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Journalist @ Enemy In A State. "Gutter Journo" who, unfortunately, has to report from the gutter, as that's where 99.9% of politicians dwell
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Dec 16 14 tweets 4 min read
New Study Shows Air Pollution Increases Severity & Fatality Of Covid

'Pollution and SARS-CoV-2 (Covid) pandemic are the greatest environmental health issues worldwide,' warns study

Luckily N95 masks, HEPA filters etc protect against both...PM2.5  SARS-CoV-2  Virus infection  Spike/ACE binding  ACE  ACE2  OH  production  ROS  Internalization  MAPK pathway  IL-6, TNF-a  COVID-19  ACE2  ACE/ACE2 1  Lung injury A new study published in the Journal Of Hazardous Materials has found that exposure to PM2.5 particles increases the severity of Covid in multiple ways: ELSEVIER  Journal of Hazardous Materials Available online 15 December 2024, 136887 In Press, Journal Pre-proof  HAZARDOUS MATERIALS  What's this?  The influence of PM2.5 exposure on SARS-CoV-2 infection via modulating the expression of angiotensin converting enzyme II Meng-Wei Lin Ting-Hsuan Wu  Show more V  + Add to Mendeley  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.136887 7  Jia-Rong Chang  Cheng-Han Lin Chih-Sheng Lin a b 9  Hua-Hsin Chiang  Share  55 Cite  Get rights and content A  Highlights  . PM2.5 is a plausible environmental transmission carrier for SARS-CoV-2.  . Air pollutants PM2....
Dec 16 5 tweets 1 min read
Covid antibodies shown to INCREASE severity of infection, reinfection and Long Covid:

Nice herd immunity project they got going isn't it? Some of the worst effects of the virus come from the antibodies produced to it: 'This review focuses on the Fc receptor-dependent ADE of cytokine production induced by anti-nucleocapsid antibodies( 1 of 3 mechanisms), examining its potential role in severe COVID-19 during reinfection and its contribution to the post-acute sequelae of COVID-19(LC).'
Dec 15 16 tweets 4 min read
Covid Outbreak 'Almost Derailed' Wicked Movie Infecting Main Stars Ariana Grande & Cynthia Erivo Days Before Their 'Biggest Musical Numbers'

Infectious Grande said:

'I was recovering from COVID, and my first and only time having COVID was the week of (the song) 'Popular'.' Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande Each Contracted COVID Days Before Their Biggest Wicked Musical Numbers Elphaba's "Defying Gravity" and Glinda's "Popular" were almost derailed by sickness, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande revealed  By Jack Smart | Published on November 6, 2024 04:45PM EST  COMMENTS  f  X 'Elphaba’s “Defying Gravity” and Glinda’s “Popular” were almost derailed by sickness, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande...There was one time when I got Covid, there was another time when she got Covid,” Erivo, 37, revealed' Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande on Oct. 19. PHOTO: EMMA MCINTYRE/GETTY  Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande had their work cut out for them filming Wicked. And the COVID-19 pandemic didn't help.  "There was one time when I got Covid, there was another time when she got Covid," Erivo, 37, revealed to The New York Times in an interview published Wednesday, Nov. 6.  Not only that, recalled Grande, 31, but each actress contracted the virus in the days before filming their biggest musical numbers: Erivo, who plays Elphaba, future Wicked Witch of the West, sings the climactic act one closer...
Dec 13 34 tweets 7 min read
UK Drs & Nurses Infected With Devastating #LongCovid Are SUING The NHS Due To The Lack Of Correct PPE

'Health workers who fell ill on COVID pandemic frontline sue employers as they battle life-changing disabilities'Foundation  Context Know better. Do better.  Climate  Inclusive Economies  Inclusive Economies  Socioeconomic Inclusion  UK doctors and nurses with long COVID to sue for compensation  Emma Batha Published: December 10, 2024  share  A health worker adjusts her mask as she cares for patients during the COVID pandemic in Cambridge, Britain May 5, 2020. Neil Hall/Pool via REUTERS  What's the context?  Health workers who fell ill on COVID pandemic frontline sue employers as they battle life-changing disabilities The atrocious treatment workers disabled and thrown into poverty can not be understated: more than a double blow, of course, that surely many of their own former colleagues have also abandoned them in pursuit of rampant denialism: . Long COVID forces health staff to quit work  . Illness destroys lives and livelihoods  . Workers blame lack of PPE  LONDON - Nearly 300 British doctors, nurses and other health workers with long COVID are suing the health service for compensation, saying they were not given proper protection during the pandemic.  They say their lives have been devastated by a host of severe health complications. Most cannot return to work and many are housebound.  "This is life changing. People are really suffering financially. Some are living in poverty," said nurse Rachel Hext, one of the clai...
Dec 11 21 tweets 5 min read
New Cornell Study Shows That Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) Is Caused By Immune Exhaustion & Is A Similar State To Cancer...

