Holly Stortholme
@hollystortholme.bsky.social
GP who wears N95, breathe clean air, up to date with vaccinations because I understand and keep up with science. Long Covid is real, happens to children and adults. Covid is AIRBORNE, BSL 3 virus.
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Getting Wild for Covid Awareness.
Want to help me stay in the advocacy game? $5 goes a long way.
I want helping people, and educating others to be more than a dream. That’s my goal.
gofund.me/f1f07602
#health #sick #kids #teacher #backtoschool #mentalhealth I
Want to help me stay in the advocacy game? $5 goes a long way.
I want helping people, and educating others to be more than a dream. That’s my goal.
gofund.me/f1f07602
#health #sick #kids #teacher #backtoschool #mentalhealth I
September 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Just in case there’s a minute chance you are wondering why I’m missing for a while and if I have joined the masses and stopped masking and that I think Covid is a nothing burger.
WRONG!
WRONG!
October 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Just in case there’s a minute chance you are wondering why I’m missing for a while and if I have joined the masses and stopped masking and that I think Covid is a nothing burger.
WRONG!
WRONG!
Reposted by Holly Stortholme
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Going all in for Covid Awareness.
If you want to help get the word out please pitch in. $5 goes a long way. gofund.me/7817f5f5 If you’d like to help support my work, and more billboards please do so, we need to educate the public now. #covid19 #backtoschool #longcovid #mentalhealth #teacher
If you want to help get the word out please pitch in. $5 goes a long way. gofund.me/7817f5f5 If you’d like to help support my work, and more billboards please do so, we need to educate the public now. #covid19 #backtoschool #longcovid #mentalhealth #teacher
August 30, 2025 at 11:05 PM
My long Covid patient. 3 covid infections and 3 vaccinations- unable to have further mRNA due to myocarditis. Developed long covid after 3rd infection. POTS and PEM crashes. Limited to 2500 steps daily. Previously fit and well and gyms regularly. No meds prior to long covid.
August 31, 2025 at 4:06 AM
My long Covid patient. 3 covid infections and 3 vaccinations- unable to have further mRNA due to myocarditis. Developed long covid after 3rd infection. POTS and PEM crashes. Limited to 2500 steps daily. Previously fit and well and gyms regularly. No meds prior to long covid.
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The next Covid Awareness billboard will be something to the effect of…
“Mask Up, Clean The Air, Protect the Kids, and Show We Care.”
#SafeSchoolsNow
If you like to help me continue my work and place some more billboards please share/donate. Every bit helps. YerAweSum!
gofund.me/b398a403
“Mask Up, Clean The Air, Protect the Kids, and Show We Care.”
#SafeSchoolsNow
If you like to help me continue my work and place some more billboards please share/donate. Every bit helps. YerAweSum!
gofund.me/b398a403
August 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
My patients don’t mask anymore when they come in.
My room has a big Ionmax Aire X on number 3 setting with UV on.
Two windows opened. CO2 around 500+.
My room has a big Ionmax Aire X on number 3 setting with UV on.
Two windows opened. CO2 around 500+.
August 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
My patients don’t mask anymore when they come in.
My room has a big Ionmax Aire X on number 3 setting with UV on.
Two windows opened. CO2 around 500+.
My room has a big Ionmax Aire X on number 3 setting with UV on.
Two windows opened. CO2 around 500+.
What I heard drs say:
1. Low positive Covid-19 PCR: no need to isolate as unsure of significance.
2. URTI and unwell patients are not requested to do a PCR for Covid or respiratory viral panel.
3. Right sided facial and limb weakness in a young long covid patient- nah, it is nothing.
1. Low positive Covid-19 PCR: no need to isolate as unsure of significance.
2. URTI and unwell patients are not requested to do a PCR for Covid or respiratory viral panel.
3. Right sided facial and limb weakness in a young long covid patient- nah, it is nothing.
August 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
What I heard drs say:
1. Low positive Covid-19 PCR: no need to isolate as unsure of significance.
2. URTI and unwell patients are not requested to do a PCR for Covid or respiratory viral panel.
3. Right sided facial and limb weakness in a young long covid patient- nah, it is nothing.
1. Low positive Covid-19 PCR: no need to isolate as unsure of significance.
2. URTI and unwell patients are not requested to do a PCR for Covid or respiratory viral panel.
3. Right sided facial and limb weakness in a young long covid patient- nah, it is nothing.
First and foremost. Treat Covid-19 virus as a virus. It is a pathogen. It is bad for our health. There’s no benefit in catching a virus. Especially this virus. It causes multi organ damage.
