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YouTube video by PatricktheBioSTEAMist Phases of Covid Infection - Part 1

Phases of Covid Infection - Part 1
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Haven’t gotten to watch fully yet but looks like a great series from @patbiosteamist.bsky.social on Phases of Covid infection:

Tweet: World Health Organizatic @WHO “FACT: #COVID19 is NOT airborne. The #coronavirus is mainly transmitted through droplets generated when an infected person coughs, sneezes or speaks. To protect yourself: -keep 1m distance from others -disinfect surfaces frequently -wash/rub your hands -avoid touching your eyes Image: FACT CHECK: COVID-19 is NOT airborne The virus that causes COVID-19 is mainly transmitted through droplets generated when an infected person coughs, sneezes, or speaks. These droplets are too heavy to hang in the air. They quickly fall on floors or surfaces. You can be infected by breathing in the virus if you are within 1 metre of a person who has COVID-19, or by touching a contaminated surface and then touching your eyes, nose or mouth before washing your hands. To protect yourself, keep at least 1 metre distance from others and disinfect surfaces that are touched frequently. Regularly clean your hands thoroughly and avoid touching your eyes, mouth, and nose. World Health Organization March 28 2020

@CDCgov • Feb 27, 2020 CDC does not currently recommend the use of facemasks to help prevent novel #coronavirus. Take everyday preventive actions, like staying home when you are sick and washing hands with soap and water, to help slow the spread of respiratory illness. #COVID19 bit.ly/37Ay6Cm

WHO said “FACT: COVID-19 is not airborne” which was 100% wrong and led to confusion and countless deaths.

CDC advised against wearing masks in Feb 2020.

Engagement on our updates re: ICE kidnappings/fed siege of Los Angeles is significantly lower on Bluesky compared to Twitter. Do ppl on here not care about LA anymore? Are feeds being taken over by liberal commentators? What's going on?

Community members on the ground can't do it all. We need help.

ICE has been raiding my neighborhood and surrounding ones for the last couple of weeks now. They commandeered my local church (against the pastor's will) for a staging site and raided supermarkets, parks, Goodwills, bus stops, you name it.

The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.

This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.

💔 Alice Wong’s last words: “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”

We can never thank Alice enough for fighting all the good fights and especially all the hard fights. We all learned so much from your brilliance, your courage, and your indefatigable leadership. We will never forget you.

Next, Peluso announced another new trial, called COMBAT-LC, which will test Paxlovid and the monoclonal antibody Pemgarda in combination. A recent preprint shared that Pemgarda improved Long COVID symptoms in a case series, adding to anecdotal reports from people who have tried the drug. This is also the first Long COVID clinical trial to stratify participants based on antigen positivity in their blood, Peluso said, and it may include a crossover option allowing people who initially receive a placebo to try Pemgarda later. We don’t know how SARS-CoV-2 persists in the body, Peluso said during his talk; just at today’s symposium, researchers presented evidence that it might be inactive genetic material, active genetic material, or even active viral replication. The COMBAT-LC trial will be a significant step toward understanding viral persistence.

Slide from Peluso's presentation showing the design for COMBAT-LC. After screening and assessments, 50 participants will receive either Pemgarda (Pemivibart) or a placebo along with Paxlovid for 15 days. The trial may include an open-label extension in which participants who got the placebo are able to try Pemgarda.

NEW from the PolyBio Symposium: UCSF is launching a combination trial for Long COVID, called COMBAT-LC. It will include Paxlovid (antiviral) and Pemgarda (monoclonal antibody). thesicktimes.org/2025/11/14/l...

r/covidlonghaulers • 1d ago flyingwithdoves I think I might have long covid Symptoms I've had Covid 4 times now. My infection in 2023 led to insomnia and increased anxiety, but I could still manage and work with Ambien for sleep and Ativan occasionally. This August I got another infection and all hell broke loose - internal vibrations, debilitating anxiety, constant flip-flopping feeling in my stomach, new phobias like driving, and I can't think anymore. I have such severe brain fog that it's scaring me. It feels like I've had a lobotomy. All my muscles are sore, including the ones in my head. It feels like a tight band squezing my brain all the time. I have constant sinus congestion and dizziness and high blood pressure now. It's hard to relax, ever. I've been out of work for 3 months. I have new paradoxical reactions or debilitating side effects with virtually every supplement and medication I've tried recently. Anihistamines make me hyperactive. Seroquel and trazadone do the same thing. Vitamin D gives me heart palpitations now. Magnesium makes me hyperactive too. SSRIs give me every side effect even at tiny doses. I can take small amounts of Ativan occasionally, but enough to actually calm my nervous system will give me a paradoxical reaction. It's exhausting and depressing. It feels like this virus has ripped apart my nervous system and I'm floundering. I've been searching this group for answers to all my symptoms, but it seems as if there are none. I guess "covidlonghaulers" is my new home while I hope for a miracle cure.

