C.H. Romatowski

Photobiomodulation for Cognitive Dysfunction (Brain Fog) in Post-COVID-19 Condition: A Randomized Sham-Controlled Pilot Trial Post-COVID-19 condition (PCC) affects millions globally, with cognitive dysfunction (“brain fog”) impairing daily functioning in up to 88% of patients. No effective treatments exist for PCC-related co...

From Dr. Ruth Ann:
In a RCT sham-controlled pilot clinical trial, Toronto researchers tested home-based photobiomodulation (PBM) in 43 adults with Long COVID cognitive dysfunction. After 8 weeks, PBM users under age 45 had improvement in cognitive scores (p=0.028).

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For anyone else wanting to attend there is now a link where you can register! /delighted

Long COVID & Fatiguing Illness Recovery Program ECHO
Thursday, August 14th, 2025
12:00 - 1:00 pm PT

MCAS & Long COVID 2.0
Brayden Yellman, MD
Panelists: Alexis Cutchins, MD; David Kaufman, MD; Cali Wilson

who's hiring 😭 hyrbid or remote only in the bay area 🥲 im a pleasure to have in the office 🙃

The world is really not designed for disabled people to get humane and effective care. Whew.

The worst fucking game

This is The Way.

Got Qs about the Disability Rising Fellowship?
Join open office hours with Program Director Keidra Chaney on Aug 11, 12–3pm CT. 1:1 convos to help with your app, questions, or concerns.

Appointments:
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My best friend who watches Maddow just called to tell me that she landed the plane and plainly stated that the US is currently being ruled by a consolidating authoritarian regime. Not that it is 'descending into' etc etc but that it is here. Maybe this will move more liberals to say the same.

WHEN WILL COVID NO LONGER BE DANGEROUS?
1️⃣ Most buildings have #DavosSafe tech
2️⃣ We've got a cure for #LongCovid
3️⃣ We have vaccines that prevent contraction / transmission
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UNTIL THEN, WHAT DO WE DO?
😷 Mask up when around others
📈 Use @michael-hoerger.bsky.social's data to plan
✊ Organize for 1️⃣-2️⃣-3️⃣

Messaging Guidance:

Want to help Trump and fascist MAGA implement their latest policy to dehumanize disabled people? Call what they want to do “institutionalization”

Want to increase opposition to this attack on basic human freedom? Call it “incarceration” (formal, professional) or
“locking up”

YES!!!!!!!!!!!! Omg im thrilled to hear this!!!!!

'RECOVER-Treating Long COVID (TLC) 2nd Annual Workshop: Pathways to Treatments'

'Draft Agenda - Subject to Change'

'September 9-10, 2025 at The Bethesdan Hotel in Bethesdan, Maryland'

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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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Wish I’d seen this sooner—for anyone who might be able to do something in time.

Love that!!

Totally! Let me think who would be good to ask and I’ll do that!

Want to clarify smthg I’ve seen mischaracterized—

To my understanding, this does not, unfort, include any *funding* for the Roadmap. The only dedicated ME $ in the bill is for the CDC.

Requiring the creation of an implementation plan is progress! It just ≠ funding the actual implementation. (Yet!)

It’s an interesting question tho, if you want we could tag in some air quality researchers and ask for a more expert opinion? Some of them are on here sometimes!

(That’s a study of outward leakage rather than inward but the research I’ve seen seems to take the one as proxy for the other.)

Study shows N95 masks near-perfect at blocking escape of airborne COVID-19 | University of Maryland | School of Public Health COLLEGE PARK, Md. – In a head-to-head comparison of masks worn by people with active COVID-19, the inexpensive “duckbill” N95 came out on top, stopping 98% of COVID-19 particles in the breath of infec...

I do think that’s right about N95s being even better than 95% (here’s a study finding a duckbill N95 “blocked 99% of large particles and 98% of small particles”), but even if it weren’t, I’m not sure the transmission math is linear in that way? (I say that as someone who also got Covid in < 1 min.)

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In terms of the science, I’ve only heard p100 and above discussed as necc for things like wildfire smoke.

In terms of seals breaking on disposable respirators, Fit Test the Planet is a cool project to stresstest respirators w/what they call “adversarial” quant fit testing. Some hold up p well!

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So the seal is really the only thing I’d worry about. I totally hear you about high susceptibility, but I have never come across any science saying the N95 filtration level is inadequate for blocking common infections, or even any scientists speculating it might be.

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If I’m not mistaken an N95 needs a fit factor of 100 to pass, but I think on Auras for example, some people score over 500. I would not worry if I had a great fit test score with an N95.

ppl with #LongCovid or #mecfs who are weirdly susceptible to viral illness, would you be comfortable going to work in person wearing a p100 respirator if you were physically able to? I’ve never heard of someone getting sick through one but also far fewer ppl use them than n95s. and they’re of

If I were well enough and going to need it on an ongoing basis, what I would do is pay* for a quantitative fit test, and then I’d feel comfortable wearing whatever passed, which might well be an N95. I would not assume any given p100 would necc fit me.

*or a local CC group might be able to lend one

He doesn’t want to “reduce chronic illnesses,” he wants to reduce people with chronic illnesses

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As a chronically ill healthcare lawyer I think the Trump regime wants to use this new AI initiative to replace our doctors with ChatGPT and use AI to determine who gets their medically necessary treatments (💊) approved by insurance.

Trump voter? You can have meds. Didn't vote for Trump? ☠️