It is an AIRBORNE virus. To avoid catching it, wear N95 respirator.
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It is an AIRBORNE virus. To avoid catching it, wear N95 respirator.
Follow @toshiakima.bsky.social
August 10, 2025 at 5:56 AM
First and foremost. Treat Covid-19 virus as a virus. It is a pathogen. It is bad for our health. There’s no benefit in catching a virus. Especially this virus. It causes multi organ damage.
It is an AIRBORNE virus. To avoid catching it, wear N95 respirator.
Follow @toshiakima.bsky.social
It is an AIRBORNE virus. To avoid catching it, wear N95 respirator.
Follow @toshiakima.bsky.social
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It's a paper from last year, but it still pains me to think that we could have achieved elimination without resorting to lockdown, simply by implementing universal respirator usage alone. Not masks, respirators. It's still not too late.
August 9, 2025 at 8:04 AM
It's a paper from last year, but it still pains me to think that we could have achieved elimination without resorting to lockdown, simply by implementing universal respirator usage alone. Not masks, respirators. It's still not too late.
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Of course, given that we know SARS-CoV-2 inhibits the tumour suppressor effects of p53, COVID is a putative cancer risk factor in its own right. www.oncotarget.com/article/2858...
Transfected SARS-CoV-2 spike DNA for mammalian cell expression inhibits p53 activation of p21(WAF1), TRAIL Death Receptor DR5 and MDM2 proteins in cancer... | Oncotarget
https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28582 Shengliang Zhang, Wafik S. El-Deiry
www.oncotarget.com
June 28, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Of course, given that we know SARS-CoV-2 inhibits the tumour suppressor effects of p53, COVID is a putative cancer risk factor in its own right. www.oncotarget.com/article/2858...
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I was chatting with an endometriosis expert, in Sydney for a conference, who said: “It's very strange; in the last couple of years, we've started seeing malignant transformation of endometriosis in young women.” I replied, “SARS-CoV-2 is possibly an oncovirus”.
May 20, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I was chatting with an endometriosis expert, in Sydney for a conference, who said: “It's very strange; in the last couple of years, we've started seeing malignant transformation of endometriosis in young women.” I replied, “SARS-CoV-2 is possibly an oncovirus”.
Conversation with patient.
He tells me it is important to get flu vaccine. Studies showed that it is not a good idea to catch viruses. 3 consecutive flu vaccines confer a great reduction in getting Parkinson’s Disease.
I told him Covid is neurotropic. Causes Parkinson’s too.
Silence.
He tells me it is important to get flu vaccine. Studies showed that it is not a good idea to catch viruses. 3 consecutive flu vaccines confer a great reduction in getting Parkinson’s Disease.
I told him Covid is neurotropic. Causes Parkinson’s too.
Silence.
May 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Conversation with patient.
He tells me it is important to get flu vaccine. Studies showed that it is not a good idea to catch viruses. 3 consecutive flu vaccines confer a great reduction in getting Parkinson’s Disease.
I told him Covid is neurotropic. Causes Parkinson’s too.
Silence.
He tells me it is important to get flu vaccine. Studies showed that it is not a good idea to catch viruses. 3 consecutive flu vaccines confer a great reduction in getting Parkinson’s Disease.
I told him Covid is neurotropic. Causes Parkinson’s too.
Silence.
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A new study shows that air cleaners can reduce up to 98,1 % of viral load in the air of a #COVID patient's room with confirmed positive airborne viral RNA.
