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Tom Andrews Profile picture
@0bj3ctivity
Aug 23 • 12 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
I know the risks, have known this was almost certainly coming for years now, but seeing it already in a 7 yr old, makes me want to be sick😔

I have tried to warn people in my family to keep their children safe & avoid repeated COVID reinfections but they don't want to hear it 😔
If seven year olds are already being seen with problems like this, and it's due to their SARS-COV-2 infections, what hope will so many kids have, reinfected again & again, at least once a year?

Ok hopefully it will only be a subset

But we don't know how big a subset yet
And no, it's not even ok for there to be one kid left avoidably harmed by COVID

But we know it's not just one. It's not just hundreds. Not even thousands. Already millions worldwide 😔

Neurological symptoms are common due to COVID. It was clear early on that SARS-COV-2 infection was systemic, had tropism for many tissues in the body. Right from Jan/Feb/Mar 2020 people should have kept doing everything they could to avoid it

Yet governments often made it harder
By the end of 2020 I was seeing very concerning reports about early onset of serious neurological disease in some middle aged patients who had had COVID

Even examples of people in their TWENTIES dying as early as in 2021 due to serious neurological disease following 2020 COVID infection

I was seeing potential early signs of systemic neurological harm to children 😔

Even the New York Times was reporting on neurological harms in children due to COVID in 2021

COVID causes brain damage

Noone should want to catch this again & again

Let alone allow their children to be repeatedly infected by SARS-COV-2

We must not fail the children

They are going to need their brains to fix what legacies we've left them 😔

It's vital that governments act now to put in place clean air requirements in workplaces, mandate respirators in healthcare settings, recommend use of well fitting respirators to avoid SARS-COV-2 infections, & inform people should still isolate when sick
“Our findings reveal that a substantial proportion of pediatric COVID-19 patients with neurological symptoms exhibit abnormal neuroimaging findings, with 43.74 percent of children in the included studies demonstrating such abnormalities”
iflscience.com/abnormal-brain…
It's not too late. Avoidable harms (health & economic) continue to accumulate

As I've been saying for years, the best time to act is now.

Let's not wait any longer, please? 🙏

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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection is linked to significant liver injury, emerging from the facilitated entry of the virus into liver cells, including cholangiocytes and endothelial cells, due to increased receptor expression🧵

1/x
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This invasion triggers critical cellular alterations such as mitochondrial swelling, endoplasmic reticulum dilation, and hepatocyte apoptosis.

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"hyperglycemic conditions enhanced the viral entry receptor expression, infectivity, & susceptibility of SARS-CoV-2-induced cell death in the blood retinal barrier cells confirming reported heightened pathology in comorbid populations"
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"Cattle have the potential to act as a mixing vessel for novel IAV generation"

"The avian and human influenza A virus receptors sialic acid (SA)-α2,3 and SA-α2,6 are widely expressed in the bovine mammary gland" 🧵

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
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@CCSDMaskUp @RickABright @GISAID @USDA "A striped skunk was found dead in proximity to deceased Canada geese in late February in Tompkins County"

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"reviewed studies generally indicate that human norovirus (NoV), Hep A (HAV) and Hep E (HEV) possess a high heat stability. Heating at 70-72 °C for 2 min significantly reduces infectious titers, but often does not result in a >4 log10 decrease"
.pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38290272/#:~:t…
"Resistant fractions of viruses may remain infectious in thermal inactivation processes and inactivation of newly discovered or enveloped viruses in thermal food preparation processes should not be assumed without further testing"

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
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H5N1 virus survival

"viral RNA was detected in few cases in the aquatic fauna and flora, especially in bivalves and labyrinth fish, although these organisms seemed to be mostly passive carriers of the virus rather than host allowing virus replication"

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22514622/
H5N1 high pathogenicity avian influenza virus survival in different types of water

"Prolonged infectivity of the virus in Baltic seawater (brackish, 7.8 ppt) was also seen."

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20521724/
"virus persisted, & remained infective in aquatic environments, for 12 days at 22-35C & up to 20 days at 4C, irrespective of the type of water...significant decrease for AIV persistence models was recorded for sea water, after 12 days, at 35C"
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22106514/#:~:t…
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