Thank you so much to @laurieallee for this organized record of covid consequences litterature (that I regreted several times I didn't start doing myself from the begining...) -> in pined post so it doesn't get buried in twitter's tsunami

There were actually several faculty and new PhDs wearing high quality respirators! It was nice to see!

New study shows how SARS2 ORF8 protein hijacks your lungs immune cells to spread the virus more efficiently and trigger long-term inflammation. This isn’t just acute illness - the mechanism drives chronicity directly🧵

Doc: “A kid can tell you, ‘I can’t breathe’ How do I know she’s not having an anxiety attack?” Kid: “Mom, it’s not anxiety.” Mom: “I know, baby. I know.” Beata did everything she could for her child, but she couldn’t make it. 😔 Please watch Take Care of Maya. #MedicalHarm

📢A new study is out from Emory University that compares the performance of all available SARS-CoV-2 / Influenza combo rapid test brands against JN.1-lineage SARS2 strains The two main takeaways: 🧪Don’t waste your money on a more expensive brand or overthink your purchase. No single brand consistently performed better than all other tests - The lowest detected concentrations were achieved by different tests for each of the 4 viruses. 🧪It’s essential to wait until the END of the time window listed on the instructions to read the results. “We found that at low viral concentrations, many OTC tests were interpreted as negative at the start of the stated interpretation window but converted to a positive result by the end of the interpretation window.” They looked at the 8 SARS-CoV-2 / Influenza combo rapid tests that were available in the U.S market as of fall 2025. Unfortunately, they didn’t include the Aptitude Metrix molecular combo test, or the newer 4-in-1 rapid tests that include RSV from Flowflex and iHealth, because they were not yet available at the time. They tested the following 8 brands: • ACON Flowflex • iHealth • OSANG BinaxNOW*, QuickFinder • CorDx Tyfast • Healgen Rapid Check*, InBios, statID, Equate, INDICAID, GenaCheck, Consult, RiteAid, ACCUBIO, healthconfirm, RapidResponse, RapidGo, Walgreens, CVS • SEKISUI Osom • Watmind SpeedySwab • Wondfo WELLlife*, INDICAID, Hough, 2San *Specific test used in this study For the main portion of the study, to determine sensitivity, they examined the lowest concentration of virus at which each of the test brands would reliably (3 out of 3 tests) show a positive result. For H1N1, WELLlife and Osom performed the best. For H3N2, Healgen and SpeedySwab performed the best. For influenza B, Osom performed the best. And for SARS-CoV-2, Flowflex performed the best. As the authors point out, there isn’t really any sort of a clear pattern here, and the results are indicative of all tests having about equivalent capabilities. Next, they examined whether the readability of the results changed from the start to the end of the timed viewing window listed in the test instructions. The answer was consistently “yes”. In the 2nd image, all of the solid bars were positives that were able to be read at the end of the window, but were missed at the beginning of the window. It was a major issue across all tests - but especially with SARS-CoV-2, and especially with some brands (eg. WELLife, Osom, BinaxNOW). Analytical comparison of over-the-counter multiplex tests for influenza A, influenza B, and SARS-CoV-2: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…

Dr. Amy Proal last week: “When people get an infection, there’s a huge assumption that it just clears after their symptoms go away… Little amounts of the pathogen [can persist] in parts of your tissue, parts of your nerves—where they can still drive inflammation and directly hijack the functioning of your mitochondria.”

A turtle came into Wild At Heart Rescue in Mississippi last week painted from head to toe in silver and red. People keep doing this and it has to stop. A turtle's shell is living tissue full of blood vessels that absorbs sunlight to produce vitamin D, helps the turtle regulate body temperature, and in many aquatic species participates in the animal's breathing system. When a turtle is painted, all of that gets blocked. The turtle is no longer able to synthesize vitamin D where it's been painted and can develop metabolic bone disease as a result. (soft bones, deformed shell, slow death). The painted shell loses its camouflage too, making the turtle visible to every hawk and raccoon in the area. Removing the paint isn't a quick wash with a sponge. It involves multiple veterinary sessions, often with sedation, and many turtles arrive too damaged to ever recover. If you see a turtle with paint on its shell, do not try to clean it yourself. Call a licensed wildlife rehabilitator right away.

That'll solve it.

The world has warmed by around 1.4C since 1850. It took 148 years for the first half of that warming to occur, and just 27 years for the second half!

