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novaphillypt2.bsky.social @novaphillypt2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"unlucky few" According to a recent study, there may be as many as 15 million Americans suffering from some form of Long COVID. Maybe we can start with admitting its an issue and that ignoring a condition that is impacting MILLIONS of Americans? www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...
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Long COVID may affect 1 in 6 infected patients
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New York Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns, who tragically lost his 58-year-old mum and several family members to COVID-19 complications, continues advocating for vaccination. “I have asthma,” Towns said, highlighting his “high-risk status” while raising awareness of the non-mRNA NUVAXOVID vaccine.
A screenshot of a Forbes article titled "Karl-Anthony Towns Who Lost Mom To COVID-19 Talks Of Value Of Vaccine." The article is written by Bruce Y. Lee and shows a publication date from early October 2026. Below the headline, a photograph captures NBA player Karl-Anthony Towns sitting at a press conference microphone wearing a white New York Knicks jersey. He is looking forward with a serious expression against a blue backdrop covered in repeating logos for Chase and the New York Knicks. A caption below the photo identifies him as the Knicks center speaking at a recent Media Day.
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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The very empathetic and largely positive piece I’m reacting to only mentions Covid once and it’s in context of how some of the newly IDed disabled people boldly wear “Covid masks”. Totally a coincidence everyone’s got POTS &/or ME now. Unrelated to a virus that gives you POTS &/or ME running rampant
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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When has there ever been a pandemic that didn’t create more disabled people in its wake? That’s just not a thing. Viruses are bad. I’m sure a lot of people newly IDing as disabled always have been but many people have post viral illness or a minor pre-existing issue turned unignorable by long covid
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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When articles talk about the increase in disabled people but don’t mention Covid, I just have to wonder what level of denial is this? This is a subtweet of an expert I still respect but… & to be clear this person believes the newly IDed disabled ppl are truly disabled, that’s the point of the piece.
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”
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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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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026
Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is awful. More outlets are doing things like this—not limiting reporters’ recordings to their intended purpose. I was contacted by one publication, years after an interview, telling me—not asking—that that recording was going to be used in a new, unrelated podcast the publication was doing.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied.
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Dustin Poppendieck @poppendieck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
CR box air cleaners reduce particles in classrooms by 61%. pubs.acs.org/aeacd5/artic...
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Performance and Practical Considerations of Deploying Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Air Purifiers in Occupied Classrooms
Abstract. Poor classroom ventilation allows airborne particles to build up, leading to suboptimal indoor air quality (IAQ) and increased risk of airborne v
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I contend that people would be more afraid of it if long covid symptoms presented uniformly. of the irl people I KNOW OF covid gave 1 cardiac issues, 1 got MCAS, 1 Bell’s palsy, 1 lost sense of smell, 1 has bilateral tremors, & 1 became narcoleptic. no fucking thanks. I’m as disabled as I wish to be
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jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s like saying oil companies exist to give back through beach cleanups
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jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Appreciate it 🙏
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jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Are these charts you made using their data set?
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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
CDC sent me the 2025 NHIS data this week, and one number stuck with me. 8.7 million American adults were living with Long COVID in 2025. That's 1 in 30 of us. It's easy to stop seeing a crisis once it stops being new. It's still happening. www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis/do...
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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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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
LBC: 'Chronic illness cases surge post-covid, leaving young patients searching for answers' 'Diagnoses of a chronic condition..have risen five-fold since the COVID-19 pandemic began, according to experts...Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)...' www.lbc.co.uk/article/chro...
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Chronic illness cases surge post-covid, leaving young patients searching for answers | LBC
Experts are reporting a five-fold surge in diagnoses of a rare chronic condition since the COVID-19 pandemic began
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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
infuriating to see so many posts dismissing those calling for masks becuase the mask is not a systemic solution, when the only other people who showed up to beg for systemic solutions the public meetings i attended were also chronically ill & disabled people (+ woefully few allies) in masks 🤔
babs in 2023 giving public comment at the los angeles county board of supervisors meeting. they are white femme person with brown and blonde hair wearing a black Cambridge mask to match their black sleeveless turtleneck and gold jewelry.
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jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
These numbers are derived from comparing wastewater numbers to when we had both wastewater and test counts I believe. So asymptomatic or presymptomatic does not matter here
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jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Covid is a unique new virus that affects the whole body, causes lingering symptoms very commonly, and leaves many people extremely ill. This is sad and scary, and people don’t want to reckon with it, so they just shut down. And it can feel mild sometimes; doesn’t make it a non-issue.
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jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
People generally don’t disagree with me on any details about Covid, they just refuse to talk about it or insult me for caring. It’s rarely a disagreement on Long Covid prevalence numbers, or that I’ve gotten any details wrong on what Covid does in our bodies. Just denial and taboo.
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jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Even if you think these numbers are overestimates (and what is the source on that?), the basic outline of the problem is the same, an additional disease burden affecting millions of people per year in the US, and people getting sick repeatedly. People get flu once every 5 years.
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jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Let’s say things stabilize to roughly 100 million Covid cases per year - around 10%-20% of people have continuing health issues after, and 20% of people with Long Covid have significant impact on daily activities. So 10 million Long Covid cases and 2 million severe schaeffer.usc.edu/research/lon...
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jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I was growing increasingly concerned as Covid waves got higher and the lows increased as well 2022-2025. But 2025-now levels are more comparable to 2020-2021, an extremely welcome trend. A new nasty variant could change all this, but my hunch is levels may continue like this or decrease.
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jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
People say “2020” or “During Covid” about 2020-2021, but did you know that the years with the most Covid infections were 2024-25 and 2022-23? Deaths were the worst 2020-2021, but this era of Covid infections every 1-2 years is an experiment society was pushed into (and most happily jumped).
PMC19.com Estimated Within-Year Cumulative SARS-CoV-2 Infections (U.S.)

