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Mostly posting about Long Covid

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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The covid deniers have won, but they also have to live in the world they created. archive.ph/nHebN
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Cool. We are now the country that builds concentration camps.
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
At least try to hide it, and add in one white holiday.
Trump is is trying to exclude recognition of all holidays associated with minorities.
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
'You Have Compared The CDC's Work To Nazi Death Camps'. Raphael Warnock Grills HHS Nominee RFK Jr.
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Senator Todd Young 'Covid is not over. If confirmed, will you collaborate with healthcare providers, researchers, and affected communities to better mitigate and understand #LongCovid?' RFJ Jr - "Yes"
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025
I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Some learnings about our immune system from Covid @nature.com —importance of T cells (not just neutralizing antibodies) —key role of interferons, the first line of defense —hybrid immunity —underpinnings of Long Covid www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Four lessons COVID taught us about the immune system
In the midst of pandemic upheaval, researchers have gained fundamental insights about how the body fends off infections.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Still more deadly than flu or RSV jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Someone who gets it! “The NIH communications pause feels like a part of a bigger shift and attack on sciences because there is a suspicion about our work or who is selected to do this when it is in fact very competitive and benefits society as a whole.” archive.ph/G78xY#select...
UC, a top recipient of federal research funding, is concerned about Trump pause on grant reviews
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
"Can he do that? Oh, YES he can! Call your senator or congressmen!" Live look at a crash course in check and balances. 👇
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a man holding a burning log in an office with a sign on the wall that says ' buzzfeed ' on it
ALT: a man holding a burning log in an office with a sign on the wall that says ' buzzfeed ' on it
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
This week Trump has cut off nearly all foreign aid for the next 30-90 days, gagged all of HHS, cut off research funding at the NIH. Why do Americans think he's not going to cut off their benefits? The only departments he cares about are Homeland Security, and DOJ.
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Fun watching Americans fail an open book test on US government.
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
If Trump had pulled out of WHO prior to 2020, we would not have had access to the genetic sequence of SARS-CoV-2. Instead of developing the world's first mRNA vaccines, we would have been behind the rest of the world.
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I think if you are still complaining about Biden at this point you are missing the point that the Nazis are in charge right now and fully intend to go after scientists and academics.
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The #1 question I receive is where can I find a doctor to help me with my disability application. We have multiple crises happening at the same time. #LongCovid www.reddit.com/r/covidlongh...
Rejection for SSDI for Long Covid ME/CFS
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
'Look the flu will kill more people than Covid this winter.' As if that's a huge win. Hello! Tone deaf person! The goal is to stop people from dying of the flu, and Covid. Wear a mask, clean the air.
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Politicians - We need building codes for fire prevention. If your house burns, your neighbor's house will too. Waiting for them to figure this out about infectious disease.
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a cartoon of daffy duck sitting at a table
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
This is why I don't believe people anymore when they say they have never heard of #LongCovid😑 www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/4-1...
4 in 10 Minnesota COVID survivors report having at least 1 lingering symptom
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
SARS-CoV-2 is not a textbook virus. Antibodies are suppose to wane over time after an infection is fully cleared. Here, the group with #LongCovid continues to have an antibody response up to 1000 days laters, while in the control it wanes, suggesting viral persistence. 1/2
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Prevention is undervalued. Listening to the news lament that we need to spend more money on public safety, when we have gutted public health. We only know we have a problem when it's burning down your house.
Los Angeles burning, an orange and black sky.
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
From 2018, Al-Aly's group. "The toll of diabetes attributable to PM2.5 pollution is substantial; long-term exposure to PM2.5 contributed to about 3.2 million cases of diabetes in 2016, representing 14% of total incident diabetes globally"😷 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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The 2016 global and national burden of diabetes mellitus attributable to PM2·5 air pollution
The global toll of diabetes attributable to PM2·5 air pollution is significant. Reduction in exposure will yield substantial health benefits.
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Marc Veldhoen on wild fires. If you burn it now, it won't burn tomorrow. Children should expose themselves to smoke to build resistence. No need to mask, the wind will blow away the smoke. It will rain eventually. 🙃
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Justice Sotomayor 😷
Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor wearing a black KN95 mask at Jimmy Carter's funeral.
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Something to think about. We are making the assumption that Covid reactivated latent viruses, but the possibility is there that EBV or HSV-1 was already reactivated, and changing the immune response to SARS-CoV-2 #LongCovid www.frontiersin.org/journals/vir...
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Frontiers | Editorial: Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses to Viral Infection
The primary objective of this Research Topic was to better understand the interplay between innate and adaptive immune responses in chronic viral infections,...
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Yooberz 🍤 @yooberz.postes.club · 09/01/2025
Love to have public health politicized to the point of people killing themselves for freedom
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
If you really want to see what cognitive dissonance looks like, just look at LA right now. You have some people wearing N100s, but most are wearing nothing at all. The government and the news is telling them they need to wear at least an N95 outside.
Journalist in N100 mask reporting on TV about the LA wildfires
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Why don't we see more #LongCovid researchers wearing a mask? ‘It's cognitive dissonance, it's quite taxing, and requires a lot of discipline. Remember that doctors, cardiologists, and pulmonologists used to smoke in the hospitals.’ Dr Al-Aly
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
'It's a trauma response, we are dealing with the pandemic by ignoring it, and saying it doesn't exist anymore. We are going to live in a make believe world where the pandemic does not exist. It's cognitive dissonance.' Dr Al-Aly
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Anna Watson 📷 @annawatson99.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I think I saw it mentioned elsewhere (maybe an interview with @binitakane.bsky.social) that she was seeing long covid patients who had a head trauma in the previous year.
