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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
The wife of the 44 year-old man who died this week in Edmonton after waiting 8 hrs in the ER with chest pain was told by hospital security staff she was "being rude" Are you supposed to just be super calm & polite while your spouse dies a preventable death in the hospital?
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Holly Stortholme @hollystortholme.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Make. It. Stop!!! Wear a respirator. This is all preventable. Breathe clean uncontaminated air. Wear a mask. You won’t drink contaminated water, why breathe dirty air? There’s lots of equipment to help you. @airspothealth.bsky.social CO2 Radical Ionmax Aire X Air Fanta Far UVC
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Holly Stortholme @hollystortholme.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
More and more young patients who were fit and well with long covid symptoms. They tell me that something changed since the last Covid infection. I have very rarely referred patients to immunology in the past. Now I refer at least once a month. Covid kills and maims.
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Holly Stortholme @hollystortholme.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
I am freaking tired and getting “charred” from seeing all these sick patients. I’m talking about fit and well young ones. Who now have immune dysfunction. Unwell. Even rhinovirus floors them and sent some to hospital and some was housebound for a week. I’ve never seen this pre covid.
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Holly Stortholme @hollystortholme.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Just in case there’s a minute chance you are wondering why I’m missing for a while and if I have joined the masses and stopped masking and that I think Covid is a nothing burger. WRONG!
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Sean Mullen, Ph.D. @drseanmullen.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Kids get Long Covid. Kids die at 4× the rate of flu from acute infection (that 7–10 days you felt sick, didn’t test, went back to work, and spread it). LC has no cure. 1 in 3 risk lasting damage. LC can & will destroy lives. Probably yours & your kids’ if you don’t utilize airborne protections.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
USA: Study finds removing school mask mandates contributed to almost 22,000 U.S. COVID deaths in a year. Issue Date: May 2025 Source: www.nber.org/papers/w33849
Spillovers from Public Health Policies in Schools: Evidence from COVID Mask Mandates
Matthew A. Guzman, Scott A. Imberman, Neil R. Filosa, Tara Kilbride & Nat Malkus
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Working Paper 33849
DOI 10.3386/w33849
Issue Date May 2025
Schools have long played a frontline role in efforts to contain infectious diseases and prevent spread to the wider community. These include vaccination requirements, school closures during periods of high illness, and the implementation of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) during outbreaks. In this paper we investigate the impact of mask mandates in schools on COVID spread. We use event study and difference-in-differences models that exploit the removal of mask mandates in districts serving 50% of public school students in the U.S. surrounding the revocation of CDC guidance recommending school masking in February and early March of 2022. We estimate that going from 0% to 100% mandated masking in a county reduces COVID deaths by 0.57 per 100k people. We further estimate that the removal of mandates during this time contributed to 21800 COVID deaths through the rest of 2022, 9% of the U.S. total that year. Due to the fact that COVID deaths among students and, to a lesser extent, school staff were rare in the U.S. given school age profiles, we argue that the bulk of these deaths were from spillovers to residents in the wider community.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Australian Respiratory Surveillance Report – 30 June to 13 July 2025 In the last fortnight, COVID cases decreased by (-19.5%), while influenza increased by (+24.4%) and RSV increased (+0.6%). 🔹COVID: 13,165 🔹Influenza: 41,734 🔹RSV: 13,394 Source: www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...
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Tim 🇦🇺 @lettersfromtim.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
“The clinical consequences of repeated severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection are not clear, especially as they relate to long-term symptoms after infection.” Seriously? I meant really?!?! They must be effing joking.
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Tim 🇦🇺 @lettersfromtim.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Bollocks
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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
The study mentioned in the video was published in 2022 here www.cell.com/cell-reports... And if anyone is curious, yeah, that's Napa Valley vineyard in my boss's Zoom background. Because... California.
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SARS-CoV-2 infects neurons and induces neuroinflammation in a non-human primate model of COVID-19
Beckman et al. show that SARS-CoV-2 proteins are found in olfactory areas of the brains of rhesus macaques at 7 days post infection. In addition to direct neuronal infection, extensive neuroinflammati...
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Thelonevirologist @thelonevirologist.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Viral evolution prediction identifies broadly neutralizing antibodies to existing and prospective SARS-CoV-2 variants www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Viral evolution prediction identifies broadly neutralizing antibodies to existing and prospective SARS-CoV-2 variants - Nature Microbiology
Broad and potent neutralizing antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 variants can be efficiently identified via accurate deep-mutational-scanning-based prediction of viral evolution and delivered to mice using mRNA...
