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Public Health Education Platform since 2020.
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Solenn Tanguy @solenntango.bsky.social @winslowsp.bsky.social shared her lived experience during MaskTogetherAmerica Long COVID Defense Series I, held on Nov 7, 2025. 

Watch the full presentation including 5 Q&A sessions:
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November 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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“Protect myself and others, especially people who are immune compromised.”—Behind the KN95 respirator is Alex Lajas @queenofthering.bsky.social in Pro Wrestling media #MaskTogetherAmerica founder @MsJulieSLam.bsky.social met Lajas when she was tabling for Illustrator Lauren Moran at #NYCC2025. 🔥😷
Alex Lajas, wearing a black KN95 respirator, black T-shirt with graphic and text that says, “Mutant Threat,” tabling for Lauren Moran at New York Comic Con, posed for the pandemic photographic documentary project Julie Lam created for MaskTogetherAmerica.
November 12, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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“I embraced my duckbill N95 identity at school and I credit my N95s, along with vaccinations and air purifiers, with helping me stay healthy!” —Norah Mason teaches special education in a 500-plus person elementary school.
Interviewed by @msjulieslam.bsky.social
Norah Mason is wearing a duckbill N95, glasses and a green T-shirt that has an illustration of a rubber ducky and white and yellow text that says, “This is my Halloween Costume. I’m a Rubber Duck.”
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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A 2nd COVID case raises the risks of developing severely damaged kidneys, abnormal heartbeats, heart disease, severe fatigue, 3.5 times more likely to develop myocarditis, twice as likely to develop blood clots. @PennMedicine.bsky.social
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November 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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A @mgbresearch.bsky.social study suggests that maternal exposure to SARS-CoV-2 in utero was associated with greater odds of a neurodevelopmental diagnosis by age 3 with elevated risk among male offspring and after third-trimester infection.
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Sharing a study in Green Journal: “Neurodevelopmental Outcomes of 3-Year-Old Children Exposed to Maternal Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Infection in Utero” by Shook, Lydia L. MD; Castro, Victor MS; Ibanez-Pintor, Laura MD; Perlis, Roy H. MD, MSc; Edlow, Andrea G. MD, MSc @greenjrnl: https://bit.ly/GJ_MaternalC19_Brain Study author Dr. Andrea Edlow told CNN, “These findings highlight that COVID-19, like many other infections in pregnancy, may pose risks not only to the mother, but to fetal brain development.” [https://cnn.it/4ov9S3G ]
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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🔥 No, Dr. Oz, COVID-19 hasn’t passed us. #LongCOVID is a global crisis. Join Long COVID Defense forum: Nov 7, 2025, 5:00 to 8:30pm EST featuring:
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Ann Wallace
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Visual: At the Long COVID March in 2023 at the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, wearing their masks together, MaskTogetherAmerica founder Julie Lam, Dr. Marjorie Roberts, Dr. Angelique Corthals and Dr. Robi Tamargo, held up the Long COVID banner with a message from MaskTogetherAmerica that demands the U.S. Government to invest in “Mitigation + Patient Care + Awareness + Research Funding” to Support Long Haulers.    Headline: “COVID-19 hasn’t passed!” Long COVID Defense Series I November 7, 5:00pm - 8:30pm EST Five Q&A sessions on Long COVID akers: Solenn Tanguy: 5:00 - 5:40pm Dr. Angelique Corthals 5:45 - 6:30pm Adam Van Bavel: 6:35 -7:05 pm Ann Wallace: 7:10 - 7:40pm Becky Ancira Robertson: 7:40pm - 8:10pm   Title: Long COVID Defense Series I November 7, 5:00pm - 8:30pm EST Support Long Haulers | MaskTogetherAmerica Please register to join: https://bit.ly/Join_LCDefenseS1 Read on our website: https://masktogetheramerica.org/blog/masktogetheramerica-long-covid-defense-series-i-featuring-5-virtual-q-a-sessions  
November 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Cardiac Long Flu and Cardiac Long COVID are common! Independent peer-reviewed research found that Flu and COVlD raise the risk of heart attack or stroke at least three-fold compared to people without a documented respiratory infection! @americanheart.bsky.social
