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zantie.bsky.social
Weekly update of #RespiratoryIllness activity in #WashingtonState including #COVID-19 and #Influenza

Metric | #COVID | #FLU | #RSV
% Pos. {King} | down | up | down
% ED Visits | down | up | down
Hosp. ADM | up | up | up
Hosp.Bed+ICU| up | up | up

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Stacked line graph showing activity levels for COVID, Flu, and RSV in Washington state over the past year. The following list of COVID-19 disease activity lists the metric measured and the most recent trend of activity. For COVID-19, percent of tests positive are decreasing marginally, percent of emergency department visits are decreasing a moderate amount, new hospital admissions are increasing a marginal amount, hospital beds occupied, including ICU, are increasing a moderate amount, and deaths are increasing. For influenza, percent of tests positive are increasing a marginal amount, percent of emergency department visits are increasing a moderate amount, new hospital admissions are increasing greatly, hospital beds occupied, including ICU, are increasing a marginal amount, and deaths are decreasing. For RSV, percent of tests positive are decreasing marginally, percent of emergency department visits are decreasing marginally, new hospital admissions are increasing greatly, hospital beds occupied, including ICU, are increasing a marginal amount, and deaths are steady. Stacked bar graph of the average weekly rate of clinically administered tests positive for SARS-CoV-2 over the past 12 months. Overall the most recent week of clinical tests positive for COVID-19 reported by the National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance System is percent which is trending 100 percent lower than the week before. The most recent week reported by University of Washington Virology is at 0.6 percent which is trending 52 percent lower than what it reported the week before. The following lists the current weekly rate of clinically administered tests positive for SARS-CoV-2 beginning with the week of January 4 and ending January 25; 0.84 percent, 0.74 percent, and 0.67 percent. Stacked bar graph of the average weekly rate of emergency department visits due to COVID-19 or pneumonia due to COVID-19 over the past 12 months. Overall the most recent week of emergency department visits coded as COVID-19 or pneumonia due to COVID-19 is 0.2 percent which is trending 33.3 percent lower than the week before. The following lists the current weekly rate of emergency department visits due to COVID-19 beginning with the week of January 4 and ending January 25; 0.25 percent, 0.24 percent, 0.30 percent, and 0.20 percent.
February 4, 2026 at 11:30 PM
valebodi.bsky.social
Immunoglobulin G Complexes from Post-infectious ME/CFS, including post-COVID ME/CFS Disrupt Cellular Energetics and Alter Inflammatory Marker Secretion
B. Prusty et al. @scheibenbogen.bsky.social
#ME/CFS #IgG #PAIS #PCME
Immunoglobulin G Complexes from Post-infectious ME/CFS, including post-COVID ME/CFS Disrupt Cellular Energetics and Alter Inflammatory Marker Secretion
Autoimmunity is a key clinical feature in both post-infectious Myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and Post-Acute Sequelae o…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:50 PM
rollingjoe.bsky.social
#Minnesota, including our cities and suburbs, was recovering well from Covid and the murder of George Floyd. This is part of the broader domestic terrorism against us, aimed at damaging the economy during our recovery. 700 #ICE agents are leaving, leaving 2000 here. fuck this. Get the fuck out.
February 4, 2026 at 10:49 PM
robinsloth.bsky.social
Le's meltdown made this news, and brought eyes (including mine!) to the hearing, but we need to listen to the attorney for the actual victims here.

As she says, "people are just being treated like less than human."

