Greens Against Covid
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#GreenParty of England and Wales #covid and #longcovid campaign working group. Join us? https://linktr.ee/greensagainstcovid
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I’ve spent the last hour reading hundreds of posts from long COVID support groups.
I can’t tell you how upsetting it is to read the suffering.
Trigger warning.⚠️
Several posts talk of a feeling of fading away… into death…
and we have recently lost several wonderful long COVID advocates…
I can’t tell you how upsetting it is to read the suffering.
Trigger warning.⚠️
Several posts talk of a feeling of fading away… into death…
and we have recently lost several wonderful long COVID advocates…
November 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
I’ve spent the last hour reading hundreds of posts from long COVID support groups.
I can’t tell you how upsetting it is to read the suffering.
Trigger warning.⚠️
Several posts talk of a feeling of fading away… into death…
and we have recently lost several wonderful long COVID advocates…
I can’t tell you how upsetting it is to read the suffering.
Trigger warning.⚠️
Several posts talk of a feeling of fading away… into death…
and we have recently lost several wonderful long COVID advocates…
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New Booklet: Prevalence of ME/CFS in the UK
This new booklet summarises the latest research and historic estimates, how many people in the UK have ME/CFS, and the impact of Covid-19 on these estimates.
Download the booklet: https://meassociation.org.uk/yb89
#pwME #MECFS #Prevelance #LongCovid
This new booklet summarises the latest research and historic estimates, how many people in the UK have ME/CFS, and the impact of Covid-19 on these estimates.
Download the booklet: https://meassociation.org.uk/yb89
#pwME #MECFS #Prevelance #LongCovid
New Booklet: Prevalence of ME/CFS in the UK - The ME Association
In July 2025, the ME Association updated the estimates it […]
meassociation.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
New Booklet: Prevalence of ME/CFS in the UK
This new booklet summarises the latest research and historic estimates, how many people in the UK have ME/CFS, and the impact of Covid-19 on these estimates.
Download the booklet: https://meassociation.org.uk/yb89
#pwME #MECFS #Prevelance #LongCovid
This new booklet summarises the latest research and historic estimates, how many people in the UK have ME/CFS, and the impact of Covid-19 on these estimates.
Download the booklet: https://meassociation.org.uk/yb89
#pwME #MECFS #Prevelance #LongCovid
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A historic step for ME/CFS and Long COVID research – scientific integrity must take precedence. 🧠
Science owes progress to patients – not the repetition of past mistakes.
Science owes progress to patients – not the repetition of past mistakes.
November 18, 2025 at 12:25 PM
A historic step for ME/CFS and Long COVID research – scientific integrity must take precedence. 🧠
Science owes progress to patients – not the repetition of past mistakes.
Science owes progress to patients – not the repetition of past mistakes.
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In the 5.5 years since I've been wearing N95s / KN94s in indoor spaces, I've only been sick once: the last few weeks. N95s aren't perfect, but they make a huge difference. I have a weak immune system, and before masking, I was sick around 5 times a year! I'll take once every 5.5 years. 😊
November 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
In the 5.5 years since I've been wearing N95s / KN94s in indoor spaces, I've only been sick once: the last few weeks. N95s aren't perfect, but they make a huge difference. I have a weak immune system, and before masking, I was sick around 5 times a year! I'll take once every 5.5 years. 😊
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Today we've got a blog from Yanto Evans, focused on Long Covid in Wales and why the Welsh government should prioritise the unfolding health crisis.
His guest blog is also available in Welsh translation.
Link in next post 👇
His guest blog is also available in Welsh translation.
Link in next post 👇
!["In December 2024 [...] the Welsh Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, Jeremy Miles, proclaimed the population was deveoping 'natural immunity' to Covid-19. This is misleading and dangerous." Yanto Evans. New #ThereForME Substack post.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wjbaponwuqichcsh2fiwono5/bafkreibzujbi2sfy4zeqyk3mxnbjy6t6bkw23xrpipqr4hquf67cvpxd5y@jpeg)
November 18, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Today we've got a blog from Yanto Evans, focused on Long Covid in Wales and why the Welsh government should prioritise the unfolding health crisis.
