179 experts. 28 countries. 1 message: Long COVID is real, multi-systemic, and devastating. It affects over 400 million people. And we're not prepared. New global consensus just dropped. link.springer.com/content/pdf/10… 🧵 1. Long COVID is not "just fatigue." It’s organ damage,

Filtration efficiency WITHOUT fit testing! for -cloth mask 47–55% -level 1 masks 52–60% -level 3 masks 60–77% -non-certified KN95, KF94s, KN95s 57–77% -N95 & CaN99 97–98% External braces and overmasking with a well-fitting cloth mask increased filtration. Masks work

Reminder that the Nazis came for the disabled first. Making lists is not a red flag, it’s a fog horn.

🧵 Why do people with ME/CFS sometimes lose their voice during a crash? If you’ve ever found yourself whispering, rasping, or too tired to speak during PEM, you’re not alone. Here’s why it happens. 🧠👇

But how do you know if someone here's illegally without giving them due process?

NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — even as her father was fighting to keep her in the country. Details w/ Josh Gerstein politico.com/news/2025/04/2…

URGENT BREAKING: U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, a Trump appointee says a 2-year-old American citizen was deported to Honduras today without any meaningful legal process. The child was apparently send away with her mother, despite her father’s desperate attempts to keep her

“What we did – and this sounds relatively simple – is that we extracted the antibodies from the blood of Long COVID patients. We purified them and gave them to a mouse to see if that mouse would also get sick. And that turned out to be the case. That mouse developed all kinds of

Putting air filters in classrooms seems to reduce student sick days by more than 10 per cent. newscientist.com/article/247825…

DOGE initially promised to save taxpayers $2 trillion.  Now it admits it's only delivered $160B in cuts. And even those minimal savings are nearly wiped out by the cost of implementing DOGE's cuts: $135B. We're losing vital government services for basically nothing in return.

Braeden Charlton Richie Goulding Moritz Eggelbusch Both Long COVID and ME/CFS patients exhibited: Mitochondrial dysfunction Altered muscle fiber composition Altered capillary supply These changes were not replicated in healthy individuals subjected to strict bed rest (done with ESA and NASA).

it’s almost as if there were clues scattered about since the beginning of the covid era…

This is me—before and after becoming bed bound with Long COVID and ME/CFS. Two years ago, I made videos on YouTube. I ran half-marathons. I traveled. I lived fully. Then my body collapsed. I lost my energy, my independence, and my ability to connect. I lost my life. This illness

Last week’s PolyBio Spring Symposium featured updates on innovative research that is driving forward discoveries in infection-associated chronic illnesses. If you weren’t able to attend live, or want to watch a replay, the recording is now available: polybio.org/spring-2025-sy…

Our initial DNA results! DecodeME have discovered that people with an ME/CFS diagnosis have significant genetic differences compared to the general population. Summary of our results: shorturl.at/pgsjk Check out our full preprint paper: shorturl.at/VwN3s

He died from Long COVID today. His words: “I’ve experienced more discrimination and stigma for being openly disabled by #LongCovid than I ever did for being openly gay” When will the gaslighting stop? How many more need to die?

Kicking off #KeystoneSympsoia with a room full of masks led by Prof. Akiko Iwasaki & Michael Peluso, MD🙏 #LongCovid

Incredibly exciting diagnostic tool potential — Michal Tal, PhD MIT team is doing nailfold capillaroscopies on #LongCovid patients before and after a NASA lean test, and said the results have been incredibly striking compared to controls. My results were very abnormal !

Traveling? The U.S. is experiencing a summer COVID-19 surge. Lower your chance of catching COVID-19 by masking in indoor public places like airports and planes. Wear a high-quality mask like an N95, KN95 or KF94 to stay protected. Learn more: cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/D…

New from Putrino Lab & Dr. Pridgen: A combo of 120 days of celecoxib & valacyclovir with 15 days of Paxlovid is significantly more effective than celecoxib & valacyclovir alone! The combo had vastly greater response rates for brain fog, dysautonomia, & fatigue. #LongCovid 1/