I always wondered what it was like for scientists trying to pull the curtain down to expose AIDS or that tobacco causes cancer.
This is it. We’re living in truly wild times.
Explain to me how this TikTok’r gets it and “public health experts” don’t. MDs don’t.
Share widely on multiple platforms.
Shout out to
@michael_hoerger
for breaking through to the younger generation.
h/t
@sasswashere
for alerting me to this most excellent video.
There’s a critical aspect of SARS-CoV-2 infection that many still don't grasp. This virus has a way of affecting us all differently, but one thing is increasingly clear: children are alarmingly MORE susceptible to airborne pathogens like TB, RSV, and pneumonia. The reason? Their…
Study after study after study…Brain damage from Covid.
“Our results suggest persistent cognitive impairment and subtle white matter abnormalities in individuals mildly infected without anxiety or depression symptoms.”
I’ve been saying this for years.
Response? 🦗🦗🦗
Source:…
I’ll keep saying it until data suggest otherwise, but there’s growing evidence that Covid causes brain damage. Reacting to traffic signals, accurately reading signs, switching lanes to anticipate obstacles, and staying calm under stress all rely on our executive functions like…
Put Covid aside for a second.
Let’s say there was an omnipresent airborne virus in the schools and your child is projected to get infected roughly 10 times between kindergarten and 12th grade, without any mitigations.
Let’s say that after 4x there’s more than a 50% chance…
For years, I've consistently warned about the cognitive impacts of Covid, and now, an eye-opening study under review in the Lancet lends further weight to these concerns. This research unveils a startling revelation: Covid's cognitive aftermath might be akin to accelerating the…
Do cognitive deficits persist after COVID-19 and, if so, what is their biological basis?
Our NEW pre-print under review in
@NaturePortfolio
We report one-year cognitive, serum biomarker, and neuroimaging findings in 351 patients
A thread 1/n
I asked ChatGPT to predict the future based on a novel virus that parallels the outcomes associated with SARS-CoV-2 (but I omitted the name to avoid misinformation). Remember, GPT aced medical exams and there are only a handful of people who’ve been screaming from the rooftops…
If another person says, “Blah blah blah… they want to force us all to wear masks,” I’m going to vociferously vocalize my vexation.
Can we maybe, for once, just trust the science?
No surprise as to why California & Massachusetts hospitals are the first to bring back mask mandates.
CA is routinely ranked in the top 4 healthiest states (forward thinking helps too).
MA is the most educated state in the U.S. 44% of residents hold bachelor’s degrees.
This paper is dense and deserves a break down.
Here you go:
There are increasing reports suggesting that a COVID-19 infection might either start or speed up neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).
These diseases (and…
BRAIN and COVID !
"SARS-CoV-2 Spike amyloid fibrils specifically and selectively accelerates amyloid fibril formation of human prion protein and the amyloid β peptide"
“I'd rather die of
#COVID19
than live the rest of my life fearing it.”
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard this. At four years into the ON-going pandemic, watching people everywhere slowly whither away with new medical conditions, I’d rather die than let people continue…
“Covid is over.”
“Covid is a nothing-burger.”
Let’s run a simulation to see how long it’ll take before the majority of the population has persistent infection/chronic disease [LongCovid] with the following assumptions:
Initial Infection:
•67% of the US population has had Covid…
Something I learned from a well-read, highly intelligent Twitter/X contributor & science communicator:
SARS-CoV-2 is a syncytial virus - the ability to cause the fusion of neighboring infected cells, leading to the formation of multi-nucleated giant cells called syncytia. 🧵
Look, I’m playing the long-game here. I’m a 43-year-old Dad and husband and we have greatly reduced our family’s risk by wearing high quality masks in public indoor spaces and we have invested in air purifiers throughout our home, workplace and given them to family members…
A virus that causes perpetual illness & brain damage has been left to spread, unabated, reinfecting everyone.
…and people act surprised when we have historic highs in absenteeism & historic lows in test scores?
Maybe wear a respirator & adopt clean air technology YOU FOOLS!!
High school students' scores on the ACT college admissions test have dropped to their lowest in more than three decades, showing a lack of student preparedness for college-level coursework, according to the nonprofit organization that administers the test.