Sounds like something only a bout of CBT can fix, right?NEWS MEDICAL LIFE SCIENCES  MEDICAL HOME  LIFE SCIENCES HOME  An AZoNetwork Site  About  COVID-19  News  Health A-Z  Drugs  Medical Devices  Reviewed  Dec 3 2024 100/100  Chronic fatigue syndrome creates conditions where pathogen-killing immune T cells become exhausted, according to a new Cornell University study.  Study finds T cell exhaustion in chronic fatigue syndrome patients Download PDF Copy  Cornell University
Dec 3 56 tweets 12 min read
Extensive Study Shows That High IQ Gifted Kids Are Much More Likely To Have Severe Covid With Many Being Killed By The Virus

Being gifted & smart, having autism, ADHD - being athletically gifted found to be significant risk factors for severe Covid & #longCovid diseasesHigh intelligence may exacerbate paediatric inflammatory response to SARS-CoV-2 infection  Pauline McDonagh Hull a g  Show more  Outline  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2021.110677 7  Under a Creative Commons license 7  Bonnie M. Lashewicz a, Marvin J. Fritzler b  V  + Add to Mendeley  Share  Cite  Get rights and content 7  .  open access Certainly, this is an interesting study - highlighting the fact that higher intelligence and giftedness in kids seems to dramatically, significantly increase the risk of severe Covid outcomes & death - I would imagine the same applies to gifted, smart adults too: ASD, ADHD, twice exceptional  Intelligence and gifted  Over- excitabilities  Physiological and psychological stress  Inflammation and immune dysfunction  Interleukin-6  Neuro- inflammation  Parkinson's disease  Myocarditis  SARS-CoV-2 and MIS-C  Download: Download high-res image (223KB) Download: Download full-size image  Fig. 1. Intersections of studies cited that support a potential association between a high IQ and severe paediatric COVID-19 outcomes.
Nov 23 28 tweets 6 min read
Another New Study Shows That Youngest People Are By Far Hardest Hit By Serious #LongCovid Brain Diseases Such as Memory Loss, Seizures, Movement Disorders, Etc, From 'Mild' Virus

'Younger and middle-age individuals are disproportionally affected' by Long Covid brain diseases 'regardless of acute COVID-19 severity' study shows.WILEY "Online Library  Annals of Neurology / Early View  aOpen Access  Neurologic Manifestations of Long COVID Disproportionately Affect Young and Middle-Age Adults  Natasha A. Choudhury MD, Shreya Mukherjee BA, Tracey Singer BS, Aditi Venkatesh BS, Gina S. Perez Giraldo MD, Millenia Jimenez BS, Janet Miller BS, Melissa Lopez MPH ... See all authors v  First published: 22 November 2024 https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.27128  About Sections  Research Article  cc  Abstract  Objective To investigate neurologic manifestations of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (Neuro-PASC) in post-h... The latest study which is published in the Annals of Neurology journal is just the latest to show that 'mild' Covid is far more severe in younger people than older ones:

This is a consistent finding across multiple studies at this point:
Nov 11 12 tweets 3 min read
#XEC On the packed bus with a two women hacking up their lungs - Covid style/lung scarring style - the retching etc...

What gets me are the people sitting around them who start to get nervous—pulling their shirts up so they cover a nostril surreptitiously. Image ... and nervously squirming in the seat, looking like they want to get up and sit somewhere else but don't want to be rude.

Even the hacking up their lungs women started to vaguely cover their mouths with their shirts occasionally as if to try and hemorrhage their retching...
Nov 7 22 tweets 5 min read
(Another) Study Shows N95 Masks Are Near Perfect At Blocking Covid #XEC= Q  ATHLETICS  ARTS & CULTURE  CAMPUS & COMMUNITY  PEOPLE  RESEARCH N95 Masks Nearly Perfect at Blocking COVID, UMD Study Shows Researchers Found Even Lower-Performing Masks Were Protective  By Fid Thompson / May 31, 2024  f  1 Specifically: the present study looked at masks preventing infection from spreading from the infected to everyone else: rather than protection from the unmasked infected to the masked uninfected:
Nov 7 10 tweets 3 min read
The latest guide for workers who are exposed to the deadly novel bird flu virus states clearly that the virus:

'could make you sick if you breathe it in or if it gets in your eyes, nose, or mouth.'