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Press release of a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, led by Kosuke Kawai, ScD Cresencia Felician Muhere, MD, Elkin V. Lemos, MD, PhD and Joel M. Francis, MD, PhD. Title: Some acute and chronic viral infections may increase the risk of cardiovascular disease Prevention measures, including vaccination, may play important role in cutting the risk of serious cardiovascular events, according to a new study in Journal of the American Heart Association Published: October 29, 2025   Source: Newsroom.heart.org: https://bit.ly/CVDfollowingVI_AHA   “People are 4 times as likely to have a heart attack and 5 times more likely to have a stroke in the month after laboratory-confirmed influenza.”   “People are 3 times more likely to have a heart attack and 3 times as likely to have a stroke in the 14 weeks following COVlD infection, with the risk remaining elevated for a year.”   https://newsroom.heart.org/news/some-acute-and-chronic-viral-infections-may-increase-the-risk-of-cardiovascular-disease
November 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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“Initially I wear my mask to protect myself and my vulnerable parents, now I wear to protect the community and show solidarity. I've been doing it for so long and it becomes part of my routine.”— Azenith at a mask-required Breathe Easy London #Halloween event. Photo: @msjulieslam.bsky.social
Azenith, wearing an orange Zimi Air Halloween Edition mask that has a carved pumpkin in black and an orange graphic hoodie with a graphic ghost 👻 , holding a carved pumkin, posed for Julie’s MaskTogetherAmerica pandemic documentary photography project.
November 1, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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"I don’t wish Long COVID on any body. We already have to worry about bills and politics, we don’t want to deal with more struggles. Masking is just a simple act of kindness.”— Anna at a mask-required Breathe Easy London #Halloween event, photographed by @msjulieslam.bsky.social
Anna is wearing a Halloween Edition Zimi Air mask, a blue puffy jacket, inside a well ventilated London LGBTQ+ Community Centre.
October 30, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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🌍 We, #LongCOVID orgs & advocates worldwide, release a collective declaration.
🔗https://longcovidriseup.eu/lc-declaration/
✍️ Advocates living with Long COVID, orgs & researchers who agree with its principles: contact us to sign for fair representation, urgent action, research & prevention.
Top visual shows an illustration of a crowd of all ages, including some visibly disabled people in silhouettes of blue and teal. The title below the graphic has “Long COVID” in black and “Declaration” in teal. Below the title is a list of logos from six organizations — Winslow Santé Publique, WHN Global, COVID-19 Persistent Catalunya, MaskTogetherAmerica, International LONG COVID Awareness, Asociación Long COVID Aragón — and Elisa Perego, MD Ph.D., writers and organizers of the declaration. The Long COVID Declaration as shown on the website of Long COVID Rise Up. https://longcovidriseup.eu/lc-declaration/
October 27, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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"You have to live your life! Well I do, in a mask and with as much clean air as possible. Every transmission chain broken is a preventable illness with potentially lasting damage stopped in its airborne tracks." @augustalees.bsky.social Pianist, Soprano, Teacher
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Augusta @augustalees wearing a black KN95, decorated with a mask chain, dressed up as a beautiful gothic witch/ woodland nymph, with a floral crown on her head 🌸🌺🌼🌹
October 27, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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1 in 5 people with #LongCOVID likely have cardiac symptoms! According to Dr. Vassilio Vassiliou, who led the European Society of Cardiology in the creation of a guidance* on COVID–associated heart injury, Cardiac Long COVID is very common! @jama.com
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Sharing an article published in JAMA Network: “New Guidance on Cardiovascular Disease and COVlD-19—From Infection to Long COVlD to Vaccination” by Jennifer Abbasi Visual: an illustration of a heart 🫀chained to a SARS-CoV-2 virus 🦠 with results from an electrocardiogram as a background. Quote: “What we know is probably 1 in 5 people with Long COVlD have cardiac symptoms.”— Dr. Vassilios Vassiliou from University of East Anglia, UK. Subhead: What is Cardiac Long COVlD? (White text over a red background) Text at the bottom: Source: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2840667
October 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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"I believe that Jesus‘s heart breaks every time we make a choice that leads to others’ suffering or death from COVID, especially when it is so easy to take simple actions to prevent its spread.”—Rev. Kate Harmon Siberine at the #NoKingsProtest Interview: www.instagram.com/p/DQKBxfvEWjc/
Rev. Kate Harmon Siberine, wearing a pinkish patterned KF94 respirator and glasses, sitting in a wheelchair that has pink and multi color wheels.