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Trump's latest shitshow is to detract from inflation and his ruinous tariffs. As Hitler and Stalin knew, in times of trouble, find a bogeyman.
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Tim 🇦🇺 @lettersfromtim.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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a man in a helmet is saying `` bring out your dead '' while standing in the rain .
ALT: a man in a helmet is saying `` bring out your dead '' while standing in the rain .
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10/06/2025
The US now has no vaccine advisory committee, no CDC director, and an anti-vaxxer as Health Secretary.
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Tim 🇦🇺 @lettersfromtim.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Take your delusion elsewhere
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Tim 🇦🇺 @lettersfromtim.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
The facts are the facts Champ
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Tim 🇦🇺 @lettersfromtim.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
What Australia does - or does not do - makes ZERO difference compared to the harm caused China, the United States, India, Japan and Russia. They’re responsible for 70% of global emissions - that’s what’s killing our reefs. Australia’s 1.6% is a drop in the ocean.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
😡😡😡😡
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Australia: Over 65,000 COVID, 81,000 Influenza, and 50,000 RSV cases reported nationwide so far this year. You can be infectious 48 hrs before symptoms. Stay home if unwell. If you go out, wear a mask and avoid indoor or crowded places. #COVID19Australia #COVIDisNotOVER
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What is the latest advice for isolating when you have COVID?
What has changed since the pandemic when it comes to isolating when sick, whether it’s COVID or a bad cold?
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
UK: New COVID strain discovered in UK as doctors warn of unusual symptoms. "The new NB.1.8.1 strain of Covid has been detected in Northern Ireland and, while some of its symptoms include those of previous strains, others are more unusual, such as heartburn" Source: archive.md/64sDg
New COVID strain discovered in UK as doctors warn of unusual symptoms

The new NB.1.8.1 strain of Covid has been detected in Northern Ireland and, while some of its symptoms include those of previous strains, others are more unusual, such as heartburn

By Niall Deeney, Dan Grennan and Bradley Jolly Overnight News Editor
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
PEPFAR's congressional reauthorization expired on March 25, 202 20 million men women & children were receiving life saving HIV meds thru PEPFAR. If full funding does not resume, an estimated 5-6 million will die within 5 years and AIDS will again become an epidemic throughout the world
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Tim 🇦🇺 @lettersfromtim.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Witnessing this among adults as well - my workplace is an empathy / manners free zone
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Holly Stortholme @hollystortholme.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
A virus that infects the brain. The outcome will not be a good one. Look at the available research. Let alone a young developing brain. The kids are getting sick enough that parents are bringing them in with long covid symptoms. It is just sad that we have failed our future generations.
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Dr Satoshi Akima, FRACP @toshiakima.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
How much of this behavioural disturbance is due to COVID-induced neurodevelopmental damage? apple.news/ABt3-JmM0QZC...
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‘Culture of disrespect’: Australian teachers say students’ behaviour is driving them from profession — Guardian Australia
Government review is welcome but teachers say their needs must be considered to arrest dramatic decline in retention rates
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Robin is saying: "COVID IS BACK" Batman is slapping Robin while responding: "IT NEVER LEFT" #COVIDisNotOVER
This image is a meme based on the popular "Batman slapping Robin" comic panel. In this version:

Robin is saying: "COVID IS BACK"

Batman is slapping Robin while responding: "IT NEVER LEFT"
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Dr Satoshi Akima, FRACP @toshiakima.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
This RIKEN study demonstrates progressive improvement in source control and wearer protection as the filtration and/or fit factor are enhanced. Upgrading from a mask to a respirator results in a dramatic reduction in aerosol leakage.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
“It’s taking off pretty quickly,” said Professor Catherine Bennett, warning that “if you’re exposed, you’re more likely to catch it.” She added, “We might be in for a bigger winter wave,” and COVID deaths were 5x higher than flu—"So COVID-19 is still to be taken seriously"
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Experts sound the alarm as new COVID-19 strain gains ground
‘It could be the first time in a year that we see COVID really starting to impact people.’
