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#LongCovid since May 9, 2022. I was out for my morning run when exhaustion hit me. PEM, orthostatic intolerance, etc Last #SARSCov2 infection: April 2022. Medical news m.youtube.com/@VirusSucks-com/shorts #COVID is airborne so ventilate

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TheValuesVoter @thevaluesvoter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
To the “Christians” who condone every evil and sadistic action taken against immigrants because “they’re illegal,” here is what the Bible says about how foreigners should and should not be treated. You know, the Book you claim to believe in.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 7h
Why do our cells age? It's not just wear and tear, accumulated damage. Loss of cell identity takes center stage. A new Nature paper and connection with prior work that substantially advances the science of aging. In the new Ground Truths. erictopol.substack.com/p/loss-of-ce...
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Loss of Cell Identity Drives Human Aging
That’s What Biological (Epigenetic) Aging Clocks Are Measuring
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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
University College Dublin researchers studied 356 people with PASC and found 6 distinct inflammatory bioprofiles. Three showed higher tissue damage, clotting, axonal injury, or antiviral markers, biology that symptom groupings missed. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/...
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Characterizing Host Inflammatory Bioprofiles in People With Postacute Sequelae SARS‐CoV‐2 Infection (PASC)
Postacute sequelae of COVID-19 or “PASC” is a common but heterogeneous condition associated with significant morbidity. Although its pathogenesis remains poorly understood, proposed underlying mechan...
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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Washington University, >90,000 hospitalized patients. Flu was linked to health problems lasting up to 18 months, including lung, brain and heart effects. Acute infection can end while the biology keeps unfolding. www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
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Column | ‘Long flu’ can linger for months. Here’s how to reduce your risk.
Persistent symptoms can harm the lungs and other organs, including the brain.
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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
University of Glasgow researchers, 9,312 Scottish adults. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Long COVID was reported by 4.9% with no activity limitation, 9.2% limited a little, and 14.4% limited a lot. The study shows a strong disability gradient, not which came first. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Severity of activity limitation and prevalence of long COVID: a nationally representative cross-sectional study of adults in Scotland - Tropical Medicine and Health
Background Long COVID is a persistent contributor to population morbidity, and people with disabilities experience substantial and often avoidable health disadvantage worldwide. Whether long COVID is ...
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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
University for Continuing Education Krems researchers reviewed 635 publications on vaccines in pregnancy. Evidence for COVID-19, flu and pertussis was substantial across effectiveness, safety and immunity. RSV evidence remains limited. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Maternal vaccination against COVID-19, influenza, pertussis, and respiratory syncytial virus: a scoping review - npj Vaccines
npj Vaccines - Maternal vaccination against COVID-19, influenza, pertussis, and respiratory syncytial virus: a scoping review
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Washington Post: '‘Long flu’ can linger for months. Here’s how to reduce your risk.' 'The more we understand what acute infections are doing, the more we understand their long-term consequences, Al-Aly said. “It sort of eats something...." www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
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Column | ‘Long flu’ can linger for months. Here’s how to reduce your risk.
Persistent symptoms can harm the lungs and other organs, including the brain.
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NBC Sports: 'Kristaps Porzingis out indefinitely to start Warriors training camp due to health issue' 'While the Warriors provided no details of Porzingis’ health concerns, he has been dealing with POTS — Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome...' www.nbcsports.com/nba/news/kri...
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Kristaps Porzingis out indefinitely to start Warriors training camp due to health issue
Not a great way to start training camp for a Warriors team that needs health to go its way this season.
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Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dengue fever outbreak in Florida: Symptoms, number of cases and locations where the mosquito-borne illness is spreading via @English_AS en.as.com/latest_news/...
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Dengue fever outbreak in Florida: Symptoms, number of cases and locations where the mosquito-borne illness is spreading
There are now 392 reported cases of Dengue fever in the Sunshine State with the most cases occurring in Hillsborough County followed by Miami-Dade.
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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Health-related quality of life in IBD patients with long COVID under China’s normalized COVID-19 management - BMC Infectious Diseases
Introduction Although the COVID pandemic has gradually subsided, many patients have experienced complicated long-term symptoms, collectively known as “long-COVID”, which is commonly associated with pe...
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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Adebisi et al. Tropical Medicine and Health (2026) 54:214 doi.org/10.1186/s411...
