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mjfree.bsky.social
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.
February 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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mjfree.bsky.social
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.
February 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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tomkindlon.bsky.social
From Peter Rowe team

Provocation of brachial plexus & systemic symptoms during the elevated arm stress test in...myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome or idiopathic chronic fatigue

translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Image from Science for ME update

#MEcfs #CFS
Journal of Translational Medicine Provocation of brachial plexus and systemic symptoms during the elevated arm stress test in individuals with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome or idiopathic chronic fatigue — Edwards et al. "the EAST was abnormal in 98% of those reporting symptoms with arms-overhead or arms-extended postures. This prevalence compares to 43% who had an abnormal ULNT1, another commonly used screening maneuver for thoracic outlet syndrome."
January 28, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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tomkindlon.bsky.social
From @meresearchuk.bsky.social

A study showed the majority of individuals with ME/CFS, without PoTS, had abnormalities in cerebral blood flow indicative of orthostatic intolerance. The researchers suggest endothelial dysfunction (blood vessel issues) is at play

Read more: bit.ly/tilttableME
#MEcfs
THE TILT TABLE TEST & ME/CFS The tilt table test assesses how the body reacts to a change in position from lying to upright. Individuals with postural orthostatic tachycardia (POTS), a known ME/CFS comorbidity, typically have an abnormal heart rate-blood pressure (HR-BP) response upon testing. However, researchers found certain abnormalities in most (91%) participants with ME/CFS without POTS, which are not always assessed for during tilt table testing. These involved cardiac output (CO; how much blood heart pumps) and cerebral blood flow (CBF; how much blood brain receives). Van Campen et al. (2024) 'The Cardiac Output -Cerebral Blood Flow Relationship Is Abnormal in Most Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Patients with a Normal Heart Rate and Blood Pressure Response During a Tilt Test' In-depth tilt table testing - ME/CFS without POTS → normal HR-BP response BUT abnormal CO and CBF → potentially indicating endothelial dysfunction, i.e. blood vessel issues → orthostatic intolerance INFORM. INFLUENCE. INVEST. ME RESEARCH UK SC036942
January 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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drmaireaddb.bsky.social
Visiting restrictions now in place at Cork hospitals due to big respiratory illness surge of RSV, Flu and COVID.
Limited hours (6-8pm), 2 visitors max, face masks mandatory.

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December 28, 2024 at 10:56 AM
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drmaireaddb.bsky.social
Fri 27/12/24 Ireland
Wk 51

Total COVID deaths 18/5/24: 9,754
2024=288 then
1/11/24:‼️10,072‼️
2024= 288+318=606?‼️
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175 road deaths

V little testing
Hospital 60+10-0
Yesterday 57
This wk+48 new

ICU 5+0-0
Yesterday 4
This wk+3 new

covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com/pages/hospit...
ICU, Hospitals & Testing Data
Detailed statistics, graphs and information on ICU, Acute Hospital, and Testing Data.
covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com
December 27, 2024 at 3:36 PM
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sunsopeningband.bsky.social
Some notes:
1. COVID doesn’t behave seasonally, so the idea of a “winter wave” is silly.
2. Surges are only “silent” because we refuse to test for it on any meaningful scale and act meaningfully on the results. www.today.com/health/coron...
A ‘silent’ COVID surge may hit the US over the holidays, experts warn — here's what that means
This year's winter COVID-19 wave is off to a late start, and experts expect cases to keep rising. Here's what to know.
www.today.com
December 24, 2024 at 9:05 PM
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cvcev.bsky.social
This morning, @SkyNews has a report on the rise in airborne infections filling hospital beds:

💙 'flu = 4x more beds than 2023
💜 RSV = high admissions for 0-4 yr olds

Thanks to @AnnaJonesSky and @ashnahurynag for this excellent report.

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December 21, 2024 at 11:49 AM
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longcovidkids.bsky.social
Today our legal team has written to the Chair of the UK COVID Inquiry to invite her to make urgent interim recommendations to make healthcare settings safe.

🙏 wear a mask 😷in all healthcare settings this festive season, help reduce risk.

#CovidInquiry #LongCovidKids #NHS #HealthCare
Dear Chair Urgent Interim Recommendation 1. We write collectively with the Core Participant groups listed below to invite you to make the following urgent interim recommendation: By 1 March 2025, UKHSA, NHSE, DHSC and other public health agencies (including those in the Devolved Nations), with the benefit of multi-disciplinary input from experts in physical sciences and the UK’s Health and Safety regulator, the HSE, revise IPC guidance in the NIPCM and HTM guidelines to ensure: (a) recognition of the role of airborne transmission of SARS-Cov-2; and (b) there is appropriate guidance on measures to limit airborne transmission of respiratory viruses such as Covid-19 including the use of FFP3 masks, improved standards of ventilation and air filter devices in healthcare settings (both clinical and non-clinical) and ensure the distribution of those guidelines to all employers/providers of clinical and non-clinical healthcare workers. Any such review must include consultation with key stakeholders 2. Over the course of ten weeks of hearings into the UK healthcare system’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, you have heard evidence from your experts on Infection Prevention Controls (‘IPC’) and others that SARS-CoV- 2 is transmitted through airborne routes, and that mitigation measures to limit transmission of the virus are dependent on that recognition (such as recommendations on the use of respirators outside of Aerosol Generating Procedures (‘AGP’) procedures, improved ventilation and introduction of air cleaning devices). You have also heard compelling evidence from clinical and non-clinical healthcare workers and patients of the devastating impact that the lack of adequate protections to limit transmission of SARS-CoV-2 has had.
December 20, 2024 at 1:36 PM
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drmaireaddb.bsky.social
Fri 20/12/24 Ireland
Wk 50