This hearing is really something else. It’s truly fascinating on so many levels—not that any of this is new info for the Covid Conscious Community, but that it’s FINALLY being discussed in a public forum. I’ve never seen anything like this in my life. We wanted this and the…
Normalize this. There will be no “off-ramp” for years to come. Until better vaccinations and buildings with better air ventilation & purification, you’d be better off adapting to a daily respirator.
The only rethink that needs to happen is to put masks back on and to fix the infrastructure to clean the air.
Pandemics don’t go away with wishful thinking, denial of science and media silence. You actually have to do stuff.
Seen a lot of vomit stories from parents & teachers on my timeline.
Most assume SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19), norovirus, or rotavirus which can directly infect the gastrointestinal tract, leading to symptoms like vomiting, diarrhea, & stomach pain.
Covid can also stimulate the…
I'm astounded that some still refuse to consider the possibility that the global outbreaks of measles and TB, along with the increased risk of RSV (empirically linked to SARS-CoV-2 infection), could be connected to immune exhaustion from SARS-CoV-2. But apparently, I'm just a…
They said herd immunity would work.
Then hybrid immunity.
What's next? They should just come out and say it.
Hocus-Pocus, Hail Mary Hypothetical immunity.
Seems we’ve been banking on magical thinking, prayers & theories rather than results.
Hallucination immunity.
Might as…
SARS-CoV-2 is disabling students, staff and faculty in droves.
But it’s not a secret in the traditional sense.
It’s out in the open.
It’s just that the reality is denied so intently that to enlighten would be like unveiling the biggest secret ever told.
“all SARS-CoV-2 variants are neuroinvasive”
It camps out in microglia & bone marrow too.
Like maybe, just maybe … mask up with a respirator and don’t look back?
Normal is over. Covid is not.
If you are going to fall ill, I do not recommend getting a chronic cardiopulmonary neurocognitive illness that most people think is a little bit of a joke
We know people dismiss mask use for the following reasons:
1. Annoyance, discomfort & vanity.
2. Distrust in the data showing meaningful prevention effects.
3. Disbelief in the need for protection because of bad early public health information.
4. Firm belief that Long Covid…
Show me a study that shows the microplastics you may inhale from daily respirator use are WORSE than repeat SARS-CoV-2 infections and I’ll show you a unicorn doing the cha-cha with Bigfoot at a disco in Atlantis!
“Recovery is extremely rare during the first 2 years, posing a major challenge to healthcare systems.”
Last week
@PutrinoLab
reported just 15-20% fully recovered (among a sample of 3,000+).
Soooo…
Avg person gets infected 1-2x per year.
10% risk of Long Covid, each time; or…
The only ‘mystery’ is why it’s taking You so long to figure this out.
Hear the coughing?
Feel the lackluster energy around?
Frustrated yet by the errors people are making?
See how the same folks wearing respirators aren’t getting sick?
Taste how things are different now?…
Classroom Clusters Cracked: Study reveals a breath of fresh air and N95s can slash COVID risk by 96% in crowded universities, turning traditional learning spaces from viral hotspots into safe knowledge hubs!
PS - I practice what I preach. What say you?
From a study on the SARS-CoV-2 infection in a university classroom,
"The average interpersonal distance in university classrooms is 0.9 m, with the highest proportion of face-to-back contact at 87.0 %.
The risk of infection of susceptible students per 45-min lesson was 1 %.…
“There’s evidence that kids perform better in schools when they have air filtration & ventilation systems.”
-Dr
@zalaly
(1/18/24, Congressional Hearing on Long Covid)
🥹 happy tears
@Unit4Schools
👀
Wish I could be happier for this occasion but someone very close just passed. It’s also raining & I just leveraged my privilege to pay $187 for a vaccine that everyone should have free access to. I caved to impatience & I’m totally numb right now.
On the + side, no sides so far.
How many people do you think will turn in to watch 60 Minutes tomorrow night?
Could it be a turning point for some in terms of their attitude toward mitigation?
Standing Offer: If you come across a scientific finding related to exercise, health or Covid, and you don’t understand it, I will translate it for you.
