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Very good information in this thread about norovirus.

This started a year and a half after the pandemic started.

This is nauseating.

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Blood volume deficit in postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome assessed by semiautomated carbon monoxide rebreathing - Clinical Autonomic Research Purpose The semiautomated carbon monoxide (CO) rebreathing method has been introduced as a noninvasive and radiation-free blood volume estimation method. We tested whether the semiautomated CO rebreat...

Interesting new study out about POTS.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This message is critical to disseminate to the public. Disability, chronic illness and becoming “high risk” are always around the corner for even the healthiest of us.

Good summary about PEM.

Informative article from Medscape that outline challenges of #mcas diagnosis & management in contemporary practice ie #longcovid #hypermobility #dysautonomia, & traditionally in #mecfs

Graded exercise was encouraged for me early on after I had recovered from the acute phase of Covid and then the post viral period (where I had an EBV reactivation) because the people providing care didn’t understand ME/CFS. It prolonged my illness by repeatedly sapping my energy.

Persistence of spike protein at the skull-meninges-brain axis may contribute to the neurological sequelae of COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 infection can lead to long-lasting neurological sequelae, but underlying mechanisms are unclear. Rong et al. report that SARS-CoV-2 spike protein persists in the skull-meninges-brain axis, ...

New paper from our lab @erturklab.bsky.social

www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

That BMJ review of Long Covid therapies does not show what it says it does The BMJ have published a “living systematic review” of interventions for the management of Long Covid. It sets out to gather all relevant studies, and to comb their findings in order to see what works...

Long Covid is not a mental health condition.

thesciencebit.net/2024/11/28/t...

Quoth Hank Campbell (most likely) under the ScienceBlogs X account: "It's odd that many of the critics no one heard from when RFK Jr was a pillar of the Democratic Party are out front criticizing him now while his advocates now want him torn down because he sides with Trump."

This has become a narrative that I've been seeing among conservative-leaning self-proclaimed science advocates.

How We Report on Maternal Health — and How to Get in Touch With Our Team For years, ProPublica has examined the deaths of pregnant women and new mothers to uncover problems that can prevent other deaths. Our reporting has sparked change. Now, we are investigating the…

It’s clear by now that state abortion bans are having a seismic impact on health care. But they are also introducing a dangerous new dynamic for anyone who happens to conceive.

Help us report on maternal health.

Twitter user inversionism: Pediatricians are about to lose a huge portion of their income now that so many parents are declining vaccines and they don't get those sweet incentive programs based on the percentage of patients vaccinated, so they're not worried about their health, just the enormous amount of money they're about to lose now that parents are waking up to this demonic racket we call medicine. The pediatrician our kiddo has been seeing for the past year said they're going to kick us out in January at his next scheduled checkup if we don't give him the booster shots, so we called her out on it and said she must care more about the money than the health of our kid, and she went silent for 15-20 seconds while staring at her tablet before I asked her how much she makes from those 3 shots he's due for from blue cross blue shield.

A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments. Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.

This is what we've been saying since Dobbs

The people hardest hit by abortion restrictions aren't going to be from wealthy mostly white communities

It's going to be people in medical emergencies
It's going to be people with preexisting conditions
It's going to be underserved communities

#Medsky

I Watched Orbán Destroy Hungary’s Democracy. Here’s My Advice for the Trump Era. To dismantle the machinery of autocracy, you first need to understand how it works.

He watched democracy die in his home country of Hungary. Here is his advice to Americans getting ready for a second Trump term.

Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...

This is going to be the play moving forward. Stack these committees with people willing to bury the deaths.

www.propublica.org/article/geor...

This narrative is problematic
1. No evidence that vaccines cause autism
2. Vaccines save lives & prevent cancer
3. These narratives are contributing to the emergence of vaccine preventable diseases (polio, measles pertussis - all things that will NOT MAHA despite what the new administration says).

Increased levels of inflammatory molecules in blood of Long COVID patients point to thrombotic endotheliitis The prevailing hypotheses for the persistent symptoms of Long COVID have been narrowed down to immune dysregulation and autoantibodies, widespread organ damage, viral persistence, and fibrinaloid micr...

Long COVID patients have significantly higher levels of six inflammatory molecules in their blood.

This includes Von Willebrand Factor, platelet factor 4, serum amyloid A, α-2-antiplasmin, E-selectin, and platelet endothelial cell adhesion molecule-1.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

This explains why conservative fear-mongering is such an easy play in America.

— Ppl believe trans ppl make up 21% of the population (Real number: 1%)
— Ppl believe Black ppl make up 41% of the nation (real number 12%)
— Ppl believe Jewish ppl make up 30% of the nation (Real number, 2%)

YouTube video by MSNBC RFK Jr., anti-vaxxers, and a measles outbreak: Mehdi’s deep dive

Last year, when I was at MSNBC, I did a 10-minute deep-dive into RFK Jr's anti-vaxxer role in the measles outbreak that killed dozens and dozens of kids in Samoa.

I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:

#BlueSky

In recent weeks, there have been reports of increasing bird flu hospitalizations, new mpox strains, deadly foodborne bacterial outbreaks, measles cases up 20%, and Long COVID prevalence may be much higher.

And yet the US plans to appoint an anti-vaxxer as its top health official.

I always seem to have a voice of calm reason in my head whenever I read an article by @awaisaftab.bsky.social. This one I think epitomises calm reason - and explains what psychiatric diagnoses can and cannot do

psyche.co/ideas/what-a...

“Hold the line”: Nobel laureate says Americans should learn from the Philippines’ experience Donald Trump’s conduct is straight out of the same strongman playbook that others have used, and his presidential victory is part of a recent global trend of illiberal leaders being elected democratic...

Trump’s victory is like the “Philippinization of America,” says Filipina journalist & Nobel Peace Prize recipient @mariaressa.bsky.social. She sees similarities between Trump and the Philippines’ ex-president Rodrigo Duterte.

Her advice? “Hold the line.” #Velshi

www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...

Post from Latino pollster Mike Madrid: “Doing some research for an upcoming article on the last “mass deportation” of Mexicans during the 1930’s. Over half of those deported were US citizens.”

Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens.

Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”

Mass detention and returning migrants to Mexico: Donald Trump’s plans on immigration are coming into focus — CNN The incoming Trump administration’s plans to implement strict border measures, strike down Biden-era policies and kick off the detention and deportation of migrants at large scale are underway and sta...

How Trump is preparing for his mass deportation plan.

There were people who voted for him who said he’d never do half the things he talked about. They’re going to have a shock.

Hey folks, look who's now on Bluesky... The C of the Corsi-Rosenthal boxes. 🎉

@corsiaq.bsky.social

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