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18 injured after mobile lounge at Dulles Airport hits the Concourse D dock "at an angle," per MWAA. More on the developing situation: www.fox5dc.com/news/8-passe...
Dulles Airport mobile lounge hits dock, 17 injured
A mobile lounge transporting passengers to Concourse D at Dulles Airport struck the dock at an angle on Monday afternoon, injuring 17 people.
www.fox5dc.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Women are about three times more likely than men to develop #longCOVID, and many experience symptoms that linger and intensify – fatigue, brain fog, pain, shortness of breath – months after the initial infection fades.

A new study from the University of Alberta helps explain why.
Hormones out of balance Layered on top of immune differences were clear hormone shifts. Women with long COVID showed reduced testosterone. Men showed reduced estrogen. Both groups had lower cortisol, a hormone that helps calibrate stress and immune responses. Lower testosterone in women correlated with higher inflammatory markers and with the very complaints patients struggle with most: brain fog, depression, pain, and fatigue. The findings suggest the development of disrupted barriers in the gut systemic inflammation. This inflammation blunts red blood cell production, while out-of-range sex hormones remove another brake on inflammatory pathways, especially in women. That interplay may explain why women so often report more severe and persistent symptoms. Treating women with long COVID Clinically, many women in the study look like they have myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), a condition that also disproportionately affects women and features chronic inflammation and debilitating fatigue. There are differences, though. Anemia, for instance, is not a hallmark of idiopathic ME/CFS, while it does show up here. That nuance matters for tailoring care. Because the signals are measurable – gut leak markers, inflammatory proteins, red cell indices, hormone levels – the study points to practical next steps. Elahi is planning to validate the findings in animal models of long COVID and is seeking support for a clinical trial. The concept is personalized care: test each patient, then target what’s abnormal. That could mean treating anemia, dialing down inflammation, and, in selected cases, thoughtfully using sex-hormone therapies. As Elahi noted, an individualized approach might include anemia treatment, anti-inflammatory drugs and even sex hormones, depending on each patient’s results. Why long COVID hits women harder than men Andrei Ionescu ByAndrei Ionescu Earth.com staff writer subscribe facebook linkedin x whatsapp bluesky Follow Earth on Google Women are about three times more likely than men to develop long COVID, and many experience symptoms that linger and intensify – fatigue, brain fog, pain, shortness of breath – months after the initial infection fades. A new study from the University of Alberta helps explain why. By comparing blood, immune-cell profiles, and gene activity in people with and without long COVID, researchers uncovered biological differences that map onto those harsher, longer lasting symptoms. EarthSnap The stakes are high. As of June 2023, 3.5 million Canadians reported having had long COVID. Finding the “why” behind sex differences could finally point to “what next” for treatment. Who is getting long COVID? The team focused on 78 people with long COVID one year after their acute infection and compared them to 62 peers who recovered without persistent symptoms. Many in the long COVID group never had severe disease during the acute phase. According to principal investigator Shokrollah Elahi, the team is focusing on a subset of patients with the most devastating symptoms that are very similar to chronic fatigue syndrome. “They didn’t have these symptoms prior to COVID and most had only mild COVID-19 disease, so they were not hospitalized,” said Elahi. That choice matters. If long COVID can follow mild infection, the triggers are unlikely to be the dramatic organ damage seen in critical illness. Instead, the culprits may live in subtler shifts, such as immune signaling, hormonal balance, and tissue barriers that normally keep inflammation in check.
November 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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mariely.bsky.social
Being a woman these days is basically asking myself if these symptoms are peri-menopause, long covid, or now, MS
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Is your neuroinflammation from #LongCOVID causing symptoms such as muscle weakness, spasticity, poor coordination, balance problems, and fatigue?

Are you having problems with standing up due to back muscle stiffness?

Have doctors ruled out MS?

#medsky
November 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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drsmith.bsky.social
Public Health officials and infectious disease experts in Canada:

Take a bow.

You did it.

