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Long Covid sufferer since 2020. #FBLC Will mostly be banging on about #Covid and #LongCovid and criticising governments for their diabolical public health policies. #CleanAir https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700304

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‪“12 months after SARS-CoV-2 infection, around 7 % of children and young people report ‘brain fog’ i.e., cognitive impairment.”‬

‪#LongCovidKids‬

‪https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889159124003891‬

11.03.2025 05:24 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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New Research Sheds Light on Link Between Leukocyte Count and Long COVID Symptom Severity In older postmenopausal women, leukocyte count was found to be an independent predictor of long COVID symptom severity, highlighting its potential for use as a novel symptom biomarker.

Pharmacy Times: 'New Research Sheds Light on Link Between Leukocyte Count and Long COVID Symptom Severity'

New research findings, published in Menopause, shed light into the mechanisms behind the sustained COVID symptoms many patients experience in..long COVID

www.pharmacytimes.com/view/new-res...

10.03.2025 16:05 — 👍 56    🔁 17    💬 0    📌 0
Tweet by autoimmunestrg
As a person living with chronic illness, I am so accustomed to being doubted, to being called a hypochondriac, that I have learned to distrust my own symptoms and to doubt myself too. I am now working to unlearn that doubt and trust myself first and foremost

Tweet by autoimmunestrg As a person living with chronic illness, I am so accustomed to being doubted, to being called a hypochondriac, that I have learned to distrust my own symptoms and to doubt myself too. I am now working to unlearn that doubt and trust myself first and foremost

#chronicillness #chronicillnessmemes #chronicillnesscommunity #spoonie #spooniememes #spooniesky #medsky

10.03.2025 16:03 — 👍 31    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Being an asshole has consequences.

10.03.2025 20:44 — 👍 47440    🔁 7127    💬 1759    📌 476
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Cardiologists seeing more cases of POTS since the start of the COVID-19 Pandemic POTS is a condition that disrupts the body's ability to regulate blood flow while changing positions. Dr. Charles Hong says they have seen a sharp rise since COVID.

Cardiologists seeing more cases of POTS since the start of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

"Dr Hong said the condition can be debilitating, with symptoms like dizziness, fainting, brain fog, shortness of breath and even gastrointestinal issues."

11.03.2025 01:52 — 👍 209    🔁 76    💬 4    📌 4
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March 10, 2025 - Five years ago today - On the Eve of the COVID-19 Pandemic, the World Had No Idea What Was Coming...
(A graphic I saved from that day...)
Today we have over 777 million cases and over 7 million deaths, and the COVID-19 pandemic is still not over.

11.03.2025 05:06 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Graphic of phone with email app open and letter advocating for long Covid funding and support. Text in circle reads: “Send a letter today!”

Graphic of phone with email app open and letter advocating for long Covid funding and support. Text in circle reads: “Send a letter today!”

It’s Long Covid Awareness Week, and we need governments to make long Covid a priority. So we’re asking YOU to send a letter to your federal and provincial/territorial representatives, urging them to fund long Covid awareness, research, and support.
#ILCAD2025 #LongCovidAwarenessDay
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10.03.2025 13:43 — 👍 92    🔁 56    💬 3    📌 3
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Children are starting primary school struggling to communicate, teachers have warned Warnings over declining language skills come as early years organisations publish list of things a child should be able to do before they start reception

“Children are increasingly starting primary school struggling to talk”

Well it can’t be lockdowns - many of the kids that started school last September weren’t even born!

So can we start addressing the elephant in the room: Covid brain damage.

#LongCovidKids

www.independent.co.uk/news/educati...

11.03.2025 05:19 — 👍 41    🔁 18    💬 3    📌 0

It's official: The lunatics are now running the asylum.

10.03.2025 14:04 — 👍 75677    🔁 9781    💬 2070    📌 435
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Osterholm predicted a pandemic for years. Then the battle against COVID-19 became personal Five years ago, news of a fast-spreading respiratory virus was making headlines in the United States. In Minnesota, public health expert Michael Osterholm was keeping close tabs.

MPR News: Osterholm predicted a pandemic for years. Then the battle against COVID-19 became personal

'So many people simultaneously experiencing long COVID, Osterholm said..new effort being made to understand these immune system responses that are just out of whack"

www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

10.03.2025 13:28 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Gift link 👇

10.03.2025 13:53 — 👍 18    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

Climate change.

10.03.2025 13:59 — 👍 25    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
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They got COVID-19 five years ago, and they don’t know why they’re still sick Two long-haulers share insights on managing post-COVID conditions, emphasizing gradual improvement and self-care strategies.

‘They got COVID-19 five years ago, and they don’t know why they’re still sick'

Gansler, an academic advisor at Michigan State University: “I struggled to find support in the medical community, and I had to do a lot of my own research."

#LongCovid

www.mlive.com/news/2025/03...

10.03.2025 14:43 — 👍 25    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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They got COVID-19 five years ago, and they don’t know why they’re still sick Two long-haulers share insights on managing post-COVID conditions, emphasizing gradual improvement and self-care strategies.

Michigan Live: 'They got COVID-19 five years ago, and they don’t know why they’re still sick'

Gansler, an academic advisor at Michigan State University: “I struggled to find support in the medical community, and I had to do a lot of my own research."

www.mlive.com/news/2025/03...