"And we shouldn't need a court order saying Don't put someone's life in danger."
for basic human rights in this situation. Detain first, find authority later, this is exactly their strategy, and we've seen this from all of our cases where there's no warrant, there's no probable cause. Most of my clients, they report that respondents, upon detaining them, have no idea who they are. They are pulled over for how they look or for where they are or for any number of things that don't amount to probable cause under the U.S. Constitution. And I would point Your Honor to two declarations in a recent filing, which if Your Honor would permit, I could file in a supplement in this case. The first is a petitioner -- is a affidavit written by my client Oscar. And that was filed at Docket 67, The Advocates for Human Rights, et al., v. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, et al., Case Number 26-cv-749. And Oscar's declaration is important for a few reasons. One, it articulates just his horrific experience throughout this proceeding. And it's easy for us to see court orders not being complied with and the e-mails back and forth on the computer, but his affidavit really just shows what it's like to experience that and in ways that were personally for me just sickening to read as his attorney. That he was without food. He was without clean clothes. He was subject to physical danger, both through reckless driving of ICE agents transporting him from one location to another, watching people screaming in pain with medical neglect, being exposed to COVID. Just the conditions of his confinement; eating food that he conflated with dog food. That people are just being treated like less than human. And all of this was happening while he had a court order for his release. And while all of this is happening, ICE agents are telling him to self-deport because he's got no chance to get out of there other than self-deport, so he's being deprived of access, and this is all in his affidavit. Myself and his immigration attorney, who's here in the courtroom today, were not able to talk to him. His immigration attorney in particular made diligent efforts to ensure compliance with the court order, and these are e-mails that are in Oscar's case. I think you've seen these. We're trying to get ahold of him. We're trying to get access to him. We're trying to bring him home. And, meanwhile, he is sleeping on the floor, if he gets to sleep at all, and he's being lied to, denied access to phone calls to call his loved ones or his attorneys. I would encourage Your Honor to read this declaration, and I would defer to the Court if you would like me to submit it formally in Oscar's own case. And the second declaration also in The Advocates for Human Rights proceeding, Docket Number 29, was an affidavit that I filed, and that details my own efforts to work collaboratively with counsel, with respondents' counsel, with -- I've been e-mailing and calling and trying to figure out how can we get these court orders complied with. There's an e-mail in that Docket 29 that I sent eight days ago to ERO, to attorneys from the DOJ, the Assistant U.S. Attorneys and attorneys representing ICE, Jim Stolley; still haven't received a response. I'm begging for a means of clear communication, and I'm flexible. I'm sharing my personal cell phone. I'm saying, Whatever I can do to work with you all to get my clients home, let me know; to work with you all to get my clients' belongings returned, let me know, and I receive no response. And I think just this question of the overwork of counsel here -- and I know we're all working above and beyond and not sleeping as much as we need to be, so I appreciate everybody for putting that effort in. And I invite the Court to think about the root cause of the problem, the root cause of our collective overwork here and the strain on our system with these repeated, repeated constitutional violations. We shouldn't need a specific court order to ask the DOJ not to put somebody's life in danger. But I can't tell you how many clients I've had to go find who were left on the side of the road with no coat, no phone, no wallet, no hat. They're wearing Crocs or whatever they got pulled out of their house or their car while they were wearing, and it's zero degrees outside. And we shouldn't need a court order saying, Don't put someone's life in danger. But here we are, and we need court orders -- or orders to show cause to show compliance with court orders that shouldn't have had to have been issued in the first place. I think this would be a different story if these habeas petitions were frivolous, but we're filing so many because there are just so many people being detained without any semblance of a lawful basis. And there's no indication here that any new systems or bolded e-mails or any instructions to ICE are going to fix any of this. Like we need -- we need judicial intervention, and it has to be -- it has to be more than just having -- having counsel be the go-between here, because we're -- I think we can see that counsel are being put in a position where they're working 20 hours a week -- 20 hours a day and it's not enough. If our system cannot keep up with processing these petitions to have rights vindicated, then we need to see what here is outside of the control of these attorneys, where does the root of the problem lie. And sanctions to the party are within your inherent authority and are appropriate to bring this -- this situation, this egregious, widespread pattern -- you've referenced the 96 court order violations and counting just in part of January -- and we need this to be brought back into the Court's control and into the Constitution's control. Thank you.
February 4, 2026 at 9:30 PM
mjsensei259.bsky.social
Even as someone who did actually have a scary reaction to the vaccine when I got it, I still highly recommend getting your shots if you haven't. What I went through from the vaccine was NOTHING compared to people I know, including my father, who went through what COVID is capable of.
sailorrooscout.bsky.social Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 1d
Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
February 4, 2026 at 8:57 PM
r.v.cx
I’m happy to defend Biden on many many issues—including the post-Covid inflation that ended up his biggest liability. But few politicians have ever fucked up an issue as badly as Biden fucked up on immigration.
February 4, 2026 at 7:33 PM
newshoundai.bsky.social
deployers and 800 launchers in total. It entered into force in 2011 and was extended once in 2021. Inspections and on-site verification were a key component of compliance, including short-notice inspections; however, inspections were suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic and halted entirely in
February 4, 2026 at 7:18 PM
longcovidfam.bsky.social
In K-12 education and CDC research, "chronic school absenteeism" is a neutral data term for missing many school days for any reason, including illness. LCF uses this standard research term so educators can connect long COVID findings to attendance metrics they already track, not to question validity
February 4, 2026 at 6:25 PM
truth1124.bsky.social
Plus, that research in conjunction with the continuing research of the negative health effects of contracting COVID including long COVID makes a powerful case for getting vaccinated.
February 4, 2026 at 5:49 PM
walkerbragman.bsky.social
Bhattacharya is best known for waging an information war on COVID mitigation efforts. He has long allied himself with anti-vaxxers, including Robert Kennedy Jr.