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
There have just been major crashes in the States so why on Earth would you sack FAA workers? And why rely on this vague statement of DOGE AIMING “to make rapid safety upgrades to the air traffic control system”
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Trump administration firing hundreds of FAA employees despite four deadly crashes in four weeks
President moves to cut Federal Aviation Administration workforce, including safety workers, as critics say public could be endangered
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I am at the NATO meetings in Brussels. Trump and Putin are plunging the world into dark chaos. Here is my dispatch from day one of the meetings. I decided that it was time to go over the boards for Canada. Please read and share. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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ON YEATS, TRUMP & PUTIN
Dispatch from NATO, Brussels – Day 1
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Tim 🇦🇺 @lettersfromtim.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Bravo @charlieangus104.bsky.social 🇨🇦🙏
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CanuckFella @canuckfella.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Charlie Angus is stepping up for Canada!! 🇨🇦
Charlie Angus in Brussels for a NATO conference
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Tim 🇦🇺 @lettersfromtim.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Devastating America has fallen
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”
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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
How Trump’s ‘fear factor’ is already reshaping American science ‘The number of cures we won’t get and scientific advances we won’t have as a result of these cuts are uncountable’ @matthewherper.bsky.social @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...
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How Trump’s ‘fear factor’ is already reshaping American science
Scientists shocked by the Trump administration's "sledgehammer" wonder about possible motives and lament a short-sighted approach to cuts.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 06/02/2025
The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
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Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children
I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
All of the Republicans who for years railed about "unelected bureaucrats" destroying the government are awfully quiet as an unelected bureaucrat destroys the government.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Folks, this is a five alarm fire. Congress must stop Trump and Elon's coup. Call your rep now (202) 224-3121 This isn't just a battle for checks and balances. It's a battle between democracy and dictatorship.
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Stop Elon Musk’s Coup
YouTube video by Robert Reich
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
USA: Long COVID impacting more than 1 million children: CDC study suggests. "The authors said there may be an under-reporting of long COVID in younger children due to difficulty with the verbalization of their symptoms." Study: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Long COVID impacting more than 1 million children: CDC study suggests
A new CDC study published Monday found that more than 1 million children were affected by long COVID in 2023. Higher levels were found in lower-income households.
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6 News Australia @6newsau.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
#BREAKING 🚨 Explosives have been discovered inside a caravan that was located on the outskirts of Sydney on January 19 NSW Police say there is indication that the explosives may have been meant for "some form of anti-semitic attack" There is no active threat
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
This dude is living the fucking dream variety.com/2025/film/ne...
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Christopher Walken: ‘I Don’t Have a Cell Phone. I’ve Never Emailed’ and Can Only Watch TV Using a ‘Satellite Dish on My House’
Christopher Walken had to watch his Emmy-nominated performance in "Severance" on DVDs because he doesn't have Apple TV+.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
When even the WSJ Editorial Board has this to say www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...
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Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
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Tim 🇦🇺 @lettersfromtim.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The next pandemic - H5N1 - has likely already started in the United States You wouldn’t know tho given the limited surveillance taking place and zero mitigation to cull infected dairy herds
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Prof Brendan Crabb AC @brendancrabb.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Such an advance! www.health.gov.au/topics/envir...
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Tim 🇦🇺 @lettersfromtim.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
This article by @apnews.com is gaslighting BULLSHIT “Most Americans have developed some level of protection against severe disease from previous COVID-19 infections, vaccinations or both.” WRONG - as shown by hundreds of peer reviewed studies - immunity is short-lived 3 months at best.
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Tim 🇦🇺 @lettersfromtim.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Correct LNG revenue in 2021 on equivalent export volumes: Australia - $800 Million Qatar - $26.5 Billion We are giving our gas away to Chevron, Shell etc Both sides of politics are equally guilty of doing nothing to address this theft
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
US: 4 in 10 Minnesota COVID survivors report having at least 1 lingering symptom. "This suggests that an estimated 365,000 adults in Minnesota could have experienced symptoms of long COVID" www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/4-1...
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4 in 10 Minnesota COVID survivors report having at least 1 lingering symptom
Participants who received at least 1 COVID-19 vaccine booster dose had a 30% lower risk of long-COVID symptoms than their unvaccinated peers.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New-onset gastrointestinal disorders in COVID-19 patients 3.5 years post-infection in the inner-city population in the Bronx - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - New-onset gastrointestinal disorders in COVID-19 patients 3.5 years post-infection in the inner-city population in the Bronx
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Study Finds Link Between COVID-19 and Elevated Risk of GI Disorders. COVID-19 patients face a 37% higher risk of developing gastrointestinal disorders, according to a study of over 1.1M patients, including 56,745 COVID-positive cases, revealing notable findings. www.ajmc.com/view/study-f...
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Study Finds Link Between COVID-19 and Elevated Risk of GI Disorders
A study found that patients with COVID-19 may have a higher risk of developing new gastrointestinal (GI) disorders compared with matched controls, highlighting the need for further research on long-te...
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