RT @PeterHotez: Never forget: The @WSJopinion as the print version of Fox News and Murdoch media empire waged a war of aggression on the Am…

I #StandWithScientists and #ScientificEvidenceBasedPractice I stand AGAINST #Disinformation and #Grift!

Dr. Peter Hotez is the health warrior combatting two of the world’s biggest threats: disease and disinformation. Here, he explains why the disinformation machine is nearly as threatening to humanity as climate change and pandemics are. In his new book, Science Under Siege, Dr. Hotez and co-author Michael Mann discuss how disinformation costs lives and that the only way to tackle the problem is to face it head-on and talk about it. Our full conversation with Dr. Peter Hotez is out now on the Best Leaders Podcast. Available on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, or wherever else you get your podcasts 🎙️

😷 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.

DEMONS, you're on notice 👿 Inspired by @JMU @AlanLevinovitz's brave @WIRED #LongCOVID reporting, @LCCampaign will now take on two new causes of chronic illness: demons and storytelling. Move over, K-Pop Demon Hunters. No peer-reviewed science was harmed making this video 🧪🥼🦠

I’m opposed to lumping Long COVID in with other post-viral conditions. It’s not because I think Long COVID is special on an individual level, or that people with Long COVID suffer more or more deserving of research and care than people with other conditions. Actually, in some cases, it’s the opposite - I think people with other post-viral issues are probably sicker than the average person with Long COVID. My advocacy has never really been about myself or about other people who are currently sick. My primary concern has always been about the systemic risk Long COVID represents to society as an ongoing process. Go back and read my first post on this on my substack in 2023. This is why I continue to work on this even though I have mostly recovered. A lot of advocacy understandably centers the needs of people who are already sick. I think that work is necessary. But developing Long COVID fueled my advocacy only in the sense that it motivated me to dig into this stuff and learn about what was going on, and the risks that we were bearing as a society while our leaders lied about it and tried to cover it up. If I have selfish motivations, it’s that I care about living in a world that functions. When I see excess deaths remaining elevated, cancer rates increasing, student test scores dropping, alcohol sales plummeting, rising fascism, rising disability, governments pushing MAID, etc. I am concerned. Anytime anyone writes about Long COVID as latest incarnation in a long lineage of post-viral illnesses, they are implicitly assuming something that I fundamentally disagree with: That the crisis is over, that the worst of the pandemic has passed, and the period we’re living in is something like the 1920s following the 1918 flu. I think this framing is dangerously wrong. I think we’re still in the pandemic; we’re still in the middle of the crisis. Perhaps the absolute worst has passed, but the situation today isn’t actually that much different than it was 4 years ago. And in fact, we might not be passed the worst of it - one bad mutation and we’re back to 2021. I admit I could be totally wrong about all of this, but there’s no evidence that people can get COVID 8, 9, 10 times and be perfectly fine. In fact, the evidence we do have suggests the opposite. This is a novel virus, and we barely even understand the mechanisms that drive Long COVID. People like Michael Mina go to the NYT and declare that the babies of today will catch COVID dozens of times over the course of their lives and be fine - How does he know that? He doesn’t. He’s asserting it on blind faith, no different than a dangerous religious fundamentalist. What if we discover that COVID induces something like post-polio syndrome in a large number of people in 15 or 20 years and a bunch of folks drop dead? We just don’t know. For as long as it has existed, society has been able to deal with a certain amount of post-viral disability. Who knows what technology will bring but there will probably always be infections, and therefore, there will probably always be post-infectious illnesses. To think otherwise is utopian. All of the people suffering from them deserve care. These illnesses deserve real biomedical research. There is value in having a political coalition to push for these things. But any research that comes will be slow (we’re coming up on year 7 and we have absolutely nothing), solutions that do come will roll out over years or decades. Many people sick today will probably die before a treatment for their condition is discovered. That is just reality. Last year my wife had 2 strokes and is now disabled. She might improve a bit more over time, but she’s probably going to have major limitations for the rest of her life. It’s a tragedy for our family. It completely destroys the life we hoped to build. But our personal tragedy isn’t a systemic risk - society can absorb a few thousand strokes in young people every year and keep going. But if 1% of 37-year olds started having strokes? That would jeopardize civilization itself. That’s where I’m at with Long COVID - where I’ve always been. I don’t think it’s a small problem a few unlucky sick people to deal with. I think it’s a big problem that threatens basically everything.

The CDC has continued to increase their resources surrounding COVlD forecasting. Three critical pieces of information: 🔥The summer wave is coming 🔥The wave magnitude is highly uncertain 🔥The South/SE and West will get hit hardest Agreed on all fronts.

CDC publishes outlook for COVID, predicting a later start to the Summer wave, but the wave potentially peaking later than usual. As of June 12, with moderate confidence cdc.gov/cfa-qualitative-asse…

One of the most exciting developments in medicine right now! Patients with lupus who had exhausted other treatment options entered remission after receiving CAR-T cell therapy. A treatment developed for cancer may now be helping reset the immune system in autoimmune disease.

When riders lose control, the e-bike can fall onto the leg or trap it against the ground, creating twisting and crushing forces that are uncommon with lighter bikes. Some of the resulting injuries resemble those more often seen in motorcycle crashes. sciencealert.com/e-bikes-are…

Congrats to @drDavidKeegan appointed to chair Public Health Agency of Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Preventive Health Services. Read @MsJulieSLam’s interview of Dr. Keegan who sees #LongCOVID patients. m.facebook.com/story.php?sto… instagram.com/p/DZh2OENRuhX/…

The director-general of the World Health Organization states he is extremely concerned about the evolving Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, already the third largest on record. statnews.com/2026/06/13/who-…

The PMC county-level COVlD map has been updated w/today's CDC data. Very High🔥🔥 ▪️Guam ▪️Southeast Idaho ▪️Southeast Alabama ▪️Lorain, Ohio ▪️Waldoboro, Maine High🔥 ▪️Waco, Texas ▪️Lexington, Kentucky ▪️Lancaster, Pennsylvania We've posted Monday's report early. 🧵1 of 4

💸 A trillionaire, billionaires and big corporations will reap enormous profits from inflation. However, ordinary citizens are suffering greatly from inflation. I believe that the man who loves inflation is the true enemy of the people. 🗳️ #VoteBlue 💙✌💙

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It’s obvious that the revoking of the legal status of 530,000 Immigrants is all about racism and not whether they came here the right way.

🚨 NEW: Trump moves to end longstanding rule preventing coal companies from dumping toxic waste into bodies of water.

1/3 🧵The girls in this video were featured in our Blue Butterfly Room segment months ago. They were in federal custody. They were supposed to be accounted for. They are now missing.

🚨OMG: The elephant they brought in to the Texas Republican convention just PISSED all over the floor. You can’t make it up.