Rooms with HEPA ventilation had zero virus detected.
👏 #CleantheAir in hospitals and schools!👏
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Rooms with HEPA ventilation had zero virus detected.
👏 #CleantheAir in hospitals and schools!👏
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
May 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
A new study shows that air cleaners can reduce up to 98,1 % of viral load in the air of a #COVID patient's room with confirmed positive airborne viral RNA.
Rooms with HEPA ventilation had zero virus detected.
👏 #CleantheAir in hospitals and schools!👏
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Rooms with HEPA ventilation had zero virus detected.
👏 #CleantheAir in hospitals and schools!👏
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Clearly the COVID-19 pandemic is not “over” for workers in our crucial health industry. Instead, their health is being sacrificed in order to pretend that it is over.
With this ongoing toll, pressure on our healthcare systems will continue to mount.
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With this ongoing toll, pressure on our healthcare systems will continue to mount.
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May 9, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Clearly the COVID-19 pandemic is not “over” for workers in our crucial health industry. Instead, their health is being sacrificed in order to pretend that it is over.
With this ongoing toll, pressure on our healthcare systems will continue to mount.
🧵
With this ongoing toll, pressure on our healthcare systems will continue to mount.
🧵
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Note the wording from @who.int saying that the pandemic is very much ongoing.
Ongoing @who.int pandemic situational reports www.who.int/emergencies/...
April 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Note the wording from @who.int saying that the pandemic is very much ongoing.
We give the virus every possible opportunity to evolve when we don’t mask up. Covid is airborne.
April 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM
We give the virus every possible opportunity to evolve when we don’t mask up. Covid is airborne.
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🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠
With thanks to @atranscendedman.bsky.social
virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
With thanks to @atranscendedman.bsky.social
virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Elucidating SARS-CoV-2 neurotropism: a comprehensive Mendelian randomization study on cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers and their relevance to COVID-19 neurological manifestations - Virology Journal
A mendelian randomization (MR) analysis was conducted to investigate whether SARS-CoV-2 invaded the human nervous system. This was confirmed by an increase in biomarkers found in the cerebrospinal flu...
virologyj.biomedcentral.com
April 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠
With thanks to @atranscendedman.bsky.social
virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
With thanks to @atranscendedman.bsky.social
virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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A study of masks and respirators confirms, yet again, that earloop KN95/KF94 masks perform similarly to surgical masks. Earloop masks should not be recommended as a substitute for proper headstrap N95 respirators—except for the rare wearer who passes a fit test in them.
Measuring the fitted filtration efficiency of cloth masks, medical masks and respirators
Importance Masks reduce transmission of SARS-CoV2 and other respiratory pathogens. Comparative studies of the fitted filtration efficiency of different types of masks are scarce. Objective To descri...
journals.plos.org
April 27, 2025 at 2:20 AM
A study of masks and respirators confirms, yet again, that earloop KN95/KF94 masks perform similarly to surgical masks. Earloop masks should not be recommended as a substitute for proper headstrap N95 respirators—except for the rare wearer who passes a fit test in them.
🎯🎯🎯
Hope for anti-reservoir therapies in #longCOVID.
I am hedging my bets on us one day looking back and thinking it obvious that most #longCOVID is just chronic SARS-CoV-2 infection. Many viruses linger, causing chronic disease.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
I am hedging my bets on us one day looking back and thinking it obvious that most #longCOVID is just chronic SARS-CoV-2 infection. Many viruses linger, causing chronic disease.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
5 Long COVID Predictions for 2025 and Beyond
Better diagnostics, more focused treatment, and deeper understanding of individualized symptoms could all take major steps forward this year.
www.medscape.com
April 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Paxlovid use acutely may reduce the incidence of stroke in the “long COVID period”. That means you don't need to have PERSISTENT symptoms to have #longCOVID because you can be asymptomatic up to the point of having a stroke (possibly due to viral persistence). We need a definition change.