No questions asked. It might take some time to respond, but I’ll do it (until I’m bombarded with 🤖).
I choose to believe data, logic, science, patients, and experts who’ve been committed to solutions and not compromised by political affiliations that hide data, take a knee for capitalism & campaigns, and force adults & developing children to be repeatedly infected by a life…
This was pre-pandemic data. THESE types of studies are what inspired me to be a researcher in this field.
But mark my words.
The best way to promote brain health for your 10yo, at this moment in time, is to keep them free & clear from SARS-CoV-2 infection.
5 years from now…
"...more physical activity at 10 years was consistently associated with an increase in amygdala volume in children aged 10 to 14..."
Levels of Physical Activity at Age 10 Years and Brain Morphology Changes From Ages 10 to 14 Years
#Move
!
Absolute disinformation at this point. He’s not this uninformed of published science. This is intentional. If I’m wrong, he’s more ignorant of science than I could have possibly imagined.
There's a lot of bad information out there about how covid damages the immune system
It really doesn’t
But you know what does?
Measles
And thanks to the antivaxers
We are seeing measles outbreaks again
Encourage people to get their kids vaccinated
It’s really important
Folks are walking around strutting their stuff and Yale’s School of Public Health be like, “Yo, you got autoimmune disease.” The NIH Director be like, “Yo, you got viral persistence in your blood, brain & bone marrow.” Dr Deborah Birx be like, “Yo, you got an HIV-like disease.”…
When will we start referring to it as SARS3?
And when will the wider public have that 'aha' moment, realizing that every exposure to the virus is an invitation for it to mutate?
Those in the know have connected the dots, but it's crucial for everyone to understand.
In JAMA today 😬
"The BA.2.86 variant has more than 35 genetic differences from XBB.1.5.... This genetic leap 'is roughly of the same magnitude' as seen between the initial Omicron variant and the Delta variant, the CDC said."
You’re not genetically gifted.
You’ve had Covid.
You just don’t know it yet.
And if you didn’t, you’re not gifted, you’re 1 in 100 lucky and late, and we don’t have time to catch you up.
I watched “Schools facing unprecedented challenges post-pandemic” on
@ThisWeekABC
. It’s unfathomable how you’ve framed the teacher shortages. 300K teachers didn’t just “leave” the field, or the horrendous pay. Many became chronically ill from SARS-CoV-2. Many can no longer manage…
Unpopular opinion:
If your pet died well before their time, since March 2020…
There’s a very good chance they got Covid. And if it wasn’t from a pet-care facility, it was from a member of your family.
Too many in la la land haven’t connected these dots
#ForgottenFluffBuddies
So I think it’s fair to say this means Djoker has Long Covid. Moreover, it’s another painful example of a man at pinnacle health & performance who couldn’t fight off the virus. And it was made worse via physical exertion.
Sucks to be an anti-vaxxer right now. This was their ⭐️…
Information coming from Serbia is that Novak Djokovic had a severe flu against Jannik Sinner which explained the loss.
"He got a fever the night before the semi-final. Something similar to what Zverev had. He was sick for three weeks, and then he had a relapse. That's why he…
About to start my health tech class. I still wear, and cart with me, the two BEST health tech devices I’ve ever used. Unequivocally. I haven’t been sick in >4 years. Not sure why you’d want to breathe in biohazards in spaces that could debilitate you for the rest of your life 🤷♂️
In my 15 years of studying neuroscience, I've learned something about recovering from the neurological effects of COVID-19. Recovery often means forming new neural connections, rather than simply restoring the old ones. This can change the way you think and perceive the world,…
Then I asked it:
This is an incredibly horrible scenario DrHouseGPT. Can you tell me what the best mitigations should be in this scenario if we know this novel virus is principally transmitted through aerosolized particulates? Is seems to infect people in the air within as…
#WorthAShot
Do what you can to get
#Novavax
when its available. Not only are the numbers good, efficacy and safety-wise….but there are anecdotal reports of the protein-based vaccine with M-Matrix adjuvant improving the quality of life of those w/persistent symptoms
#LongCovid
I can hear the sizzle from this burn all the way from Illinois.
