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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

CTV news coverage of the errors in health policy and guidance that leave the public unprotected from aerosol disease transmission and long COVID (with @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social and Kerri Bowser) is up. Great to see so much interest! Below is the UK inquiry cited: #medsky #scisky #cdnpoli #polisky

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COVID health policy still outdated: researchers

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Because ignoring it, and pretending you aren’t adding another bullet to your Covid roulette gun every time you get an infection, is part of the denialism 80% of this country is living in.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I'm old enough to remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs. We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives. What RFK Jr. is doing to public health in America is a disgrace.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I cannot overstate how much I hate when people are dicks about babies crying in public (especially airplanes). Do you think the parent is having a good time right now?? Do you think they are not aware of the situation??? Are you going to negotiate with a literal infant????

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HOOGS (Hoarder Of Old Game Stuff). @psychosisfuzzball.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Long Covid lasts up to 4.5 years, according to study that lasted 4.5 years. I see this study is a bit longer than the last one I looked at: Long Covid lasts up to 3 years, says study that lasted 3 years. Logical conclusion: SARS-CoV-2 causes permanent damage, needs eradication. #CovidIsNotOver

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Christos Argyropoulos MD, PhD, FASN 🇺🇸 0kale/acc @christosargyrop.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Ebola has an airborne and a contact mechanism of transmission

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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

COVlD: Week of Apr 20, 2026 (PMC, US) Levels are at their lowest in nearly 3 years, but unfortunately with a high baseline of >200,000 estimated new daily infections. Very High = WV (1 site only) Moderate = MS (limited data) & Guam All others low/very low 🧵THREAD 1/7

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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I cannot reiterate enough with the frequency and gravity it deserves that every reinfection increases the cumulative risk of Long COVlD. Our PMC survey data (n>2,000) suggest it is rare to avoid LC after 5+ known infections. I'll talk more about that again Sunday night in Becky's Space.

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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

PMC COVID Update, Dec 22, 2025 (U.S.) All indicators are that million of Americans are about to get COVID-19 "surprise" holiday infections. pmc19.com/data

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Christos Argyropoulos MD, PhD, FASN 🇺🇸 0kale/acc @christosargyrop.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

What did we learn about #COVID in 2020? A thread on studies from the first year 👇 skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl... by bsky.app/profile/itsm... Summary: 💨 , asymptomatic transmission, starts at the 👃 😷 🛑 cases 💩 Systemic ☠️ disease, not limited to the 🫁

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Bluesky

Social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.

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Al Haddrell @ukhadds.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

One of the reasons why I go so hard on science misinformation/disinformation, is that as a working scientist it is frustrating to see your research misreported to push an agenda. For example, consider this piece of right-wing propaganda from The Telegraph that was just published

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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

“A large…study over 465,000 U.S. pediatric patients found that a second SARS-CoV-2 infection more than doubles the risk of Long COVID in children and adolescents as compared to the first COVID infection… Long COVID [has surpassed] asthma as the most common chronic disease in children.”

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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

We’re all dealing with the Tylenol ridiculousness, but we can’t forget Florida is the first state to lose their vaccine requirements… youtube.com/shorts/Yn4cl...

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WHY they CANCELLED Vaccines!

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Sean Mullen, Ph.D. @drseanmullen.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Tired of being gaslit about your Covid precautions in healthcare facilities or #LongCovid? This 1-page letter has key studies on brain, heart & immune damage—perfect for printing & handing to your doctor. Download: uofi.app.box.com/s/9llu70jkrf... #PatientAdvocacy #ChronicIllness #MedicalGaslighting

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Merr*Seas @merrseas.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

After 6 years of infections, reinfections, and lack of thorough data, only 5 million worldwide seems like an undercount.

