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Dr. Harry Spoelstra
@harryspoelstra.bsky.social
Cardiovascular surgeon with daily CV science information on SarsCoV2/C19/LC, only active on X: @HarrySpoelstra
Exception: Important science, I need to share with all blueS "asylum seekers"!🤣

"COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between?"

🔥Excellent work from an outstanding group of C19 scientists: #Mustread 👇
www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...
October 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Reposted by Dr. Harry Spoelstra
The battle against #LongCovid on the cover of Science Translational Medicine. Lot of important articles here bit.ly/3YN1ktt
November 13, 2024 at 10:26 PM
Infection Aftershock: COVID-19’s Long-Term Impact on Your Heart

I've been warning for this and more...... from back in 2020!

WAKE-UP, #YouOnlyHaveOneHeart,
AVOID SARSCOV2/#reinfections
scitechdaily.com/infection-af...
November 10, 2024 at 11:40 PM
Cunning SarsCoV2 opening a new box of tricks, bringing together the best of two?? 🤔

➡️" EG.5.1.1*(HK)/JN.1 recombinant from New York, with a JN.1 Spike"

github.com/sars-cov-2-v...
EG.5.1.1*(HK)/JN.1 recombinant, singlet USA New York · Issue #1024 · sars-cov-2-variants/lineage-p...
Description: HK.3/JN.1 recombinant, 2 breaking points, Spike from JN.1 Private mutation: C13437C Breakpoint: First between nucleotide 6541 - 7842, second 25416 - 26270 One sequence from: 2023-03-29...
github.com
October 28, 2023 at 7:46 AM
Congrats Max, best team, best car, best driver 🍾🥂
October 7, 2023 at 6:21 PM
Hear a lot that with the new Omicron subvariants, the vulnerable are only of concern, well....than I have news for you!
You, yes, probably you too, have or will maybe become the vulnerable today after one or more covid-19 episodes. Your acquired post-infection/vaccine immunity isn't solid ...1/3
October 4, 2023 at 2:15 PM
Thinking of that old story of a Dutch boy finding a hole in a weakend dike(our diverse waning immunity)and sticking his finger(XBB.1.5 booster) in it to stop the leaking in a 9Bft storm(variant swarm/BA.2.86). That didn't work out well.The dike collapsed,with immense flooding,just thinking out loud🤔
October 3, 2023 at 9:52 PM
“Heart damage is a COMMON feature in COVID-19 patients”

➡️“PAN-TISSUE tropism of SARS-CoV-2”(➡️LongCovid).

➡️“Direct damage to myocardial and endocardial lineages, and subsequent defects in myocardial contractile function”

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Direct Infection of SARS-CoV-2 in Human iPSC-Derived 3D Cardiac Organoids Recapitulates COVID-19 Myo...
www.sciencedirect.com
October 3, 2023 at 10:29 AM
Tonsils are major sites of persistence of SARS-CoV-2 in children

"Palatine tonsils and adenoids are sites of prolonged RNA presence by SARS-CoV-2 in children, even without COVID-19 symptoms."

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
September 26, 2023 at 9:53 AM
Thanks Hank, now I needn't publish this great overview again. You did my work!👏👍
September 22, 2023 at 8:00 PM
Reposted by Dr. Harry Spoelstra
Persistent symptoms and conditions among children and adolescents hospitalised with COVID-19 illness: a qualitative study (09/23)

H/T @harryspoelstra.bsky.social

#ProtectTheChildren

bmjopen.bmj.com/content/13/9...
September 22, 2023 at 10:21 AM
❗️"It’s very clear in our data that reinfection contributes additional risk of long Covid"

➡️ Keep this in mind with the new COVID-19 waves appearing in many places😷

www.statnews.com/2023/09/20/d...
Does the risk of getting long Covid increase each time you get reinfected?
"It's very clear in our data that reinfection contributes additional risk of long Covid," says epidemiologist Ziyad Al-Aly.
www.statnews.com
September 20, 2023 at 5:00 PM
❗"Taken together, these and other studies strongly indicate that masking is an effective intervention to reduce transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (source control)"

ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/...
Unpacking Cochrane’s Update on Masks and COVID-19
Unpacking Cochrane’s Update on Masks and COVID-19, an article from American Journal of Public Health, Vol 113 Issue 10
ajph.aphapublications.org
September 20, 2023 at 3:45 PM
Sweden "Herd-Community" waking up to a new and hard post-covid19 reality!😬
September 19, 2023 at 1:36 PM