This person was infected with COVID twice and recovered. A 3rd infection brought manageable long COVID symptoms, but they were still able to work. After a 4th infection a few months ago, they haven’t recovered at all — showing how repeated infections can cause severe, lasting damage.

So I try not to give too many gory details about life with long covid, but I also think it’s important to give a clear picture of what can happen to anyone.

Over the last yearish, I’ve become allergic to more than 70 foods. Today I lost soy. I’m not how long I can keep eating at all.

After a few different prototypes, the Guardian, our most affordable air purifier, is finally ready.

#IndoorAirQuality #CovidIsAirborne #AirPurifier

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We could have defeated it or kept it in check better all these years, but I’m not sure it would ever be “easy,” Covid is pretty contagious, airborne, and spreads before symptoms come on. Avoiding it is actually pretty hard. But mass deployment of N95s or KN95/KF94 + air filters would have done a lot

I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other.

It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.

Rahm Emanuel covered up the murder of Laquan McDonald by Chicago police

Folks if you usually do end-of-year/holiday charity giving, consider moving it up to the beginning of November instead and hit up however many local food pantries you can afford to give to. (Check if you or a spouse/partner's employer does charity matching, too.)

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

I know two people who got long covid from infections during doctor appointments where they couldn't easily mask (an MRI and an ENT exam). this is a very real risk.

And before anyone says anything - yes, there are MRI-safe respirators, most people don't know about them or have access to them.

If you are in a medical setting, where vulnerable people HAVE TO BE, you need to wear a mask- whether or not it is mandated, whether or not you are sick. More than half of Covid cases are spread ASYMPTOMATICALLY.

Protect the most vulnerable, it’s everyone’s duty. Any medical appointment anywhere.

Well fitting masks work very well, but my friend and his wife got Covid at a doctor’s appointment and it caused long term health problems for my friend. If people in the waiting room and clinic masked and used air filters, this wouldn’t happen. I think it’s wrong to get sick seeking medical care.

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Help Us Buy Meadowbridge Community Market We are raising funds to purchase the building for our free grocery and supply store in Richmond, VA!

My goal is to highlight the work and politics of MADRVA so that others can be inspired or learn from elements of what they’re doing, and to raise $5,000 towards buying their building:

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Help Us Buy Meadowbridge Community Market We are raising funds to purchase the building for our free grocery and supply store in Richmond, VA!

This is the first of multiple videos I filmed talking about the work that the organizers behind the grocery store, Mutual Aid Distribution Richmond (MADRVA) do, why Covid precautions still matter, and stories of how Covid and Long Covid have impacted organizers.

Meadowbridge Community Market is a free grocery store that provides food and health supplies to 200-300 families per week, and they continue to mitigate the spread of Covid as part of their holistic approach to community care.

Join me in helping them buy their building!
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If you count yourself in the massive majority of people who pretty much don't want to hear about COVID anymore...please read this thread. I'm sorry. Please. I write this from my father's house, where I am watching Long COVID completely destroy the mind and body of a person I love beyond telling.

@jaydocovid.bsky.social as always brings incredible points up and always has the receipts - please check his 🧵 out about masking and the social stigma around Covid.
People are so afraid to admit that they, like everyone else, are susceptible to severe #covid and #longcovid that they refuse to mask.

A heck of a good thread:

It’s gone and I believe they announced it won’t come back if I recall coverage by @patbiosteamist.bsky.social correctly

Dear liberals,

If you identify as a leftist who believes in intersectional justice & fighting fascism, please wear a mask in public. It’s one small act of solidarity with the millions living with long Covid - and a reminder that caring for others includes protecting their health

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...

“The cumulative global incidence of long COVID is around 400 million individuals, which is estimated to have an annual economic impact of approximately $1 trillion—equivalent to about 1% of the global economy.”

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

It pisses me off to no end that Long Covid affects hundreds of millions of people globally and no one I know can name a Long Covid expert or any of the leading labs looking into it. It’s simply not a topic people want to pay any attention to, and I consider that living in fear, or at least denial.

There is no quicker way to make people uncomfortable and to not want to talk to you than to share the latest findings of what Covid does in our bodies.

Almost no one I know has done a rational assessment of the threat environment since 2021 when we were told to vax and relax into Delta and Omicron.