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Tara, MPH

@tarazupancic.bsky.social
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Public health scientist, ecologist at heart (she/her) Work on #climate and #health by day. Spare time spent building the soil to help things grow🌱Focused on the long game. Rabid masker. #LongCovid advocate.

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Long Covid Kids @longcovidkids.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
⭐ “While our study is small, its results are powerful and have implications not only for MIS-C, but potentially for long COVID,” said lead author @laelyonker.bsky.social ⭐️ www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/new... #PIMS #MISC #Treatment #LongCovidKids #LongCovid #ChildHealth
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Powerful excerpt: “Intentionally or not, the Ban will signal that there is something wrong with or suspect about having a gender identity that is different than the sex you were assigned at birth. Gender diverse youth will bear the entire burden of that speculation. 1/3
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Dr. Kristopher Wells @drkristopherwells.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
It’s only the start of Pride Season. We go all summer. 🌈
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Dr. Kristopher Wells @drkristopherwells.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Donate to Skipping Stone and Egale! The fight is far from over. This is only a temporary injunction.
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Dr. Kristopher Wells @drkristopherwells.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
BREAKING NEWS. Alberta Court of King’s Bench grants injunction preventing Alberta Government from banning gender-affirmative care for minors citing “irreparable harm will be caused if the Ban comes into force.” A victory for human rights and trans youth! 🏳️‍⚧️
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 27/06/2025
Great news! 🎉🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The US attacks on Iran breached international law www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/06... Under the Geneva Convention of 1949 as modified in 1977, an attack on a nuclear installation that is not a power plant is illegal during war, but that is what the USA just did.
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The US attacks on Iran breached international law
It is worth noting these protocols this morning: One key clause addresses the issue of attacking nuclear sites, and says: Those looking for a let-out might claim section 2 of this Article provid...
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/06/2025
Illinois has enshrined protections to meet this very moment. In a time of increasing overreach and hateful rhetoric, it's more important than ever to reaffirm our commitment to the rights and dignity of the LGBTQ+ community. You have a home here always.
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Cindy Blackstock @cblackst.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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#TheMoment a student built an interactive map to help wildfire evacuees
Computer science student Justin Fung recalls the moment he created Winnipeg Community Compass, a website with an interactive map to help Manitoba wildfire evacuees find essential services, with some i...
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Tara, MPH @tarazupancic.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
One of the best characterizations of #longCOVID I’ve ever read and how it stems from a much greater pathology.
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A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles
BY VIOLET AFFLECK I spent the January fires in Los Angeles arguing with my mother in a hotel room. She was shell-shocked, astonished at the scale of destruction in the neighborhood where she raised…
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Tara, MPH @tarazupancic.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
“I don’t know what the big deal is” is the long and the short of it.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Alberta First Nations issue cease and desist order against Danielle Smith's attempt to create a national unity crisis. Alberta is on treaty lands. Those treaties were signed 30 years before Alberta became a province.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
“…this morning, from a war zone half a world away, I was reading about your election. And for the first time in days, I exhaled. A small, almost invisible breath. Relief. And then came gratitude… You didn’t just choose kindness or experience… You chose not to flirt with fascism.” From Ukraine.
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The Nation That Trump Could Never Break
Canada didn’t just resist, they reminded the rest of us how to endure
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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
With CBC now having called all ridings it's time for the land-vs-people-vote animation.
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Tara, MPH @tarazupancic.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
For people living with #LongCovid who get questions from friends & family, save your energy and just send them this.
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Tara, MPH @tarazupancic.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
An excellent factsheet shared by University of Toronto’s Rehabilitation Science Research Network for #COVID, in the Faculty of Medicine #LongCovid
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Patient-Led Research Collaborative Launches Fact Sheet
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Rehabilitation Science Research Network for COVID @uoftcovidrehab.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Todd Davenport’s #KeyMessages from the #COVIDRehab forum: 📌 Long COVID symptoms have a basis in bioenergetic impairment, which can be demonstrated using 2-day CPET
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Rehabilitation Science Research Network for COVID @uoftcovidrehab.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Alice MacLean discusses people's experiences of attempts to return to work and school with Long COVID. Key message at #COVIDRehab forum: 📌 Existing policies are not well-designed for episodic disabilities like Long COVID
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Rehabilitation Science Research Network for COVID @uoftcovidrehab.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Todd Davenport discusses Abnormal Post-Exertional Recovery in People Living with Long COVID: Insights from Two-Day Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing at #COVIDRehab forum with @sunsopeningband.bsky.social
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Rehabilitation Science Research Network for COVID @uoftcovidrehab.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Simon Décary’s #KeyMessages from the #COVIDRehab forum: 📌 Quebec implemented a 15-site integrated care model, delivering care to thousands of Long COVID patients from 2020-2025
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
What you're seeing are wet microbursts—intense downdrafts from thunderstorms that slam rain into the ground, creating those stunning lobes. Like a reverse explosion from the sky. Captured in Perth, #Australia
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
PolyBio: 'Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation donation expands PolyBio Long COVID program' 'Funds will support exploration of SARS-CoV-2’s potential to drive cancer, as well as continued work delineating persistence of the virus in LC tissue, including therapies..' polybio.org/chan-soon-sh...