And recommends that a: ...'NIOSH Approved® particulate respirator (such as an N95®)' be worn as well as:

'Head cover or hair cover
· Safety goggles
. Optional face shield over the
top of goggles
Sleeved apron that keeps you dry... A view Larger - Downtode  PROTECT YOURSELF FROM H5N1 BIRD FLU Wear personal protective equipment  H5N1 bird flu is a virus that could make you sick if you breathe it in or if it gets in your eyes, nose, or mouth. You can also get sick if you touch your eyes, nose, or mouth after touching contaminated surfaces, clothing, skin, or hair. Wear personal protective equipment (PPE) when in contact with or around animals confirmed or potentially infected, including dairy cows, or confirmed or potentially contaminated raw milk, surfaces, or other items. You may need more PPE than what you use for yo...
Nov 7 12 tweets 4 min read
UK Admits That They Have Two More Cases Of The More Severe, Infectious And Deadly Novel Monkeypox/Mpox Clade1b Virus That Has Killed Hundreds Already In Devastating Outbreak In Congo And Says They Expect More Cases Soon...

Virus is known to have 'pandemic potential'.... Book on the app  Evening Standard  + Follow  245.8K Followers  What is mpox? Two new cases of deadly Clade 1b variant detected in UK Story by William Mata and Sian Baldwin . 2d . 4 min read  Evening Standard  Monkeypox infection: When to seek medical help The UK'S CDC (UKHSA) has now confirmed a further two cases following on from the one announced last week: bringing the official total in the UK up to 3: this is almost certainly an undercount and likely many cases are going untested...

Oct 31 23 tweets 6 min read
New Hope As Breakthrough Japanese Covid Antiviral Drug Shows Impressive Results At Preventing Virus Symptoms In Big Phase 3 Trial & Has Potential For #LongCovid Treatment

'Significant reduction' in Covid symptoms reportedSHIONOGI  =  Release  2024/10/29 Shionogi Announces Global Phase 3 Trial Demonstrates Post-Exposure Prophylactic Use of Ensitrelvir Prevents Symptomatic COVID-19  . SCORPIO-PEP is the First Phase 3 Trial with Post-Exposure Prophylactic Use of an Oral Antiviral to Meet the Primary Endpoint of Preventing Symptomatic COVID-19 Infection The new drug, an antiviral that works by stopping the virus from replicating, called ensitrelvir (Scorpion-PEP) has announced good results in a huge, global phase 3 trial that appears to prevent symptomatic Covid infection: OSAKA, Japan, October 29, 2024 - Shionogi & Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Osaka, Japan; Chief Executive Officer: Isao Teshirogi, Ph.D .; hereafter "Shionogi") today announced that its double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled global Phase 3 study, Stopping COVID-19 pRogression with early Protease InhibitOr treatment - Post Exposure Prophylaxis (SCORPIO-PEP), met its primary endpoint. Once-daily ensitrelvir (Generic name: ensitrelvir fumaric acid, Code No .: S-217622, hereafter "ensitrelvir") demonstrated a statistically significant reduction in the proportion of participant...
Oct 26 34 tweets 8 min read
Singer Who 'heartbreakingly' Spoke About Rapid Covid Death Of 'Beloved' Family Member At Start Of Pandemic Now Brags About Performing While Having A 'Sore Throat' As Fans Tell Them They Got Covid After Their Attending Show...Tim Booth @RealTimBooth  In Toronto had the beginnings of a sore throat. But the healing power of music ..... Hallelujah The British Singer, Tim Booth, recently posted a tweet stating that they had performed at a recent show with the 'beginnings of a sore throat' - Which they then go on to claim was seemingly cured 'by the healing power of music' 🙄...
Oct 26 30 tweets 8 min read
Simple Smell Test Study Reveals That Losing Your Sense Of Smell Doubles Dementia Risk As Staggering 1 In 5 #LongCovid Sufferers Report Losing This Vital Sense With Millions & Millions Of Victims Globally

'Losing one’s sense of smell is strong indicator of “significant damage'''MEDICALNEWSTODAY  Health Conditions v  Health Products v  Sniffing out dementia with a simple smell test Losing the sense (anosmia) of smell is one of the most commonly reported Covid symptoms, along with reduced ability to smell (hyposmia)...

nbcnews.com/science/scienc…Millions still without sense of smell or taste after Covid-19  SHARE & SAVE -  f  X  ...  Millions still without sense of smell or taste after Covid-19 Research shows 5% of people who had Covid are dealing with long-lasting loss of smell or taste, a shift one expert said could be considered "a new public health crisis."
Oct 24 28 tweets 8 min read
Drs Issue Stark Warnings As New Study Reveals Huge Rise In Car Crashes Linked To "Driving Under The Influence Of COVID."

