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Sep 6, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Wait...?
"the updated booster is not intended for everyone. It’s for people in high-risk groups – those who are age 75 or older, pregnant or immunocompromised...The general public should not expect to need to receive the latest COVID booster," pbs.org/newshour/healt…
H/T @tdarlawlyda for sending this. I can't wrap my head around it. So, no more boosters? Or just no "updated" boosters? And where does Novavax fit into this?
No masks ✅
No mitigations ✅
No tracking ✅
No free tests ✅
No booster?! ✅
But GET THAT FLU SHOT! 🙄
Is this right?
Sep 4, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
So the diarrhea plane wasn't actually disinfected, but mopped up and redeployed. A few months ago the bloody plane attendants gave cleanser and paper towels to passengers themselves, then landed and deployed again.
Explain to me why anyone would fly unless absolutely necessary?
For context here is the bloody plane story from a little while back: cnn.com/travel/airline…
Sep 4, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Not "lockdowns" or vaccine mandates. Instead:
-Masks required in healthcare and transit.
-Ventilation, air purification, FarUVC in public buildings.
-Acknowledgement of
/physician education on post-acute Covid cardiovascular, brain, organ and immune system damage.
-Standard post-acute Covid screening tests to troubleshoot potential damage.
-Surveillance and tracking, not obfuscation and minimizing, by public health.
-Normalization of mask wearing
-Free, easy-to-access testing. Home tests should have number/website to record results.
Aug 25, 2023 • 21 tweets • 5 min read
Starting thread on unusual risks from Covid infection you might not know about.
The Covid-aware community has been right all along. About need for concern, about MRNA limitations and "breakthrough" infections (that many of us, myself included, were suspended for tweeting relevant data about in 2021,) about post-acute organ, brain and system damage...
About fallacies of "herd immunity," "kids not transmitting" and "kids not being harmed by" Covid, about fallacy of "immunity debt," about mask science (masks work) and clean air science (ventilation helps,) about SarsCov2 being about MUCH more than acute infection...
Aug 2, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Y'all...a friend's son told her his roommate is being turned down for sperm donation. Had Covid in January, had donated several times last year.😳
This is first I've heard about in real world but will link related info below.
You can't assume that sore throat or fever is "a cold" or "flu" until you test negative for Covid 3 days in a row on a rapid test or once on a PCR. (And RATs might still miss it.) Severity of acute Covid is irrelevant. Any Covid infection commonly causes damage seen LATER.
If you want to take Paxlovid you must do it within 5 days of symptom onset, and there are several common drugs you will have to stop first, so timing is everything.
Jun 20, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I understand the intellectual argument about not "debating" science, but until folks are informed about many aspects of this pandemic, from vaccine safety (and limitations) to post-acute Covid organ/system damage (and cardiovascular events,) the void will be filled with misinfo.
I know many liberals now smitten with RFK Jr, who also believe vaccines have caused all the pandemic strokes, embolisms and cardiac arrests. Why? Because this admin will not address post-acute Covid damage OR vaccine adverse effects. Meanwhile the right controls the narrative.
Jun 20, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The more I learn of post-acute Covid reactivating other infections, the more I want to avoid it. I know people with reactivated herpes viruses--HSV1, Varicella Zoster (recurrent shingles,) EBV. Also new onset cervical dysplasia (HPV.) Lupus worse. New MS. Doctors are "baffled."
Until clinicians catch up with research, and until we have have new antiviral standards of care to address this issue, it would benefit everyone to limit the number of times you get Covid.
May 29, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"the pandemic is not over. It’s much worse than you have been led to believe. And unless you’ve spent the past several years reading scientific studies on the subject, it can be hard to convey just how wrong the public perception of COVID really is..." clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/let-them-eat-p…
"It’s not your 'fault' if you aren’t a virologist, immunologist, epidemiologist, or evolutionary biologist. It’s the job of experts and trusted voices to convey the truth and give you guidance. Not only have they failed at this..."
May 29, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
God bless libraries. ✊❤
"Teens and young adults ages 13 to 26 living anywhere in the U.S. can access our entire collection of e-books and audiobooks. We believe in your right to read what you want, discover yourself and form your own opinions." spl.org/programs-and-s…
Brooklyn Public Library, too: bklynlibrary.org/media/press/br…
May 28, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Starting thread on diagnosis, definition and treatment strategies for Long Covid and post acute-Covid cardiovascular, brain, organ and system damage in countries around the world other than US/UK.
The evidence is incontrovertible. SarsCov2 causes cardiovascular damage, even in mild or asymptomatic cases. Push back against the "just a seasonal virus" narrative.
Wow! A Twitter peep who prefers to be unnamed wrote me about her doctor visit. She took an Aranet monitor, portable Hepa air purifier and package of N95s for the GP and staff. She said "I'm a Long Covid education activist. I read and organize Covid medical studies every day..."😎
She had printouts of Nature and Scientific America articles on post-Covid damage, directed her doctor to @GringoGranadino's Covid research library and @TheWHN. She even dropped @DrEricDing's and @WesElyMD's names. She had ULTA Lab's Long Covid blood panel up on her phone screen.
May 26, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I expected the $1.15 billion (BILLION!?) NIH study on Long Covid to yield more than an incomplete checklist of symptoms. archive.ph/2023.05.25-184…
It's bad enough most clinicians don't read research on Covid organ and system damage. If an average GP uses this criteria to diagnose LC, you could show up with POTS, chest pain, shortness of breath, memory loss and chronic opportunistic infections but NOT meet the definition.
May 25, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Starting thread on great threads of inspiration from our Covid-aware community. Y’all have shared some wonderful life advice, recommendations, music, books, art,gardens, hobbies, pets…
Filing them here as a nice balance for ongoing dystopia.
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"in a recent rapid review published in the Annals of Internal Medicine Journal, researchers presented live, updated evidence of the effectiveness of masks in preventing SARS-CoV-2".... infection in community and healthcare settings..." news-medical.net/news/20230517/…
"...They synthesized evidence separately for both settings and from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and observational studies...the researchers focused on retrieving the latest, most recent evidence (data) of the usefulness of three types of masks..."
May 24, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"A compound found in the bark of magnolia tree inhibits reproduction of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes Covid-19, in several types of cells, and may be effective against future coronaviruses, according to a study." tribuneindia.com/news/health/ma…
"The researchers found that the compound called honokiol caused the production of infectious SARS-CoV-2 viral particles in treated cells to fall to around 1,000th of the previous level."
May 22, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Starting thread on Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) surveillance around the world. Has there been increase since Covid? canada.ca/en/public-heal…cjd.ed.ac.uk
May 21, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Starting thread on countries / medical bodies / orgs recommending universal post-acute Covid screening for cardiovascular damage.
"I feel nostalgic for the summer of 2020. In New York City, we had gone from like 800 deaths per day to like 10 and everyone had a very precious sense of the sanctity of life..." indypendent.org/2023/05/covid-…
"...A lot of us spent that summer in parks in the evenings where we could safely be with our friends...really thinking consciously about how much we valued connection to one another. I could leave my house and run into a Black Lives Matter bike protest without even looking..."
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