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COVID-19 in Pregnancy Linked With Risk of Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Early Childhood jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @sammyanderer.bsky.social @jama.com

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Under Vinay Prasad, employees at a key FDA center fear speaking out, look for the exits Exclusive: Vinay Prasad has rattled FDA staff by expanding his power and pushing out senior leaders.

EXCLUSIVE: A slow-boiling feud between Vinay Prasad and his staff at the FDA is threatening the future of the center that regulates the nation’s vaccines, biological products, and blood supply. Read more here:
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Support for measles vaccination drops amid growing confusion about the disease, US poll shows

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Long COVID Risk in Children Doubles After SARS-CoV-2 Reinfection Children face over twice the risk of paediatric long COVID after SARS-CoV-2 reinfection, highlighting urgent needs for prevention.

“Children with reinfection had significantly higher risks for myocarditis, thrombophlebitis, thromboembolism, arrhythmias, fatigue, cognitive impairment, dysautonomia (including POTS), and abnormal liver enzymes. “

www.emjreviews.com/microbiology... #IDSky #COVID #longCOVID

Except of book chapter on Long Covid

Except of book chapter on Long Covid

My new research is out #LongCovid. The critical role of patient advocacy-research in disease recognition

I look at the massive, painstaking process of knowledge building by the Covid patient community in the early pandemic, which led to recognition of LC as a multi-system disease entity

Long COVID in Kids: What Pediatricians Need to Know New research suggests that children and teens who get COVID a second time face twice the risk for developing long COVID.

- every subsequent infection is a gamble with a child’s long-term health

#LongCovid

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Mass General Brigham studied 18,124 births and found that children exposed to maternal COVID-19 in the womb had a 29% higher risk of neurodevelopmental diagnoses by age 3, especially if exposure happened in the third trimester or in male children.

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This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.

This Physicist Says We Don't Take COVID Seriously Enough via @thetyee.ca

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2 things I forgot to mention in this lengthy thread:

1. We are hosting a webinar on 11/5 @ 2 eastern / 11 pacific where we will share more info & answer questions. Register here:
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2. The clinical trials . gov link is:
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Dr Oz: “I think we all agree that Covid has passed”.

No we do not agree!

Anyone who thinks Covid has passed has no business in charge of public health.

It’s still here. It’s still killing and disabling.

Get your booster if you can. Wear a mask (ideally an N95) and clean the air!

Health care workers under 65 must be vaccinated against Covid The vaccination status of health care workers under 65 has profound implications for millions of Americans.

Excited that @statnews.com published our 1st Opinion on why ALL HCWs should be vaccinated against Covid--by me and Dr. Judith Feinberg.

www.statnews.com/2025/10/30/c... #PublicHealth

Changes in nutrition and sanitation cannot account for the significant and long-term decreases in vaccine-preventable illnesses just after vaccines were introduced. But be sure to learn the facts, avoid falling for misinformation, & always talk to your doctor if you have questions or concerns. (1/2)

Only the Bluesky is the limit: ten tips for a trending #Skytorial ABSTRACT. Threaded online medical education first emerged on X (formerly Twitter) in early 2018 following the introduction of a threading feature in Decemb

Only the Bluesky is the limit: ten tips for a trending Skytorial.

-Note the comment that *Reposting* is a better way to spread your message than Liking, on a platform like this that doesn't have the algorithm of Threads or X which pushes Liked content to you.
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Top visual shows an illustration of a crowd of all ages, including some visibly disabled people in silhouettes of blue and teal. The title below the graphic has “Long COVID” in black and “Declaration” in teal. Below the title is a list of logos from six organizations — Winslow Santé Publique, WHN Global, COVID-19 Persistent Catalunya, MaskTogetherAmerica, International LONG COVID Awareness, Asociación Long COVID Aragón — and Elisa Perego, MD Ph.D., writers and organizers of the declaration.

The Long COVID Declaration as shown on the website of Long COVID Rise Up. https://longcovidriseup.eu/lc-declaration/

🌍 We, #LongCOVID orgs & advocates worldwide, release a collective declaration.
🔗https://longcovidriseup.eu/lc-declaration/
✍️ Advocates living with Long COVID, orgs & researchers who agree with its principles: contact us to sign for fair representation, urgent action, research & prevention.

The Shine Dome, the home of science in Australia, will proudly light up blue and green and display our indoor air quality data as part of the Making the invisible visible campaign. If you don’t measure it, you can’t manage it. – Anna-Maria Arabia OAM Chief Executive Australian Academy of Science

The Shine Dome in Canberra lit up in blue

We’re thrilled to announce the Australian Academy of Science is among the first to join our inaugural Making the invisible visible campaign and are championing indoor air quality as a fundamental accessibility and inclusion issue - by making the air visible for everyone to see.

