K8
@coastalk8.bsky.social
Mum & Carer - CCHD Family ♥️
Covid Aware & Informed 😷 Particular interest in the cardiovascular impacts of SARs-Cov-2
Covid Aware & Informed 😷 Particular interest in the cardiovascular impacts of SARs-Cov-2
Had to go into a services. A busy indoor place, poor ventilation, viruses so I put on a respirator. Within seconds a male walked past & said “a Covid thing? My god”. It struck me how much this mentality was relied upon to “erase” Covid & how easy it’d be to go along with it.
December 14, 2024 at 10:00 AM
Had to go into a services. A busy indoor place, poor ventilation, viruses so I put on a respirator. Within seconds a male walked past & said “a Covid thing? My god”. It struck me how much this mentality was relied upon to “erase” Covid & how easy it’d be to go along with it.
How I wish people cared about education and didn’t obsess over school. They are not always one & the same. Kids deserve options for how they fulfil THEIR right to education. But the new head of OFSTED will not tolerate “unorthodox” learning. It’s like Victorian Britain lives on in so many ways.
December 5, 2024 at 9:30 PM
How I wish people cared about education and didn’t obsess over school. They are not always one & the same. Kids deserve options for how they fulfil THEIR right to education. But the new head of OFSTED will not tolerate “unorthodox” learning. It’s like Victorian Britain lives on in so many ways.
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None of these are good viruses to get, and now we have flu and RSV during their season *and* SARS-CoV-2 year-round. And this is about short-term effects, not what happens with repeat infections over the longer term. And more people get SARS-CoV-2, way more often.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobia...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobia...
Study: Higher risk of accompanying bacterial infections with flu, RSV than SARS-CoV-2
But the risk of bacterial infections in COVID-19 patients was substantially elevated after 48 hours compared with the other viruses.
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 5, 2024 at 9:21 PM
None of these are good viruses to get, and now we have flu and RSV during their season *and* SARS-CoV-2 year-round. And this is about short-term effects, not what happens with repeat infections over the longer term. And more people get SARS-CoV-2, way more often.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobia...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobia...
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One mutation. One single mutation. In an environment in which H5N1 is infecting multiple species (including humans) and a vast total number of infections.
www.latimes.com/environment/...
www.latimes.com/environment/...
Just one mutation can make H5N1 bird flu a threat to humans, California researchers say
The Scripps Research Institute finding counters prevailing thought that the virus would require multiple mutations before it poses a threat to public health.
www.latimes.com
December 5, 2024 at 8:27 PM
One mutation. One single mutation. In an environment in which H5N1 is infecting multiple species (including humans) and a vast total number of infections.
www.latimes.com/environment/...
www.latimes.com/environment/...
My child has CCHD. He is not warned to avoid Covid. We are not told it causes cardiac changes/harm. We are told cardiac kids “fare well”. I research it myself!
If we are not told the facts about Covid, what hope has the rest of the population?
bmccardiovascdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
If we are not told the facts about Covid, what hope has the rest of the population?
bmccardiovascdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
December 2, 2024 at 7:58 AM
My child has CCHD. He is not warned to avoid Covid. We are not told it causes cardiac changes/harm. We are told cardiac kids “fare well”. I research it myself!
If we are not told the facts about Covid, what hope has the rest of the population?
bmccardiovascdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
If we are not told the facts about Covid, what hope has the rest of the population?
bmccardiovascdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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My first @bsky.app 🧵: A few thoughts on public health perils ahead👇: Since my Vanity Fair story on US govt's botched #H5N1 response ran last month, things have gotten worse: 616 dairy herds in 15 states infected; 53 human cases including today's news of a child www.vanityfair.com/news/story/i... /1
Inside the Bungled Bird Flu Response, Where Profits Collide With Public Health
When dairy cows in Texas began falling ill with H5N1, alarmed veterinarians expected a fierce response to contain an outbreak with pandemic-sparking potential. Then politics—and, critics say, a key ag...
www.vanityfair.com
November 22, 2024 at 8:07 PM
My first @bsky.app 🧵: A few thoughts on public health perils ahead👇: Since my Vanity Fair story on US govt's botched #H5N1 response ran last month, things have gotten worse: 616 dairy herds in 15 states infected; 53 human cases including today's news of a child www.vanityfair.com/news/story/i... /1
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Nothing makes me more apprehensive regarding H5N1 than human cases in which the route of infection is unknown. The previously hospitalised patient in Missouri in August. The Canadian teenager with severe illness. Now the child in California.
