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Nov 2, 2024 11 tweets 3 min read Read on X
Minimisers:
"If Covid dysregulated the immune system, why aren't we seeing an increase in opportunistic infections, eh?!"

The opportunistic infections: Graphs showing the rise of: Drug resistant Kleb, E Coli, Enterobacter, Citrobacter, Other Crypto Hominis Crypto Parvum Rare Crypto Shigella Whooping Cough Legionella TB Listeria Mycoplasma pneumoniae Polyomaviruses
The UKHSA have the gall to say that some of these outbreaks only seem large due to improved testing, when testing rates for them actually *decreased*.

Don't listen to their spin. Look at the big picture.
And all the little pictures.
Data from here:
gov.uk/government/pub…
While we're here, there's no immunity debt to crypto parvum or hominis.

You know what there is though?

There's immunity damage that allows them in.
Also worth noting:
Some of these trends were in operation before Covid, but have increased further since.
And yes, some of these infections are in perfect sync with Covid waves, and some... follow in perfect sync *afterwards*.
Here they are with labels highlighting the years for which there is data available:

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And here's what they look like with the same timescales on every graph. Image
And here's an extra version with Strep A notifications, Measles, and Hep D: Image

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Three quick things about this year's flu wave. Image
Has it actually 'kicked off' yet?

Look at 2019 and 2024.
They have one kicking off point.

Interestingly it was the same week in both years - the week kids go back to school after half term break.

From there it skyrockets. Image
2022 in Orange kind of has two gears.
It starts off at a steady pace in August, then goes into afterburners in mid-November.

(2023 starts later in the year, but still changes gear in November) Image
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Nov 12
I've been sent the text below, which is an extract from a proposed article that didn't make it to publication.
The writer asked me to share it.

For American readers: categories like Motor Neuron Disease include things like Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/ALS/Lou Gehrig's disease. Image
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Nov 11
I've been watching soccer players here get ACL injuries with painful regularity over the last five years.

I've had two ACL injuries myself, and some times of year I develop a painful ache just below and to the side of my knee that feels like a small ball of pure pain.
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So whenever I hear about someone going through this, I feel a strong personal empathy.
I know what it's going to be like for them to try to sleep tonight, and how they'll feel when they try to roll over.
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Nov 11
You might think that public health bodies and institutions and their leaders know what they're talking about, but, sadly, they often just regurgitate garbage fake science that has no actual basis in fact, but sometimes it's more sinister than that.
Here's an example, shared a couple of weeks ago by the American Society of Microbiology.

It includes a claim (a lie, actually, but we'll come to that) that you might have seen repeated a lot during the last few years. Image
The *lie* that "80% of all infectious diseases are passed by human contact, direct or indirect".
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Nov 10
I'm slowly working my way through the thousands of conditions covered by the uk hospital episodes data.

Quite a few people have been asking me about POTS and Dysautonomia.

Well...
Where shall we start.

Autonomic nervous systems in teenagers? Image
👆That one was a catch all code covering disorders with overlapping sympathetic and parasympathetic dysfunction, post-viral or inflammatory dysautonomia, autonomic failure associated with another systemic disease, mixed or multi-system dysautonomia.
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Nov 10
I think it's worth taking a look at the trends in hospital episodes for breast cancer.
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A few graphs to follow.
They show the number of 'hospital episodes' for different aspects of breast cancer.

Hospital episodes are *not the same* as case numbers, or people suffering from breast cancer.
But 'hospital episodes' are a very important tool to monitor changes in prevalence of conditions.
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