Air quality research for safer living

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The long-term cardiovascular risks of SARSCoV2 infection and reinfections Your heart is under silent, cumulative attack from SARSCoV2, and every reinfection can reload/worsen the damage. Here a personal recap of 10 important studies from the last 2 years showing exactly how this virus and its reinfections can/may shape (and shorten) your cardiovascular future. Evidence is clear, long-term, and growing. Print and show your Cardiologist. Let’s connect the dots… 1. Immunothrombosis multi-omics study: 3 months after hospitalisation, long COVID patients still have blood biologically “clot-ready” with persistent endothelial activation and prothrombotic signalling. x.com/HarrySpoelstra/status/… 2. IL-6 & SAA 6-year study: Higher acute-phase IL-6 and SAA levels independently predict cardiovascular events and death up to 6 years later, the initial inflammatory storm leaves a lasting CV mark. x.com/HarrySpoelstra/status/… 3. MIS-C long-term outcomes: Up to 4.5 years later, MIS-C raises cardiovascular disease risk 14× and hypertension 9× in children, with risks still accumulating. x.com/HarrySpoelstra/status/… 4. Viruses & cardiac disease review: SARS-CoV-2 stands out for direct cardiomyocyte invasion explosive damage relentless accumulation of risk with every reinfection. x.com/HarrySpoelstra/status/… 5. Mayo PET long COVID study: Persistent cerebral hypometabolism in fatigue/PEM patients still detectable up to 2 years post-infection. x.com/HarrySpoelstra/status/… 6. Reinfection CV outcomes summary: Reinfections worsen cumulative heart damage, arrhythmias, thrombosis, stroke risk and long COVID cardiovascular symptoms. x.com/HarrySpoelstra/status/… 7. Youth reinfection & long COVID study: Reinfection roughly doubles PASC risk, with myocarditis up to 3.6× higher, heart disease ~2× higher and increased thromboembolism. x.com/HarrySpoelstra/status/… 8. Mild infection reinfection risk: Even mild cases trigger lasting endothelial damage and prothrombotic state (1.5–2× long-term CV risk), each reinfection compounds the burden. x.com/HarrySpoelstra/status/… 9 Mitochondrial dysfunction in long COVID: Persistent mitochondrial dysfunction and suppressed oxidative phosphorylation remain in long COVID, pointing to durable multi-organ impact. x.com/HarrySpoelstra/status/… 10. Cumulative reinfection impact on future CV health: Reinfection stacks additional damage on prior endothelial injury and inflammation, increasing lifetime risk of heart failure, arrhythmias, thrombosis and accelerated cardiovascular disease. x.com/HarrySpoelstra/status/… 11. Extra, my earlier general reminder post on this exact theme: x.com/HarrySpoelstra/status/… ‼️Overall convergence across the studies: Immunothrombosis, acute inflammation markers, direct invasion, endothelial damage, and mitochondrial issues create lasting CV vulnerability that reinfections can keep reloading. #L0ngC0vid The pattern is very clear. Fewer infections = lower lifetime cardiovascular risk. You only have one heart. Protect it! #AvoidSars2 #AvoidReinfections #CleanAir #VaccineUpdated
🚨GENERAL REMINDER: YOU ONLY HAVE ONE HEART, TREAT IT WITH RESPECT! Reinfections aren't harmless "boosters", they stack the deck against your HEART, turning one hit into compounding long-term cardiovascular risks. ➡️3 important and recent articles (from 2025–2026) providing the strong evidence that SARS-CoV-2 reinfections increase risks of long COVID, including cardiovascular complications like myocarditis, arrhythmias, heart disease, thromboembolism, and related issues( There're more!!): ➡️1. Long COVID associated with SARS-CoV-2 reinfection among children and adolescents in the omicron era (RECOVER-EHR): a retrospective cohort study. Published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases (2026). This large retrospective study of nearly 500,000 youth found reinfection roughly doubles the risk of long COVID/PASC overall (RR 2.08), with elevated risks for myocarditis (up to 3.6×), arrhythmias, heart disease, thromboembolism, chest pain, and other cardiovascular signs/symptoms, even in vaccinated individuals. thelancet.com/journals/lanin… ➡️2. Long COVID Syndrome Prevalence in 2025 in an Integral Healthcare Consortium in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona: Persistent and Transient Symptoms. Published in Vaccines (MDPI, 2025). This real-world study showed long COVID prevalence was 3–10 times higher in people with three or more infections vs. one, alongside a post-pandemic doubling of thrombotic events (cardiovascular-related clots) across populations, linking reinfections to worsened persistent symptoms including cardiovascular sequelae. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article… ➡️3. Cardiovascular damage and comorbidities related to long COVID: pathomechanisms, prevention, and therapy. Published in Physiological Research (2025). This review explicitly states reinfections can trigger de novo long COVID or exacerbate its severity, contributing to persistent cardiovascular risks like heart failure, dysrhythmias, myocardial infarction, and stroke, building on evidence of cumulative damage from repeat SARS-CoV-2 exposures. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article… ➡️So: 1. Reinfection worsens endothelial dysfunction (already impaired from prior COVID), raising cardiac event risks, especially in those with pre-existing atherosclerosis or CV factors, 2. Repeat infections cumulatively boost long COVID odds, including cardiovascular manifestations (e.g, myocarditis, arrhythmias, heart conditions 3× higher in some cohorts), 3. Studies show 1.35–2× higher long COVID risk after reinfection vs. single infection. One large pediatric analysis found ~2× higher PASC (including heart-related) post-reinfection in Omicron era. 4. Experts note each infection adds damage, accelerating vascular aging, plaque issues, and overall CV burden, even mild cases. The reminder: Reinfections aren't harmless "boosters"—they stack the deck against your heart, turning one hit into compounding long-term cardiovascular risks. YOU ONLY HAVE ONE HEART, TREAT IT WITH RESPECT! PLEASE: #AVOIDREINFECTIONS #AVOIDSARS2 #HEARTHEALTH #CLEANAIR
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Oncologists say they run air purifiers to reduce respiratory infections and end up in hospital less.
Oncologists describe the changes they've made in their own houses to reduce their daily exposure to chemicals, pollutants, and carcinogens. time.com/article/2026/06/03/…
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I read this sentence today and it leapt out at me. "It revealed a deeper inability to assess character, ideas, consequences and risk" This is exactly what we're talking about when we talk about the impacts of repeat covid infections on higher brain function.
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Discovery of a 14-protein biomarker that predicts lung cancer 5.6 years before it is diagnosed, even in non-smokers, and an anti-inflammatory medicine that prevents its progression. And, challenging dogma, the proteins are not coming from cancerous cells!
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. @abcnews - could you please ask your resident paediatrician GP to explain on air what she is doing personally to correct the mistaken narrative of some of her reckless colleagues who promoted mass infecting children with the harmful Covid19 virus.
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I’m still having to slog through PPE and hand hygiene PD that tells me Covid requires Droplet precautions unless an AGP (which should, but doesn’t, include talking/walking/exercising … actually simply breathing) so .. I have no expectations
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The world’s first trillionaire made a pedophile rapist the president of the United States and then personally made sure starving children couldn’t get food and medicine, with 14 million deaths projected from his actions alone. He’s possibly the most evil person in history.
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This is what air pollution can look like inside your blood. 🤯
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현대차그룹이 세계 최초로 개발한 차량용 UVC 램프 살균 기술 ‘플라즈마 케어 UVC’를 소개합니다. 인체에 안전하고 살균력은 강한 Far-UVC(원자외선) 빛을 활용해 탑승객이 있는 상황에서도 차량 실내 공간을 살균하고 보다 쾌적한 환경을 제공합니다. 플라즈마 케어 UVC를 영상으로 만나보세요.
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A new Imperial College London study, the UK's largest on indoor fungal air pollution, found homes are active fungal ecosystems, not passive. Researchers are calling for quantitative indoor fungal exposure thresholds. go.corsirosenthalfoundation.… #IndoorAirQuality #CleanAir
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😷 BREAKING🚨 Canada launches a new National Advisory Committee on Preventive Health Services. It will be chaired by Dr. David Keegan, a leading advocate for masks in healthcare and on airplanes who filed human rights litigation on both fronts.