You've let #measles come back. Andrew Wakefield must be so proud.

You refused to accept #CleanAir recommendations from experts (and non-experts) from outside your insular little community.
picardonhealth.bsky.social André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 20h
It's official: Canada has lost its measles elimination status because of an outbreak that has persisted for more than 12 months. Country can regain status only if on-going spread is of measles interrupted for more than a year. www.cbc.ca/news/health/... via @cbcnews.ca
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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spockresists.bsky.social
What is really happening?

They are trying to crash the entire economy.

Why?

So they can buy EVERYTHING cheap and eradicate all public services.

Stupid people. I’m serious. Really fucking stupid people are supporting them.
November 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Is your neuroinflammation from #LongCOVID causing symptoms such as muscle weakness, spasticity, poor coordination, balance problems, and fatigue?

Are you having problems with standing up due to back muscle stiffness?

Have doctors ruled out MS?

#medsky
November 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
Time to swear in Adelita Grijalva, let her cast the final vote to release the Epstein files!
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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helenbranswell.bsky.social
As expected, Canada has lost its measles-free status because of the long-running outbreak there. With it goes the #measles elimination status of the entire zone of the Americas, the only division of the #WHO to ever have achieved measles elimination. www.statnews.com/2025/11/10/m...
Canada loses measles elimination status — as does the entire Americas region
Canada has formally lost its measles elimination status, the country’s public health agency announced, triggering the loss of that status throughout all of the Americas.
www.statnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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bill-comeau.bsky.social
Let me remind you that the leader of the Canadian Conservative party is on record for the permanent abolition of all future vaccine mandates, no matter the degree of public health emergency or epidemic, no matter the risk of uncontrolled spread, no matter the potential suffering and deaths.
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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bill-comeau.bsky.social
Canada has lost its measles elimination status.
A sad day, a win for anti-vaccine ignorance and politicized public health, a new age where children, families, and communities will face additional health risks for no good reason other than the comfort of joining others with similar fact-less beliefs.
November 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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microbesinfo.bsky.social
How #bird #flu has decimated elephant #seal populations ...

| #AvianFlu | #BirdFlu | #pathogen | #AvianInfluenza | #H5N1 | #infections | By @sofiamoutinho.bsky.social via BBC .com
'It was a horrible scene to witness': How bird flu has decimated elephant seal populations
The sudden decimation by bird flu of the world's largest seal species has sent shockwaves through the scientific community, and the ecosystems shaped by these majestic animals.
www.bbc.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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cdelawalla.bsky.social
I’m hearing a lot of despair and “what’s the point”-ing.

Here’s the point:

ONE less person kidnapped by ICE.

ONE more child vaccinated.

ONE grant reinstated.

ONE more PEPFAR treatment.

ONE more meal to a hungry kid.

ONE more person covered by Medicaid.

One life is ALWAYS worth resistance.
July 16, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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This is obscene!!!

Trump throws another extravagant party at Mar-a-Lago while thousands, including government workers, line up at food banks during the shutdown— while he’s still fighting to block SNAP funding while kids go hungry.

Literally a tale of two Americas.
November 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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joffirphd.bsky.social
Words matter.

(Too bad sci comms folks can't focus group the heck out of everything like consumer psychologists who work in marketing do; it really helps.)
ianhall.bsky.social Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 2d
When climate scientists say an outcome is “unlikely,” do you hear “it probably won’t happen” or “scientists aren’t sure”?

A new study shows word choice can influence perception of scientific consensus

Does “a small probability” sound more confident to you?

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Negative verbal probabilities undermine communication of climate science - Nature Climate Change
Effective communication of uncertainty is vital for public accurate understanding of climate science. Here the authors find that projections using positive probability terms (for example, a small prob...
www.nature.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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hayao.lol
This is like saying "we're replacing banks with DraftKings", any journalists treating it seriously and not screaming their heads off about how totally deranged it is should be sent to the gulag
dbernstein.bsky.social David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 2d
… Sen. Rick Scott says he’ll draft a health care bill based on Trump’s morning Truth Social post. Says his plan is to give people health savings accounts and “let them buy the health care they want.” To say I have questions would be an understatement.
November 9, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Definitely worth paying for a flu jab this year, about £15 at pharmacies!

www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 9, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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dominiksteiger.bsky.social
One might expect a bad influenza season. The unusually early UK epidemic is predominantly composed of H3N2 strain of a subtype that has recently rapidly expanded, possibly having negative impact on VE.

