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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

OUR NEW BMJ editorial: Andes virus should reset WHO’s default approach to airborne risk. 🧵 1/ For severe pathogens with person-to-person transmission, the starting point should be precautionary airborne protections — not waiting for definitive proof after spread occurs. www.bmj.com/content/393/...

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 03/10/2025

www.nyc.gov/site/doh/cov... #medsky

The only way to prevent long COVID is to avoid getting COVID19. With every infection, there is a risk of developing long COVID.

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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Long COVID (and life) teaches you this. Research imagines what medicine could be, but medicine often shrugs. The best doctors chase the questions. The worst don’t even look up.

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Mady Hornig, MA, MD @mhornig.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Important new work from @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social + NIH RECOVER (incl my son Max 🥰). Link👇 Nearly 80% of those with self-reported change in/loss of sense of smell after SARS-CoV-2 infection were found to have ↓ olfactory function on formal testing. Rate ↑ but not entirely unexpected.

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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

The NIH in the US have highlighted a recent ME/CFS study they funded: "Overactive immune responses in ME/CFS" www.nih.gov/news-events/... #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME @mhornig.bsky.social

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Mady Hornig, MA, MD @mhornig.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Great to speak w/@jasongale.bsky.social to add much-needed depth back into the still-unfolding story of autism pathogenesis. Hopefully helps to course-correct Monday's WH presser, which put forth clinical guidance many find worrisome + dangerous for pregnant women + their developing offspring.

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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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Mady Hornig, MA, MD @mhornig.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Not just scientists and universities anymore: threat to nonprofits: insurance companies are cancelling insurance because of environmental advocacy eedition.timesunion.com/infinity/art...

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Audubon chapter gets surprise insurance cancellation

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

When the moment came, Harvard didn’t hedge or flinch—it stood up. A reminder that integrity isn’t complicated, it’s just rare.

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Mady Hornig, MA, MD @mhornig.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Jesse Welles delivers one more time what you’ve probably been trying to put into words… RED #singersongwriter #country #folk #song 👇👇👇

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Mady Hornig, MA, MD @mhornig.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

"Driving under viral impairment" ▶︎ #SARSCoV2 PCR positivity rates (CDC) associated w/car crashes: OR 1.25 [1.23-1.26] ▶︎ independent of Long COVID status/vaccination status ▶︎ risk analogous to driving impairment w/EtOH at legal limits dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

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Driving under viral impairment: Linking acute SARS-CoV-2 infections to elevated car crash risks

This study explores the linkage between acute SARS-CoV-2 and car crashes across U.S. states, correlating with COVID-19 mitigation strategies, vaccination rates, and Long COVID prevalence. This investi...

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Mady Hornig, MA, MD @mhornig.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

h/t Collab for Health & Environment @che-healthenv.bsky.social Lawyers for Good Government is providing legal advice/support for all qualifying federal grantees w/funding at risk. 1:1 consultations pro bono to EPA, USDA, DOE grantees. See: www.lawyersforgoodgovernment.org/fund-protect...

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Fund Protection Legal Guidance Request — Lawyers for Good Government

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 17/03/2025

1. Today in Santa Barbara I saw an extraordinary abstract art piece—or so it seemed—from Hank Willis Thomas. As we speak, Trump seeks to erase large swaths of our history, attempting to erase the most shameful parts of our history, and paint over the triumphs and sacrifices of people of color.

Art piece with an American flag, slashes of paint, and large white splotches.

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Mady Hornig, MA, MD @mhornig.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

For context, as we extend past 5 years from the start of the pandemic: Although some findings in Long COVID are reminiscent of the illness duration effect we found in ME/CFS 👇, immune analyses over time in rigorous prospective, long-term studies of Long COVID are imperative to pursue now.

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Mark Igra @markigra.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2025

DOGE/SSA marked this person dead and *removed his savings from his bank account,* cancelled his social security and Medicare. #seattle www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/p…

The Seattle Times
"There's nothing you need to do - we've deducted the funds from LEONARD A.
JOHNSON's account."
Uh oh. It itemized how $5,201 had been stricken from their bank account, on the grounds that Ned wasn't justified to get those benefits - because he was dead.
That was for payments he'd received in December and January.
Ned found that his February Social Security check hadn't been paid, and he's yet to receive his March check, either. His Medicare insurance had been canceled.
He also learned that when you die, your credit score gets marked as "deceased, do not issue credit," which makes it tough to get a loan.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/03/2025

Walz: "The idea that the secretary of education would not know what IDEA is -- individuals with disability in education act -- that's like your mechanic not knowing how to put air in your tire. And she's in charge of this nation's education progress. It is catastrophic."

