Rapidly developing and very complicated topic. Let this thread be a placeholder for further information as it’s published. 1/ 🧵LONG COVID 2025: What we know ➡️ definition | burden | diagnosis | treatment | prognosis | where a putative “post-vaccine syndrome” (PVS) fits. #LongCOVID #MedTwitter
Ref:
who.int/europe/news-ro…

🧵1/ What did the DoD learn after giving > 1.3 million troops mRNA COVID shots?

Spoiler: the vaccines were safe, highly effective, and kept units mission-ready.

Let’s dive. 2/ Mandate impact: after SECDEF’s 24 Aug 2021 order, full-series coverage soared from < 70 % to > 95 % across the force, erasing rank & race gaps and restoring deployability.

🧵 Sarcopenia: Why it Matters
Sarcopenia is age-related loss of muscle mass and strength.
It affects mobility, independence, metabolism—and even lifespan.
This 3-part thread explains:
1.What it is
2.What works
3.What to do at each age 2/ 📌 What is Sarcopenia?
Loss of muscle mass + function with age.
• Begins as early as age 30
• Accelerates after 50
• Affects up to 50% >80 years old
Often silent—until you can’t get off the floor.

In 2017, Tom Nichols wrote The Death of Expertise warning of a world where people reject expert knowledge in favor of their own opinions.

Eight years later, his warning looks not only prescient—but possibly understated.

Let’s talk about what he got right—& what got even worse. His Thesis
Nichols argued that Americans were increasingly hostile to experts—not just skeptical, but resentful. They didn’t want to hear from experts anymore.

Social media, bad education, & cultural narcissism were making everyone believe they were just as smart as specialists.

Dr. Peter Hotez vs the Parasites: What He Actually Knows About Ivermectin

Antivax influencers pushed ivermectin as a COVID cure. But the irony?

Dr. Peter Hotez is actually a global expert in parasitic diseases—and he’s worked with ivermectin for decades.

Let’s break it down. 1/ Dr. Peter Hotez is a pediatrician, microbiologist, and co-inventor of vaccines for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).

His career has focused on diseases caused by parasites: hookworm, schistosomiasis, leishmaniasis, Chagas, and more.

1/ 🚨 A new Lancet study estimates U.S. global health programs saved 91 million lives since 2000.

But if USAID’s health funding is slashed, we could see 14 million additional deaths by 2030.

Let’s break it down. 🧵

thelancet.com/journals/lance…

✨ What happens when genius goes off the rails?

Some Nobel Prize winners don’t stop at brilliance—they keep going… straight into pseudoscience.

Welcome to the curious case of: Nobel Disease
(A 🧵 full of weird science and politely raised eyebrows)

#NobelDisease #ScienceHumor 1/ Definition

What is “Nobel Disease”?

A tongue-in-cheek term for the strange tendency of some Nobel Prize winners to embrace wild, unscientific ideas after their win.

Symptoms include:
– Overconfidence
– Immunity to peer review
– Attraction to fringe theories

No known cure.

🧵1/Let’s give credit where it’s due.
A team of researchers just compiled a spreadsheet of every randomized controlled trial (RCT) ever conducted on vaccines.
It’s clear. It’s comprehensive. And it’s a powerful antidote to disinformation.
👇
@IntegralAnswers 2/ The project is led by Dr. Brad Spellberg, an infectious disease expert and Chief Medical Officer at the Los Angeles County medical system.

His goal?

To make it impossible for vaccine skeptics to falsely claim that vaccines were “never tested properly.”

1/ Thimerosal was removed from most vaccines by 2001.

This wasn’t because of any proven harm. It was the precautionary principle in action—erring on the side of safety, not because of evidence.

It’s been gone from routine childhood vaccines for over two decades. 2/ There’s no credible evidence that thimerosal ever caused harm in the doses used in vaccines.

None. Not autism. Not neurotoxicity. Multiple large-scale studies have confirmed this, including:
•Madsen et al. (2003)
•Price et al. (2010)
•Tozzi et al. (2009)

I followed the research in this closely in that period of time from the beginning of the outbreak until the vaccines became available. In the early days of the pandemic, many promoted supplements like vitamin D, zinc, and quercetin as potential shields against COVID-19.

But what happened when the science caught up?

