-palestine.bsky.social · 22h
Please read the third publication in our Frontiers Research Topic: 'Rebuilding through science: a hybrid STEMM recovery model for higher education reconstruction in Gaza', by six eminent scientists and engineers in the UK and Palestine: www.frontiersin.org/journals/edu... 👏🔬💚❤️‍🩹
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MaskTogetherAmerica @togetherwemask.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Long COVID doesn't land evenly, and neither do stories. Join us as “Voices of Resilience” share what they’ve lived, what the system missed and why we protect each other."— @ancirabecky.bsky.social invites you to our virtual event on Oct 9 (5-7PM ET) Register: masktogetheramerica.org/blog/lc-voic...
Becky is wearing a flomask, adorned with rhinestones, a sweatshirt with “Long COVID” printed on it.
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Kristin Meekes @kmeekes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
As people around me are getting covid for the 5th + time, I’m just going to say that this is a slow-moving crisis and we are not reacting appropriately
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Reports of another Russian who’s fallen ill.
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WHO demands answers from Russia about ‘second plague victim’ — The Telegraph
Pressure increases on Moscow to disclose information about lab worker’s death following reports of another employee contracting the disease
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What she says. This is critical viewing. youtu.be/to7o-4rwHKQ?...
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Watch: Senator Paula Simons denounces Alberta's anti-immigrant referendum questions
YouTube video by Senator Paula Simons
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Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Tuesday edition of the virus and illness update is now out with the latest news and data of the day Following Several developing News Stories And Some Surprises youtu.be/06SMbTpYLSI
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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Surprising message of the day! Eliminating infectious children from the classroom helps the individual child to recover, and it protects everyone else from infections. Well done this preschool! 👏👏👏
Burgoyne Heights Preschool.

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Good morning

Due to the ongoing flu like symptoms going through the school we cannot rule out Covid even though tests may come back negative. There is a new variant going around the UK and the symptoms include:

High Temperature

Cough

Runny Nose

Body Aches

Headache

Loss of taste and smell

We have had so many poorly children and staff with these symptoms and we don't want it spread. Please keep your child at home if they present with any of these symptoms and do not bring them back until they are better.