November 19, 2024 at 7:08 PM
Nothing makes me more apprehensive regarding H5N1 than human cases in which the route of infection is unknown. The previously hospitalised patient in Missouri in August. The Canadian teenager with severe illness. Now the child in California.
Friend currently has flu caught from child’s school. Half the class are currently off. Some have been hospitalised & bloods confirmed flu. Not vaccinated as the Vaccine programme wasn’t due til DECEMBER! @chrischirp.bsky.social @profstevegriffin.bsky.social
November 19, 2024 at 11:27 AM
Friend currently has flu caught from child’s school. Half the class are currently off. Some have been hospitalised & bloods confirmed flu. Not vaccinated as the Vaccine programme wasn’t due til DECEMBER! @chrischirp.bsky.social @profstevegriffin.bsky.social
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The "DOUBLE INSULT" of SARS-CoV-2 INFECTION:
Acute Illness and Reactivation of Latent Viruses Contribute to Long COVID
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Acute Illness and Reactivation of Latent Viruses Contribute to Long COVID
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 18, 2024 at 5:28 AM
The "DOUBLE INSULT" of SARS-CoV-2 INFECTION:
Acute Illness and Reactivation of Latent Viruses Contribute to Long COVID
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Acute Illness and Reactivation of Latent Viruses Contribute to Long COVID
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Was it always acceptable for parents to drag their obviously ill child, with a productive, hacking cough; out and about in the cold to cough over anybody who happens to cross their path?! I encountered 3 today. Streaming noses. Phlegmy coughs. Watery eyes. 😩. I’d never take my child out like that!
November 17, 2024 at 9:42 PM
Was it always acceptable for parents to drag their obviously ill child, with a productive, hacking cough; out and about in the cold to cough over anybody who happens to cross their path?! I encountered 3 today. Streaming noses. Phlegmy coughs. Watery eyes. 😩. I’d never take my child out like that!
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TL;DR
The CDC is recommending pneumococcal adult vaccine at 50 yrs instead of 65yrs because we are getting sicker 15 years younger than before.
And that’s only after 5 years of pandemic fun.
Just wait till you see what happens next.
The CDC is recommending pneumococcal adult vaccine at 50 yrs instead of 65yrs because we are getting sicker 15 years younger than before.
And that’s only after 5 years of pandemic fun.
Just wait till you see what happens next.
November 16, 2024 at 12:17 AM
TL;DR
The CDC is recommending pneumococcal adult vaccine at 50 yrs instead of 65yrs because we are getting sicker 15 years younger than before.
And that’s only after 5 years of pandemic fun.
Just wait till you see what happens next.
The CDC is recommending pneumococcal adult vaccine at 50 yrs instead of 65yrs because we are getting sicker 15 years younger than before.
And that’s only after 5 years of pandemic fun.
Just wait till you see what happens next.
“Only the vulnerable” is still the mantra. Outdated & incorrect. Barely anyone has a clue that Covid infections impacts are not limited to the acute. That Covid can & does make you vulnerable too. But ppl don’t want to know. Even when it’s happening to them.
'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. Or make light of it'.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
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 16, 2024 at 11:15 AM
“Only the vulnerable” is still the mantra. Outdated & incorrect. Barely anyone has a clue that Covid infections impacts are not limited to the acute. That Covid can & does make you vulnerable too. But ppl don’t want to know. Even when it’s happening to them.
To be committed to prevention you have to acknowledge the triggers of ill health. You have to act. You have to PREVENT what you can. So be doggedly avoiding any meaningful action on the latest modern day health catastrophe that is Covid, is either woefully incompetent or deliberate or indeed both!
1. For a government committed to a policy of moving from a treatment to prevention model in the NHS, this makes no sense (vaccination is obviously a powerful preventative intervention). It betrays a focus that is entirely on acute Covid-19 disease.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
JCVI statement on COVID-19 vaccination in 2025 and spring 2026
www.gov.uk
November 14, 2024 at 11:50 AM
To be committed to prevention you have to acknowledge the triggers of ill health. You have to act. You have to PREVENT what you can. So be doggedly avoiding any meaningful action on the latest modern day health catastrophe that is Covid, is either woefully incompetent or deliberate or indeed both!
