Democrats at the DNC convention keep claiming “COVID no longer controls our lives.” What scientists say: The global incidence of Long COVID is ~400 million individuals, which is estimated to have an annual economic impact of approximately $1 trillion. #DNCConvention2024

Really great interview on PBS with Eric Topol. Good questions. Concise, clear and great answers. This ought to be on the landing page of the CDC. Worth a watch and pass on to others. pbs.org/newshour/show/…

Neuroscience News: 'COVID’s Spike Protein Enhances Ability to Infect Brain' 'The new collaborative study between scientists at Northwestern University & the Univ. of Illinois-Chicago uncovered a series of mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein..' neurosciencenews.com/covids-spike-p…

Please retweet for reach. I can't imagine how horrid #LongCovid is for a child 😔

Eric Topol and Akiko Iwasaki on the importance of nasal vaccines for Covid-19. From 2022. So I can find it. Also, hurry up with Novavax, FDA. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

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#LongCOVID causes perturbations that persist from 12 wks to >2 years, but does this impact #Tcells? Our study pnas from @KedzeriskaLab @DohertyInst defines long COVID T&B cell responses over 24 mths from epitope specificity to TCR clonotype doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

SARS-CoV-2 infection causes persistent cognitive damage. 34 healthy, young volunteers were inoculated and monitored for cognitive changes over a year. They showed lower cognitive scores, w/ significant differences in memory and executive function tasks. thelancet.com/journals/eclin…

I told you novelty was not severity. This shows the risk of Long Covid is over double for someone with 2 infections versus one infection Contrary to what some people claimed when they said Long Covid risk would not be higher than for the first infection Ht Christina Virgil

Prof Dr Kevin Fong giving the most devastating and moving testimony to the Covid Inquiry of visiting hospital intensive care units at the height of the second wave in late Dec 2020. The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope. Please watch this 2min clip.

An important study by F. Eun-Hyung Lee's team shows that long lived plasma cells (the source of long-term circulating antibodies) fail to establish after mRNA vaccination (even combined with SARS-CoV-2 infection). 🧵 (1/) nature.com/articles/s4159…

Ok, but aside from affecting lungs, heart, blood vessels, brain, gut, liver, kidneys, pancreas, immune cells, eyes, gonads, placenta, and mitochondria, and infecting people year-round and repeatedly, SARS-CoV-2 is just a textbook seasonal virus like colds or flu.

Big pigeon in the Big Apple. AFP News Agency's David Dee Delgado photographs a 16 foot sculpture of a pigeon named dinosaur on the Highline in New York City

Sen. Mark Warner, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, calls Salt Typhoon “worst telecom hack in our nation’s history” The Chinese state-affiliated hackers moved from telco network to another. They listened in real-time to calls. 1/ washingtonpost.com/national-secur…