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#NetZero in healthcare.

Reusable, comfortable respirators are a must.

One of the worst things about COVID is so horrendous that most people simply cannot believe it: that it can cause lasting damage in nearly every organ and organ system.

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Highlights • COVID-19 research could be applicable to and inform on other post-viral syndromes and respiratory illnesses. • Histopathological evidence of increased collagen deposition, abnormal CMR findings and upregulated extracellular matrix remodelling related pathways suggests that systemic, and vascular inflammation, may contribute to symptom burden in post-COVID-19 syndromes. • Identification of candidate target pathways remains a challenge in myocarditis patients due to the complexity of presentation and lack of prospective tissue collection. • Trials are needed to provide clinical and scientific evidence to inform treatment decisions in post-COVID-19 syndromes.

New paper from UK team:

Vascular fibrosis and extracellular matrix remodelling in post-COVID 19 conditions

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

#LongCovid #PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19 #LC #Covidlonghaulers #PostCovidSyndrome #longhaulers #COVIDBrain #NeuroPASC

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Thanks @inkblue01.bsky.social

Understanding Cumulative Risk A brief lesson on probability statistics and how that pertains to individual risks of developing symptomatic Long Covid

COVID isn’t a cold—it's like a car accident. It damages organs, causes long-term illness & raises risk of heart attack. In the long run it's always a losing game. Hack it by understanding risk.
Keep (children) safe! www.peertopublic.com/posts/unders... by @gckirchoff.bsky.social &
Arijit Chakravarty

Yes I did mark in green where there is extra ice.

Per Koch posted a story update on LGBTQA Refugees in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya Need Your Help! Many of the LGBTQ-refugees in Kakuma in Kenya have decided to move to the Gorom refugee camp in South Sudan.  This is partly because representatives of the Kenyan government has signaled that th...

We need to build a clean and protected bathroom for #LGBTQ refugees in the Gorom refugee camp in South Sudan.

fundrazr.com/stories/eLkp...

Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK Health secretary says emergency measures banning sale and supply for gender dysphoria will be made indefinite after expert advice

So the UK Labour government has decided to ban puberty blockers for trans kids, forcing them to live with the trauma of developing a body that is not theirs. The science is clear: Blockers give trans kids the time they need to decide.

www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

As in Tennessee, this ban does not apply to cis children, because the drugs themselves are not a safety hazard. The only thing at risk is a society’s discomfort with allowing young people to make their own decisions about their own bodies.

Hver eneste en av søkemotorene og de bibliografiske databasene vi bruker til å få oversikt over evidensgrunnlag i medisin og folkehelse er drevet av USA. De største direkte av den amerikanske regjeringa. Hvis noen tukler med disse sliter vi.

It's Trans Day of Remembrance.
And i have this message too.
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The preliminary sequence from the H5N1 human case in British Columbia has been posted and it is not good news. The virus potentially has a quasispecies at HA residue 226 (H3 numbering). This is bad news because we know that mutations at residue 226 can increase binding to human receptors. 1/

Economic burden of Long Covid in the UK estimated to be >$20 billion per year from real cohort data
bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/1...

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Helseplattformen er et fantastisk eksempel på at man kan kaste bort milliarder av skattekroner og sette pasientsikkerhet i fare, uten at det får konsekvenser for noen som helst.

På denne måten skaper man også organisasjoner og styringssystemer som aldri vil lære.

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I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. He wrote this in 1995. Carl was absolutely right. #CarlSaganDay