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Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation donation expands PolyBio Long COVID program - PolyBio Research Foundation
Funds will support exploration of SARS-CoV-2’s potential to drive cancer, as well as continued work delineating persistence of the virus in...
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
"The COVID-conscious people have not abandoned science, It’s the opposite: They’ve come to think that science has abandoned them." People who are taking precautions, some of whom are immunocompromised, should not be mocked or discriminated against www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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The Evermaskers
The isolation of people who take precautions against COVID has only gotten more intense.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/04/2025
Masking discourse is on again and I’ll just say if you see people masking when few others are it’s likely because they’ve determined that for them, in that setting, the benefit of not catching (or spreading) whatever’s going around is worth the cost of masking. It’s rarely more complicated than that
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Tara, MPH @tarazupancic.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Highlights how #Canada plays a critical role in the future of global democracy.
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Yale fascism expert on fleeing to Canada | CBC Radio
One of the U.S.’s leading scholars on fascism is coming to Canada. We talk to Jason Stanley about American fascism, its conspirators, and its homegrown origins.
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Mario Aguilar @bleubird76.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
🌈 Choose Kindness And Compassion 🏳️‍⚧️🫂🏳️‍🌈 #LGBTQIA+ #CelebrateLove #CelebrateDiversity #MentalHealth
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loscharlos @loscharlos.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🚨ACTION: #LongCovid research funding is on track to be fully eliminated & could mean the difference between treatments in our lifetime or not. If you care about that — please take action & share this! 1. Call: win.newmode.net/longcovidcam... 2. Email: actionnetwork.org/letters/long...
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HIPC @hipcproject.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Looking forward to our collaborator @virusesimmunity.bsky.social giving Lecture 3-27 at @crick.ac.uk "Immunology of Post Acute Infection Syndrome." #covidsky #IDsky #LongCovid www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...
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Crick Lecture | Akiko Iwasaki
“Immunology of Post-Acute Infection Syndrome"
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Tara, MPH @tarazupancic.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Egale Canada has launched Vote with Pride!
egale.ca
Vote with Pride - Egale Canada
Centered Blue Button Return to top of page Vote with Pride is a non-partisan campaign by Egale Canada, fully compliant with Elections Canada and Canadian Revenue Agency guidelines. Egale Canada does n...
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Tara, MPH @tarazupancic.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Thank you @ryantennant.bsky.social !!
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Tara, MPH @tarazupancic.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
If you are unable to vote in person, here is the link to apply to vote by mail. It takes 5 minutes but you have to do it ASAP to get the package in time.
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Apply to vote by mail
Apply to vote by mail.
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Tara, MPH @tarazupancic.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
A very important read for the next month and beyond!
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CANADIAN ELECTION PREDICTION: A TIDAL WAVE OF ONLINE HATE
Facebook, X, and the MAGA Maple Mob
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Dr. Kristopher Wells @drkristopherwells.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Good to see this government funding announcement to strengthen 2SLGBTQI+ communities and invest in systemic changes. Including an important project funded in Grande Prairie, Alberta! 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ www.canada.ca/en/women-gen...
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Strengthening 2SLGBTQI+ communities to advance equality in Ontario and across Canada - Canada.ca
Today, the Honourable Steven Guilbault, Minister of Canadian Culture and Identity, Parks Canada and Quebec Lieutenant, who is responsible for the Department for Women and Gender Equality, announced up...
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
BBC: 'I've had long Covid for years, but I'm hopeful' The 37-year-old is one of 72 people who have been taking part in a trial at the University of Derby to test if an anti-viral drug could cure people with the condition. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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'I've had long Covid for years, but I'm hopeful again'
Ryan Cawley, who was diagnosed in 2021, has taken part in an anti-viral drug study.
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
3/12/25, “Emerge Australia Long COVID Awareness Week Symposium 2025” Speakers include: - Dr. David Putrino - Dr. Bernard Shiu - Eliza Charley - CEO Anne Wilson - @plumskyjam.bsky.social vimeo.com/1065043928
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Emerge Australia Long COVID Awareness Week Symposium 2025
Emerge Australia Long COVID Awareness Week Symposium 2025
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18/03/2025
INCREDIBLE Ruling! Judge Reyes just ruled that transgender people have served honorably in the military, judges Trumps trans military ban - which states trans people are inherently dishonorable - as unconstitutional and motivated by animus. Trans military members may continue to serve.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18/03/2025
1. Incredible ruling! An Ohio appeals court has ruled that trans care is healthcare, strikes down youth trans care ban! It made the ruling using the Republican-passed "health care freedom amendment" meant to overturn Obamacare! Subscribe to support my journalism. You'll want to read this one.