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RT @FullLaneFemme: New zine about COVID just dropped!! Author says there's new info around mask fit, ventilation, and CO2 Monitoring. ht…
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BEFORE YOU BOARD YOUR NEXT FLIGHT READ THIS A former airline captain named John Hoyte reached out to me recently. He spent nearly 30 years flying commercial aircraft, developed serious neurological damage, lost his career, and has been trying to get this story properly investigated ever since. He sent me documents spanning two decades. The scale of what is in them is HUGE. What he shared includes parliamentary records, a 320-page published report from the British pilots union, @BBC coverage, House of Lords testimony, and active litigation in multiple countries. This has been heard at the highest levels. It has largely been buried. Most commercial jet aircraft use a system called bleed air. Instead of drawing fresh air from outside, the plane takes compressed air directly from the engines and pumps it into the cabin. That is the air you breathe for the entire flight. When engine seals wear down, oil and hydraulic fluid can leak into that air supply. Those fluids contain organophosphates, the same compounds found in certain pesticides and nerve agents. Inhaling them can cause neurological damage, memory loss, and chronic fatigue. In documented cases, far worse. This design has been in use since the 1950s. The health risk has been documented for just as long. In 2005, @BALPApilots, the British pilots union, published a full conference report on this with the University of New South Wales. The following year, 27 BALPA pilots were tested by University College London. All 27 showed evidence of toxic poisoning and reduced cognitive function. Not some of them. All of them. @BBCPanorama covered it in 2008. The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee heard evidence on it in 2007 and 2008. In February 2007, 40 unrelated passengers on a single XL Airways flight were seriously injured by contaminated cabin air. Their cases went to court. Twenty of them won a US jurisdiction ruling in 2010. A UK coroner recorded a death linked to this in 2015. France has formally recognised aerotoxic syndrome as an occupational disease. In the US, a law professor is suing Boeing for $40 million after a single exposure left him permanently injured. Morgan & Morgan, America's largest personal injury firm, is now actively taking mass cases on behalf of passengers and crew. John himself was one of those 27 pilots tested by UCL. He founded the Aerotoxic Association in 2007 at the Houses of Parliament to support other survivors. He has been fighting for this for nearly 20 years. Almost every commercial jet aircraft except the Boeing 787 Dreamliner uses the bleed air system. The 787 uses a different design that avoids this problem entirely. That safer design has existed for years. That fact alone says everything. BBC has not covered this story since 2020. The UK Civil Aviation Authority continues to say there is no positive evidence of a link. The Aerotoxic Association has been contacted by more than 2,500 people who believe they have been affected. John is looking for mainstream investigative journalists who want to dig deep into this. He is an expert witness with decades of evidence and is willing to answer every question. He has a passenger injured on that 2007 flight, Samantha Sabatino, whose case is in the parliamentary record. This is a genuine story of enormous public interest and it deserves proper investigation. If you are a journalist or researcher and want to speak to John directly, his contact details are in the comments. I will add media coverage links in the comments section. Sources: @AerotoxicAssoc (Aerotoxic Association) @BALPApilots (British Airline Pilots Association) @forthepeople (Morgan & Morgan) gcaqe org (Global Cabin Air Quality Executive) @BBCPanorama covered it in 2008 with a full documentary titled Something in the Air. @heraldtweets @WSJ @FlightGlobal @TheCanaryUK @the_ecologist
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"A national plan would give certainty, consistency and fairness, and most importantly, it would help protect the health of communities across Australia." A whole of country approach is the best way to uniformly stomp out this stove scourge
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The best mosquito repellent for your patio costs $20 and runs on a wall outlet: a fan. Mosquitoes are terrible fliers with a top speed of about 1-2 miles an hour, slower than you walk, and they struggle to make headway against even a gentle breeze. Point an oscillating fan at your outdoor seating area and they'll physically struggle to get to you. It works on two levels too. A mosquito finds you by following the plume of carbon dioxide you exhale, plus the heat and scent rising off your skin. A fan scatters all of it and erases the trail that leads them in. So it knocks them out of the air and helps hide you from their senses at the same time. This isn't folk wisdom. The CDC notes that fans reduce mosquito landings, and studies have found that using a fan can substantially reduce mosquito bites. Citronella candles offer only modest protection and are generally much less effective than a fan or EPA-registered repellents. Plug in a fan, aim it at the table, and take your evening back.
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#WearAMask & #CleanIndoorAir w HEPA. That's #1 way to help yourself AVOID COVID.
Denying that SARS-CoV-2 infection leads to a broad range of sequelae across organs is pseudoscience. We need a case definition for Long Covid which accounts for such a broad range of sequelae. Denying this need is harmful for advocacy and patients alike. People must do better
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WIRED Magazine, Retract "The Painful Truth About Long Covid" - Sign the Petition! c.org/8Mrs6vz5Xk via @ChangeAUS
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