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Collection of news, resources, and discourse related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic & health advocacy. Occasional venting, hot-takes and memes. Los Angeles, CA.
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NEW: A source tells me that response teams for FEMA set to deploy to the South Carolina wildfires are unable to travel because their government issued travel cards have had their limits reduced to $1. FEMA response team cards were supposed to be exempt.

I need everyone to understand that we who are protecting ourselves from COVID infections did not “do our own research” and “come to the conclusions” about its effects on our own. What we’re doing is trusting in the largest body of scientific research for any disease in history.

CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel

In normal times, I'd have written about this #MMWR report about some of the kids who've died from #flu this year having had a severe neurological condition called influenza-associated encephalopathy or encephalitis. Glad to see @cidrap.bsky.social did write! www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-ge...

The economic black out is tomorrow. I'm participating.

You first.

Every public health decision was/is an economic strategy.

⚠ New mask ban being attempted in Maryland. ⚠ Democratic members of the Maryland General Assembly are sponsoring a new mask ban TODAY 2/18 at 1pm. Similar to Nassau, NY this ban puts the burden of proof on the mask wearer to demonstrate medical need. Please share far and wide! Links in thread:

Totally normal. What's that you say? CDC, WHO, Yale, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, every researcher on Earth warned us that this would be the consequence of repeat COVID infections? Hrm, OK well I don't think it's that. I'd rather keep calling it a mystery instead. /s

Now offline: Government resources about Long COVID as a disability

SARS-CoV-2 harms your vascular system. It disrupts the ACE2 receptors on your endothelial cells, leading to a cascade of harmful effects: These mechanisms underline how SARS-CoV-2-induced endothelial dysfunction can cause severe cardiovascular complications.

Remember when NYT ran a front-page article at 100k COVID deaths, calling it "an incalculable loss"? Well 1,000 Americans are still dying per-week from COVID-19, and not only is it not front-page news, it's been manipulated into being "just everyday life." This was performative.

PBS News wants to hear from those who have been affected by COVID. The more information they have on what COVID has done and is still doing to people, the better. pbsnewshour.formstack.com/forms/covid

Simply providing objective, scientific information is accused as "fearmongering" because it invokes fear *in them* and they can't handle the reality of the implications. This is a coping mechanism. "Anything bad is fearmongering." See also where we are with politics.

Leon Muskrat is calling all of this a “democrat slush fund”

The same media that isn’t covering the protests happening in 50 states is the same media that for the past 4 years has suppressed the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic. Are you getting it yet? Corporate interests control our information streams.

This country is being run into the ground by a cringe lord. "Haha balls, haha S3XY" what a dork ass loser.

37% showed objective evidence of cognitive impairment.

The way people gleefully normalize and fold a whole new level of death and disease into everyday life as if it's just another minor hazard is honestly shocking. Everyone who died of COVID did so in vain. Everyone who suffers from complications does so in vain. It's so callous.

Another day, another study showing why we still must take precautions against being infected with COVID-19.

People who don’t include disability liberation in their understanding of social justice will never make sense to me. Like what do you MEAN you oppose sexism, racism, and classism, but the minute the lived reality of that oppression starts showing up physically, all your energy just evaporates?

Articles about COVID-19 damage are gaining traction on science and health Reddits again which is great to see. But reading through thousands of comments is sad; Same story of how "I'm not the same since I had COVID" - reduced mental faculties, vertigo, on and on. WEAR A MASK.

Invivyd Announces Positive Phase 1/2 Clinical Data for VYD2311, a Monoclonal Antibody Designed to be a Superior Alternative to COVID-19 Vaccination for the Broad Population www.globenewswire.com/news-release... I am not a doctor so curious to hear thoughts.

Watching all this Grammy / pop culture chatter while an unelected person is raiding the treasury and deleting entire sections of the government with no oversight or legal recourse is cognitive dissonance beyond what I'm capable of comprehending.

BREAKING: CDC's top advisors demand answers and a restoration of crucial public health data. New story by me: www.statnews.com/2025/02/01/c...

If reading scientific data and using rational decision making to protect my long term health makes me a cult member, then baby I’m cult member #1 If you want to cut your life short to fit in and stay blissfully ignorant, go right on ahead. But who’s the one living in fear?

We can’t keep ignoring it & continue getting infected Significant increase in the IR of POTS post-COVID with the IR increasing from 1.42/1000 000 to 20.3/1000 000 cases per person-year @elhopkins.bsky.social @elisaperego78.bsky.social @organicbotanic.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehjqcco/adva...