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Ohio Appeals Court Rules Trans Care Is Healthcare, Strikes Down Ban For Trans Youth
The ruling was in part based on a 2011 Amendment in the state guaranteeing healthcare freedom, originally meant to challenge Obamacare.
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Prof Brendan Crabb AC @brendancrabb.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
If you’re interested in a crash course from the beginning in chronic issues with COVID I recommend this excellent interview with David Putrino. Perhaps the least well understood consequence is the damage every infection likely causes everyone, symptomatic or not. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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Beyond long COVID — how reinfections could be causing silent long term organ damage
It’s now been five years since the COVID pandemic stopped the world in its tracks. The virus is still with us, and continues to make people sick. As many as 1 in 5 Canadians have experienced symptoms ...
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Putrino Lab @putrinolab.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I’ll end with a message of hope: we are learning every day. Progress is slow and difficult, but what I see in the trenches is that my teams (and other teams around the world) are slowly learning how to help individual patients one breakthrough at a time. We will be here for as 7/
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Thank you @rollingstone.com for the front page coverage Make the invisible visible. Long Covid is REAL and a growing crisis
Rolling stone front page - caption: five years of pain, fatigue, and gaslighting: life with long covid 

Pictured: activists in respirators protesting with signs in front of White House
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Canadian Covid Society @covidsociety.ca · 10/03/2025
Download the letter and send it today: covidsociety.ca/priorities/l... #CureLongCovidNow 2/2
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Send a letter to advocate for long Covid funding - Canadian Covid Society
Request Long Covid Funding and Support Today Funding and support to address the ongoing impact of long Covid is needed urgently. So we’re asking you to help us bring this issue to the attention of fed...
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Tara, MPH @tarazupancic.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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5 years since the pandemic started, long COVID patients are still hoping for a cure
They're pushing for more funding to find effective treatments. Researchers are finally starting to make headway but have a way to go.
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
CityNews Toronto: 'The lingering battle of long covid' 'It's been 5 years since COVID-19 first emerged, however its long-term effects are still haunting many. Melissa Nakhavoly speaks with patients with long covid and has more on their fight for answers.' toronto.citynews.ca/video/2025/0...
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The lingering battle of long covid
It's been 5 years since COVID-19 first emerged, however its long-term effects are still haunting many. Melissa Nakhavoly speaks with patients with long covid and has more on their fight for answers.
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Neurologist Mom @neurologistmom.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
“Mother Joins RECOVER-TLC Effort to Help Daughter and Others” That’s me. NIH featured parts of our interviews on this FNIH page. The timing is meaningful. #LongCovidAwarenessDay2025 fnih.org/patient-voic...
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Mother Joins RECOVER-TLC Effort to Help Daughter and Others | FNIH
Two years ago, Dr. Sevda Sarikaya’s 14-year-old daughter was an accomplished art student. Everything changed when the girl got COVID for the second time.
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#ApresJ20 - Association Covid Long France @apresj20.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
😓💖Francisco, 9 ans💔🙏 "SOS BESOIN D'AIDE ! Ma sœur a un Covid Long depuis 3 ans." #ApresJ20 #CovidLong #LongCOVIDAwareness #LongCOVIDAwarenessDay #CovidLongPediatrique
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Tara, MPH @tarazupancic.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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Life has gone back to normal. But those with long COVID continue to suffer | CBC News
Since catching COVID-19 in 2022, Nathanael Rafinejad, 29, can't stand longer than a few seconds at a time and has relied on a wheelchair. They are one of thousands of Quebecers with long COVID, a chro...
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Still COVIDing Canada @stillcovidingca.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
[Translated from French] A 19-year-old athlete now spends his days bedridden because of long COVID Le Journal de Montréal March 12, 2025 By Erika Aubin stillcoviding.ca/en/news/un-s... #COVID #LongCovid #LongCovidAwareness
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A 19-year-old athlete now spends his days bedridden because of long COVID
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Long Covid Kids @longcovidkids.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
'UK doctor says Britain is failing children with #LongCovid' @emmabatha.bsky.social Pulmonologist @binitakane.bsky.social helped set up a Long Covid clinic after struggling to get treatment for her daughter. www.context.news/socioeconomi... #LongCovidAwareness #LongCovidKids #PaediatricLongCovid
'UK doctor says Britain is failing children with Long Covid' a mother and daughter sit at a table holding mugs of tea.
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Dr. Kristopher Wells @drkristopherwells.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
An update on Bill 26 in Alberta. The legislation is NOT in effect so access to gender-affirmative care for minors can continue as it has been across the province.
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