If you're new here, let me catch you up:
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that likely caused you to have COVID-19 a few times by now (if you've been playing pretend), has wreaked havoc on your body.
One of the ways it can…
I highly advise against doing this. I’m an exercise scientist. This is WHY I am here.
I’ve learned this from Long Covid patients, clinicians and exercise physiologists.
In rare circumstances, some have bounced back… and some athletes have pushed through. But the overwhelming…
Make that a Venti Matcha please. I’ll take a CBD drop, Enovid (Nitric Oxide) bump and a CPC mouthwash chaser too.
Why? Each ingredient has been shown to inactivate Covid and each is backed by >1 study.
Respirators are still needed. Even after Novavax.
But maybe in a few…
TEA for COVID ? 🤔
"Here we show that Omicron subvariants were effectively inactivated by green tea, Matcha, and black tea and strongly suppressed infectivity of BA.1 and XE subvariants, while effect on BA.2.75 was weaker"
@Valtex7B
As a PhD in Education with expertise in health behavior adherence, health tech and cognitive science, I believe there are multiple, co-contributing factors in the US and abroad:
1. People can’t stick to things, period. Research on any heath behavior and it’s 50+% stop within…
How have we arrived here? …this normalized incompetence & paralysis of inaction?
…no need to test?
…no need to isolate?
…no need to mask?
…no need to count?
Ohhh that’s right.
We need less people on the planet, so we’re supposed to be ok with all this head in sand stuff.…
@nicolashagner
My kid tested positive a few days after school started, & I tried reporting it to the school. They rapidly distanced themselves—it wasn’t reported anywhere, NYS isn’t counting, no one cares. We’re doing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell for Covid at the national level.
Vision for a bathroom:
When you enter or turn the light on, the far UVC light turns off.
When you exit/turn light off, it starts working on the aerosolized particles you just left behind.
Timer outside door lets you know when the room has been sanitized.
This must already…
New 🦠❤️ study by
Eberhardt et al (preprint)
Background: People who had COVID-19 are at a higher risk of heart attacks, severe chest pain, and strokes for up to a year after catching the virus.
One reason might be the overall inflammation in the body caused by the virus.
It's…
There's a push to cast COVID-aware people as being mentally ill.
This was an ad that just ran on
@CBS
in the U.S. about OCD.
One of the "OCD fears" featured is:
"What if I bring COVID home to my family?"
What a sick joke. COVID KILLS AND DISABLES.
I'm now convinced that the 'immunity debt' narrative is far from innocent naïveté—it's a sinister cover-up for a predictable rise in opportunistic infections, as our immune defenses lower due to increased exposure to T+M+Natural Killer cell assassins. By labeling immune theft as…
Upon request by a few folks in this thread, I prompted it to tell me how much time we might have left…
Timeline Estimation: Estimating a specific timeline like 5 years or a decade for human survival under these conditions is speculative. However, without effective mitigation…
How many excuses are they going to make while dismissing the chronic illness w/the side car of cognitive impairment? “It’s the scheduling.” Really?
And why do you think there aren’t enough air traffic controllers? And why did FAA lower pilot training standards? See also 🚗 & 🚂
Thing is education does matter, but then so does staying healthy and alive. So this is another reason why ‘let COVID rip’ can’t work as a strategy. We’re producing a generation that will be either poorly educated because they didn’t go to school or disabled because they did.
There comes a time when you find yourself on one side of history.
Which side are you on?
The side that drank the Koolaid and thinks Covid is a cold… or
The side that knows that shifting from Petrie dish to human vessels doesn’t change a damn thing..?
It’s still an airborne…
This makes my🩸boil. I once (naively) believed that when new discoveries emerged, they became public knowledge. In reality, translational lag from science labs to living rooms is ~1.5 decades. Bad actors, ignorance/denial, & brain-invading viruses can move our society BACKWARDS!
Just lost more faith in ChatGPT.
After asking if petroleum jelly applied inside the nose is an effective method for preventing virus (and it gave me an emphatic No), it said this...