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jasfriedman.bsky.social @jasfriedman.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

tfn.scot/news/long-co... Not just eugenics, but they deliberately dont care about l0ng c0v1d patients. /People suffering with long Covid in Scotland are being pushed into poverty, a landmark new report has found./

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Long Covid, long consequences: study highlights condition's devastating impact - TFN

Study lays bare the financial, employment and social security impacts

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to wound the autumnal city 🍀 @silverhawthorne.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

"A growing number of scientists believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may instead be subtly altering our immune systems. If correct, their hypothesis will change how we understand everything from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) to shingles to sepsis."

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Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2

“Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports Myco...

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Merr*Seas @merrseas.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

It’s been said #Covid19 is “just a cold”, a metaphor used to influence your behaviors & Deny what Cov19 Actually Is. Cov19 is a serious vascular dx & harms the Entire body.This article explains metaphors in relation to Cov19 sciencenordic.com/denmark-epidem…www.notesforfriends.com/p/covid-isnt...eb

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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

🚨🧵 by @david.notesforfriends.com about Covid's damage & a cigarette metaphor: "Your Body Is Keeping Score Here’s the thing nobody gets: COVID doesn’t give a shit about your positive thinking. It’s not checking your Instagram to see..." Full🎯thread here: threadreaderapp.com/thread/19645...

COVID Isn’t a Cold. It’s Cigarettes All Over Again

The Damage Is Everywhere – That Is the Definition of Long COVID

Look, we’ve been here before.
My grandpa smoked two packs a day for most of my memory of him. Everyone did. Doctors literally prescribed cigarettes for stress. They said it was good for you. Made you look cool. Helped you lose weight. Whatever.

He felt fine until he didn’t.

That’s exactly what’s happening with COVID right now, and nobody wants to hear it. People are catching this thing two, three times a year and acting like it’s nothing. Just a cold. Just the sniffles. Meanwhile, their blood vessels are getting shredded. Their organs are taking hits. Their brains are leaking....

More at the link in the main post

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Autistic Science Person @autsciperson.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Research summary thread!! A COVID research paper found that the histamine 1 receptor (HRH1) is highly involved in enhancing COVID infection. They also found that most H1 blockers (antihistamines, like Claritin) reduced COVID after exposure! 1/8 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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The histamine receptor H1 acts as an alternative receptor for SARS-CoV-2

Numerous host factors, in addition to human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (hACE2), have been identified as coreceptors of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), demonstrating ...

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

www.science.org/doi/full/10.... Mandating Indoor Air Quality in Public Buildings. Our paper in Science. 🧪 #healthpolicy

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betsy ladyzhets 😷 @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Today @thesicktimes.org: Community health worker Zaina Fairey shares advice on getting others to care about COVID-19. "It would be easy to turn my back on those people and give up on community organizations that minimize COVID-19. But that’s not me, and that’s not what being in community means."

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How do you get people to care about COVID-19? Here’s what I’ve learned as an organizer. - The Sick Times

As someone with Long COVID, it’s demoralizing to see people in my circles party and engage in COVID-risky behaviors while I sit at home. It would be easy to turn my back on those people and give up on...

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Critical thread here. Congress has stepped up but they need to do more—they need to check the Executive Branch from running roughshod over their constitutional power of appropriation. They need to stop America from stagnating in the intellectual backwaters of a dictatorship

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Christos Argyropoulos MD, PhD, FASN 🇺🇸 0kale/acc @christosargyrop.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

This is a fascinating preprint which simultaneously (re)demonstrates that the immune system is a better detector of non-self than our current analytical techniques, while providing further support for the idea that long covid is due to persistence www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Restrained memory CD8+ T cell responses favors viral persistence and elevated IgG responses in patients with severe Long COVID

During the COVID-19 pandemic it was widely described that certain individuals infected by SARS-CoV-2 experience persistent disease signs and symptoms, Long COVID, which in some cases is very severe wi...

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHx7... A really important short film to watch that unpicks so much we have been told about covid.