Chart shows cumulative lines of estimated annual Covid infections each year 2020-now, and a median line.

2020-21: 100 million
2021-22: 305 million
2022-23: 380 million
2023-24: 350 million
2024-25: 400 million
2025-26: 250 million

6-year median: 325 million
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jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is only possible with @michael-hoerger.bsky.social PMC19.com data, so thank you once again for all the work you’ve done to fill in for what public health agencies aren’t doing. And for the purposes of this thread, even if people disagree with case estimates, the trends are straightforward.
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jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ultimately, the current state of things is that people never want to think or talk about Covid again, but there are simple facts I still try to impart to people and maybe a simple chart like the first in this thread can make Covid’s annual pattern more widely known.
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jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Some Covid Conscious people ask for universal masking in all settings, all times of year. I don’t practice that level of precaution and don’t think those calls have worked or will work. I think a push to mask the week before Christmas could work. Air filters in schools would make a huge dent too.
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jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Takeaways: - I think knowing the patterns of viral spread is powerful knowledge for personal and community health. - I think most people are not aware Covid peaks leading to back to school and right before New Years, and this sickness imposes costs and much of it could be prevented.
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jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For the same time period Jan 2022 to now, there were ten waves of Covid compared to four of Flu A and RSV, and Spring 2026 was the first time in a long time that levels were very low since 2021 vaccine summer:
Wastewater Scan chart of Covid wastewater data Jan 2022-now showing 10 waves and wastewater rarely approaching zero except for Spring 2026.
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jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Flu A and RSV peak during the winter and are close to zero the rest of the year. These are screenshots of Wastewater Scan data Jan 2022-now - you see four clear waves during the four year span:
Wastewater Scan chart of all Influenza A data (Jan 2022-Sep 2026) showing one annual winter wave and low levels other times of year.Wastewater Scan chart of all RSV data (Jan 2022-Sep 2026) showing one annual winter wave and low levels other times of year.
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Elizabeth Pearce @elizabethpearce.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
BTW, the CDC just changed the rules again saying healthcare workers can return to work 4 days after testing + for Covid, meaning they will be treating patients during their peak infectiousness. If anyone was considering not wearing a respirator or mask in a doctor’s office or hospital
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jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Will finish thread tomorrow
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jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New graph showing US annual trend of Covid cases 2020-now: - a wave right around back to school - a wave during winter holiday season - levels rarely approaching zero, but better in the spring This pattern is quite different than Flu and RSV 🧵 Data from @michael-hoerger.bsky.social PMC19.come
Graph: Estimated New Daily SARS-Cov-2
Infections by Time of Year (2020-2026)

Based on national wastewater data analyzed by Dr. Michael Hoerger, PMC19.com

Adapted by AngieCibisDesign.com and Jaydo Covid

Description of chart:

A line graph running from March to March on the X axis and estimated new daily Covid infections on the Y axis.

Estimated new daily Covid cases hover in the low to mid hundred thousands daily April-June.

July-Sep the summer wave rises to an estimated 1 million+ new cases per day.