"Effective Preventive Measures: The best ways to prevent airborne viral infections include…
“When I see *my* doctor not wearing a mask in front of me, it just says they don't care about my health.”
—
@rubyslippahs
Me too. It also tells me they don’t care about their own health. They are uninformed and possibly un-coachable.
What master of doublespeak at the
@WHO
thought 'inhalable respiratory particle (IRP)' was a clever way to describe airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2? This isn't just a semantic game – it's a dangerous minimization of a critical public health issue.
Remember the 'droplets'…
New this week in
@JAMAOnc
- another study demonstrating that
#cancer
is one of the biggest risk factors for severe C0VID outcomes.
Patients with C19 who were getting systemic cancer therapies (e.g., chemo) were more likely to develop embolisms, which were associated with more…
I don’t think people realize how much bad stuff they breathe in every day. We obsessively clean & vacuum our home. We upgraded our HVAC system over a year ago & it’s a workhorse with germicidal light in core & ducts. We have Levoit air purifiers in every room (some have 2). This…
Seems quite plausible now that *some* of the “mystery illness” we see reported all over the world is really tuberculosis (TB).
They would hopefully test to rule out SARS-CoV-2, RSV & influenza. This of course would not account for all of “the illness” that few will admit is…
This is why I’m here. I immediately noticed the effects of SARS-CoV-2 on others’ brains. I didn’t have imaging evidence, but I observed changes in cognitive performance across ages. It’s not as imperceptible as everyone thinks & hopes it is.
May the force be with you Dr Beckman.
I have been sick with
#COVID19
for 10 days now. I was able to avoid this disease since its beginning, but it finally got me, as it did with so many people around the world. I never thought that this disease was not severe. I lost my grandmother to it in 2021; she had an extensive…
“Hospital trust apologises for telling staff not to test for Covid-19”
You can’t make this up. That email was real!!
Surely there have to be some lawyers salivating all over this.
You folks over there at the Times aren’t very bright eh?
Or do they pay you to write stories to divert attention away from reality?
Don’t any of you have the stones to report the truth?
h/t Dr
@denise_dewald
Covid still buries humans daily, but they’re in a sea of data that’s been hidden from public view. Others are in a holding pattern that we’ll eventually label excess deaths but again, swept like dust under a rug.
Your immune system is a small ship being destroyed with each…
Just curious… when parents hear from their kid’s doctor that Little Mikey has white lung, and can’t play sports any longer, who do you think they’ll blame first?
‘Mystery virus’?
Sick kids in class?
Administration?
Public policy?
Experts?
Vaccine?
Bad luck?
The truth (Covid…
My entire immediate family is now double vaxxed with Novavax! Next stop, the third shot in six months for optimization
This took over 2 years in planning. It’s a big win.
Wishing those who want it can get it soon. Vaccines are a vital layer of protection.
Keeping our…
I’m sure this has nothing to do with the rise in automobile accidents. Couldn’t possibly play a role in declines in academic performance. Inconceivable (said in my best Vizzini impression from Princess Bride).
“Patients showed cognitive slowing indicated by longer reaction times…
He gets ill, then performs poorly, misses tournaments and then fires his coach. It wasn’t Goran, Novak. It was Covid. You’ve got RG, Wimby, & Olympics next. Provided that you can overcome the internal struggle, you might want to start wearing a respirator to protect what remains…
This TIMES article on Long COVID research failure not only does a disservice to the intricacies of biomedical science but also prematurely calls for a paradigm shift that could potentially derail years of progress. The authors' suggestion to pivot from the biomedical model to a…
Had a skin appointment today. After walking into the clinic masked with my n99, two older adults (one worker, one patient) decided it was prime time to dig into their purses and pull out their surgical masks.
Not a single person in the entire building didn’t cough. Not one. NOT…
I’m so exhausted from hearing these stories without response from people who actually have the power to do something about it. And I don’t have an energy-limiting disease. Those with Long Covid have been all but expunged from the record. Today I was asked why I masked and I…
@drseanmullen
@TheLemurGuy
My formerly healthy, athletic 20 year old niece has LC. She walks with a cane, sleeps most of the day and had to drop out of university because she couldn’t keep up. No one sees it because she can’t participate in society anymore.
