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#Disability #LongCovid "The findings underscore the enduring neurological impacts of SARS-CoV-2 infection, marked by cognitive decline and increased EEG disarray." bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

Ed Yong is such a real one <3 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

submitted 19 hours ago • 11 comments

Can we please put this on street video boards all over and air it as a commercial on every channel?? #AIRBORNE #COVID

submitted 47 days ago • 7 comments

Last line of this article: "Influenza vanished during the public health measures of the COVID-19 pandemic." Why am I still masking in public? Because I haven't had a respiratory illness in the past five years and I'd like to keep it that way. Masks work. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

@fedworkerrights.bsky.social has a helpful post addressing a question that I punted on: Should you respond to OPM's email? federalworkerrights.com/blog/

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Musk & DOGE are now f*cking with the Social Security Administration. 🚨 IMPORTANT: If you or a loved one experience delayed SS payments or difficulty accessing SSDI services, CALL THE PEOPLE’S HOTLINE! Tell your story. ☎️ 503-212-4600 ☎️ Pass it on. Link below.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Important Public Health Update Hi all, Please pay attention. I just spoke with CDC officials they say we should prepare for potential human cases of Bird Flu. 1/

submitted 3 days ago • 30 comments

🧪 Article 👀 into the lack of Drug Companies prepared to fund #LongCovid research Drug companies refuse to help repurposing trials by providing the drug: even when funding for the other costs of the trial are in place. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...

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24 states + DC in the CDC high/very high range. An estimated 1 in 87 people in the U.S. are actively infectious with COVlD today.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

PMC COVlD Dashboard, Feb 17, 2025 (U.S.) 🔥1 in 72 actively infectious 🔥Sustained high transmission 🔥30 states in high/very high transmission (CDC) 🔥3x the transmission of Feb 2021 🔥668,000 daily infections 🔥Only 1 in 28 cases reported

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

I’m for disclosure and avoidance of ALL financial conflicts of interest. What RFK Jr. ands his antivax cronies will do will be simply to shift conflicts of interest from Big Pharma to Big Supplement, Big Wellness, and Big Quackery.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

This is how you do it. Other news agencies like Axios and CBS, stop rolling over! Grow a spine, stand up straight and fight!

submitted 1 day ago • 732 comments

Get. Him. Out. Of. Our. Government.

submitted 1 day ago • 2868 comments

BREAKING: The USDA has confirmed five additional dairy herds in California have tested positive for the virus, raising the total to 732. Currently, 74% of the state's dairy herds are infected with H5N1.

submitted 2 days ago • 593 comments

A study used molecular simulations to analyze the Omicron BA.2.86.1 variant of SARS-CoV-2. They found that its mutations increase flexibility and alter interactions with human ACE2, leading to stronger binding than the original virus. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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"Tens of millions of individuals worldwide are estimated to have experienced some form of post-acute sequelae of #COVID19 (PASC), or #longCOVID ..." ww2.aip.org/scilights/ma...

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This is all being dismantled extremely fast. Pay attention. Call. Boycott. Protest. Do whatever you can.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Americans are rallying across the country against Elon Musk and Donald Trump fleecing our government A thread

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

I hope you’re all watching and paying attention with clear eyes, ears, and minds here. You know what this is and means, right?

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

This is outrageous. US should not destroy $500 million in COVID tests! Hundreds of people in the US are still dying every week from COVID. People are still getting COVID and then Long COVID and other serious health issues from COVID. COVID wastewater is high. COVID is not over. wapo.st/42VLGQh

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

A RECOVER study finds that #longCOVID produces more people with #ME/CFS than previously thought. Plus, HealthRising took a deep, deep dive into RECOVER and came to the surprising conclusion that the huge Long Covid initiative may end up being quite helpful. www.healthrising.org/blog/2025/01...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

1. NEW: Not Just Stonewall: LGBTQ+ history webpages, mental health hotlines, and resources for the victims of CSAM and hate crimes are among the thousands of censored webpages identified by a custom tool I developed. I hope to document all .gov LGBTQ+ erasure. www.madycast.com/p/not-just-s...

submitted 6 days ago • 25 comments

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

submitted 42 days ago • 403 comments

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

submitted 11 days ago • 91 comments

Over 1,000 VA employees were dismissed and that includes nurses and doctors. Do you know what happens when you stretch an already crumbling healthcare system? People quit due to unsafe staffimg, long hours, burnout. It's unsustainable to work in those conditions. Strong work, guys.