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VirusSucks.com @virussucks.com · 29/09/2026
Removing the lymph nodes from the neck blocks lymphatic drainage and is linked to cognitive impairment. Substantiates the critical role of brain waste clearance and the potential intervention of the LVA surgical procedure being studied cell.com/neuron/fullt... #medsky
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Cervical lymphadenectomy impairs brain lymphatic clearance and synaptic proteostasis
Khan, Clement et al. show that subjects undergoing removal of cervical lymph nodes presented an elevated risk for cognitive impairment. The disruption of brain lymphatic clearance triggers metabolic a...
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Data show: Older adults hospitalized for COVID at increased risk for stroke The preprint study also found that vaccination against COVID-19 was protective. Read more: bit.ly/4hkLzVk
Older man lying in a hospital bed
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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The role of medical negligence in the Cargill tragedy highlights how medical self-regulation is routinely abused to protect senior MDs from accountability. Try it. *Even now* you'll get nothing but excuses. But keep the receipts, and post them. If they won't fix it, it needs to be taken away.
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Complaints - College of Physicians & Surgeons of Alberta | CPSA
Complaints are often an opportunity to improve patient care. We support fair process and favour an educational approach, but apply discipline when necessary.
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VirusSucks.com @virussucks.com · 29/09/2026
🚨 one in eight cancer cases worldwide may be caused by infections Millions of cancers are preventable, says Gary Clifford, the study’s senior author. “These are very actionable risk factors. We can test for them. We can vaccinate against them.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/one-... #medsky
An estimated one in eight cancer cases worldwide may be caused by infections—many of which are preventable with treatment or vaccines, according to new research.

In a study published on Monday in the Lancet Oncology, researchers estimate that infections were responsible for approximately 2.3 million cancer cases, or about 12 percent of diagnoses, worldwide in 2024.

Helicobacter pylori bacteria and human papillomavirus (HPV) combined accounted for more than an estimated 1.5 million cancer cases, the analysis found. An estimated 360,000 cancer cases were linked to hepatitis B infections, and 260,000 cases were caused by the Epstein-Barr virus.

Graphic shows a series of pie charts, each representing one type of cancer, scaled according to how many new cases of that cancer were diagnosed in 2024. Colored areas of the pie charts indicate how many of those cases were associated with infections, with each infection shown in a different color.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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This virus therapy supercharges the immune system against brain cancer
Scientists have found a way to make one of the most aggressive brain tumors vulnerable to the immune system. A single injection of a modified virus can invade glioblastoma, kill cancer cells, and summ...
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Scientists have engineered a virus that invades and destroys glioblastoma one of the deadliest brain cancers while turning the immune system into a relentless tumor-killing force. This could be a historic shift in cancer treatment.
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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Speaking as a medical professional in the US, I am perpetually amazed at the extent to which insurance companies relentlessly demonstrate an inability to figure out just which side their bread is buttered on.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Measles: What is likely going to happen in Florida (and much of the US) as MMR vaccination has dropped below the threshold needed to prevent outbreaks? Hundreds of deaths in the next 5 years projected throughout the US. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Royal Society of Medicine editorial. Long COVID is real and linked to sustained increases in healthcare use. The editor argues that underfunding medical science and continuity of care is a costly mistake for patients and health systems. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Long covid and other wise investments of time and money - Kamran Abbasi, 2026
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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
University of Suffolk researchers, 7 adolescents with Long COVID co-designed an online program. They valued breathing support, peer connection and flexible pacing, while stressing that care often targets symptoms instead of root causes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An absolutely damning report on the unnecessary COVID deaths of workers at the Cargill plant in High River, AB, highlighting public health and infection control's mismanagement of the crisis, and failure to engage OHS or follow the precautionary principle. albertapolitics.ca/wp-content/u...
As the evidence marshalled in this report shows, the massive
outbreak associated with Cargill was by no means inevitable. It
occurred because systems designed to protect worker health and
safety failed. And they failed for a number of interrelated reasons.
OHS and AHS Did Not Adopt the
Precautionary Principle
The virus SARS-CoV-2 is spread among humans via aerosol
transmission. The period during which someone with COVID-19
can transmit the virus varies depending on factors such as the
variant and severity of illness, but transmission can occur both
before and after symptom onset. Some infected individuals never
experience illness but still spread the virus to others.
At the beginning of the pandemic, Hinshaw and many other
public health leaders believed that COVID-19 only spread via
large droplets and that asymptomatic transmission was not
occurring. As a result, AHS EPH primarily focused on physical
barriers, physical distancing, hand-washing, and surgical masks as
preventative measures at Cargill.Cargill, AHS, and OHS did not consider the possible range of
aerosol transmission of the virus in a large crowded industrial
work setting and, therefore, did not prioritize — let alone consider
— higher-level control measures such as improved ventilation, air
filtration, and N95 (or equivalent) respirators.