Those connections were key to his ascendancy to the top NIH job,
February 4, 2026 at 3:21 PM
670rv.bsky.social
an AI Study from Mass General since 11/2024 - that over 20% of those with Covid Infections have Long Covid - in the last 14 months those afflicted got worse including by reinfections and added more by 10s of millions across all age groups:

www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/new...
New Medical AI Tool Identifies More Cases of Long COVID From Patient Health Records | Mass General Brigham
Mass General Brigham researchers developed an AI algorithm to unveil the elusive traces of long COVID in patients’ health records using ‘precision phenotyping’
www.massgeneralbrigham.org
February 4, 2026 at 3:06 PM
tomkindlon.bsky.social
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New from international research group

Immunoglobulin G Complexes from Post-infectious ME/CFS, including post-COVID ME/CFS Disrupt Cellular Energetics and Alter Inflammatory Marker Secretion

#MEcfs #CFS #PwME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome
Highlights: • This study addresses a critical gap in understanding the role of autoimmunity in ME/CFS and PASC, two debilitating conditions with overlapping features and few effective treatments. • By demonstrating that IgG antibodies from ME/CFS patients can directly alter mitochondrial structure and function in human endothelial cells, specifically inducing mitochondrial fragmentation and metabolic reprogramming, this study provides a mechanistic link between autoantibodies and endothelial cell dysfunction. • Furthermore, proteomic analyses reveal unique immune complex signatures in ME/CFS and PASC, highlighting disease-specific IgG activity and supporting the idea of antibody-mediated metabolic dysregulation. • These insights are especially important because they establish a foundation for novel, targeted therapies that modulate antibody activity or protect mitochondrial function.
February 4, 2026 at 3:03 PM
tomkindlon.bsky.social
New from international research group

Immunoglobulin G Complexes from Post-infectious ME/CFS, including post-COVID ME/CFS Disrupt Cellular Energetics and Alter Inflammatory Marker Secretion

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#MEcfs #LongCovid #CFS #PwME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis

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Abstract Background Autoimmunity is a key clinical feature in both post-infectious Myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID (PASC). Passive transfer of immunoglobulins from patients' sera into mice induces some clinical features of PASC. However, the physiological effects of immunoglobulins on cellular alterations remain elusive. In this study, we tested the potential effects of immunoglobulins from ME/CFS patients on endothelial cell dysfunction. Methods We have isolated immunoglobulins from 106 individuals, including ME/CFS (n=39), PCS-CFS (n=15), MS (n=20) patients, and healthy controls (n=41). Protein composition of the isolated immune complexes was studied using mass spectrometry. The effect of isolated immune complexes on mitochondria was evaluated using confocal microscopy and a Seahorse XFe96 Extracellular Flux Analyzer, and the impact on inflammatory cytokine secretion was studied using a multiplex bead-based assay. Results Here, we demonstrate that IgG isolated from post-infectious ME/CFS patients selectively induces mitochondrial fragmentation in human endothelial cells and alters cellular energetics. This effect is lost upon cleavage of IgG into its Fab and Fc fragments. The digested Fab fragment from ME/CFS alone was able to alter the cellular energetics, resembling the effect of intact IgG. IgG from post-infectious ME/CFS, including post-COVID ME/CFS patients, induced distinct but separate cytokine secretion profiles in healthy PBMCs. Proteomics analysis of IgG-bound immune complexes revealed significant changes in immune complexes from ME/CFS patients, affecting extracellular matrix organization, whereas those from post-COVID ME/CFS patients pointed to alterations in hemostasis and blood clot regulation. Conclusions We demonstrate that IgGs from ME/CFS patients carry a chronic protective stress response that promotes mitochondrial adaptation via fragmentation, without altering mitochondrial ATP gen…
February 4, 2026 at 2:59 PM
beairaware.bsky.social
Speaking just 4 words an hour increases the spread of Covid 10 x more than just breathing

"most of the super spreader events have been social occasions, including gatherings at conferences, bars & restaurants"

A movie, that isn't a comedy, is safer, than a play?

apple.news/A7elkcQHnQ5u...
Everyday act that increases spread of Covid — Herald Sun
Alarming new research has revealed the one way more Aussies are getting Covid-19 as the virus continues to spread.
apple.news
February 4, 2026 at 2:15 PM
670rv.bsky.social
There is an AI Study from Mass General since 11/2024 - that over 20% of those with Covid Infections have Long Covid and in the last 14 months those afflicted got worse including reinfections and added more by 10s on millions across all age groups:

www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/new...
New Medical AI Tool Identifies More Cases of Long COVID From Patient Health Records | Mass General Brigham
Mass General Brigham researchers developed an AI algorithm to unveil the elusive traces of long COVID in patients’ health records using ‘precision phenotyping’
www.massgeneralbrigham.org
February 4, 2026 at 2:04 PM
drjenirwin.bsky.social
“There were long-term negative impacts of PCC on health outcomes 2.5 years after COVID-19 in non-hospitalised individuals, including impairments in physical and mental health, low physical activity, and low self-rated health.”