The summer wave recedes to an estimated 500,000 cases per day in early November.

The winter wave takes off in mid November and rises to more than 1.5 million daily cases after new years, receding from January to April.
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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The top graph shows our county-level COVlD map using the CDC's Standard Benchmarks. The bottom map shows the downshifted levels under the CDC's new system. This really makes a difference for early warning in the middle categories. I've highlighted 5 areas.
Graphic of old vs new systems
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I live with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. MECFS imposes severe energy limitations that interfere with any form of exertion, including mental. At its most severe, it feels as though your body is shutting down, like a living death. Thank you, @georgemonbiot.bsky.social.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hey so uhhhhh that Boston Globe story about the lesbian bar relaxing its covid rules is an *absolute fucking hit piece* targeting the disabled, chronically ill, and covid-conscious and it would be great if folks sharing and joking about it could recognize that framing.
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jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So the whole political spectrum dislikes mask wearers for different reasons and many see masking as performative, when in 2026 it’s close to universally reviled, there’s no audience to perform for. It’s high risk ppl and ppl who read data on Covid and care about long health over social pressure
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jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The left is like “vaccines are part of public health and we do it to support each other” and “I don’t need to wear a mask on a plane during winter virus season, you can mask if you want to, community illness spread is an individual issue if it requires me masking when illness levels rise”
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jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The right hates masks cause they don’t think Covid is dangerous & masks don’t work. The center hates masks cause they’re not fun & institutions told them Covid was fully solved by the vaccine (ignores Long Covid issue). The left position = center + dissonance about less public health solidarity
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The truth is, you can belittle maskers, shrug off disabled people, and call us all crazy a million times, but you’re going to have to live in the world you’re building with these choices, and outcomes don’t care that your views are popular right now. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mor...
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More than 1 in 10 US healthcare workers report ongoing long-COVID symptoms, study finds
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Now that it’s time to pay the piper, the state and its media allies are working desperately to sever the connection between COVID-19 and its consequences." Julia Doubleday takes down an ableist Telegraph column that denies the reality of Long COVID. thesicktimes.org/2026/09/21/c...
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COVID-19 — not TikTok — is disabling young women - The Sick Times
The Telegraph published an article titled, “How having a disability became cool." This article shores up the government narrative that rising rates of disability are being driven, not by the ongoing a...
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jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
There are many kinds of respirators; this is a KF94 disposable respirator, or filtering facepiece respirator: www.cdc.gov/niosh/ppe/re...
TYPES OF RESPIRATORY PROTECTION

1) Elastomeric Half Facepiece Respirators are reusable and have replaceable cartridges or filters. They cover the nose and mouth and provide protection against gases, vapors, or particles when equipped with the appropriate cartridge or filter.

2) Elastomeric Full Facepiece
Respirators are reusable and have replaceable canisters, cartridges, or filters. The facepiece covers the face and eyes, which offers eye protection.

3) Filtering Facepiece Respirators are disposable half facepiece respirators that filter out particles such as dusts, mists, and fumes. They do NOT provide protection against gases and vapors.

4) Powered Air-Purifying Respirators (PAPRs) have a battery-powered blower that pulls air through attached filters, canisters, or cartridges. They provide protection against gases, vapors, or particles, when equipped with the appropriate cartridge, canister, or filter. Loose-fitting PAPRs do not require fit testing and can be used with facial hair.

5) Supplied-Air Respirators are connected to a separate source that supplies clean compressed air through a hose. They can be lightweight and used while working for long hours in environments not immediately dangerous to life and health (IDLH).
Example of an open-circuit SCBA

6) Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBAs) are used for entry into or escape from environments considered to be IDLH. They contain their own breathing air supply and can be either open circuit or closed circuit. Example of an SAR/SCBA

7) Combination Respirators can be either a supplied-air/ SCA respirator or supplied-air/air-purifying respirator. The SCA type has a self-contained air supply if primary airline fails and can be used in IDLH environments. The air-purifying type offers protection using both a supplied-air hose & an air-purifying component and cannot be used for entry into IDLH environments.

CDC & NIOSH, Sep 2019
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jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s a KF94 disposable respirator mask.
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jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s a KF94 disposable respirator mask.
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jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s a KF94 respirator mask. Respirator meaning it’s designed to filter particles. Mask means surgical mask to most people and those are not designed to filter airborne particles although they help a bit.
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jaydo @jaydocovid.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The mask is a KF94 disposable respirator.
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