Surgical masks, which were made mandatory at Cargill after April
16, provided inferior protection to workers working eight hours a
day, especially for those working in close quarters with inadequate
ventilation. Sometime between the closure of the facility (April
22) and its reopening (May 4), Alberta OHS came to believe that
tight-fitting, higher-filtration respirators (N95 or equivalent
masks) were required, as demonstrated by the ministerial order
approving KN95 masks (May 3) and OHS officers’ decision to wear
N95 masks during their May 4 inspection. However, the evidence
suggests that this view was not shared by Hinshaw.
Ventilation was not identified as a potential factor in the spread
at Cargill until early May, and even then, there is no evidence that
this pathway was further investigated by AHS or OHS.
Had OHS, AHS, and Cargill adopted the precautionary principle,
which requires taking proactive measures to maximize human
safety before the science about the transmission of a new virus
is known, more aggressive control measures would have been
adopted early on. If improved ventilation, provision of N95 masks
(or cartridge respirators), and other actions had been taken earlier,
hundreds of workers may have been spared from illness.None of the evidence we reviewed showed any communication
or coordination between AHS EPH officials and Alberta OHS at
this time. In response to our freedom of information requests for
email correspondence between the manager for OHS in Calgary
and several AHS officials who were directly involved in the Cargill
response, we were informed by the Government of Alberta’s
access to information that “a thorough search […] did not yield any
records responsive to your request.”195
By April 16, the total number of known confirmed positive cases
had reached approximately 550. At this point, there had only
been one in-person inspection of the plant, that being AHS’ April
7 visit, which resulted in non-binding recommendations. And, as
mentioned, there was no epidemiological analysis of the outbreak
showing the temporal pattern of the spread within the plant and
in the community.
An internal AHS MOH update on April 17 noted that “84% of
new COVID-19 cases [in the province] are in Calgary Zone, ‘most
related to Cargill.”196 By this time, a Cargill worker and union shop
steward had been admitted to an ICU. On April 18, another worker
would need life support care in the ICU. Cargill, AHS, and OHS had
lost control of the outbreak.Echoing Cargill’s response to the union’s April 12 letter, Dreeshen
cautioned workers not to listen to “inflammatory rhetoric” and
appealed to them to instead focus on information from public
health experts:
“…On this call are Alberta’s best medical minds and
they provide Alberta’s government with the best up
to date information on a daily basis and I would just
like to encourage everyone to not get distracted by
misleading noise or inflammatory rhetoric because
any government's primary goal — our core goal — is
to keep our people safe…”
Immediately after the town hall, Dreeshen posted on his social
media: “Directly communicated with [Cargill] workers to reassure
them that their worksite is safe.”217 Internal email messages
among senior officials with the Ministry of Agriculture and
Forestry suggest there was also “a request” to share some “key
messages” about the safety of Cargill’s plant through Hinshaw’s
Twitter account.218
Hours after the town hall, Dr. Nick Etches, acting lead medical
officer of health for the Calgary Zone, wrote to colleagues
requesting assistance with an epidemiological analysis of
the outbreak:
“[Hu] just spoke with [Hinshaw] and she wants us
to answer some questions that will likely require
additional epi support. Essentially we want to
determine the proportion of the Cargill-associated
cases that are due to:
1) Workplace transmission
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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hannover Medical School, 703 people. Brain-binding autoantibodies were slightly elevated after COVID, with NMDAR1 IgM about 2x pre-pandemic levels, but rates did not differ between Long COVID and recovered groups. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s not a story that anyone wants to hear but in February 2018 I caught a friend’s sore throat. While he recovered fully, I just kept declining, and by June I was 99% bedbound. Eight years later, that’s where I remain. We desperately need better defenses against all respiratory viruses.
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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For what it’s worth, according to the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) definition, this also counts as Long Covid—not just new symptoms but also worsened existing ones. If you have ever wondered if you’re part of the LC cohort.
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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Washington University in St. Louis researchers found that blocking CXCR3 in tauopathy mice cut brain T-cell infiltration ~50% and reduced brain atrophy ~40%, without lowering tau. Immune cell trafficking itself helped drive neurodegeneration. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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Peripheral CXCR3 blockade mitigates T cell infiltration and neurodegeneration in a mouse model of tauopathy
Emmerson et al. demonstrate that the CXCR3-CXCL10 chemokine signaling pathway is important for brain-infiltrating T cells in tau-mediated neurodegeneration. Blocking CXCR3 reduces T cell entry and pro...