Let’s dive in.👇

🧵 THREAD: Steve Kirsch says COVID vaccines “fooled every epidemiologist.” Let’s fact-check with RCTs, target-trial emulations & national cohorts. Spoiler: vaccines still slash severe COVID & save lives. 2/ “Placebo would look 90 % effective.” Wrong. Pre-roll-out RCTs (Pfizer, Moderna, J&J; n > 70 k) eliminated selection bias & found 95 % VE vs symptomatic infection, 100 % vs COVID death. Randomisation beats ‘healthy vaccinee’ bias.

“40 % more miscarriages after mRNA shots”? 5 minutes of quality-control says otherwise

Link to the preprint
medrxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/ Headline claim
A single-HMO analysis says miscarriages ≤20 wks jump 40 % within 21 days of vaccination. Let’s see how that number is built.

1/ Four years ago, my son caught COVID-19.

He was just 16 months old.

What followed was terrifying:
• COVID pneumonia
• Hospitalization
• Weeks of recovery
• And a tragedy in our family

This is the start of his Long COVID journey—one we’re still walking.
👇 2/ When my toddler tested positive, I stayed with him in the COVID ward.

That’s how I caught it too.

Both of us developed COVID pneumonia.
He was hospitalized for 2 weeks.
I was hospitalized for 3 weeks.

We survived—but not without lasting scars.

🚨 Debunking a viral antivax graphic by Toby Rogers that falsely links vaccines to autism.

Let’s walk through each claim—with facts, science, and sources.

🧵THREAD: “Mapping the Entire Field of Misinformation” 2/ 📌Claim: The 1986 Vaccine Act gave pharma blanket immunity.

🔍Fact: It created a no-fault compensation system for rare vaccine injuries. Manufacturers can still be sued for fraud or defects.

🧠 It protects public health and families.

🧵1/ Nick Hulscher is claiming an “85 million person” study from Iran proves COVID-19 vaccines caused widespread heart attacks, strokes, and deaths.

Let’s break down what the actual study shows—and how badly Hulscher distorted it.

🧵 Debunk thread 2/📄 The real study is titled:

“Report on adverse events of COVID-19 vaccines in Iran: a comprehensive national prospective longitudinal analysis”
Published via PubMed, covering Feb 2021–Dec 2022 with 155 million vaccine doses administered national-wide
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40028315/

🧵1/ Antivaxxers love this chart.

It shows mortality from scarlet fever, whooping cough, measles, diphtheria & smallpox falling before vaccines were introduced.

Their claim? “Vaccines didn’t save us.”

Let’s break down why this argument is completely misleading.
📉⚠️ 2/ First, they’re showing deaths, not infections.

That matters.

Modern medicine (antibiotics, hospitals, nutrition) reduced how deadly infections were.

But people were still getting sick—often by the hundreds of thousands—until vaccines stopped spread.

1/ Why do dogs feel like family?
Science is finally catching up with what we’ve always known in our hearts.

🧠🐾 This thread explores the neurological and emotional bond between dogs and humans.

👉 Stick around for the science—and the soul. 2/ Heartbeat Sync / Co-regulation

Your heartbeat can sync with your dog’s.
Literally.

Studies on HRV (heart rate variability) show that during calm, connected moments, humans and dogs co-regulate emotionally and physically.

A Midwestern Doctor asserts Vaccines Cause Autism. He’s wrong, let’s discuss how we know. 1/ / Claim Overview

Claim: Vaccines cause autism through neurological injury or microstrokes.

Truth: No credible evidence supports this. It’s a long-debunked theory recycled from fringe sources.

🔍 Let’s look at the facts…

🧵Fact-checking RFK Jr.’s defense of David & Mark Geier

In a recent post, RFK Jr. accuses the Wall Street Journal of “character assassination” against the Geiers — and claims they were unfairly targeted for linking mercury in vaccines to autism.

“BREAKING: mRNA Shots Cause Cancer”?
Nick Hulscher’s latest Substack post claims COVID vaccines reprogram bone marrow and induce leukemia. Let’s examine what the evidence actually shows.

Spoiler: It doesn’t hold up.
#Disinfo #VaccinesWork 1/ The article centers on a paper in Current Molecular Medicine studying 7 leukemia patients who had received Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine.

Hulscher claims this proves a “cancer link.”

🧂 But the sample size? Just seven vaccinated leukemia patients.

1/ An observation from abroad… 2/ First, some facts.

Both the U.S. and Thailand monitored vaccine safety rigorously.

But the narrative? That’s where things diverge.

In the U.S., social media exploded with antivax fear-mongering.
In Thailand? A quieter, more science-driven approach.