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
'Repeated infections (along with a possible decrease in viral load clearance) can cause an increase in the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 genome in the body and thus may lead to the development of #LongCovid. This mechanism appears similar to causal factors in ME/CFS.'
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
'New research suggests that blows to the head can reactivate viruses sleeping inside the brain, leading to inflammation and dementia. Cells that had been infected with HSV-1, showed reactivation of the virus.' www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Repetitive injury induces phenotypes associated with Alzheimer’s disease by reactivating HSV-1 in a human brain tissue model
Head injury may raise the risk of neurodegenerative disease by awakening a dormant virus.
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Vaccination prior to Covid-19 infection does not significantly reduce neurological symptoms seen in #LongCovid. academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
The #LongCovid bill has stalled in congress a year later. I said it last year, and I'll say it again, this bill will never leave the subcommittee without a republican signature. It needs bipartisan support, and for that, the amount needs to be much smaller.
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Hell has frozen over.
Covid is everywhere and I'm worried we'll never stop being sick
So recently my coworker was sick, and then another got sick, and then another, and then I got sick and tested positive for covid. I isolated and came back wearing a mask when the test was negative again, but now that I'm back i notice that everybody's coughing and sick. We're in the food industry, and nobody's wearing masks or taking time off. And I'm seeing multiple sick family members and friends, who obviously aren't isolating either. What are we supposed to do about that? Are we just never going to end the cycle of getting each other sick until we all die? I'm seriously concerned. I'm starting to get mucusy again. What the fuck do we do?
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Norovirus can spread by aerosolized fecal matter. So think about toothbrushes. 😬
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 05/01/2025
A study in Nature Cities on access to running water in large US cities since 1970 finds that the 2008 financial crisis worsened household ‘plumbing poverty’ in many cities. This generally squeezed lower-income households into more precarious living situations. 🧪
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Urban inequality, the housing crisis and deteriorating water access in US cities - Nature Cities
Meehan and colleagues study access to running water in large US cities since 1970, finding that the 2008 financial crisis worsened household ‘plumbing poverty’ in many cities. This disproportionately impacted households of color and generally squeezed lower-income households into more precarious living situations.
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Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Nice discussion of ECM-mitochondrial communication here. Could mitochondrial dysfunction be at the root of ECM abnormalities frequently observed in ME/CFS? (I tend to think so.) #poorlittlebeans #mitochondriaNOThypochondria www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
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The extracellular matrix integrates mitochondrial homeostasis
Degradation of hyaluronan in the extracellular matrix leads to mitochondrial remodeling, activation of mitochondrial stress responses, and augmented immune signaling.
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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Data show 7% rate of long COVID in college students | CIDRAP www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/dat... #Covid #LongCovid #College #University
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Data show 7% rate of long COVID in college students
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Chinese pet owners are using the Covid drug, LAGEVRIO, (molnupiravir) to treat a feline coronavirus at a cost of $236 a bottle. FIP is a persistent reservior in the gut. www.deccanherald.com/world/chines...
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Chinese cat owners feed Covid pills to pets to beat deadly virus
People are feeding their furry friends Merck’s Lagevrio to treat Feline Infectious Peritonitis, a fatal disease that until recently had no readily available treatment, local media outlet Jiemian repor...
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
How tattoo ink induces inflammation and impairs the response to a Covid vaccine www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Marked inflammatory response to ink of a tattoo
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
What makes ME/CFS and other Post Acute Infection Syndromes so tricky they likely have a 1-2 hit model. Where you have a smoldering infection, and a second challenge comes along which could be a high stress event is the trigger when the symptoms really begin. David Putrino
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
When SARS-CoV-2 specific T cells are activated for too long, they lose their ability to fight, and become exhausted. Latent viruses can reactivate as the immune system becomes more dysregulated. David Putrino @putrinolab.bsky.social
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Thinking back on all the times I've been sick, I was only given an antiviral once. Tamiflu for influenza. The rest of the time, it's like 'oh well it's a virus, what can you do.' I guess it shouldn't be a shock how we got into this mess.
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I've always thought that it wasn't actually Covid that was causing all these new autoimmune diseases people were experiencing after infection. That it was actually all the latent viruses that were reactivating that were causing it. Here's new evidence. 👇
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Maybe in a thousand years Covid will finally be the flu, but right now it's causing enormous suffering. Can we just live in the present, and not 3025? #LongCovid
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, shares 79.5% of it's genome with SARS. Would you willingly reinfect yourself to SARS? 😷 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Genetics of COVID-19
This narrative, non-systematic review provides an update on the genetic aspects of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its interactions with the human genome within the context of COVID-19. Although the main foc...
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
'Oh I had Norovirus last week. Oh I had it last week too.' Totally normal conversation now. 🫠🫠
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
If you are experiencing severe vomiting right now as I did over the weekend, it's probably Norovirus. We have no treatments. We also don't have a vaccine because you would have to get everyone vaccinated every 90 days to reach herd immunity.
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
More evidence of increased new-onset cardiovascular disease up to 3.5 years after infection, even in mild cases. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New-onset cardiovascular diseases post SARS-CoV-2 infection in an urban population in the Bronx - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - New-onset cardiovascular diseases post SARS-CoV-2 infection in an urban population in the Bronx
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Sue @inkblue01.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
The media loves to tell us Americans are really unhealthy. They are overweight, don't exercise, and don't sleep enough. Now the media says this same population is healthy enough to be repeatedly assaulted from a virus that has killed millions.
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