His guest blog is also available in Welsh translation.
Link in next post 👇
His guest blog is also available in Welsh translation.
Link in next post 👇
We urge the unions to demand protection for their members now and not just voice outrage retrospectively.
We'd like the unions to recognise that covid is not an historic event. Their members continue to be harmed and disabled by infection and they continue not to be protected.
November 18, 2025 at 9:26 AM
We urge the unions to demand protection for their members now and not just voice outrage retrospectively.
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#LongCovid: Government failure to recognise disease as occupational is “unconscionable,” say unions
BMJ 2025; 391 doi: doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... (Published 14 November 2025)
BMJ 2025; 391 doi: doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... (Published 14 November 2025)
Long covid: Government failure to recognise disease as occupational is “unconscionable,” say unions
Long covid and severe post-covid complications must be recognised as a prescribed industrial disease for health and social care workers, health unions have said.
The BMA and the Royal College of Nurs...
doi.org
November 18, 2025 at 8:54 AM
#LongCovid: Government failure to recognise disease as occupational is “unconscionable,” say unions
BMJ 2025; 391 doi: doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... (Published 14 November 2025)
BMJ 2025; 391 doi: doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... (Published 14 November 2025)
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UK: "Two-thirds of nurses in UK work while unwell, says union"
"A survey by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) of more than 20,000 nursing staff found that 66% had worked when they should have been on sick leave, up from 49% in 2017."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
"A survey by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) of more than 20,000 nursing staff found that 66% had worked when they should have been on sick leave, up from 49% in 2017."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Two-thirds of nurses in UK work while unwell, says union
Understaffing is driving workers to ill health and discouraging them for taking leave, says Royal College of Nursing CEO
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:45 AM
UK: "Two-thirds of nurses in UK work while unwell, says union"
"A survey by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) of more than 20,000 nursing staff found that 66% had worked when they should have been on sick leave, up from 49% in 2017."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
"A survey by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) of more than 20,000 nursing staff found that 66% had worked when they should have been on sick leave, up from 49% in 2017."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Please feel free to share my #Facebook post on using the Free #VisibleHealth monthly 'Functional Capacity' self-assessment questionnaire. I think it could be useful for many people with chronic illnesses - not just #LongCovid 🙏
www.facebook.com/share/p/1DZh...
www.facebook.com/share/p/1DZh...
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Please feel free to share my #Facebook post on using the Free #VisibleHealth monthly 'Functional Capacity' self-assessment questionnaire. I think it could be useful for many people with chronic illnesses - not just #LongCovid 🙏
www.facebook.com/share/p/1DZh...
www.facebook.com/share/p/1DZh...
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📃Scientific paper: COVID-19 induces persistent transcriptional changes in adipose tissue that are not associated with Long COVID
Ref.: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2025
➡️ Continued on ES/IODE
Ref.: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2025
➡️ Continued on ES/IODE
November 18, 2025 at 7:00 AM
📃Scientific paper: COVID-19 induces persistent transcriptional changes in adipose tissue that are not associated with Long COVID
Ref.: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2025
➡️ Continued on ES/IODE
Ref.: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2025
➡️ Continued on ES/IODE
It's #boldpolitics to engage with the harms of #Covid (and other) infections by wearing a #respirator mask in public.
November 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
It's #boldpolitics to engage with the harms of #Covid (and other) infections by wearing a #respirator mask in public.
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Good to see this research being picked up by the popular science media.
Microclots and NETs in #LongCovid
www.sciencealert.com/strange-stru...
Microclots and NETs in #LongCovid
www.sciencealert.com/strange-stru...