October 24, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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On Sep 26, @winslowsp.bsky.social rallied at the French Society of Cardiology to demand the SFC take action to address the impact of COVID on cardiovascular health. The Long COVID Heart kills in silence! Let’s speak up together to oppose the erasure of #LongCOVID.
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October 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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“I was excited to see a demonstrator at the No Kings rally in Mountain View (CA) making the case for vaccination efficacy… and wearing a mask as well!” — a member of @raginggrannies.bsky.social took this picture on #NoKingsDay. Vaccination is a lifesaving tool for many preventable diseases.
A masker held a sign that said,”Vaccines! 154,000,000 Lives Saved since 1974.” Under the text is the World Health Organization’s logo. The text below the logo says,”RFK Jr, Show me YOUR Data!” Below the text are graphs and text that show public health success of the polio and the measles vaccines. The Polio vaccine eradicated the disease in the U.S. And the elimination of Measles was declared in 2000. Her sign gives the CDC as source for her data.
October 22, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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We're grateful to start our series of virtual forums on #LongCOVID with a strong panel of advocates who don’t hold back on sharing their experiences and defending health justice for long-haulers. Speak up together.
Nov 7, 2025, 5:00 to 8:30pm EST
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Long COVID Defense Series I November 7, 5:00pm - 8:30pm EST Host & Emcee: Sarah Cahill Speakers: Solenn Tanguy: 5:05 - 5:40pm Dr. Angelique: Corthals 5:45- 6:30pm Adam Van Bavel: 6:35 -7:05 pm Ann Wallace: 7:10- 7:40pm Becky Ancira Robertson: 7:40pm - 8:10pm Support Long Haulers MaskTogetherAmerica Please register to join: https://bit.ly/Join_LCDefenseS1 Read on our website: https://masktogetheramerica.org/blog/masktogetheramerica-long-covid-defense-series-i-featuring-5-virtual-q-a-sessions
October 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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“Long COVID is a global health crisis affecting all ages and calling for a grassroots movement to promote prevention,” @MsJulieSLam.bsky.social writes for #MaskTogetherAmerica is grateful for the support from disability justice advocates with Breathe Easy London.

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At a Breathe Easy London gathering, everyone wore masks while they carved pumpkins, did coloring, played card games and shared their stories with Julie from MaskTogetherAmerica who flew in from New York to join the wonderful Halloween Celebration.
October 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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“I mask for myself and my community.”—Kayla
“I mask to keep us all safe, for a liberated now and future.”—Yuree
📸: @MsJulieSLam.bsky.social #MaskTogetherAmerica founder met with lots of caring Chicagoans at a mask-required event hosted by @parallelplaychi.bsky.social and the Artistic Alphabet Mafia.
Kayla is wearing a black KN95 installed with a @sipvalve, and black feather with a white shirt, as wizard Howl while Yuree is wearing a straw hat, light teal colonial dress with an apron, a lace cloth over a black KN95 respirator, as Sophie. Kayla and Yuree are cosplaying Howl and Sophie from Howl’s Moving Castle by Hayao Miyazaki from Studio Ghibli.
