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5 Long COVID Predictions for 2025 and Beyond Better diagnostics, more focused treatment, and deeper understanding of individualized symptoms could all take major steps forward this year.

Hope for anti-reservoir therapies in #longCOVID.
I am hedging my bets on us one day looking back and thinking it obvious that most #longCOVID is just chronic SARS-CoV-2 infection. Many viruses linger, causing chronic disease.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

After New York COVID play reporting vanishes, artists launch global cultural intervention, call-in Eric Bogosian In recent weeks, a small but pointed COVID-based theater project has triggered a strange trail of digital disruption.

“SARS-CoV-2 is not just a virus. COVID is not just a pandemic. It’s an aperture, a breach in the fabric of our shared reality.

It makes things visible.

And once you see it — really see it — you can’t unsee anything.”

This. Once you step out of the denial bubble, you really can’t go back in:

I did a bit more digging about a recent BBC news article about how installing air quality monitors had a 'dramatic' effect on health.
It is an initiative by @sthelenscouncil (X a/c) and @WarringtonBC (X a/c) called the Healthy Air for Healthy Lungs project.
So what's it all about?...
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Thank you Nish Kumar of @podsavetheuk.crooked.com
You're one of the only people talking about Long Covid being a direct link to the amount of people unable to work due to sickness in the UK
Far too much collective amnesia going on

Full episode on Pod Save the World here
youtu.be/f3Q6cJc6Z7A?...

Looking forward to the webinar on Wednesday! I would encourage anyone even slightly interested in indoor air quality to come!! Register ASAP.

events.teams.microsoft.com/event/7d54c6...

Almost 500,000 long Covid sufferers is "tip of the iceberg" - DutchNews.nl Some 450,000 people have been diagnosed with long Covid since the virus first appeared in the Netherlands, 12,000 of whom are unable to work full-time, according to new figures. The number of patients...

Dutch News: 'Almost 500,000 long Covid sufferers is “tip of the iceberg”

'Some 450,000 people have been diagnosed with long Covid since the virus first appeared in the Netherlands, 12,000 of whom are unable to work full-time, according to new figures'

www.dutchnews.nl/2025/03/almo...

Check out this brilliant video explainer from Bristol University which illustrates how (as well as high CO2 levels often indicating poor ventilation and higher COVID risk environment) high CO2 levels also increase the lifetime of the virus in the air.

airspothealth.myshopify.com/a/blog/how-c...

Word of the day is ‘arsle’ (19th century): to have a distinct sense of going backwards.

This video is fab!
Too long to post here but here's a link to 'The Covid Cover Up' on X:
x.com/TheCovidCove...

Do you think the authorities downplaying the harms of COVID-19 amounts to a state cover-up?

Why are we not trying to reduce infections when over 3M people have long Covid in the U.K. (according to the NHS GP Survey) and COVID-19 is still causing long Covid?

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Child deaths in England rising above pre-pandemic levels, study finds Number surges after temporary decline during lockdowns, with rate higher for children from non-white backgrounds

Child deaths in England rising above pre-pandemic levels, study finds
-Amazing what happens when you protect children from infection. Then stop protecting children from infection.
I bet this would have been a smaller figure if the air was cleaned.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

This is disgusting.

Dehumanising parts of the population has happened before. The world was determined it would never happen again.

They have no compassion. Dark times for the US and the rest of the world.

open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered... Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984

In the UK hundreds of thousands of people, who shielded, still are. These are the folks who are medically vulnerable our society has left behind. This government and the last never provided them with a drug to replace the Covid vaccine they couldn’t have. 🧵

I thought what Bishop Budde did was incredibly brave

She was calm, cool and collected as she spoke out on behalf of all the people whose lives are being put at risk under the Trump administration.

She did what too many won’t do… she stood up to the bully.

I hope she feels our support & gratitude

Alone or lonely at Christmas? New to social media? There’s a great tradition with the hashtag #joinin, you just search for it and see lots of friendly messages. Someone has also created a feed here:

bsky.app/profile/did:...

Sending Love This Christmas To Those Who Are... Living with a mental illness that doesn't allow them to experience the joy others are Grieving from a painful loss they've experienced this year Suffering in silence because they don't want to "bring the mood down" Christmas can be a difficult day, but please know you're not alone. We see you.

#joinin

Do not mention the words COVID, airborne or respirator this Christmas. Do not ruin the party mood.
Instead, sit quietly by and watch as everyone you know heads towards an avoidable and very early grave.

This is the way (they insist upon it).

Ho Ho Ho (as Santa would say).

Doctors, your exhaled breath is a source of transmission for infectious disease.

You are supposed to be acting in the interests of your patients.

Take action now.

Second time in two days, someone has just said to me that they're glad they're really sick now because they'll have it out of the way by Christmas.

😐

What has happened to people.

Petition: Direct the UKHSA to monitor COVID infections that occur in particular settings. Ensure that the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) monitors, and reports on, the numbers of COVID infections that occur in healthcare settings through its routine surveillance programmes, and advises o...

Unhappy about the lack of testing for COVID, and spread of infections within UK healthcare settings?
Please support, and share, this petition to 'direct the
@UKHSA to monitor, and report on, numbers of COVID infections that occur in healthcare settings.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Great to hear.
It’s heartbreaking to see the wreckage #LongCovid is causing to people’s lives and to watch our health and care systems struggle to provide the care and support needed.

That's good news. Hope prevention is part of any action plan too as well as treatment for those suffering. Makes sense.

Prognostic Chats @Progn...•9h • • • It's the 5th winter we have had Covid circulating now. The UK has done so well with its "Covid is over" propaganda that celebrities & the population at large is baffled now why so many people are sick, during an active airborne pandemic. >10,700 UK hospital Covid deaths in 2024

Kirstie Allsopp @KirstieMAllsopp Follow Has anyone else got a chest infection/ lurgy the likes of which they have never had before?! I have been completely floored by this thing, what the hell is it? 14:37 • 11/12/2024 • 431K Views

Piers Morgan & @piersmorgan Follow Anyone else got this vile bug where you cough/gag all day long? Driving me nuts.. 17:00 • 10/12/2024 • 1.2M Views

@prognosticchats.bsky.social

Oh dear. #UKHSA

From Discussion section:

'...we suggest that these analogous AD cases be categorized under a distinct subset within the long COVID syndromes, termed AD-like COVID syndromes'.

*AD-Alzheimer's Disease.

Single case, but don't like signals like this.

www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...

@who.int Director-General's remarks at a media briefing on 10 December 2024:

"We cannot talk about COVID in the past tense. It’s still with us, it still causes acute disease and Long COVID, and it still kills.

The world might want to forget about COVID-19, but we cannot afford to."

Long Covid study finds teenagers suffered with symptoms for more than two years Girls were more likely than boys to have long Covid

This is a big leap from ‘it doesn’t affect kids’.

Still under recognised, poorly served and underfunded.

This is our future generation - no consideration of repeated infections here.

www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV Researchers are announcing that a 53-year-old man in Germany has been cured of HIV.

5th person to be cured of HIV

“Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.”