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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Three Long COVID trials, three different approaches. Useful roundup, but it feels more informed by trial headlines than the rapidly expanding biology. voices.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Three Very Different Ways to Treat Long Covid
Two that are promising, and one that is difficult to talk about
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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Recent photo at the NHS. Over 6 years into #COVID, and we still have “wash your hands” under “AIRBORNE PRECAUTIONS.” We are failing hard to communicate one of the most basic lessons of this pandemic: Airborne means spread through the AIR. Clean air is infection control. #Airborne #PublicHealth #NHS
Photo shows a sign at NHS that says: Airborne precaution
Please wash your hands before entering the training room. Thank you
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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hong Kong Baptist University researchers review how natural killer cells shape brain disease, from clearing virus infected cells and autoreactive immune cells to driving inflammation. The key may be targeting the right NK cell subset. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Harnessing Natural Killer Cells: From Neuroimmunology to Novel Therapies for Central Nervous System Diseases
This review delineates the multifaceted roles of natural killer (NK) cells in the central nervous system, spanning direct cytolysis, immunoregulation, and crosstalk with the brain microenvironment. W...
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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Researchers found K-9 reversed paralysis and vision loss in a mouse model of MS while preserving myelin and axons. It blocked NLRP3 inflammasome signaling, pointing to innate immune inflammation as a treatable disease mechanism. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The nucleoside analog kamuvudine-9 shows protective and therapeutic efficacy in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis
Nucleoside analogs show protective and therapeutic effects in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis (MS) and association with reduced MS risk in humans.
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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Direct link to the preprint (& FREE PDF): Early Mucosal Type II Interferon Limits SARS-CoV-2 Replication in Humans (July 1, 2026) www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Early Mucosal Type II Interferon Limits SARS-CoV-2 Replication in Humans
COVID-19 vaccines markedly reduce disease severity, but their ability to block infection and transmission remains limited and variable.[1][1] A better understanding of early mucosal immune programs th...
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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Interesting🧵by Zdenek Vrozina on XTwitter: "When you catch COVID, the virus shows up in your mouth and throat first. The nose lags by two to three days. An important study tracked all three sites daily in sixteen people from the very start of..." 19-tweet🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/21044...
When you catch COVID, the virus shows up in your mouth and throat first. The nose lags by two to three days. 
An important study tracked all three sites daily in sixteen people from the very start of infection - and found something unexpected in how the mucosa fights back🧵
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VirusSucks.com @virussucks.com · 28/09/2026
Mechanisms of sudden cardiac arrest in children during the #COVID19 era. Pediatric #LongCOVID patients having cardiac arrest 😔 Why?
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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The brain uses a lot of energy. But it's not using that energy all the time and at the same intensity. It's not just more neuronal activity = more energy. There is also a lot of background process demending energy. 🧪 Link: www.nature.com/articles/s42003-026-…
a, b Representative recordings from an Mlc1-tTA::tetO-PYRS mouse expressing a pyruvate sensor in astrocytes (panels a, c, d, g, i, k) and a Thy1-ATeam mouse expressing an ATP sensor in neurons (panels b, e, f, h, j, l). ECoG spectrograms, raw ECoG, and EMG traces indicate sleep-wake states. c–f Fluorescence signals from four cortical regions: secondary motor cortex (MOs), somatosensory upper limb cortex (SSu), primary visual cortex (V1), and retrosplenial cortex (RSC). Astrocytic pyruvate (d) and neuronal ATP (f) signals were calculated by correcting FRET signal (fYFP) with dYFP to remove blood volume and pH change effects (pyruvate: – (fYFP – dYFP; ATP: fYFP – dYFP). Astrocytic pyruvate (d) increased during REM sleep and declined gradually after awakening, whereas neuronal ATP (f) decreased during REM sleep and recovered rapidly upon awakening. g, h Trajectories astrocytic pyruvate (g) or neuronal ATP (h) signals versus inverted dYFP (idYFP, a proxy for BBV) during pre-REM (100 s before REM onset; black), REM (last 50 s before awakening; light blue), and WAKE (50 s after awakening; orange) periods. Red circles indicate the mean values for each period. Arrows indicate the temporal progression direction of trajectories. Cortical maps of idYFP and astrocytic pyruvate (i) and neuronal ATP (j), averaged over each sleep period. All cortical maps represent absolute ΔF/F values. k, l Scatter plots summarizing mean astrocytic pyruvate (k) and neuronal ATP (l) signal changes against idYFP in eight cortical regions (26 episodes from n = 3 mice) for pre-REM, REM, and WAKE periods. Data are presented as mean ± SEM. During REM sleep, posterior regions (e.g., RSC, V1) showed larger increases in idYFP and astrocytic pyruvate and stronger decreases in neuronal ATP.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"COVID rises in Spain: the estimated incidence increases by 69% in a week" 🔹 85 cases per 100,000, up from 50.4 the previous week — a nearly 69% increase 🔹 SARS-CoV-2 test positivity also climbed sharply, rising from 19% to 25.8%
A screenshot of an online news article from Demócrata, dated September 27, 2026. The headline reads, "COVID rises in Spain: the estimated incidence increases by 69% in a week," with the subheadline, "The latest surveillance report detects more circulation of the virus in Primary Care, while the estimated hospitalization rate decreases."
