Allard
@allards.bsky.social
Long COVID since 2020. Sailor, entrepreneur, garden variety astronomer, scuba diver.
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“Metformin reduces the risk of Long COVID or Death over 6 months in an Emulated Target Trial of Primarily Omicron-infected Adults without Diabetes or Prediabetes: a New-User, Active-Comparator Analysis Using the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Electronic Health Record Database.”
578. Metformin reduces the risk of Long COVID or Death over 6 months in an Emulated Target Trial of Primarily Omicron-infected Adults without Diabetes or Prediabetes: a New-User, Active-Comparator Ana...
AbstractBackground. Metformin has decreased SARS-CoV-2 RNA in 4 cell lines. In a RCT of > 1,000 majority vaccinated outpatients, COVID-19 related ED vis
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February 2, 2025 at 12:40 AM
“Metformin reduces the risk of Long COVID or Death over 6 months in an Emulated Target Trial of Primarily Omicron-infected Adults without Diabetes or Prediabetes: a New-User, Active-Comparator Analysis Using the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Electronic Health Record Database.”
Seen in the newspaper today
January 31, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Seen in the newspaper today
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Students aren’t recovering from #COVID19. Test scores are getting worse. New U.S. data on student math and reading achievement details the long and damaging road back from the pandemic, by @laurameckler.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/education/20... via @postopinions.bsky.social #LongCOVID
Students aren’t recovering from covid. Test scores are getting worse.
Takeaways from new federal data on student math and reading achievement detail the long and damaging road back from the pandemic.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Students aren’t recovering from #COVID19. Test scores are getting worse. New U.S. data on student math and reading achievement details the long and damaging road back from the pandemic, by @laurameckler.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/education/20... via @postopinions.bsky.social #LongCOVID
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This is a no-brainer: a Granny who wants to volunteer at a school lunch program has to get a security clearance.
And yet Pierre Poilievre who lives in a 19-room mansion funded by the taxpayer refuses or can't get a security clearance.
Something stinks here.
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
And yet Pierre Poilievre who lives in a 19-room mansion funded by the taxpayer refuses or can't get a security clearance.
Something stinks here.
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Pierre Poilievre will no longer receive security briefing from top spy agency
The Conservative leader has argued that he won't be muzzled by secrecy constraints that accompany security clearances.
www.thestar.com
January 29, 2025 at 1:13 AM
This is a no-brainer: a Granny who wants to volunteer at a school lunch program has to get a security clearance.
And yet Pierre Poilievre who lives in a 19-room mansion funded by the taxpayer refuses or can't get a security clearance.
Something stinks here.
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
And yet Pierre Poilievre who lives in a 19-room mansion funded by the taxpayer refuses or can't get a security clearance.
Something stinks here.
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
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SARS-CoV
🧠🦠
‘The research identified 5 localized functional connectivity hubs with significant differences..
right intracalcarine cortex
right lingual gyrus
left frontal orbital cortex
left hippocampus &
left amygdala, which is vital for cognitive functions’
www.news-medical.net/news/2024100...
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‘The research identified 5 localized functional connectivity hubs with significant differences..
right intracalcarine cortex
right lingual gyrus
left frontal orbital cortex
left hippocampus &
left amygdala, which is vital for cognitive functions’
www.news-medical.net/news/2024100...
Mild COVID-19 disrupts brain connectivity and reduces memory function in adolescents and young adults
Study reveals localized brain changes in adolescents and young adults post-COVID, including reduced hippocampal volume and disrupted connectivity, correlating with impaired working memory. These findi...
www.news-medical.net
January 23, 2025 at 2:09 AM
SARS-CoV
🧠🦠
‘The research identified 5 localized functional connectivity hubs with significant differences..
right intracalcarine cortex
right lingual gyrus
left frontal orbital cortex
left hippocampus &
left amygdala, which is vital for cognitive functions’
www.news-medical.net/news/2024100...
🧠🦠
‘The research identified 5 localized functional connectivity hubs with significant differences..
right intracalcarine cortex
right lingual gyrus
left frontal orbital cortex
left hippocampus &
left amygdala, which is vital for cognitive functions’
www.news-medical.net/news/2024100...
