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Wendy Kloiber

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So did the divine right of kings. Long covid class of March 2020, the kind with ME. Would like one more tattoo, minimum. She/her. Ashland, WI —> MSP.

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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 19h
Journo request 🗞️: I'm looking to speak with California law experts (healthcare regulatory/admin law) about compliance on a #LongCOVID bill, AB 3119, and would be grateful to hear more expert perspectives 🙏 calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202...
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AB 3119: Physicians and surgeons, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants: continuing medical education: infection-associated chronic conditions. | Digital Democracy
Digital Democracy overview of bill AB 3119: Physicians and surgeons, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants: continuing medical education: infection-associated chronic conditions.
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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"It might be more accurate to view Long COVID not as a single disease episode but as a long term condition, punctuated by periods of remission and relapse." A BMJ opinion by Charlie Dennis and @nisreenalwan.bsky.social on defining Long COVID "recovery". www.bmj.com/content/393/...
A screen shot of a BMJ print article, reading, "Opinion: Charlie Dennis and NIsreen A. Alwan. 

If you have long covid, how can you tell if you have fully recovered? Six years of evidence and collective lived experience show us that this is not an easy question to answer. Yet if we do not define recovery, we cannot properly count the number of people living with long covid, and its present and future impact on the population’s wellbeing, economic productivity, and health systems.

Long covid remains a substantial global health problem. A recent report estimated that this condition will cost countries in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) $11bn (£8.3bn; €9.6bn) a year in healthcare costs over the next decade. The projected economic costs are $135bn a year.1

Since the start of the pandemic, clinicians, researchers, and health organisations have devoted substantial effort to defining and measuring long covid. In 2020, one of us (NAA) proposed that long covid be defined largely by what it is not: recovery from acute covid-19.2 This approach was reflected later in the World Health Organization’s definition, which describes long covid (post-covid-19 condition) as a condition following confirmed or probable SARS-CoV2 infection with symptoms that persist for at least two months, and cannot be explained by alternative diagnoses.3

Seven years into this pandemic, however, a critical question remains largely underexplored: what does it mean to be recovered from long covid?

Initially, recovery seems self-evident: a person’s eventual return to their pre-infection health status, albeit months or years later than expected. Yet the lived experiences of people with long covid challenge this assumption. Long covid is characterised by fluctuations, relapses, new symptoms developing, and periods of apparent improvement, all of which make it far harder to distinguish genuine recovery from temporary remission.456

A striking feature of the literature on lo…fails to differentiate between relatively brief symptom remittance and true long term recovery. This lack of precision matters. If we can’t separate people experiencing a temporary remission from those who’ve fully recovered, then public health estimates of disease burden will become unstable and difficult to interpret. It also obscures the lived reality of patients whose health might cycle unpredictably between improvement, the hope of recovery, and the return of symptoms.

Moreover, as we move into an age of research being done in partnership with patients rather than just on them, it is important to examine patients’ perspectives on recovery. Through this lens we can better understand the way changes in a person’s experience of symptoms can affect their sense of self. When people who consider themselves recovered from long covid were asked how long they were symptom-free before reaching that conclusion, their answers ranged from a few weeks to over six months.4 Such variation likely reflects the cumulative experience of relapse and people’s answers may be dependent on the overall duration of their illness: people who had long covid for longer may learn not to trust short periods of improvement and therefore recalibrate what “recovered” means to them.

One response might be to formalise recovery by using a standardised minimum duration of symptom absence. Yet even this approach runs into difficulty when reinfection is considered. Evidence from a patient led survey suggests that a majority of people who thought they had recovered from long covid experienced a return of symptoms after subsequent SARS-CoV-2 infections.10 In such cases, it might be more accurate to view long covid not as a single disease episode but as a long term condition, punctuated by periods of remission and relapse.