10.03.2025 13:46 — 👍 35    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0
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Texas cities run short of MMR vaccine as measles outbreak drives demand Pharmacies are struggling with supplies as fatal outbreak expands and health secretary sows disinformation

The demand for the measles vaccine is so high in Texas that they are now RUNNING OUT of them. I have always said it would come to this. Science will always exist. Politics will never usurp it.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

08.03.2025 23:55 — 👍 1786    🔁 483    💬 60    📌 29

More Measles

Maryland reports a new case linked to international travel—not connected to the Texas/New Mexico outbreak.

Potential exposures:
- Dulles International Airport (arrivals baggage claim)
- Johns Hopkins Howard County Pediatric ER

health.maryland.gov/newsroom/Pag...

09.03.2025 22:02 — 👍 14    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 6

Happy International Women's Day especially to the amazing women in the Long Covid and chronic illness community. A special thought for the patient advocates/researchers who are doing so much heavy lifting for LC recognition, sometimes with little help or recognition. Thanks 🌸

09.03.2025 00:03 — 👍 82    🔁 16    💬 1    📌 0
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Five years on from COVID, one survivor reflects on having to fight for his life Mark Hammersley is a survivor. Standing in the Welsh sun, smiling broadly with an outreaching hand to welcome me, he looks the picture of good health. 

“Five years on from COVID, one survivor reflects on having to fight for his life”

“He knows that he will live with the long-term health complications from COVID for the rest of his life”

www.coastfm.co.uk/news/uk/five...

09.03.2025 04:21 — 👍 25    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
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Kids keep getting sicker as evidence for COVID immune damage builds As the press pushes "immunity debt" past the breaking point of believability, are parents ready to wake up to the illness crisis?

Kids keep getting sicker as evidence for COVID immune damage builds by @juliadoubleday.bsky.social www.thegauntlet.news/p/kids-keep-...

08.03.2025 21:54 — 👍 76    🔁 37    💬 4    📌 4
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Please don’t have “measles parties.”

Even for kids who fully recover, measles is a miserable experience.

And a substantial number will have complications.

Just get vaccinated instead.

08.03.2025 23:20 — 👍 90    🔁 36    💬 9    📌 2

To the men who spent today mansplaining, harassing & talking down to me… thanks for showing us WHY we still need an International Women’s Day.

If you’re coming into the posts of women sharing their experiences & advocating for equality just to demean and agitate… you’re 100% part of the problem.

09.03.2025 05:39 — 👍 990    🔁 113    💬 19    📌 2

Telling a disabled person who can’t work that they will be punished with if they don’t work… is like saying to an average non-disabled person they will have their pay withheld if they can’t run a 4 minute mile…

Utterly meaningless and impossible to achieve.

09.03.2025 18:15 — 👍 277    🔁 55    💬 8    📌 1
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Kids keep getting sicker as evidence for COVID immune damage builds As the press pushes "immunity debt" past the breaking point of believability, are parents ready to wake up to the illness crisis?

Kids keep getting sicker as evidence for COVID immune damage builds

“As the press pushes "immunity debt" past the breaking point of believability, are parents ready to wake up to the illness crisis?”

09.03.2025 18:08 — 👍 117    🔁 54    💬 2    📌 3
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Fact-check: True

09.03.2025 00:36 — 👍 44964    🔁 9067    💬 379    📌 260
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Measles and My Sister At the end of February 1960, my sister, a precocious, healthy child was halfway through the fourth grade in Rockland County when she contracted measles from one of her classmates who lived right down…

"She would say that her brain felt as if a part of it was missing and asked me to check her skull for indentations."

The lasting trauma of measles encephalitis. www.voicesforvaccines.org/measles-and-...

09.03.2025 00:21 — 👍 84    🔁 37    💬 1    📌 4
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Yes, the Annexing Canada talk is serious now. Deadly serious. "Do not go gentle into that good night. Blog, blog against the dying of the light"

Cathie from Canada's blog:
Yes, the Annexing Canada talk is serious now. Deadly serious.
cathiefromcanada.blogspot.com/2025/03/yes-...

09.03.2025 09:02 — 👍 17    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0
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Scientists Have Discovered Shocking Amounts of Microplastics in the Brain - And It Could Be Increasing Our Risk of Dementia The brain has higher concentrations of plastic particles compared to other organs, with increased levels found in dementia patients. In a comprehensive commentary published in Brain Medicine, researchers highlight alarming new evidence of microplastic accumulation in human brain tissue, offering...

Scientists Have Discovered Shocking Amounts of Microplastics in the Brain - And It Could Be Increasing Our Risk of Dementia
->SciTechDaily | #Microplastic #Science | More info from EcoSearch

09.03.2025 19:53 — 👍 25    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 2

Disabled women are more likely to experience abuse than their non disabled peers

We’re often trapped with caregivers who treat us badly & lack the support to leave

Many disability benefits are cut if you marry, forcing dependence

We need a universal basic income so we can have autonomy #IWD2025

09.03.2025 04:43 — 👍 1362    🔁 333    💬 29    📌 13
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The Sunday edition of the virus update with the latest news and data of the day and my weekly look at Covid and other viruses in wastewater.

Covid Is Not Over, As It Still Shows Up In Wastewater Everywhere! youtu.be/NnYytw_EDRo?... via @YouTube

09.03.2025 20:19 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

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