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COVID - THE UNRAVELLING - A SCIENTIST . AN ARTIST . A FATHER

YouTube video by Grant Wakefield

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Long Covid Kids @longcovidkids.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

“The COVID pandemic began with a myth – that children are spared its ill effects. In contrast, many children were sick with COVID, and we now have a new chronic illness emerging,” Kleinman said www.rutgers.edu/news/study-s... #ChildHealth #LongCovidKids #LongCovid #PaediatricLongCovid

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/06/2025

Schrier to RFK Jr: You gave Cassidy the answer he needed to hear in order to get his confirmation vote, then as soon as you were secretary you turned around & fired all 17 members. You lied. I also want to be clear that I will lay all responsibility for every vaccine-preventable death at your feet.

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Al Haddrell @ukhadds.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Since there is talk about bringing back ASBESTOS (this is somehow true), I thought it would be useful to describe just some what happens to you when you breath this stuff into your lungs. In short, it’s terrible. A 🧵

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Solid Evidence @solidevidence.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Based on wastewater it looks like XFG has already overtaken NB.1.8.1 in the US. lungfish-science.github.io/wastewater-d...

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Merr*Seas @merrseas.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

The Elephant 🐘 in the room is C0️⃣v!d. The Trojan Horse 🐎 is Long C0️⃣v!d.

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The Psychologist @psychmag.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Stuck in the middle with masking… Psychologist @drseanmullen.bsky.social is 'playing the long game in a short-sighted age'. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

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Stuck in the middle with masking | BPS

Psychologist Dr Sean Mullen is 'playing the long game in a short-sighted age'.

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Merr*Seas @merrseas.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

🔥 Good 🧵 The ‘Other Person’ could be you someday. No one is immune to disease or disability. Stop Othering! Read to the end.

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Christos Argyropoulos MD, PhD, FASN 🇺🇸 0kale/acc @christosargyrop.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Shot: common cold virus we have all caught (*) increases the risk of dementia Chaser: The common virus is #Covid19 (*) which our newspaper, among others, told you it is no biggie, so you kept getting and encouraged your kids to get it too. Left: the paper, right: herd immunity

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Christos Argyropoulos MD, PhD, FASN 🇺🇸 0kale/acc @christosargyrop.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Numerous papers and Daily Mail is trying (?possibly) to establish a record of "we told you so" but #UDoU www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic... Systematic review of the studies until the beginning of 2025 academic.oup.com/acn/article/...

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How wave of new dementias may be fueled by common culprit

A new study adds to link between dementia risk and COVID-19. Scientists caution that the evidence has yet to show anything conclusive.

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Gerard Hughes @ghhughes.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

This is what we are losing when the government axed NIOSH and its National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory: A 10 year plan "focused on novel hazards, PPE shortages, and advancing nationwide PPE expertise and capabilities"

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Merr*Seas @merrseas.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Covid & All 200 of its possible outcomes-Long Cov, Death… are still a threat to Life & Health. Defunding research, 🙈🙉🙊 & Attempting to sweep it under the rug makes Everything Much Worse! "one would be hard-pressed to find anyone similarly willing to say “post AIDS" www.bmj.com/content/388/...

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Suggesting the world is “post COVID” contributes to an unwitting shift in research priorities

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Dominik Steiger @dominiksteiger.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

„No reason to escalate while the damage grows organically.“ Interesting summary by Jakob Hanke Vela on the mood in Brussels regarding the Trump tariffs.

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Merr*Seas @merrseas.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

“A particularly pernicious aspect of the public health and media reaction to the ongoing COVID pandemic has been the tendency to downplay bad news and slow-walk a public discussion of the risks by invoking the specter of “fearmongering”.” typingmonkeys.substack.com/p/calm-monge...

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Calm-mongering

Fine-tuning the potential emotional impact of risk is not the same as managing it

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Proton @proton.me · 28/03/2025

How we use the internet is largely shaped by a handful of US-based tech giants. US gov't surveillance laws allow them to demand access to your private data without your knowledge or a warrant. Read the thread below for the list of European alternatives that put your privacy first. 1/16

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