Increase Comparable To Driving While Intoxicated Or Having A Seizure Disorder

Drs Urged To Inform Authorities About Dangers Of #LongCovid Drivers...AUTHOR CENTER | ABOUT THE JOURNALS | PRESS RELEASES  Neurology Journals  Neurology®  ABSTRACTS  The most widely read and highly cited peer-reviewed neurology journal  October 8, 2024  Check for updates  Driving Under the Cognitive Influence of COVID- 19: Exploring the Impact of Acute SARS-CoV-2 Infection on Road Safety Baran Erdik and Derek Homrich  October 8, 2024 issue . 103 (7_Supplement_1) S46-S47 . https://doi.org/10.1212/01.wnl.0001051276.37012.c2  AUTHORS INFO & AFFILIATIONS Covid causes 'an increased risk of car crashes presumably due to neurologic changes caused by SARS-CoV-2' study says.

A new study published in Neurology Journal has shown the dire consequences of Covid driving with a whopping 50% increase in car crashes found...
Oct 22 7 tweets 2 min read
ME:
(Concerned)

Hey, you OK?

MASKLESS PHARMACY GUY:
(Struggling to breathe,while serving)

Yeah, I’m just getting over a cold...

ME:
(Without thinking,ADHD no filter)

You gotta be careful with a "cold". I heard it can cause lung scarring, strokes, COPD, & much more... MASKLESS PHARMACY GUY looks taken aback, unsure how to respond.

MASKLESS PHARMACY GUY
(Confused & a bit pissed off)

Uh, thanks…

From the back of the counter in the dispensary bit, another WORKER coughs angrily...Image
Oct 22 26 tweets 7 min read
NHS Now Advising 10-Day Isolation Period For New #XEC Covid Virus As It Rampantly Spreads Across UK Causing Many 'Mild' Cases To Rapidly Detoriarate Struggling To Breathe As Drs Issue Warning & Say Masks & Social Distancing May Come Back...Electric vehicles  >  ENHANCED BY Google  SPORT  VOICES  CULTURE  INDEPENDENT  NEWS  LIFESTYLE  TRAVEL  PREMIUM  MORE  INDEPENDEN  News > Health  Covid XEC: What are the symptoms of new virus strain? Everything you need to know about the Covid XEC strain  Albert Toth . 7 hours ago .  ...  Comments  4
Oct 21 12 tweets 3 min read
'UK researchers find Alzheimer’s-like brain changes in long COVID patients'

Another study showing Covid dementia...UKNOW UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY NEWS  Research UK researchers find Alzheimer's-like brain changes in long COVID patients Covid  AD/ADRDs  Neuroinflammation Cytokine/Complements  Tau  Amyloid uknow.uky.edu/research/uk-re…
Oct 20 16 tweets 4 min read
New #XEC Covid Virus 'Particularly Dangerous' Warns Dr As 'Mild' Infected Can 'Deteriorate Quickly' On 'Unpredictable Trajectory' Struggling To Breathe From Potentially Fatal Acute Respiratory Failure

25% increase in Covid deaths reported & thousands in hospital for the virus..previous vanlanlts.  On the subject of the most serious symptom, however, Dr Geige explained: "The most serious symptom is the potential for sudden, acute respiratory failure in individuals who may have previously only experienced mild to moderate symptoms."  She described XEC as "particularly dangerous" because "patients can deteriorate quickly", reports Surrey Live. Another factor contributing to XEC's spread is its "unpredictable trajectory". Dr Geige explained: "Someone can appear to be recovering and suddenly face a rapid decline, often due ... The new immune evasive Covid XEC virus is spreading rapidly in the UK and warnings are being issued due to its severity:
Oct 19 23 tweets 5 min read
New Scientific American Article Shows That 1 in 5 Kids Now Have Horrific Long Covid Diseases

The virus eats the brain and kids are massively underperforming at school as such...

Teachers know this, but fail to...SCI AM  Introducing SciAm Games-Play Now!  OPINION  OCTOBER 18, 2024 | 5 MIN READ  Long COVID Is Harming Too Many Kids Pediatric long COVID is more common than many thought, and we keep letting kids be reinfected with new variants  BY BLAKE MURDOCH ...identify the cause all too often: mainly because they are the cause themselves insisting as they do on infecting kids with the brain-eating Covid virus.

No surprise then that:

'Adolescents have some of the worst standardized test scores in decades.' Children in schools today are often described as struggling with emotional regulation, attention deficits and developmental problems. Adolescents have some of the worst standardized test scores in decades. Pandemic measures such as school closures-most of which were short-lived and occurred several years ago-have been blamed almost entirely for children's present-day behavioral and learning problems.
Oct 17 30 tweets 7 min read
Massive YouTuber With Millions Of Fans Unleashes Heart-Wrenching Details Of Their Horrific #LongCovid Nightmare, Exposing The Tragic Deaths That Have Shattered Their Family & Friends

Long Covid 'quite honestly, nearly killed me...every day has been hell for me' Youtuber Star Jesse Ridgway, better known as @McJuggerNuggets who has over 4.3 million subscribers on YouTube alone recently documented his ongoing and horrific battle with Long Covid and spoke about the many deaths the virus has caused...