181 992 matched pairs:
Paxlovid use associated with a significant reduced risk of ischemic & hemorrhagic stroke (HR 0.85) and all-cause mortality (HR 0.68) during the long COVID period, defined as more than 90 days post-diagnosis
Tschüss Psychosomatik
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Paxlovid use associated with a significant reduced risk of ischemic & hemorrhagic stroke (HR 0.85) and all-cause mortality (HR 0.68) during the long COVID period, defined as more than 90 days post-diagnosis
Tschüss Psychosomatik
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Long‐Term Stroke and Mortality Risk Reduction Associated With Acute‐Phase Paxlovid Use in Mild‐to‐Moderate COVID‐19
This retrospective cohort study investigated whether Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir/ritonavir) use during the acute phase of mild-to-moderate COVID-19 reduces the risk of ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke occur....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Paxlovid use acutely may reduce the incidence of stroke in the “long COVID period”. That means you don't need to have PERSISTENT symptoms to have #longCOVID because you can be asymptomatic up to the point of having a stroke (possibly due to viral persistence). We need a definition change.
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These guidelines came out last year, but I see little impact on clinical practice. Still, it is nice they have these to file away somewhere, and, better still, to see them get another airing. Share widely
The Australasian College of Infection Prevention and Control is advocating for the use of N95 respirators in healthcare settings.
@davidjoffe64.bsky.social @toshiakima.bsky.social
#COVIDisnotover #wearamask #longcovidischronicmasksareiconic #cleantheair
www.acipc.org.au/wp-content/u...
@davidjoffe64.bsky.social @toshiakima.bsky.social
#COVIDisnotover #wearamask #longcovidischronicmasksareiconic #cleantheair
www.acipc.org.au/wp-content/u...
April 20, 2025 at 7:22 AM
These guidelines came out last year, but I see little impact on clinical practice. Still, it is nice they have these to file away somewhere, and, better still, to see them get another airing. Share widely
Also, would you (who don’t test for Covid) be ok with spreading Covid to someone with cancer and delay the cancer treatment and ultimately affect the life of that person with cancer???
Dear colleagues,
“We do not have to test for COVID…”
Is not a reason to avoid testing for it where it is clinically indicated.
Sick people that would benefit from treatment are a must test group, at the very least.
#Medsky
“We do not have to test for COVID…”
Is not a reason to avoid testing for it where it is clinically indicated.
Sick people that would benefit from treatment are a must test group, at the very least.
#Medsky
April 20, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Also, would you (who don’t test for Covid) be ok with spreading Covid to someone with cancer and delay the cancer treatment and ultimately affect the life of that person with cancer???
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Dear colleagues. If you won't test for C19/Flu/RSV for your patient's sake, be selfish and do it for yourself. Test, then suspected cases will be isolated so they don't infect staff, preventing you from having to do extra overtime when they all call in sick. Enlightened selfishness!
Dear colleagues,
“We do not have to test for COVID…”
Is not a reason to avoid testing for it where it is clinically indicated.
Sick people that would benefit from treatment are a must test group, at the very least.
#Medsky
“We do not have to test for COVID…”
Is not a reason to avoid testing for it where it is clinically indicated.
Sick people that would benefit from treatment are a must test group, at the very least.
#Medsky
April 20, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Dear colleagues. If you won't test for C19/Flu/RSV for your patient's sake, be selfish and do it for yourself. Test, then suspected cases will be isolated so they don't infect staff, preventing you from having to do extra overtime when they all call in sick. Enlightened selfishness!
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Research links #COVID to poor kidney outcomes in US youth
Children and adolescents were at higher risk for new-onset mild and moderate chronic kidney disease from 2020 to 2023.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
Children and adolescents were at higher risk for new-onset mild and moderate chronic kidney disease from 2020 to 2023.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
April 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Research links #COVID to poor kidney outcomes in US youth
Children and adolescents were at higher risk for new-onset mild and moderate chronic kidney disease from 2020 to 2023.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
Children and adolescents were at higher risk for new-onset mild and moderate chronic kidney disease from 2020 to 2023.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
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