Michael H. Bachmann, MD ScD

Why covid-19 is “a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one” Covid-19 is not just a respiratory infection. Cardiovascular symptoms are seen in both acute and long covid. Katharine Lang reports on what we’ve learnt since the onset of the pandemic Cardiovascular...

February 2026 - the BMJ publishes a piece called "Why covid-19 is “a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one”

Some of us have been screaming this for years

www.bmj.com/content/392/...

The slipping of U.S. universities in their global ranking is entirely self-inflicted, to use language of the upcoming soccer #WorldCup, an own goal of gigantic size. When universities are demonized as “the enemy” and defunded, a multi-billion economy ecosystem dependent on their success breaks down.

““The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there’s no ground.” 
— Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

Good Morning!

Love this so much.

I have a deep respect for elephants. When a new baby is born, the herd surrounds the mother of little one and celebrates the new life.

@the_knowledge_factory on IG

Poetry is personal and it takes time, trial and error to find what resonates with you. Try Rumi, Rilke, Mary Oliver, and it may change your life.😊🍀🍀🍀

The U.S. and Canada are about to lose their “measles-free” WHO status, with thousands of cases and, sadly, increasing numbers of deaths. False beliefs about vaccines are leading to deadly consequences.😥

“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”
— Mark Twain

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“If everything around seems dark, look again, you may be the light.”
“When you see love with all your heart you shall find its echoes in the universe.”
—Jalāl ad-Dīn Rūmī
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Yes, a gentle hug and a hi five for making it through another year in a world full of ableism and other types of discrimination! Keep up the great work👏👏🏅, you are positively affecting more people than you can imagine.🙏🙏🫶🫶😊😇 And a Happy New Year to you and your loved ones! 🎉🥳🥂🍾🍀🍀🍀

🙁 You’ve had this for quite a while, making a bacterial cause more likely, so it’s time to ramp up. A prescription of antibiotics would be one way to go, or you can try alternative antibiotics from plants.
Stephen Harrod Buhner:,Herbal Antibiotics
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Best wishes for a speedy recovery!🍀

Chai Tea: Are There Health Benefits? Chai tea: Chai tea's health impact, research breakdown, and who should avoid it - all explained. Learn more about one of the most popular forms of tea around the world.

Masalai chai contains spices with anti-bacterial and -viral compounds, while the cloves in it are anestethetic suppressing the urge to cough, especially helpful at night. May you have a speedy recovery!🤞🤞🍀🍀
www.webmd.com/diet/health-...

COVID-19 is not “a flu” nor a “hoax.”

Persistent Attenuation of Lymphocyte Subsets After Mass SARS-CoV-2 Infection
Zhengqi Jiang, et al., Int J I D,
doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
• lasting immune dysregulation for > 20 months.
• especially severe in CVD patients.
• related to long COVID pathogenesis.

NOVA | Human: Origins | Season 52 | Episode 12 Trace the remarkable origin story of Homo sapiens and the crucial moments that shaped our species.

💯% on point! 👏 👏 All 8+ billion members of the Homo sapiens family come from Africa and shine in different hues of melanin. Anyone not seeing this lives in an antiquated belief and thought system and needs an upgrade. Here’s a good place to start:
pbs.org/video/human-...
www.bbcearth.com/shows/human

Buy Me a Coffee Buy Me a Coffee is the best way for creators and artists to accept support and membership from their fans.

I’m very sorry to hear of your housing troubles. GFM is widely used. An alternative many writers and other artists receive donation support with is buymeacoffee.com. Lots of coffee-size donations add up.
All the best and much good medicine to you!💟☮️🦅

Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine.

If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.

#sciencematters

Graphic from nyc public health that says “wear a mask this fall” It shows two yellow emoji people. One on the left is wearing a white mask and making a peace sign. The one on the right is wearing a scarf and blowing its nose.

Excellent public health messaging from New York City!!

Be the happy peace sign waving emoji instead of the sick and sniffling emoji.

How can you do that?

Wear a mask! Ideally a respirator like an N95.

It’ll help keep you and your community safe.

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.

That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.

Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

What if NIH had been 40% smaller? Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research

This paper does a great job with a "It's a Wonderful Life" scenario about NIH, supposing the consequences of the bottom 40% of the funding NIH grants never existed.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

tl:dr The world would lose a lot, but directly and indirectly

Donate today! Spread the word! Money goes the furthest for food banks bc they can purchase food much more cheaply than us.

Please share.

www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

Gender equality in the U.S. and around the world is not a pipe dream. Fifty years ago women in Iceland showed the way.

Reversing peanut advice prevented tens of thousands of allergy cases, researchers say A decade ago, research said giving young children peanut products can prevent allergies. A new study says that, 10 years later, tens of thousands of U.S. children have avoided allergies as a result.

Science isn’t static. Our last Ode to #NationalFoodDay is a great example of this. We used to tell parents to avoid peanuts. Then new research showed early exposure prevents allergy, which has likely saved thousands of kids from developing peanut allergies. 🥜💡
www.npr.org/2025/10/21/n...

On World Polio Day we commemorate and bow in gratitude to all who worked tremendously hard to eradicate this debilitating, sometimes deadly virus. Nostalgia for the good ol’ days when poliovirus maimed and killed is misplaced and misguided. We still have work to do the eliminate its last vestiges.

Tonight marks a milestone for all of us at the PBS News Hour. On this day 50 years ago, we aired our first broadcast. The show had a different name, but the same mission to deliver thoughtful & trustworthy journalism. Half a century later, we're still at it & guided by the same principles & mission.

No Kings protests against Trump draw huge crowds across the country Gatherings had a street carnival atmosphere as demonstrators packed Times Square in New York and lined Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington on Saturday

“Relativ klein”??

No Kings protests against Trump draw huge crowds across the country
Maegan Vazquez, Katie Tarrant and Kim Bellware, Oct 18, 2025
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

💔😢 Every human getting killed is an entire universe being lost. May she have a safe journey beyond this world and find a place of peace, love, and joy!
And may you yourself be safe, stay strong, and be able to bear witness and keep the stories coming.🤞🤞🍀🍀🍀

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

What could possibly go wrong if the US public health infrastructure is dismantled? Measles virus is already having a heyday, SARS-CoV-2 is killing >1,300 Americans per week (per @michael_hoerger), H5N1 influenza and Ebola are looming threats. No ostrich puts its head into the sand when in danger.

💯% agreed. For those who like to play partisan politics with public health, viruses, bacteria and parasites are not partisan and will infect and affect you +/- your loved ones as equal opportunity invaders, no matter what your political leanings are, when there aren’t enough to form herd immunity.

Nürnberg (English: Nuremberg)

It again depends what stories and narratives we listen to and reflect on - or unthinkingly absorb - and then take action on. Before that, we do well if we are following Einstein’s dictum, “The important thing is to not stop questioning.”😊