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This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

submitted 6 days ago • 840 comments

Inform study shows immunocompromised people are still at risk from COVID. www.journalofinfection.com/article/S016...

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COVID-19: study suggests long term damage to the immune system. www.infectioncontroltoday.com/view/covid-1...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

BOOM! Bishop Mariann Budde has responded to her critics who told her to apologize to Donald Trump. “I am not going to apologize for asking for mercy for others.” Smash that repost if you agree she owes Trump ZERO apologies!! 🦋

submitted 30 days ago • 514 comments

The immunological "SIGNATURE(S)" of LONG COVID🧵 Immunological signatures are crucial for developing diagnostic markers and understanding recovery mechanisms. This provides insights into the immunological basis driving divergent outcomes after infection x.com/ejustin46/st...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Star Tribune: 'Long COVID indeed: Symptoms linger after illness for four in 10 Minnesotans' 'State surveyors..found a high rate of symptoms such as fatigue & brain fog' 'researchers suspect..COVID virus reprograms the immune system to mistakenly attack' www.startribune.com/long-covid-i...

submitted 39 days ago • 4 comments

Your friendly reminder that this tweet from the WHO is still up with no corrections.

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

Time-restricted eating, regardless of timing, showed no added benefit for reducing visceral fat compared to a Mediterranean diet alone. by Dote-Montero M, Clavero-Jimeno A (...) Ruiz JR et 27 al. in Nat Med #MedSky 📖 read the article:

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Has private equity ever made anything better?

submitted 46 days ago • 39 comments

If you're thinking of applying for a Masters in Public Health & have experience of inequality, consider applying for the IMPACT Scholarship at UCL. Happy to answer any questions you have! www.ucl.ac.uk/epidemiology...

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Another one bites the dust. icemsg.org/myths/myth-c...

submitted 50 days ago • 4 comments

🔥 “For the sake of Britain, Europe and humanity, it’s time for us to get back with the European team”

submitted 54 days ago • 19 comments

Wishing each and every one of you a very Happy New Year! If you're still trying to avoid infection or re-infection with this wretched virus, you have nothing but my deepest respect and admiration; it is truly an honour to know you all. Slàinte Mhath!

submitted 54 days ago • 21 comments

1/ As we close out another year, I want to recognize and thank those who continue to fight the good fight.

submitted 54 days ago • 4 comments

This is a person who Kemi Badenoch thinks should sit in the House of Lords. The tweets start in 2009 - Young was 45 at the time. Appalling misogyny, casual homophobia... the lot

submitted 65 days ago • 179 comments

Librarian humor.

submitted 65 days ago • 8 comments

🚨We have co-signed a letter to the UK Covid Inquiry chair, Baroness Hallett, to request the urgent changes we need to access healthcare safely. Please support this!

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

ATTN people interested in the UK Covid response! A volunteer & I have created a new website sagesearch.info#top to make it much easier to search all documents that fed into, or produced by, official SAGE from Apr 2020 - July 2021. Filter by category, type, date; text search of summaries! 1/3

submitted 65 days ago • 18 comments

436,365 published, peer reviewed science papers on Covid, with vast evidence of the great harm Covid infections cause to the body and mind, brain and heart. Ignored by the vast majority of politicians, media, medical profession, academia, public health leaders. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/cor...

submitted 100 days ago • 21 comments

Childhood vaccination inequalities in England worsened from 2019 to 2023, highlighting urgent needs for intervention and improved uptake. by Flatt A, Vivancos R (...) Taylor-Robinson D et 5 al. in BMJ #MedSky 📖 read the article: https://www.bmj.com/content/387/bmj-2024-079550

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

“When you’re raped there is shame, and it’s not for us to have shame, it’s for them.” - Gisèle Pelicot

submitted 67 days ago • 4 comments

“After rejecting plans for a youth mobility scheme… European affairs minister Nick Thomas-Symonds has indicated that the government is now open to consider the proposal.”

submitted 75 days ago • 57 comments

New: Universal masking&testing reduce hospital infections, so does staff masking Stopping universal masking&testing led to 25% increase in respiratory viral infections Restarting staff masking led to 33% decrease 8 out of 100 (random sample) died in the hospital jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

submitted 83 days ago • 45 comments

Still N95 masking. Still lugging around air cleaners. Still monitoring CO2 levels. Still advocating for improved indoor air quality on campus because clean air is an accessibility issue.

submitted 79 days ago • 34 comments

Am I the only one to see a contradiction between a NHS overwhelmed with respiratory infections and JCVI’s decision (based on their “bespoke” economic evaluation) to recommend very limited eligibility for COVID vaccines? #FalseEconomy

submitted 78 days ago • 12 comments

@profstevegriffin.bsky.social

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

Vaccination significantly reduced #LongCovid in children and adolescents among ~300,000 kids and teens www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...

submitted 78 days ago • 34 comments

With the XEC variant on the way to dominance in most places, and XEC waves starting to show in COVID metrics, it is time to ponder which variant will drive the next wave after XEC. The leading contenders at this point are LP.8.1 and XEC.4. #COVID19 #XEC #LP_8_1 🧵

submitted 78 days ago • 4 comments

Weather forecast is not looking today. I think it’s a day for sitting by the fire and dreaming of spring and planning what to grow next season. 🌱🌿💚 #GreenHeart

submitted 79 days ago • 3 comments

Would you like to help prevent & reduce rates of #HCAIs using evidence-based interventions? Then please support & share this petition across your networks. 'Direct @UKHSA to monitor, and report on, numbers of COVID infections that occur in healthcare settings'. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

In 2021, COVID was shown to be fully airborne. Yet for years, hospitals have failed to upgrade infection control measures. Bodies like the WHO and CDC are leaving HCW and patients in danger by failing to match recommendations to the science. My latest: www.thegauntlet.news/p/cdc-infect...

submitted 79 days ago • 29 comments

Indoor air filtration can improve the circulation and cardiorespiratory health of older people. More evidence for cleaning the air. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

New study reports relationship between higher levels of CO2 and virus longevity and transmissibility. www.bristol.ac.uk/cabot/news/2...

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

NHS excess sickness absence continues to remain precisely dictated by the prevalence of Covid infections. NHS England staff as a group took a staggering FIFTY PERCENT more sick days in July 2024 as July 2019.

submitted 83 days ago • 12 comments

With the XEC variant on the way to dominance in most places, it is time to ponder which variant will drive the next wave. The leading contenders at this point are LP.8.1 and XEC.4. They are shown here using a log scale, to compare their growth rates vs OG XEC. #COVID19 #XEC #LP_8_1 🧵

submitted 85 days ago • 5 comments

H5N1 is stable in refridgerated raw milk for weeks www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Study reports that N95 masks are nearly perfect at blocking COVID today.umd.edu/n95-masks-ne...

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment