yoscienceyo
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* special ed teacher who n95 masks in TX & never gets sick now
* can read/ analyze/apply knowledge (ie: don’t let SARS-coV-2 into your 🧠 )
*science literacy & disability advocacy
*closely watching h5n1
* can read/ analyze/apply knowledge (ie: don’t let SARS-coV-2 into your 🧠 )
*science literacy & disability advocacy
*closely watching h5n1
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Today December 1st is #WorldAIDSDay.
I remember the millions who have died.
I celebrate the transformative progress that has been made.
I resolve as an HIV researcher and advocate to keep up the fight to end the HIV epidemic.
Do you know you status?
Get tested. Get treated. Get on PrEP.
I remember the millions who have died.
I celebrate the transformative progress that has been made.
I resolve as an HIV researcher and advocate to keep up the fight to end the HIV epidemic.
Do you know you status?
Get tested. Get treated. Get on PrEP.
December 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Today December 1st is #WorldAIDSDay.
I remember the millions who have died.
I celebrate the transformative progress that has been made.
I resolve as an HIV researcher and advocate to keep up the fight to end the HIV epidemic.
Do you know you status?
Get tested. Get treated. Get on PrEP.
I remember the millions who have died.
I celebrate the transformative progress that has been made.
I resolve as an HIV researcher and advocate to keep up the fight to end the HIV epidemic.
Do you know you status?
Get tested. Get treated. Get on PrEP.
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TEDx Talks: "How persistent pathogens could accelerate the aging process by Amy Proal"
'..gut tissue collected from a person with long COVID almost 2 years after..here's the thing, these chronic pathogens are the closest thing there are to hackers of the human body"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMcV...
'..gut tissue collected from a person with long COVID almost 2 years after..here's the thing, these chronic pathogens are the closest thing there are to hackers of the human body"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMcV...
How persistent pathogens could accelerate the aging process | Amy Proal | TEDxBoston
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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November 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM
TEDx Talks: "How persistent pathogens could accelerate the aging process by Amy Proal"
'..gut tissue collected from a person with long COVID almost 2 years after..here's the thing, these chronic pathogens are the closest thing there are to hackers of the human body"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMcV...
'..gut tissue collected from a person with long COVID almost 2 years after..here's the thing, these chronic pathogens are the closest thing there are to hackers of the human body"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMcV...
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.
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Spreading science not virus - European mission:
✅Rome
✅Amsterdam
✅Delft
Next stop: Paris, I'm coming!
#NeuroCovid #LongCovidKids
✅Rome
✅Amsterdam
✅Delft
Next stop: Paris, I'm coming!
#NeuroCovid #LongCovidKids
November 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Spreading science not virus - European mission:
✅Rome
✅Amsterdam
✅Delft
Next stop: Paris, I'm coming!
#NeuroCovid #LongCovidKids
✅Rome
✅Amsterdam
✅Delft
Next stop: Paris, I'm coming!
#NeuroCovid #LongCovidKids
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“We don’t test for viruses in kids, not even for cohorting.”
I get that’s how it is, but that’s not how it should be… and I reckon most parents would not want their “sick enough to go to hospital” kid to be catching more bugs.
We must do better.
I get that’s how it is, but that’s not how it should be… and I reckon most parents would not want their “sick enough to go to hospital” kid to be catching more bugs.
We must do better.
November 26, 2025 at 7:10 AM
“We don’t test for viruses in kids, not even for cohorting.”
I get that’s how it is, but that’s not how it should be… and I reckon most parents would not want their “sick enough to go to hospital” kid to be catching more bugs.
We must do better.
I get that’s how it is, but that’s not how it should be… and I reckon most parents would not want their “sick enough to go to hospital” kid to be catching more bugs.
We must do better.
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There is a lot of good research and amazing people working on #LongCovid in Europe! Yes, the road is long, but after today, I feel my hope is restored. Some of my favorite moments from today's meeting at the National Institute for Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani in Rome:
November 21, 2025 at 12:52 AM
There is a lot of good research and amazing people working on #LongCovid in Europe! Yes, the road is long, but after today, I feel my hope is restored. Some of my favorite moments from today's meeting at the National Institute for Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani in Rome:
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with the only and one!!
Finally met @buonsenso.bsky.social in person and got an update from one of the best researchers in #LongCovidKids. Kids with hypometabolism in the orbitofrontal cortex, the same region of the brain where I see the virus in the🔬. It is not even fully developed until we reach 25 years old..
November 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
with the only and one!!
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Fascinating 🧵. The grotesquely mutated spike of this NJ Cryptic binds ACE2 very tightly.
It raises a broader question: Can cryptic wastewater-like lineages transmit?
YES
We knew it happened once. Now we know it's happened at least twice. The results in both cases were not pretty. 1/15
It raises a broader question: Can cryptic wastewater-like lineages transmit?
YES
We knew it happened once. Now we know it's happened at least twice. The results in both cases were not pretty. 1/15
This is wild.
Remember the NJ crytic lineage?
I posted 18 months ago that the Spike was too divergent to predict ACE2 binding, and asked if someone else could figure it out.
Some colleagues took me up on it.
Guess what they found?
1/
Remember the NJ crytic lineage?
I posted 18 months ago that the Spike was too divergent to predict ACE2 binding, and asked if someone else could figure it out.
Some colleagues took me up on it.
Guess what they found?
1/
November 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Fascinating 🧵. The grotesquely mutated spike of this NJ Cryptic binds ACE2 very tightly.
It raises a broader question: Can cryptic wastewater-like lineages transmit?
YES
We knew it happened once. Now we know it's happened at least twice. The results in both cases were not pretty. 1/15
It raises a broader question: Can cryptic wastewater-like lineages transmit?
YES
We knew it happened once. Now we know it's happened at least twice. The results in both cases were not pretty. 1/15
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Third infant in Kentucky dies of whooping cough as national cases stay high for second year in a row
There are more than 25,000 cases of whopping cough reported so far in 2025.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/t...
Photo: Dan Higgins/CDC
There are more than 25,000 cases of whopping cough reported so far in 2025.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/t...
Photo: Dan Higgins/CDC
November 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Third infant in Kentucky dies of whooping cough as national cases stay high for second year in a row
There are more than 25,000 cases of whopping cough reported so far in 2025.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/t...
Photo: Dan Higgins/CDC
There are more than 25,000 cases of whopping cough reported so far in 2025.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/t...
Photo: Dan Higgins/CDC
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Bird flu
Bird flu: first ever death from rare H5N5 strain is recorded in US
The man in Washington state had a backyard flock of domestic poultry that had been exposed to wild birds, health officials said
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Bird flu: first ever death from rare H5N5 strain is recorded in US
The man in Washington state had a backyard flock of domestic poultry that had been exposed to wild birds, health officials said
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Bird flu: first ever death from rare H5N5 strain is recorded in US
The man in Washington state had a backyard flock of domestic poultry that had been exposed to wild birds, health officials said
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Bird flu
Bird flu: first ever death from rare H5N5 strain is recorded in US
The man in Washington state had a backyard flock of domestic poultry that had been exposed to wild birds, health officials said
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Bird flu: first ever death from rare H5N5 strain is recorded in US
The man in Washington state had a backyard flock of domestic poultry that had been exposed to wild birds, health officials said
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Important piece on how we got here.
Brownstone raised millions to undermine COVID prevention policies.
Now at least 8 people with ties to Brownstone hold senior positions at federal health agencies, where they are restricting vaccines and cutting science funding.
Brownstone raised millions to undermine COVID prevention policies.
Now at least 8 people with ties to Brownstone hold senior positions at federal health agencies, where they are restricting vaccines and cutting science funding.
A Small Texas Think Tank Cultivated Covid Dissidents. Now They’re Running US Health Policy. - KFF Health News
Fueled by covid backlash, a libertarian author created the Brownstone Institute in 2021. In recent months, people with ties to the group have catapulted to the highest levels of U.S. government, exerc...
kffhealthnews.org
November 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Important piece on how we got here.
Brownstone raised millions to undermine COVID prevention policies.
Now at least 8 people with ties to Brownstone hold senior positions at federal health agencies, where they are restricting vaccines and cutting science funding.
Brownstone raised millions to undermine COVID prevention policies.
Now at least 8 people with ties to Brownstone hold senior positions at federal health agencies, where they are restricting vaccines and cutting science funding.
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The HHS report on gender affirming care released it's updated report showing they stacked its authors with anti-trans hate-group affiliated members, several of whom aren't even doctors with any sort of clinical experience. They selected their own ideologically friendly peer reviewers.
It's a joke.
It's a joke.
November 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The HHS report on gender affirming care released it's updated report showing they stacked its authors with anti-trans hate-group affiliated members, several of whom aren't even doctors with any sort of clinical experience. They selected their own ideologically friendly peer reviewers.
It's a joke.
It's a joke.
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Propublica thinks that bird flu is airborne.
It very well could be. One would think that some precautionary actions could be taken…
It very well could be. One would think that some precautionary actions could be taken…
November 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Propublica thinks that bird flu is airborne.
It very well could be. One would think that some precautionary actions could be taken…
It very well could be. One would think that some precautionary actions could be taken…
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Some people will try anything except wearing a mask
November 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Some people will try anything except wearing a mask
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News Release 17-Nov-2025
From USA:
"10.3% had symptoms consistent with long COVID three months after infection, 81% of whom continued to experience persistent or intermittent symptoms a year later"
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
#LongCovid #PASC #postcovid #postcovid19 #novid #COVID19 #COVID
From USA:
"10.3% had symptoms consistent with long COVID three months after infection, 81% of whom continued to experience persistent or intermittent symptoms a year later"
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
#LongCovid #PASC #postcovid #postcovid19 #novid #COVID19 #COVID
November 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM
News Release 17-Nov-2025
From USA:
"10.3% had symptoms consistent with long COVID three months after infection, 81% of whom continued to experience persistent or intermittent symptoms a year later"
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
#LongCovid #PASC #postcovid #postcovid19 #novid #COVID19 #COVID
From USA:
"10.3% had symptoms consistent with long COVID three months after infection, 81% of whom continued to experience persistent or intermittent symptoms a year later"
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
#LongCovid #PASC #postcovid #postcovid19 #novid #COVID19 #COVID
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ACIP has posted a draft agenda for their upcoming meeting on 12/4 and 12/5.
