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Florida’s measles cases continue to rise As public health experts work to investigate the already reported infections, the virus continues to spread throughout the state.

Florida’s measles cases continue to rise with the state now reporting 124 cases. www.cfpublic.org/health/2026-...

Long Covid rewires your brain, Degrades your quality of work, Increases your healthcare costs, and more Bonus Lots of people are still dying of Covid

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Long Covid rewires your brain, Degrades your quality of work, Increases your healthcare costs, and more

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- 🥳: @thephysicsgirl.bsky.social's first science video in 3 years!

- New research: Covid can directly infect ♥️ tissue

- Study: “more likely to develop kidney problems” post-C19

- Long-term taste loss post-C19

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Reinfection is problematic “It can be problematic if you are reinfected,” Dr. Rouhbakhsh said. “We know from a pretty elegant study that was recently published in Nature Medicine that each subsequent COVID infection will increase your risk of developing chronic health issues like diabetes, kidney disease, organ failure and even mental health problems.” Such evidence “dispels the myth that repeated brushes with the virus are mild and you don’t have to worry about it,” he added, noting that “it is akin to playing Russian roulette.” That is why “you want to try to avoid reinfection if possible. That should not be the mechanism by which you aspire to get immunity from the virus,” Dr. Rouhbakhsh said. New COVID-19 variants play a role “The virus is constantly changing, similar to what the flu viruses do and similar to all the things that give us our typical colds. They adapt, they have new variants that emerge, and these can cause reinfection,” said Dr. Rouhbakhsh. “Omicron has really been an efficient spreader of disease with its subvariants becoming particularly good at evading what protection we already have from previous infection or vaccines.” Now, at this stage of the pandemic, “we have some epidemiologic data that there are some BQ subvariants of Omicron in the U.S. and that's BQ.1 and an offshoot called BQ.1.1,” he said. “These are descendants of the BA.5 Omicron subvariant and they have some mutations on the spike protein that help it evade immunity created by both vaccines and previous infection.”

Each COVID reinfection "will increase your risk of developing chronic health issues like diabetes, kidney disease, organ failure and even mental health problems.”

"it is akin to playing Russian roulette” with your life.

Avoid reinfections. 😷

#LongCOVID sucks

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When I got long covid four years ago, the waiting room at the local long covid clinic was mostly women, mostly older.

About two years ago I noticed that most of the other patients are now kids. It's staggering to see how many kids are winding up with #LongCovid. #WearAMask #CovidIsntOver

Long COVID affects millions with lingering symptoms after the initial infection. New evidence indicates that metformin, a drug used to treat type 2 diabetes, may help prevent Long COVID when started early in the illness.

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#LongCOVID #Metformin #COVID19

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That is a great question for the previous Labour govt, who parked on an early study saying one dose gave good protection.*

NZ kids aged 5-15 get one dose. Not one dose per year, just one dose. Then a second dose at age 16. Then NOTHING AT ALL BETWEEN ages 16 and 30. It’s completely fucked.

I got the new covid vaccine on Monday. My teens only have to wait another 11 and 13 years respectively until they can get another one in NZ. 🤯
Afterwards I pushed the high school, yet again, for clear comms telling parents to keep symptomatic kids home from school and school activities, noting this

Large bold red text on black. Gothic sans-serif font. 100% OF NEW LONG COVID CASES ARE CAUSED BY COVID INFECTIONS (smaller) DO MORE TO STOP THE SPREAD. (then in script font) #COVIDisntOVER #STOPtheSPREAD #NotMILD #SafeCOMMUNITY (bottom small in black) circle with line thru it and inverse colored letters for covid action network: cAn. (https://covid.aktion.network)

This month is about Covid. We need governments and officials to make Covid a priority. Let’s make Covid so visible the immense & wide-ranging impacts of Covid cannot be ignored. Not #LongCovidAwarenessMonth. #CovidAwarenessMonth.

#COVIDisntOver #COVIDisAirborne #StopTheSpread #covidisnotover

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#MedSky #PublicHealth

I often stop and think about how we’re letting COVID circulate with very low vax rates (pls get vaxxed if poss), no clean air, no treatment for Long Covid—and public health isn’t even encouraging basic precautions like masking, or warning that Long Covid is a risk. And it makes me very angry tbh.

They’ve already seeded the next few generations.

Republicans just OBJECTED to funding FEMA, TSA and the Coast Guard. They’re holding them hostage to extract more $$$ with no accountability for Trump’s rogue ICE/CBP operations.

No doubt now who’s responsible.

Rubio: “Let me tell you, Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.”

Markwayne is actually a noble title, and is the Oklahoma equivalent to "Marquis," and may be passed on at the same time your father gives you his car dealership

You see... you can send Kristi Noem to the furthest reaches of the world BUT.....the policies of #DHS/ICE are NOT going to change. In fact, I would say the new DHS head Mullin might be even more aggressive in order to impress fearless leader.

Canada could be called on to help defend Gulf states, says top military commander | CBC News The head of the Canadian Armed Forces says Canada may be called on to help defend Persian Gulf states from Iran's strikes as the U.S.-led offensive expands into a wider regional war.

There is a straight line between values-free "pragmatism" in making deals with human rights abusers and getting involved in an immoral and illegal war. A very short, very straight line.

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Pill-shaming is ableism.

It derives from poor science literacy and pseudoscientific health ideology in the anti-psychiatry movement and alternative medicine industry.

There's no shame in accepting medication.

No one deserves to experience stigma.

RFK Jr doesn’t believe that HIV causes AIDS.

You can’t debate conspiracy theorists and germ theory denialists.

You expose them.

"Instead of Googling Epstein, Aaronson, then 29, turned to what he considered an even more reliable source: his mother. She did some checking. “Be careful not to get sucked up in the slime-machine going on here.... Since you don’t care that much about money, they can’t buy you.”"

I’m in lots of pain so pretty much everything is annoying me today, but the pipeline of tech person -> long covid -> health start up is getting ridiculous.

You’re not gonna cure yourself nor will your AI start up.

Make community, advocate and get MORE FUNDING FOR THE NIH AND LABS!

Bernard LaFayette, Selma voting rights organizer, has died Voting rights organizer Bernard LaFayette has died. LaFayette's son says his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85.

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.

WHAT THE FUCK

We thank @aoc.bsky.social for speaking the truth about age verification in the House E&C hearing today! As she stated plainly, and we agree, age verification is a smoke-screen for censorship. It is NOT about kids safety!

Supreme Court Continues to Shoot Self in Foot in Second Amendment Cases US v Hemani, case about gun rights of drug users, shows the Supreme Court's Second Amendment standard is comically unworkable.

to figure out whether a prohibition on drug users possessing guns that passed in 1968 is still legal in 2026, one must figure out how drunk the Founding Fathers got in 1776 --the Supreme Court, basically

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Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0