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"The incidence and prevalence of Alzheimer's is going to just escalate..."
Explicitly capitalist media again shares a new piece that Long COVID is concerning, has no cure and again, embarrassingly, is doing better public health comms about this than most public health orgs. www.forbes.com/sites/omeraw...
I don’t want to say it is this because it hasn’t been disclosed, but if whats going on with Kristaps Porzingis is long covid, it’s a very good example of why you may not “know anyone with long covid.”
San Francisco Chronicle: 'Warriors’ Steve Kerr refutes Kristaps Porzingis’ POTS diagnosis as ‘misinformation’'
Kerr: "I read about the POTS diagnosis and I called Onsi … and said, ‘Is this POTS story real?’
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screenshot of a Zoom chat between Miles, betsy, Torie, Funmi, and Madeline. Their names are emphasized in starburst shapes. The text reads, “The Sick Times. Watch now! Expert tips on pitching and writing Long COVID op-eds.”
Help break the stigma around #LongCOVID: share your story by writing an op-ed! To help demystify the process of writing and pitching, we hosted a free webinar with expert guests Torie Bosch, Funmi Okunola, and Madeline Miller.
Watch now, or share with a writer friend! bit.ly/4s1qJxb
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Screenshot of an article headline in Bloomberg: How Covid Quietly Rewires the Brain Researchers keep discovering more about the long-term neurological effects of SARS-CoV-2.
“If Covid is quietly accelerating cognitive aging… in working-age adults, the consequences will ripple through workplaces & health systems for years.”
“The incidence & prevalence of Alzheimer’s is going to just escalate,” he says. “It’s a huge public-health problem.” #LongCovid
This work? archive.ph/2026.02.25-1...
The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close!
New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...
"He cannot use a phone. He doesn’t know his address, he doesn’t know phone numbers, he can’t communicate, he can’t see. And they just left him.”
“They just left him.”
Shah Alam, 56, did not speak English. He was lost. He could not see. Border Patrol didn't contact his family or lawyer. They left him on the streets of Buffalo, where he died five days later.
A blind Rohingya man survived a genocide in Burma, escaped to the United States, and then died because immigration officers treated him with such callousness. This story is a tragedy www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...
They killed him.
It takes a lot to infuriate me and break my heart only because you have to be able to tolerate a lot when covering Trump and fascism and try your best to stay centered and hopeful.
This story I can't let go.
They chose to let him just die.
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One of the misinformation talking points from centrists on Covid is that Covid activists and anti-vaxxers are the same.
I want you to think of any other rights movement where the centrist position has been “ugh, these people on the far ends are both so noisy, they’re the same.”
Is it all of them?
ID: Elle Siebert, Nicholas Rodelo, and Sara Johnson stand outside of City Hall after the Long COVID Awareness Day resolution was announced. The text reads, “The Sick Times. Los Angeles recognizes Long COVID Awareness Day. Local advocates pushed America’s second largest city to formally observe the day on March 15. By Miles W. Griffis.”
![“We need to maintain and build this momentum through Long COVID Awareness Day,” said Johnson, who supported the Los Angeles resolution. “This [recognition] should be a springboard.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:age5xvis2s2vy5qiz2tjxoc6/bafkreiffctfcki4lk3gc4omypbbbstiyjhytabzbqpytpjugjwwdlv2sti@jpeg)
“We need to maintain and build this momentum through Long COVID Awareness Day,” said Johnson, who supported the Los Angeles resolution. “This [recognition] should be a springboard.”
The city council of Los Angeles passed a resolution to recognize Long COVID Awareness Day on March 15. The resolution will also light the iconic City Hall teal.
@mileswgriffis.bsky.social was at City Hall and spoke with the advocates who made it happen: bit.ly/40BRxHT
I get that it's frustrating and embarrassing and maybe a little scary to realize that your have suffered long-term or permanent systemic damage caused by preventable repeat COVID infections.
Denying the facts to comfort yourself unfortunately means more people, including yourself, will suffer
No it isn't.
It is against the idea of "Vax and Relax". VnR (according to most of the public) is the idea that all you need is to get a vaccine once a year and you are magically immune from getting and passing on Covid and Long Covid. People think it is 100% foolproof.
VE estimates against hospitalization in the VISION network among immunocompetent adults 18 year of age and over from September 2023 to August 2024 were as follows: 50% (95% CI: 44 to 55%) within 7 to 59 days of vaccination; 38% (95% CI: 31 to 44%) within 60 to 119 days of vaccination; 21% (95% CI: 10 to 31%) within 120 to 179 days of vaccination and -8% (95% CI: -19 to 3%) within 180 to 299 days after vaccinationFootnote8. Estimates for those who were immunocompromised were somewhat lower than for those who were immunocompetent, with a similar pattern of waning over time.
Huh? No. She's relaying the same facts you can find here from the Government of Canada (which also refers your CDC before it went to 💩).
COVID vax reduces transmission risk at pop'n level (see next post) BUT only reduces (not eliminates) risk of individual hosp & death
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Long time listener, unfollowing. The people and orgs you’re lying about (saying they’re anti-vaxxers and wrong, but they aren’t) have done much more work into understanding Covid/Long Covid and other post-infectious issues than you have. The makers of Covid vaccines said exactly what Julie did FWIW.
I mean COVID really is quite a bit worse than is generally accepted, that part is real.
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As someone with long COVID: govt/society failed to acknowledge the initial severity of covid and existence of long covid (as many post-infection illnesses before it), creating the info vacuum that sucks well-meaning people looking for help down the MAHA hole. Lack of convo about it has also led to
Hey, it's disproportionately women who have been disabled by COVID-19; and that's a worthy price to pay for liberal white male political pundits' personal comfort!
This is a video points out that the main function of the vaccine is not stopping transmission (true, it’s reducing severity) and also points out that the vaccines are less accessible and people aren’t updating their vax regularly (also true, less than 25%). Calling it anti-vax is completely absurd.
No, it's not. Talking about what the vaccine actually does instead of repeating Biden-land fantasies for the comfort of libs who have bought into right-wing covid discourse is not anti-vaxx.
LitCovid contains 479'424 pieces of research into the health effects of COVID.
That's a lot to digest.
I guess Michael finds it easier to pick on a handful of people.
(No link to LitCovid - journalists should have the ability to do a Google search)
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Calling a very well known vaccine advocate “anti vaxx” because she VERY correctly calls for people to take supportive measures like masking since our current vaccines do not stop transmission is wild. As someone who actually does vax outreach in LA the lines Michael is pushing feed anti vax ideology
Yeah those fringe Bloomberg writers are really getting extreme. Somebody reign them in
(Sarcasm)
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