Kim Hanson

Up to one in five kids experience #LongCOVID after infection, affecting memory, focus, and processing speed. Without support, students fall further behind. Schools must recognize post-viral cognitive impairment and provide accommodations to help kids succeed. Ignoring this issue fails our children.

COVID has been barely discussed by this current govt. Scrapping free tests, making welfare harder to access/making time off work less tenable, and avoiding COVID as a policy issue, all increase our collective risk of #longCOVID.
Nobody likes this reality - we have to deal with it anyway. #nzpol

Don't stop talking about #LongCovid

YouTube video by VJNeurology Pathophysiology of acute and post-viral neurologic complications of COVID-19

4/19/21, VJNeurology: "Pathophysiology of acute and post-viral neurologic complications of COVID-19"

Nath: "Millions & millions of anticipated individuals with these long-haul symptoms, understanding..the pathophysiology of that is absolutely critical.'

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COVID Hasn’t Disappeared — But Empathy, Care and Solidarity Have Governments worldwide are abandoning people to a debilitating disease with one simple trick: saying it no longer exists.

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The US just voted alongside Russia, Belarus and North Korea against a UN resolution to support Ukraine.

This is a wake-up call for all those cheerleading Trump in our country.

You’ve been clear in saying that Covid has not gone away. You ask people to wear masks at your events. But that attitude is not necessarily where the rest of the world is. How do you think about continuing to take precautions and advising others to do so when it feels as if society has moved on? I do it for a bunch of reasons. Firstly, I have learned that I enjoy not being sick. I know that the cost of long Covid is real and substantial, and I don’t want to run that risk lightly. I also know that I have many friends and people I’m close to who are immunocompromised. So for the sake of the people around me, I also don’t want to get sick. When I do events, I wear a mask for those reasons, and because I know that every time I do a talk, while the vast majority of people in the audience have probably moved on, there are going to be other people who haven’t. I think it makes a huge difference to them to have the person at the front of the stage wear a mask. It tells them, It’s not weird. So I do it for that reason, too. In terms of holding this line at a point when a large swath of society has moved on, I have written a lot about the panic-neglect cycle.

I appreciate this response from Ed Yong on why he requests that people mask at his events. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

RTHM's Take: "This study adds even more compelling evidence that we should be urgently developing and trialing multiple therapies (and combinations of therapies) that could help clear persistent SARS-CoV2 proteins in Long COVID patients to see if doing so can improve symptoms and reduce any elevated markers of neurodegeneration." — Jennifer Curtin, MD, RTHM Co-Founder

New Study: SARS-CoV-2 spike protein can persist in the brain

Recent research reveals that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein can persist in the brain.

This discovery suggests a potential link to chronic inflammation & an increased risk of neurodegenerative diseases following acute COVID.

Could this explain some of the long-term neurological effects of COVID-19?

Chronic Pain Afflicts Billions of People. It’s Time for a Revolution. As many as two billion people suffer from it — including me. Can science finally bring us relief?

#ChronicPain Is a Hidden Epidemic. It’s Time for a Revolution. As many as two billion people suffer from it — including me. Can science finally bring us relief? by Jennifer Kahn www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/m... via @nytimes.com

I really wish #PEM was just worsened fatigue.

It is so, so much more than that.

#MECFS

Why are kids sick all the time? Experts weigh in Canada Healthwatch | The most important health news, in one place. 🍁

canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/01/11/w...

"Lockdown" sounds so dramatic. What I remember most is ordering pizza, working from home, curbside grocery pickup, public masking indoors, patio lunches, and long walks. The retelling sounds like forced confinement in a Syrian prison. Somehow, I survived. /s

FOI Shows COVID Is Still Striking Alberta’s Acute Care Centres | The Tyee More than 300 new outbreaks and 3,000 individual infections raise questions about prevention.

Legislation states that we must protect all staff from preventable illness. But for COVID, it really seems like that is no longer applicable. And b/c a substantial % of infections, even in young, healthy people, go on to cause long term illness, why has it been allowed to infect people at work.”

Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’ A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world

"If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic."

Period.