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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

AOC: "It's not just that Trump is corrupt. It's that everyone participating in this is corrupt. Elon is corrupt. Jeff Bezos is corrupt. Mark Zuckerberg is corrupt." 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

What a wonderful idea…👇 Let’s. Do. This. ✨

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 23/02/2025

In case you were wondering how Fox News is covering the proposed cuts at the NIH:

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 21/02/2025

PLOS has issued a statement on recent US Executive Orders and scientific integrity. We are determined to stand firmly behind our mission, our values and our principles, and against any attempt at censorship or undermining of the core principles of scientific inquiry. plos.io/3D4O8cH

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PLOS statement on recent US Executive Orders and scientific integrity - The Official PLOS Blog

Since its founding over twenty five years ago PLOS has been dedicated to advancing open science, ensuring that knowledge is accessible to…

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Katie J. @kjohnstone.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

There's a wonderful letter to Cochrane about their outdated and harmful review of exercise as a treatment for ME/CFS, organised by @davidtuller1 and signed by a group of experts. virology.ws/2025/02/20/t...

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Mady Hornig, MA, MD @mhornig.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Great 🧵by @leorahorwitzmd on the new JAMA ppr on 2024 update to #NIHRECOVER #LongCOVID index. Also listen to her incisive presentation on the podcast (see🔗👇). Great to work w/this group as we strive to refine understanding of this disabling disorder's clinical manifestations

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Mady Hornig, MA, MD @mhornig.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

OK #oncsky: 45+y ago Koprowski proposed CA19-9 as part of #PDAC screening armamentarium. Yet few pubs on clinical f/u of assay discordance. 👇 (*same* hosp sys; no known clin correlate): Siemens assays consistently ↑↑ (mid-triple digits) Beckman assays consistently normal Which assay do you trust?

CA19-9 discordance by immunoassay:
Siemens chemiluminometric assay consistently high (mid-triple digits)
Beckman DxI consistently normal range (<<<cutoff)

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ramyisback1989.bsky.social @ramyisback1989.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I am only at 81 followers 🥲 Can you guys re-post this so I can reconnect with more people here. It's me, Ramy 👋

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/11/2024

Make America Healthy Again lasted less than a Scaramucci

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

HUGE THANKS 🏆 to everyone who has signed so far! We're at ✨8300 signatures✨-- can you help get us to 10k? This petition closes TODAY so please sign and share, not just here but w/your networks!

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Mady Hornig, MA, MD @mhornig.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Hey @support.bsky.team after successfully managing to get #medsky labels removed, my profile now suddenly states “Invalid handle” instead of showing the handle. How to fix?

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Brett Meiselas @bmeiselas.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I'm just not so sure the presidency and the position of attorney general were meant to be safe havens for people trying to avoid prison time

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Mady Hornig, MA, MD @mhornig.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Thx for the heads up @erictopol.bsky.social Really 🙏 to see this attention to #LongCOVID. The cover art suggests to me not only the burden shouldered by patients/those who care for them but the weighty challenges posed to our medical/scientific communities as well. May the momentum be sustained…

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Jack A Gilbert @gilbertjacka.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Sustainable Microbiology (doi.org/10.1093/sumb...) The ISME Journal (doi.org/10.1093/isme...) mSystems (doi.org/10.1128/msys...) FEMS Microbiology Ecology (doi.org/10.1093/fems...)

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Microbial solutions must be deployed against climate catastrophe

This paper is a call to action. By publishing concurrently across journals like an emergency bulletin, we are not merely making a plea for awareness about

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Mady Hornig, MA, MD @mhornig.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Mortality ⬆️ and #LongCOVID: what might the mechanisms be? What targets might help prevent/mitigate? Let’s keep The Conversation (@theconversation.bsky.social) going *and* the rigorous interrogations expanding

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