@science.org.au

A woman from the FDA’s Center for Devices & Radiological Health explains how her entire department was gutted

That means there’s no staff to alert you if your pacemaker is recalled

If an implantable device in your body is toxic or broken

This could have catastrophic health impacts & cost lives

Threat to US vaccines as CDC staff supporting key advisory panel laid off Critics say scientists ‘held hostage’ by RFK Jr as changes mean vaccine development and guidance in peril

NEW: The entire staff supporting ACIP was laid off, and most working groups haven't met in months.

That means the US may not make routine vaccine recommendations for more than half of children in 2026, and it could halt new vaccines in the pipeline. My latest:
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COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could unlock the next revolution in cancer treatment – new research The researchers found that mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines could potentially help patients whose tumors don’t respond well to traditional immunotherapy.

"The COVID-19 mRNA-based vaccines that saved 2.5 million lives globally during the pandemic could help spark the immune system to fight cancer. This is the surprising takeaway of a new study just published in the journal Nature."
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⚠️SAFETY
"There is good evidence that many schools can be made safer for Clinically Vulnerable children and those in Clinically Vulnerable families. In fact, for all children."

Ventilation is uncontroversial!

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Long COVID More Common in Seniors: What Doctors Need to Know Many long-COVID symptoms in people older than 65 years mimic signs of early aging, particularly cognitive, cardiac, and kidney issues.

Long Covid accelerates aging and is often missed in the elderly (along with other age groups).
#Medsky
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The New England Journal of Medicine and the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy will be publishing regular public health alerts to replace the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which has been paused due to the federal government shutdown.

WHN joins in the chorus: Medical masks are not PPE - WHN Overview Throughout the COVID pandemic, there has been confusion from public health and medical leaders over which masks to wear to prevent transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Inadequate supplies of...

Proud to have co-authored this piece with amazing collaborators at the @thewhn.bsky.social.
Let me know what you think.
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💥The shingles vaccine might be one of the most underrated health moves after 50.💥

New large study(174K pts):
▪️ 50% lower risk of vascular dementia
▪️ 27% fewer blood clots
▪️ 25% lower risk of heart attack or stroke
▪️ 21% lower risk of dying early
#BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #SciSky 🧪 #NurseSky #IDSky

Graph showing the reported % excess mortality compared to excess mortality predicted from waste water, our model, and the Canadian COVID Forecast score Graph available at: https://covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard-index Page 10 (Actual and model-predicted excess mortality)

Expected excess mortality due to COVID-19 in Canada is HIGH (9%, Forecast score 9).

Graph showing Canada's estimated daily % of population infected or experiencing long COVID, by province (average error -/+ 10% overall; 7% last 2 weeks) Graph available at: https://covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard-index Page 15 (Combined prevalence: Infections, LongCOVID)

Table showing estimated new daily and cumulative Omicron hospitalization costs by province - 5 week rolling averages (average error -/+ 10% overall; 7% most recent 2 weeks) Table available at: https://covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard-index Page 17 (Hospitalization costs, burden)

About 2.7% of people in Canada are infected and/or experiencing life activity-limiting long COVID this week.

The estimated cost of hospitalizations from this week's infections in Canada is $99.5M.

COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of new-onset vascular dementia in adults ≥50 years - npj Dementia npj Dementia - COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of new-onset vascular dementia in adults ≥50 years

Covid-19 roughly doubled the risk of vascular dementia in adults 50+ and for those with pre-existing mental illness the risk rose ~5x.

A similar signal appears after other viral infections - a reminder that viruses aren’t "mild" when it comes to brain health 🧠

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Map of Big Cities Health Coalition Highlighting: Austin, TX Baltimore, MD Boston, MA Charlotte, NC Chicago, IL Cleveland, OH Columbus, OH Dallas, TX Denver, CO Detroit, MI El Paso, TX Fort Worth, TX Houston, TX Indianapolis, IN Kansas City, MO Las Vegas, NV Long Beach, CA Los Angeles, CA Louisville, KY Memphis, TN Milwaukee, WI Minneapolis, MN New York City, NY Oakland, CA Oklahoma City, OK Philadelphia, PA Phoenix, AZ Portland, OR San Antonio, TX San Diego, CA San Francisco, CA San Jose, CA Seattle, WA Tucson, AZ Washington, DC

The Big Cities Health Coalition, which serves over 60 million or 1 in 5 people in the US, has issued a statement condemning the federal government's moves to limit vaccine access and spread disinformation. The cities are working together to ensure people get vaccinated.

Q - May I ask you about your views of ventilation in schools as a way to potentially deal with future pandemics & generally ventilation being a good thing for children's health and wellbeing?

A- “improving ventilation in schools would be a good thing-clearly highly desirable”

#CleanAir

A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia - Nature Using a natural experiment that avoids common bias concerns, this study finds that the live-attenuated shingles vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis within a follow-up period of...

The vaccine against Shingles helps protect against dementia, results of a natural experiment, adding to prior evidence
"implications are profound"
New @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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#COVID mRNA vaccines may be able to train immune system to attack cancer cells, boost survival

The vaccines appeared to sensitize tumors to the cancer drugs immune checkpoint inhibitors, the researchers say.

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