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Hoping to get as many signatures as possible on this to gain the attention of City of Toronto officials. Please share widely!! As far as I know, a city-wide #IAQ policy in place could be a first in Canada. #CleanAir #CleanIndoorAir #IndoorAirQuality
Please join me and other concerned #Toronto residents calling for investment in clean indoor air policies - sign our letter to @mayoroliviachow.bsky.social and @cityofto.bsky.social Budget Committee! #IndoorAirQuality #IAQ #CleanAir preview.mailerlite.io/preview/1297...
Call for Investment in Clean Indoor Air in Toronto's 2025 Budget
preview.mailerlite.io
January 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Hoping to get as many signatures as possible on this to gain the attention of City of Toronto officials. Please share widely!! As far as I know, a city-wide #IAQ policy in place could be a first in Canada. #CleanAir #CleanIndoorAir #IndoorAirQuality
And that was it. Long overdue. I have moved off Twitter. Logging out, deleting the apps.
January 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
And that was it. Long overdue. I have moved off Twitter. Logging out, deleting the apps.
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We're up to 4% of our goal with 27 days left!
I'm working on a new rendering of the design, things have already changed a lot thanks to all the great feedback.
Please share or consider supporting this project:
igg.me/at/n8zLwkwyT...
#CovidIsNotOver
I'm working on a new rendering of the design, things have already changed a lot thanks to all the great feedback.
Please share or consider supporting this project:
igg.me/at/n8zLwkwyT...
#CovidIsNotOver
January 19, 2025 at 5:15 AM
We're up to 4% of our goal with 27 days left!
I'm working on a new rendering of the design, things have already changed a lot thanks to all the great feedback.
Please share or consider supporting this project:
igg.me/at/n8zLwkwyT...
#CovidIsNotOver
I'm working on a new rendering of the design, things have already changed a lot thanks to all the great feedback.
Please share or consider supporting this project:
igg.me/at/n8zLwkwyT...
#CovidIsNotOver
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Musk comes from a family that moved to South Africa *for* the racism. He has repeatedly endorsed Great Replacement Theory in the US & Neo-Nazis of the AfD in Germany. He championed the rights of white nationalists and restored Nazi accounts to Twitter.
But I'm sure the Nazi salute was an accident.
But I'm sure the Nazi salute was an accident.
January 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Musk comes from a family that moved to South Africa *for* the racism. He has repeatedly endorsed Great Replacement Theory in the US & Neo-Nazis of the AfD in Germany. He championed the rights of white nationalists and restored Nazi accounts to Twitter.
But I'm sure the Nazi salute was an accident.
But I'm sure the Nazi salute was an accident.
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An "odd looking salute" - so says the Toronto Star.
There is nothing odd about fascism.
It's arrogance and it's evil.
There is nothing odd about fascism.
It's arrogance and it's evil.
January 21, 2025 at 2:10 AM
An "odd looking salute" - so says the Toronto Star.
There is nothing odd about fascism.
It's arrogance and it's evil.
There is nothing odd about fascism.
It's arrogance and it's evil.
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There is no doubt about what certain symbols and gestures mean, especially when you put them into context of an individual or societies recent and well documented statements/behaviours.
Throwing doubts on it is just gaslighting.
Throwing doubts on it is just gaslighting.
January 21, 2025 at 1:21 AM
There is no doubt about what certain symbols and gestures mean, especially when you put them into context of an individual or societies recent and well documented statements/behaviours.
Throwing doubts on it is just gaslighting.
Throwing doubts on it is just gaslighting.
There is a lot wrong with this house sub committee. However, I graps to understand why some peope vehemently defend EH, Daszak and GoF research when there are plenty of smoking guns, indicating the possibility of a lab leak. We still need a proper covid origins investigation. One we may never get.
This is despicable. Right-wing dark money groups and politicians have created a scandal out of whole cloth and used it to attack the credibility of a scientist group doing essential research, but its now-former president as well.
This is an assault on science and Biden’s HHS is caving in advance.
This is an assault on science and Biden’s HHS is caving in advance.