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ONS EXCESS DEATHS
In week 44 2024:
▪️Expected deaths: 12,278
▪️Actual deaths: 10,644
In week 44 2023:
▪️Expected deaths: 10,604
▪️Actual deaths: 10,983
ONS have raised the baseline of expected deaths by 16% since this time last year!
No wonder there’s no excess…
/1
In week 44 2024:
▪️Expected deaths: 12,278
▪️Actual deaths: 10,644
In week 44 2023:
▪️Expected deaths: 10,604
▪️Actual deaths: 10,983
ONS have raised the baseline of expected deaths by 16% since this time last year!
No wonder there’s no excess…
/1
November 13, 2024 at 12:55 PM
ONS EXCESS DEATHS
In week 44 2024:
▪️Expected deaths: 12,278
▪️Actual deaths: 10,644
In week 44 2023:
▪️Expected deaths: 10,604
▪️Actual deaths: 10,983
ONS have raised the baseline of expected deaths by 16% since this time last year!
No wonder there’s no excess…
/1
In week 44 2024:
▪️Expected deaths: 12,278
▪️Actual deaths: 10,644
In week 44 2023:
▪️Expected deaths: 10,604
▪️Actual deaths: 10,983
ONS have raised the baseline of expected deaths by 16% since this time last year!
No wonder there’s no excess…
/1
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Canadian H5 patient: sequencing confirms Influenza A (H5N1), clade 2.3.4.4b, genotype D.1.1.
Not the same genotype that is infecting dairy cattle and dairy workers in the US. Responsible for poultry outbreaks in Canada.
How the patient was infected remains unknown
www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
Not the same genotype that is infecting dairy cattle and dairy workers in the US. Responsible for poultry outbreaks in Canada.
How the patient was infected remains unknown
www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
Statement from the Public Health Agency of Canada: Update on Avian Influenza and Risk to Canadians
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) today confirmed a human case of avian influenza (also known as bird flu) caused by influenza A(H5N1) virus in Canada.
www.canada.ca
November 13, 2024 at 8:36 PM
Canadian H5 patient: sequencing confirms Influenza A (H5N1), clade 2.3.4.4b, genotype D.1.1.
Not the same genotype that is infecting dairy cattle and dairy workers in the US. Responsible for poultry outbreaks in Canada.
How the patient was infected remains unknown
www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
Not the same genotype that is infecting dairy cattle and dairy workers in the US. Responsible for poultry outbreaks in Canada.
How the patient was infected remains unknown
www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
We desperately need journalists to understand that Covid is heart damaging virus; causing heart attacks & strokes months & YEARS after infection. It causes & worsens CVD. (⬆️Waiting lists!). A travesty!
bylinetimes.com/2024/11/13/h...
@bylinetimes.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2024/11/13/h...
@bylinetimes.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social
Heart Attacks on the Rise After Conservative Reforms Reverse Progress on Tackling Silent Killer
A damning new report highlights a series of failures under the last Conservative Government
bylinetimes.com
November 13, 2024 at 8:38 PM
We desperately need journalists to understand that Covid is heart damaging virus; causing heart attacks & strokes months & YEARS after infection. It causes & worsens CVD. (⬆️Waiting lists!). A travesty!
bylinetimes.com/2024/11/13/h...
@bylinetimes.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2024/11/13/h...
@bylinetimes.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social
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I feel like I am a character in a dystopian movie. We have a big chance of facing soon a pandemic with a virus that scientists know is highly neuroinvasive. H5Nx viruses like #H5N1 were already found in all the regions in the brain below. Where are the vaccines, bloody hell?!?!
November 13, 2024 at 4:00 AM
I feel like I am a character in a dystopian movie. We have a big chance of facing soon a pandemic with a virus that scientists know is highly neuroinvasive. H5Nx viruses like #H5N1 were already found in all the regions in the brain below. Where are the vaccines, bloody hell?!?!
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4. One thing I’m very much appreciating on BlueSky is what we once had on Twitter: reasoned disagreement, as opposed to the tsunami of wilful idiocy here, which crushes real debate. I don't want an echo chamber. But nor do I want this bedlam.
November 13, 2024 at 2:36 PM
4. One thing I’m very much appreciating on BlueSky is what we once had on Twitter: reasoned disagreement, as opposed to the tsunami of wilful idiocy here, which crushes real debate. I don't want an echo chamber. But nor do I want this bedlam.
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Great article.
@davidjoffe64.bsky.social quote, "please do not psychologise ME/CFS or Long Covid...this is a direct organic, neurological condition, with a plethora of complex outcomes, including severe consequences for autonomy and quality of life." 1/6
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
@davidjoffe64.bsky.social quote, "please do not psychologise ME/CFS or Long Covid...this is a direct organic, neurological condition, with a plethora of complex outcomes, including severe consequences for autonomy and quality of life." 1/6
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
‘We need Psychologists… but please don’t psychologise Long Covid’ | BPS
Dr Aspa Paltoglou hears from physician Dr David Joffe about what’s needed from our discipline; from Janina Bradshaw about what Psychotherapists can do; and from occupational therapist Kirsty Stanley.
www.bps.org.uk
November 12, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Great article.
@davidjoffe64.bsky.social quote, "please do not psychologise ME/CFS or Long Covid...this is a direct organic, neurological condition, with a plethora of complex outcomes, including severe consequences for autonomy and quality of life." 1/6
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
@davidjoffe64.bsky.social quote, "please do not psychologise ME/CFS or Long Covid...this is a direct organic, neurological condition, with a plethora of complex outcomes, including severe consequences for autonomy and quality of life." 1/6
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
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The most important thing about this paper is that it draws equivalence between C19-hospitalised cases, and cardiac risk factors.
Looking forward to the heart associations including it at the next meeting to update the risk scoring systems. (Years?)
www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
Looking forward to the heart associations including it at the next meeting to update the risk scoring systems. (Years?)
www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
COVID-19 Is a Coronary Artery Disease Risk Equivalent and Exhibits a Genetic Interaction With ABO Blood Type | Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology
BACKGROUND: COVID-19 is associated with acute risk of major adverse cardiac events (MACE), including
myocardial infarction, stroke, and mortality (all-cause). However, the duration and
underlying dete...
www.ahajournals.org
November 12, 2024 at 7:08 AM
The most important thing about this paper is that it draws equivalence between C19-hospitalised cases, and cardiac risk factors.
Looking forward to the heart associations including it at the next meeting to update the risk scoring systems. (Years?)
www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
Looking forward to the heart associations including it at the next meeting to update the risk scoring systems. (Years?)
www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
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A quarter of California's dairy herds have been infected with #H5N1 #birdflu since spread began there in the summer. 18 more herds confirmed today for a total of 277 in the state. Cumulative national total: 491 herds in 15 states. www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...
November 11, 2024 at 3:35 PM
A quarter of California's dairy herds have been infected with #H5N1 #birdflu since spread began there in the summer. 18 more herds confirmed today for a total of 277 in the state. Cumulative national total: 491 herds in 15 states. www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...
So nice to find likeminded, knowledgeable, respectful & compassionate people on here without the onslaught of rubbish often spewed elsewhere!!
November 11, 2024 at 9:43 AM
So nice to find likeminded, knowledgeable, respectful & compassionate people on here without the onslaught of rubbish often spewed elsewhere!!
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If you were ever in any doubt about the underlying agenda of Us For Them, be in doubt no longer.
They are here openly welcoming the health agenda of known anti-vaxxer RFK.
For them it was never about putting our children’s health first.
They are here openly welcoming the health agenda of known anti-vaxxer RFK.
For them it was never about putting our children’s health first.
November 11, 2024 at 8:05 AM
If you were ever in any doubt about the underlying agenda of Us For Them, be in doubt no longer.
They are here openly welcoming the health agenda of known anti-vaxxer RFK.
For them it was never about putting our children’s health first.
They are here openly welcoming the health agenda of known anti-vaxxer RFK.
For them it was never about putting our children’s health first.
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1. H5N1 in North America:
Hospitalised patient in Canada.
A previously hospitalised patient in Missouri with a household contact who was also infected; route of infection in both cases unknown.
Presumed seroprevalence of 7% amongst dairy farm workers in the US.
Hospitalised patient in Canada.
A previously hospitalised patient in Missouri with a household contact who was also infected; route of infection in both cases unknown.
Presumed seroprevalence of 7% amongst dairy farm workers in the US.
November 10, 2024 at 4:22 PM
1. H5N1 in North America:
Hospitalised patient in Canada.
A previously hospitalised patient in Missouri with a household contact who was also infected; route of infection in both cases unknown.
Presumed seroprevalence of 7% amongst dairy farm workers in the US.
Hospitalised patient in Canada.
A previously hospitalised patient in Missouri with a household contact who was also infected; route of infection in both cases unknown.
Presumed seroprevalence of 7% amongst dairy farm workers in the US.