First we got long covid, then it made us homeless - as Elizabeth Yuko @rollingstone so aptly wrote in this February 2022 article featuring Amanda Finley, myself, and several other #PwLC (article here: tinyurl.com/pwlcrs)   We're still #homeless, and we still need help.  So

Over the past 2 days, I observed the student encampment Columbia University in-person. Media reports claiming students were anything but respectful, decent and the like are gross mischaracterizations that serve to criminalize our young ppl & put them at serious risk of harm.

Seeing a lot of Human metapneumovirus (hmpv) right now. Checked with CDC. They are too. Everywhere. FYI cdc.gov/surveillance/n…

I’m as guilty as anyone of thinking of my Columbia University undergraduates as “kids.” But here is what I’ve seen them do in the last two weeks: (1/10)

TB outbreak in Long Beach, California As of April 29, 14 cases of tuberculosis (TB) are associated with this outbreak — nine of them required hospitalization and one case was fatal. ktla.com/news/local-new…

Drug use is not a moral failing, it's a coping mechanism, it's a tool we use to relieve the symptoms of what ails us. A society that prohibits drug use is a society that demands and compels suffering.

(1/n) CDC: Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Clade 2.3.4.4b Virus Infection in Domestic Dairy Cattle and Cats, United States, 2024 wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/30…

Help us get LINKIN PARK Mike Shinoda to notice and back SafeSpot!! ❤️🥰

My friend Brandon is spot on - we don’t celebrate when over 100,000 people die from a preventable cause. No leaders will concede the role policy plays in this crisis - the drug supply can be fixed through legalization and regulation and this is how we “end overdose”

It took literally one mutation to turn the 2022 H5N1 Avian flu to be able to go airborne and kill ferrets. 0% to 37.5% infectivity via airborne according to new study published 5/15/24 in Nature: (different virus which is now in cattle). nature.com/articles/s4146…

“Naloxone is in the hands of people who are using drugs and who are the closest to the overdose,” Murray said. “That has shifted the responsibility of overdose response in a lot of ways to people who use drugs and the ones that are supporting them, like harm reduction workers.”

“My husband shot himself in the head [in a remote area of our backyard] to escape his pain. He made sure we could still live in our home and not be plagued by gruesome memories. I just wish the #medical establishment had an ounce of the compassion he did.” painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2016/1…

Some critics, including Dr. Jeffrey Singer, a drug policy analyst at the libertarian Cato Institute, believe law enforcement efforts aimed at regulating chemicals used in street drugs are actually encouraging the cartels to experiment with more readily available substances that

Our review on #MECFS is finally out! A huge labour of love by Resia Pretorius’ PhD student Hayley Arron with contributions by Dr Ben Marsh 💙 Prof Doug Kell CBE #FBPE #FBPA🔶🇪🇺 Dr. Beate Jaeger, MD & yours truly. #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #POTS #MCAS #postvac #FQtoxicity #EDS #HSD #LongCovid

The retina (in the eye) uses even more ENERGY (ATP) than the brain (which itself uses ~20% of the bodies energy production). Makes sense right? Visual processing is massively energy intensive.

People who own private homes: Honestly, what is your reasoning behind not filling your yard up with native trees to shade everything in summer?

Julian Assange is free. It's so nice to have some actual good news in this cruel, unjust world.

Given that fasting increases interferon. People might want to pay attention: Fasting reshapes tissue-specific niches to improve NK cell-mediated anti-tumor immunity cell.com/immunity/abstr…

Julian Assange is free. Julian exposed the crimes of the powerful. His incarceration was — and always will be — a grotesque miscarriage of justice. Never stop fighting for the truth. Never lose hope. Never, ever give up.