H3N2 is associated with higher morbidity and mortality.

www.ficm.ac.uk/sites/ficm/f...
November 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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dougparr.bsky.social
Official data from government of British Columbia, along with satellite monitoring, backs claims that a Canadian subsidiary owned by Drax sourced 250-year-old trees to manufacture biomass pellets as recently as this year

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
“The Media Is Complicit in the Climate Confusion: The vast majority of people want their governments to take climate action—but most wrongly think they’re in the minority. The media is partly to blame.”

Via @amywestervelt.bsky.social in @thenation.com
The Media Is Complicit in the Climate Confusion
The vast majority of people want their governments to take climate action—but most wrongly think they’re in the minority. The media is partly to blame.
www.thenation.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
virussucks.com
Rapamycin, a potent inhibitor of mTOR. It's been studied as an autophagy inducer and also in immuno rejuvenation. It's FDA approved by FDA for cardiac restenosis and cancer management.

Decentralized clinical trial for low dose rapamycin in the amelioration of clinical symptoms of #ME/CFS.
Roy lab @ProfAvikRoy Rapamycin, a potent inhibitor of mTOR, has been studied for its role as an autophagy inducer and also in immuno rejuvination. Its been approved by FDA for its application in cardiac restenosis and cancer management. Recently, we launced a decentralized clinical trial for low dose rapamycin in the amelioration of clinical symptoms of ME/CFS. We have some exciting data on the alleviation of clinical symptoms of ME/CFS and improvement of overall autophagy. The trial data has been published in our most recent article in the Journal of Translational Medicine ( Impact factor 8.5). Congrats to Brian T Ruan , the first author, who just left Cornell University to study medicine in Tufts University. Our clinical leaders including @StephanieGrach , David Kaufman, and Lucinda Bateman. Congratulations to @ggottschalkPhD the CEO of @RedefiningMECFS and one of the PIs in this study. @PlzSolveCFS @MECFSResearch @MayoClinic @UWM translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com Low-dose rapamycin alleviates clinical symptoms of fatigue and PEM in ME/CFS patients via improve... 10:56 AM · Oct 21, 2025 · 20.5K Views Andrew Green @AndrewG76201347 · Oct 21 Thanks! I started Rapamycin based on the preprint of this paper. Currently up to 4mg once per week. Definitely helping, highly physical & cognitive activity limit & most importantly I have not had PEM since I started ~10 weeks ago. Roy lab @ProfAvikRoy · Oct 21 Glad to bear from you. We need to hear more from you. Please keep in touch with clinicians.
November 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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COVID Infection Leads to More Heart Issues for Kids Than Vaccine www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
COVID Infection Leads to More Heart Issues for Kids Than Vaccine
Infection associated with more frequent and longer-lasting vascular and inflammatory outcomes
www.medpagetoday.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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ancirabecky.bsky.social
Trial Patient Dies After Receiving CRISPR Gene Therapy www.medpagetoday.com/cardiology/g...
Trial Patient Dies After Receiving CRISPR Gene Therapy
Nex-z trials aim to treat transthyretin amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy or polyneuropathy
www.medpagetoday.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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ancirabecky.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Integrated immune, hormonal, and transcriptomic profiling reveals sex-specific dysregulation in long COVID patients with ME/CFS
Shahbaz et al. find that female long COVID patients with ME/CFS exhibit heightened inflammation, altered hematopoiesis, disrupted hormone levels, and neuroinflammatory gene signatures. In parallel, ou...
www.cell.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:17 AM