This raises important questions. Should we adopt the language of remission rather than recovery, as is common in other chronic conditions? This could improve conceptual clarity, but…
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 12h
I have a 7 am scan in December and my mind is already running the scenarios. Hope all goes well as possible.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 12h
No way. #perfumesky
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Olfactory receptors are expressed by different cell types throughout the body and regulate physiological cell functions beyond olfaction. In particular, the olfactory receptor ORZAT4 has been shown to stimulate keratinocyte proliferation in the skin. Here, we show that the epithelium of human hair follicles, particularly the outer root sheath, expresses ORZAT4, and that specific stimulation of OR2AT4 by a synthetic sandalwood odorant (Sandalore®) prolongs human hair growth ex vivo by decreasing apoptosis and increasing production of the anagen-prolonging growth factor IGF-1. In contrast, co-administration of the specific OR2AT4 antagonist Phenirat® and silencing of ORZAT4 inhibit hair growth. Together, our study identifies that human hair follicles can engage in olfactory receptor-dependent chemosensation and require OR2AT4-mediated signaling to sustain their growth, suggesting that olfactory receptors may serve as a target in hair loss therapy.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 12h
There is a spider in the angle of the wall and the ceiling anchored in a little web bubble directly over the bed. The web bubble defeats the vacuum; short of getting a chair and moving the bed I can’t get it and I am looking up and trying to make out its intentions for the next several hours.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 12h
This is Taylor Dearden’s dad. She was diagnosed with ADHD and Ehlers-Danlos as a young person and she is now a working actress. It goes beyond that people are uneducated, there’s a societal level disordered relationship to work that overrides the learning people do get and pulls the strings I think.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 12h
I went looking for this and whew. I shouldn’t have.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 18h
Oh I am so sorry
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 18h
I think when I finally etched on my brain “this is how we learn together and build our process, with painful experience” and could give examples that gave that pain meaning it got easier on us to code things as Good Actually. But oof. Massive reframe! Like your greenhouse! 😂😭
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 19h
I’m looking at those 4x4s and omg. Metaphor! Sending you both love.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 23h
This is an interesting gift she has. Wow.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
A brilliant show. I can’t rewatch it.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The Guilty Remnants holding up letters that spell out Stop Wasting Your Breath
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✊🏼Indigiqueer Hummingbird @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Check on your people & mask up - fumes everywhere
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
(Really though I am just mad I badly misread the macguffin. I did that to myself.)
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
You need a little good art friending, someone with ears so tuned they can figure out your whole deal from hearing your mom give a great line in a mediocre movie, to balance out all the hell.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The friend in T3 says “this is hell. Hell.” And she is correct.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The heart of T2 was the friendship with Henry Leyden. He and Jack are men who appreciate art together. In Wisconsin, for all the right reasons (it’s beautiful.) It was an amazing followup to T1. Henry was blind and had four distinct radio personas, Jack after all that had Fairfield Porter money.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Read T3 and I was sure for a good 600ish pages that the point of all this was a new Beam and wrong. No.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I was about to realize I had fallen off a cliff and was pedaling midair. But still there was Botrytis. I would take it to the beach, I was still afraid to spray it (anything) in the house.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
(Laughing as I type)
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
December of 2020?
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A was running a fundraiser for the Georgia senators and everyone got what they needed 😂 I don’t wear it much but I’m so happy to have it.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Vicarious thrill, sniffing at my decant and being delighted about this lovely rescue.
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reed eliot 🤌 🤌 @reedeliot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Solidarity with NYC, from Chicago and Minneapolis. These same disgusting little stormtroopers are attacking us all over the country, but that just underscores the truth: There are far fewer of them than there are of us. They're recycling the same few thousand busted creeps. We are millions.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oof. Was completely plausible he died and I missed it. I think for the Trifecta Celebration he’d show up.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Con he’s not dead. Is he? He will show up in person, no?
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
When I started writing about Supreme Court expansion, you couldn’t get the question *asked* in a poll. The first time I saw it actually polled, it was 8%. Now, we here.
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Lady Ru’etha & Timbit @ruetha.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I don’t have the energy to recline and type for long, much less use a computer. Here’s where you come in. Are there apps and accessories for using line of sight to show text? I’m thinking like some kind of weird soundboard thing? I’m still myself, inside. this disease is killing my extrovert soul.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Same omg
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Update with ground truth; of these three only Costco has it in stock today in MSP.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Happy birthday Emi!
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Dual axis 4 quad: lore/gossip, honor at any cost/mess
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
February, Dar Williams 💜💜💜
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Amazing sweater omg
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“We can’t afford this.”
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Moisés Jauregui-Sanchez @moisesjauregui.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Convertir una silla de ruedas manual en eléctrica mediante un enganche frontal revoluciona la autonomía: alcanza 25 km/h y reduce la fatiga muscular. La gerontotecnología y la economía plateada prueban que el diseño inclusivo no solo asiste, sino que derriba barreras y devuelve la libertad diaria.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
(It is a good thing I moved here.)
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
So midwestern.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My parents visited and my mom put on her warning face and said Be prepared, it will cost a lot to register your car here. And I said you know, fine. I haven’t even begun to onboard all the services this state has. I’m happy to contribute. And she said well I guess it’s a good thing you moved here!
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I am willing to bet there’s a one pager and that someone in the MSP feed can link to it. But state level only, and right now only to people who aren’t already maxxed out (thank you for listing them!)
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
😭 that is amazing. Let me get on this!
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My Wisconsin ass is weeping. The nice things you oh wow WE have here continue to stun me.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
…what is a Political Contribution Refund? Are you saying MN will reimburse me for $75 in political contributions? I moved here in January, am learning, this is news.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A whole lot of the left reflexively disagrees with this and thinks it’s not political analysis but this is core core knowledge. Without this you will systematically screw over the mad people and the sick people.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Thrilled, relieved to see they loved Lee like they loved Cathy. Can’t wait to watch.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Still upset about the waste here
Peter Dinklage and Marisa Tomei meet in She Came to Me. They are scruffy and drinking at a bar. She’s in a Carhartt cap. They look bored.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The shift is so profound
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I think of this as TikTok HR.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I had a new (male!) Gen Z health care provider do this with my dress recently. It was a shirt dress; he said it was cool because it reminded him of an elementary school art smock. We had the same employer; this was not Training. (Also omg 😂)
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