The article includes a photograph of two healthcare workers clad in full personal protective equipment (PPE)—including blue gowns, gloves, masks, and hair coverings—tending to a patient in a hospital bed behind a glass partition. The article byline attributes the piece to Dolores Sánchez, published and last updated on September 26, 2026, at 07:37.
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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Useful paper. Consider hypocarbia when you see POTS. At least it's a treatment responsive cause of breathlessness👍🏻 www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/15...
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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am rarely affected by discourse on social media, but the current wave of posts asserting that Long Covid is psychosomatic has angered me. To be very clear: if you're asserting that LC isn't a physical disease, you're ignorant of science. End of.
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Greg Proops @gregproops.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Get Vaccinated
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These people make Marie Antoinette look connected to the people and empathetic by comparison. They laugh at what their own voters are going through as they continue to mock them as they enrich themselves and have a great time.
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VirusSucks.com @virussucks.com · 27/09/2026
🚨 @glennkirschner.bsky.social , @malcolmnance.bsky.social and @markhamillofficial.bsky.social met up in California and Malcolm sounds like he has COVID this morning. Gargle w/ mouthwash containing CPC to minimize the extent of the infection, whatever you think it is. Get Paxlovid. Get a PCR test.
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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠 Part 2 The gift that keeps giving 👀 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Posthospitalization COVID-19 cognitive deficits at 1 year are global and associated with elevated brain injury markers and gray matter volume reduction - Nature Medicine
A national prospective study of patients requiring hospitalization for COVID-19 demonstrates global cognitive deficits at 1 year, associated with elevated brain injury markers and reduced gray matter ...
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The word of the day: Zombified www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hacettepe University researchers review evidence that persistent SARS-CoV-2 antigens and tissue reservoirs may sustain endothelial, immune and clotting dysfunction in some Long COVID. Evidence is much stronger after infection than vaccination. www.mdpi.com/2227-9059/14...
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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
An examination of the consequences of hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS, caused by the Andes hantavirus) showed half of the patients required ECMO (which would rapidly overwhelm capacity in any major outbreak), and overall mortality was 20%. Unclear if the COVID interaction is direct.
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Temporal trends in critical care burden and outcomes of Andes virus-associated hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome: a national Chilean cohort - Intensive Care Medicine
Purpose Andes virus causes hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS), a severe disease found in central and southern parts of Chile and Argentina. Recently a case-outbreak of HCPS was reported on a c...
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Noor Lovelace @noorlovelace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I just told my partner that there are a lot of days where I really, really do not want to mask. But I still do, every single day, because the alternative is me either becoming more disabled, making my healthy partner more disabled, or getting more dead. It makes me sad that people
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don’t even know what to say anymore. The only thing Covid conscious people are trying to do, truly, is not get sick. That we’ve become the country’s newest freak show is predictable given the pandemic, but truly despicable on a base human level.
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VirusSucks.com @virussucks.com · 26/09/2026
#LongCOVID research keeps clustering patients by symptom domain (autonomic, cognitive, respiratory). But per Wang et al. 2026 (eClinicalMedicine), these clusters reflect co-occurrence patterns, not confirmed biological subtypes. Time to stratify by mechanism instead. 🧵
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Kristin Meekes @kmeekes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“And so we have wasted decades in which huge numbers of patients have been abused, mistreated, and their very horrible condition made even worse by medicine” “Thus is one of the worst illnesses you can have” Please listen and learn ⬇️
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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
University of Rijeka review finds neurological Long COVID is best explained by interacting biology including viral persistence, immune dysregulation, blood brain barrier dysfunction, dysautonomia and metabolic disruption. www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/15...
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bateman Horne Center: Underlying Biological Abnormalities in Long COVID & ME/CFS - Sept 2026 Ft. Dr. Anthony Komaroff, Dr. Lily Chu, and Dr. Cindy Bateman www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu5T...
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Underlying Biological Abnormalities in Long COVID & ME/CFS - Sept 2026
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