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Mar 19 6 tweets 2 min read Read on X
Consider the following:

1. Covid likely can damage the blood brain barrier
2. Covid directly infects neurons and other brain cell types
3. We are reinfecting everyone with Covid over and over.

What range of outcomes could you foresee from this?
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Mar 14
"At some point we're going to have to have a discussion nobody wants to, one about how repeated COVID infections have left our children with permanent neurological changes / damage and how we are going to adjust our academic standards and expectations"
Signs put up in Brooklyn
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Not a joke. It's based on the accumulating evidence we have about covid causing brain damage. In adults, covid, even mild, causes average of 3 IQ point drop, and 2 more for reinfection. How is this impacting child brain development?

Good summary of much of the available science here.

Remember, kids are supposed to be *always getting smarter* so you can't understand how their brains are being impacted by only looking for instances where cognition decreases. What is the rate of gain?

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Jan 29
This is how bad some long covid research is.

Our new letter in @JAMAPediatrics points out obvious, grievous errors in a recent study claiming “strikingly low” incidence of Post Covid Condition in children.

The study is clearly invalid and should be retracted.

A thread.

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Here is a link to the open access study, where you can confirm everything I am saying.

And yes, the pic in the first tweet is them citing a WHO definition of Post Covid Condition (PCC) and then completely changing the definition in their Methods.



/2jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…
Bear in mind this research has been picked up by major media outlets to argue kids are not at risk of long covid, meaning kids' able bodies and lives are at stake. And the research is very bad.



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Nov 24, 2023
China and now France are having serious epidemics, and the suspected culprit is mycoplasma pneumoniae.

One possible explanation is that COVID-mediated immune damage, leading to lymphocytopenia, is causing opportunistic disease of higher severity.

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We know that COVID can cause lymphocytopenia and that reinfection is common. It's in the Merck Manual for MDs. COVID is the only virus other than HIV specifically listed as a major cause of lymphocytopenia:



/2 merckmanuals.com/en-ca/professi…
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Immunology is incredibly complex, but certainly it is clear that T cell exhaustion & depletion are common features of COVID.

There are many papers in various journals, but this one provides a closer to layperson explanation of some COVID harms:



/3 biosignaling.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…



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Sep 18, 2023
Alberta finally gets a covid update. Yes, that is mere CASES of RSV and flu being presented alongside HOSPITALIZATIONs for COVID.

Modelling from @MoriartyLab suggests 47,000-65,000 are getting COVID in AB per week RN. Apparently COVID is not just a flu, who would have thunk.
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Almost all illness right now is COVID or secondarily, common cold. And COVID come with a serious risk of Long COVID, as high as 20% in women according to recent Statistics Canada information.

Link to @MoriartyLab's data:

/2lookerstudio.google.com/embed/u/0/repo…
Link to the AB gov press release.

I speculate that the "new dashboard" which will include influenza and RSV, while potentially providing useful information, will also be designed to amplify false equivocation of covid with lesser diseases.



/3alberta.ca/release.cfm?xI…
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Apr 24, 2023
*Preprint.* Bivalent booster 4% effective vs. XBB infection. CI *-12% to 18%.* Obviously still providing some temporary protection vs severe disease.

The ideological "let it rip" approach is ruining our vaccines. A self-compounding negative spiral.

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This study had some other unusual findings as well, so we will see how it proceeds through peer review. @Daltmann10 could perhaps comment on the section regarding possible immune imprinting resulting in increased risk of infection for those who are highly vaccinated?

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Regardless of this one study, the evidence is mounting that we are utterly failing in our race against the virus' mutation. And we have to pray that immune experience will play a massive role in saving people while we work on second generation scientific solutions.

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Apr 19, 2023
This thread is for sharing stories of people who died or were seriously harmed after being infected with COVID in hospital. Please share your story.

The removal of masks in hospitals instead of upgrading to respirators will ensure these stories continue to happen every day:

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Every story is a personal and community tragedy, not a number.

My heartfelt condolences.



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