HHS bans EcoHealth Alliance and group’s ex-prez from receiving federal funding for 5 years after Wuhan virus experiments
HHS determined that a five-year period of debarment for the Manhattan-based nonprofit and Daszak was “necessary to protect the Federal Government’s business interests,” according to a letter sent t…
nypost.com
January 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
There is a lot wrong with this house sub committee. However, I graps to understand why some peope vehemently defend EH, Daszak and GoF research when there are plenty of smoking guns, indicating the possibility of a lab leak. We still need a proper covid origins investigation. One we may never get.
This will be spectacularly ratioed. Also note the US hand coming from the left. In visual communication, the good people come from the left. They know that.
What if Canada became the 51st state, as Donald Trump has suggested? How would our lives be different? Could we maintain our distinct customs and policies? @spaikin.bsky.social asked Kathleen Wynne, Jeffrey Simpson, and Laura Dawson (Future Borders Coalition) #cdnpoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLwV...
January 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This will be spectacularly ratioed. Also note the US hand coming from the left. In visual communication, the good people come from the left. They know that.
After finding out how these charities work I have stopped giving. I know of others who have come to the same conclusion.
December 27, 2024 at 4:30 PM
After finding out how these charities work I have stopped giving. I know of others who have come to the same conclusion.
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The chart Spotify doesn't want you to see.
December 24, 2024 at 5:37 PM
The chart Spotify doesn't want you to see.
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Dear @cnn.com
Invading sovereign countries is the work of fascist leaders.
Referring to such threats as "teasing" is what compliant state propaganda does.
Just as Trump takes lessons from Putin you could get workshop training for your editors from Russian state media.
Canada will resist.
Invading sovereign countries is the work of fascist leaders.
Referring to such threats as "teasing" is what compliant state propaganda does.
Just as Trump takes lessons from Putin you could get workshop training for your editors from Russian state media.
Canada will resist.
December 24, 2024 at 12:45 PM
Dear @cnn.com
Invading sovereign countries is the work of fascist leaders.
Referring to such threats as "teasing" is what compliant state propaganda does.
Just as Trump takes lessons from Putin you could get workshop training for your editors from Russian state media.
Canada will resist.
Invading sovereign countries is the work of fascist leaders.
Referring to such threats as "teasing" is what compliant state propaganda does.
Just as Trump takes lessons from Putin you could get workshop training for your editors from Russian state media.
Canada will resist.
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Everything is on the patient. Everything. Finding out how the illness works. Finding out you need to pace (despite what you're told). Deciding how to much risk to take with infection. Finding out how to mitigate infection. Deciding how much risk to take with treatment.
December 21, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Everything is on the patient. Everything. Finding out how the illness works. Finding out you need to pace (despite what you're told). Deciding how to much risk to take with infection. Finding out how to mitigate infection. Deciding how much risk to take with treatment.
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Explanation post: Those who followed me on X know I posted about medical access - including vaccines - the need for masks and the need for dogs. I never posted about politics.
Now I’m getting political. I can hope we all are. There’s so much at stake in Canada.
This is the tip a huge iceberg:
Now I’m getting political. I can hope we all are. There’s so much at stake in Canada.
This is the tip a huge iceberg:
December 19, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Explanation post: Those who followed me on X know I posted about medical access - including vaccines - the need for masks and the need for dogs. I never posted about politics.
Now I’m getting political. I can hope we all are. There’s so much at stake in Canada.
This is the tip a huge iceberg:
Now I’m getting political. I can hope we all are. There’s so much at stake in Canada.
This is the tip a huge iceberg:
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I think this should be kind of a big deal: Elon Musk tweeting at 1:03am, “Only the AfD can save Germany.”
The AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party.
The AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party.
December 20, 2024 at 11:25 AM
I think this should be kind of a big deal: Elon Musk tweeting at 1:03am, “Only the AfD can save Germany.”
The AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party.
The AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party.
Looking forward reading this one!
You know what? I worked really really hard on my book Under Alien Skies; I think it's an original concept done in an original way, and has my best writing I've ever done. So I'm promoting it here again, because I'm damned proud of it.
underalienskies.com
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December 18, 2024 at 9:26 PM
Looking forward reading this one!