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

H5N1 news from CIDRAP buff.ly/416CplM 🐄Dairy herd in Arizona is + for D1.1 genotype of H5N1 bird flu which can be more dangerous in humans. 🐱Wild Coast brand Raw pet food sickens cats w/H5N1. 🐓USDA to allow chickens to get H5N2 avian flu vaccine by Zoetis. #Vetsky #medsky 🛟 🧪

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

🦈Shark nanobody 79C11 neutralizes all Omicron subvariants, SARS-CoV-1 and pangolin coronavirus. buff.ly/4b1Fus3 Potential as an intranasal prophylactic agent and could be used to make a universal vaccine against current and future sarbecoviruses like SARS-CoV-2. #medsky #IDsky 😷🧪

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Surprisingly, CDC updated Covid genomic surveillance today. The LP8.1 variant is rising, now accounting for about 1/3rd of new cases. The lack of any substantial increase in Covid for months is, in part, attributable to only nominal changes in the #SARS-CoV-2 spike variants. So far.......

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

It is really short-sighted and stupid to be gutting public health and outbreak surveillance capacity right now: - H5N1 nationwide - uncontrolled - TB in Kansas - largest U.S outbreak - Measles in Texas - Expanding - Seasonal flu - Worst in 15 years - Pertussis - outbreaks in multiple states.

submitted 9 days ago • 93 comments

Doing the unthinkable: The deep cuts to the #CDC's workforce today are expected to decimate the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a program that has trained public health rapid responders for decades. Envy of the world. Poof! www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

submitted 9 days ago • 547 comments

Update on the Texas Measles outbreak: Cases doubled this week, with 48 known infections now, most in patients are under the age of 17. All of the cases are believed to have occurred in unvaccinated individuals, with 13 people hospitalized www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...

submitted 9 days ago • 15 comments

To be clear- this will cost lives, severely weaken public health (and global health), cause more distrust in federal response, and ultimately undermine all the advancements in health we’ve made in recent decades.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

STAT is backing up and monitoring CDC data in real time: See what’s changing www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

submitted 9 days ago • 600 comments

So many irrational, harmful, & anti-science moves... "The country is less safe. These are the deployable assets critical for investigating new threats, from anthrax to Zika..." CDC's "disease detectives" halved as part of DOGE cuts at health agencies www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-dis...

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

Read ASM’s statement on the sweeping removal of federal health agency staff, which will be catastrophic for American science and technology. asm.org/Press-Releas...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

SCOOP: Naval Academy leaders sent an email to faculty this week that teaching about “divisive concepts” such as systemic racism + sexism is no longer permitted. Faculty also can’t talk about environmental justice or gender ideology. Our exclusive: www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...

submitted 9 days ago • 150 comments

As the Trump administration is firing thousands of NIH workers — including 10% of the CDC team, the measles outbreak in Gaines County, Texas has suddenly doubled to at least 48 cases. The outbreak has grown from 24 to 48 cases within the last three days. All cases are in unvaccinated people or…

submitted 9 days ago • 323 comments

Disturbing. Everyone better brace themselves, mask up, and prepare.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Not good. Not surprising, but really not good.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Look, anyone could have made this mistake...if they were doing an illegal government takeover.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Maddening read: major healthcare lobbying groups have stayed silent on RFK Jr.'s nom. -American Medical Assoc. -Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America "drug lobby once seen as all-powerful in Washington" -American Academy of Pediatrics (aka the drs. who do child vaccinations) 🛟medsky 🧪

submitted 11 days ago • 16 comments

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

submitted 10 days ago • 418 comments

DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

submitted 10 days ago • 1248 comments

That’s nothing. I found 13 contracts awarded to SpaceX since December totaling $77M. 1/

submitted 12 days ago • 551 comments

I stand with the trans community. Pass it along.

submitted 15 days ago • 548 comments

#Disability "New and improved vaccine modalities are therefore required for SARS-CoV-2 infection." elifesciences.org/articles/97532

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