Total COVID deaths 18/5/24: 9,754
2024=288 then
1/11/24:‼️10,072‼️
2024= 288+318=606?‼️
&
168 road deaths

V little testing
Hospital 53+12-4
Yesterday 59+12-4=67not 53
This wk+62 new

ICU 2+1-2
Yesterday 3
This wk+3 new

covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com/pages/hospit...
🇮🇪 ICU 🇮🇪 Hospital
December 20, 2024 at 3:33 PM
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drmaireaddb.bsky.social
Thurs 19/12/24 Ireland
Wk 50

Total COVID deaths 18/5/24: 9,754
2024=288 then
1/11/24:‼️10,072‼️
2024= 288+318=606?‼️
&
167 road deaths

V little testing
Hospital 59+16-4
Yesterday 58+16-4=70 not 59
This wk+50 new

ICU3+0-0
Yesterday3
This wk+2new

covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com/pages/hospit...
🇮🇪 ICU 🇮🇪 Hospital
December 19, 2024 at 6:29 PM
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mjfree.bsky.social
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget
December 16, 2024 at 12:40 PM
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drmaireaddb.bsky.social
Thurs 5/12/24 Ireland
Wk 48

Total COVID deaths 18/5/24: 9,754
2024=288 then
1/11/24:‼️10,072‼️
2024= 288+318=606?‼️
&
165 road deaths

V little testing
Hospital 46+10-5
Yesterday 45
This wk+35 new‼️

ICU 4+0-1
Yesterday 5
This wk+1 new‼️

covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com/pages/hospit...
🇮🇪 ICU 🇮🇪 Hospital
December 5, 2024 at 6:12 PM
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binitakane.bsky.social
Please donate if you can, LCKs was a lifeline for us and has supported thousands of families over the last 4 years.
It fills a gap that shouldn’t exist. Until #longcovidkids is recognised, researched and funded, they continue.
longcovidkids.bsky.social Long Covid Kids @longcovidkids.bsky.social · Dec 5
How awesome is Colin! he has written a #limerick to support our @biggive.bsky.social #ChristmasChallenge
We would love to reach our target of £10k to help us continue to advocate & support children & young people with #LongCovid

⬇️🙃With your help we can get there!
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
December 5, 2024 at 8:56 AM
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arghavansallesmd.medsky.social
Regret after gender affirming surgery was 0.3% in this study with almost 2000 patients. Regret for knee replacement surgery is much higher, somewhere around 10% (according to a review from last year—others have quoted higher %).

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alignsurgical.com
December 4, 2024 at 10:56 PM
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binitakane.bsky.social
This is a big leap from ‘it doesn’t affect kids’.

Still under recognised, poorly served and underfunded.

This is our future generation - no consideration of repeated infections here.

www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
Long Covid study finds teenagers suffered with symptoms for more than two years
Girls were more likely than boys to have long Covid
www.independent.co.uk
December 4, 2024 at 7:19 PM
stirforgood.bsky.social
My child. “There are two types of tired, one you recover from after you sleep. The other you don’t.” #LongCovidTeen #me/cfs #PEM #LongCovid
December 4, 2024 at 12:55 PM
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krassenstein.bsky.social
I don’t usually make this kind of request, but I feel many people don’t know we’re on Bluesky. If you think your followers would be interested, please share this with them!

Our mission is simple: to share facts, challenge misinformation, and do it all in a way that brings people together.
December 3, 2024 at 9:47 PM
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orla-hegarty.bsky.social
3 December- International Day of Persons with Disabilities

Clean air in buildings & transport is a disability rights issue

Stale indoor air can be a soup of pathogens, & a disease risk to all

It’s measurable & preventable
December 3, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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1goodtern.bsky.social
Far more people have Long Covid than realise it.
😞
December 3, 2024 at 12:14 PM
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putrinolab.bsky.social
So excited to finally see this study out in pre-print! This study is the largest of its kind to date: Using data from 4,244 people with #LongCOVID, #MECFS and other complex chronic illnesses, we took hundreds of thousands of data points across hundreds of
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...
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Smartphone-based monitoring of heart rate variability and resting heart rate predicts variability in symptom exacerbations in people with complex chronic illness
Background: Complex chronic conditions like Long COVID and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome involve energy limitations and changes in heart rate variability (HRV) and resting heart r...
www.researchsquare.com
December 2, 2024 at 9:00 PM
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longcovidkids.bsky.social
⏳ Less than 24 Hours to Go! Let’s Double the Impact!

We’re in the final countdown leading into the Christmas #BigGive🎄

From the 3rd of December until midnight on the 10th of December, every donation will be DOUBLED—meaning your generosity goes twice as far.

#LongCovidKids #LongCovid
'Have your Christmas Donation Doubled' - the image shows a clock face with '24 hours' and a string of coloured fairy lights at the top of the image.
December 2, 2024 at 5:55 PM
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nomadmatt.bsky.social
Don't be like Donald.
December 1, 2024 at 6:59 AM
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ninawildflower.bsky.social
24 days. 24 different masks.

Day 1 of my 2024 Christmas Advent Calendar

Winter Time (Robert Lewis Stevenson)

Mask: 3M Aura - ask if you want to know more about this mask.

#COVIDisAirborne #CovidIsNotOver #MaskUp #ChristmasFever #YuleMasking
December 1, 2024 at 12:00 AM
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calltoactivism.bsky.social
We figured something big out with Bluesky!! 🦋

For those of you growing your following, keep reading!

We’ve gotten about 11k follow requests that we’ve been vetting non stop for about a week. We’re up to 8k followers which is the 16th highest follow back rate on the platform!!! (pathetic). 🧵
November 30, 2024 at 5:01 AM