Strange Structures Found Lurking in The Blood of People With Long COVID
A hidden physical change in the body may be helping to drive the prolonged malaise some people experience after contracting COVID-19.
www.sciencealert.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Good to see this research being picked up by the popular science media.
Microclots and NETs in #LongCovid
www.sciencealert.com/strange-stru...
Microclots and NETs in #LongCovid
www.sciencealert.com/strange-stru...
#Healthcare should not be where people go to get sick. We advocate #ventilation, air cleaning measures and the wearing of proper #respirator masks, e.g. #ffp3.
November 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
#Healthcare should not be where people go to get sick. We advocate #ventilation, air cleaning measures and the wearing of proper #respirator masks, e.g. #ffp3.
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Measles outbreak in New Zealand #ThatCovidLife #CovidIsNotOver
Measles outbreak in New Zealand
The country’s low vaccination rate, particularly for young children, is an indictment of successive Labour and National Party governments that have starved the public health system.
www.wsws.org
November 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Measles outbreak in New Zealand #ThatCovidLife #CovidIsNotOver
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We also don't talk about how having at least one prior Covid infection is a risk factor for both long Covid and severe outcomes resulting from a future Covid infection.
And a Covid infection in the past 12 months increases a person's odds of dying from just about everything.
And a Covid infection in the past 12 months increases a person's odds of dying from just about everything.
It’s really important to talk about long covid sufferers and also clinically vulnerable but often we now overlap
Increasingly because people with conditions like Cancer are now also being exposed to infections in hospital and struggling with long covid on top.
Increasingly because people with conditions like Cancer are now also being exposed to infections in hospital and struggling with long covid on top.
November 16, 2025 at 9:05 AM
We also don't talk about how having at least one prior Covid infection is a risk factor for both long Covid and severe outcomes resulting from a future Covid infection.
And a Covid infection in the past 12 months increases a person's odds of dying from just about everything.
And a Covid infection in the past 12 months increases a person's odds of dying from just about everything.
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I remember working with the disability theatre company back in 2022. People were concerned but hopeful that support would come for those with ME/CFS & clinically vulnerable. Instead of bringing hope, when lockdown lifted we were left behind. Long Covid numbers soared due to lack of preventions and 🧵
November 16, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I remember working with the disability theatre company back in 2022. People were concerned but hopeful that support would come for those with ME/CFS & clinically vulnerable. Instead of bringing hope, when lockdown lifted we were left behind. Long Covid numbers soared due to lack of preventions and 🧵
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Long COVID advocate Angela Meriquez Vázquez shared with me, “This wave is most alarming. I was recently reinfected by this new variant ... psychological toll of trying to keep ourselves safe with no institutional support ... is an ongoing source of trauma. www.teenvogue.com/story/covid-...
COVID Isn’t Going Anywhere. Masking Up Could Save My Life.
"When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving."
www.teenvogue.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Long COVID advocate Angela Meriquez Vázquez shared with me, “This wave is most alarming. I was recently reinfected by this new variant ... psychological toll of trying to keep ourselves safe with no institutional support ... is an ongoing source of trauma. www.teenvogue.com/story/covid-...
November 15, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Very interesting article stating that influenza activity is increasing in Europe, RSV activity remains low, and SARSCoV2 activity is stable or decreasing. #PITT_IDFall25
#RespiratoryVirus situation update:
#Influenza activity is increasing in the EU/EEA, earlier than in recent seasons, while #RSV activity remains low.
#SARSCoV2 activity is stable or decreasing.
Read more here: erviss.org
#Flu #COVID19 #IDsky #EpiSky
#Influenza activity is increasing in the EU/EEA, earlier than in recent seasons, while #RSV activity remains low.
#SARSCoV2 activity is stable or decreasing.
Read more here: erviss.org
#Flu #COVID19 #IDsky #EpiSky
November 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Very interesting article stating that influenza activity is increasing in Europe, RSV activity remains low, and SARSCoV2 activity is stable or decreasing. #PITT_IDFall25
Indoor air quality - #IAQ - is an inclusion and health issue.