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Long-term health outcomes and risk factors for low self-rated health in non-hospitalised adults with post-COVID-19 condition: a 2.5-year cohort study - BMC Public Health
BMC Public Health - Knowledge regarding the clinical course and prognosis in non-hospitalised individuals with post-COVID-19 condition (PCC) remains limited. This study aimed to explore the impact...
link.springer.com
February 4, 2026 at 11:42 AM
This explains some of the reasons hospital ERs are doing so poorly. This explains some of the reasons for unexpected deaths. People have COVID. No one, including health care professionals, are looking for it anymore. So, people die from COVID. It's happening still.
February 4, 2026 at 11:38 AM
k2mey.bsky.social
It is not to be fucked with. I'm still v COVID aware. I have a friend with long COVID and they have all sorts of symptoms, including vascular. The only times I've had it I'd been stupid and not worn a mask. And it mullered me. Might have precipitated my burnout... Or maybe I have LC, who knows?
February 4, 2026 at 11:17 AM
paulpauly.bsky.social
#BreakingKindSongs
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky

4 World Cancer Day: mentions illness and/or healing

A beautiful song written in response to several emotional shocks including surviving cancer, covid and the loss of her house:

Judie Tzuke – Unsinkable
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZW4...
Judie Tzuke: Survivor And Thriver Despite Decade Of Hell... - Music Republic Magazine
Treasured singer and songwriter Judie Tzuke is perhaps best known for her timeless 1979 classic, “Stay With Me Till Dawn”. 45 years later, Judie’s 22nd studio album, “Jude The Unsinkable”, is her defi...
musicrepublicmagazine.com
February 4, 2026 at 8:49 AM
lizcrosbie.bsky.social
Agreed. The findings of the COVID Enquiry failed to raise any major interest in prosecuting those responsible for neglect & maladministion that caused the death of 10,000s including 600+ medical personnel. The news cycle rumbles on while folks grieve with no justice. Britain in the C21st is broken.
February 4, 2026 at 8:40 AM
stellinagp.bsky.social
Moderna stopped mRNA late stage vaccine research. The decision follows policy changes by RFK Jr., who has expressed skepticism about mRNA technology, and has altered vaccination policies, including cutting funding for some mRNA research and certain COVID-19 vaccine recommendations.
Moderna Won’t Run Phase III Vaccine Trials as Skepticism Grows in US: Bloomberg
Growing opposition to vaccines in the U.S., driven by recent government policy changes, makes it difficult to see a return on investment in vaccine development, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said this w...
www.biospace.com
February 4, 2026 at 8:17 AM
thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social
First vaccine targeting SARS virus family enters human trials

A new vaccine, GBP511, developed by UW Medicine, has entered clinical trials in Australia. It targets COVID-19 and related coronaviruses, including future threats, with trials led by South Korean pharmaceutical company SK Bioscience.
First vaccine targeting SARS virus family enters human trials – Institute for Protein Design
The computer-designed vaccine aims to protect against coronaviruses that haven't yet emerged, including pandemic threats
www.ipd.uw.edu
February 4, 2026 at 5:43 AM
dickzoutman.bsky.social
“There were long-term negative impacts of PCC on health outcomes 2.5 years after COVID-19 in non-hospitalised individuals, including impairments in physical and mental health, low physical activity, and low self-rated health.
February 4, 2026 at 5:28 AM
fujiiponta.bsky.social
The network, comprised of more than 360 technical institutions, responds to public health events with the deployment of staff and resources to affected countries.
It has tackled major public health events, including COVID-19.
fujiiponta.bsky.social FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 19h
California said on January 23 that it would become the first US state to join the World Health Organization (WHO)’s global outbreak response network following the US Trump administration's decision to pull Washington out of the WHO.
fujiiponta.bsky.social FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 19h
California joins UN health network following US departure from WHO (January 24)
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
February 4, 2026 at 4:34 AM
ekfleming.bsky.social
Someday these maga memorabilia
will be viewed as symbols of horror—as heinous as the Nazis emblems…

already this Republican murderous regime has enacted policies resulting in the deaths of millions of people around the globe, including Americans. Killing USAID. Covid lies…
February 4, 2026 at 3:41 AM