'Festive flu' warning: 'Tidal wave' of infections leads to 70% jump in hospital cases The boss of NHS England is urging people to get vaccinated before Christmas to protect against serious illness and "festive flu".

Many of those admitted for influenza will then get Covid-19 in hospital through nosocomial infection. Co-infection with both flu and Covid leads to increased morbidity and mortality, and increased duration of hospital stay. Yet little to no airborne infection control.

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Our Trustee @margaretohara.bsky.social has worked with researchers at Toronto University & fellow #LongCovid advocates in the UK, Ireland, USA & Canada to uncover the experiences of activity pacing in #LongCovid. Thanks to Margaret & everyone else involved! 🙏

Tucked into the Cass Report, deep in the appendices, you'll find that they reviewed thousands of patient records and found no one who'd been harmed by puberty blockers and fewer than 10 detransitions.

The real lesson from Zeraatkar et al’s review work is not that GET and CBT are probably effective for Long COVID, but that five years into the crisis, a mere 24 clinical trials have published results for a condition which affects 400 million people worldwide (8), of which only 4 studied drug interventions. Long COVID research should learn from the mistakes of ME research, and swerve away from an inexplicable focus on rehabilitative approaches to the production of well-designed and ambitious trials (9) into therapeutics that target the immune dysfunction, persistent pathogens, vascular abnormalities, and mitochondrial dysfunction that have been shown to underlie Long COVID symptomatology (10,11).

Here is the conclusion of our rapid response: we need serious, well-designed and ambitious clinical trials that target the mechanisms which have already been shown to dysfunction in people with Long COVID

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Essentials of Diagnosis and Management Despite myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) affecting millions of people worldwide, many clinicians lack the knowledge to appropriately diagnose or manage ME/CFS. Unfortunately, clinical guidance has been scarce, obsolete, or potentially harmful. Consequently, up to 91% of patients in the United States remain undiagnosed, and those diagnosed often receive inappropriate treatment. These problems are of increasing importance because after acute COVID-19, a significant percentage of people remain ill for many months with an illness similar to ME/CFS.

These are superb consensus recommendations on the diagnosis and management of ME from The States.

The authors are true experts in the field who actively treat patients.

I’m determined to produce something similar in the UK (also huge fan of not reinventing the wheel).

Long COVID science, research and policy - Nature Medicine This Review outlines the current state of scientific evidence on long COVID, discusses its impacts on patients, health systems, economies and global health metrics, and proposes a forward-looking rese...

You can download the research on socioeconomic impact of long Covid. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Long COVID science, research and policy - Nature Medicine This Review outlines the current state of scientific evidence on long COVID, discusses its impacts on patients, health systems, economies and global health metrics, and proposes a forward-looking rese...

Full research here www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The economic impact of failing to prevent airborne transmission of COVID is enormous. @laylamoran.bsky.social @gwynnemp.bsky.social

If the Public had been given this figure instead of the 7 million figure then the perception of risk on COVID would be very different.

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Declare SARS2 a public health emergency. It was a mistake to remove the emergency state, Sent the wrong message and that's when all countries felt permission to "return to normal"

“Hospital acquired covid has a 10% fatality rate and yet many facilities are doing absolutely nothing to protect the most vulnerable among us.”
I too have been closely following the UK Covid Inquiry. Abysmal, shocking and intentional.
We’ll see no accountability from those largely responsible.

A plea to maskless health-care workers from vulnerable patients - Healthy Debate Health-care workers have a responsibility to protect their vulnerable patients. Our lives are in your hands.

"If you’re a health-care worker who sees a patient in a mask, put one on for them. Don’t make them ask. Don’t psychologize them. Don’t betray the trust they’ve shown you. They’ve put their lives in your hands. Don’t take that for granted, it’s not an easy thing for many of us to do"

Long COVID manifests with T cell dysregulation, inflammation and an uncoordinated adaptive immune re... Roan et al. use Olink and single‐cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) to show a dysregulated crosstalk between the cellular and humoral immune responses in individuals with long COVID 8 months postinfe...

nobody listened when anthony j leonardi spoke about it, but finally this (known since 2020) information on T cell dysregulation hits the pages of Nature. i'm pissed!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...