Christophe Veltsos

The 3rd LongCovid Symposium in Canada
#LCWSymposium

It's always hard to start in a new place. Especially one where the algorithm isn't trying to feed us a constant barrage of hate, crap, or bots.
Then again, it means on Bluesky we have to redouble our support of other worthwhile accounts so they continue to grow sharing good info (vs disinfo on X).

In case you missed this 🎯article👇 a couple of weeks ago...

🚨 Posted 3 weeks ago, so a good time for a reminder in case you missed it back then 👇

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Adding to concern is a new paper that reported viral lung infections (#COVID19, #flu) can “awaken” #metastaticbreastcancer cells in the lungs of mice. Data from large human datasets show COVID infection was assoc w/ ⬆️ cancer spread to lung & cancer death. https://nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09332-0

Everyone in #bcsm should be aware of this. I recommend that #cancer survivors be more cautious about avoiding #Covid19 infections. There are ways to ⬇️ risk of infection: masks, boosters (+ monoclonal antibody injection every 3 mos if #immunocompromised: https://fda.gov/media/177066/download).

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📢 Did you know more people in 🇺🇸 died of #COVID19 than of #BreastCancer in 2024? I’m a breast oncologist, & I think both conditions deserve public attention/funding for prevention & treatment. #COVID19: 47,522 deaths #bscm: 42,780 deaths See threadreader link for the links to sources.

🚨🧵 by Dr. Prowell @tmprowell.bsky.social on #Covid & #BreastCancer stats w/ links to sources & research.

Full thread here:
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An air filter can’t clean the air if it isn’t turned on. A mask doesn’t work if it isn’t worn properly. And a pandemic isn’t ended by pretending it isn’t happening.

And also 🎯👇

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Yes, air filters don’t work if you don’t turn them on. And of course masks don’t work if you don’t wear them properly or constantly take them off. Same as how your brain doesn’t work if you choose to not use it.

I appreciate the way @kananaskinyeti.bsky.social states things so clearly. 🎯🎯🎯👇

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Feeling this 👇 today & 🙏

Screenshot from WSJ that says HEALTHCARE With RFK Jr. on Their Side, Parents Feel Emboldened to Question Vaccines Exemptions from immunization requirements among kindergartners hit their highest level on record this past school year By Sabrina Siddiqui Follow and Liz Essley Whyte

“RFK Jr.’s anti-vax disinformation campaign is wildly successful”.

Will the Last Expert to Leave ACIP Please Turn Off the Lights If you've got expertise, better get the hell out of voluntarily advising the US government

The all-villain ACIP continues to hemorrhage actual expertise. It's pretty hard to take out the MMR and polio vaccines if there are annoying experts around to inconveniently talk about their benefits and safety record.

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Raising awareness of ME - Knowsley News Knowsley Council is helping to raise awareness of Severe ME by illuminating landmarks in blue on Friday 8 August

Knowsley News: 'Raising awareness of ME'

'Knowsley Council is joining a national initiative to illuminate landmarks in blue in recognition of Severe ME Day on Friday 8 August.'

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"The U.S. dollar will weaken steadily over the coming months on mounting concerns over the Federal Reserve's independence, the credibility of official statistics, ballooning fiscal debt and rising bets on interest rate cuts, a Reuters survey of foreign exchange analysts showed on Tuesday." - Reuters

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If only people would listen to us more. 🤷‍♂️😉

🎯👇 to bookmark and share widely as levels in US, Canada, and some European countries are going back up...