AIDS is trending now…
Reason?
SARS 2nd largest peak.
COVID damages the immune system. Lots of people joining the sick. They seek answers.
What else damages the immune system, causes opportunistic infections & the body to shutdown?
Here’s a thought. Since children are the community spreaders, let’s bring back Rapid Antigen Testing at the door of K-12 schools!
Oh wait… we never had that.
How about we bring back placement of multiple air purifiers in classrooms?
Oh that’s right… never had that either.
Students, faculty, staff and alums at
#UWaterloo
are asking for a town hall with senior admin to discuss COVID safety measures on campus.
If so inclined, please share widely with UW-affiliated folks who may be interested in signing.
Full Letter:
Know what else will help with teacher shortages? It’s called CLEANING THE AIR TO REMOVE THE AIRBORNE BSL-3 VIRUS that is vascular, thrombotic, neurotropic, & immune dysregulating. It’s forcing teachers out AND doctors to shutter their practice. It’s causing absenteeism and…
To help with the shortage of K-12 teachers in VA, UVA’s School of Education & Human Development is helping public schools grow their own teachers from the ranks of their teaching assistants & other professionals who are already working in the schools.
Hey 👋 So you don’t think high performance masks (respirators) work? This post is for you.
Just like HEPA filters that you may have in your home, N95 and N99 respirators also rely on a combination of mechanisms to filter out particles, including Brownian motion.
The key…
"Scientists are confident they will have a treatment for COVID-19 brain fog in 5 to 10 years following successful trials on mice and human brain tissue."
"Scientist Julio Aguado says new senolytic drugs can kill "zombie" cells caused by COVID-19."
We don’t mask because you have a disease. We mask because it’s impractical to ask you to PCR test- to prove you aren’t spreading a virus that’ll cause us to join those with a virus-caused disease (w/no cure & currently receiving ZERO attention), or aggravate a disease we already…
I had an epiphany that I will attempt to share.
One of the tangible things I’ve learned from the pandemic is when someone figures stuff out, way before you, you follow them.
I mean, if someone shares information tangential to staying alive, you keep them around yea? I do.
You…
I watched Outbreak for the 2nd time last night. I’ve been intentionally holding off.
I haven’t seen it since it was first released and I knew it would make me angry.
Something I didn’t plan on…?
There are literally NO gifs with Dustin Hofmann or any of the A-list actors from…
People with strong executive functioning don’t want to experience neural fusion.
The smart people also question the logic as to why we’d be forced to use an inferior product.
Why is Novavax in such demand but yet it remains prohibited to those with prior mRNA?
The smart people…
Smart people first in line for COVID-19 vaccines, study suggests
A total of 80% of the most intelligent people were vaccinated within 40 days of
#COVID
-19 vaccine availability, compared with 180 days for those with the lowest cognitive ability.
THE most shorted stock.
THE most inaccessible vaccine.
Also…
THE most safe (least adverse events), durable, & easy to transport vaccine.
THE only vaccine that doesn’t have a seat at the table of the FDA/ CDC from former board members.
THE target of the most negative press.
The People's Strategist Newsletter - Stay Informed
Why isn't Novavax being approved?
Because the system wants to make money on its failure.
Even though it makes the best product.
This not an accident.
It's time to get loud.
Nosocomial Covid in Wales
'Number of inpatient Covid-19 cases in hospital in Wales'
On 18 February 2024, 67% of inpatient Covid cases were the result of nosocomial infection...
(PHW data)
Harvard: Students grapple with rising rates of respiratory illness on campus
Student says 'I’ve never gotten sick so much in the span of a year'
The Harvard Crimson
Is aging accelerating in some folks? Without a doubt.
It’s the first thing I have noticed. I study aging (mostly cognitive aging but I’ve also dabbled in cardiovascular, sensory & vocal aging).
If you didn’t pick up on the sensory changes & impaired communication such as…
What % of people know that measles can cause a loss of immune memory or “immune amnesia”? (Bye 👋 B cells)
Now…
What % do you think know that SARS-CoV-2 does the same thing?
… or that rise in the latter gives rise to the former?