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Biology instructor, follow the science. CKOB! Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Героям Слава! 🇺🇦 #maskup 😷 be kind to people and animals 🐕
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daniellebeckman.bsky.social
Here is a piece of the interview. This is Jay Bhattacharya, the new head of NIH, who holds a PhD in Economics, not in Health Sciences. He doesn't see a benefit in vaccinating kids for #COVID because the kids are not dying, completely dismissing the millions getting impaired with #LongCovid.
February 27, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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bill-comeau.bsky.social
Three years ago Doug Ford announced he was "done with covid". Weeks later he announced the end of mask reqts. That was not based on any data or science and I predicted many additional deaths would occur. Large BA.2 and BA.5 waves erupted. 2022 turned out to deadliest pandemic year in Ontario.
February 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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bill-comeau.bsky.social
Some say MAGA is anti-science. I can attest that many of Ford's actions dismissed the best scientific advice during the pandemic and since. He ignored warnings that caused chaos in ERs in 2020 and 2021. He disbanded the Science Table, he closed the Science Center, he closed wastewater surveillance.
February 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Dark Pence is back.
February 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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sueinnovates.bsky.social
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February 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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sheencr.bsky.social
Exciting new paper on pancreatic cancer-1 of the most dangerous cancers as often not detected or symptomatic until it’s advanced. Enzymes called proteases active early in cancer so researchers developed magnetic nanosensors to attract & detect proteases in blood. Starting clinical trials soon! 🧪
Early detection of pancreatic cancer by a high-throughput protease-activated nanosensor assay
A high-throughput, noninvasive, rapid protease-activated nanosensor identifies patients with pancreatic cancer in a small volume of blood.
www.science.org
February 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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erictopol.bsky.social
What's happening with the Covid nasal vaccine programs?
And why are they in jeopardy?
erictopol.substack.com/p/a-covid-na...
A Covid Nasal Vaccine Update
Now 6 Ongoing Clinical Trials in the United States
erictopol.substack.com
February 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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davidhamer1951.bsky.social
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jennyleeshee.bsky.social Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · Jan 26
Three years ago, when the ding dong delegation rolled into Ottawa and spent 3 weeks harassing its citizens, Doug Ford went snowmobiling.

He said the mayor should've called him if he needed help.

Doug later refused to testify at the Emergencies Act inquiry.

We deserve better, Ontario.

#OnPoli
Left: A picture of Doug Ford in his snowmobile gear posing with fans. The words above his head say, "Doug Ford responding to the 3-week long Ottawa occupation." Right: Police officers knock on someone's door. The words above their head say, "Doug Ford responding to getting packets of gravy in the mail."
January 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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thecanadianecho.bsky.social
Stop voting Conservative
January 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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1goodtern.bsky.social
Getting ill doesn't strengthen you.

Getting ill weakens you.

Why is that so hard to understand.
January 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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tryangregory.bsky.social
Who could possibly have guessed that the "kids need to get infected with pathogens" folks would be wrong and that infections with pathogens are actually bad?

/s

www.cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobia...
Early-life infection burden continues throughout childhood, new data reveal
www.cidrap.umn.edu
January 7, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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1goodtern.bsky.social
Question: Does COVID-19 damage the brain?

Answer: "We now know that, unfortunately, COVID can damage the brain in many ways."

Harvard Health.

And people keep ignoring the truth hoping it will go away.

www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-moo...
Does COVID-19 damage the brain? - Harvard Health
Most people who get COVID-19 don't suffer damage to the brain. But some do, and even people who initially get just mild COVID symptoms are vulnerable. COVID's potential to damage the brain is anoth...
www.health.harvard.edu
January 2, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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elhopkins.bsky.social
One of these numbers was my relative who was very dear to me. Like those who are fighting on the post office, I will keep pushing for the truth to come out on covid.
January 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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bill-comeau.bsky.social
Happy 2025!
2025 is the sum of the first 9 integer cubes.
2025 = 1^3 + 2^3 + 3^3 + 4^3 + 5^3 + 6^3 + 7^3 + 8^3 + 9^3
January 1, 2025 at 5:42 AM
biggnotl.bsky.social
“The first thing that public health would need to do, long before we get to nasal vaccines, is to stop the lying. We need to tell people why it’s bad to get COVID repeatedly. Tell people why COVID can shorten one’s lifespan.” Thank you Dr C, this needs to be said.

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Five years of the COVID-19 pandemic: An interview with Dr. Arijit Chakravarty
In this interview, Dr. Chakravarty discusses the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic and public health globally five years after the initial outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Wuhan, China.
www.wsws.org
December 31, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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stillcovidingca.bsky.social
Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov. 23–Dec. 6, 2024

By @MoriartyLab on X

SEVERE: Canada, Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, North, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan

~ 1 in 43 people are currently infected

#COVID #CovidIsntOver
This image shows a series of gauges with the November 23 – December 6, 2024 COVID Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, and territories. Read from left to right: Canada: 27.3 - Severe Alberta: 30.0 - Severe British Columbia: 16.1 - Severe Manitoba: 30.0 - Severe New Brunswick: 28.4 - Severe Newfoundland and Labrador: 17.5 - Severe North: 25.9 - Severe Nova Scotia: 30.0 - Severe Ontario: 27.4 - Severe Prince Edward Island: 26.2 - Severe Quebec: 27.9 - Severe Saskatchewan: 30.0 - Severe All Forecast input data and sources are available here: https://covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard-index/ Forecast scores are grouped into four ranges: MODERATE (1 to <5, white), HIGH (5 to <10, yellow), VERY HIGH (10 to <15, orange), SEVERE (>15 red). NOTE: A score of 1-5 means that COVID is expected to cause 1-5% excess mortality (about 55-276 excess deaths/week for Canada). A score of >5-10 means that COVID is expected to cause 5-10% excess mortality (276-553 excess deaths/week for Canada). A score of >10-15 means that COVID is expected to cause 10-15% excess mortality (553-829 excess deaths/week for Canada). A score of >15 means that COVID is expected to cause >15% excess mortality (at least 829 excess deaths/week for Canada). To access the past scores table, please visit: https://covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard-index
November 26, 2024 at 12:41 AM
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coopspeak.bsky.social
The Office of the Chief Science Advisor of “Canada released a report in December 2022 highlighting that while COVID is transmitted via respiratory aerosols, that doesn't mean it's just a respiratory virus - it gets into (and damages) almost every tissue in the body.”
mark-ungrin.bsky.social Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · Nov 25
From populists on the right, but also from establishment figures desperate to bury their responsibility, there's an ongoing push to bury the harms of COVID.

Long COVID alone costs 7M life-years (QALYs) and on the order of a trillion dollars a year in the OECD.
www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issue...
1. While a precise estimate of long COVID prevalence is still emerging, current research suggests that up to 10-30% of people who contracted COVID-19 exhibit symptoms corresponding to long COVID in the weeks and months following acute infection. Across OECD countries at a minimum, this would represent upwards of 39 million people who had or are currently living with long COVID. Sustainable investment in long COVID research is crucial to inform health and social care resource allocation. As the evidence base grows, developing standardised measures of symptoms and functional impact to support a more precise definition that enables the disaggregation of levels of long COVID severity could be useful to better understand the condition, assess its impact, and to tailor care and support. 3. Long COVID can severely limit people’s ability to undertake basic activities of daily life and can dramatically hamper quality of life. More than 7 million quality-adjusted life years may be lost annually across OECD countries due to the condition. Studies from across a range of OECD countries suggest that one sixth to more than one-third of people may have persistent cognitive symptoms, often lasting more than 12 weeks, after a COVID-19 infection. 4. Even conservative estimates of long COVID prevalence would indicate that long COVID may be reducing the workforce by nearly 3 million workers across OECD countries, amounting to an economic cost of at least $141 billion USD from lost wages alone. Moreover, even among those who were able to return to the labour force, a significant proportion reported needing to reduce the number of hours they worked, compared to before their infection. 5. The economic and social welfare costs of long COVID are dramatic: Even excluding the direct costs of health care, long COVID is likely costing OECD countries as much as $864 billion $1.04 trillion USD per year due to reductions in quality of life and labour force participation. The limitations in activities experienced by long COVID patients, including dropping out or reducing their participation in the labour force, as well as direct medical care costs, can have dramatic implications on their financial well-being. Costs to health and social protection systems may also be high over time. 6. Long COVID could further exacerbate inequalities: The COVID-19 pandemic brought attention to longstanding socioeconomic and demographic inequalities in health. Evidence from some countries suggests that certain groups – including populations with lower education attainment, and those living in more deprived areas – may be at risk of developing long COVID, and of experiencing more severe symptoms. 7. Patients have played a critical role in bringing attention and action to long COVID: Throughout the pandemic, countries deprioritized many key aspects of person-centred care in exchange for rapidly implementing policies intended to contain the virus. While the need for rapid action was clear, the lack of patient voice in the process was notable. In contrast, patients and patient groups have been at the forefront of advocating for both a recognition of long COVID as a legitimate condition, in articulating their care and support needs, and in spearheading research into the condition. In many cases, countries have responded by actively working together with patient groups to disseminate information and develop patient-centred support services.
November 26, 2024 at 1:08 AM
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1goodtern.bsky.social
If you can't bring yourself to admit that covid infections are causing health problems, then I think you may need to explore whether you have health anxiety and it's causing denial issues.
November 23, 2024 at 5:28 AM
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barryhunt008.bsky.social
I have yet to meet just one person at Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) who wholeheartedly acknowledges that the primary mode of transmission of Covid is airborne or that universal respirator use in healthcare would significantly reduce Healthcare Acquired Infections (HAIs)

Huh 🤔

😢
November 11, 2024 at 1:28 AM
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simpson-ian.bsky.social
If you were to release some air flow / smoke tracer in the patient area what do you think would happen to the smoke tracer?

Think, Covid moves like smoke.

youtu.be/kX9t8jQ9-fM?...
Don't breathe it in
YouTube video by The John Snow Project
youtu.be
November 16, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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gayfabfourfan.bsky.social
“Some people who get Covid today will have a heart attack, stroke or new autoimmune disease in the future… There are now thousands of peer-reviewed journal articles on research into the virus & its effects, so the information is out there for anyone who dares to look.”
chantzy.bsky.social Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · Nov 15
Covid is no laughing matter.

"The scale of the problem that Covid is posing for individuals and society appears to be on a par with climate change: too big to tackle, so we look away"

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
Covid is no laughing matter when it continues to hurt so many | Letters
Letters: Dr Elke Hausmann and Sue Hewison respond to Tim Dowling’s column about his sons testing positive
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2024 at 11:21 PM
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drericding.bsky.social
Trump’s incoming SECRETARY OF DEFENSE who doesn’t wash his hands and doesn’t believe in germs.
November 13, 2024 at 1:52 PM