Alarm bells are blaring. They are going to spend the entire first day talking about the vaccine schedule.
There is no evidence whatsoever that there is any danger whatsoever with the current vaccine schedule.
Alarm bells are blaring. They are going to spend the entire first day talking about the vaccine schedule.
There is no evidence whatsoever that there is any danger whatsoever with the current vaccine schedule.
November 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
ACIP has posted a draft agenda for their upcoming meeting on 12/4 and 12/5.
Alarm bells are blaring. They are going to spend the entire first day talking about the vaccine schedule.
There is no evidence whatsoever that there is any danger whatsoever with the current vaccine schedule.
Alarm bells are blaring. They are going to spend the entire first day talking about the vaccine schedule.
There is no evidence whatsoever that there is any danger whatsoever with the current vaccine schedule.
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Before ACA, I regularly had patients who bought insurance they thought was "best for them". I've seen $50k annual max, $500k lifetime max, plans w/ no Rx coverage, plans *carving out* cancer treatment, plans that denied leukemia treatment because prior iron deficiency anemia was a pre-existing. /1
Dr Oz: "If you had a check in the mail, you could buy the insurance you thought was best for you"
November 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Before ACA, I regularly had patients who bought insurance they thought was "best for them". I've seen $50k annual max, $500k lifetime max, plans w/ no Rx coverage, plans *carving out* cancer treatment, plans that denied leukemia treatment because prior iron deficiency anemia was a pre-existing. /1
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COVID-19 impacts on T cells and other parts of the immune system will, theoretically, make us more permissive hosts.
We are probably also paying more attention, and there are impacts of climate change and urbanisation etc.
We are probably also paying more attention, and there are impacts of climate change and urbanisation etc.
November 16, 2025 at 6:48 AM
COVID-19 impacts on T cells and other parts of the immune system will, theoretically, make us more permissive hosts.
We are probably also paying more attention, and there are impacts of climate change and urbanisation etc.
We are probably also paying more attention, and there are impacts of climate change and urbanisation etc.
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💔 Alice Wong’s last words: “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
We can never thank Alice enough for fighting all the good fights and especially all the hard fights. We all learned so much from your brilliance, your courage, and your indefatigable leadership. We will never forget you.
We can never thank Alice enough for fighting all the good fights and especially all the hard fights. We all learned so much from your brilliance, your courage, and your indefatigable leadership. We will never forget you.
November 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM
💔 Alice Wong’s last words: “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
We can never thank Alice enough for fighting all the good fights and especially all the hard fights. We all learned so much from your brilliance, your courage, and your indefatigable leadership. We will never forget you.
We can never thank Alice enough for fighting all the good fights and especially all the hard fights. We all learned so much from your brilliance, your courage, and your indefatigable leadership. We will never forget you.
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SARS-COV-2 PERSISTENCE AND IMPACT ON LONG COVID MEGAKARYOCYTES & PLATELETS
If megakaryocytes become infected, they“seed” infection of the same patients’ platelets. This leads to degranulation or deficits in platelet energy metabolism.
polybio.org/projects/sar...
If megakaryocytes become infected, they“seed” infection of the same patients’ platelets. This leads to degranulation or deficits in platelet energy metabolism.
polybio.org/projects/sar...
SARS-CoV-2 persistence and impact on Long COVID megakaryocytes & platelets - PolyBio Research Foundation
Project summary: The project will determine if replication-competent SARS-CoV-2 virus can be identified in the megakaryocytes (bone marrow-derived cells) and platelets...
polybio.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM
SARS-COV-2 PERSISTENCE AND IMPACT ON LONG COVID MEGAKARYOCYTES & PLATELETS
If megakaryocytes become infected, they“seed” infection of the same patients’ platelets. This leads to degranulation or deficits in platelet energy metabolism.
polybio.org/projects/sar...
If megakaryocytes become infected, they“seed” infection of the same patients’ platelets. This leads to degranulation or deficits in platelet energy metabolism.
polybio.org/projects/sar...
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📍Senator Fetterman had a VFIB—the leading cause of cardiac arrest—he almost died if not for his implanted defibrillator, which can cost $34,000 to over $51,000. Days ago, he also just voted with GOP to gut health insurance tax credits for millions. Hope he has a change of heart.
November 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
📍Senator Fetterman had a VFIB—the leading cause of cardiac arrest—he almost died if not for his implanted defibrillator, which can cost $34,000 to over $51,000. Days ago, he also just voted with GOP to gut health insurance tax credits for millions. Hope he has a change of heart.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM