Jess
@jesspearce.bsky.social
Interested in the climate crisis, public health, public policy, and ethics. Living with long covid since 2022.
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Plenty studies showing that your postcode is a better predictor of your health outcomes than your genome.
The BBC & Telegraph are trailing Wes Streeting’s technophile health plans, including genomic mapping at birth.
Is this really gonna transform the NHS into a prevention service within 10 yrs, as Wes claims? For v rare genetic conditions, praps. But for the real burden of disease?
Thoughts, #medsky?
Is this really gonna transform the NHS into a prevention service within 10 yrs, as Wes claims? For v rare genetic conditions, praps. But for the real burden of disease?
Thoughts, #medsky?
June 22, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Plenty studies showing that your postcode is a better predictor of your health outcomes than your genome.
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I've just seen some staggering data on how badly infections are affecting urgent care here *now*.
It's hard to comprehend.
It's hard to get your head round it.
You need to see it to believe it.
👀
It's hard to comprehend.
It's hard to get your head round it.
You need to see it to believe it.
👀
April 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I've just seen some staggering data on how badly infections are affecting urgent care here *now*.
It's hard to comprehend.
It's hard to get your head round it.
You need to see it to believe it.
👀
It's hard to comprehend.
It's hard to get your head round it.
You need to see it to believe it.
👀
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I have a mild form of this and it controls my life. I don’t understand why people are so willing to risk getting a horrible chronic disease like this, or any of the other chronic diseases or acute medical crises that Covid can cause. Please wear a mask in public.
A good write-up of that study on Covid and ME/CFS.
1 in 22 COVID survivors develop debilitating chronic syndrome
A study suggests that catching COVID-19 significantly raises the risk of developing ME/CFS (formerly called "chronic fatigue syndrome"), a typically lifelong condition that can be debilitating.
www.livescience.com
February 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I have a mild form of this and it controls my life. I don’t understand why people are so willing to risk getting a horrible chronic disease like this, or any of the other chronic diseases or acute medical crises that Covid can cause. Please wear a mask in public.
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This is one of several studies re covid-induced brain/cognitive damage among university students. If you are concerned & thinking ‘someone should do something’…we ned to look in the mirror b/c that someone is you, just as it is me. We cannot accept this.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
COVID-19 may Enduringly Impact Cognitive Performance and Brain Haemodynamics in Undergraduate Students
To date, 770 million people worldwide have contracted COVID-19, with many reporting long-term “brain fog”. Concerningly, young adults are both overrep…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 9, 2025 at 10:43 PM
This is one of several studies re covid-induced brain/cognitive damage among university students. If you are concerned & thinking ‘someone should do something’…we ned to look in the mirror b/c that someone is you, just as it is me. We cannot accept this.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com thank you for sharing information about student loan overpayment refunds! I hadn't realised I overpaid £264 and am now getting it back in time for Christmas.
November 28, 2024 at 11:33 PM
@martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com thank you for sharing information about student loan overpayment refunds! I hadn't realised I overpaid £264 and am now getting it back in time for Christmas.
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Ventilation 💨
"You wouldn't build a public building without fire prevention. You wouldn't make people eat contaminated food, and yet this concept of clean, fresh, uncontaminated air has just bypassed everybody."
"There could have been HEPA filters put in"
5/
"You wouldn't build a public building without fire prevention. You wouldn't make people eat contaminated food, and yet this concept of clean, fresh, uncontaminated air has just bypassed everybody."
"There could have been HEPA filters put in"
5/
November 26, 2024 at 2:38 PM
Ventilation 💨
"You wouldn't build a public building without fire prevention. You wouldn't make people eat contaminated food, and yet this concept of clean, fresh, uncontaminated air has just bypassed everybody."
"There could have been HEPA filters put in"
5/
"You wouldn't build a public building without fire prevention. You wouldn't make people eat contaminated food, and yet this concept of clean, fresh, uncontaminated air has just bypassed everybody."
"There could have been HEPA filters put in"
5/
I finally deactivated my twitter account. While I rarely posted, the ability to aggregate my own Covid newsfeed of experts, invested lay people and other long covid patients has been invaluable to my own learning and sanity. I hope I can find that same community here.
November 15, 2024 at 12:49 PM
I finally deactivated my twitter account. While I rarely posted, the ability to aggregate my own Covid newsfeed of experts, invested lay people and other long covid patients has been invaluable to my own learning and sanity. I hope I can find that same community here.