October 17, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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“I mask up on the #GWR train to see my son who started attending a graduate program in U.K.”—Behind the Zimiair Daisy is #MaskTogetherAmerica Founder Julie Lam reporting on the #IAQ on the fast train. The selfies were taken before the strap broke. 🌼😷💔
Julie Lam, sitting inside the coach train car with her Kind bag on her lap, checking the Indoor Air Quality of the train with an Aranet 4 sensor. The CO2 levels went up beyond 1000ppm, way above the heathy air quality level. In the photo, the sensor shows 1190ppm in CO2 level.
October 16, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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“I wear a mask to protect the more vulnerable people in the society.”Behind the KN95 respirators are Illustrator Valentine Barkers @valentinebarkers.com and his wife Diane who modeled for his social justice art collection. @msjulieslam.bsky.social #MaskTogetherAmerica founder met them at the #NYCC25
Both wearing KN95 respirators, Valentine Barkers and his wife Diane are holding Valentine’s political cartoon illustration. Diane is holding one with a figure with dark skin, looking like they are ready to “punch nazis” as the text says, over a orange and brown background. Valentine is holding one with a figure holding a bat and the text says “defend” on the top and “trans rights” on the bottom.
October 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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“I mask because I travel a lot, even before COVID. I also don’t want to bring anything home.” — Behind the KN95 is Ren Strapp @renstrapp.com who writes and illustrates for her graphic romance novels. @msjulieslam.bsky.social met Strapp at #NYCC225, featuring masked heroes for #MaskTogetherAmerica.
Ren Strapp, wearing an orange KN95, matching beanie, was holding her graphic romance novel: How Could You, as she posed for Julie Lam’s camera at New York Comic Con.
October 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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“Since I realize that I'm hardly unique, I mask to prevent spreading anything I might pick up to those who may be vulnerable or have vulnerable loved ones.”—Jon @dabunny42.bsky.social recently got the vax & posed for @msjulieslam.bsky.social #MaskTogetherAmerica at a @makeascenemn.bsky.social event
Jon, wearing glasses, a @3m Aura N95 respirator, a brown T-shirt with Cookie Monster cartoon inside a circular frame made out of illustration of ribbons and text that saya “Cookies - Gratia - Cookies” and “Tasty” on the left side and “Om Nom Nom Nom” on the top, and an illustration of a chocolate chip cookie at the bottom.
October 12, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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“I try to normalize masking: first, because we’re still in a pandemic, and second...”—Greg Pak, writer & filmmaker best known for comic books like Planet Hulk & Mech Cadat Yu, was interviewed by @msjulieslam.bsky.social from #MaskTogetherAmerica at #NYCC25 @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social
ALT: Greg Pak, weaing a black KN95, holding “Who Belongs?” a graphic novel he wrote in 2023 for NYC Department of Social Studies & Civics @nycschools, was tabling at his booth at the New York Comic Con #NYCC2025. Behind him were posters showing graphic novels he authored, including Mech Cadat Yu and Planet Hulk. Why does Greg Pak mask up? Read interview by @MsJulieLam https://www.instagram.com/share/BBHLGTPQnW https://www.facebook.com/share/p/14MssWrVBEZ/?mibextid=wwXIfr
October 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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“I mask because I’m immune compromised from treatments for my Long COVID. #LongCOVID nearly ruined my life...”—Jules dressed up as Maomao from The Apothecary Diaries by Natsu Hyūga at #NYCC2025 @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social. interviewed by @msjulieslam.bsky.social
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Sitting in a wheelchair, Jules, wearing a green wig, green top and long red skirt ( a Chinese  aoqun  hanfu), was attending the New York Comic Con in 2025. She posed for Julie Lam, the photographer who writes for MaskTogetherAmerica’s educational platform.
October 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Devin Elle Kurtz @devinellekurtz.bsky.social is book signing at #NYCC2025 booth 3021 2:30pm today! In an interview, Kurtz shared with #MaskTogetherAmerica @msjulieslam.bsky.social on why she wears a KF94 respirator and what her new children’s book is about.
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October 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM