When you become irreversibly unwell due to repeated COVID infections they will say…

“Well we did tell you to take personal responsibility for your health.”

“We did write guidance to ventilate and wear masks*.”

“You were told about long COVID.”

Unfriendly reminder that 59% of COVID's spread happens asymptomatically (either because someone is infected and presymptomatic or because someone just never shows any symptoms at all) 😷 x.com/_CatintheHat/s…

My #pttwitter and #medtwitter colleagues, please see #BringMillieHome for an egregious example of how poorly people with myalgic encephalomyelitis #severeME are treated in our medical system. People who are suffering so greatly deserve our commitment to basic care and dignity.

We never hear about it on the news but Israel had taken 8,365 hostages in the last six months

We are thrilled about Bernie Sanders' proposed legislation for a #LongCovid moonshot of a mandatory $10b in research funding!

Please see our joint press release with Long Covid Moonshot here: patientresearchcovid19.com/press-releases/

New Severity Scale for ME/CFS

I wrote this new severity scale for ME/CFS about 2 years ago.  I really wanted to express how severe the illness can actually get which is not at all reflected in our current mild-moderate-severe-v.severe scale.  And I wanted to make it more…

Can everyone who follows me please sign this petition.

Happy Birthday Desmond!

A little helps a lot.
Donate, QT, or RT to the best of your ability.

No one should have to worry about money while grieving.

#MutualAid #MutualAid Requests

C’mon Beyond The Pale Horse heading to your mailbox. Order at link in bio. Should be in some Ontario record stores for Record Store Day

It’s been a minute but tonight’s phantom odour is a fresh & sweet red wine vinaigrette. Nothing fancy but perfect for a spring salad.

Police ask for help to ID woman found deceased along Lake Ontario shoreline in Mississauga
cp24.com/news/police-as…

New study out from the amazing Michael Peluso, MD et al!

They looked at both:

a) whether viral antigen persists after COVID infection (it does, in 25% of people!!)

b) which tests were more likely to pick this up

1/ #LongCovid

“Show me you care abt the 72.6% of the US pop. at increased risk for severe COVID-19 infection (excl. age) by implementing basic disease mitigation practices like masks, increased air filtration, and free rapid testing during an ongoing pandemic at your tech conference” challenge

It’s been a year since the war in Sudan broke out. A year since children have gone to school. A year since the collapse of the healthcare system. A year of brutalization, murder & sexual assault. A year of children dependent on life saving medication slowly losing all access to

fereshteh jahanbani Janet Dafoe Whitney Dafoe Open Medicine Foundation Avesta Rastan Hannes Röst Michael Snyder, PhD 2/

Proposed Framework for Personalized Severity Assessment in ME/CFS to Capture Variation in ME/CFS Severity and Life Impairment across Patients and Time.

from:
frontiersin.org/journals/immun…

#MEcfs #CFS #PwME #SevereME #SevereME CFS
#SevereCFS #VerySevereME

If being able to eat in restaurants really is so vital to mental health that it’s unreasonable or impossible to expect ppl to stop doing that for awhile, can someone explain to me what that means for poor ppl? Like do you think gov assistance should include restaurant stipends?

The Palestinians I love move like angels of mercy & wisdom through this morally impoverished dunya, full of cruelly oblivious people who consider themselves good.

Take a beat!
It's ok to hear 'Palestine' and be, for just a moment, inconsolably quiet. You can join us there.

One of my cousins has better covid protection in his woodshop compared to many medical offices I've visited.

How is that possible?

If I want to avoid nosocomial infection I can count on woodworkers more than medical professionals.

Why is that?

/s (or not)