Shared, unventilated spaces are ideal conditions for the transmission of #Covid and other airborne diseases. We need #CleanWater and we need #CleanAir
Shared, unventilated spaces are ideal conditions for the transmission of #Covid and other airborne diseases. We need #CleanWater and we need #CleanAir
November 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Indoor air quality - #IAQ - is an inclusion and health issue.
Shared, unventilated spaces are ideal conditions for the transmission of #Covid and other airborne diseases. We need #CleanWater and we need #CleanAir
Shared, unventilated spaces are ideal conditions for the transmission of #Covid and other airborne diseases. We need #CleanWater and we need #CleanAir
#Covid and #flu are different but we should be reducing the transmission of all airborne diseases. Good public health measures for Covid, such as #ventilation and wearing proper #respirator #masks, also reduce flu and would stop it surging every winter.
November 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
#Covid and #flu are different but we should be reducing the transmission of all airborne diseases. Good public health measures for Covid, such as #ventilation and wearing proper #respirator #masks, also reduce flu and would stop it surging every winter.
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21 year old Eden Bryrne
shared her lived experience with IDEA-FAST
Eden is a valued member of our Youth Advisory Panel and assists with communications, she says:
I’m “glad to be able to share my story as part of my work on the IDEA FAST advisory board ! I discuss how living with long covid and
shared her lived experience with IDEA-FAST
Eden is a valued member of our Youth Advisory Panel and assists with communications, she says:
I’m “glad to be able to share my story as part of my work on the IDEA FAST advisory board ! I discuss how living with long covid and
November 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
21 year old Eden Bryrne
shared her lived experience with IDEA-FAST
Eden is a valued member of our Youth Advisory Panel and assists with communications, she says:
I’m “glad to be able to share my story as part of my work on the IDEA FAST advisory board ! I discuss how living with long covid and
shared her lived experience with IDEA-FAST
Eden is a valued member of our Youth Advisory Panel and assists with communications, she says:
I’m “glad to be able to share my story as part of my work on the IDEA FAST advisory board ! I discuss how living with long covid and
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What they said
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Covid hasn't left the planet, at all.
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Covid hasn't left the planet, at all.
We often hear 'the #pandemic' in the past tense, but #covid infections are causing massive harm to health and economies. Reduce risk through #ventilation, #filtration and wearing an ffp2 or #ffp3 respirator mask. These actions reduce the likelihood of all airborne infections.
November 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
What they said
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Covid hasn't left the planet, at all.
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Covid hasn't left the planet, at all.
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Is the #Pandemic over? Not for people with #LongCovid, more each day. Kids can still get Long Covid even if their initial infection is relatively mild. They have a lifetime of long COVID ahead of them, and the world is not prepared to deal with that reality. #Test #Mask #SaveLives #CovidAin’tOver
We often hear 'the #pandemic' in the past tense, but #covid infections are causing massive harm to health and economies. Reduce risk through #ventilation, #filtration and wearing an ffp2 or #ffp3 respirator mask. These actions reduce the likelihood of all airborne infections.
November 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Is the #Pandemic over? Not for people with #LongCovid, more each day. Kids can still get Long Covid even if their initial infection is relatively mild. They have a lifetime of long COVID ahead of them, and the world is not prepared to deal with that reality. #Test #Mask #SaveLives #CovidAin’tOver
We often hear 'the #pandemic' in the past tense, but #covid infections are causing massive harm to health and economies. Reduce risk through #ventilation, #filtration and wearing an ffp2 or #ffp3 respirator mask. These actions reduce the likelihood of all airborne infections.
November 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
We often hear 'the #pandemic' in the past tense, but #covid infections are causing massive harm to health and economies. Reduce risk through #ventilation, #filtration and wearing an ffp2 or #ffp3 respirator mask. These actions reduce the likelihood of all airborne infections.