Badly designed studies give the wrong answers. Here, air filters were used in *some* residents rooms; always on sleep mode. In communal areas they were also hugely underpowered. The level of air filtration is super-important. Seemingly not to researchers designing studies. 1/🧵 2/ I'd expect honest reviewers to see the issues here immediately rather than report 'doesn't work'. It's as simple as me studying whether heat can cook chicken. I raised the chicken temp by 1 degree C. Chicken remained raw. Therefore heat does not work to cook chicken ❌. 2/ It's absolutely as obvious as that. We'd then compare the untreated chicken and that where temperature was raised by 1 degree and find no significant difference. Would anyone be at all surprised? It's the same with air filtration; the amount matters. Like it really matters. 3/ When this study was being promoted prior to it starting back in October 2021, it was blindingly obvious to me then that it was flawed from the outset. I questioned it. If it's obvious to me, why on earth was it not obvious to those undertaking the work? 4/ Well that's because there is a significant skills gap. They probably never even asked an engineer or someone incredibly familiar with air filtration. Just bought some devices, plugged them in with about 1 ACH max. Probably never even checked again if they were even turned on. 5/ I just find it so incredibly pathetic. Those opposed to clean air will revel in this but they just seem more and more disingenuous every time they comment on something like this. They cannot command any respect from those that know - but the headlines are what get remembered. 6/ Fiona should hang her head in shame. No doubt the gatekeepers elsewhere will also latch onto this but make no mention of its shortcomings. I see councils making the same mistakes, buying really inappropriate machines for schools. Ineptitude; destined to fail from the outset. 7/ So anyway, studies like this tell us absolutely nothing about wh…

🎯🎯🎯🧵from @peteuk7.bsky.social on Twitter going over that badly designed study about air purifiers (which were set to run on SLEEP mode 😠😠😠)...

A great read! Full thread here:
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COVID PR 🇵🇷 🌊
And so it goes... And so it goes...

We frequently provide these fingerprint keychains as part of our @3wishesprogram.bsky.social to families who have lost their loved one. It's wild, but as of last month, we have provided 12,400 of them at our institution alone!

Read An Excerpt From 'The Dead Come To Stay' by Brandy Schillace | The Nerd Daily An amateur autistic sleuth. A wry English detective. A murder case that thrusts them both into the wealthy world of the rare artifacts trade...

My book is out TOMORROW! And you can read an excerpt here! #mystery

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This 👇 is 🎯 call to action for health-related programs everywhere to ensure students are getting this crucial part of their education. 🚨

Yes, many of us did. This is also an issue @brownecfm.bsky.social has raised many times for military forces around the world.

💯that platform has issues. However, as many content creators have posted about, good alternatives (that also provide a way to compensate authors for their work) are hard to find, especially given how few major outlets aren't already owned by billionaires w/ their own agendas.

Discrimination Lawsuit Over Workday’s AI Hiring Tools Can Proceed as Class Action: 6 Things Employers Should Do After Latest Court Decision A federal judge just allowed a job applicant’s lawsuit against Workday to move forward as a nationwide class action, ruling that the company’s AI-powered hiring tools may have had a discriminatory…

More info (but this is from May 2025):

Discrimination Lawsuit Over Workday’s AI Hiring Tools Can Proceed as Class Action: 6 Things Employers Should Do After Latest Court Decision
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The AI product in question - HiredScore - was ranking, filtering, and scoring you… before a human ever saw your name. You are not crazy. This case comes from Mobley v. Workday- a job applicant over 40 who says he was rejected over 80 times by companies using Workday’s AI tools. He claims their algorithm systematically filtered out older applicants.

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UPDATE: The AI didn’t just ghost your resume. It discriminated. A federal judge just ordered Workday to hand over a full list of employers that used AI to rank job applicants. Not just their tech… but every company that enabled HiredScore. And now it’s evidence. 🧵👇

😮 from @thejobchick.bsky.social on Twitter:

"UPDATE: The AI didn’t just ghost your resume. It discriminated.

A federal judge just ordered Workday to hand over a full list of employers that used AI to rank job applicants..."

Full 🧵:
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Long COVID and the Military: A Current Research Landscape, Knowledge Gaps, and Future Directions AbstractIntroduction. This narrative review highlights the impact and epidemiology of post-COVID conditions (PCC, ‘Long COVID’) in military service members

Direct link to the article mentioned in the post above:

Long COVID and the Military: A Current Research Landscape, Knowledge Gaps, and Future Directions (Aug 1, 2025)
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Association of Military Surgeons article on the impact of LongCOVID on military readiness, says future research is required to delineate, treat, and prevent LongCOVID’s impact on the cognitive, cardiorespiratory, and overall health and fitness for active duty service members.

🚨from Jammer (@AcrossTheMersey) on Twitter:

"Association of Military Surgeons article on the impact of LongCOVID on military readiness, says future research is required to delineate, treat, and prevent LongCOVID’s impact..."

Short 🧵:
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