Staff will be checking temperatures and if they think your child has any of these symptom's they will be sending your child home to recover.
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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Then there's this from the Italian Group. Presented in Amsterdam at a session I was lucky enough to be chairing 😎 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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VSL#3® supplementation improves fatigue in long COVID: results from the DELong#3 randomized placebo-controlled trial
Long COVID is frequently characterized by persistent fatigue and impaired quality of life. Increasing evidence suggests that gut microbiota dysbiosis and immune dysregulation may contribute to symptom...
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keithmuise80.bsky.social @keithmuise80.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Wearing a mask is not political. It has nothing to do with anything but protecting yourself or not. #MaskUp #Covid19 #Mask #kids #school
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Andrea Is Sick of Long Covid @andreastudiescovid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The incubation period is 2-8 days. Antibiotics must be started in the first 18-24 hours or you'll likely die. I don't know many people who run to the doctor in the first 24 hours of experiencing flu like symptoms. www.cdc.gov/plague/signs...
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Signs and Symptoms of Plague
Signs and symptoms of each form of plague - bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic.
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Zeteo UK @zeteo.uk · 06/10/2026
“The Green Party will now be targeted... There is a price to be paid for being on the right side of history”. Israeli historian Ilan Pappe responds to the outrage over the Greens’ “Zionism is racism” policy, and argues the party should stand by its decision. Full article: zeteo.uk/p/zionism-is...
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David Tuller @davetuller1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This interview about the has had 15,000+ views in the last few days. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social wrote an important column about the situation for ME/CFS patients, and I'm glad he found the time to talk with me about it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Maae...
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Interview with George Monbiot about Guardian column on ME/CFS
YouTube video by David M Tuller
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Dr Aspa Paltoglou @ed-in-palestine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Work-related poems would be of interest too!
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My aunt, the doctor, told me a new joke. She asked: How would a death from the plague get covered here? I said I did not know. So she answered: They didn’t die from the plague but with the plague, and besides they had a pre-existing condition. Neither of us laughed.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@davetuller1.bsky.social, a great champion of patients, interviewed me about the massive, ongoing scandal of the neglect, abuse and mistreatment of people with ME/CFS www.youtube.com/watch?v=Maae...
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Interview with George Monbiot about Guardian column on ME/CFS
YouTube video by David M Tuller
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Andrea Is Sick of Long Covid @andreastudiescovid.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Finland plans to continue having a much higher standard of living than the USA trailer park.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🤖🫧💥 www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...
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AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit
Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Disabled people deserve healthcare, housing, food and support. They deserve accommodations. They don’t deserve to be treated as “less than” because they can’t work. No one’s worth should be tied to productivity. Only the top 1% benefits from a system that leaves “non productive” people behind.
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The Psychologist @psychmag.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A letter to… the student who hopes Psychology will fix them. …From Jack Dorey-Jones, Lead @bpsofficial.bsky.social Student Ambassador, representing the @openuniversity.bsky.social www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
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A letter to… the student who hopes Psychology will fix them | BPS
…From Jack Dorey-Jones, Lead Student Ambassador for the British Psychological Society, representing the Open University.
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The reputable publications say we should not panic about the (possible) plague case(s) in Russia, and they may be right, and let us hope they are right, but it would be easier to trust their coverage of this if they didn’t keep insisting that Covid is in the past.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
This product should not exist.
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Why My Conversations with OpenAI’s ‘ChatGPT for Teens’ Made Me Very Worried
A new mode includes a study tool, but it still does a user’s homework. And a children’s safety nonprofit says the chatbot flunked its tests.
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I didn't mince my words. Alberta's anti-immigration referendum questions are racist. They are also a potential disaster for Alberta's economy. Last night, I rose in the Senate to denounce them - and to thank all the thousands of Albertans fighting against them. Please share. #notothenine #cdnpoli
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Watch: Senator Paula Simons denounces Alberta's anti-immigrant referendum questions
YouTube video by Senator Paula Simons
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
www.science.org/content/arti...
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How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t
New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Not now, plague. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Possible plague death at a Siberian lab baffles scientists
Much is unclear about the tragedy, but plague researchers say there is “zero” chance of an epidemic
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If everyone had food, water, housing, education and healthcare … we would all be better off. When basic needs are met, people flourish. Health and happiness improves. We could easily provide for everyone by demanding the billionaire class pay their fair share.
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Dr Aspa Paltoglou @ed-in-palestine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I have a request! I am putting together a podcast on sustainable employability and psychology, and I'm hoping to start each episode with a song. I want the songs to be relevant to work in some way. I've got 3 up to now: '9-5', 'Living on a Prayer', 'Fisherman's blues'. Other suggestions?
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
New Scientist is on quite an "AI is so awesome at math you guys" kick lately. 🤖🫧💥
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Ryan Hisner @ryanhisner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Since Aug 31, 12.8% (10/78) airport surveillance seqs from international travelers to the US have been PJ.2.1. 45% (9/20) from Latin American travelers in that period are PJ.2.1: 4 from Cuba & 1 each from Chile, Colombia, the DR, Ecuador, & Guatemala. PJ.2.1 is the fastest variant in the world now.
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Andrea Is Sick of Long Covid @andreastudiescovid.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It's as if most people never learned the concept of object permanence. Peek-a-boo, I don't see you! 🫠😷
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sweden: Measles outbreak linked to music festival • Dozens of cases reported • Outbreak linked to Urkult Festival: 10,000 attendees • Just 10 measles cases in all of 2025 • Childhood MMR uptake: 97% in 2022 → ~93% now • Children make up a significant share of cases
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Measles outbreak in Sweden: most cases in unvaccinated children - VaccinesToday
European experts say combined MMR vaccine is the best way to stop epidemic
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“If you thought Cornell was bad, just wait for us” That’s a text message from high school football players allegedly directed at one victim in Idaho who they were saying should be raped & murdered Make no mistake, all the men defending the Cornell 7 are enabling these monsters.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Queensland Weekly Respiratory Surveillance Report: 29 Sep - 5 Oct 2026 Reported cases: 🔹COVID: 252 (-3.8%) 🔹Influenza: 2,737 (-12.6%) 🔹RSV: 300 (-9.0%) Hospitalisations: 🔸COVID: 25 (-48.9%) 🔸Influenza: 236 (+7.7%)⚠️ 🔸RSV: 21 (+16.6%)⚠️ Source: health.qld.gov.au/clinical-pra...
An official Queensland Health data report detailing respiratory virus statistics extracted on 06 Oct 2026.
The text outlines hospitalization and diagnosis figures for three distinct viruses:
•	COVID-19: 25 people hospitalized (16% aged 65–74, 64% aged 75+). 252 people diagnosed in the last week (13% aged 65–74, 25% aged 75+).
•	Influenza: 236 people hospitalized (68% aged 65+). 2,737 people diagnosed in the last week (25% aged 65+).
•	Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV): 21 people hospitalized (5% under 6 months old, 38% aged 6 months to less than 2 years). 300 people diagnosed in the last week (5% under 6 months old, 30% aged 6 months to under 2 years).
The document is cleanly formatted with dark text on a plain white background under the Queensland Government logo.
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Andrea Is Sick of Long Covid @andreastudiescovid.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There's an org in California that procures bulk N95s and other PPE to send to DRC. You can donate here: www.directrelief.org/2026/06/dire...
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Direct Relief and VillageReach Deliver Critical Ebola Aid and PPE to DRC Frontlines
On Friday, a critical Direct Relief shipment of personal protective equipment, including 75,000 N95 respirators, arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo to help protect health workers on the fr…
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Christa Pike survived not one, but two, lethal injections. She had requested a firing squad and was denied. Tennessee put her through cruel & unusual punishment that was tantamount to torture. Abolish the death penalty. The state should not be allowed to kill people.
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Christa Pike ‘conscious, speaking’ nearly a week after botched execution: ‘Her recovery is medically unprecedented’
Christa Pike is “conscious, speaking, and continues to receive critical medical care” nearly a week after her botched execution, her attorneys said on Tuesday.
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