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Incredible work. What a great way to communicate the toll of long covid and break the dominant narrative of "you just need to push through a bit"

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Long COVID is REAL. I went from healthy to bedbound. +65M+ worldwide are suffering. +Symptoms: fatigue, brain fog, dizziness, heart palpitations, hair loss, & more. If you know someone with ‘mysterious symptoms’, it’s likely Long COVID, not perimenopause. Don’t ignore it. #LongCovidAwarenessDay

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

I have been sick with Long COVID for 3 years. Bedridden for nearly two years. Unable to have a conversation for 1.5 years. Long COVID is devastating, and it doesn’t always get better with time. #LongCOVIDAwarenessDay

submitted 63 days ago • 6 comments

Rolling Stone: 'Five Years of Pain, Fatigue, and Gaslighting: Life With Long Covid' 'We've been discounted for half a decade, still sick from a pandemic the rest of the world would rather forget' www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

submitted 63 days ago • 4 comments

Still no cures; 3.1m LC UK sufferers and rising. You won't appreciate iate how bad things could be until its too late. The best you can do is😷 🌬🌞avoid 3Cs and don't get too close, as much as you are able. johnsnowproject.org/primers/long...

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

It is a shame Alberta is dragging its feet signing the new federal child care deal because early data suggests it was one of the provinces where it really, REALLY, worked. A huge amount of Alberta women left the labour force between 2019-24 except women with kids 0-5 years.

submitted 71 days ago • 9 comments

Again, two of my friends were concussed and a student’s mom had her ribs broken by police when they attacked the students who had already started taking the encampment down after 12 hrs. This is wholly rotten

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Worked hard on this, and I hope it will be a useful resource for many. A beginner’s guide to Long COVID, with a discussion of mechanisms: www.thegauntlet.news/p/what-is-lo...

submitted 98 days ago • 79 comments

“Accurate information on how many people in a community die from COVID, or any other cause—is essential for making decisions about public health. It is also important for families. Everyone deserves to know why a loved one died.”

submitted 99 days ago • 10 comments

This exchange, captured on video and linked in the thread, showed what looks like deeply abusive behaviour toward media by a police chief who for years has signed off on some of the most heinous police violence in this country's history.

submitted 106 days ago • 3 comments

Alberta Medical Association statement regarding the report of the Alberta COVID-19 Pandemic Data Review Task Force

submitted 109 days ago • 9 comments

How problematic is the Alberta report on COVID? Very. Recommendations embrace misinformation & run counter to a vast & diverse body of evidence. Policy analysis is nonsensical & displays a lack of knowledge about law or ethics. This is science in Alberta? Dark Age 2.0.

submitted 109 days ago • 15 comments

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submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: Aaron Brown and lawyer Avnish Nanda have won their injunction to restore full operating hours to Red Deer's overdose prevention site. Story upcoming. drugdatadecoded.ca

submitted 123 days ago • 3 comments

Long COVID is becoming a serious social and economic issue for Australia www.crikey.com.au/2024/12/02/l...

submitted 166 days ago • 2 comments

Imagine the world if we’d been willing to learn from COVID… What if we’d embraced WFH to slow climate change? What if we’d installed filtration systems in public buildings to reduce the spread of illness? What if we’d demanded disability justice re long COVID? A better world is still possible.

submitted 170 days ago • 16 comments

A lot of people don't realize that many patients with #LongCovid are now often being treated in Brain Injury Clinics, together with patients recovering from traumatic brain injury after a concussion. It's been hard to keep up with the literature, but here is a new one published yesterday #NeuroCovid

submitted 171 days ago • 24 comments

Queensland experiencing worst whooping cough epidemic on record, costing the life of 2-month-old baby. "Whooping cough case numbers in Queensland this year are almost 23 times the number at the same period last year." 🔹2024: 12,590 cases 🔹2023: 549 cases Source: www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

submitted 171 days ago • 9 comments

Reproducing my thread from the Other Place on our Lancet paper 'Long COVID - a clinical update'. Coauthors Manoj Sivan, Alice Perlowski, Janko Nikolich. 1/ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...?

submitted 174 days ago • 84 comments

#Indigenous tribes engineered #BritishColumbia’s modern hazelnut forests more than 7000 years ago - Genetic analysis of hazelnut trees could help #FirstNations secure land rights in Canadian courts www.science.org/content/arti... #ForestGardens #IndigenousRights

submitted 177 days ago • 0 comments

You may think that neurological symptoms in #LongCovid are for old people, but it is the opposite. Young adults (18–44 years) and middle-aged (45–64 years) with mild acute #COVID cases (non-hospitalized), represent 90% of the cases of #NeuroCovid. Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

submitted 174 days ago • 31 comments

New research shows younger and middle-aged adults have worse long COVID symptoms than older adults "On an average of 10 months after COVID-19 onset, younger (ages 18-44) and middle-aged (ages 45-64) adults had worse neurologic symptoms of long COVID than adults 65 and older." #LongCOVID

submitted 175 days ago • 23 comments

Study reveals how SARS-CoV-2 triggers diabetes by destroying pancreatic cells Very cool organoid model used to model how macrophage-mediated pyroptosis may contribute to beta cell death during SARS-CoV-2 & coxsackie B virus infections www.news-medical.net/news/2024091...

submitted 179 days ago • 20 comments

Feels like a good time for a thread about all things exercise for people living with infection (and exposure)-associated complex chronic illnesses (IACCs) such as #MECFS, #LongCOVID and chronic #Lyme /tick- and vector-borne illness. Let’s start with a trip down memory lane. 1/

submitted 178 days ago • 68 comments

Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory

submitted 182 days ago • 250 comments

Let’s say this loud and clear: Exercise is not the goal, recovery is the goal so one can exercise. Listen to this man - he’s a world leading expert on PEM/PENE #ME #Longcovid

submitted 181 days ago • 15 comments

Doesn’t even help me fight ordinary fatigue… 🤣 Exercising is good for you except with certain illnesses. There is a type of long C19 that does not benefit.

submitted 184 days ago • 6 comments

Huge new report out of Quebec The risk of long COVID reaches 37% after three infections, according to the INSPQ The Quebec health system is unable to help the growing number of people who have had persistent symptoms for months or even years ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/211...

submitted 198 days ago • 5 comments

Every day, people log on and ask things like 'why are the vibes so bad, why is everyone in public so awful now,' as if the people most committed to caring about others haven't been completely excluded from public life. Because of the other thing.

submitted 454 days ago • 3 comments

I compiled all my writings from 2023! all links no-paywall, if you appreciate that I make these essays freely available, please consider supporting my work on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/my-bes...

submitted 501 days ago • 0 comments

I am here to remind you that Teen Vogue slaps.

submitted 533 days ago • 7 comments

Even if we take Israel's account in good faith, a terrorist hiding in a refugee camp means you pursue other options for capturing the terrorist — it doesn't mean you just fucking bomb the refugee camp, jesus christ. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/10/...

submitted 563 days ago • 38 comments

I was born in a refugee camp. People in refugee camps are not there by choice, they are in desperate circumstances, many of them are children, and they are defenseless and vulnerable. Refugee camps should never be a target under any circumstances.

submitted 563 days ago • 15 comments

A pediatrician in Gaza: "As I write this, the hospital is on the precipice of true disaster. We are down to the last gallons of fuel.... Our morgue filled to capacity within the first week & we’ve had to store many dead children in a nearby tent." Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2023/10/29/o...

submitted 566 days ago • 11 comments

A rip-your-heart-out essay from a pediatrician in Gaza. My God, how can we let this happen. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/29/o...

submitted 566 days ago • 4 comments