COVID Chronicles

For those who don't remember the timeline, this was before Covid vaccines were even available (which do help reduce risk of severe illness)!!!!

Millions more — because the mechanism being triggered is the same in everyone who gets it. What's not the same is the variant of a rapidly mutating (sometimes inside the very host who caught it) and notoriously immune-evasive (and corrupting) SARS virus. (3/3)

The hypothesis being that in some people the prompt can't be switched off, creating a similar immune-exhaustion / chronic inflammation we see in Long COVID patients.

My take: if that were the case, there would be a shit ton more people developing vaccine-induced Long COVID. (2/3)

The part tripping people up is: "vaccination led to elevated cytokine levels, indicating ongoing stimulation and response of the immune system even a year postvaccination. These results may be associated to the persistent production of spike protein and highly inflammatory nature of mRNA-LNP." (1/3)

Altered Circulating Cytokine Profile Among mRNA‐Vaccinated Young Adults: A Year‐Long Follow‐Up Study Objectives This longitudinal study aimed to assess the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on cytokine profile. Methods A total of 84 Saudi subjects (57.1% females) with mean age of 27.2 ± 12.3 partici...

Immunologists, microbiologists, I need your input on this, cause it comes up often #MedSky #ME

If mRNA-lipids share some structural similarities with the antigens Long COVID patients are—we think—failing to clear, could a form of CIRS not be vaccine-induced in some people?

This just gave me an idea for a T-Shirt. #LongCOVID

Public Health messaging in regards to COVID since 2022:

Yeah, 3 years of being forcibly sedentary finally caught up to me. Used to play hoops and run marathons. I was slim & taught. Resting HR was at 45. Now? Pushing 50 & utterly mush.

Fortunately friends & MDs know better. They know my wife—who is one—would slap them with peer review if they didn’t.

I’m convinced this is temporary—that they’ll find a cocktail of antivirals capable of flushing out what’s left of this plague, after which everything will fall back into place.

I just wish they’d hurry up already. 2100 days is 2099 too many.

Great name, btw. Looking forward to our retiring it.

The curse of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis is that you can't rest.

There is no recuperation, only the passage of time.

Not just disability: A heaviness to the infirmity.

The needed pause isn't an invigorating rest:

It's a state of constant, leaden unrest.

#LongCOVID Day 1121

I was unfamiliar with it - will take a listen. Funny enough, I was just saying that exact thing:

#PublicHealthIsDead

🎯 I don't blame people who don't know better. I blame those whose job it is to know better.

In a rush to "return to normal", Public Health hasn't only capitulated to short-term political expediency, it has imperiled the very prosperity it was told to protect at all costs. #LongCOVID

🎯 I don't blame people who don't know better. I blame those whose job it is to know better.

In a rush to "return to normal", Public Health hasn't only capitulated to short-term political expediency, it has imperiled the very prosperity it was told to protect at all costs. #LongCOVID

Really do wish he were here. (Speaking of misinformation, the platforms we legitimize have more an impact on societal outcomes than we realize), but thank you for sharing Dr Throt's insights.

If you're on X, could you do humanity a solid? Post a screenshot of this under his thread.

Humans Just Pushed Earth across Another 'Planetary Boundary' Earth has breached a critical boundary for ocean acidification, with potentially grim effects for ocean ecosystems and human livelihoods

Earth has breached a critical boundary for ocean acidification, with potentially grim effects for ocean ecosystems and human livelihoods

Yes, Virginia: it really is that bad.

(𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘖𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘗𝘶𝘭𝘱𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘊𝘖𝘝𝘐𝘋, 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘐𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘺𝘱𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘭. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘚𝘗𝘈𝘔, 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴.)

The English version (Original Content, but the Bully Pulpit tackles more topics than COVID, whereas this account stays on topic and rebroadcasts relevant material):

𝘐𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘺𝘱𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘦. (𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘚𝘗𝘈𝘔, 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴.)

Étude: Même les infections légères et dont on se remet sans symptômes persistants entraînent une perte cognitive (de 3pts de QI en moyenne pour CHAQUE infection)

Chaque réinfection à la COVID-19 cause des dommages, qu'on pense souffrir de #COVIDLongue ou non.

#PolCan #SantéPublique #COVIDLong

"La densité des récepteurs était significativement plus élevée chez les patients atteints de COVID longue par rapport aux témoins sains. Cette augmentation systémique pourrait résulter de mécanismes compensatoires liés à une perte inconnue de fonction cérébrale."

Juste un rhume, qu'y disaient.

It's going to get harder for all those articles about cognitive decline to ignore the elephant in the room.

#COVID #BrainDamage #BrainFog

It's going to get harder for all those articles about cognitive decline to ignore the elephant in the room.

#COVID #BrainDamage #BrainFog

"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you.

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

Rest in power, Dr. Jane Goodall

"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

Graphic with a blue background and a mint green backpack with pencil crayons, pens and a cellphone in the front pocket, and folders peeking out of the main compartment. Text reads: "Back to school... but not for all children. The Children’s Long Covid Network (CLCN) honors the voices of children living with long Covid and demands urgent awareness, care and action. Join them by signing the CLCN petition calling for immediate biomedical evaluation and equitable care for children across Canada." An inset image of a tablet with the petition is in the lower right corner.

The beginning of Fall is back to school – but children with long Covid face missed classes & ongoing symptoms. Their voices drive research & care. CLCN needs 500 signatures to bring this Petition to Parliament. Sign now: chng.it/7ZSzLXnp5n #LongCovidChildren #CLCN #ActNow

Both the cover and title are on point!

I like that approach. It gets me through the days as well. As long as we're still here, the whole story has not been written.

If I'm honest though, I'd really like to get that poop emoji off my head.

I'm tired, Mark.
I'm just so tired of bad science being amplified by bad journalism and weaponized by bad people.

We need better. We must demand better.

I'm sorry too.

But say it with me: this is temporary.
Between the herringbone chip, the off-label antiviral trials underway, the closing in on Long COVID's underlying mechanisms we will live again.

Just in time for the ecosystem's collapse. 😐

(One problem at a time)

Me too—almost to the day. Soon as society decided everything was back to normal, my son brought it back from school. He recovered. I never did — he'd kept an N95 on, but one-way masking can only do so much. I went from running marathons to barely able to run errands. So I do this now. All I can do

Exactly this. Similar to climate change, too many MDs don't dare look at the facts regarding COVID because of how terrifying the implications. Yes, it's really bad. Yes, you should have known better. Yes, there is still time.

Attached, studies from Cell Host & Microbe, the NEJM & Nature