@Sante_Gouv @stephanie_rist @SebLecornu @didier_dlepell si ces gens ont contaminés d'autres personnes à cette occasion, il y aura des poursuites. ⚖️ Tout ça pour ménager le confort de quelques bourgeois (6 semaines sur toute une vie pour ne pas tuer d'autres personnes. Trop dur)

Sans surprise, pour ces gens s'isoler pour ne pas risquer de tuer des gens, dont ses proches, c'est "mettre de côté son humanité". 🫠🤢 "Renoncer 6 semaines à mon nombril c'est mettre de côté mon humanité" #TraduisonsLes

Ffs. 💔😔 Autistic children injected with unapproved stem cell treatments supported by RFK Jr theguardian.com/society/2026…

L’enjeu de la prise en charge du #CovidLong ne doit pas être une question de clivage politique. 👉C'est un enjeu de santé publique majeur, transpartisan, qui appelle une mobilisation générale et immédiate de l’ensemble des pouvoirs publics et des acteurs politiques, de tous bords

Continuez de faire semblant de ne pas comprendre, d'exposer les enfants, leurs familles et les enseignants parce-que la prévention "c'est pas populaire". En niant la pandémie de Covid, les enseignants aident le gouvernement à creuser leur propre tombe. 🤷‍♀️ x.com/Themislv_vls/status/19…

Being a prisoner in an incapacitated body is possibly the worst prison anyone could endure yet people are banging on the prison gates and yelling "lock me up!"

🎯 THE message EVERYONE needs to get: “The cost of not preventing infections lands on real bodies”. Thank you, @ZdenekVrozina, for frequently including this in your summaries.🙏🏼

Explain to me again, how banning kids under 16 from social media will protect them from the brain damaging virus? You know, the one that’s been weakening their immune systems for years, and causing Long Covid, which is the number one childhood chronic illness. I mean if we care about kids there must be a link between this strategy and protecting them from Covid right? I mean, we do care about kids right? Right?

Kylie Angrily Bleaching--‘I Don’t Want Hantavirus!’ Based on CDC and scientific modeling: “COVID-19–associated deaths in the U.S. from 2020 through 2025..." ▶️ 1.1 million “Hantavirus Deaths in the U.S. 2020–2026…” ▶️309 #trumplikedbleachtoo people.com/kylie-kelce-deali…

Long-Term Outcomes of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children up to 4.5 Years After COVID-19 🚨IMPORTANT new study just dropped: MIS-C in kids is NOT a temporary illness!! 🚨It raises cardiovascular disease risk 14×, hypertension 9×, and gut/lung/brain problems for up to 4.5 years later(=LC) Earlier “kids recover fine” claims are now officially challenged! Study:👇 ➡️ A retrospective cohort study from New York’s Montefiore Health System examined 173 children under 21 with MIS-C versus 346 propensity score-matched controls without MIS-C, all following documented COVID-19 infection. ➡️Follow-up extended up to 4.5 years (March 2020–August 2024) using electronic health records, with MIS-C confirmed by ICD-10 code M35.81 plus CDC/WHO criteria. ➡️Results: 1. MIS-C patients faced markedly elevated risks compared to controls: - Cardiovascular disorders (aHR 13.88, 95% CI 4.69–41.07), - Hypertension (aHR 8.86), - Gastrointestinal disorders (aHR 9.48), - Respiratory disorders (aHR 3.46), and - Neurological disorders (aHR 2.02), - Shock and chronic kidney disease (CKD) occurred almost exclusively in the MIS-C group, 2. Kaplan-Meier analysis showed persistent cumulative incidence in the MIS-C cohort ranging from 6.8% (CKD) to 35.2% (respiratory disorders), with risks diverging and accumulating over years rather than resolving, 3. Preexisting hypertension strongly predicted cardiovascular, neurological, respiratory, and gastrointestinal outcomes, 4. Preexisting diabetes increased CKD risk 49-fold, 5. Older age modestly raised risks of shock and CKD. 6. Sensitivity analyses using stricter MIS-C definitions and alternative respiratory coding confirmed the main results. 7. No mention or data on vaccination and/or reinfection impact. ➡️The study directly challenges earlier reports portraying MIS-C as a transient, self-limited condition with minimal long-term sequelae. ‼️So, MIS-C is not a temporary inflammatory storm that children outgrow. It inflicts severe, lasting multisystem damage that multiplies the lifetime risk of serious cardiovascular disease, hypertension, gastrointestinal, respiratory, and neurological disorders by several-fold to more than ten-fold, while introducing rare but devastating conditions like shock and CKD that almost never occur in peers. ‼️Sadly enough risks continue to accumulate years later. ‼️Earlier short-term “excellent recovery” narratives are contradicted by this longer, rigorous evidence. ‼️Affected children now carry a heavy, potentially permanent burden of chronic illness that will require lifelong medical surveillance and coordinated care or face accelerated morbidity and reduced quality of life! ‼️Of course we need further confirmation, but this does fit the ongoing concerns within the LC science community! 😡So much for paediatric minimalizations! #AvoidSars2 #AvoidReinfections #ProtectChildren publications.aap.org/pediatr…

If schools want to improve academic performance and mental health outcomes, perhaps trying to prevent the students and staff from getting covid over and over again could help with that.

Yet we don’t clean the air in schools and daycares, which drive illness. Make it make sense.